There are exclusive crypto wallets in the market today. From hardware; to desktop, mobile, and paper, all have their unique positives and negatives. Some provide the latest in cutting-age security, while the other is prone to cyber threats. Well, there are some hardware wallets like TREZOR and KeepKey that comes under good counts. However, when...Read More
According to CBInsights’ latest report on blockchain startup investments in 2019, despite a drop in total funding dollars, investment activity in the fourth quarter of 2019 points toward pockets of opportunities for blockchain technology adoption in enterprise applications. The report also stated that total equity funding to the space, a measure of investor enthusiasm, fell...Read More
As of yesterday, January 20th, 2020, the Blockchain Economic Forum kicked off in Davos, Switzerland, with a keynote speech delivered by J. Christopher Giancarlo. Giancarlo spoke about the past, present, and future evolution of the blockchain, and made one particularly exciting remark about virtual currencies. The ex-chairman of the United States’ Commodity Futures Trading Commission...Read More
This week the major event in the blockchain industry CHAIN2020 brought together more than 15 000 guests and world-renowned speakers in Hong Kong with a shared mission to accelerate blockchain adoption in the world and, particularly, in the Asian region. These are record figures for an event of this level, as usually, the audience of...Read More
UK’s Revenue and Customs agency is ready to invest up to $130,000 towards the development and implementation of a new “cryptoanalysis” tool. According to a recent report, the United Kingdom’s tax authority, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is looking for, “vendors to showcase their capabilities by demonstrating their expertise in the field of crypto-asset tracing.”...Read More
It doesn’t come as a surprise that “don’t spend like a baller” is associated with lavish spending and basketball. With so much money coming in so quickly at such a young age, athletes are overwhelmed and end up spending it on cars, shoes, parties, and even a shark tank. But, it looks like one man...Read More
The tokenization of assets gained a lot of momentum in 2019. By converting a real-world asset into its digital equivalent, tokenization provides higher liquidity, flexibility, and transparency, making it an emerging trend for investments in 2020. Just a couple of months ago, Jason Kelley, IBM’s General Manager of Blockchain Services, had mentioned during a talk...Read More
Blockchain in the gaming industry is an experiment that’s been ongoing for some time now. It started with the introduction of ‘Huntercoin’, the first real blockchain and decentralized strategy MMO game, introduced way back in 2014, which was basically an experiment to gauge the decentralized ledger technology’s ability to support the gaming industry. With Huntercoin’s...Read More
If we look at the blockchain infographic today, we see overall positive figures for the tech that has been the foundation of the world’s most popular and oldest cryptocurrency. What was fascinating at the beginning was how it branched out from being just the underlying tech of cryptocurrencies to developing numerous use-cases. Be it bringing...Read More
The introduction of the blockchain network in the healthcare industry is something that’s been talked about a lot. Though there isn’t a proper model in place to this day. Discussing the topic, Samson Williams, Principal Consultant for Axes and Eggs, in a recent podcast talked about the difficulties faced while making the hospital staff understand...Read More
Cryptocurrency analyst, Christian Ott, recently published an article on his blog regarding statistics of transactions and assets on Binance Chain, the blockchain developed by cryptocurrency exchange giant, Binance. In his analysis, Ott found that the number of transactions on the chain grew from 3.2 million in Q2 of 2019 to 20.7 million in the following...Read More
One of China‘s biggest tech giants, Baidu, made headlines a few years ago after it launched the supposedly energy-efficient Baidu Superchain blockchain protocol. It is in the news again after Super Chain officially launched an open network on 6 January 2020. The network has been launched with the intention to empower SMEs and developers. A...Read More
Ousted Bitmain co-founder, Micree Zhan, has come out to oppose Bitmain’s plan to layoff about 50% of its workforce. According to Zhan, the Bitcoin (BTC) mining giant’s plan to sack employees was a mistake, given that the company was in a healthy financial situation. Earlier in January 2020, reports emerged that the Bitmain was planning...Read More
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong spilled out his thoughts about the Blockchain and Crypto industry in a blog post. As per his estimation, 1 billion users will join blockchain by the end of decade as more and more use cases are being invented. As we write, blockchain is already implemented in Financial sector with many firms...Read More
In an effort to shape blockchain-focused policies, Binance.US, the United States-centric arm of the Malta-based Binance, has announced that it has joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce as part of its Executive Committee to bring in education, advocacy, and industry-wide regulatory development. According to Binance.US’s official blog post on the same, the crypto-exchange and the...Read More
The Internet bubble prompted the establishment of new innovations that the masses did not realize they needed at that point. Some survived while others shut down for being too innovative and radical for that time. 11 years since the inception of Bitcoin, the industry has seen the space evolve, with newer cryptos coming into existence...Read More
Cryptocurrency miner Argo Blockchain has announced that it is installing new 3,616 Bitmain machines to increase its mining capacity by 75%. The team took to Twitter to announce that the company has already taken delivery of 3616 Bitmain Antminer T17s machines. However, more 6384 T17s machines are on its way till January end. The new...Read More
Instantly verifiable, unhackable and forever retrievable are some of the key features of information stored on a blockchain. These are also the characteristics that traders of various assets, commodities and currencies would appreciate when it comes to the price data they are using. The team behind the Blitz Ticker project have decided that’s exactly what...Read More
Since the platform’s launch, the Bitcoin Cash-centric blogging site read.cash has gathered a lot of traction. The website’s user base publishes interesting content and new material on a daily basis with the most popular authors gathering tips in bitcoin cash for their work. Also Read: These Are the Bitcoin Stories You Loved in 2019 Read.cash...Read More
Not your keys, not your coins Let the meaning sink in… It’s the most popular adage in the crypto-community. This mantra is echoed time and again or each time an exchange gets compromised! Just like Satoshi Nakamoto, Trace Mayer ignited the Proof-of-Keys [PoK] revolution on January 03, 2018. To the people outside looking in, the...Read More
Search online for ‘possible creators of Bitcoin’ and Bit Gold creator Nick Szabo will always appear near the top of the list. His long history in the cypherpunk space, his writings on money, digital cash, and smart contracts, and some facts about his past have often been used to create a compelling picture that he...Read More
Since Tether’s (USDT) migration to other networks beside the BTC-based Omni protocol, significant shifts have taken place seeing the heavily-printed stablecoin rise to prominence also via Ethereum’s ERC20 standard and Tron’s TRC20 implementation. Ethereum-based USDT supply currently sits at over 2.2 billion tokens, while the Omni equivalent stands at around 1.5 billion. The Tron network...Read More
A crypto startup providing wifi hotspot sharing services in Nigeria has won funding from the country’s telecom regulator. Wicrypt placed second among 25 tech companies participating in an innovation competition organized by the Nigeria Communication Commission and it’s going to receive a grant worth 2 million naira to finance its project. Also read: Skrill Now...Read More
Two JP Morgan leads Stuart Popejoy and Will Martino founded the Kadena blockchain project in 2016. After 3 years of rigorous development, the hybrid blockchain project will see the daylight on January 15, 2020. Moreover, Kadena will bridge the gap between private and public blockchain claims the announcement. The project can process 750 transactions per...Read More
According to a recently published press release, Takasbank, Turkey‘s Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank, has announced that its physical gold-backed transfer system based on blockchain has gone live. According to the announcement made on 30 December, BiGA Digital Gold will provide banks in Turkey with a system for issuance, repayment, and transfer of blockchain-based...Read More
In this roundup, we cover Russia’s supreme court recognizing tokens as assets like money and property, France’s new crypto regulatory framework, and several industry developments in China, including a blockchain ETF filing. We also cover Japan’s world conference for decentralized financial governance, Uzbekistan’s crypto ban, and four countries’ central bank digital currency updates. Also read:...Read More
Despite harsh crypto industry returns in the last Crypto Winter, Israeli Blockchain companies have increased by 32% in the 2019 calendar year. As of December 2019, the no. of blockchain companies increased to 150 instead of 138 in 2018. This is according to a survey by the Israeli Bitcoin Association. The survey further shows that...Read More
Experts predict that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will gain momentum in 2020 and therefore will become increasingly pervasive in all industry sectors. There will also be an explosion of cybersecurity threats targeting all verticals worldwide next year, they say. Bitcoin Transactions and Data on the Blockchain Are Safe Just like other industries, the crypto industry...Read More
Despite the harsh market conditions this year, high profile closures of a few ventures and a lot of employee downsizing, the number of companies operating in the blockchain and cryptocurrency fields in Israel actually grew by 32% in 2019. Also Read: Bankrupt DX Exchange Didn’t Pay Israeli Suppliers and Employees Israeli Blockchain Industry Survives Crypto...Read More
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has set their eyes on blockchain implementation for businesses. They are in plans to start guidance for companies to inculcate blockchain knowledge and in turn develop the technology. “The guidance is aimed at executives in financial services & companies using blockchain technology in their supply...Read More
