The Indian economy is experiencing severe economic slowdown not seen in many years, and cryptocurrency can potentially help. However, the government is considering a draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies, which could have undesirable consequences on the economy. Meanwhile, the Indian crypto community has already been enduring a banking ban by the central bank. Also read:...Read More
Salaries paid in decentralized digital coins have become a norm across the crypto industry, but there’s really no reason why cryptocurrencies can’t be used for remuneration by businesses in other sectors as well. In many jurisdictions that should be legal even in the absence of dedicated legislation. Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan and Estonia are a...Read More
In July 2019, the United States Fed cut rates by 25 basis points, causing a massive sell-off across most assets and further fueling global economic concerns surrounding a growing trade war between the United States and China. The constant back-and-forth flip-flopping between the two country’s leaders is creating much uncertainty and fear in global markets,...Read More
Recently a political action committee (PAC) BitPAC announced that they are going to conduct an initial coin offering (ICO) to support the candidates for public office. By donating, participants will receive Politicoins in return. BitPAC, which is a political group in the U.S., decided to launch an ICO for the support of public office candidates....Read More
The upcoming CME futures expiration set for Friday is expected to have a significant effect on the next bitcoin price action as the biggest cryptocurrency threatens to plunge below the $10,000 mark. In the past nine weeks, the Bitcoin price rally has stalled. Analysts believe that the crypto may suffer a severe pullback if the...Read More
The vast cash hoard of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has been vaster only once before – just before the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Warren Buffett’s big pile of cash could act as a warning to other investors that stock market is becoming overvalued and that its crash is pretty near....Read More
After raising more than $1 billion in one of the most successful ICOs in the crypto sector, Telegram is now ready to launch its Gram tokens by October. Button Wallet has also announced it will facilitate trading of the tokens. There currently are more than a few thousand different digital assets in the market and...Read More
Recently in an AMA (ask me anything) session the Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao or CZ, addressed Binance users and followers by revealing many details about the upcoming futures trading platform. Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, recently went live on his Binance‘s Twitter profile to do an AMA session. In the session, he described some...Read More
Silvergate Bank will allow Gemini’s customers deposit and withdraw U.S. Dollars from their accounts in real-time. This will help the customers to switch in and out of the crypto markets quickly. Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, founded by Bitcoin billionaires Winklevoss twins, announced its partnership with Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN), a USD payments platform. According to the...Read More
Manchester United FC, also known as Man City, one of the top British football teams, announced a partnership with an online gaming startup Superbloke in order to tokenize its players. On Monday, Man City announced its new partnership with an online gaming startup called Superbloke. It is an online football game based in South Korea....Read More
The IRS took to Twitter on August, 26, posting a video about recently mailed CP2000 notices, of special interest to crypto traders. The notice, which seeks to rectify discrepancies made by recipients in tax reporting, is another in a series of crypto-related letters recently sent by the agency. Though the promised guidelines for reporting still...Read More
The recently concluded IEO for the Perlin Network by Binance Launchpad has now been stated as the sale with the highest number of BNB staked. Binance has already begun trading PERL tokens with four pairs. The Binance Launchpad, a platform created by Binance and strictly for the launch of supported tokens, has officially announced the...Read More
Nigel Green, the CEO and co-founder of deVere Group, which is one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations, predicted that Bitcoin price could hit $15,000 and that its new normal bottom is $10,000. Nigel Green made some comments regards Bitcoin‘s price earlier this month as BTC makes a small jump in price hitting...Read More
The speculations to CZ’s Twitter teaser have proven to be true – Binance has now announced the upcoming launch of its crypto lending service. Users can earn up to 15% interest on BNB and other assets. Binance has officially announced its lending service which is expected to kick off on the 28th of August, at...Read More
Research by Messari has revealed that the top pro athletes and sports personnel can earn more if they are paid in Bitcoin which would result in rapid crypto mass adoption. One Los Angeles Chargers NFL player, Russell Okung, is pushing relentlessly for the league to adopt Bitcoin. He wants the payments for the players’ multi-million-dollar...Read More
Financial experts and analysts are raising alarming concerns on the growing chances of US recession in the next year. Investors looking towards Bitcoin as a potential hedge. Investors and financial experts have been continuously raising concerns on an impending US recession expected over the next one year. Clive McDonnell, head of the equity strategy at...Read More
Following a visit to Switzerland to meet with the country’s financial regulators, United States lawmakers are still concerned over Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency project, Libra. A delegation of the United States House of Representatives visited Switzerland last week because they have been concerned about cryptocurrency issues, especially regarding Facebook’s yet-to-come stablecoin Libra. Representative Maxine Waters published...Read More
Many signs indicate that the Indian economy is under grave stress, affecting nearly all sectors. “India’s economy is in a deep mess,” due to initiatives such as demonetization and GST, some lawmakers say, as they urge the government to handle the situation “which is intensifying on a daily basis.” Also read: Indian Supreme Court Orders...Read More
Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England delivered a speech in U.S. Federal Reserve’s annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming claimed that USD is replaceable with a digital currency similar to Facebook’s Libra. Carney says “it’s far too expensive to send money cross-border, and there are huge financial inclusion issues related to that...Read More
Harmony partnered with Everstake, a Staking Service Platform will now add support for Harmony Nodes to their customer base. Blockchain protocol with principal innovations in P2P networking and state sharding, Harmony, announced they have partnered with Everstake, a leading Staking Service Platform which helps institutional investors and regular token holders to profit off their crypto...Read More
Telx Technologies, a telecommunication company, has introduced the world’s first SIM card to send cryptocurrency via text message. Instead of using a wallet addresses, the agenda is to use a phone number to identify the people involved in a transaction. Telx will provide its service to more than 180 countries. The SIM card will support...Read More
Since the birth of Bitcoin, crusaders fighting for the separation of money and state discovered a new payment tool that bypasses the nation state’s control over the monetary system. For over ten years now, lots of people have been using digital currencies to hide from prying eyes of governments in order to free themselves from...Read More
Just recently, Amazon cloud service AWS experienced an outage which is causing a service disruption on several Asian cryptocurrency exchanges. Binance is one of the exchanges. In recent news, Amazon has experienced a cloud service outage which has caused several crypto exchanges, including Binance, to report problems. Binance is seeing international problems, the company CEO...Read More
Ever since its announcement in mid-June 2019, the libra coin has been dealing with pressure from the public and U.S. regulators. Facebook, the social media giant, has been prone to hacking risks that have led to the breach of information security. U.S. lawmakers have been skeptical about Facebook and the libra coin. Today, it seems...Read More
According to expert predictions, the Bitcoin dominance registered on CoinMarketCap has been tweaked for liquidity. Forecasting that in reality, the dominance could cripple the survival of Altcoins. As the current value of Bitcoin hovers around $10,000, it’s dominance upsurges in correspondence. According to CoinMarketCap’s estimate as at Thursday, 5th August. BTC dominance was sitting around seventy...Read More
HitBTC recently in a press release announced that they are lowering the exchange trading fees, presenting a new fee adjustment system. The fees have been lowered as much as 1,3%. HitBTC which is a leading cryptocurrency exchange just announced in a press release that they are lowering the trading fees on their platform to a...Read More
Photo: Flexa / Medium After introducing crypto payments to its SPEDN app earlier in May 2019, merchants payment startup Flexa plans to bring this functionality to other apps as well. This is a massive step by Flexa to boost up crypto spending in the global economy. Flexa plans to implement this project by staking its...Read More
Photo: Anchorage / Medium Anchorage clients who hold Stellar or Tezos now are in for a treat. Anchorage just announced that they are adding these assets to its list of eligible assets, the company co-founder and president Diogo Monica announced in a medium blog post. For those who hold Stellar, they can now receive inflation...Read More
Bitcoin’s true share of the total market capitalization for all cryptocurrencies could be as high as above 90%, a new analysis claims. Bitcoin’s true share of the total market capitalization for all cryptocurrencies could be as high as above 90%, Forbes reported on Aug. 22. While mainstream crypto data aggregators have been pointing to a...Read More
At the wake of an increased patronage for stablecoins, Tether adds yet another stablecoin to its repository, unveiling that this new ‘CNHT’ stablecoin would be tied to the offshore Chinese Yuan. Tether – the foremost yet controversial distributor of stablecoins recently announced the launch of a new stablecoin. This new cryptocurrency tagged ‘CNHT’ is pegged...Read More
