Cryptocurrency News
Coinbase has announced the acquisition of Distributed Systems, a decentralized identity solutions provider. In a blog post announcing the acquisition, the San Francisco-based crypto exchange described it as strategic in Coinbase’s bid to bring cryptos into the mainstream. The five engineers working at Distributed Systems will join the Coinbase team […]
Pantera Capital has raised $71.4 million for its third crypto venture fund, a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed. The filing, which was submitted on August 15, indicated that Pantera received money from 90 investors for the new fund. This is its third crypto-focused fund and […]
Bill Harris has made clear his view on cryptos several times. The former PayPal CEO has in the past described Bitcoin as the ‘greatest scam in history’ and a massive ‘pump and dump scheme.’ Harris recently reiterated his stand, further claiming that all the praise that Bitcoin has been receiving […]
Staff at three Thai banks and an investor in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) are among the people implicated in a mega bitcoin scandal, local media reported on August 16. According to the Thai police, several bank employees failed to report huge transfers to the country’s Anti-Money Laundering Office, […]
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Bitcoin (BTC) Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has shot up to $6,500. This past week has been an up-and-down journey for the cryptocurrency, with price swings from $6,400 all the way down to $6,090, but for the time being, bitcoin appears to be exhibiting bullish activity and expanding […]
Bitcoin has got everyone going back and forth. At press time, the largest cryptocurrency in the world is again trading for $6,500. The past few days have been an up-and-down journey for the asset, with prices swinging from $6,400, to $6,300, and then falling back down to $6,200 later in […]
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LINE Corporation has announced the addition of Tron’s TRX to its BITBOX cryptocurrency exchange. BITBOX was announced by the company in June and opened its doors in July to global clientele, with the exception of those in the US and Japan. TRX becomes the first crypto to be approved for […]
With the blockchain world being the target of a number of recent, well-publicised hacks, and online privacy a regular news item, it should come as no surprise that emerging cryptocurrency companies are desperate to prove their data security credentials. Therefore, many are bolstering their defences with the aim of providing […]
The crypto industry has experienced six big bubbles to date, with each being ‘more epic’ than the previous one. Each of these bubbles has brought more interest from developers and investors. This is according to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, who is also the founder of ConsenSys. In a recent interview, […]
Solving real world problems has always been the driver behind the ongoing blockchain revolution. But for one man, this technology became the enabler of a lifelong ambition to create what was previously thought unimaginable: a rocket and space technology that produces fuel with leftover oil residue from refineries. For anyone […]
Real-world adoption of cryptos is steadily rising, but they are still a long way from becoming a mainstream payment method. Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, believes that cryptos and blockchain technology are at the same stage that the internet was at in the early 2000s and that despite the […]
With the issue of data privacy rarely far from news headlines – regardless of the industry in question – and online advertising proving to be a bugbear for the average Internet user – it comes as no surprise that a number of companies are devising solutions to capitalize on this […]
The crypto market has experienced a bloodbath for the past two weeks, with Bitcoin losing over 70 percent of its value since it peaked at over $19,900 in December. The king of cryptos was trading at just above $6,500 at press time, having gained over $500 in the previous 24 […]
Blockchain technology has carved a niche for itself in the world. In 2017, it was the most talked about tech topic. The attention that Blockchain and cryptocurrencies have garnered is because of their inherent utility. However, like with every other nascent technology, cryptocurrencies and Blockchain both have challenges to surpass. […]
Blockchain and cryptocurrency were originally envisioned as decentralized, community-oriented initiatives. Participants were intended to hold power over centralized (read: government) authority. As blockchain and cryptocurrency evolved and captured millions of investors along the way, trading gravitated toward centralized platforms. Centralized institutions like Coinbase or Binance are great because of their […]
Bitcoin – the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap – is now trading for just shy of $6,400 at press time. This is a little over $100 less than where it stood 24 hours ago. Bitcoin is likely scaling back a bit following some harsh comments from Coinbase CEO Brian […]