🗞 Daily Crypto News, February 16th 💰

in #bitcoin6 years ago

  • Ecosystem Players Launch Ethereum Community Fund Grant Program
  • Coinbase Develops Bitpay Competitor Supporting BTC, BCH, ETH and LTC;
  • Japan’s GMO to Launch BTC, BCH Cloud Mining Service in August;
  • Game Maker Atari Is Planning to Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency
  • Western Union Confirms Testing Ripple Technology For Money Transfers
  • 📑 Daily Crypto Calendar, February 15th 💰
  • STEEM Trading Update by @cryptopassion

🗞 Ecosystem Players Launch Ethereum Community Fund Grant Program

On February 15, 2018, several projects in the Ethereum space announced their combined effort to establish the Ethereum Community Fund (ECF), meant to hasten the development of blockchain infrastructure and Dapps.

Cosmos, OmiseGO, Golem, Maker, Global Brain Blockchain Labs, and Raiden embarked on this endeavor with the mission of producing "an environment where teams and ideas can thrive, grow, and collaborate to become essential and functioning pieces of the broader Ethereum ecosystem." It is anticipated that members of the ECF that are already well established will act as pillars for emerging projects by "building out base infrastructure and supporting a more robust ecosystem of emerging projects."

Read more & Source: https://www.ethnews.com/ecosystem-players-launch-ethereum-community-fund-grant-program

🗞 Coinbase Develops Bitpay Competitor Supporting BTC, BCH, ETH and LTC

While its trading clients might have preferred Coinbase to focus on improving its core service, the exchange is busy now expanding into another market. Coinbase Commerce has launched to help online stores handle payments in four leading cryptocurrencies.

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/coinbase-develops-bitpay-competitor-supporting-btc-bch-eth-ltc/

🗞 Japan’s GMO to Launch BTC, BCH Cloud Mining Service in August

Japanese technology conglomerate GMO Internet is about to launch a new cloud offering for mining BTC and BCH. If you have at least $5 million that you want to invest in such a venture, and don’t want the hassle of opening your own mining farm, applications start next month.

Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/japans-gmo-launch-btc-bch-cloud-mining-service-august/

🗞 Game Maker Atari Is Planning to Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency

The company behind iconic video games such as Pac-Man and Pong is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency, dubbed "Atari Token," according to an announcement last week.

As part of the effort, Atari acquired a 15% stake in a Gibraltar-based company, Infinity Networks, Ltd and has licensed its brand to the firm. The partnership - which was previously hinted at in a December statement - will see the development of a digital entertainment platform underpinned by the so-called Atari Token. The game maker noted that its investment was "made without cash disbursement by Atari."

Read more & Source: https://www.coindesk.com/game-maker-atari-planning-launch-cryptocurrency/

🗞 Western Union Confirms Testing Ripple Technology For Money Transfers

The financial services provider Western Union (WU) is testing transactions with the use of Ripple’s (XRP) Blockchain-based settlement system, the company’s Chief Financial Officer Raj Agrawal said in an interview with Bloomberg Feb. 14.

The globally known money transfer company Western Union confirmed that it is testing Ripple following more than a month of rumor-fuelled speculation that began in early January. The announcement comes after Western Union reported its 2017 results, claiming a revenue of $1.4 bln - a 5 percent increase over the previous year.

Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/western-union-confirms-testing-ripple-technology-for-money-transfers

Daily Crypto Calendar, February, 16th

  • Ethereum (ETH)

Ethereum Denver Hackathon

  • TRON (TRX)

"TRON Union Member Peiwo APP Will Complete TRX Connection in February"

  • Stratis (STRAT)

"We will be discussing our turnkey solutions and how we utilize C# & .Net development frameworks to provide quick and easy blockchain-based"

  • Dogecoin (DOGE)

Developer Q&A

  • Qtum (QTUM)

Every One-Hundred (100) QTUM will receive Four (4) BOT tokens. Only wallet addresses that contain more than 10 QTUM will receive the airdrop

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@vlemon/daily-crypto-calendar-february-15th

STEEM Trading Update by @cryptopassion

Here is the prediction that I was giving you yesterday :

Here is the current chart :

As you can see I was right and we are now testing the previous TOP. If the Bitcoin doesn't drop, I'm expecting that we should see a break out soon to break it with volume. A fail could send us towards the red line but it is not my 1st scenario.

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I can't imagine giving anyone in Japan money for mining. Japan is a very expensive place to live and mining has only been in cheap or government subsidized (China) countries (Iceland).
Do you recommend a Ripple wallet that does not charge you? They all look like they want $20 worth of XRP...weird, weirder yet, is I have my XRP on Bitfinex which goes against what I preach...never, never keep your tokens on an centralized exchange.
Thanks again for your informative posts :)

I agree with you for japan but they have water to cool Mining rigs.
Concerning XRP, I didn't not know about this 20$ minimum, I should also store
Offline everything but I admit that I usually don't...

Love these updates, but nothing about BTC10k???

I Didn't see the news, any link?

A lot of news supporting increased adoption across the space is very positive. It could gives the space an opportunity to surpass the $1 trillion market cap.

Thanks for this daily cypto news. Very informative and very helpful. Looking forward on this everyday.

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How about BTC, where do you expect the correction to take place?

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