New Effort to Tackle Global Ocean Plastics Crisis Uses Blockchain: David Hundeyin
Household supplies multinational SC Johnson has announced a pioneering partnership with Plastic Bank, a plastic waste recycling startup, to tackle the threat of global ocean plastics by increasing the rate of recycling across less privileged areas of Indonesi…
Fire Lotto: Blockchain-Based Lottery Platform Announces Its Next Jackpot Win: Press Release
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JP Morgan’s Ethereum-Based Quorum Blockchain Will Tokenise Gold Bars: Jimmy Aki
US banking giant JPMorgan Chase Bank’s blockchain, Quorum, will be used to “tokenize” gold bars. Quorum is the enterprise version of the Ethereum blockchain, developed by JPMorgan Chase, will ensure users operate smart contracts while using pre-programmed rul…
Russian Financial Watchdog Calls for Global Crypto Exchange Regulations: Yashu Gola
Russia’s Financial Monitor Service (FMS) is seeking the intervention of a global financial watchdog to regulate cryptocurrencies, local media sources have reported. Russia Wants Global Crypto Regulations The Russian financial regulatory agency contacted the F…
Mainstream: ‘Big Four’ Auditor PwC Has 400 Crypto Specialists on Staff: P. H. Madore
The bigger the business or industry, the more financial services and specialization it requires. As the crypto industry grows up and more firms establish themselves, important services such as auditing and tax consultancy become increasingly necessary. Tradit…
Crypto Exchange OKEx Delists Over 30 Trading Pairs for Weak Volume: P. H. Madore
OKEx, the second largest crypto exchange by volume, has announced the delisting of more than 30 trading pairs including Ripio/ETH and Monetha/BTC. The exchange cited weak trading volume as the justification for the ejections. The delistings will not take effe…
You Can Now Buy Binance’s Cryptocurrency Token on eToro: Jimmy Aki
Social trading platform eToro has partnered with Binance to list the Binance Coin (BNB) cryptocurrency on its platform. eToro also becomes the first platform to offer the BNB tokens to investors for trading using fiat. The addition of BNB on the trading platf…
Hacked Canadian Bitcoin Exchange MapleChange Returns to Twitter, Opens Refund Chat Room: P. H. Madore
Following yesterday’s report that MapleChange had claimed to have been hacked and gone offline, the Canadian bitcoin exchange’s Twitter account has come back to life, and they have opened a Discord chat room in order to facilitate altcoin refunds. According t…
Bitcoin Price Intraday Analysis: BTC/USD Breaks Stability, DXY Strong: Yashu Gola
The downside pressure renewed in the bitcoin market after two weeks of firm action. The bitcoin-to-dollar exchange rate on Monday dropped by more than 3 percent, breaking below the critical support level near 6300-fiat. The pair formed intraday lows on a down…
Crypto Startup Ripple Poaches former Google Executive: David Hundeyin
Ripple Labs has secured the capture of Google’s erstwhile head of rich communications services (RCS), Amir Sarhangi. The startup confirmed to Reuters on Friday that Sarhangi will be joining the Ripple team as Vice President of Products. Prior to his move, Sar…
Experts: No, Bitcoin Will Not Consume All the World’s Energy: P. H. Madore
Every now and then a major news outlet gets carried away and reports that Bitcoin will consume all the world’s power. A conspiracy theorist might say that such stories are instigated by the international banking cartels in order to stoke fears that Bitcoin is…
Privacy Coin Zcash Completes “Sapling” Network Upgrade: P. H. Madore
Privacy-focused Zcash, currently worth just over $110 per coin, has completed a network upgrade dubbed “Sapling” that it says will vastly improve transaction speed as well as reduce the actual size of transactions themselves. Zcash hopes that this will make m…
Bitcoin Reaches October 2017 Volumes as ETH, XRP, and BCH Fall 4%: Joseph Young
Over the last 24 hours, the volume of Bitcoin has increased by yet another 10 percent from $3.5 billion to around $3.8 billion. On October 28, the volume of Bitcoin increased by around 20 percent from $3.1 billion to $3.5 billion, showing strong and sustainab…
Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Breaks South, Drops to $6,211: Josiah Wilmoth
The bitcoin price took a southward turn on Monday, dropping beneath $6,300 as the cryptocurrency market experienced a jolt of volatility. Bitcoin had been uncharacteristically stable in recent weeks, so much so that its price briefly became less volatile than…
USD-Pegged Cryptocurrency Tether Returns to Dollar Parity as Supply Sinks: Josiah Wilmoth
Tether (USDT), the USD-pegged cryptocurrency that spent nearly half of October trading below $1.00, finally returned to dollar parity on Monday, though it remains to be seen whether it will stay there amid mounting competition from heavyweight competitors. Te…
Ukraine’s Cryptocurrency Legalization to Unfold Through 2021: Gerelyn Terzo
While much of the world grapples with the development of crypto-related policy, Ukraine has become a first mover. The eastern European country has unveiled a path for the adoption of cryptocurrencies, with Ukraine’s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade …
SatoshiFomo, the First Dapp Game Built on the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain: Press Release
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Bitcoin Exchange Bitstamp Acquired by Belgian Investment Firm in All-Cash Deal: Josiah Wilmoth
Bitstamp, one of the oldest and largest bitcoin exchanges, has been acquired by Belgian investment firm NXMH. Fortune reports that the Brussels-based NXMH purchased an 80 percent ownership stake in the Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency exchange, which launched …
Hitachi Partners India’s Largest Bank for Digital Payments Push: Samburaj Das
Hitachi Payments is entering a joint venture with the State Bank of India, the country’s largest bank, to establish a digital payments platform The collaboration sees Hitachi Payments, the wholly-owned Indian payments subsidiary of 108-year old Japanese congl…
Cryptocurrency Regulations Threatens UK’s ‘Fintech Hub’ Status: Report: Mark Emem
A little over a month since legislators in the United Kingdom branded the domestic cryptocurrency market the ‘Wild West’ and called for its regulation, experts have warned that such a move could have disastrous consequences for the fintech market in the world…