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NYU Economist Nouriel Roubini is hyped over the massive bitcoin price drop since October. Altcoin prices are down too. Theories abound as to the causes of what could be the next crypto winter. The crypto industry’s leaders see opportunity in the bitcoin bear market. Nouriel Roubini piled on the FUD Tuesday morning. As bitcoin’s price continues its plunge into what could be another crypto winter, the NYU economist suggested it’s the end of crypto entirely: Source: TwitterThe...

Last year, the U.K. payment remittance platform TransferGo, announced that it had entered a partnership with Ripple and joined RippleNet, with a focus of helping Indian migrants in the U.K. make cross-border payments back to their families. However, the company has now announced that it will take the relationship a notch higher, and move its business to Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) which uses XRP.Speaking about the move, CEO Daumantas Dvilinskas has suggested that ODL will shoot the...

As part of a major Strategic Partnership Agreement online travel giant Booking.com has joined hands with crypto-friendly travel platform Travala.com. The official announcement came from Travala on Monday, November 25.Over the last two years, Travala has expanded its services by allowing its users to pay for their hotel bookings in cryptocurrency. Besides, the announcement says that Travala has already integrated Booking.com’s accommodation to its platform. With this major collaboration,...

Financial services company MoneyGram International Inc. announced on Monday that a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments Ripple Labs, completed its final $20 million investment in MoneyGram equity consistent to its primarily $50 million equity investment commitment that the company made earlier this year.The price of share Ripple paid was $4.10 that seems to be pretty much higher than MoneyGram’s current price on the market. As per the announcement, the...

Tron price started an upside correction after trading as low as $0.0131 against the US Dollar.TRX price is currently trading above the $0.0140 level, but it is facing many resistances.There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.0160 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Bitfinex).The price could continue to correct higher, but upsides are likely to be capped by $0.0160 and $0.0161.TRON price is currently trimming recent losses against the US Dollar and bitcoin. TRX price...

Binance yet again greets us as “Binancians” and announces a new project called Troy (TROY) on its Binance Launchpad platform. If you have ever participated in a lottery format token sales, then you already know how it is, but if not, let us explain. Binance already started recording user balances on November 3, 2019. Generally, Binance will record user BNB balances until December 3, 2019 (for a whole month), and the final BNB balance will determine the average BNB amount in the user account,...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 758. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: Ripple erwirbt weitere Moneygram-Anteile, Neue sibirische Bitcoin-Mining-Farm & Travala Krypto-Bezahlung für alle Booking.com Hotels 1.) Ripple erwirbt weitere Moneygram-Anteile für 20 Millionen US-Dollarhttps://www.btc-echo.de/ripple-erwirbt-weitere-moneygram-anteile-fuer-20-millionen-us-dollar/ 2.) Neue sibirische Bitcoin-Mining-Farm ist die größte in...

Ethereum price is currently correcting higher after diving towards $130 against the US Dollar.ETH price is trading near the $150 resistance and facing a strong hurdle near $155-$158.There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $158 on the 4-hours chart (data feed from Coinbase).The price is likely to struggle if it attempts to climb above the $158 and $160 levels.Ethereum price is trimming recent losses against the US Dollar. Having said that, ETH price is still in a bearish...

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, divided the problems into three major categories. The first one is the cryptography related stuff that hasn’t been solved. Despite the industry’s rush to achieve new levels of privacy and scalability, the most important goals are still in progress. The second one is consensus theory, which makes it easy to change and upgrade mining (Proof of Work) and staking (Proof of Stake) algorithms. And finally, Vitalik explains how incentives are essential in...

Transaction volume is an important metric often considered to determine the growth and popularity of a blockchain ecosystem. This is a go-to metric that often determines user activity and interest for a particular blockchain system. Well, XRP is the show stealer at this moment as it has surpassed both Bitcoin and Ethereum in daily transaction volumes.Last Saturday, November 23, the XRP ledger daily transaction volume hit a massive figure of 4 million. This is the highest recorded volume for...