Blockchain

The Ethereum blockchain is scheduled to undergo the London hard fork, and several exchanges are taking precautions to ensure users’ funds remain secured once the hard fork is successfully deployed.  At block height 12,965,000, estimated to take place tomorrow (August 8th, 2021), Ethereum was scheduled to undergo the hard fork, and two scenarios are likely to occur; either the chain is split, and there’s a competing network with a new token or no new token is created, and most...

The CEO is much bullish on the transition to Ethereum 2.0 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain along with the rise of the DeFi market.The Bitcoin (BTC) vs Ethereum (ETH) debate gets intense. This year, a large number of institutional players have extended their support for Ethereum. With the Ethereum hardfork just two days away, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead predicts that ETH will outpace BTC as the largest cryptocurrency.On Monday, August 2, speaking to the Reuters Global Markets Forum,...

During an interview with Bloomberg, Gensler admitted that he is intrigued by the cryptocurrency space, but that wouldn’t deter him from protecting US investors via enhanced regulations on the market. Being deeply familiar with the blockchain space, as he taught DLT classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Gensler was expected to have a straightforward approach when it comes down to regulating the industry when he took charge at the SEC earlier this year. So...

GT will also open a global partner recruitment plan, looking for partners in integrated shopping platforms, clothing brands, travel, hotels, catering, virtual gifts, game assets, real estate purchases, medical services.According to an official announcement, Gate.io opened its doors on July 31 to announce the GT burn situation in the second quarter (Q2). The data shows that the second quarter of 2021 benefited from the influence of the blockchain industry’s big market ,the number of users and...

Idan Abada is a man who lives in Los Angeles. Getting into bitcoin a few years back, Abada has made a real name for himself in the mining sector of the crypto space, though the circumstances surrounding his situation are quite unique. Idan Abada Is Running a Successful – and Simple – Mining Rig Normally, we hear of people running mining rigs that consist of many machines. They are all lined up in rows in a large warehouse somewhere as they work tirelessly to extract new...

Leading digital currency exchange Binance – arguably the biggest cryptocurrency trading platform in the world – is taking heavy action against unverified users. Binance Moves Towards Limiting Unverified Customers In a series of tweets, Changpeng Zhao – the company’s CEO – announced that Binance would be limiting how much money customers can remove or withdraw from their accounts daily, granted they have not gone through the verification process with the exchange. Zhao...

The financial landscape seems adamant to drift away from the age-old centralized structure to adopt a decentralized structure. Such was the formation of Horizon Protocol – a differentiated exchange in the heart of a decentralized finance ecosystem that facilitates the trading of real-world assets on the blockchain. Horizon Exchange can deliver seamless trading across a variety of assets such as Facebook stock to synthetic oil to Fractionalized NFTs. Traditional financial...

Just yesterday, Live Bitcoin News reported that Amazon – arguably the biggest retailer in the world – was going to begin accepting cryptocurrencies by the end of the year as forms of payment. However, now it looks like this idea was a simple rumor, and Amazon has come out to suggest that it has no plans whatsoever in accepting bitcoin or other forms of digital assets as payments for goods or services. Amazon Says “No” to BTC Payments… For Now At this stage, bitcoin...

With the current solution, it is possible to envision European Commission’s plan to commence establishing a collaborative, mainstream EU-wide system for withholding tax relief at source. Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY) has collaborated with the UK government to design an extensive blockchain project to help with problems related to the cross-border withholding tax process.The complications of foreign withholding tax arise when a paper-based conventional process of data saving is lost...

DeFi will likely continue to amass more users at the current pace of innovation as systems become scalable and interoperable. This raises the probability of crypto users opting for alternative DeFi environments despite Ethereum’s current market dominance.Uniswap, a Decentralized Application (DApp) built on the Ethereum blockchain, is making headlines in the crypto market following a decision by Uniswap Labs to delist some tokens from the interface. The Brooklyn based firm shared a list of...