Blockchain

Recently released court documents from the ongoing Ira Kleiman vs. Craig Wright trial reveal the self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin may also have invented an early prototype of the iPhone.In Craig Wright’s legal deposition from March 16, 2020 – released June 2 – the self-titled Satoshi Nakamoto told the opposition counsel he had used an iPhone as early as 2006. The trouble is, the first iPhone wasn’t released until June 2007.The line of questioning related to email correspondence between...

Checks is one of the amendments on the XRP Ledger Protocol that have been around for long but is yet to achieve a majority vote to become functional on the Ripple network.Since its launch in 2018, Ripple‘s Xpring initiative has invested over $500 million in different projects. Reporters and analysts who tracked Xpring’s investments discovered that it has contributed to more than 27 projects since its inception. Some of the notable projects include Dharma, Compound, Securitize, Forte, and...

Ethereum’s hash rate has increased by nearly 30% since the start of 2020 to the current levels of 187,369 GH/s suggesting that miners are becoming more involved before the impending launch of Ethereum 2.0.ETH Hash Rate Rises In 2020According to data from Etherscan, ETH’s hash rate started the year at approximately 147,405 GH/s. Almost immediately it increased by 10%, and since then it has continued with the same positive trend. At the time of this writing, the hash rate is at 187,369 GH/s,...

Bank Frick adds first stablecoin to its range of tradable and custodial crypto assets with USDC Europe’s leading blockchain bank is adding a stablecoin to its range of tradable and custodial crypto currencies for the first time. With immediate effect, Bank Frick offers professional market participants and wealthy private clients the trading and safekeeping of the USD Coin (USDC). Trading takes place within the fully regulated environment...

SEBA Bank und drei Hochschulen lancieren digitale Bildungsplattform Blockchain-basierte Finanzanwendungen und digitale Assets zählen zu den grössten wirtschaftlichen Innovationen unserer Zeit. Der Bedarf an Wissen und Ausbildung ist in der breiten Öffentlichkeit, bei Investoren, in Unternehmen, speziell bei Banken und anderen Finanzdienstleistern gross. In diese Lücke springt SEBAversity mit massgeschneiderten Ausbildungsangeboten. Die...

Legendary researcher and prominent figure in Bitcoin’s community, Sergio Demian Lerner, believes that Satoshi Nakamoto won’t ever use his bitcoins because of his altruistic intentions.Satoshi Won’t Use His CoinsSatoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, is believed to have mined 1.1 million BTC back when the network was first launched.A well-known researcher, Sergio Demian Lerner, who is also the designer of the second layer Bitcoin protocol RSK, discovered privacy flaws in...

The mystery surrounding the identity of bitcoin’s anonymous creator – Satoshi Nakamoto – continues, and now people have found a new candidate to point the finger at. According to many analysts within the space, bitcoin’s inventor is allegedly a man named Adam Back.Is Adam Back the Creator of BTC?Last month, a YouTube channel known as “Barely Sociable” – which enjoys more than 400,000 subscribers at press time – released a video that was approximately 40 minutes long. This video claimed that...

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has tapped Hester Peirce for a second term as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as her current one is set to expire on June 5th, 2020. Peirce is a vocal defendant of Bitcoin as she opposed the rejections of a Bitcoin-based ETF by the Commission.Hester Peirce For A Second Term At The SECAccording to a Bloomberg Law report from today, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has nominated Hester Peirce for a...

Das OMG Network kündigte neue Features an und wird als Alternative zu Ethereum immer attraktiver. Eine Stablecoin wie Tether ist eine absolut geniale Sache, da der User so ganz einfach Millionen von Dollars im Web herumschieben kann. Nur, ganz kostenlos ist das nicht. Ethereum stellt die Blockchain und den ERC20-Standard zur Verfügung und will dafür natürlich etwas haben und...

Wie die SpaceChain Foundation Mitte Mai bekanntgegeben hat, kooperiert der Konzern ab sofort mit Core Semiconductor. Ziel ist eine Ausweitung des hauseigenen dezentralen Satelliten-Programms. Core Semiconductor ist ein Technologieunternehmen, welches sich in erster Linie auf das Internet der Dinge und Rechenplattformen fokussiert. Mit der Investition in das Unternehmen will die SpaceChain Foundation den nächsten Schritt zum großen Ziel gehen: die Gründung der...