Blockchain

Steem’s hard fork, HIVE, will have to deal with legal issues only days after its creation. According to an announcement from earlier today, a Canadian blockchain company with the same name had filed a cease and desist letter to the new network.HIVE’s Name IssuesAfter the controversy between Justin Sun and Steem spiraled on, the latter’s community members decided to launch a new blockchain dubbed HIVE. To do so, they implemented a hard fork of the existing Steem code on Friday.While the fork...

Batching bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions together is nothing new. In fact, Live Bitcoin News recently reported that Coinbase was beginning to batch bitcoin payments together as a means of protecting its blockchain from problems related to traffic congestion and high fees.Batching Is Starting to Garner New MeaningHowever, some are beginning to look at the process of batching a little differently. They’re not necessarily seeking to commit malicious acts with crypto or to launder funds,...

Tesla (TSLA) stock is in the green now. Tesla, GM, and Ford have been given the go-ahead to ramp up the production of ventilators used in the treatment of coronavirus patients.Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock is now trading at $433.91 which indicates a 1.49% growth. Previously, the stock closed at $427.53 after retesting the all-time lows. A closer look at the market chart on the higher time frame, the free fall might not be over for the electric auto car maker. The fall comes a time when the...

Place/Date: - March 23rd, 2020 at 4:33 pm UTC · 5 min read Source: IPSE In recent years, blockchain-centric technology clusters have moved to industrial applications. Among them, blockchain has become the most revolutionary and innovative technology due to its decentralized and distributed core concept and the promotion of fairness. Regardless of the economic, financial, and social aspects, blockchain with a distributed core concept, will be used as the underlying...

The fiscal stimulus bill presented by the Trump government failed to receive a key Senate vote and was halted from passing. The Democrats said that the bill did little to help out workers and more to bail out companies.The coronavirus pandemic continues to hit the global markets and the number of infected cases is on a steep rise. The U.S. Stock futures plunged in the early morning on Monday as Wall Street awaits an economic stimulus from the Trump government.Today, early morning 6 am, the...

The Bank of China went to the WeChat platform to highlight its concerns about Bitcoin. In a long post titled “3.15 protection of financial consumption rights and interest”, the bank warns the public on the risks of investing in Bitcoin.In a series of posts on WeChat, the Bank of China vehemently disqualified claims that Bitcoin can be classified as a safe haven, due to its high volatility especially in this period of coronavirus outbreak. The post which was titled, ‘3.15 protection of...

Tom Barrack, the head of Colony Capital real estate investment firm, claims that the next big crisis can be harder than the Great Depression. He suggests that the market needs an additional supply of liquid cash, as well as borrow system restructuring until 2024.Per the U.S. based commercial mortgage market shark, Tom Barrack, the market signs are telling that the collapse is imminent. The borrowers must not fall into default, because this would mean a domino effect for the industry.Barrack...

Ripple’s XRP is not suitable for Mexican remittances, but it might be a good solution in the African market where Intermex has recently expanded. In February, we reported about Ripple‘s collaboration with Intermex (International Money Express, Inc), provider of remittance services to Latin America and the Caribbean corridor. Within the partnership, Intermex was to use Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) through RippleNet and “enable faster cross-border payments between the U.S. and Mexico.”...

All eyes are on Bitcoin halving scheduled in mid-May 2020 to retrieve the lost glory of Bitcoin. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Bitcoin price has corrected over 40% in just the last month.The COVID-19 pandemic has severely hit not only the traditional markets but also the cryptocurrency markets. The overall cryptocurrency market has corrected nearly 40% in just the last month. The world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin has also corrected 40% during the same period. This market crash has wiped...

In 2019, MoneyGram has received $11.3 million worth of XRP, $8.9 million in the fourth quarter only. In 2020, this number seems to be increased.Recently, money transfer company MoneyGram has released its 2019 annual report. According to MoneyGram, it has sold $11.3 million worth of XRP received as a result of its commercial partnership with Ripple.As MoneyGram has revealed in its filing to the SEC, its loss in the fourth quarter of 2019 has totaled $11.9 million. However, the company assured...