Blockchain

Conférence de Jean-Paul Delahaye à la Cité des sciences et de l’industrie le mercredi 22 janvier 2020. Informaticien, mathématicien et professeur émérite à l’Université de Lille 1, a consacré depuis 2013 de nombreux articles et de nombreuses présentations à Bitcoin et aux blockchains.

There are new reports that bitcoin is about to hit the $11,000 mark. According to Rob Sluymer – an analyst with Fundstrat – the currency is on the verge of adding nearly $2,000 to its growing price.Fundstrat Is At It AgainFundstrat is no stranger to wily bitcoin price predictions. The analysis firm boasts the presence of Tom Lee, a leading individual with the organization that has made a real name for himself over the past two years predicting that bitcoin will move up in spades – and usually...

The Ethereum-alike blockchain network from Axoni is under development and usage among Goldman Sachs and Citigroup members. Two banks conducted the first equity swap on a new blockchain.This is a milestone in the development of corporate blockchains. Citigroup has already conducted transactions with Goldman Sachs via the secretive blockchain. The first deal occurred on January 28.The blockchain solutions company Axoni launches a distributed ledger network. It was founded in 2013, gathered...

The next Ethereum system-wide upgrade, Eth 2.0, will not launch in Q2 2020 as scheduled, but developers are still confident that the original network parameters will deploy in 2020.The next Ethereum system-wide upgrade dubbed Ethereum 2.0 will be launched later than scheduled.In a particular Reddit discussion held on February 5, the Eth 2.0 team made several clarifications. The team said that the network would not launch until three clients can run testnets continuously for at least eight...

The Australian government is taking significant steps in adopting blockchain in its daily operations. Earlier today, the country released its “National Blockchain Roadmap” to improve the nation’s productivity in different sectors.Australia Published Blockchain RoadmapLess than a year ago, the federal executive Government of Australia (the Morrison Government), announced that it will develop a National Blockchain Roadmap. With a cost of 100,000 AUD, its idea was to utilize blockchain usage in...

PawnHub enables a new way of monetizing an ever-expanding universe of Bitcoin assets, gives value to previously latent capital, unlocking the wealth within physical and social assets, and providing a new source of money creation.According to crypto lending platform PawnHub, the largest asset classes in the world (stock markets and residential real estate) are collectively worth $217 trillion, putting the global debt-to-asset ratio at 80%, when considering $244 trillion as the global debt.The...

As the Bitcoin 2020 halving approaches, a new and bullish forecast has put BTC price close to $16,00 before this highly-anticipated day.While there has never been a shortage of Bitcoin bulls, these extremely optimistic forecasts are always worthy of note whenever they are publicized. Recently, a popular crypto trader simply known as Filb Filb made a very interesting bitcoin forecast ahead of the upcoming 2020 halving.Halving or not the market is always awash with bullish predictions for...

In a quest to fund the Blue Origin project, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos continued with his initial plan to sell shares. He has now sold $3.5 billion worth of shares in a week after AMZN stock jumped higher and the company joined the $1 trillion club.Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has sold almost $3.5 Billion worth of Amazon’s (AMZN) shares in the last one week, in the quest to fund his aerospace project Blue Origin. According to filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jeff sold slightly...

Binance is implementing the new BNB/USDT perpetual contract feature. The trading launch is scheduled for 10.02.2020, 08:00 AM (UTC).Binance will leave the traders with no chance of performing manipulations. In the first 15 minutes of the new contract trades, a 1% pricing limit will focus on the marked price. Since now, BNB holdings are updating themselves according to the new Futures account calculation scheme. Its the sum of the Binance Coin balance’s hourly snapshots of Futures balances,...

ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher noted that Bakkt is the main booster for ICE’s growth and that the key focus for Bakkt in 2020 is consumer adoption.Bakkt, a company that is backed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) which is also the proprietor to NYSE, will focus primarily on consumer adoption in the fiscal year 2020. This is according to ICE CEO, Jeffrey Sprecher who spoke during the Intercontinental Exchange’s Q4 earnings on Thursday, February 06, 2020.According to Sprecher, after Bakkt...