Blockchain

MacKenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has sold $400 million worth of the Amazon stock. The news has come from a filing that Jeff Bezos made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.According to the filing, Jeff Bezos retains sole voting authority over MacKenzie Bezos’ stake that stands at nearly 19.5 million Amazon shares. Notably, it is 200,000 fewer shares than MacKenzie received of their divorce. Those 200,000 shares are worth about $400 million at the current...

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An anonymous group of miners announced plans to hardfork a new bitcoin cash blockchain if tax on miners isn’t removed. Group claims to control 42% of the BCH hashrate, with plans to expand it to 2.5 exahash per second by the May 15 fork date. A repeat of 2018 costly hash war could be on the very near horizon. Bitcoin cash (BCH) could be on the verge of another hash war after the ongoing tax drama took a major turn. An anonymous group of miners has threatened to launch...

Australia has a plan for tackling stable coins like Libra.Are Libra and Australia At It Again?Stable coin regulation will now be in the hands of Australia’s Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA). As part of the Australian Council of Financial Regulators, the APRA has created what’s known as the Distributed Ledger Technology Working Group as a way of governing new operations and maneuvers in the industry of decentralized finance.One of the most controversial steps taken in recent years in the...

As January draws to a close, the market is seriously anticipating the release of earnings reports from Apple and Facebook. Both companies, two of the world’s largest tech companies that make up the popular FAANG stocks, had a really great year in 2019. Before Wednesday when the last of these reports will be published, let’s take a look at their journey so far and what is expected.FAANG Stocks to AnticipateWhile the name comprises 5 different companies including Facebook, Apple, Amazon,...

The world was thrown into mourning yesterday, Monday 27th January 2020 as popular NBA star, Kobe Bryant alongside his 13-year-old daughter and a few others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Los Angeles. This news has brought about several condolence messages and tributes from everyone around the world and one of these tributes from the crypto community has stood out.The TRON Foundation has announced that its 2020 niTROn Summit which will hold from February 29 to March 1 will be dedicated to...

Engineers from Square Crypto want to build a product that will make LN integration easier for the wallet developers. Whether Lightning Network is a good scaling solution or not is defined by adoption rates. So far, it is used mostly by the exchanges and people directly supporting Bitcoin Core. However, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey thinks that development (and adoption) must flow faster. His revolutionary solution is called Lightning Development Kit (LDK) and is a creation of Jack’s new company.It...

Set for 12 May 2020, the Bitcoin halving is just 105 days away. Bitcoin price is steady at 8K-9K level.However, we should note that the same figure was named last week. Despite the fact that time is going forward, the halving event is not getting closer according to popular countdowns. It may be evidence of the decreased hash rate.Arcane Research, a Norwegian Cryptocurrency analytics company, published a study showing the growing demand among people who search in Google for ‘bitcoin halving’....

Ripple has said that blockchain technology and other fintech solutions will usher in the future of payments in 2020. In an official publication posted on Thursday, the company explains what the future of payments will look like. The publication also details events that are likely to unfold this year and how new technology will lead the way.In the Future Payments Will Be Faster and SmallerRipple is stressing that as time goes on, financial institutions and payment companies will have to...

Cryptocurrency project Tron and founder Justin Sun co-opts Kobe Bryant’s death to promote an upcoming blockchain conference. It’s the low point in a long string of disingenuous marketing ploys from Sun. Tron cryptocurrency has lost 91% of its value since highs in 2017. Cryptocurrency company Tron and its founder Justin Sun just found a new low: co-opting the tragic death of Kobe Bryant to promote their project and conference. In poor taste, the Tron Foundation Twitter...