Blockchain

2020 has so far been an exciting and profitable year for Bitcoin. Since the early days of January, the cryptocurrency has managed to increase its value by almost 40%. This is a spectacular performance for any asset, even more so within traditional markets.BTC/USD January. Source: TradingViewIn the past 24 hours alone, Bitcoin is up more than 3%, looking primed to start testing the resistance line at around $9,400.With so much going on in terms of price action, it’s perhaps interesting to...

Jae Kwon, co-founder, and CEO of Tendermint and president of the Interchain Foundation revealed in a series of tweets late Tuesday that he will step down from his role at Cosmos to work on a daughter project. Tendermint is the company that’s behind the development of the Cosmos SDK.Cosmos Network was launched in March 2019 to act as the internet of blockchain. The project claims it provides a secure and scalable ecosystem that supports interoperability between thousands of blockchains for a...

Renaud Lifchitz, chercheur en cybersécurité et « expert blockchain » et Clément Jeanneau, co-fondateur de Blockchain Partner, sont intervenus samedi sur Radio Nova dans l’émission Tech Paf présentée par Marie Misset. « C’est l’heure de plonger dans un sujet technique et ambitieux : les monnaies virtuelles. Avec deux invités, Tech Paf s’appliquera à expliquer les différences entre :– Libra, la...

Altcoin King John McAfee derides BTC as the real sh*tcoin of the cryptocurrency world. McAfee compares BTC to hotmail – a once ubiquitous service that eventually faded away. The self-declared U.S. presidential candidate says the future of the cryptocurrency space lies with altcoins. Bitcoin (BTC) is the hotmail of the cryptocurrency world. That’s according to altcoin king, and self-declared U.S. presidential candidate, John McAfee. Bitcoin Is Sh*tcoin, Not Altcoins...

Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures invested $5 million into Vakt shares, and its trading subsidiary Aramco Trading Company will start using the Vakt platform, according to a press release.That way, Saudi Aramco joins the current Vakt shareholder base of 12 investors. Among them are some of the world’s largest energy and commodity trading players. This investment will help Vakt in platform development and possibly expand to new markets in Asia.This is particularly big for Vakt. Mostly because such a...

The number of active entities holding Bitcoin is continuously growing over the years to the current number of over 23 million, according to a recent report.Cryptocurrency exchanges control 13% of all bitcoins, and Coinbase is the leader with the most considerable stash.The popular blockchain monitoring resource, Glassnode, recently published its new paper regarding Bitcoin holdings. To gather the information, it used “standard heuristics, proprietary clustering algorithms, and advanced data...

Off lately, the San Francisco-based blockchain startup Ripple has been frequent in news. Ripple CEO Brad Gralinghouse has been much vocal about his company’s plans for 2020 and ahead.During the last week’s World Economic Forum 2020, the U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin expressed confidence in the development of new cross-border payment systems. Post Mnuchin’s statement, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse also said that this could turn positive in favor of the company.Ripple has been actively...

Ripple’s Xpring initiative XRPL Labs is getting ready to launch its Xumm banking application. The app will allow users to store fiat and digital currencies in the wallet account, without any intervention from banks. In other words, Xumm offers banking services without banks getting involved.Xumm banking application is powered XRP, the token that is widely used in Ripple’s solutions. Notably, it will be available for all kinds of users. Easy to use, the app requires no special knowledge with...

John McAfee, who previously made a daring prediction that Bitcoin will reach $1 million by the end of this year, continues his recently negative stance against the largest cryptocurrency.The founder of one of the most popular antivirus software said that Bitcoin is the true shitcoin, and the future of crypto is with alternative coins.The Future Rests With Altcoins, Bitcoin is Shitcoin: McAfeeAfter recently comparing the largest digital asset with the popular Ford Model T car due to its...

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