Blockchain

Premier cryptocurrency lending service BlockFi has introduced a new feature. It is trading at no fees for Bitcoin, Ethereum and the stablecoin GUSD. The startup has been known to allow users access to returns on their cryptocurrency holdings by offering loans to borrowers against users’ cryptocurrency holdings and then passing across the returns in terms of interest on the loans while securing the crypto assets that were used as security for the loans.  While this model is known to have been...

Blockchain startup Ripple has been engaged in a long going battle with complainants claiming XRP as a security. However, it seems that the company wants to put an end to this debate and reach a final settlement. In its latest filing on December 4, with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Ripple said that the plaintiffs suing the company over the unregistered sale of security tokens (XRP) have brought the case too late. In the filing, Ripple says that even if XRP...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 766. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: Kanadisches Bitcoin Mining Unternehmen meldet Insolvenz an, Tron und DigiByte Gründer im Streit & Deutsche Bank glaubt Crypto verdrängt Fiat. 1.) Kanadisches Bitcoin Mining Unternehmen meldet Insolvenz anhttps://www.btc-echo.de/bitcoin-mining-kanadisches-unternehmen-vermeldet-insolvenz/ 2.) Tron und DigiByte Gründer im Streit – DGB wird zur Strafe von Poloniex...

A blockchain-powered financial services startup Figure Technologies founded by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, announced it has closed a $103 million Series C round. But, that is not all folks. It has also added Morgan Creek Digital’s Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, one of the sector’s most vigorous supporters, to its board. That’s not a consequence because, according to the company’s announcement, the round was also led by Morgan Creek Digital, with participation from MUFG Innovation Partners and...

Virgil Griffith, the 36-year-old Singapore resident (and U.S. citizen) who was recently arrested for giving a seminar about blockchain and cryptocurrency in North Korea, allegedly said once that it would be really “cool” if the country learned how to mine ether tokens, according to an unnamed source who boasts “deep knowledge” of the matter.Did Griffith Want to Help North Korea Mine ETH?Griffith was arrested over the Thanksgiving holiday at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) after he had...

As per its earlier schedule, the Ethereum network shall be releasing its Istanbul hard fork three days from now on December 8. However, the interesting thing is that a majority of the nodes on Ethereum are unprepared for this.Frankly, this news is a bit shocking to the Ethereum community. It is found that nearly 60% of the Ethereum clients have not been moved to the latest version that is compatible with the Istanbul Hard Fork. As per the Ethernodes analytical tool, just 40% of the active...

Enjin Coin surged 60% today after a successful partnership announcement with Microsoft.ENJ broke above the 1000 SAT level and looks to continue.Enjin is now ranked as the 72nd top cryptocurrency with a market cap of $50 million.Enjin Partners Up With MicrosoftMicrosoft and Enjin have teamed up to create Azure Heroes – a project that rewards contributors to the community for posting content, creating demos, building sample code, and blogging about Azure.Creators are nominated and receive a...

Microsoft and the blockchain gaming company Enjin have launched a new tokenized rewards program that depends on Ethereum, Azure Heroes and is running the plan in few nations in Western Europe. The Seattle-based technology colossus has printed about 12,000 non-expendable “badger” tokens using the ERC-1155 Ethereum token standard, initially proposed by Enjin‘s co-founder Witek Radomski.Although Microsoft is related to some blockchain companies given the most recent statement, the company,...

Yesterday, December 4, turned out to be a very interesting day for Bitcoin as the network broke a new record and hit its biggest hourly USD transaction volume in all of Bitcoin’s existence. An increase in the volume of transactions on any network is usually regarded as a big deal because more often than not, it shows that there is some progress with adoption. However, this case is very different.The news was made known in a tweet by Rafael Schultze-Kraft, the cofounder of on-chain market...

We all know how it is to forget someone’s birthday, holiday or, god forbid, anniversary. Before we used our little calendars with post-its all around saying: “your first kiss anniversary, he wore a brown jumper, buy beer”, etc. However, since we have Facebook, it was hard to forget, well, almost anything. With its ‘calendar’ and ‘memories’ it reminds us of all the things we’ve done in the past – yes, that includes your drunk uncle puking after New year’s brunch. Its “Year in Review” videos,...