Blockchain

Binance’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) believes bitcoin will hit $16,000 very “soon-ish.” A 4chan anonymous user who accurately predicted bitcoin’s trajectory earlier this year turned out to be wrong in October. CZ claims 1.4 billion people are behind bitcoin. Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of Binance, recently stated that 1.4 billion people are working on getting bitcoin to $16,000. And, this upswing is currently in the works. Putting a Price on Bitcoin The CEO of the largest...

The fate of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is pretty much hanging in the balance and has somewhat been so since it was first announced a few months ago. There has been so much backlash from authorities, with Congress specifically asking Facebook to halt the development progress until further notice. Now according to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, the biggest problem that the Libra faces is Facebook itself.Lubin recently spoke to CNBC’s Squawk Box, and specifically mentioned Facebook’s...

Photo: Wikimedia CommonsI have big hopes for Christine Lagarde following her appointment as the new head of the European Central Bank. And here’s why (Warning: libertarian crypto enthusiasts should look away now).A company I co-founded held Bitcoin in the now-infamous Mt. Gox exchange. You may remember that back in 2013-14 it was the world’s leading Bitcoin exchange handling over 70% of all transactions worldwide. But in February 2014 things went horribly wrong as Mt. Gox suspended trading...

Welche innovativen Geschäftsmodelle ermöglicht die Tokenisierung von Rechten und Gütern über die Blockchain? Wo liegen Effizienzgewinne für Unternehmen und Chancen für Privatanleger? Und wie lassen sich Kryptowährungen und Token als digitale Assets angemessen regulieren? Das waren nur einige der Fragen, zu denen sich die über 100 Teilnehmer der regulatorischen Konferenz „Finpulse“ der Börse Stuttgart austauschten. „Die Blockchain ermöglicht es, bestehende Finanzprodukte in die...

High school students in France will have an opportunity to gain basic knowledge of workings of blockchain and virtual currencies in the framework of their everyday studies.The French education ministry, Le Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale, is said to include Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in the high school syllabus. Such a move is expected to help students understand the benefits of decentralized currency and its influence on mainstream financial systems.Bitcoin will be added to Economics...

Auch mit der Einführung der Blockchain-Technologie sind, wie bei sonstigen Risikotechnologien – sei es Bio-, Nuklear- oder auch KI-Technologie – diverse, ungeklärte ethische Fragen verbunden. Bitcoin selber ist kein Betrug, aber viele dubiose Gestalten nutzen die Unwissenheit der Menschen über diese neue Technologie für ihre zwielichtigen Angebote aus. Das soll jetzt aufhören: So forderte ein Zusammenschluss von Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern, Juristen und Wissenschaftlern...

Ripple Labs Inc. has already started making inroads in the financial space in Asia as sources indicate that TPBank based in Vietnam is the first financial institution in the country to join the blockchain payments network. RippleNet allows international remittances to take place in mere minutes rather than in days unlike traditional networks such as SWIFT and at much less cost as well.This was stated on the bank’s website which indicated the bank’s first foray into blockchain technology and...

Binance has now officially begun a survival of the fittest battle between two strongly emerging protocols in what is now the second round of the Community Coin Vote’s (CCV) new format. The Binance community is expected to vote between the ARPA protocol and the Carry protocol, two networks that have more than a few things in common.Voting DetailsThe process kicked off at 4:00 AM (UTC) today Nov. 5, and will run continuously for 24 hours, before closing on November 6, at 4:00 AM (UTC) as well....

In a move that has seen Big Tech enter the crypto space on a whole new level, Microsoft has launched a platform on its Azure cloud infrastructure to make token deployment to become as easy as possible.Referred to as the Azure Blockchain Tokens platform, the platform aims to make the issuance and existence of blockchain tokens to become cloud-based and to also enable the operating environment of such blockchain projects to become seamless and as easy as possible.This was revealed at the...

Die Kritik an Ethereum nimmt nicht ab. Und wieder geht es um den Einfluss, den User tatsächlich auf den ETH und das Netzwerk haben können. Besonders Bitcoin Entwickler Tuur Demeester gilt als intensiver Kritiker von Ethereum, und genau dieser meldete sich nun auf Twitter erneut zu Wort.Ethereum News: Kritiker sieht Ethereum auf Weg zur ZentralisierungDemeester zitierte Tweets, unter anderem auch von Ethereum Gründer Vitalik Buterin, die andeuten, dass es beim Ethereum Projekt immer mehr in...