Blockchain

Well-known entrepreneur and cryptocurrency proponent, John McAfee, recently launched an ERC-20 based token called WHACKD. The full rubric of the token is “Epsten Didn’t Kill Himself,” and it was announced back on November 11th. Now, however, McAfee has said that he will 10% of the total supply of WHACKD to the winners of a new meme contest.Gifting WHACKD To Meme Contest WinnersThe circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death caught the attention of the world. John McAfee’s observation...

Many of the people working in the cryptocurrency industry had a negative banking experience. Some were prevented from accessing their funds while others lost their accounts. It’s no surprise that many people are working hard to disrupt the banking industry. Many of today’s leaders in the cryptocurrency space were victims of poor banking. To some, the experience was so bad that they are now spearheading the disruption of the banking system. For instance, Changpeng Zhao, chief...

Tom Lee has always been very adamant about bitcoin, but in a recent interview, he says that the space is way too small for a bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) to work.Lee: Now Just Isn’t the TimeThere have been many attempts to get cryptocurrency ETFs approved over the past several years, but none have been successful. One of the ETF proposals that many believed would really pave the way for future bitcoin and blockchain-based products was the ETF application submitted by Van Eck Solid...

You can retire today on 20-30 BTC depending on where you live1 BTC, 32 ETH: it’s important to diversifyDon’t count on Bitcoin to retireIs there a right answer or it’s all individual?Bitcoin’s price has always been a hot topic within the cryptocurrency community. There are plenty of predictions on what it would be in the not-so-distant futures, and the estimates vary from $0 (from crypto skeptics) to $1 million by the end of 2020 coming from the popular proponent John McAfee.With this in mind,...

Over the years, the iGaming industry has gained quite the reputation; and with its rapidly evolving ecosystem being latently influenced by the emergence of technologies such as the blockchain, the growth potential looks almost limitless. However, the industry is still being plagued by entities that limit gaming experience – a subject the DAOBet platform is wholly devoted to redefining with its newly-launched blockchain.DAOBet, an iGaming 3.0 blockchain layer, aims to maximize the...

Traditional markets and indexes are currently hitting new records. In one such first-ever milestone, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied to a record 28,000 plus levels on Friday. The rally comes amidst waning tensions in the U.S.-China trade war with the hope of reaching a trade deal between the two economic powerhouses.On Friday, November 15, Dow Jones’s 30-stock average climbed 222.93 points at 28,004. In just the last four months, the Dow Jones price index has surged by 1000 points....

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken over Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world’s wealthiest person. The Bloomberg billionaires index, which tracks the net worth of the world’s wealthiest, has indicated that Gates has overtaken Bezos based on an over 40% increase in his 1% stake in technology giant Microsoft and his investments in his family office Cascade. For the first time in two years, Gates has taken over the top spot after reports emerged that the United States Department of...

The Bitcoin futures market has exploded like no one could have expected over the recent years, and it continues to grow. This summer, BitMEX hit a new record for BTC futures trading at over $16 billion.CME recently petitioned the CFTC to double its BTC futures trading capacity in the face of soaring interest. Binance had recently entered the space, and Bakkt has launched with its physically delivered BTC futures product (albeit somewhat tepidly).In the light of so much action among the margin...

In what seems like a story out of spy movies, the Russian service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has allegedly linked about $450 million of missing crypto assets from the long moribund cryptocurrency exchange Wex with to Russia Federal Security Bureau (FSB).The BBC has for six years been investigating the collapse of BTC-e which many have believed was a front for the alleged laundering of over $4 billion worth of Bitcoins and why Alexander Vinnik is being accused of the same....

Late last month, the United States Department of Defense announced that the much-discussed Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, had been finally awarded to Microsoft. After the announcement, many including Amazon itself seemed sincerely surprised that the contract didn’t go to Amazon. Now, Amazon has decided to officially challenge the contract award.According to a Federal Times report, Amazon Web Services (AWS) officially filed with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims...