Blockchain

Photo: Binance / TwitterBinance, easily the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform, has announced today that it has opened deposits for users in Nigeria, to easily trade cryptocurrencies, using the Nigerian Naira (NGN). Binance has stated that deposits are immediately open for users to directly use the NGN to buy and sell select digital assets. This new feature was made possible through a partnership with the Nigerian payment technology company, Flutterwave.According to an...

The AT&T-backed CNN is allegedly working to found its own news aggregation service that allegedly would be something similar as is Apple News and Apple News+.The project dubbed “NewsCo” will compete with the already existing Facebook‘s and Apple’s domination by offering its consumers one more venue where they can get all possible information both local and global, together with its existing web and broadcast operations.For now, twelve engineers and other executives are working on this...

American retail giant Amazon has made a new acquisition: the company purchased Health Navigator, a company focused on developing APIs for online health services and providing evidence-based digital health information content. The sum of the deal is not yet clear.According to Amazon, Health Navigator will join the membership of the Amazon Care group, a pilot healthcare service program for Amazon employees launched in September that delivers prescriptions with remotely communicated treatment...

TBCASoft, IBM and SoftBank Corp. have announced their collaboration in an effort to transform the industry of telecommunications. The companies will work on developing cross-carrier blockchain solutions, offering new services to telecom carriers and their clients, and promoting advanced business models.TBCASoft is a US-based startup company that focuses on developing technologies especially for the sector of telecommunications. Founded in 2016, the company received funding from SoftBank, and...

China’s internet and communications giant Tencent has recently raised concerns that if Facebook succeeds in its Libra launch by 2020, local Chinese payment service providers like WeChat pay and Alipay would face major threats in global markets.Tencent recently published a blockchain whitepaper in Chinese, wherein it calls Facebook’s Libra initiative as “bold and radical” as well as “prudent and rational”. The Chinese tech giant explains how Libra can quickly make inroads in markets where the...

BitMovio is aiming to disrupt the video entertainment industry’s current model of content distribution and financing with its blockchain-powered, gamified content platform. In order to do this, the company has put together a team of talented individuals with combined decades of experience in technology, media, software, blockchain, gaming, eSports, and content streaming and licensing.The collective resume of the team includes experience at companies such as Netflix, Amazon, Fox, The Walt...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 735. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: Bullenmarkt vorbei – Bitcoin Crash auf $7400, Coinbase hat seit 2012 über 2 Milliarden verdient & Zuckerberg steht dem Kongress bzgl. Libra Rede und Antwort. 1.) Bitcoin-Kurs fällt massiv – Das steckt hinter dem Crashhttps://www.btc-echo.de/bitcoin-kurs-faellt-massiv-das-steckt-hinter-dem-crash/ 2.) Coinbase Generated Nearly $2 Billion in Transaction Fees Since...

Deutsche Börse: Neuer Handelssaal der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse Foto Gmeinfrei via Wikipedia Commerzbank, Deutsche Börse und MEAG, Asset Manager von Munich Re und ERGO, haben einen weiteren Schritt bei der Untersuchung der Möglichkeiten von Distributed-Ledger-Technologie (DLT) für den Bereich Post-Trade-Services gemacht. Die Partner haben die Abwicklung eines rechtsverbindlichen Wertpapiergeschäfts im Sekundärmarkt mit tokenisiertem...

Blocksteam CEO Adam Black an der Korea Blockchain Week 2019 Foto: Zur Verfügung gestellt von D.Fine Weiterhin ist Bitcoin die mit Abstand beliebteste Kryptowährung. Laut einem führenden Krptoexperten könnten die Sidechains von Bitcoin jetzt auch andere Altcoins überflüssig machen. Adam Black, der bereits 1997 mit seiner Erfindung HashCash den Grundstein für die heutigen...

Well, it sure seems like we’re in for another faulty end-of-year mark for bitcoin. At press time, the currency has fallen by roughly $800 over the past 24 hours and the asset is now trading at $7,400.Bitcoin Falls; Zuckerberg to Blame?The sentiment is that this all has to do with Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony today. Zuckerberg – the famed CEO of Facebook – is set to speak before a congressional committee today regarding Libra, the cryptocurrency being released by the social media giant in 2020....