Blockchain

Last Friday, October 18, blockchain startup Ripple has released the Q3 performance number for XRP cryptocurrency. Despite being the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, XRP’s performance has failed to impress investors. Q3 was no different as the XRP price slipped to its 2019-low below $0.25 by September end.As we know that since the launch of XRP in 2012 Ripple has been given some portion of the 100 billion XRP tokens created. Each year, the company engages for some token sale in the...

Bitmain, the Chinese manufacturer of computing chips and cryptocurrency mining equipment, has just launched a 50MW facility for crypto mining in Texas’ Rockdale city. The facility was erected in conjunction with DMG Blockchain Solutions, a Canadian firm, as well as the Rockdale Municipal Development District (MDD).According to an official Bitmain publication, construction of the facility began last year, after the company announced that it would erect the biggest cryptocurrency mining farm in...

On Saturday HTC launched a wallet-friendly version of its blockchain smartphone, versioned the Exodus 1s. The new phone comes in at a little under $250 (€219) and customers can buy it either with fiat or crypto. Its real selling point? Run your own full bitcoin node on the go. Verify your own transactions on the new HTC Exodus 1s | Source: htcexodus.comThe Taiwanese company launched big brother a year ago and initially tried to entice blockchain fans by pricing it in Bitcoin. It...

Justin Sun who is the founder and CEO of Tron (TRX) has dismissed rumors and allegations that he is behind the investment group that acquired the premier cryptocurrency exchange group Poloniex. He indicated this in a tweet on October 19th and categorically stated that he is “not buying anything”.I'm not buying anything. Just invest some and help out my friends. Actually I have a huge bag of $BNB, $HT, $OKB etc and bet on all exchanges that support $TRX & $BTT. ?— Justin Sun...

Organisé par le CEIFAC, Collège Européen des Investigations financières et de l’Analyse Financière criminelle, le colloque « Cryptomonnaies et blockchains : quelles perspectives ? » réunira le 24 octobre prochain professionnels et universitaires afin d’évoquer l’impact de Bitcoin sur la criminalité transfrontière et de déterminer les moyens de lutte et les défis présents et futurs. Où ? – Auditorium de la Bibliothèque Nationale et...

Social media giant Facebook has been facing severe regulatory troubles for launching its Libra cryptocurrency. Last week, even big giants like Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe, who were earlier part of the Libra Association, announced their withdrawal from the project.Facebook is now working out other ways to keep its Libra project alive. As reported by Reuters, Facebook proposed using fiat-pegged digital stablecoins for its project. It means that instead of directly pegging the Libra token...

In what seems to be a continuing series of woes for Telegram and its TON blockchain, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has decided to postpone the hearing that will determine if the Grams token is a security or not to the 18th and 19th of February 2020.Though the company was doing its best to make its token publicly available, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a couple of moves by dragging the messaging app to court on...

Layer1, San Francisco-based startup involved in Bitcoin mining, has raised $50 million in an effort to live up its plan to establish farms for mining. The money has been received from such a row of prominent investors including Peter Thiel, an American billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund, and Shasta Ventures, an early-stage venture capital investment firm that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups.According to Alexander Liegl, CEO of...

The world’s first and only cryptocurrency exchange with the Any2Any technology has successfully completed beta testing of the third version of the quantum trading core with a built-in liquidity flow that will completely change the notion of exchange trading. Surprisingly, all modern exchanges, like hundreds of years ago, still use fixed trading pairs, which are in no way connected at the level of the trading core and the order matching system. Each orderbook only contains orders placed in...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 732. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: Poloniex wird zu Polo Digital Assets – US-Kunden müssen draußen bleiben, Kryptowährungen im Fokus der Zentralbanken & Fiat 27 Jahre Lebensdauer. 1.) Poloniex wird zu Polo Digital Assets – US-Kunden müssen draußen bleibenhttps://bitcoin-kurier.de/poloniex-wird-zu-polo-digital-assets-us-kunden-muessen-draussen-bleiben/ 2.) Why Cryptocurrency is in The Spotlight For More...