Crypto news

Gaming powerhouse EA has authored a tweet urging its followers to invest in cryptocurrency and people are not sure what to make of it. | Credit: AFP EA wants you to invest in crypto, or does it? The gaming powerhouse authored a tweet a little over an hour ago pushing its 5.5 million followers to invest in cryptocurrency. Source: TwitterIt's brief, to the point, and...

Crypto podcaster Peter McCormack has been offering the show “What Bitcoin Did” to listeners for the past two years. The program is doing quite well, having garnered more than $29,000 in income and more than 200,000 downloads last August alone, but McCormack says that his journey towards success has been a rough one.McCormack: Here’s What Makes a Good PodcastIn a recent interview, McCormack says what his job schedule typically requires: I work like 80 hours a week. I’ve flown all around the...

Last month, a judge ordered Craig Wright to turn over 50% of the bitcoin he mined with his former business associate, deceased computer genius Dave Kleiman. | Image: YouTube/BBC Craig Wright and Ira Kleiman have entered settlement discussions, with both parties requesting a 30-day extension of all case deadlines to facilitate negotiations. According to a joint...

Bitcoin bull Jack Dorsey is bolstering Square's crypto business with a string of new hires. | Credit: AP/Francois Mori As if Facebook's Libra doesn't have enough trouble, they just lost a developer to a rising crypto star. Square Crypto has poached a trio of blockchain developers from across the tech industry including Lightning Labs, Facebook's Libra, and Google....

La puissance de calcul du réseau Bitcoin vient de dépasser les 100 000 000 TH/s, soit une augmentation de 100% en un an seulement. Pour comprendre ce phénomène nous nous sommes tournés vers Sébastien Gouspillou, cofondateur et Président de BigBlock Datacenter, société nantaise qui conçoit et gère à travers le monde des unités dédiées au « minage » [1] de bitcoins : « Après une chute de 30% en décembre 2018 (souvenez-vous, certains nous...

Patrick Byrne, Overstock's former CEO, is cashing out of the company he built. | Image: AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson Ousted former CEO of Overstock, Patrick Byrne, revealed via a regulatory filing on Wednesday that he offloaded his entire holdings in the internet retailer he's been at the helm for since 1999. Byrne liquidated his entire holdings. | Source:...

[PRESS RELEASE]The ATAIX exchange has announced that it will be the first to sell the native currency of the Telegram Open Network (TON), Gram [GRM. Initially bought by investors during Telegram’s astounding $1.7 billion ICO last year, Gram is one of the most widely talked tokens that have yet to hit the market. ATAIX’s Gram sale will be the earliest opportunity for individual investors to buy Grams, which can then be traded immediately after the launch of TON and the release of tokens by the...

The second major smartphone maker Huawei seems to be in troubles. Even though they tried to convince Google to let them continue operating on their new Androids, Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30, they haven’t succeeded. At the beginning of the month, as we have already reported, the company announced the launch date for its new smartphones. And last week we witnessed a lot of video teasers regarding new models, Google seemed to stay implacable regarding to its politics. This definitely seems to be a...

The Game of Stakes will not be for the faint-hearted, as it will test the limits of participants’ social, economic and technical tactics as they battle it out with others to present the most robust, flexible, and attack-proof strategies to improve the DAObet blockchain. Players must be shrewd, cunning, and able to outwit the outwitters of the network, defending the blockchain as validators, while interacting within the ecosystem, to ensure the best lessons are learnt to build an even better...

Jay Clayton, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, doesn’t think bitcoin will ever be traded on a major exchange… That is, until serious regulation comes along. Without regulation, BTC, in his mind, will never achieve the mainstream status it so desperately longs for. Clayton: We Need More Rules for BTCAt press time, bitcoin’s primary attempt to become “legit” has suddenly dissipated, with CBOE, VanEck and Solid X withdrawing their bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) from the...