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As the impact of blockchain and cryptocurrencies continues to increase throughout the world, so do blockchain conferences. These are events where one can meet and befriend like-minded people and establish fruitful connections and networking.As the new year recently began and the blockchain industry is already leaving marks, the following are among the most notable conferences that will occur in 2020.The year 2020 is expected to be a fantastic year for Bitcoin precisely due to the halving...

The legendary investor Warren Buffett and his firm Berkshire Hathaway knew about Google way ago. They had direct information early on about how lucrative its business would be but decided to pass on investing in the Internet search giant.Buffett says he’s really regretting that decision now. Google has become one of the very few $1 trillion dollar market cap U.S. companies. You could count them all on one hand.An investment of $500 million in 2013 would have grown in value to nearly $2.5...

Bitcoin cash (BCH) is undergoing a period of hardcore controversy.Bitcoin Cash Is At the Center of Major ChangeBitcoin cash is the famed result of a bitcoin hard fork that occurred in late 2017. Bitcoin (BTC) is the number one cryptocurrency by market cap and has given birth to a few digital kids along the way. BCH is among the first, and the currency has moved through the ranks to garner the number four spot on the list of industry’s top-performing cryptocurrencies.During its peak, the asset...

Cold storage hardware wallets are considered to be the most secure way to hold Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The main reason for that is because the private key is never exposed to the internet, unlike hot wallets.Trezor is believed to be the most popular hardware wallet, together with Ledger. During last October of 2019, Kraken Security Labs had announced that they had found a critical weakness in a few of Trezor’s cryptocurrency hardware wallet devices, namely the Trezor One and...

Popular freelance platform goLance has praised Ripple for making the payments of over 500,000 users a walk in the park, in what can best be described as a show of excitement. The company announced that Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity, a cross-border payments solution powered by XRP, will officially be used to settle the payments of its users.The Painful Old WayLike most successful companies, growth is unstoppable. The same can be said about goLance, which has seen a spike in the number of its...

It looks like bitcoin and crypto is entering mainstream territory.Bitcoin Is Moving Up the Financial LadderAccording to a new report offered by CNBC, many financial advisors are now telling their clients that it’s important to be at least somewhat invested in bitcoin and digital currencies. While clients shouldn’t necessarily go crazy and throw all their life savings into the digital space, it’s important to have at least a little bit put to the side. They’re suggesting that customers hold a...

Tech and internet companies were the first that succeeded to reach $1 trillion in stock market value. However, the next U.S. companies that could join this prestigious clique are better known for something else. We are talking here about card companies as are Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc.Take Mastercard for example. In its fourth-quarter earnings report, the company said that its GAAP earnings per share (EPS) surged incredible 138% in the fourth quarter to arrive at $2.07, while revenues...

Citigroup decided to make a little bit of difference for its wealthier clients by having a new digital robo-advisor who can help them create their own portfolio. Clients who have at least $50,000 in deposits or investments at the bank automatically qualify for the bank’s Citi Priority package of banking services. It is planned that this package incorporates access to an automated investing program.The program works like most robo-advisors. First, clients have to answer a few questions related...

For many Bitcoin investors, hodling is the best long term strategy to avoid selling at a loss, especially during a rapid slump in price. However, a price surge with hodlers refusing to let go of their positions even when they are in profits means there is a huge positive sentiment among investors.Data from Glassnode, a cryptocurrency analytics firm, reveals that the number of Bitcoin on-chain deposits to exchange is decreasing as there are now fewer incentives to make investors sell.In last...

Bitcoin is doing very well as of late. At the time of writing, the currency has jumped even higher and is now trading for just shy of $9,500. Perhaps the coin will hit $10,000 in the coming weeks…Bitcoin Is a King, but Cash Is Still a GodBut according to one source, bitcoin still doesn’t have the attention or the respect of cash. While this is to be expected – bitcoin is, after all, only about ten years old – cash still dominates the loan space. This is also to be expected, considering...