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Bitcoin smart contracting platform RSK has announced details of a Grants Program to encourage decentralized application (dApp) development. A fund of $200,000 will be made available, with developers invited to submit their ideas for consideration.Big Ambitions, Major IncentivesThe first smart contract platform secured by the Bitcoin network, RSK, enables developers to import, create, and deploy EVM based dApps. The RSK team will be hoping the $200k carrot it has proffered will tempt intrepid...

Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, a senior analyst at foreign exchange broker RoboForex, shares his insights into the future scenarios for Bitcoin price movement as well as possible price swings of major altcoins.BTC and ETH are forming reversal patterns both on the RSI and the price charts. Of course, buying on the falling market is not always a good idea. To be sure, a buyer must see a breakout of the closest resistance lines. The other altcoins follow the leading assets but show no reversal patterns...

Place/Date: - December 4th, 2019 at 4:01 pm UTC · 3 min read Contact: Tachyon Protocol, Source: Tachyon Protocol Photo: Tachyon ProtocolTachyon Protocol, a decentralized internet protocol co-launched by V SYSTEMS and X-VPN, is revamping the existing TCP/IP protocol with the help of blockchain technology, mature distributed technologies (like PPPoIP, DHT and UDP), and advanced encryption technologies.Tachyon Protocol has organized the IPX BS Staging event in association with Bithumb...

Bitcoin rose 10% in less than 10 minutes, causing $60 million worth of shorts to be liquidated.The sudden liquidation of large contracts fueled a spike to $7,800.Technical analysts remain cautious on the short-term trend of bitcoin.The bitcoin price surged 10% in just 10 minutes on Wednesday, lifting BTC as high as $7,800. The move liquidated $60 million worth of shorts on BitMEX in one of the strongest short squeezes in recent months. The bitcoin price jumped as high as $7,800 today. |...

Technology has been able to penetrate pretty much every industry in the global economy. The optimization and streamlining feature that the concept has can’t possibly be overstated, and while incumbent traditional organizations still control a large portion of the market share, there is a continued threat of newer firms coming over and posing a lasting challenge.One of the most important sectors of the global economy is the financial sector. As many have stated, the financial sector controls...

After a few days of decreasing volatility, the price of Bitcoin noted a decent spike with 8% gains, roughly a $620 increase in a matter of minutes.As per the leading derivates exchange by volume, BitMEX, the price of Bitcoin reached a daily high of $7,800, while on Bitstamp it went as high as $7,775. Despite the massive surge, at the moment of this writing, the largest cryptocurrency has retraced to $7,500.The increase comes just hours after CryptoPotato mentioned the possibility of a huge...

The team of Ethereum developers has announced a proposal for a new hard fork which is expected to solve problems currently associated with the Ice Age. In a recently published Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) – EIP 2387 – authored by developer James Hancock, the new hard fork if deployed, would significantly “postpone” the coming of the Ice Age. Muir Glacier is named after a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, located in Alaska.Hancock explains that the Ethereum network is...

3 December 2019: eToroX, the blockchain subsidiary of global investment platform eToro, today announced that the EOS cryptoasset is now available on the eToroX exchange.From today, EOS will be both a base and counter currency for trading pairs on eToroX, and can be traded against other cryptoassets, including multiple fiat stablecoins. The pairs comprise Bitcoin (BTC-EOS), Ethereum (ETH-EOS), Stellar (EOS-XLM), USD (EOS-USDEX), GBP (EOS-GBPX), and Japanese Yen (EOS-JPYX).With the launch of...

In what is seen as a paradox that has put many pundits on the edge, recent data indicates that XRP that is widely used by Ripple in its solutions is already less than one month away from being the worst-performing cryptocurrency token that is among the top ten in terms of market capitalization. Research indicates that coming up as a close second in this regard is Bitcoin Cash (BCH) which has lost 49% of its value since its all-time-high as against XRP’s 51%. XRP at the time of the 2017...

Last month in November 2019, crypto exchange Binance joined hands with smartphone manufacturer HTC for a special edition “cryptophone”. Dubbed as the HTC EXODUS 1 – Binance Edition, the handset integrates Binance’s proprietary blockchain network, the Binance Chain with HTC’s own native Zion Vault wallet app.As a result, the handset promises to support Binance’s decentralized exchange (DEX), the BNB token, preloaded DApps, etc. In the latest announcement, Binance has said that the...