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Paxos Launches Fiat Gateway with Binance as the First Client

Photo: ShutterstockOn November 12, 2019, Paxos debuted its Fiat Gateway and have announced that Binance will be its first client in this regard. Its Fiat Gateway means that customers can swap out U.S. dollars for stablecoins on a one-to-one basis and this is one of the first of its kind within the cryptocurrency industry.While this unique service is seeing more widespread attention since its association with Binance, it has actually been available to Paxos users since May 2019 and according...

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The Business Of Medical Cannabis Cultivation

Medical Cannabis is the medical use of the Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica and various other strains to relieve symptoms of diseases and treat their conditions. Medical cannabis is a category term for anything from dried cannabis flowers, cannabis oils, capsules and tablets to mouth spray. Cannabis-derivatives can provide a remedy for patients suffering from pain, cramps and/or nausea and many other illnesses and diseases, improving function and overall quality of life. Patients find that...

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Bakkt Will Offer Cash-Settled Bitcoin Futures to Singapore Before 2020

ICE Clear Singapore will be offering a new type of Bitcoin futures. Those are cash-settled ones, thus will also be available via ICE Futures. Venture funds from across Earth show their intent to work together with ICE‘s Bakkt too. Bakkt COO Adam White says that the new product is under discussion with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MАS).When Bakkt first appeared on the horizon in 2018, it took almost a year to build their first product: physically-settled monthly Bitcoin futures. Their...

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Instagram Stories’ New Reels Feature Similar to TikTok is Already Available in Brazil

An American photo and video-sharing social networking platform Instagram is going to compete with Chinese TikTok. Instagram has decided to launch Reels — a new video and music feature for Instagram Stories. This service allows users to enjoy working with different tools for editing videos, create 15-second clips using an extensive music catalog, and share them on Instagram Stories. It is notable that Reels is similar to the TikTok app in its functioning.According to the TechCrunch report,...

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Dell Launches a Subscription Model to Rival Amazon and Microsoft

The latest reports reveal that Dell Technologies Inc plans to offer its business clients more flexible and on-demand buying options for various products. Some of the products featured in the new plan include personal computers and servers. This move is believed to aim at countering the lure of cloud services offered by Microsoft Corporation and Amazon.com Inc.Customers can now use Dell’s hardware on their consumption. They can use it as a service or via a subscription called the Round Rock, a...

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Wednesday Crypto Market Watch: Bitcoin Standing Still As Major Altcoins Surge

Bitcoin’s price movements have been rather bearish over the last few days. Yesterday, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap tried breaking up but got quickly rejected and recorded $8550 as of yesterday’s low.Since then, Bitcoin is slowly gaining momentum, and the coin is back at the past week’s consolidation range $8700 – $8800.As reported here yesterday, the $9,150 level that Bitcoin reached on Sunday and got rejected, was where the 4-hour MA-50 and the MA-100 met. Additionally, that’s...

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Bitcoin Extortionists Hit Fortune-500 Mexican Oil Giant Pemex for $5 Million

Pemex is required to pay the Bitcoin ransom within two weeks or face paying double after. About 5% of the computers have been affected by the DoppelPaymer software. The oil giant’s billing systems are the most impacted and could lead to delays in paying salaries. The hackers who hit Mexico’s state oil giant Pemex earlier this week with ransomware are demanding hundreds of Bitcoin in order to provide the decryption software. According to Bleeping Computer, the ransomware used to target the...

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eToroX Adds Dash, USDC, USDT And 5 New Stablecoins

eToroX, the blockchain subsidiary of global investment platform eToro, has added five new fiat stablecoins, a new cryptoasset, two further established stablecoins and a crypto-commodity pair, signalling its rapid growth, having only launched only six months ago. There are now 26 tradable assets available on the exchange.The new assets announced today are:Turkish Lira (TRYX), Polish Zloty (PLNX), South African Rand (ZARX), Hong Kong Dollar (HKDX), and Singapore Dollar (SGDX)Peer-to-peer...

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Bitfinex is Set to Launch Options and a Gold-Backed Tether in Q1 2020

With many issues that have made premier cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex controversial, it seems that the exchange is set to get its groove back in 2020 as per revelations by its CTO Paulo Ardoino in a podcast with the BlockCryto. In the podcast, Paulo discussed a wide range of issues ranging from the allegations of market manipulations to upcoming products that Bitfinex plans to offer including options and a gold-backed stablecoin.While much has been said about Bitfinex’s growing Twitter...

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Bitcoin Set For Bullish 2020: At Least According To The Difficulty Adjustments (Since 2011)

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty represents a number which regulates the overall time that miners must include new blocks to the blockchain. Historically, however, there’s somewhat of a pattern that might show a specific correlation between difficulty adjustments and the performance of Bitcoin in terms of price, and we might be on the verge of another bull run.Next Bitcoin Difficulty Adjustment Coming On November 21stWhen it comes to Bitcoin’s mining difficulty, its value is updated on a biweekly...

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