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It sounds like China is really warming up to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as of late.China: Mixing Things Up Even MoreThe latest price hike for BTC has ultimately come about largely because Chinese president Xi Jinping commented that blockchain technology could bring his country’s infrastructure to new heights. Thus, he’s planning to push blockchain innovation very hard in the future.But prior to these words, it’s known that China hasn’t always been friendly to crypto. For one thing, the...

South Korean technology giant Samsung announced it decided to integrate Tron (TRX) support to its decentralized app (DApp) store, Blockchain Keystore.According to a release note published on Tuesday, Samsung Blockchain Keystore SDK v1.2.0 will now engage APIs that support TRX transactions.Samsung revealed its Samsung Blockchain Platform SDK at the Samsung Developer Conference 2019 today. The truth is, bringing blockchain technology to mobile has been a challenge for quite of time now since...

The growing internet of things (IoT) segment hasn’t been showing any signs of weakening for now. As per IDC, 41.6 billion devices, including smartphones and smart home assistants, should be connected to the internet by the year 2025. The whole market is expected to be worth around $24.88 billion by 2022,At IoT Solutions World Congress on Monday, Microsoft announced new capabilities in its cloud computing service Azure in order to “simplify” the whole process for its customers and deliver...

One of the biggest bitcoin miner manufacturers, the Avalon Bitcoin miner Canaan Creative, publicly filed for a U.S. Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Monday, with big names as underwriters. Credit Suisse, Galaxy Digital, Citigroup, China Renaissance, CMBI, Huatai Securities and Tiger brokers are obliged to pay for and accept delivery of the ADSs offered by this prospectus.The second-largest manufacturer of ASIC mining hardware after Bitmain, Canaan plans to list its shares on Nasdaq under the...

The cryptosphere is generally still celebrating Bitcoin’s spike to levels above $9,500 a few days ago, after it fell more than $500, a while before that. Currently, the market seems a tad invigorated by the Bitcoin rally and there is now a lot of hope that all of the bullish forecasts that swept the sector, could actually come to pass.Not only did Bitcoin surge, but as its wont to do, it seemed to carry major altcoins along with it, with some of them shooting up to 30%. In the same vein, the...

Ripple sees itself as so much more than a currency. That much is obvious, but the company is now making waves in the regulatory space.Ripple Is Heading Into New TerritoryRipple has opened a new office in Washington D.C., making it the only crypto venture to have devoted itself to government affairs according to an official press release. Craig Phillips, the former counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, is also joining Ripple’s board of directors alongside Michelle Bond,...

BitcoinThe spike from $7,350 to $10,348 brought the hype around Bitcoin back and the declines are already behind our backs. The price corrected down to $9100 and we can also see attempts to build support in this range and the 0.38 Fibonacci levels, suggesting a bullish trend on the charts. A healthy correction would restore the 0.618 Fibonacci levels in the $8500 range, leading up to the next level at $10,200.EthereumAgainst the USD, the price is trying to break the resistance built around...

Ripple has been in a brutal downtrend for nearly two years. Trader Peter Brandt predicts that the cryptocurrency will bottom out as soon as it completes the diamond pattern. Other traders are bullish on XRP as the cryptocurrency posts a solid rally to take out the resistance level mentioned by Brandt. Ripple’s XRP has been in a downtrend for almost two years. The third-largest cryptocurrency posted an all-time high of $3.30 in January 2018. Since then, investors have experienced...

The inaugural Lightning Conference was held in Berlin, Germany on the weekend of October 19/20, 2019. It was the first global conference exclusively focused on the Lightning Network.The goal of the conference was to build on the momentum that the Lightning Network has gained in 2019 and to bring together Lightning developers, implementations and the broader community. The feedback of the conference has been overwhelmingly positive with over 500 attendees and 90 speakers from across the...

In what sounds like the makings of the plot of a telenovela series, top crypto billionaire and founder of cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain Micree  Ketuan Zhan has been forced out of his own company where he holds about 60% control. CEO and fellow co-founder Jihan Wu has terminated all the day-to-day working positions and responsibilities that Micree Zhan had and held within the organization down to the deletion of his e-mail and denial of access to Bitmain’s premises.Bitmain, meanwhile,...