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After an extremely disappointing debut, Bakkt – the trading platform designed for institutional investors – is exploding in use, with the number of bitcoin futures contracts being traded having exploded by roughly 800 percent.Bakkt: A Late Start Leads to Massive JumpsBakkt was first introduced last year. Many claimed it would bring a whole new level of mainstream use and legitimacy to the cryptocurrency space, as it was designed for institutional traders and retailers who were curious about...

Dass Facebooks Libra keine echte Konkurrenz zum Bitcoin werden kann, ist für Langzeitinvestoren offensichtlich. Bitcoin ist eine Art digitales Gold, während der Libra wohl nur eine zentralisierte Fiat-Währung in Cryptocoinform werden wird. Doch auch auf dem Gebiet des Libra schickt sich Bitcoin an, den Facebook Cryptocoin noch vor seiner Markteinführung zu überflügeln.Bitcoin News: Bitcoin als Alternative zum Facebook CryptocoinBlock Matrix ist ein Beispiel dafür, wie der Bitcoin Markt gerade...

It’s safe to say that Bitcoin has come a long way since it was first introduced to the public. Interestingly enough, exactly 10 years ago on this same day, the first market transaction took place. Let’s have a look at how it went and where we are today. Bitcoin 10 Years AgoExactly 10 years ago, on this very date, the first market transaction for bitcoin took place. Back at the time, 5,050 BTC were sold at a price of $5.02. As pointed out by Saifedean Ammous, author of the Bitcoin Standard,...

Huobi, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, and Harmony, a throughput scalable blockchain consensus platform have announced a partnership to list Harmony’s native token and work together with a focus on Asian markets.Harmony will be the first Binance IEO project to be launching on the Huobi exchange.According to the Huobi announcement, Harmony’s token, under the ticker ONE, is now available for trading in three pairs: ONE/BTC, ONE/USDT & ONE/HT.In anticipation of the listing on Huobi...

Binance Coin saw a slight increase of around 1% over the past 24 hours and it currently trades at $16.88. This followed a larger surge in which BNB gained 9.7% over the past week. Binance Coin is the eighth-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $2.66 billion. Despite the recent price hikes, it still has a long road to recovery after dropping by 43% over the past 3 months.Since our previous BNB analysis, the cryptocurrency climbed to as high as $18 before meeting resistance and rolling...

Photo: ShutterstockTechnology is constantly changing the way companies do business. Some technologies, ‘game-changing’ ones, actually go further than that and change the way companies are constructed and built. The competitiveness of a company these days is a direct function of its technological adoption and prowess.However, it’s very challenging to manage new implementations of technology in a cost-effective way. IT solutions implemented incorrectly might be needlessly complex, and might be...

American multinational Aerospace manufacturer, Boeing, has just teamed up with Porsche the German automobile manufacturer, and signed a Memorandum of Understanding, to jointly develop what they call “premium urban air mobility vehicles.”Basically, the companies are working on a fully electric vehicle that will support vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL). It is expected that the new creation, essentially a flying car, will be quite high-end, to keep up with the level of comfort and luxury...

News broke out yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission of the US has temporarily halted the token sale of Telegram’s TON cryptocurrency. According to the documents, the reasoning behind the SEC’s actions is that the alleged token sale is unregistered and fails to comply with the existing regulations. Let’s examine the difference between the current actions and what happened with EOS a while ago. Telegram’s Token Sale HaltedBack in January 2018, Telegram raised a substantial...

Two days ago, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world in terms of trading volume, Binance announced it’s launching its new P2P trading facility for trading cryptocurrencies against the Chinese Yuan. Currently, this facility is only available for Android users. However, it has promised to roll-out this facility on iOS and web interface as well.That seems like a huge deal because in June this year, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central regulatory authority that regulates...

Recently we reported about how PayPal, one of the founding members of the Libra Association abandoned the whole project. However, it seems it wasn’t the only one. Just for a reminder, there were previously 28 members of the association, but it seems that they couldn’t handle the issues Libra is currently facing, most especially the problems surrounding regulatory support from relevant authorities. Now Mastercard, Visa, eBay, and payments firm Stripe have decided not to participate in...