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Crypto payments provider Bit Pay has announced that it will soon support Ethereum payments, allowing merchants to continue their journeys in adopting and accepting altcoins and assorted digital assets as means of payment. Bit Pay checks, validates and confirms transactions on all current blockchain networks within the digital currency space. Bit Pay and Ethereum Are Joining HandsEthereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap and the number one competitor to bitcoin. In a...

Well, here’s a real downer. If you had high hopes for the possibility of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) finally getting approved this October, you can douse those hopes in gasoline and set them on fire. Why? Not because the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided against it, not because of any delays, but because the instigators of the ETF proposal – CBOE, VanEck and Solid X – are withdrawing it on their own terms. VanEck Pulls Out, No Answer GivenWhat happened? Seriously,...

Après l’exchange décentralisé holdhold, qui permet d’acheter et de vendre de gré à gré des bitcoins via le Lightning Network, Sparkswap lance aujourd’hui son application desktop (Windows , MacOS et Linux), permettant d’échanger sur LN des dollars US contre des bitcoins. Cette première version de Sparkswap Desktop est conçue pour les utilisateurs expérimentés qui exécutent déjà LND, Lightning...

If you thought bitcoin wasn’t doing well as of late, just look at some of its main competitors, specifically Stellar. The currency has fallen greatly since it peaked in early 2018, but then jumped back up during today’s early morning hours – only to drop back down a few moments later.Stellar Is Flailing at Press TimeIt’s another classic case of a cryptocurrency that doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do. Bitcoin enthusiasts have been seeing this quite a bit over the past few months....

Photo: ComcastNBCUniversal which is a United States media giant and Subsidiary of media conglomerate Comcast (CMCSA) is set to launch its streaming service named Peacock which of course is in tandem with its logo. Following NBC’s traditional content which comprises of NBC’s legacy content which has spanned the greater part of three-plus decades with sitcoms, original shows feature films and even fresh content and the unscripted ones will be made available for the new streaming service.The...

Alternative coins or altcoins have been slowly bleeding over the last two years. This is especially true for altcoins in their bitcoin (BTC) pairs. Many are down by over 90% from their all-time highs. Some mid-cap coins have even breached their historical support levels and are printing fresh lows on an almost daily basis. The drop was so deep that some retail traders had to cut their losses after months of HODLing. OrangeDog Tweet. | Source: TwitterFor experienced traders,...

Photo: UnsplashA new Vegan focused exchange-traded fund (ETF) was launched on the New York Stock Exchangenew yor on Tuesday the 10th of September. Dubbed the U.S. Vegan Climate ETF with the code VEGN, the ETF costs 60 basis points for interested participants and it is the first vegan and climate oriented ETF that has been ever launched.Initiated by Beyond Investing which is itself a vegan and anti-animal investment service, the new ETF boasts of more than a few major holdings including...

With the massively exploding global internet user-base, the web is cluttered with a lot of information and companies providing web services are facing severe challenges in segregating the useful information and getting it to their users.Taking a step towards effective web monetization, open-source web browser Mozilla, Ripple-backed content platform Coil, and non-profit organization Creative Commons have pledged a whopping $100 million for a program dubbed Grant for the Web that aims at...

The results of a cryptocurrency survey conducted by the Dutch banking group, ING, revealed a significant lack of appetite for Facebook's Libra, and its designated use case: Sending payments across social media. Taking 15,000 Europeans, from 15 distinct countries, the survey collated Europe's sentiment around digital currencies. Questions ranged from the future of cryptocurrencies to whether or not respondents would go swap cryptos out in lieu of cash. Want Some Libra?...

XRP saw a 22% price increase over the past 3 days which allowed it to get back above the $0.30 level to where it currently trades at $0.307. The cryptocurrency has seen a further 14.5% price hike over the past 24 hours, making it the strongest performing coin out of the top 5 projects.The latest surge might have been propelled further by the announcement of Line’s new cryptocurrency exchange. Operated by LVC Corporation, a subsidiary of LINE, the Japanese-based cryptocurrency exchange,...