FinTech

This year of 2019 turned out to action-packed with respect to the cryptocurrency market and the global economy in general. Undergoing a massive crypto winter in 2018, the crypto market saw some recovery especially in Q2 2019. If we look at the year-to-date performance, the overall cryptocurrency market cap surged by 60%. Thanks to Bitcoin‘s performance giving 100% returns during the same period.Also, if we look at the traditional markets, they have performed beyond investors’ expectations....

Bitcoin und PayPal unerwünscht? YouTube entfernt Videos mit Krypto-Inhalten. Google betreibt mit Youtube das bekannteste Videoportal. Und nun hat Youtube ohne Vorankündigung beschlossen, Videos zum Thema Bitcoin und anderen Kryptowährungen als „schädlich und gefährlich“ zu kennzeichnen und vom Netz zu nehmen. Allerdings ist Youtube dabei etwas zu gründlich vorgegangen und hat auch Videos von bekannten Vloggern wie beispielsweise Chris Dunn...

Bitcoin und PayPal unerwünscht? YouTube entfernt Videos mit Krypto-Inhalten. Google betreibt Youtube und hat ohne Vorankündigung beschlossen, Videos zum Thema Bitcoin und anderen Kryptowährungen als „schädlich und gefährlich“ zu kennzeichnen und vom Netz zu nehmen. Allerdings ist Youtube dabei etwas zu gründlich vorgegangen und hat auch Videos von bekannten Vloggern wie beispielsweise Chris Dunn gelöscht: Der Kanal von Chris Dunn verfügt...

The Bakkt Bitcoin futures exchange, owned by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has just appointed a new chief executive officer (CEO). According to an official press release, the company’s former Chief Product Officer Mike Blandina, has now been promoted to the role of CEO. Blandina already assumed the position on Friday, Dec 20.The appointment of a new CEO was necessary because the company’s founding CEO Kelly Loeffler had to leave the position after her appointment to the United States...

Over the last decade, specifically after the 2008 global economic recession, chipmakers have emerged as the best performing industry across sectors and regions. The latest industry report shows that the chipmaking industry witnessed a 377% growth in the last 10 years. This is double the growth of the S&P 500 during the same period.This shows that the semiconductor industry remains at the core of this rapidly changing technology. Despite new technologies like AI, blockchain, ML, and others...

Tech giant Google seems to be putting a special focus on boosting its Stadia games and entertainment platform. On Thursday, December 19, Google announced acquiring the Montreal-based game development platform Typhoon Studios.Typhoon is a very young platform that started just three years back. The Studio has scheduled its first and upcoming release dubbed “Journey to the Savage Planet” in January 2020. Besides, the title shall be available on multiple platforms. Also, it is very much likely...

As we are coming to the end of this year, we can conclude that it has been interesting, in the way. For some, it was successful, for some, not so good. Be it as it may, if you’ve made bets Ripple – you were probably in the first group.Ripple, the company that actively uses XRP in its solutions, has definitely positioned itself strongly during the last few months as one of the most important companies for the crypto sector as well as the whole blockchain technologies scene.In its official...

Die Investmentbank von Michael Novogratz bietet seit dem 19. November zwei neue Bitcoin-Fonds an: Galaxy Bitcoin Fund sowie Galaxy Institutional Bitcoin Fund. Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. hat bekannt gegeben, dass ihr verbundenes Unternehmen namens Galaxy Digital Capital Management LP („GDCM“) zum 30. November 2019 vorläufige verwaltete Vermögenswerte (assets under management/AUM) in Höhe von 360,7 Millionen USD meldet. Im November 2019...

Adyen, an outstanding payment company that allows businesses to accept e-commerce, mobile, and point-of-sale payments, has partnered with the global fast-food chain McDonald’s. Within Adyen’s deal with McDonald’s, the latter will use the Adyen platform to receive and process payments made in McDonald’s mobile app.As Bloomberg has reported, in the future, this option will be available globally. The UK will be the first country with this initiative implemented in the first quarter of...

The head of Tron Foundation Justin Sun publicly announced on Wednesday that he is going to grant $1 million to the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s attempts to raise global awareness of climate change.Sun’s announcement came as a response to last week’s COP25 UN climate conference in Madrid that ended with no deal on carbon markets. The negotiations are postponed until next year when countries will have to come up with more ambitious goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, in order to...