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Is it possible that altcoins could potentially disappear forever?Altcoins Don’t Have the Same Appeal They Once DidWhile they may not vanish into thin air, Adam Back – the CEO of Block Stream and the co-author of a bitcoin sidechains whitepaper – claims that the presence and stamina of presence bitcoin sidechains could lower interest in altcoins altogether, thereby making their appeal virtually non-existent.As it stands, currencies like Ethereum (ETH), Ripple’s XRP, EOS (EOS), and Litecoin...

Bitcoin continues to lose ground, and the price has remained in the range into which it fell at the end of September when the last sharp correction occurred. It didn’t scare the market away, and money has continued to flow into altcoins which are starting to see a change in the trend. The altcoin market is showing positive signs, but we still don’t expect an “altcoin season” anytime soon.This week, the 18 millionth bitcoin was mined, and the halving is just around the corner. It will be...

Press Release ISTANBUL, Oct. 22, 2019The first-ever Eurasia Blockchain Summit, hosted by Huobi Group and Kemer Partners, was held last weekend and hosted a medley of local and overseas representatives to talk about a “blockchain revolution” already taking place in the region. 1,400+ attendees and 70+ speakers from leading blockchain companies, Turkish Government and banking sectors, startups, and media joined the discussion. The two-day event saw major companies disclose ambitions to...

Canada-based Luge Capital has recently secured fresh funding for its fintech-focused venture capital (VC) fund. Luge recently secured $10 million funding from iA Financial Group and BDC Capital which takes its fund value to $85 million. iA Financial Group is Canada’s giant financial services company with over $187 billion of assets under management. On the other hand, BDC Capital manages over $3 billion in funds as AUM.Headquartered in Toronto and Montreal, Luge Capital invests in early-stage...

Veteran United States investor, writer, and Entrepreneur Rob Arnott has come out in favor of the American major technology stocks again as being in a bubble even as he lashes out at Bitcoin. He made his thoughts known to the Financial Times in an exclusive while defending the position of including Microsoft in the popular acronym FANMAG which he says is the new direction of technology stocks rather than FAANG.FAANG which is a play on technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and...

XRP saw a slight increase of around 1.59% over the past 24 hours and it currently trades at $0.2956. XRP has been back on the rise since the start of October as it managed to surge by a total of around 20%. This is perhaps largely attributed to the fact that XRP has been making some strong progress against BTC after being able to reverse at 2455 SAT and climb as high as 3739 SAT. XRP remains the third-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $12.83 billion.Looking at the XRP/USD 1-Day...

In November last year, Blizzard Entertainment announced the Diablo Immortal, the fourth installment in the Diablo game series. The release was however met with heavy disappointment from thousands of game fans who agreed that the game generally failed to meet expectations.Since then, fans of the game series had been waiting and effectively whetting their own appetites, in anticipation for Diablo 4. It was expected that the BlizzCon 2019, Blizzard’s annual gaming convention which is just a few...

Volatility always exists in the crypto markets. After Bitcoin reached its all-time highs in December 2017, what followed was a persistent bear market. However, the bearish trend seemed to have come to an end when Bitcoin surged from $3,500 to over $13,000 in a few months. The bulls lost momentum with the flagship cryptocurrency heading south over the past three months.Although Bitcoin is struggling to stay above $8,000, one quant analyst called PlanB on Medium believes that the token will...

Premier money transfer startup TransferWise is set to begin operations in 2020 after obtaining a an operating license in the United Arab Emirates. Local sources in the Emirates report that the fintech startup announced this a few hours ago and that the company intends to start business in the middle east starting from the UAE in 2020.In what comes as a series of successes for the company, TransferWise has been competing in the marketplaces that belong to global money transfer giants such as...

Heath Tarbert, the chairman of the United States Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says that the first Ethereum futures will arrive by 2020. Just ten days back, the CFTC chairman confirmed that Ethereum is a ‘commodity’ just like Bitcoin.Speaking at the DC Fintech Week at Georgetown University, Tarbert told Chris Brummer that ETH futures could “absolutely” arrive within the next six to twelve months. He cautioned that launching new futures contracts doesn’t mean there’s...