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The Hong Kong-founded popular cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, has recently launched the newest version of its mobile app, which comes with Bitcoin deposits utilizing the Lightning Network.The update for the mobile app comes less than two months since the exchange added support for the Lightning network to its web platform.The Lightning Network Comes On MobileInvented back in 2015, the Lightning Network intends to serve as Bitcoin’s off-chain scaling solution. Essentially, it allows people...

For more than a decade, there has been one major issue thwarting the adoption of cryptocurrency: transactions simply take too long. Fortunately, researchers at MIT have now announced that they have developed a more efficient system for routing cryptocurrency transactions, which they have dubbed “Spider.”According to ComputerWorld, MIT researchers are able to use this “Spider” routing scheme to make crypto transactions up to four-times faster than ever before (!).Four-Times Faster Crypto...

On a day when the rest of the cryptocurrency market is trading in red, IOTA investors are bagging profits as the 18th largest coin recorded an incredible daily 10% increase in the last 24 hours, which completes almost 40% price gain in the past seven days.And if you were wondering, IOTA had seen more than 100% increase since the new decade. At the time of writing, IOTA has slightly retracted and is trading at $0.338 with a market cap of approximately $941.5 million.IOTA-USDT (Binance) 30-days...

So far, 2020 has been a remarkably positive year for Bitcoin. Not only has the price of Bitcoin increased by 30%, but the Global Bitcoin Futures market open interest has noted a massive 60% growth as well.In the meantime, BitMEX and OKEx are still the most widely-used Bitcoin margin trading exchanges, with over 50% of the market share.Bitcoin Futures Market 2020 SurgeAccording to the monitoring resource Skew, the global Bitcoin Futures open interest is continuously increasing. In fact, solely...

The Coronavirus outbreak continues to take its toll on the traditional financial markets, especially in China. The Chinese stock markets had returned after a more extended Lunar New Year’s vacation. As expected, the indexes record significant drops, despite a huge $174 billion injection by the local Government.On the other hand, Bitcoin spiked to over $9,600 when the Asian markets opened, noting once again a negative correlation with the traditional markets. However, the primary...

The creation of a Bitcoin Emoji on Twitter today has increased the largest cryptocurrency’s social media awareness. The social media’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, and other influential community members are also sharing the “#Bitcoin” trend that has ultimately transcended the online space.Bitcoin Emoji Inspires Bitcoin HashtagEarlier today, the popular social media platform, Twitter, introduced a new Bitcoin emoji. Naturally, the whole cryptocurrency community reacted with overexcitement by sharing the...

Bitcoin is yet too volatile to threaten the existence of cash, and the latter will survive, states a new report conducted by Deutsche bank. Moreover, the report claims that digital assets will help with rebalancing the global economic power.Deutsche Bank had seen better years than in 2019. The German bank had to layoff 18,000 of its employees during recent July as a part of a longer-term reduction plan to cut its workforce to 74,000 by 2022.As of writing these lines, the bank’s market cap is...

At its first policy meeting of 2020, the Federal Reserve didn’t change much. As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee decided not to raise interest rates. The Fed will keep repo operations in overnight money markets going until April.But Fed Chair Jerome Powell did walk somewhat of a tightrope trying to explain what the Fed is doing. The U.S. central bank has expanded its balance sheet by $390 billion since September. But one cryptocurrency has done the opposite.Many market watchers...

One of the most awaited events in the cryptocurrency space, the Bitcoin Halving, is estimated to take place about 100 days from today.On this day, the reward that miners get from adding blocks to the network will be slashed in half: from 12.5 BTC per block, as of today and the recent four years, to 6.25 BTC per block. It will also reduce Bitcoin’s pre-set inflation rate from the current 3.68% to about 1.8%.Even though the date of the Bitcoin Halving could range depending on the network’s hash...

As the impact of blockchain and cryptocurrencies continues to increase throughout the world, so do blockchain conferences. These are events where one can meet and befriend like-minded people and establish fruitful connections and networking.As the new year recently began and the blockchain industry is already leaving marks, the following are among the most notable conferences that will occur in 2020.The year 2020 is expected to be a fantastic year for Bitcoin precisely due to the halving...