Tag Archives: Altcoins

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....

One of the largest music companies in the world, Warner Music announced their partnership with Dapper Labs, the company that stands behind CryptoKitties, all in order to create a new blockchain called Flow.The music giant that stands behind Ed Sheeran, Cardi B, Bruno Mars, as well as some other prominent celebrities, eventually decided to go on blockchain, joining an $11.2 million investment in above mentioned Dapper Labs.Just for a reminder, back in 2017, in December, CryptoKitties, the app...

Currently, the world’s fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap is Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and has been for a minute. Even at this position and with a market cap of $5.37 billion, not a lot is usually heard about BCH compared to its “senior colleagues” like Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and XRP. However, Roger Ver is planning to do something about all of that dormancy as there are strong plans by Bitcoin.com, to increase BCH adoption through a futures project.According to David Shin, the head of...

Photo: ShutterstockOver the last one month, cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has been flexing its muscles to launch its IPO. The latest filing documents suggest that Hubo is planning for a backdoor entry to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).The filing dated September 10, mentions Hong Kong-based electronics manufacturer Patronics Holdings Ltd. Huobi acquired this company last August and has renamed it to Huobi Technology Holdings Ltd. Upon its acquisition, Patronics transferred over 220...

Photo: ShutterstockEthereum Classic has completed its long-awaited hard fork named Atlantis. The network hard forked at block height 8,772,000 and implemented new upgrades to the blockchain.The #EthereumClassic network successfully upgraded today on block 8,772,000. This upgrade, nicknamed “Atlantis”, includes features on #SpuriousDragon and #Byzantium EIPs from the #Ethereum blockchain.https://t.co/lKHgphlNU9 via @MyEtherplan— Ethereum Classic (@eth_classic) September 12, 2019As Coindesk...

Cryptocurrencies and other digital tokens have always been opposed to fiat money for their inherent volatility. The reason for these constant fluctuations in prices lays in the fact that cryptocurrencies have no tangible backing. Despite fiat currencies are not backed by gold any more, their prices are still calculated against reserves and assets their government owns, while decentralized assets’ value is purely market based.During the whole history of mankind, there has not been anything...

It seems that France decided to go rigorous on Facebook’s Libra by entirely blocking the development of it. When Facebook announced their Libra project in June this year, they called it a “global currency and financial infrastructure powered by a version of blockchain – the technology that underpins Bitcoin”.However, a lot of governments were really against even the idea and France was the harshest of them all. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire then called out on Libra saying it...

Zhou Xiaochuan, former governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), gave a speech related to cryptocurrencies at the 10th-anniversary celebration of Senior Finance at the Shanghai Jiaotong University. During this speech, he mentioned that the Central Bank was about to issue a legal digital currency and more than one month after the announcement of this Digital Currency/Electronics Payment (DC/EP), news spread quite wildly.Recently, Mu Changchun, the Deputy Director of Payments and...

The guys at Binance have decided to make things work this time. Their partnership with Paxos Trust is finally going to pay off due to the launch of the token BUSD which is now expected to be listed on the Binance platform next week, as the official press release reads.This was announced today by the Chief Financial Officer of Binance Wei Zhou and the Co-founder and CEO Asia of Paxos Trust Company Richard Teo at the Invest Asia event in Singapore. Wei Zhou excited at the news said:“Launching a...

Santander, one of the largest banks in the world based in Spain, has issued a blockchain bond and started using a public blockchain to manage all aspects of debt issuance.According to the Spanish banking giant, they used a token on Ethereum to represent the $20 million debt issuance and what is more, settled it with another set of ERC-20 tokens representing cash held in a custody account. As Coindesk has reported, the transaction conducted was a plain-vanilla bond with a one-year maturity,...