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Bitcoin price has risen to new monthly highs. The price made a historic jump in January. It has risen about 10% this week alone and about 30% since December. Recent data points to the Bitcoin price rise to current levels from $7,208 at the end of 2019. Now the coin is trading around $9,395. This coincides with a similar rally in January 2013. Bitcoin prices rose by 54.5% then. A pattern for Bitcoin prices may be emerging. Based on past performances of the digital asset, prices may be set for...

According to the post by Block.one, company representatives attended the government buildings to discuss the future of Voice. Per the announcement:“In December of 2019, we sat down with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. to discuss our vision and plans for Voice: what it is, what we are trying to achieve, and how the tokens will work.”The company states that it has no right to publish all the related information. However, they will take all the necessary steps...

Popular freelance platform goLance has praised Ripple for making the payments of over 500,000 users a walk in the park, in what can best be described as a show of excitement. The company announced that Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity, a cross-border payments solution powered by XRP, will officially be used to settle the payments of its users.The Painful Old WayLike most successful companies, growth is unstoppable. The same can be said about goLance, which has seen a spike in the number of its...

Tom Lee is a person who always gives positive price predictions when it comes to Bitcoin. But now, there’s a bunch of other people claiming that Bitcoin halving might be not good for the Bitcoin price dynamics.He thinks that the technical analysis, as well as the core principles of Bitcoin, show that the price should go up. His agency Fundstrat gains up to 193% of easy profits out of Bitcoin. Per Tom Lee:“Yes, 2020 should be great for Bitcoin. Because you got, number one the Halving happening...

In an article, titled “The Sign of a Stabilizing Market: XRP Utility” that was published on Ripple‘s official website on Thursday, January 30, 2020, the company revealed that financial institutions are already utilizing the power of blockchain and digital asset technology. And there are tangible results to prove it.Ripple, the blockchain firm that actively uses the popular altcoin XRP in its solutions, has been in the news for a while now. Following a number of positive developments that...

Verasity, the attention-based rewards platform for content creators, finished 2019 on the right note. And 2020 is looking even better.The team has been working hard on key relationships, which culminated in its partnership with Jun Capital, a gateway to the lucrative Asian streaming market. Outside of promising professional relations, Verasity released its metrics for a fervent Q4 2019 that entailed a 20X increase in videos watched and a 10X increase in wallet registrations since the launch...

Ripple and XRP were directly mentioned at a United States Congressional Hearing that was held on Thursday 30, January 2020. The hearing, which was titled ‘Is Cash Still King?’, was set by U.S. lawmakers to decide the fate of cash with relation to the rise of XRP and other cryptocurrencies.During the hearing, Congress directly mentioned blockchain firm Ripple and the efforts it has made with the adoption of XRP. So, someone eventually got it to spot on by recognizing that there is a popular...

Hyperledger Fabric, the thriving open-source brainchild of the Hyperledger Foundation, now has a second version, Fabric 2.0. It has become known from an official announcement of its release.Second Version, First of its KindHyperledger was created in 2015 by the Linux Foundation and has had support from the most prominent or influential institutions, even from diverse spaces such as IBM, SUP, Intel, JP Morgan and even engineering conglomerates such as Daimler. The open-source blockchain...

Mercedes-Benz will be employing the use of blockchain technology to track carbon emissions in cobalt supply after teaming up with Circulor, according to an official press statement.As part of the Ambition2039 project, Mercedes-Benz, according to its press release, has now made the identification of the next generation of automobiles, one of its highest on its priority list. And doing this means getting ahead of the lot in the application of new cutting edge technology.According to the...

CoinFLEX, the first physically-delivered Bitcoin futures exchange, has officially launched its competition platform, called BracketWars. The competition features a trading order type called “brackets” catering towards scalp traders.The news comes on the heels of CoinFLEX’s revamp of its maker/taker program, FLEXMaker, which blends staking of the FLEX token into the exchange’s low-fee DMM model.It’s quickly becoming evident that institutional interest and large trader aspirations are to settle...