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There’s good news for Bitcoin investors and enthusiasts! The study of some on-chain metrics and Bitcoin wallets shows that the world’s largest cryptocurrency has been in the accumulation zone over the last 12 months.As on January 14, nearly 784,000 addresses were holding one or Bitcoin tokens. This is also an 11% surge from the 707,000 addresses holding BTC a year ago. Furthermore, the blockchain intelligence company Glassnode noted that total addresses holding BTC have doubled since...
Read More »Ripple Gets Two New Partners as U.S. Treasury Declares Support
All of the products being offered by Ripple regularly are drawing new partners for the blockchain company. Ripple already has an interesting list of companies that currently use different RippleNet products for their core functions. Now, two new partners, including Bottomline Technologies and Tranglo, are joining the Ripple team. In addition to this, the U.S. Treasury might be throwing its back behind the company as well.Bottomline Technologies Partners with RippleAccording to the company’s...
Read More »Binance Invests in Open Data Framework Numbers Protocol
In their latest blog post, Binance calls itself a “global blockchain ecosystem”. It has recently invested in a blockchain protocol that focuses on data traceability and monetization. However, the amount of the investment currently stays undisclosed.Gin Chao, Binance’s Strategy Officer explained that the Numbers team “has strong technical backgrounds and expertise in building blockchain applications with practical use cases”.“Numbers app is integrated with Binance Chain through Zion, a...
Read More »Telegram Receives Massive Backing from Blockchain Association for Gram Token Sale Dispute
The SEC vs Telegram case is taking new turns every single day. In the latest development, the Blockchain Association has decided to support Telegram in its fight against the regulator.Let us also remind you that the Association unites such prominent names as Coinbase, Circle, Ripple Labs and others.The Chamber of Digital Commerce has filed amicus curiae supporting Telegram’s argument that “digital assets may be the subject of an investment contract without being a security”. Note that the...
Read More »Ripple’s XRP Has Been Officially Added by Bitpay for Thousands of Merchants
In October 2019, blockchain payment company BitPay announced the support for XRP. XRP now is the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. At the time of writing, its market capitalization was $10,295,012,141 and the XRP price was $0.2361 growing by 0.84%.When talking about BitPay, XRP has been integrated on the company’s platform via Ripple’s open developer platform Xpring. As per the company’s explanation, Xpring is an “initiative by Ripple that will invest in,...
Read More »Tron’s Justin Sun and Apple’s Steve Wozniak Meet for Lunch: Is New Partnership Ahead?
It seems Tron Foundation CEO Justin Sun got serious. After he made himself unpopular after all this story with a billionaire Warren Buffett, it seems he found another guy.Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak obviously has a belief in Sun because the two guys met over lunch. Wozniak even shared this news with his followers on Twitter.And it’s not surprising at all that Sun has reacted for a tweet about this legendary meeting.It was an honor meeting the legendary Woz, @Apple co-founder! Looking...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Will Reach $400,000 after Halving If History Is to Be Taken into Consideration
Bitcoin price is always largely influenced by the halving. Bitcoin’s halving is easily the most anticipated event in the crypto industry today. The next halving is expected sometime in May 2020 and many believe it will spark the next Bitcoin rally. Since late last year, there have been many forecasts about what the halving will do for the king coin. A new report has now suggested what is probably the most bullish forecast for the world’s number one asset. According to Beincrypto, Bitcoin will...
Read More »Ethereum Officially Launches 1 Million Developer Challenge
The Ethereum challenge is an open movement that is dedicated to growing the developer ecosystem. ConsenSys Jim Jagielski tweeted that they officially launched the 1 million developer effort.Join me as we "officially" kick off our #1milliondev effort, dedicated to growing the #Ethereum and #Web3 communities by 1 million developers and contributors. Let's leverage #opensource in this endeavor! c @ConsenSys https://t.co/Rs2whnS8z1— Jim Jagielski (@jimjag) January 20, 2020However, the way how the...
Read More »Ripple-Backed MoneyGram Partners with Lulu Exchange to Expand in Asian-Pacific Region
Ripple‘s partner MoneyGram, a leading payment provider, has continued to position itself among the leaders in cross-border crypto payments. After its major deal with Ripple for On-Demand Liquidity in 2019 worth $50 million, the company has now announced a new collaboration with Lulu Exchange.The exchange ranks among the most prominent crypto and non-banking finance providers in the United Arab Emirates region. Lulu has its headquarters in Abu Dhabi and operates more than 180 active...
Read More »Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Believes U.S. Will Welcome Company’s Payment Solutions
Ripple Labs is currently involved in a serious legal battle, as we have already reported. However, it doesn’t prevent the company from being rather positive about its future. And there are some grounds for it.The World Economic Forum 2020 kicked-off yesterday, January 21, in Davos, Switzerland. As expected, global leaders met during the first day of the event with the U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaking on the transformation of the payments industry.Muchin said that the U.S....
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