Tag Archives: Cryptocurrency News

XRP falls by 5.31% to hit $0.25 indicating weakness and trading apathy, even when Ripple Labs Inc has added another feather to its cap by adding a new remittance service on RippleNet. SBI Ripple Asia and SBI Remit, which is a financial services company in Japan, are set to introduce a new remittance that will enable customers to transfer money between Japan and Vietnam. The new service is set to operate using RippleNet, and the Vietnamese baking giant TP Bank (Tien Phong Commercial Joint...

Universal Protocol Alliance, a blockchain collective including Cred, Bittrex Global, Uphold, Blockchain at Berkeley, CertiK and OmiseGO, has announced the launch of the industry’s first “mega-utility” token, a digital asset that can be used throughout the cryptosphere.The token will launch on Bitcoin.com Exchange before being deployed by stakeholders across multiple verticals, from trading to lending. The news has been hailed as evidence of a concerted effort to unseat the crypto monopolies...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 752 gesponsert von www.Bitsonar.com – Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: ProtonMail bekennt sich zu Bitcoin, Mimblewimble Transaktionen zu 96% enttarnt & OneCoin Mitbegründer bekennt sich schuldig. 1.) ProtonMail bekennt sich zu Bitcoinhttps://www.btc-echo.de/hodler-seit-jahren-protonmail-bekennt-sich-zu-bitcoin/ 2.) Mimblewimble Transaktionen zu 96% enttarnt – Das Ende für das...

Crypto investors supported Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a wide margin in the 2016 election. But those who supported Trump have invested significantly more of their savings in cryptocurrency. Libertarian Gary Johnson was almost as unpopular with crypto investors as the general population. A recent survey of the political affiliations among cryptocurrency investors found that crypto owners voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a wide margin in the 2016 election. 46%...

MimbleWimble, the Harry Potter inspired protocol that Litecoin is integrating to become a privacy coin, is in the spotlight but for all the wrong reasons.  Ivan Bogatyy, a venture capitalist with Dragonfly Capital, has published a report drawing attention to a security flaw in MimbleWimble’s privacy model. According to Bogatyy, the “attack traces 96% of all sender and recipient addresses in real time.” Privacy, however, is a complicated issue, especially when it comes to...

China may use blockchain to organize and incentivize its military  Could China’s embrace of blockchain cause another pump? The people’s republic softens its stance on crypto. China’s latest blockchain initiative could see its army rewarded in cryptocurrency tokens. Just as the blockchain hype in China appeared to be simmering down some, The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily –  a state-sanctioned newspaper of the Chinese army – proposed a blockchain-focused overhaul of the...

At the time of writing, Ethereum was trading close to 1% at its current price of $ 185, a slight increase from its $ 182 low yesterday.The recent volatility of the cryptography markets has led ETH price action of large exchange rate chains like Ethereum to form a close correlation with that of Bitcoin, which means that the aggregated market has plunged into a phase of lateral trading overtime in last days.The situation remains tense and with a clear downward movement of Ethereum prices,...

For the first time in the upcoming United States Presidential elections, a hopeful is paying attention to technology in general and cryptocurrencies in particular. Andrew Yang, who is planning to contest on the platform of the democratic party, has revealed plans to create a Federal Regulatory Agency for cryptocurrencies.He made this disclosure in a blog post which was published last week. He indicated the propensity for fraud within the crypto space due to a dearth of regulatory cover within...

Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company SoftBank has announced its decision to unite its search engine Yahoo Japan with a popular chatting app Line owned by Naver Corp. Within the agreement, Yahoo Japan and Line will merge and create a joint business to develop new opportunities for protecting themselves against competitors.According to the announcement, SoftBank and Naver will each hold 50% of a new holding company that will operate both Line and Z Holdings (Yahoo Japan’s...

Bakkt, the physically-backed Bitcoin Futures contracts company recently confirmed that they are testing their consumer app for retail crypto traders. Allegedly dubbed Bakkt Pay, the app, they said they plan to increase the width of their area of services to a higher level. That includes focusing on putting the retail traders besides institution investors who are already the users of the Bakkt services in its futures trading.BREAKING!Bakkt testing consumer app in preparation for imminent lauch...