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As the Ethereum community anticipates Ethereum 2.0, a public testnet has already recorded impressive participation. The testnet has already pulled in more than 22,000 validators.Ethereum 2.0 Testnet from Prysmatic LabsThe test in question is the one from Prysmatic Labs, a team of software engineers basically working on the future of Ethereum. It launched its testnet on Thursday, September 9 and quickly dwarfed all other single-client tests within a week.By Thursday last week, former Google...

Tesla is ready to break new grounds in Europe, with its soon-to-be-built gigafactory in Germany. The company, led by Elon Musk, is popular for setting surprising goals for itself. Most of the time, these declarations by Musk are written off as pipedreams as people point out that they are a little too lofty. However, the company’s success in China is worth considering whenever there is doubt about its capabilities. The question now is, will Tesla be able to replicate that success in Germany...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2020 is currently taking place in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF is a meeting of some of the most powerful people in the world, as they discuss the global economy and other related issues. As it turns out, according to British investment exec, the major problem among WEF participants in Davos is deciding the best investment channel for their hefty funds.WEF Attendees Are Keen on Investment but Don’t Know What to DoSpeaking to CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick on Monday, the...

Last week we were witnessing of a sudden “fallout” of one of the biggest carmakers in the world – Tesla. An American division received a driver’s complaint that his Tesla suddenly accelerated on its own. And probably it will be not very sensible to suppose that such an event won’t have any influence on Tesla stock. However, we should admit that in recent months it has been on the rise.An independent investor, Brian Sparks, abided a sue to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and...

XRP price fell about 11 percent after registering surface achievements in the last 30 days.XRP set an intraday low of $0.224 on Monday, while traders liked to leave long orders for a little gain. It appears that the descending development was a progressively normal bearish adjustment, particularly after the colossal XRP price rally, which provoked financial specialists to benefit to around 45 percent.This situation constrained a few analysts to keep up their bullish inclination in the digital...

Nowadays we are witnessing the rise of palladium. Since we are trying to be all “Greta Thunbergh-ish” meaning eco-friendly, we have realized that platinum and palladium are the metals to invest in.The rise of the popularity of hybrid electric cars went on further with the palladium increasing by 25% over the past two weeks to more than $2,500 an ounce. Of course, this also tackled an interest in palladium’s twin – platinum.At its current price, palladium has been almost doubled from the same...

It has been a good start to this year so far for the cryptocurrency markets. The overall cryptocurrency market cap has added over $45 billion since January 1. The cryptocurrency market cap surged from $191 billion to now at $238 billion registering over 20% gains.Bitcoin, the crypto king, has undoubtedly been a star performer as well! In just the first 20 days of 2020, the Bitcoin price surged nearly 30% bringing the excitement back among its investors. Earlier this week, the BTC price...

Ethereum Classic (ETC) has had an exciting start of the year. ETC price has climbed and the token briefly made it to the top ten coins recently. At the time, the leaderboard was dominated by three bitcoins and two eths for several hours.This copy clone of Ethereum can be merged into Ethereum 2.0 in the same way as a new shard-like eth’s current Proof of Work (PoW) chain will be integrated. Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, publicly said that it is technically very possible. He...

Less than a week ago, Coinspeaker reported that payment giant Visa now owns fintech startup Plaid. Visa acquired the San Francisco-based company in an interesting deal worth $5.3 billion. As we reported, the figure is more than double of Plaid’s 2018 valuation and is expected to stoke the fintech flame already burning in the company.So far, reactions to the acquisition have been great as people believe that their collaboration will do wonders for the fintech industry.The financial world is...

One of the most “unpopular battles” in the crypto universe is definitely one of Ripple. The efforts of the company to prove that XRP isn’t a security became a prolonged battle.This exact battle could hold the key to XRP’s future and it has been held forth again. Be it as it may, there has been a lawsuit that may present Ripple as an issuer and the seller of the coin. Do not forget, XRP is one of the largest by market cap. At the time of writing the market cap of the coin was $10,33 billion...