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Multinational payment remittance platform MoneyGram has announced a partnership with the EbixCash network, to expand Moneygram’s presence in India. The partnership was announced in an official MoneyGram news release published on Monday, Jan. 13.The press release states that EbixCash is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ebix, Inc. The latter is an international supplier of application software products, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting immediately, EbixCash will be exclusively responsible for...

Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap, is exploding at the time of writing, and has shot up past the $8,800 mark.Bitcoin Is Heading for Bigger and Better HeightsThis, by itself, is a vast improvement over where the asset stood yesterday morning, which was $8,500. That means that bitcoin has improved by well over $300 in less than a day. Perhaps people like Sonny Singh of Bit Pay, Tim Draper, Ross Ulbricht and Charles Hoskinson all had a point to their...

Multi-award winning singer, songwriter and music producer Akon has revealed that his Akon City has received regulatory approval. In a tweet posted by the singer on Monday, Jan 13, he revealed that he had “finalized the agreement” for the city.Just finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Looking forward to hosting you there in the future pic.twitter.com/dsoYpmjnpf— AKON (@Akon) January 13, 2020Akon CityPlans for the futuristic city were first revealed back in 2018 in a personal...

Fidelity Digital Assets, the cryptocurrency arm of financial giant Fidelity Investments, is making a foray in the European market. As per the latest development, Fidelity will offer custodial solutions for Bitcoin to European-based Nickel Digital Asset Management.Currently, Nickel Asset Management has launched its another cryptocurrency offering. This is the Nickel Digital Gold Institutional Fund allowing institutional players to leverage opportunities in the crypto space.Just last month,...

A report released by the professional social networking platform LinkedIn has put blockchain as the most sought-after “hard skill” for 2020. According to LinkedIn, being skilled in blockchain technology will ensure that such a person chased by recruiters.In 2018, LinkedIn rated “Blockchain Developer” as the top emerging job of the year.Hard and Soft SkillsThe report differentiates specifically between hard and soft skills. Hard skills are skills that have to do with specific knowledge about a...

Blockchain has been a buzzword for some time, evoking a sense of mystery and magic for tech enthusiasts – or just plain confusion for the average Joe.Despite the hype, it’s also received a fair amount of criticism – largely from those in the mainstream financial world who, due to their skepticism of cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, have gone to bash its underlying technology.Blockchain technology has also received flak from those who say it is too complicated to implement. And then there are...

In the past few days and weeks, the recent volatility observed in the combined crypto markets has mainly supported bulls.This impetus allowed the price of Ethereum (ETH) to break past the key resistance levels that previously hindered its price action, which has now opened the door for significant further growth.Ethereum, although, could not break past its main falling trend line, which suppressed its recent price movement, that is why some analysts continuously showed a bearish attitude...

Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, a senior analyst at foreign exchange broker RoboForex, shares his insights into the future scenarios for Bitcoin price movement as well as possible price swings of major altcoins.The market may be returning to an uptrend. The Bitcoin demonstrates confident growth, executing a reversal pattern. The aim of the growth may be the area near $12400. Other coins are also trying to rise. The leader here is the Bitcoin SV that has escaped a flat. As a rule, at such moments the...

The world’s largest job and recruiting website Glassdoor has published its annual list of the 50 best jobs in America for 2020. The top seven spots on Glassdoor’s list of best jobs are taken by tech jobs that appeared there 20 times.The list begins with a front-end engineer outranking data scientist that was holding the top spot since 2016. Making the list of best jobs, Glassdoor considers the following factors: a very strong salary of over $100,000, over 13,000 open positions around the...

Bitwise Bitcoin ETF proposal has been withdrawn. The cryptocurrency asset management firm indicated that it had submitted a note to the U.S. SEC. Bitwise said that the withdrawal request is “consistent with the public interest and protection of investors”. This shows that the firm is studying the situation at this time. The global head of research told:“We did indeed withdraw the application. This is a procedural step, and we intend to refile our application at an appropriate time.”It also...