The team of Ethereum developers has announced a proposal for a new hard fork which is expected to solve problems currently associated with the Ice Age. In a recently published Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) – EIP 2387 – authored by developer James Hancock, the new hard fork if deployed, would significantly “postpone” the coming of the Ice Age. Muir Glacier is named after a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, located in Alaska.Hancock explains that the Ethereum network is...
Read More »XRP Is about to Become the Worst Performing Coin among Top-10 Cryptocurrencies in 2019
In what is seen as a paradox that has put many pundits on the edge, recent data indicates that XRP that is widely used by Ripple in its solutions is already less than one month away from being the worst-performing cryptocurrency token that is among the top ten in terms of market capitalization. Research indicates that coming up as a close second in this regard is Bitcoin Cash (BCH) which has lost 49% of its value since its all-time-high as against XRP’s 51%. XRP at the time of the 2017...
Read More »Binance Announces $100 Reward in BNB for Purchasing HTC EXODUS 1 – Binance Edition
Last month in November 2019, crypto exchange Binance joined hands with smartphone manufacturer HTC for a special edition “cryptophone”. Dubbed as the HTC EXODUS 1 – Binance Edition, the handset integrates Binance’s proprietary blockchain network, the Binance Chain with HTC’s own native Zion Vault wallet app.As a result, the handset promises to support Binance’s decentralized exchange (DEX), the BNB token, preloaded DApps, etc. In the latest announcement, Binance has said that the...
Read More »Bitcoin Halving 2020 Won’t Have Strong Influence on Bitcoin Price, Says Jason Williams
Taking a contrarian view, Morgan Creek Digital co-founder and prominent personality in the crypto space Jason Williams has described the upcoming Bitcoin halving event as a non-event. He made this known in a tweet early this week. Unpopular Opinion –Bitcoin halving in May 2020 won’t do anything to the price. It will be a non-event.— Jason A. Williams ? (@JWilliamsFstmed) December 1, 2019While halving refers to the reduction by half of the Bitcoin rewards that are given to miners every four...
Read More »ETH/USD: Is Ethereum Underpriced?
The Ethereum project ETH token kept on sliding during the last exchanging session of the earlier week and eradicated another 7.9 percent of its value. It was decreased to $139 shutting the seven days with a 24 percent loss.The ETH/USD pair was very unstable on Monday, November 25 and was exchanging the $132-$152 zones. The bulls figured out how to abstain from breaking underneath the $130 handle and effectively raised the value to $145, including about 3.5 percent.Next is on Tuesday, November...
Read More »Google Co-Founders Abandon Efforts to Imitate Warren Buffet’s Management Style
Back in 2015, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin floated the Alphabet Inc. holding company to function as Google’s parent, allowing the duo more time and space to pursue other ventures. Sundar Pichai was made the chief of Google and has been running the tech giant since then. Now, the founders have announced their decision to step down from their position at Alphabet Inc., and have chosen Pichai to also lead Alphabet.The decision to create Alphabet in the first place was somewhat...
Read More »SoftBank Leads $30M Funding Round for AI-powered Cashierless Stores Startup Accel Robotics
Now, we all know SoftBank for its “unicorn status” investment decisions and so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to many that the investment giant has participated in a Series A round of funding for Accel Robotics which is a San Diego-based startup that has been involved in the cashierless space for a bit now. The funding round also attracted other investors including Toyo Kanetsu Corporate Venture Investment Partnership, RevTech Ventures and New Ground Ventures.Accel Robotics and other...
Read More »Rapyd Raises $20M from Durable Capital Partners at $1.2B Valuation
A growing trend in the financial technology world has been a continuous push towards consolidation where the bigger fish is acquiring the smaller fish. There is also an increasing number of interesting startups coming up. The acquisitions happen for the involved companies to enjoy enhanced economies of scale in a business model where all transactions bring incremental returns.However, on December 3, a startup that built the concept of consolidation into its basic DNA raised another funding...
Read More »NYSE-Listed Silvergate Is the Year’s Winner in Both Traditional and Crypto Sector
As we are coming to the year’s end we somehow always tend to look in the past to reconcile what was good and what wasn’t. Speaking of the IPOs, we can surely say this year was marked by numerous IPO failures with more than half of stock market debuts now trading below their initial offering.We can just mention hail-raiding companies as are Uber and Lyft who were probably the biggest losers of the year. However, there were also plenty of unicorns that got smashed in 2019 including Peloton (the...
Read More »Verizon and AWS Announce 5G Partnership
Qualcomm on Tuesday officially announced its next-generation flagship processor for phones. Dubbed the Snapdragon 865 the processor is still in need of a separate 5G modem to enable 5G instead of an integrated 5G modem built right into the chipset. Traditionally, that means more expensive, power-hungry phones than an integrated solution.However, at the Amazon’s event held in Las Vegas called AWS re:Invent, there were plenty of other solutions. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg went on to discuss the...
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