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Ripple appears to be undergoing a lot of changes, and by changes we mean extreme growth.Ripple: Growth Is on the HorizonFirst off, the boss of Ripple – Brad Garlinghouse – has expressed an interest in bringing more banks into the Ripple family. At a recent SWELL event, the head executive of the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap spewed out several angry words towards SWIFT, and international payment and remittance service, and called it a “one-way messaging system.”He...

Virgil Griffith, the 36-year-old Singapore resident (and U.S. citizen) who was recently arrested for giving a seminar about blockchain and cryptocurrency in North Korea, allegedly said once that it would be really “cool” if the country learned how to mine ether tokens, according to an unnamed source who boasts “deep knowledge” of the matter.Did Griffith Want to Help North Korea Mine ETH?Griffith was arrested over the Thanksgiving holiday at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) after he had...

Kelly Loeffler – the CEO of Bakkt, the institutional crypto trading platform owned and governed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – has been hired to take over a temporarily vacant Senate seat.Can Kelly Loeffler Push Crypto in Government?Many see this maneuver as a positive step and believe that perhaps crypto will now have a friend in the U.S. Congress. Bakkt was first announced in late 2018, but it took nearly a full year for the platform to get off the ground. After several months of...

As per its earlier schedule, the Ethereum network shall be releasing its Istanbul hard fork three days from now on December 8. However, the interesting thing is that a majority of the nodes on Ethereum are unprepared for this.Frankly, this news is a bit shocking to the Ethereum community. It is found that nearly 60% of the Ethereum clients have not been moved to the latest version that is compatible with the Istanbul Hard Fork. As per the Ethernodes analytical tool, just 40% of the active...

By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex.Tech analysis of BTC/USDBitcoins worth 313 million USD were withdrawn through Bittrex.The SIX platform has added a derivative on the BTCOn W1, the Bitcoin continues the descending tendency inside the previous channel and has already reached 61.8% fibo. The next downside target may be 76.0% fibo at $5710.00 and the long-term low at $3121.90. the resistance is close to 38.2% fibo at $9760.00.On the MACD and Stochastic, the MACD histogram remains...

Nowadays, everyone knows what Bitcoin is. In fact, more and more people learn about cryptocurrencies overall – and not only about the biggest one out there. As a result, many individuals want to take advantage of this new type of currency.Even if cryptocurrencies have been here for a while, people only now understand how beneficial they can be to their finances, especially in terms of trading. Therefore, they started looking for forex brokers that trade in Bitcoin as well.However, there are a...

Microsoft and the blockchain gaming company Enjin have launched a new tokenized rewards program that depends on Ethereum, Azure Heroes and is running the plan in few nations in Western Europe. The Seattle-based technology colossus has printed about 12,000 non-expendable “badger” tokens using the ERC-1155 Ethereum token standard, initially proposed by Enjin‘s co-founder Witek Radomski.Although Microsoft is related to some blockchain companies given the most recent statement, the company,...

Yesterday, December 4, turned out to be a very interesting day for Bitcoin as the network broke a new record and hit its biggest hourly USD transaction volume in all of Bitcoin’s existence. An increase in the volume of transactions on any network is usually regarded as a big deal because more often than not, it shows that there is some progress with adoption. However, this case is very different.The news was made known in a tweet by Rafael Schultze-Kraft, the cofounder of on-chain market...

We all know how it is to forget someone’s birthday, holiday or, god forbid, anniversary. Before we used our little calendars with post-its all around saying: “your first kiss anniversary, he wore a brown jumper, buy beer”, etc. However, since we have Facebook, it was hard to forget, well, almost anything. With its ‘calendar’ and ‘memories’ it reminds us of all the things we’ve done in the past – yes, that includes your drunk uncle puking after New year’s brunch. Its “Year in Review” videos,...

As the crypto markets continue to move on a roller coaster, it seems like adoption is growing steadily. A group of eight former Morgan Stanley core developers announced the launch of Phemex. Phemex is a ‘high-speed’ cryptocurrency derivatives platform that is well-designed for the retail and institutional investors. The new firm is based in Singapore.In a December 4 press release, the former Morgan Stanley developers came with big claims that the platform is ten times faster than the...