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As the cryptocurrency community grows in leaps and bounds, Bitstop which is one of the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in the world has installed five Bitcoin ATMs for starters across several locations of America’s largest retail mall operator Simon Property Group. This comes at a time when the cryptocurrency space is looking for ways to bring adoption to everyday people in a way that they can appreciate how the technology works.Sources indicate that the locations of the ATMs have already...

Matic Network, the platform working on solutions to the scalability issues of the Ethereum blockchain and using Plasma side chains and a Proof-of-Stake network, has announced its public incentivized staking testnet event Counter Stake is finally live.Counter Stake has arrived!Matic’s public incentivized staking testnet event is now officially live.We have released a detailed step-by-step guide on setting up your node. Over 3 million $MATIC tokens are to be shared among participants ?Read...

Financial technology (fintech) is becoming the lifeline of both the finance and technology sectors. These two sectors have always had a thing or two in common and have worked hand-in-hand for a long time, with one always needing the other. However, and in recent times, the synergy between both sectors has been a whole lot more pronounced with multiple use-cases, up to the point where they are almost inseparable, hence, fintech.With all of the advantages of fintech, it still does get a bad...

The past week has been anything but positive for the cryptographic industry. Ethereum, the second-largest market capitalization cryptographic asset, also recorded an 8% dump, marking a downward period for the market. Incidentally, the market fell just after the People’s Bank of China revealed that the central bank would close all local encryption centers.Speaking of Ethereum, despite the drop, ETH’s fees have increased by 21.6% over the past week. As observed in the main markets, the increase...

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.Regardless of the new loss of the bulls, the Bitcoin is testing an important support level and there is a reversal pattern forming on the smaller timeframes, which may signify the beginning of an uptrend.The daily chart of the Ethereum demonstrates uninterrupted falling to the aim at $100 – here,...

Various factors are known to limit the public adoption of cryptocurrency especially Bitcoin. For now, one cannot spend Bitcoin the same way they would spend fiat currencies. Sometimes converting crypto into fiat can be quite a challenge. Custodianship of crypto assets and wallet security are the other concerns for the average investors.Also, wallet and key security together with the undeveloped crypto ecosystem and economic precedent discourage institutional investors from joining the nascent...

While you may not end up being the next Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, (but, nevertheless, who says that you can’t?) it is indeed possible for you to become wealthy if a few simple habits are followed. Many have wondered how successful people do it, so the ideas below indicate some (not all though) habits which turn as pointers for you to get started on your way to financial freedom. Set Your Goals and TargetsWhile this may not sound like the ideal first thing to do, the only way that you are...

On Wednesday most cryptocurrencies were trading in red again including Bitcoin (BTC) that, in the last 24 hours couldn’t turn its trace. Bitcoin closed on Tuesday the day at the $7,198 price mark, at which point the world’s largest crypto coin found an intra-day high on Wednesday of $7,227, before moving down again towards its current trading price near $6,945 still falling by 3.51 at 11:53 am CET. Among the possible influencing factors we should mention the recent Upbit hacker attack.BTC is...

Earlier today, news of a possible hack on one of South Korea’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange platforms Upbit made the rounds. Reports had it that the exchange’s customers were confused because they noticed quite a few irregularities with their accounts including the inability to transfer funds. In a recent publication, Upbit has now confirmed that a large and unauthorized amount of funds was moved to an unknown wallet.It’s also worth mentioning that this news has negatively influenced the...

Ripple Labs’ XRP token seems to have again come under scrutiny as popular crypto influencer and crypto investor BitLord went after the cryptocurrency token in a tweet describing it as a security. That’s an allegation which Ripple Labs has gone to great lengths to deny and also to put at bay due to the serious nature of the repercussions of such. This comes after sources indicated that Ripple completed its investment commitment in Moneygram as it now holds about 10% of the common stock of the...