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High school students in France will have an opportunity to gain basic knowledge of workings of blockchain and virtual currencies in the framework of their everyday studies.The French education ministry, Le Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale, is said to include Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in the high school syllabus. Such a move is expected to help students understand the benefits of decentralized currency and its influence on mainstream financial systems.Bitcoin will be added to Economics...

Ripple Labs Inc. has already started making inroads in the financial space in Asia as sources indicate that TPBank based in Vietnam is the first financial institution in the country to join the blockchain payments network. RippleNet allows international remittances to take place in mere minutes rather than in days unlike traditional networks such as SWIFT and at much less cost as well.This was stated on the bank’s website which indicated the bank’s first foray into blockchain technology and...

Most crypto exchanges have for some time now had challenges operating within the United States. On the other hand, most of the countries in Asia and Europe have taken an initiative of offering straight forward legislation outlining how to conduct any business in the crypto space. But, the U.S. has dropped far much behind in that arena.Currently, there is no definite framework outlining running businesses and tax payments. Interestingly, there is not even any assurance by the government to...

Binance has now officially begun a survival of the fittest battle between two strongly emerging protocols in what is now the second round of the Community Coin Vote’s (CCV) new format. The Binance community is expected to vote between the ARPA protocol and the Carry protocol, two networks that have more than a few things in common.Voting DetailsThe process kicked off at 4:00 AM (UTC) today Nov. 5, and will run continuously for 24 hours, before closing on November 6, at 4:00 AM (UTC) as well....

Tron price corrected lower after trading towards the $0.0230 resistance against the US Dollar.TRX price is currently trading nicely above the $0.0188 and $0.0178 support levels.There is a key contracting triangle forming with resistance near $0.0202 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Bitfinex).The price could continue to rise once it settles above the $0.0200 and $0.0208 resistance levels.TRON price is consolidating above key supports against the US Dollar and bitcoin. TRX price is likely to...

In a move that has seen Big Tech enter the crypto space on a whole new level, Microsoft has launched a platform on its Azure cloud infrastructure to make token deployment to become as easy as possible.Referred to as the Azure Blockchain Tokens platform, the platform aims to make the issuance and existence of blockchain tokens to become cloud-based and to also enable the operating environment of such blockchain projects to become seamless and as easy as possible.This was revealed at the...

Social media giant Facebook has unveiled its new company logo as part of the rebranding efforts. Facebook says that the new branding strategy is to bring more clarity and align the goals of its different products and services under one parent company.In its official announcement, the company said that over the last 15 years, it has made several major acquisitions like Instagram and WhatsApp. Thus, to bring clarity that these services operate under Facebook, it is isolating the Facebook...

Ethereum price is currently consolidating gains above the $180 support against the US Dollar.ETH price is facing hurdles near the $190 and $200 resistance levels.There is a breakout pattern forming with resistance near the $188 level on the 4-hours chart (data feed from Coinbase).The price is likely setting up for an upside break above the $190 and $200 levels in the near term.Ethereum price is trading above key supports near $180 against the US Dollar. ETH price could rally significantly if...

During the Stellar Meridian conference on Monday, November 4, the Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon disclosed that they have burned 55 billion Lumens (XLM) tokens which is half of the overall cryptocurrency supply.Earlier there were a total of 105 billion tokens of which 20 billion were in circulation. With the recent burning, the total supply has reduced to only 50 billion XLM tokens. In its latest Medium blog post, the Stellar Foundation noted that token burning was part of...

It’s being reported that bitcoin cash had a very rough third quarter in 2019. The price was never quite able to get off the ground, and as a result, bitcoin cash (BCH) arguably performed worse than any other coin.Is It Fair to Single Out Bitcoin Cash?But is it fair to lay this judgement on the little brother of bitcoin? Sure, BCH may not have been at its best, but it can be argued that this applies to virtually every major cryptocurrency during this period.As we all remember, the second...