Cryptocurrency Exchange Reimburses Victims of Apparent ICO Scam, Confido

Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has announced that it will reimburse investors who used its platform to invest in the Confido initial coin offering (ICO). The Confido development team announced that the project has been shelved after raising $347,000 in an ICO, leading many to call the ICO a scam. KuCoin’s announcement is excerpted below: “So far, after making our best attempts, KuCoin team is still not able to have an effective communication with CFD team and comprehend their updates. To ensure Read more …

The Cryptocurrency Market Cap Trends Higher – Commanding $300Bn This Week

Markets and Prices This week the entire cryptocurrency market capitalization surpassed US$300Bn for the first time in history. Bitcoin’s significant rise in value, alongside the wide variety of other cryptocurrencies having similar price spikes continue to reveal that digital assets are trending across the world in a big way. Also Read: North Korean Citizens Study Cryptocurrencies at Pyongyang University 1323 Cryptos Command a Whopping $300Bn Market Cap Bitcoin came to the world back in January of 2009, and Read more …

Bitcoin is a Perfect Currency, Beyond the Reach of Any Nation-State or Cooperative Effort to Defeat It – Max Keiser

Although many experts still believe that Bitcoin, and the cryptocurrency market as a whole, may be in a bubble state, Max Keiser believes that Bitcoin still has room to grow.  Can Bitcoin Reach $25,000? Bitcoin is making headlines – again – as it continues to shatter milestone after milestone. Most recently, the popular digital currency passed the $9000 mark and is quickly edging toward $10,000. According to a recent article by RT, well-known American TV broadcaster Max Keiser believes that Bitcoin still Read more …

This New Scaling Layer Could Make Payment Channels Ten Times More Effective

There is no disputing the fact that the Bitcoin network has scalability problems. Micropayment channels are a solution to increase the transaction rate and speed. Yet, this is not the golden solution … This micropayments solution needs a fixed amount of funds to be locked into each channel’s multisignature wallet and requires a transaction for each channel creation and closure. This hinders the Blockchain network from upscaling to a global payment system because Bitcoin’s capacity is limited.A recently published research Read more …

Good News for Australia’s Crypto Investors and Start-Ups…

High profile Australian investors will soon be able to get exposure to cryptocurrency in a way more familiar to them than currently available. This comes thanks to a new fund founded by Dominent Venture Partners’ Domenic Carosa and Holger Arians, and Herik Andersson, himself an experienced Wall Street trader. Apollo Capital, as they’re known, are attempting to raise a $30 million for use in the blockchain space. They aim to focus on cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based projects, and initial coin offerings. The fund Read more …

World’s Largest Bitcoin Market Japan has “Loose” Regulations

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Koji Higashi, the co-founder of IndieSquare and Japanese cryptocurrency researcher, revealed Japan, the largest bitcoin market in the world in terms of daily trading volume, has friendly and loose regulations for bitcoin businesses and investors. But, while the Japanese government has legalized bitcoin as a currency and a legitimate payment method, other minor alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) are receiving the same treatment as bitcoin. Higashi emphasized that the Read more …

Did You Ever Want to Buy Shoes with Bitcoin? With Tokia Debit Card You Can!

This year brought a wild ride for Bitcoin and the majority of other most popular cryptocurrencies. The market capitalization over the last year increased more than ten-fold for Bitcoin alone and now is around $150 billion in comparison with $12 billion last year. It is pretty clear that cryptocoins are here to stay. The value still shows strong signs of the uptrend and all your investments are probably booming as we speak. However, how come these currencies are still away Read more …

Cypherium Taps Hybrid Consensus Mechanism For Permissionless, Scalable Blockchain

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. With transaction fees rising and transaction completion times increasing, shortcomings in the leading cryptocurrencies are becoming hard to ignore. This industry is begging for a public blockchain with a high transaction speed that is still decentralized. The bitcoin blockchain can only process seven transactions per second, making bitcoin transactions taking as long as a few days to process, with transaction fees constantly rising. Ethereum smart contract execution Read more …

BitCoen – the First «Kosher» (Jewish) Crypto-Token and Blockchain Ecosystem

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. British company BitCoen is opening up an international blockchain market. The company declared its strategic goal – to help interaction between representatives of the Jewish communities around the world. The BitCoen ecosystem is a system of services, qualitatively improving the Read more …

Storiqa Uses Blockchain to Give Small Producers Access to Global Markets

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Storiqa, a global company, has developed a blockchain-based store builder that allows anyone to create an online store and have access to a variety of tools to promote products to the global market. The platform helps launch new brands and also supports ecommerce initiatives for existing offline retailers. By integrating cryptocurrency payments into the platform, Storiqa will offer merchants cryptocurrency payment acceptance, including the platform’s own STQ Read more …

Birdchain, Blockchain App for Real-World Use

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. With technology on the rise, forward-thinking businesses have to reevaluate their strategies and come up with creative ways to reach existing and potential customers. Indeed, mobile users are increasing on a daily basis. SMS marketing might not be as new and not as hyped as some alternatives, but it still is a great and convenient tool for reaching your customers. SMS are instant, traceable, and cost-effective. Telecos Read more …

Technical Analysis: $10,000 and $500, Key Levels Ahead for Bitcoin and Ethereum

The broad rally in cryptocurrencies continued throughout the weekend, and the tide of the bull market lifted all ships this time, with all of the major coins registering gains during the weekend, although definitely Bitcoin’s push towards $10,000 made the most headlines. The most valuable coin ignored all red flags and technical indicators, and surged past $9000 and $9500, without any major issue. The coin is the most overbought that it has ever been, and it overshot all our expectations Read more …