Month: October 2017

Distributed ledger consortium R3 and 22 of its member banks have announced a cross-border payments platform built on top of the company’s Corda technology. Centered around the concept of creating digitized versions of fiat currencies that can be exchanged and transferred between different parties, the effort has seen involvement from banks including Barclays, BBVA, CIBC and Commerzbank. The unveiling comes just a month after the startup announced version 1.0 of Corda, with a prototype version of the cross-border payments platform Read more …

Technology Bitcoin has had a phenomenal year in 2017 surpassing many expectations as the decentralized currency now commands a whopping $100B market capitalization. This Halloween marks another milestone as nine years ago today the anonymous creator of the ‘Internet of Money,’ Satoshi Nakamoto, released the Bitcoin white paper. Also Read: Bitcoin Prices Skyrocket to $7200 on Zimbabwean Exchange During Economic Turmoil On October 31, 2008, The Idea of a Genuine Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Was Born On October Read more …

Essentially, the mysterious nature of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s creator, means that the entire ecosystem is sitting on a potential volcano. It lays dormant at the moment, but if the creator had the inkling, he could flood the market with one mln coins and destroy its value. One of the biggest mysteries in the technology world is the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. No one knows who he is, where he is or what he is doing with his millions. That is Read more …

Chimaera has announced their much anticipated token sale where people can purchase the ecosystem’s reserve currency (CHI) starting October 23rd. The blockchain gaming platform was announced in February on the Bitcointalk forums where it quickly generated interest and a following. Chimaera is a continuation of blockchain gaming development from its original inventors who first introduced it with Chronokings and Huntercoin in 2013. Stepping up from having a single game on the blockchain, Chimaera enables countless games with virtually unlimited players. Read more …

International employment marketplace Freelancer has noted that Bitcoin-related jobs are the highest growers, hitting 82 percent growth in the third quarter alone. Work relating to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and other related markets is skyrocketing as the cryptocurrency currency heads towards the mainstream, pulling in more and more to feed the ecosystem. The company’s periodic report tracks top trends in online jobs based on the listings on its Freelancer.com platform. ICO boom Freelancer notes that a lot of the growth is coming Read more …

STK Global Payments, creators of the STK token have launched the token pre-sale event, ahead of its Token Generation Event beginning November 13, 2017. Built on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC20 token, the STK token will enable instant cryptocurrency payments at the point of sale — the first such solution to bridge cryptocurrency with retail transactions in real-time. Thousands of people across more than 100 countries have registered to participate in the pre-sale for early access and premium pricing Read more …

The WISEPLAT project is ready to offer its recipes to solve the problems experienced today by blockchain platforms. As early as at the design stage the system included functionality and potential that will enable to make express payments and at the same time to provide the maximum possible performance of blockchain applications. It can be achieved through division of the payment system and the application system into different blockchains (this step is the answer to the question on the difficulties Read more …

Key Highlights Ripple price continues to trade in a range above the $0.1960 support against the US Dollar. Yesterday’s highlighted major channel with current support at $0.1965 is still active on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price remains in a tight range and looking for the next move, probably above $0.2040. Ripple price is moving inside a range against the US Dollar and Bitcoin. XRP/USD must stay above $0.1960 to gain further traction Read more …

ETH/USD Ethereum has gone back and forth during the session on Monday, as we continue to test the $312 level. I think there is a significant band of resistance extending from that level to the $316 level, so I need to see this market break above the $316 level to jump “all in.” Because of this, you could also look at pullbacks as opportunities to add a little bit to an existing position, with an obvious support level being the Read more …

Smartlands, worldwide platform to tokenize agriassets, has announced that it will be integrating with Stellar, an open source blockchain network, to support its cryptocurrency platform for agricultural projects. The decision to integrate with the Stellar network rather than build its own standalone blockchain solution greatly accelerates the development of the Platform and achieving its goal of transforming agricultural investments worldwide. Smartlands recently announced that it would be hosting its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on the Stellar network, which is beginning Read more …

“Rome wasn’t built in a day”, “The early bird catches the coin”, Experienced in Mining, these best describe this bitcoin mining site. As compared, mining with your own hardware versus mining with poker mining contract, advantages and disadvantages were seen. Expensive hardware with high shipping charges and potential custom cost are the first main reasons for not choosing to do the mining at your own risk. Currently the expensive electricity rates, long delivery period, system intermissions that will result in Read more …

After 29.10.2017 above average bull pressure, an across the board alt coin stochastic buy signal is present. This lifted alt coin prices through to today where further appreciation is expected. Leading this resurgence is NEO, IOTA and LSK. Let’s review alt coin price action: ALT COIN LSK PRICE ACTION ANALYSIS LSKUSD Daily Chart for 31.10.2017 It is highly likely that that 28-29.10.2017 double bar reversal pattern with a stochastics buy signal was a retest of the support-previous resistance line at Read more …