Call it the latest sign of the sea change. Announced today at CoinDesk’s Consensus: Invest in New York, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington revealed he’s raising $100 million for a hedge fund that will buy and hold crypto assets while making investments in token sales and (some) equities and debt. Launched under a new entity called Arrington XRP Capital, the fund claims to be the first that will require all limited partners (LPs) to make investments in XRP, the cryptocurrency that Read more …
Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Bitcoin achieved a historic milestone today, surpassing the $10,000 mark for the first time in its short history. Investors and analysts alike will spend the day discussing whether the bitcoin price is a “speculative bubble” or finally approaching its fair value, but one fact is undeniable: Bitcoin is becoming mainstream. Welcome to 1994 As BlockTower Capital executive Ari Paul wrote in a recent Forbes op-ed, Bitcoin — Read more …
New York entrepreneur Dean Anastos has a knack for creative ventures. He is a brain cancer activist known for the short films “The Assignment” and “Dear John McCain,” with several film projects in pre-production, such as “Maria Canje” (as well as the novel version, to be released soon) and “Ohneka,” a paranormal movie about a Native American vengeful spirit.Accordingly, he is currently leading the effort to curate a groundbreaking film called “Rise of the ICO,” which will provide viewers with Read more …
Dr. Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, explained in an interview with CNN that Bitcoin is nothing short of an economic miracle. Hileman stated: “Many economists dismissed it as a flawed form of money, something that could never achieve the level of adoption that it has. Today we estimate 5 to 10 million unique active users of cryptocurrencies, and in my opinion that’s nothing short of a minor economic miracle.” Read more …
US-based exchanges are going to have some serious competition in the coming months, as bitFlyer has opened up trading to US customers and has also obtained the ever important NY BitLicense, which allows for a crypto exchange to operate in the state of New York. Bitcoin’s Rising Popularity in Japan Japan has been on the cutting edge of Bitcoin infrastructure ever since the digital currency was recognized as legal tender back in April. Japanese exchanges have been recording record volumes Read more …
The pace at which bitcoin cash – the cryptocurrency that forked off the main bitcoin blockchain earlier this year – gained trading volume was “shocking,” according to Circle’s head of trading. Speaking during a panel at CoinDesk’s Consensus: Invest event in New York, Circle’s Dan Matuszewski noted that the startup – which operates a trading desk and today unveiled a new investment-oriented app slated for release next year – was taken aback by the trading demand around bitcoin cash after Read more …
xChainge is a new platform with a simple user interface for anonymous and decentralized exchange of assets based on the Ethereum blockchain. xChainge offers an alternative to centralized crypto asset exchanges with no commission fees, no mediator companies, and no KYC/AML. All of the platform’s functionality is available in the xChainge Wallet application. The xChainge Wallet enables P2P transactions of crypto assets from a user-friendly interface, similar to popular online banking applications. xChainge Wallet for Windows will be launched in Read more …
New York entrepreneur Dean Anastos has a knack for creative ventures. He is a brain cancer activist known for the short films “The Assignment” and “Dear John McCain,” with several film projects in pre-production, such as “Maria Canje” (as well as the novel version, to be released soon) and “Ohneka,” a paranormal movie about a Native American vengeful spirit. Accordingly, he is currently leading the effort to curate a groundbreaking film called “Rise of the ICO,” which will provide viewers Read more …
Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Google Trends has found that the phase ‘buy bitcoin with credit card’ is on the rise as the digital currency increases to new heights. This continuing interest in bitcoin comes at a time when it is experiencing record highs. In this year alone it has risen in value by nearly 10-fold, an incredible feat for a digital currency that has overcome its fair share of hurdles along Read more …
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin has grown significantly since our last price report when BTC surpassed US$9,000 per token. Now the cryptocurrency is setting its sites on the $10,000 target just two days later as the price has been hovering around $9,850-9,950 over the past six hours. Bitcoin has already touched the $10K mark on a few exchanges located in Asia, and very close to that price territory on a multitude of global trading platforms. Read more …
DFantasy is a decentralized fantasy sports platform that offers a wide variety of sports popular across the globe. DFantasy democratizes the fantasy sports platform eradicating the existing problems in conventional platforms like centralization, monopoly, lengthy verification and slow withdrawal of funds. Platform commissions are as low as 2% which is expected to create a surge in new members that will thrust this company’s Initial Coin Offering into the spotlight. This ICO is unlike any other ICO Read more …
The Government of Cyprus describes it as a country with a positive attitude to blockchain and cryptocurrencies: one has never prohibited bitcoin turnover, ICO campaigns and cryptocurrency exchanges. However, young companies aimed at integrating cryptocurrencies and blockchain still have a number of issues related to the legislation and blockchain development aspects. Therefore, Smile-Expo is organizing the event of the Bitcoin & Blockchain Conference series in Cyprus. Experts will share their opinions and examine case studies of the integration of blockchain Read more …