Month: March 2018

Ethereum’s moon math is showing signs of coming back to earth. Such was the feeling at EthCC, an ethereum developer conference in Paris, Thursday, where a dedicated privacy track struck a somber note compared to years past. Indeed, despite a software upgrade in October that saw improvements built to pave the way for confidentiality, such methods have been shown to exceed ethereum’s processing capacity, with the computationally intense cryptography all but bringing the blockchain to its limits. So, while developers Read more …

More frustrating news out of Japan. Just a day after FSA regulators stymied exchanges the ghost of Mt. Gox appears again, this time as a possible cause for the Bitcoin market drop from Dec. 2017. Trustee Sales Linked to Bitcoin Price Drops Information that Mt. Gox trustees have sold over half a billion worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash is blowing up on social media platforms across the net. Investors are correlating the sales to drops in the market price of Read more …

Featured Cryptocurrency is gaining popularity in Russia as a good idea for a gift. According to a new survey, more and more Russians believe cryptos, like bitcoin, would make their girlfriends and wives happy on special occasions. The 8th of March is celebrated as Women’s Day in Russia and in many other countries.   Also read: Popular Social Networks in Russia to Accept Bitcoin Bouquets, Gadgets, and Bitcoins Russian women expect special attention on March 8. The Read more …

Key Highlights ADA price declined further and it even failed to hold the $0.20 support against the US Dollar (tethered). There is a crucial bearish trend line forming with resistance at $0.2100 on the hourly chart of the ADA/USD pair (data feed via Bittrex). The pair will most likely remain in a bearish zone and it could even break the $0.1850 support. Cardano price is under a lot of bearish pressure against the US Dollar and Bitcoin. ADA/USD could accelerate Read more …

The first US property will be sold entirely through a blockchain transaction on Ethereum  in South Burlington, Vermont, putting the city on the map as a “global blockchain leader.” Ethereum Used for Real Estate Deal South Burlington, Dubai and Kiev are all part of a pilot program with global blockchain-based real estate marketplace Proppy inc. who handled the transaction. Katherine Purcell signed off on the transaction in late February through the San Francisco based Proppy which uses the Ethereum network to transact and record Read more …

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. PayPal has filed a patent to speed up cryptocurrency transaction times by eliminating the verification time of payments. Bitcoin expert argues that this is already made possible through existing technologies in the cryptocurrency industry. On March 5, 2018, Cointelegraph reported that PayPal filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a technology that is supposed Read more …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Yesterday, on March 9, CCN reported that the sell off of hundreds of millions of dollars, and the plan of the trustee to dump the remaining $1.7 billion worth of bitcoin into the market have caused the price of bitcoin to drop substantially in a short period of time. Bitcoin Drops Since March 7, within a 48-hour span, the price of bitcoin decreased from $10,600 to $8,300, Read more …

The governor of China’s central bank struck a critical tone on cryptocurrency speculation during a media appearance on Friday. Speaking at a press conference amid the Two Sessions, China’s annual political event, People’s Bank of China (PBoC) governor Zhou Xiaochuan took aim at cryptocurrency projects that have shifted away from their purported use cases in favor of promoting what is essentially market speculating. “Lots of cryptocurrencies have seen explosive growth which can bring significant negative impact on consumers and retail investors,” Read more …

Key Highlights Ripple price declined sharply and even broke the $0.8200 and $0.8000 support levels against the US dollar. Yesterday’s highlighted crucial bearish trend line with current resistance at $0.0.8000 is intact on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair is likely to decline further and it may even break the $0.7650 support in the near term. Ripple price declined heavily against the US Dollar and Bitcoin. XRP/USD is currently trading below $0.8000 and Read more …

Mining From wrecking the environment to making it harder to search for alien life, cryptocurrency mining has been blamed for a multitude of sins. But to cause time itself to slow down is a fresh charge and one which, on the surface, sounds impossible. Something strange is happening in Central Europe right now: clocks are running slow, and not by fractions of a second, but entire minutes. Could large scale crypto mining be responsible or is it Read more …

Things are not looking pretty this morning and the markets can only be described as a train wreck. The selloff has continued with what seems to be a greater sense of urgency during the Asian trading session. Bitcoin has lost over 10% on the day and all altcoins are also hemorrhaging badly. Everything is in the red but one altcoin seems to have made a bit back and is actually up on yesterday’s prices and that one is Nem. The Read more …