Month: October 2019

Advertisment While people only have their birthday once a year, Bitcoin (BTC) can celebrate twice. Both the publication of the whitepaper on October 31, 2008 and the creation of the Genesis block and thus the launch of the Bitcoin Blockchain on January 3, 2009 are celebrated annually. The mysterious Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto made the whitepaper available to a cryptography mailing list eleven years ago today. Since then, an interesting idea has created a $ 170 billion monetary system. In Read more …

Blockstack, one of the first blockchain startups to have raised money in a Reg A+ offering, has hired GSR Markets to trade its “stacks” (STX) token. According to an Oct. 24 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the blockchain startup will pay GSR for providing liquidity in markets outside of the U.S. Blockstack raised $23 million in its registered token offering in September, including $7.6 million from investors in Asia. For a one-time setup fee of $100,000 and Read more …

Following our story yesterday about a suspicious looking Initial Exchange Offering on LAToken cryptocurrency exchange, the CEO has been in touch to defend the listing. LAToken CEO Responds We felt that it was either disingenuous or negligent to claim that the management team of the IEO was that of SpaceX, when in actual fact, Elon Musk and SpaceX are not involved with the token. However, LAToken CEO, Valentin Preobrazhenskiy says that he admires startups who have the courage to pioneer Read more …

Hostility to Bitcoin (BTC) from the global regulators is a double-edged sword that can hurt authorities if they lose their power, the Blockstream Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) warned. During a panel at a Liquid meetup at Litecoin Summit on Oct. 29, Blockstream CSO Samson Mow predicted that regulatory restrictions to Bitcoin could have both favorable and unfavorable consequences for the regulators themselves. Regulators should be careful while enforcing Bitcoin regulation The panel is a part of the event hosted by Read more …

Ripple’s XRP had a dismal year so far. Volumes reach around $1.6 billion per day, a comparatively weak result for a top 3 coin. Low Volumes Among Top Coins XRP saw its volumes sink even below those of EOS, which trades at $2.6 billion per day. The asset, however, remains near the top. The asset has been, in a way, engineered to become a top coin. XRP has been either the second or third digital asset by market capitalization. But Read more …

Advertisment Today, we will be examining some of the past price trends of DOGE and other market factors in order to formulate a Dogecoin price prediction for November 2019. Dogecoin Overview Dogecoin (DOGE) is a well-known cryptocurrency that was launched back in 2013 as a Litecoin fork. DOGE’s image was based on the Shiba Inu meme, and even if it may seem it started as a joke, the coin grew to receive strong support from its community. Now the coin Read more …

Peruvian shoppers are weeks away blockchain answering the age-old question first posed in 1984: “Where’s the beef?” A pilot project by Wong Supermarket, a Peruvian chain owned by Chile’s major retail conglomerate Cencosud, will allow suppliers and consumers to scan and check the provenance of various meat products. The app is a partnership between Cencosud and Citizens Reserve subsidiary SUKU, the Silicon Valley-based supply chain company whose founders hail from the Deloitte Blockchain Lab.  At launch, the consumer-facing app will Read more …

Investing in Bitcoin (BTC) can be quite intimidating if you’re only just learning about its existence now. In fact, taking the plunge and entering the cryptocurrency sphere is a risk for anyone, with or without investment experience. This is because the crypto space has no centralized authority to guide investors. Rumors, hype and horror stories dominate the internet, and separating fact from hearsay can be difficult at times. Like any other business venture, you should never get your feet wet Read more …

The scalability challenge has become one of the biggest debates in the blockchain space. However, very few people recognize that many current blockchain projects are a variation of Bitcoin and Ethereum, neither of which was designed with scalability in mind. Satoshi Nakamoto deliberately engineered full consensus into the Bitcoin protocol. It creates a vast amount of redundancy when transactions and storage are replicated across the entire network. Vitalik Buterin conceived Ethereum as the next iteration of blockchain beyond cryptocurrencies, one Read more …

Longtime bitcoin advocate Bruce Fenton has created a new broker-dealer for digital asset firms and financial advisors called Watchdog Capital. The firm is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, public filings show. It’s a subsidiary of digital securities firm Chainstone Labs, also led by Fenton, founder of the Satoshi Roundtable conference. He is also a former board member of Overstock’s security token platform tZERO and was the 2015-2016 executive Read more …

Cryptocurrency trading is skewed to two major hubs – Bitcoin and Tether. While for years BTC was the most traded digital coin, for a few months now USDT has taken the lead in terms of daily volumes. Bitcoin Lags as Second Most Active Coin On Thursday, the total volume for Bitcoin and USDT combined was between $55 and $65 billion, depending on the type of reporting. This covers the majority of trades in the overall daily activity of $84 billion, Read more …

Belgium’s financial sector regulator has issued a fresh warning over suspected cryptocurrency scam websites, bringing its running list to 131 domains. On Tuesday, the Financial Services and Markets Authority added 9 domains – including bitcoinmarketscap.com, bitcointraderspro.com, coinsmex.com, crypto-sfs.com, etc-markets.co, fisherih.com, ltc-markets.com, stsroyal.com and tdscapitalgroup.com – to the list of crypto trading platforms with “signs of fraud.” The update comes following reports from Belgian consumers who fell victim to the scams, the agency said. The FSMA noted that the anatomy of such Read more …