Category: Etherium

The days of mobile carrier Short Messaging Service is numbered as people have increasingly adopted instant messaging applications like Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, and others. These services are cost effective, convenient and have loads of features. However, except for few test instances, none of them really allow people to securely and privately execute financial transactions. MINGO, the cryptocurrency platform has set out to change this by creating its own version of a secure messaging application that not only allows people to Read more …

The Chinese regulators have banned the execution of ICOs within its borders, while this has altered the activities of a number of blockchain companies, others have continued with their original plans, insisting that such a development is only but a temporary setback that will lead to a more sanitized industry. Just a slight “hiccup” Anthony Diioro, CEO and Founder at Jaxx describes the trending ban out of China as nothing more then a slight “hiccup” for the rapidly growing global Read more …

The first self-mining smart contract, Minereum has received the much-awaited upgrade. The updated Minereum version 2.0, better known has Artemine is making the news with loads of improvements. The Artemine platform signifies a leap forward in the Smart Contract Mining technology and it comes packed with new features, mostly around Genesis Addresses. It is now possible with Artemine to assign different supply for these Genesis Addresses. These addresses can also be transferred and sold automatically. Public Mining is yet another Read more …

According to a new report from security research firm FireEye, North Korean hackers are targeting Bitcoin and Ethereum users in South Korea. North Korea hacking South Korea for ETH… never thought I’d see that headline pic.twitter.com/2knChVCQAn — CointraderGuy (@CointraderGuy) September 12, 2017 FireEye’s report suggested that North Korean hackers are attempting to breach into South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges and steal user funds in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Since May 2017, FireEye researchers claimed that North Korean hackers have been consistently targeting Read more …

Ethbet, the world’s first truly peer-to-peer blockchain gambling platform, will open up its Crowdsale to investors beginning on September 17th at 8 PM UTC. Ethbet is a new player in the world of cryptocurrency gambling and dicing, but investors are still excited about some of the enticing features that it has to offer. Ethbet is able to offer much more than just the standard features of decentralized betting platforms such as provable fairness and on-blockchain bet execution. The unique concept Read more …

Did Jamie Dimon obliterate bitcoin’s buzz? Bitcoin and other digital currencies have been getting absolutely toasted in recent trade, with some wondering if withering criticism from Wall Street heavyweights, like J.P. Morgan Chase’s JPM, +0.29% CEO, and growing regulatory scrutiny in China have finally combined to exact a punishing, and lasting, toll on one of the most bubblicious segments of finance. On Wednesday, the value of a single bitcoin, near its low, was at $3,772, compared with around $5,000 in Read more …

French insurance giant AXA has launched a new flight delay insurance product that uses the public ethereum blockchain to store and process payouts. The product, called Fizzy, is being pitched as a “smart insurance” tool that flyers can use to insure their trips if their flight is delayed by two hours or more. According to AXA, ethereum’s public blockchain plays two key roles here: maintaining an accessible record of the insurance contract itself within a smart contract, as well as Read more …

Rumor has it Bitmain will introduce new cryptocurrency mining equipment soon. The company is best known for their Bitcoin mining hardware these days. However, they also sell miners for Litecoin and Dash as we speak. The new rigs are mainly focused on proving GPU-based hardware for Ethereum mining. An interesting venture, although it remains to be seen whether or not there is any truth to the rumors. GPU mining has picked up again in recent months. Hundreds of people all Read more …

Researchers working on the zcash protocol announced today they’ve invented a new way to speed up the anonymous cryptocurrency. Today, zcash, the seventeenth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, uses the bleeding-edge cryptographic technique zk-SNARKs to hide balances and user addresses, but the technique comes with a drawback that’s hard to ignore: anonymous transactions are sluggish. While normal transactions take seconds to create, shielded transactions using zk-SNARKs take one to two minutes. That’s why engineers have been exploring ways to cut down Read more …

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of authors/contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision. Back in 2015, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon had said that people trading in digital currencies such as Bitcoin were wasting their time. Notwithstanding, the lucky few who wasted their time back then would be sitting on more than 900 percent returns. What a Read more …

Sony Music Entertainment Japan have taken a bold step in partnering with iFLYER, a Japanese-based ticketing start-up who are looking to utilize the Blockchain expertise of EventChain in order to overcome ticketing problems through use of the Blockchain. EventChain’s partnership with iFLYER will essentially see Sony Music breaking into the new wave of Blockchain technology as event, concert, and clubbing tickets are put onto the Ethereum Blockchain, and smart tickets are born. iFLYER sells $2 mln USD of tickets every Read more …

Speaking at an investor conference in New York on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon blasted Bitcoin in a series on damning statements. Calling the cryptocurrency a “fraud” that’s “worse than tulip bulbs”, he went on to say he’d fire any employee trading Bitcoin “in a second”. He gave the following concise reasons: “It’s against our rules” and “they’re stupid”. He concluded that both cases were “dangerous” to his bottom line. When Dimon refers to tulips, Read more …