The cryptocurrency market has taken a beating to start out August but it seems the market has made a shift this week. Currently, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading just under $6,400 and Ethereum (ETH), one of the top altcoin gainers today, is just below $300. Let’s take a closer look at Ethereum Classic (ETC) and Populous…
With the fundamentals improving for the Lightning Network – the number of open channels is now over 11k, from just over 9k a month ago – and atomic swaps for cross-chain transactions arguably being the next breakthrough for the technology, what is often overlooked is that it isn’t restricted to bitcoin transactions but also a…
Depositphotos/Syda_ProductionsVANCOUVER, British Columbia, August 16, 2018 – LiteLink Technologies Inc. (“LiteLink”) (CSE:BAXS) (FRA: C0B) a leader in blockchain solution development, is pleased to announce that it will change its name from “AXS Blockchain Solutions Inc.” to “LiteLink Technologies Inc.” Effective at the market opening on August 21, 2018, the common shares of the Company are…
Coinbase, Inc., the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, was signing up 50,000 new customers a day last year, says CEO Brian Armstrong. Crypto ‘Bubble’ Armstrong spoke at Bloomberg’s Players Technology Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday. Cryptocurrency had a huge rise last year, more particularly towards the second half of the year, but most…
Ripple, the third largest cryptocurrency project by its total market cap, confirmed that it is targeting the large Chinese market with its cross-border blockchain payment technology, CNBC reported this morning. Ripple targets China despite China’s anti-cryptocurrency reputation? Here’s why. Ripple Targets China Jeremy Light, VP of European Union Strategic accounts at Ripple, had a phone…
Yesterday, Ripple Labs scored a small victory, winning one of its many ongoing legal suits. Fast forward twenty-four hours, and the Ripple price has corrected. But why? Is XRP’s activity Wednesday linked to the Ripple lawsuit? Or is there another catalyst that’s helping the price? Suit Denied, Ripple Price Correcting: August 15, 2018 Ripple Labs has been…
LINE, the Japanese messaging giant, has today announced the launch of its token venture fund. The Token venture fund will have a capital commitment of $10 million USD via LINE’s subsidiary, Unblock Ventures. Unblock Ventures was recently established in Hong Kong in only July of this year. Token Venture Fund The publicly traded LINE made…
Zcash (ZEC) is currently 19th on the BNC market cap table, just below two other two privacy-oriented coins Monero (XMR) and Dash (DASH). The market cap currently stands at US$594 million with US$97.5 million in trading volume over the past 24 hours. ZEC is the most recent iteration of the Zerocoin protocol, developed in 2013.…
History is written by the victors, said Winston Churchill, referring to the ability of those with authority to shape public perception. But with a decentralised network, there is no single point of authority to create this uniform narrative, and through bitcoin’s short history the community has been free to think of the cryptocurrency however it…
A lot has transpired since we last covered the topic of blockchain in financial services in May 2017. At that time, the price of bitcoin (BTC) had yet to rise above $2,000 and the concept of an ICO (initial coin offering) was just emerging in the eyes of the public. Since then, BTC topped $19,000 in…
