The blockchain sector entered the scene at full-force this year. There was even speculation that the technology would surpass cryptocurrencies in the future. Now, however, a Gartner blockchain survey has indicated otherwise. Blockchain Technology: Is it Popular or Not? On Thursday, Gartner released the results of its latest survey. The survey looked at 3138 Chief…
Two months ago, Reddit dropped Bitcoin (BTC) as a method of payment. This was due to the increase in transaction fees. Now, however, it appears bitcoin may be returning to the platform. This isn’t speculation, either; the Reddit chief technology officer confirmed the news of bitcoin payments returning to Reddit. Bitcoin Payments Returning to Reddit…
Crypto scams go hand in hand with the cryptocurrency market. In fact, as the interest in the crypto market increases so do the number of crypto scams. It’s a growing problem, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t working towards solving it. The Winklevoss twins are trying, as is Martin Lewis – a British journalist who…
IOTA (MIOTA), Ethereum (ETH), and Nano grow today as we dig deeper into Qubic, regulations, and competitions. IOTA (MIOTA) IOTA (MIOTA) is currently selling at $2.58, which puts the coin up 20.69% in the past 24 hours. Source: CoinMarketCapIOTA is killing it today. What’s causing this coin to grow so much? It probably comes down…
Bitcoin price (BTC) continues to make small sideways movements over the last week showcasing a tug-o’-war between bulls and bears. Bulls are struggling to find fundamental support to extend April’s bull-run into May. Bears, however, have been capitalizing on bearish market reports. They have successfully hindered the latest bull-run that was poised to breach the…
After falling below $9,000 earlier this week, Bitcoin price returned above that pivotal level earlier this morning, and another bullish breakout is on the horizon. Bitcoin’s value went up by 7% over the past week and by 27% over the past month. The latest upward trend could take BTC/USD over $9,500 once again in the…
Financial services company Goldman Sachs has announced its intent to launch Bitcoin futures contracts in the near future. Goldman Sachs launching Bitcoin futures contracts is a pretty big deal for the financial world. What made the investment firm take the plunge? New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper wrote that Goldman Sachs plans to use its…
The majority of the top-ten coins by market cap are in the green today. The exception is EOS, Tron (TRX), and Stellar (XLM). We will be looking at those coins today. EOS EOS is currently selling for $17.85. This puts the coin down 4.40% in the past twenty-four hours. EOS is the 5th largest cryptocurrency,…
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin recently teased a proof of concept scalability solution on Twitter: “sharding” the blockchain’s ledger into smaller blocks that are spread across the network’s nodes. Sharding the network has been talked about for a while as a way to scale out the blockchain and was suggested in the Plasma whitepaper authored by…
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin recently teased a proof of concept scalability solution on Twitter: “sharding” the blockchain’s ledger into smaller blocks that are spread across the network’s nodes. Sharding the network has been talked about for a while as a way to scale out the blockchain and was suggested in the Plasma whitepaper authored by…
