The blockchain and cryptocurrency sector has become immensely popular both this year and last year, with a number of companies announcing a move into the industry. Meanwhile, companies that are already involved in the sector, and have been long before the hype surrounding the technology emerged, are now making advancements in their corporate models in…
KYC – Know Your Customer: for the security of the business and the customer – but how safe is it really? KYC verifications are becoming more common in the crypto world. Already common practice in the financial world, KYCs check the customer’s identity and verify that the customer isn’t involved in any illegal activity. The crypto…
As I reported two days ago, the TRON foundation broke with huge news that was long awaited by many enthusiasts. TRON’s first Beta Version will launch on March 31st of this year. Its open source upgrade was the latest to the system, which occurred on December 29th of last year. TRON’s project is fairly new, with…
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been largely cut off from the international community due to its position as a totalitarian socialist state. This has led to severe economic distress thanks to the twofold effect of a punishing international sanctions regime — and having almost no trading partners. Not surprisingly, North Korea has been…
Bitcoin (BTC) mining operations are becoming more and more popular. Only a few years ago, Bitcoin mining was taking place on a home computer. Nowadays, entire companies are being built around the idea. Enormous mining farms are being established and are filled with top-of-the-range processors and graphics cards to earn as many coins as possible.…
Ethereum (ETH) has continued to recover from the 47% pullback last week. The cryptocurrency’s market capitalization currently stands at US$104 billion, with US$2.7 billion traded over the past 24 hours. Transactions per day and block times have both decreased this week, and the pending transaction pool is essentially zero at this time. The popular cryptokitties…
The entire cryptocurrency market grew from $18 billion to just over $610 billion this year. The number one cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC) grew over 1200% in the past year. Mid-year, Bitcoin was picked up by the mainstream media and everyone was trying to get their hands on it. It received both positive and negative feedback from top financial analysts;…
With new altcoins emerging every day, it is hard to keep up with the latest revolutionary trending project on the market. Populous (PPT) is among the top coins with the most growth today and is definitely worth considering for your crypto portfolio. POPULOUS (PPT) Populous is a peer-to-peer platform that uses blockchain technology to provide…
UK football team Arsenal has announced that it has partnered with new cryptocurrency CashBet Coin (CBC) in what is the first-ever deal of its kind. The premier-league football team is the sixth-wealthiest in the world, having reeled in revenues of $597.1 million USD equivalent in the 2016-17 season. In short, this is a big deal…
It has been well known that Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is not a big fan of bitcoin. At the World Economic Forum annual meeting taking place this week in Davos, Switzerland, he told Bloomberg reporters that bitcoin serves no function other than being useful in illicit activities such as money laundering and tax evasion.…
