Litecoin News: Litecoin (LTC) creator Charlie Lee sat down with CoinDesk at Consensus 2018 to talk CryptoKitties, blockchain inefficiencies, and money. Litecoin News: The Problem with Blockchain is… “Blockchains are inefficient by definition,” Lee stated. He explained that a decentralized system requires the replication of data, meaning that a whole bunch of computers have to…
IOTA News: The crypto markets are a sea of red Tuesday. All of the top-ten coins are currently down. That is, with the exception of IOTA (MIOTA). The IOTA Foundation seems to be a platform that cares immensely about creating connections with crypto and blockchain communities. Not only creating connections but also teaching these communities…
Ripple News: Ripple (XRP), the third largest virtual currency by market cap, is in the red zone Tuesday. The coin can’t take it too much to heart, though. Most of the top-ten coins are in the same position. That doesn’t mean Ripple doesn’t have exciting things going on, though. Especially this week, considering everything that’s…
Four new Coinbase products are being launched by the popular exchange with the hopes that they will attract institutional investors into the cryptocurrency market. The four new Coinbase products are designed to solve the biggest issues that institutional investors cite as keeping them from fully entering cryptocurrency, reports CNBC. The products are Coinbase Custody, Coinbase…
The three day New York cryptocurrency conference kicked off on Monday. The Consensus Summit NYC see’s leading industry experts such as Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard and FedEx CEO Frederick Smith, talk about the emerging market and upcoming breakthroughs in the blockchain and crypto sphere. …
Wall Street and institutional investors could push Bitcoin price higher: Bitcoin price (BTC) has been making dramatic downside moves over the last couple of weeks. These moves are quite surprising for bulls since numerous fundamental developments are creating underlying support for the entire cryptocurrency market. The downside volatility moved bitcoin price to $8,200 level last…
Are you a Bitcoin HODLer? If you are, LedgerX is launching a Bitcoin savings account that might be right up your alley. The LedgerX Bitcoin Savings Account The cryptocurrency asset management platform, LedgerX, is launching the first Bitcoin (BTC) savings account that will be regulated by the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC), reports Forbes. The…
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TRON [TRX] – The TRON team is less than two weeks away from its main net launch. In that time, Tron will leave its Ethereum [ETH]-based ERC20 token behind and will become entirely independent. The Tron token will migrate on June 25th, after TRON’s main net has been thoroughly tested. The TRON Foundation has been…
Update: The Korean News Source, Money Today, just announced that the Korean cryptocurrency exchange UpBit, was found not guilty of fraud. The article reads: “Since early 2018, UPbit created snapshots of its multi-signature wallets and funds stored within them for auditing purposes. Yoojin accounting firm, a major accounting firm based in Seoul, confirmed that all…
Consensus 2018 NYC Blockchain Week – After Bitcoin (BTC) catapulted in price at the latter half of 2017, the world began to take notice of cryptocurrency and its underlying technology the blockchain. At last year’s blockchain week, only 2,700 attendees were reported by CoinDesk. Yesterday, the final attendee count for the first day of the…
