Bitcoin for coffee. It has a nice ring to it. But actually using Bitcoin (BTC) to buy coffee? Turns into a big mess real fast. However, that might be about to change. Starbucks just hinted that it might soon have a way to make using BTC to pay for coffee a whole lot easier for…
Goldman Sachs appears to have mixed feelings towards Bitcoin. Earlier in 2018, the bank said it was planning on opening a BTC trading desk. Yesterday, a former Goldman Sachs executive said a Bitcoin ETF was possible. Yet, in the Goldman Sachs midyear economic-outlook report, Bitcoin was reported to decline even more than it has so…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AXS Blockchain Solutions Inc. (“AXS Blockchain”) (CSE:BAXS) (FRA: C0B), a leader in blockchain solution development, is pleased to announce that the board of directors has appointed Ashik Karim as Chief Executive Officer, and a director, effective August 3, 2018. Mr. Karim is currently and will also…
Announced this morning is some pretty major news that Bitcoin bulls have been waiting for; Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – the trading giant that owns the New York Stock Exchange – has a goal of breaking Bitcoin into mainstream currency and it plans to do this by forming a new company called Bakkt. Bakkt is soon…
Ashik KarimVANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AXS Blockchain Solutions Inc. (“AXS Blockchain”) (CSE:BAXS) (FRA: C0B), a leader in blockchain solution development, is pleased to announce that the board of directors has appointed Ashik Karim as Chief Executive Officer, and a director, effective August 3, 2018. Mr. Karim is currently and will…
At the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Barcelona last week, two researchers presented a plan to bring the anonymity of monero to the ethereum network. With the catchline “Trustless Tumbling for Transaction Privacy”, the protocol uses mixing solutions to obscure the payment information of ether transactions. Unlike monero, bitcoin and ethereum do not offer transaction privacy,…
Litecoin (LTC) has dropped more than 15% in the past 10 days, and is now down ~80% from the record high posted in December. The LTC market cap is the 7th largest among coins tracked by bravenewcoin.com, at US$4.34 billion, with exchange-traded volume of US$253 million in the past 24 hours. Among the 17 coins…
Since the start of the year, several leading blockchain startups have made major acquisitions to boost their positions in the market. Coinbase takes the lead In March, Coinbase announced that it had hired former LinkedIn M&A head, Emilie Choi, to run the company’s merger and acquisitions activities. Choi says joined the company because she believes…
TRON (TRX) hinted at a potential bear trend reversal this week, showing signs that the loyalty of TRX believers might finally bear fruit after a challenging last three months. From the 26th to the 29th of July, its price rose from $0.0359 (Index) to 0.0402, a ~12% jump in under four days While encouraging, these gains…
In today’s edition of Crypto Daily News, we’ll cover Coinbase adding the British Pound to its trading pairs and John McAfee’s “unhackable” Bitcoin wallet that gets, well, hacked. Crypto Daily News: August 2nd, 2018 Coinbase Supports the Pound Starting today, Coinbase customers in the UK will be able to seamlessly move GBP in and out…
