2020-10-20 11:16 |
Some winners purchased additional digital yuan during the pilot.
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China is forging ahead with the latest testing of its digital currency electronic payment (DCEP) that is awarding lottery winners tickets in Shenzhen with 200RMB (30 USD) in DCEP to test out and spend locally.
2020-10-13 21:30 | |
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While other countries are still busy studying the opportunities and risks associated with central bank digital currencies (CBDC), like the US, China’s digital yuan trial is in full force. People have already received the DCEP and started using it at convenience stores.
2020-10-13 19:32 | |
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As Congress debates the potential of a second coronavirus stimulus bill, 9 million Americans are still waiting for their first $1,200 payment check to arrive in the mail. The inability of our existing financial infrastructure to respond quickly and effectively to an emergency like COVID-19 has prompted fresh debate about how innovations like digital currencies … Continued The post Interoperability Will Determine CBDC Winners and Losers appeared first on Ripple.
2020-9-25 20:59 | |
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It has been a generally bullish week in digital asset markets marked by a period of strong positive price over the weekend. Not all assets were winners, however, the price of large cap asset XRP fell despite some discussion of a potential Ripple IPO at the recent Davos 2020 summit.
2020-1-28 14:00 | |
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Can regulators and crypto projects work out their differences to create safe environments for digital asset trading? Or are they destined to forever butt heads? In an ideal world, there are no winners or losers.
2019-9-18 22:08 | |
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Cryptocurrencies that feature in identity management (IdM) solutions have been among the best investments in the first half of the year. In a webinar hosted by Digital Asset Research (DAR), analysts found that tokens in the IdM category had the largest returns in both Q2 and H1 2019.
2019-8-1 00:36 | |
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Digital currency prices have spiked considerably in the last 24 hours and bitcoin core (BTC) stopped short about $70 in an attempt to cross the $10K price zone. Most cryptocurrencies are up between 2-8% on Friday, June 21 and the entire cryptoconomy surpassed $300 billion.
2019-6-22 19:16 | |
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The second quarter of 2019 is coming to an end and for those who invested in cryptocurrencies this year, market prices are a whole lot higher than they were a year prior. Since the significant lows in December 2018, most digital currencies have captured remarkable gains.
2019-6-21 22:15 | |
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Bloomberg’s Selected Virtual Currencies Bloomberg has recently released an article in which they have chosen the best virtual currencies in the market during the last few months. They have also selected losers for this contest.
2019-6-8 19:51 | |
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On May 28th 8:00 AM and May 29th 10:00 PM (EDT), BitMart, a premier global digital asset trading platform, will join Magic Cube to launch a unique two rounds of Live Game Shows. Winners will be able to split 200 ETH worth of the intraday quota of Magic Cube Coin (MCC) and purchase with ETH.
2019-5-30 18:18 | |
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Barry Silbert, Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, recently spoke about the rise of Bitcoin [BTC], during an interview with Yahoo Finance. The CEO also spoke about the things that changed over the past year and whether the cryptocurrency space would see multiple winners or if one coin will rule them all.
2019-5-17 22:30 | |
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We’re a month and some change away from Bitcoin 2019: a conference made by Bitcoiners, for Bitcoiners. The conference will rekindle the same spirit of a similar Bitcoin conference that ended five years ago.
2019-5-3 15:10 | |
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Odyssey, a blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) hackathon backed by the Dutch government, has announced the winners of this year’s competition. 60 jury panel members elected 19 winning teams.
2019-4-25 11:04 | |
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Crypto markets are rising, and Bitcoin (BTC), which constitutes more than half the market’s value, is among the big winners. Most BTC trades have been against fiat currencies and the stablecoin, Tether (USDT), suggesting that some investors are beginning to move value out of safe havens and into riskier digital assets.
2019-2-18 19:28 | |
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Even without directly investing in cryptocurrencies, Nvidia was one of the biggest winners in 2017’s crypto boom. With last year’s soaring prices of digital currencies, the company’s GPUs were selling like hotcakes as crypto miners, who were busy building their mining rigs back then, snapped up stock worth $776 million in 2017 alone.
2018-11-16 16:09 | |
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In a collaboration with LongHash and BTC Inc, JRR Crypto has launched an international token design competition. Beginning on October 26, 2018, JRR Crypto launched this design competition at a multiday festival in Berlin.
2018-11-9 17:35 | |
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If you’re a tech junkie, you’ve inevitably thought about what it would be like to run into your future self, even just a year from now. What apps would be on your phone? How would your user experience change? What’s the next big thing you won’t be able to imagine your life without? To find out we went to this year’s EIT Digital Challenge where some of Europe’s finest deep tech scaleups and late-stage startups were pitching cutting-edge solutions that will innovate everything from online security to our own personal well-being (see all 10 winners here).
2018-11-6 15:19 | |
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Alfred Nobel died with regrets. After making a fortune off of explosives, he indicated in his will that his fortune should be used to make a prize awarded each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
2018-10-23 23:22 | |
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Nine years after the start of the Bitcoin ledger, the digital asset has finally gathered widespread attention, including from Nobel economics prize winners. Robert Shiller, an American Nobel Laureate and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, who has commented on cryptocurrencies on previous occasions, said Bitcoin is an ‘epidemic of enthusiasm.
2018-6-27 22:00 | |
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Bitcoin Conversions will charge a flat 1% fee to automatically convert a portion of merchant revenues into BTC.
Paxful has announced Paxful Pay, an ecommerce checkout integration that allows merchants worldwide to receive bitcoin as payment.
A deal has been struck between the world’s largest crypto payment processor and a major e-commerce platform — another step towards widespread adoption? Shopify, a Canadian-based e-commerce platform, has added cryptocurrency as a payment method for sellers on the platform, making the announcement in a press statement, potentially growing Shopify’s customer base.
BitPay Support confirmed that BitPay had a 3-hour outage of Bitcoin payments on Dec. 22
Recently Flexa and Gemini set the crypto world abuzz with the launch of their real-time crypto payment platform. Through Flexa’s Spedn, a crypto app, crypto owners can now spend their hard-earned Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto.
U.S. payment processing firm Aliant Payments offers free crypto processing to qualified U.S. and EU merchants