2018-12-28 01:08 |
Bitcoin-supporting payments firm Square has been named Yahoo Finance Company of the Year
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Bitcoin is not dead, management consultancy AT Kearney has concluded in its 2019 predictions – the latest source to defy claims it is trending to zero. Cryptocurrencies Are ‘Post-Crash’ As part of its annual series of ten forecasts for the coming year, somewhat less ‘outrageous’ than a similar tradition at Saxo Bank, the company declared Bitcoin and altcoins to be “post-crash.
2018-12-29 05:00 | |
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One of the biggest, and most unwelcome revelations of the past few years is just how much social media platforms can be — and have been — used for manipulation and distribution of falsehoods. And in 2018, several social media executives were called into the hot seat in front of elected officials to account for their company’s inability to foresee, prevent, or, in some cases, efficiently treat their multitudinous problems.
2018-12-28 12:00 | |
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Bitmain, the Chinese mining hardware manufacturer who recently applied for listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, has laid off around half of their employees, the company confirmed in a statement: “There has been some adjustment to our staff this year as we continue to build a long-term, sustainable and scalable business.
2018-12-28 00:05 | |
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The Chinese crypto mining company Bitmain has apparently been hit hard by the bear market and is looking to sack more than half of their entire workforce. Credible rumors of this story first began to circulate on Maimai, China’s equivalent to LinkedIn, as anonymous sources on a site frequently used by Bitmain employees began reporting that the company was looking at massive layoffs in the next several days.
2018-12-29 21:20 | |
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The Chinese crypto mining company Bitmain has apparently been hit hard by the bear market and is looking to sack more than half of their entire workforce. Credible rumors of this story first began to circulate on Maimai, China’s equivalent to LinkedIn, as anonymous sources on a site frequently used by Bitmain employees began reporting that the company was looking at massive layoffs in the next several days.
2018-12-27 21:20 | |
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is set to end 2018 on a high, bumping off Apple from the top spot and becoming the most valuable publicly traded US company. The Washington-based American multinational technology company, whose founders were Bill Gates and Paul Allen, has been a rival of Apple for some time within the computer industry.
2018-12-27 13:00 | |
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Months after it filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is undergoing a series of business changes that extend even to its China offices, the company confirmed Tuesday.
2018-12-25 19:00 | |
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2019 is almost here and several companies are aligning to have a successful year. The latest of these companies is TradeWinds Financial, which has reunited with Foster Estate Planning in a partnership to launch a crypto investment fund that will be out in 2019.
2018-12-25 18:59 | |
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Japanese internet giant GMO Internet Group is quitting the cryptocurrency mining hardware sector, according to a public document. Citing extraordinary loss in Q4 this year, GMO said that it will “no longer develop, manufacture and sell” miners.
2018-12-26 18:00 | |
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Amazon has been a good performer in 2018, and is up nearly 40 percent in the year. In September, the share price for it hit $2,000. The Seattle-based American electronic commerce company, whose CEO and founder is Jeff Bezos — America’s richest as noted by Forbes —was created in 1994.
2018-12-22 12:00 | |
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After opening your gifts, many will now be looking around to see their entire families face down into their devices after too much food and bad TV. The days of enjoying each others company once a year will probably feel like a distant memory from a much simpler analog age.
2018-12-22 02:00 | |
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You’re not special — everybody fails. The importance lies in how you react to failure, and learning to bounce back after you’re fired, you lose a client, or your high tech sex toy company idea gets shot down.
2018-12-21 19:00 | |
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The IOTA Foundation has revealed a brand new hash function that it hopes will keep the Tangle secure for years to come. The hash function, Troika, was developed by CYBERCRYPT, a leading security company that was commissioned by IOTA just over a year ago.
2018-12-21 06:36 | |
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It has been nearly one year since San Fransisco-based payment processing company, Square, rolled out peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading within their popular Cash App, allowing customers to buy, hold, and sell the cryptocurrency without incurring any fees.
2018-12-21 02:00 | |
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Last night, we got word of yet another Facebook privacy scandal. What is that, Number 427 for the year? In this case, a report from The New York Times revealed the social media company gave an extreme amount of access to certain partner companies, over and above what users might have expected.
2018-12-19 22:41 | |
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Do you remember Coincheck? The Japanese crypto exchange was hacked at the beginning of the year, in January. The company had half a billion dollars stolen in cryptos, mostly NEM tokens, was sold to Monex for only $33 million USD back in October.
2018-12-19 20:07 | |
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Purism, the company behind the upcoming ultra-private Librem 5 smartphone, has announced it’s started shipping development kits to its backers. The dev kit, which is based on Purism’s customized i.
2018-12-19 13:18 | |
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Tether (TS) was able to earn around $6.6 million during the first six months of the year according to a report released by Bloomberg on December 18. With the US Dollars reserves that it has across different banking institutions, the company is able to make several millions of interests. At the same time, citing sources […]
2018-12-19 00:35 | |
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Swiss IT consulting firm Inacta AG has become an official partner of Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain for Bitcoin, the company confirmed December 17. Tokengate Meets Liquid Sidechain Inacta, one of many Blockchain-focused companies headquartered in Switzerland’s Crypto Valley in the town of Zug, also became the first token platform operator to support Liquid tokens.
2018-12-18 19:00 | |
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Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post.
2018-12-18 02:32 | |
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao otherwise known as CZ said that the company is perfectly fine with Venture Capital putting money into the crypto industry even as the market continues to spiral as opposed to investing while the market is down.
2018-12-14 20:52 | |
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South Korea’s internet conglomerate Kakao has invested in blockchain firm Orbs via its venture arm Kakao Investments. The Israeli blockchain startup Orbs became the receiver of an undisclosed amount of funding from the Korean company.
2018-12-14 13:29 | |
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Allianz CEO has called on global regulators to outlaw cryptocurrency, contradicting the company’s chief financial advisor, who said Bitcoin would be a good buy under $5,000 earlier this year.
2018-12-14 06:00 | |
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This year’s YouTube Rewind just surpassed a Justin Bieber song to become the most-disliked video ever made on the platform. With over 10 million dislikes, the like-to-dislike ratio would seem to be a message from the fans to the company that the squeaky-clean, frenetically scripted attempt at positivity isn’t what they want.
2018-12-13 22:21 | |
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German Stock Exchange Launching Crypto Trading Platform Boerse Stuttgart Group, the second-largest stock exchange in Germany, is planning to launch a crypto trading platform early next year. The exchange announced its partnership with a local fintech company, SolarisBank.
2018-12-13 19:43 | |
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Market For Blockchain In 2019? Jonathan Johnson of Medici Ventures for Overstock. com recently discussed with Coidesk his venture fund’s goals for the coming year. He stated that the 19 portfolio companies are aiming to develop new ideas and methods to execute them.
2018-12-13 19:40 | |
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The cryptocurrency market, over the last year, has attracted many big names to jump on to the cryptocurrency bandwagon. The most recent company to jump on is Samsung. The company has filed two trademark application for including Blockchain and cryptocurrency functionalities in their upcoming phones.
2018-12-13 10:16 | |
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There’s one thing we know all know about integrated graphics: they suck. Usually, they’re barely enough to play any modern games, or even some old ones. But Intel is trying to make them suck significantly less with its ‘Gen11’ series of GPUs next year.
2018-12-12 21:37 | |
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The holiday season is here. And even if crypto prices are on the coal heap, you can still have fun spreading some holiday bitcoin cheer. For the bitcoiners in your life, this could mean a crypto-related gift as a token of solidarity.
2018-12-12 23:22 | |
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DigitalOcean today announced the official release of its managed Kubernetes hosting, which it launched in a private beta earlier this year in May. The company, which is best known for its ultra-cheap VPS hosting, says that DigitalOcean Kubernetes is production ready for companies to deploy their critical applications on.
2018-12-11 19:00 | |
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Users are venting frustration at UK-based cryptocurrency wallet and exchange Cubits after the service went offline following alleged payment delays. Cubits Website Disappears Overnight Cubits, the trading name of Dooga, a company formed in London in 2014, became involved in a legal battle over allegations it was hacked earlier this year, a court ruling in the company’s favor in August.
2018-12-11 17:30 | |
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Ripple’s main mission this year was to coerce everyone to call their token XRP and not, as previously popularized, Ripple. This was chiefly a cautionary measure for the time when SEC comes knocking the Ripple door while deciding if XRP is a security or not.
2018-12-11 01:49 | |
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Chatspin, a popular live video streaming multi-platform app, is abandoning its plans to accept cryptocurrencies as a form of payment due to the significant losses in the value of Bitcoin and other coins have suffered this year, the company announced in a press release on December 6, 2018.
2018-12-9 00:00 | |
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For those that bought Bitcoin in 2009, or even in 2011, I can only hope you’ve already sold it. For those that bought Bitcoin in 2017, well… sorry? Coinbase, one of the largest places to buy cryptocurrency online, seems to want you to revel in the Bitcoin‘s failures.
2018-12-8 05:19 | |
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Sure, Apple may have announced three new iPhones, a new MacBook Air, and the new iPad Pro this year, but the most important product is the company’s Apple Watch Series 4. It was just last night that Apple activated the Watch’s electrocardiogram (ECG) feature, and it appears to already be saving lives.
2018-12-8 03:02 | |
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BitGo has a new CEO for its custody business. The cryptocurrency solution provider has recruited Richard Corcoran as its new chief executive officer. Having retired some years back after over 30 years in the traditional banking and finance industry, Corcoran has come out of retirement to lead the BitGo Trust Company, BitGo's crypto custody arm.
2018-12-8 21:38 | |
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After doubling its cryptocurrency lineup this year, it seems popular exchange service Coinbase has no intention of slowing down its expansion into altcoin trading. The company has revealed it’s exploring a large list of cryptocurrencies that could soon be added to its flagship desktop and mobile app, Coinbase.
2018-12-7 17:36 | |
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Qualcomm has previously developed some ho-hum chips for Windows 10-based always-connected PCs. But this time it means business, with its first 7nm Snapdragon 8cx (Compute Extreme) chip for laptops that promises significantly greater performance than its predecessors.
2018-12-7 10:18 | |
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With more people rushing into the cryptocurrency market since late 2017 and the subsequent year-long bear market in 2018, one accounting envisages a barrage of loss claims in cryptocurrency and Bitcoin tax filings next year.
2018-12-7 23:00 | |
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Since Satoshi first activated the Bitcoin network, about 17. 5 million coins have been minted. While we have commented, the fact that many of the bitcoins currently in circulation are in relatively few wallets, it is not always possible to assign names or identities to those addresses.
2018-12-6 20:38 | |
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As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.
2018-12-6 18:13 | |
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As we’ve all been expecting over the past year, Google is killing off its Allo cross-platform messaging service. The app – which first arrived in September 2016 with a bunch of clever features like one-tap smart replies, Google Assistant support, and the ability to share web search results in conversations – will be shut down next March.
2018-12-6 08:22 | |
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It was just yesterday that Qualcomm announced its new Snapdragon 855 processor, but today we learned the first company that will use it: OnePlus. That’ssomething of a surprise. Samsung usually has first dibs, and OnePlus’ tends to release its first phone a bit later in the year.
2018-12-6 02:43 | |
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R3 has unveiled a new app on their international blockchain, a global payment platform that uses Ripple’s XRP as its initial base currency. The app, dubbed Corda Settler, continues R3’s track record for pursuing ambitious blockchain projects, and it is allegedly “purpose-built to allow for payment obligations raised on the Corda blockchain platform to be made through any of the world’s payment systems, both traditional and blockchain-based.
2018-12-6 01:54 | |
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The company sought to have its account reinstated after being dropped by BancoEstado earlier this year, but that’s not going to happen.
2018-12-6 01:42 | |
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The company’s move comes ahead of ICE’s planned Bakkt Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives launch, and upcoming Nasdaq BTC futures next year.
2018-12-5 18:18 | |
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Samsung has been caught for the second time trying to pass off photos from a DSLR camera as image samples from its phones. In the latest instance, its Malaysian division was spotted using a shot taken a year ago by photographer Dunja Djudjic to talk up the capabilities of its mid-range Galaxy A8 Star.
2018-12-5 13:19 | |
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In July, I wrote about how Wing – one of Google X’s pet drone projects – “graduated” to become a full company under the Alphabet banner. Now, after months of testing its drone delivery service in Australia, the company is expanding to Europe with a trial planned in Finland next year.
2018-12-5 11:03 | |
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Around the whole world, all kinds of companies are starting to use the blockchain technology. We had an amazing bull run last year and this made the blockchain technology famous. The most obvious result may have been the crash and the bear market that followed the hype, but despite the situation in the market, many […]
2018-12-5 10:12 | |
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Bitget saw a 683% increase in Gen Z users in November, marking a shift in crypto demographics following Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. Gen Z’s share of new users on the crypto exchange jumped from 26.
What are the key trends highlighted by the global crypto adoption index, and how do they reflect crypto’s role in global economic shifts? The global crypto adoption index is an essential tool for understanding how well different countries are adopting…
Chanalysis submitted a Polkadot governance proposal on April 18 that could lead to a $10 million partnership. The services provided by Chainalysis will include monitoring and tracing the DOT token activities on the Relay Chain, ensuring visibility of any potentially risky on-chain actions to regulators and institutional entities.
Banking giant HSBC is set to introduce digital asset custody services for tokenized securities such as bonds on the blockchain. The bank expects to go live with the service in 2024. The service is geared toward institutional investors and will continue expanding the lender’s offerings in the digital asset realm.
Advocates for the Bitcoin Lightning Network and decentralized protocol Nostr funded Kweks’ Kilimanjaro climb.
Polygon Labs announced on Sept. 29 that it has added Google Cloud to the decentralized group of validators powering its proof-of-stake Network. Polygon said in its statement that Google Cloud is now among more than 100 validators who secure the Polygon PoS Network, a network that originally operated under the name Matic Network and which […] The post Polygon adds Google Cloud to its validator set appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Pudgy Penguins has announced a merchandising deal with retail giant Walmart that will introduce its IP to the megastore’s shelves in over 2,000 stores. The Pudgy Toys—plush collectibles that will now be sold alongside legacy brands in Walmart’s brick-and-mortar stores—will offer access Pudgy World, a digital social experience on zkSync Era.