2020-6-16 12:40 |
The Bank of Korea has tapped six experts to assess possible legal issues surrounding the launch of a central bank digital currency.
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The parabolic rise in Ether long positions has increased the risk of a violent crash, as uncertainty surrounding the launch of ETH 2.0 grows.
2020-5-14 06:31 | |
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Over the past few weeks, the hype surrounding the Ethereum 2. 0 upgrade has increased at a dramatic clip. Due to the launch of the “Topaz” testnet for Ethereum software, which has seen success thus far with strong adoption and use by the ETH enthusiast community, it has become a high possibility to some that the […] The post Research: Ethereum 2.
2020-5-7 15:00 | |
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Metro Exodus' Steam launch is a success despite the controversy surrounding the game's one-year Epic Game Store exclusivity deal. The post Metro Exodus Steam Launch Unaffected by Epic Store Exclusivity Fiasco appeared first on CCN.com
2020-2-19 20:20 | |
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Despite significant pushback from lawmakers in several jurisdictions, which has created substantial uncertainty surrounding Facebook’s digital currency, the Libra Association is pushing ahead with development related to the project.
2020-2-3 14:09 | |
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As Facebook undergoes an onslaught of criticism for its practices, questions surrounding the launch of its Libra digital currency continues to mount. Given that cryptocurrencies have been designed to circumvent the problem of trust, can Facebook do anything to overcome its issues relating to privacy? The furor over Facebook and its exploitation of user data […] The post As Facebook Faces New Inquiry, Libra Looks Unlikely to Earn Public Trust appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-12-4 23:14 | |
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In the latest salvo in the ongoing saga surrounding Bitmain, ousted co-founder Micree Zhan is threatening to fight back claiming to have been betrayed by his partners. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin mining giant is moving ahead with plans to launch a U.
2019-11-8 18:00 | |
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Telegram, the most popular messenger in the crypto community, is facing challenges surrounding the launch of its TON blockchain. Following an intervention by the U. S. securities regulator, a court hearing on the sale of the native gram tokens is scheduled to take place a week before the network was expected to go live.
2019-10-16 03:15 | |
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At the 2019 Devcon in Japan, the Ethereum community was optimistic about the launch of the network’s second iteration, seemingly untouched by the latest controversy surrounding claims made by Ethereum’s founders about its inability to scale and grow.
2019-10-10 14:24 | |
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Last week, following disappointment surrounding the much anticipated Bakkt launch, Bitcoin price smashed below $10,000 and plummeted over 20% to under $8,000 before it found support in the high $7,000 range.
2019-10-2 21:00 | |
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Earlier this week, the price of Bitcoin crashed from above $10,000 to a low of just over $7,900. The abrupt drop seems to have caused an abrupt shift in the sentiment surrounding the industry. With the much-anticipated Bakkt platform’s launch coinciding with the start of the downtrend, many optimistic for the ICE-owned venture’s impact on.
2019-9-28 01:00 | |
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Libra meets with G-7 regulators amid regulatory hurdles surrounding its launch. Can the Facebook-backed token finally turn the tide in its favor?
2019-9-19 14:28 | |
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The hype surrounding the imminent launch of Bakkt’s physically settled Bitcoin futures platform may not be unwarranted, as it now appears that some of the biggest BTC whales in the market are transferring their massive holdings into Bakkt’s warehouse custody solutions.
2019-9-7 02:00 | |
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News surrounding the imminent launch of Facebook’s cryptocurrency – dubbed Libra – captivated the world earlier this Summer, and although the hype surrounding the project has largely worn off, many analysts still view it as a catalyst for greater widespread adoption of crypto.
2019-9-3 00:00 | |
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The People’s Bank of China, known as the Central Bank of the country, has recently affirmed that the rumors surrounding the launch of a state-backed cryptocurrency are not true. The report was made by The Global Times, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, so it is pretty much an official source. According […]
2019-8-29 20:55 | |
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Facebook Libra’s potential to help cryptocurrency go mainstream has been touted in recent weeks, but recent survey results indicate otherwise. According to a poll conducted by CivicScience, which looked into general interest and public concerns surrounding Libra following the announcement of its launch, only five percent of 1,799 US adults surveyed expressed any level of interest in the proposed digital currency.
2019-7-24 19:09 | |
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The first half of 2019 has been a key transitional period for the NEM blockchain and the XEM token. The digital currency’s price gains over the last six months have coincided with a rework of the ecosystem’s inefficient governance structure and speculation surrounding a new underlying blockchain for XEM called Catapult, which is set to launch later this year.
2019-7-4 16:00 | |
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CNET reports that Samsung is gearing up to unveil its Galaxy Note 10 phone on August 7 at the Barclays Center in New York. That lines up with the Korean firm’s usual annual schedule for Galaxy Note launches – but it’s possible that the date might change, seeing as how August is still a while away.
2019-6-19 08:52 | |
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As per an internal note sent to Telegram’s core investor base, the firm is looking to deploy its Telegram Open Network (TON) by the end of Q3, 2019. In this regard, it should also be pointed out that there had previously been doubts surrounding the ability of Telegram’s executive brass to execute a crypto project […]
2019-5-24 15:32 | |
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Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges across the globe, has enabled margin trading flag on its platform, according to a Reddit post. Notably, this is not the first time Binance has been in the spotlight for news surrounding margin trading.
2019-5-2 13:00 | |
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Tron remains at the vanguard of the blockchain community, and despite all the controversy surrounding this popular crypto, Justin Sun is undoubtedly one of the most prominent personalities in the crypto ecosystem.
2019-4-7 07:36 | |
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The crypto world is full of projects that are never able to live up to the initial hype surrounding them. Not only that, people also need to start realizing that a successful mainnet launch does not simply mean that a project is punctual with its release date, instead, success should be derived from whether or […]
2019-4-1 14:18 | |
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Lightning Labs has announced the launch of a new feature called Lightning Loop that aims to address the issues surrounding the channel capacity limits. Through Loop, the purpose is to improve the efficiency, scalability, and usability of Lightning.
2019-3-21 21:11 | |
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Lightning Labs, one of the major contributors to the Lightning Network, has announced the alpha launch of a new feature coming to the second layer micro-payments solution on top of the Bitcoin network.
2019-3-21 00:00 | |
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In a recent Ask-Me-Anything livestream session, the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, updated the crypto and investor communities on several developments surrounding the exchange and its projects. Of particular interest, was his answer regarding the launch of the Binance Chain network.
2019-2-12 10:08 | |
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Samsung’s next phone launch is still weeks away, but there have been so many leaks and rumors surrounding the phone that we already have a pretty good idea of what’s to come. We’ve amassed a collection of all the biggest leaks are rumors so far so you don’t have to.
2019-2-6 06:07 | |
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CoinJar co-founder Asher Tan says the subject of stablecoins is beginning to gain prominence in the cryptocurrency narrative. Many stakeholders in the digital currency space believe stablecoins may be the next big thing in the industry.
2018-11-12 17:00 | |
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BitMEX has officially announced the launch of a new BitMEX-sponsored website called ForkMonitor. info, which may be used to keep track of the happenings surrounding both softfork and hardfork network upgrades for Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
2018-11-6 01:00 | |
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Despite a flurry of media attention surrounding the project, Civil, an Ethereum-based platform aiming to save journalism, can’t seem to get enough buyers for its token.
2018-10-12 23:57 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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There is plenty of hype surrounding the concept of blockchain phones. Although their market value has yet to be determined, numerous companies are trying to launch their devices ASAP. Sikur is the latest one do so as, as their SIKURPhone is available as of today.
2018-9-27 19:00 | |
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University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account.
2018-9-13 18:07 | |
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Reports that Goldman Sachs was planning to launch a crypto trading desk have been labeled as fake by the company’s Chief Financial Officer CFO, Martin Chavez. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in San Francisco reported by CNBC, Chavez cleared the waves surrounding the recent event.
2018-9-8 13:00 | |
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Over the weekend, information surfaced that could suggest that mining giant Bitmain may be facing an uphill battle as it looks to launch an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
2018-8-15 00:47 | |
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The hype surrounding Coinbase’s upcoming Ethereum Classic (ETC) listing has continued, with Coinbase’s so-called “Pro” platform recently announcing that it now officially supports ETC deposits.
2018-8-7 20:54 | |
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While the market saw a collective decline of over 10% as the speculative mania surrounding the Bitcoin ETF deflated, positive developments in this budding industry were still prevalent all throughout the past week.
2018-8-4 11:46 | |
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An inquiry by leading United States-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has found that no improper trading took place last December surrounding the launch of its Bitcoin Cash pairings. Also Read: SEC Postpones Deliberations on NYSE Arca Bitcoin ETFs Coinbase Inquiry Finds No Insider Trading on BCH Markets A Coinbase spokesperson has confirmed that the investigations into potential […] The post Coinbase Inquiry Finds No Improper BCH Trading Took Place Prior to Launch appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-7-26 02:35 | |
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There is no shortage of controversy surrounding the EOS cryptocurrency project. Its main net launch has seen multiple issues, and it now appears Block. one is throwing its weight around where the voting process is concerned.
2018-7-1 23:00 | |
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Multicoin Capital, an Austin-based crypto hedge fund backed by Andreessen Horowitz’s Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, Union Square Ventures and other VCs, is long on EOS (EOS) and Ethereum (ETH) — but bearish on Litecoin (LTC) and Ripple (XRP).
2018-6-30 16:00 | |
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Famous crypto trader Brain Kelly along with Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinsin expressed very bullish views on the bright future of cryptocurrencies. In a further push to bring some fresh optimism in the market surrounding cryptocurrencies, Silicon Valley’s one of the most prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has finally announced the launch of its $300 million
2018-6-26 15:09 | |
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EOS investors have been left disappointed once again as EOS drops into single figures for the second time this month. Since EOS reached its all time high price exceeding $22. 00 in April 2018, EOS investors have remained very excited about the future of their investment.
2018-6-23 22:30 | |
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The Central Bank of Brazil has initiated the second phase of its central bank digital currency project, DREX, aiming to demonstrate trade finance as a new use case. In a press release on Nov. 19, Brazil’s central bank announced it…
According to the results of the 2023 BIS survey on central bank digital currencies and crypto, only 12% of central banks are planning to issue retail CBDCs in the mid-term. A recent survey by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)…
The BOJ hiked the benchmark borrowing cost by 10 basis points, abandoning the prolonged negative interest rate policy.
From legal issues to hackers, launching a CBDC is fraught with risks, and BIS has a big list of them to consider.
NITDA chief Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi said it’s crucial to take proactive measures to harness AI benefits and mitigate threats.
The answer again is regulation, although this time the suggested regulation looks a lot like central bank co-option.
The answer again is regulation, although this time, the suggested regulation looks a lot like central bank co-option.