2018-12-7 21:29 |
The Bitcoin scaling solution has gotten bigger.
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Softnotes by Tectum are a revolutionary new Bitcoin scaling solution network and have the power to finally transform Bitcoin into the ‘Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’ that Satoshi envisioned.
2022-10-12 12:00 | |
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Bitcoin represents monetary freedom and thus a new and viable solution to closing the wealth gap.
2021-6-3 22:40 | |
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Shark Tank star and the Dallas Mavericks’ owner, billionaire Mark Cuban has shared his updated view on bitcoin after the price of the cryptocurrency hit all-time highs. He compared bitcoin to gold but believes that bitcoin is not a solution to any problem as countries will take steps to protect their currencies.
2020-12-20 05:15 | |
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A years-old privacy solution for addressing Bitcoin’s anonymity has got a facelift last week, with one developer believing the protocol can be deployed without requiring any change to Bitcoin’s source code.
2020-6-1 15:07 | |
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Bitcoin has existed for more than a decade and while there have been considerable ups and downs for the king coin, BTC continues to face challenges with regard to mainstream adoption. According to The post When it comes to Bitcoin ETFs, market surveillance isn't the only solution appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-8 14:30 | |
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In a bid to foster social inclusivity and improve access to quality goods and services for residents of Buenos Aires, Bitcoin Argentina, a local non-governmental organization is collaborating with NEC and IDB Lab, to develop a blockchain-based digital identity solution, according to a press release August 26, 2019.
2019-8-27 09:00 | |
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The founder of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Roger Ver, has been criticizing the Lightning Network a lot lately. In fact, he’s doing it since forever by affirming that the layer two scaling solution is far from being as good as it claims to be.
2019-3-16 01:46 | |
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Blockchain project VeChain announced that it is working closely with the Fuji MARUMO Tea Garden, one of the historic tea businesses in Japan to prove traceability of tea products. The blockchain network uses an advanced IoT and traceability solution which will enable Fuji MARUMO’s customers to verify the origins of their tea products by using a […] Japanese Tea Products Can Get Verified Proof of Origin on VeChain was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-12-6 19:29 | |
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BitGo wallet announced today that it is adding support for Stellar network’s native coin XLM. BitGo has now become the first multi-signature wallet and custodial solution supporting this cryptocurrency.
2018-12-6 18:29 | |
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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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A new alliance between Tendermint and Kava Labs may have paved the way for the Cosmos Network to evolve into a fully functional and optimized “internet of blockchains.” Assuming the new partnership lives up to expectations, this could prove to be a big stride towards removing the interoperability issues impeding Cosmos from fulfilling its vision […] Cosmos Implements Kava’s Interledger Solution; Could This Change the Game for Ripple and Other Blockchain Networks? was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-12-6 15:59 | |
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Based on a Medium post from December 3, 2018, Kava Labs has recently partnered with Cosmos to deploy its inter-ledger solution payment streaming to Cosmos Zones. Kava labs inc. is a San Francisco-based venture-backed company working on payments innovations using blockchain technologies.
2018-12-6 00:00 | |
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There is no positivism in the cryptocurrency and digital asset industry right now. That is only to be expected, as there is still plenty of bearish pressure. Bitcoin drags everything else down with it, which continues to create a very unfavorable solution.
2018-12-6 23:00 | |
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The Bitfury Group has recently announced a partnership with crypto payment processing system Paytomat, working to bring the Lightning Network to Paytomat’s participating merchants.
2018-12-6 22:48 | |
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Vereign announced on December 4 the launch of its blockchain-based solution beta version. Vereign’s plugin aims to transform email authentication and identity management, by utilizing the benefits of the distributed ledger technology to deliver a wide range of features.
2018-12-5 14:59 | |
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Twenty-six France-based companies including RCI Bank, Allianz France, Alten, BNP Paribas, and others, have tested R3‘s proof-of-concept blockchain solution with support from the French Association of Corporate Treasurers (AFTE).
2018-12-5 12:00 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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Cryptocurrencies are akin to natural catastrophes when it comes to unpredictability. However, HurricaneGuard has introduced a new solution which aims to take the natural disasters insurance sector by storm with the help of blockchain technology.
2018-12-4 22:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).
2018-12-4 21:02 | |
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Bitcoin and Lightning Network enthusiasts recently launched a website dedicated to featuring projects supporting the speedy second layer solution. According to the LightningHood’s Medium blog post, published on December 2, 2018, LightningHood is keen to help the growing community by providing everyone in the ecosystem access to resources such as developers, Lapps, and nodes, and recognize the people working to.
2018-12-4 14:00 | |
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The Raiden Network is deemed as the Ethereum version of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. It is an off-chain ERC20 complaint scaling solution that enables the transfer of tokens within the Ethereum blockchain.
2018-12-4 10:44 | |
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Global leaders walked away from the latest G20 Summit with a rough game plan for crypto regulation. This year’s G20 Summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 30 to December 1.
2018-12-4 23:44 | |
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Canadian payments company Glance has announced that its users will now be able to use Bitcoin as a payment method across all existing merchants and services. In a press release issued November 29, 2018, the company explained that the new feature will be called “Pay With Bitcoin.
2018-12-3 20:00 | |
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Since the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork occurred recently, it’s a good time to discuss the difference between custodial and noncustodial cryptocurrency services. Newcomers to the digital asset economy often get confused when they hear about a blockchain split and may wonder how they should handle the outcome.
2018-11-30 21:05 | |
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CoinSpeaker Should Bitcoin Aim to Follow the Footsteps of PayPal? Since the story of PayPal shows that for a new solution to be successful, it needs to become associated with a well-known and trusted company or industry, it seems that Bitcoin has something to learn from this mainstream payment platform.
2018-11-29 12:20 | |
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A Canadian luxury fine jewelry brand is now accepting Bitcoin as a means of payment at eight stores across the country. Birks Group partnered with BitPay to process all Bitcoin transactions made by customers.
2018-11-29 12:00 | |
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Speaking at the ongoing CoinDesk's Consensus Invest conference in New York, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton spoke on why his agency hasn’t yet approved a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2018-11-29 21:56 | |
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On Tuesday, Canadian company Birks Group, a fine jewelry operation since 1879, announced its plan to accept bitcoin for products and services at eight select locations. Birks Group and its retail stores will accept cryptocurrencies through a partnership with Bitpay.
2018-11-28 03:55 | |
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ICONLOOP’s newest project, the ICON Development Network will now be available on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. The blockchain project has been a technology partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) since early 2018 and worked on a software solution that could integrate AWS and ICONLOOP.
2018-11-27 16:59 | |
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Today, November 26, 2018, marks the launch of the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) and the FIO Protocol, an interwallet protocol that seeks to make the transfer of cryptos between wallets as simple and straightforward as making transfers on PayPal.
2018-11-27 02:52 | |
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In a new development, Swiss watch manufacturer Chronoswiss AG will collaborate with LuxTag; an anti-counterfeit solution provides to help customers claim ownership of their crypto-watches. The two will utilize the NEM blockchain and let users register their crypto-watches on the platform.
2018-11-26 17:59 | |
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Allforcrypto will provide a blockchain-friendly platform for the sale of goods and services with its own utility token for funding operations. Allforcrypto brings a blockchain-based solution to the issues that arise in P2P buying and selling goods and services online.
2018-11-25 02:33 | |
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DCR aims to serve three purposes of an ideal currency: being a store of value, being a medium of exchange and being a unit of accounting. Bitcoin is kinda capable of performing these three functions, but currently possesses inferior technology that isn’t suited to make it commercial grade money.
2018-11-22 18:42 | |
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A sudden influx of nodes on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) has seen capacity increase to new all-time highs as the scaling solution is now handling over $2 million in BTC. Lightning’s Transformative Month Data from monitoring resource 1ML.
2018-11-22 18:00 | |
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CoinSpeaker Four Reasons Why Bakkt May Be the Biggest Bitcoin Catalyst Since 2008 Chris Kline, expert crypto enthusiast and COO of Bitcoin IRA, shares his insights into the nature of Bakkt platform explaining why this solution may be revolutionary for the whole cryptocurrency world.
2018-11-21 18:58 | |
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ETPs — Switzerland's Alternative To Exchange-Traded Funds While the entire world is waiting for the US SEC decision regarding Bitcoin ETFs, Switzerland found another solution. The country's financial regulator, FINMA, confirmed that the exchange-traded product will arrive in Switzerland's principal stock exchange tomorrow, on November 21st.
2018-11-20 23:18 | |
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When Stefan Thomas left his lucrative job at Ripple as the CTO of the company, he was joined by former Ripple intern Ben Sharifian. Together, they worked on the Interledger protocol and created Coil – a new micropayments solution based on the Interledger Protocol and Ripple’s XRP.
2018-11-19 18:59 | |
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Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. The Lightning Network is getting so big that its capacity has recently surpassed the $1.
2018-11-19 18:39 | |
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The Swiss federal railway SBB is working on implementing its first blockchain use case around certifications for its employees that work on railway tracks. In fact, a collaboration between SBB, Linum Labs and uPort, is exploring a viable solution to verified worker credentials and has produced published a blog entry around proof of concept last […] The Swiss Federal Railway Trials a Digital Identity Pilot on the Ethereum Blockchain was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-11-19 17:59 | |
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The Lightning Network continues to post steady growth. According to data from 1ML, the network is now supported by roughly 4,070 nodes, which house just over 12,500 payment channels, an average of 10.
2018-11-17 01:17 | |
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Twitter has confirmed the series of cryptocurrency-related hackings on its platform originated from a third-party software provider – and not its own system. In an email to Hard Fork, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed attackers exploited a third-party marketing solution to blast fake Bitcoin giveaway links from a slew of verified accounts, including Google and Target.
2018-11-16 19:44 | |
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According to 1ML. com, a search engine dedicated solely to Lightning Network metrics, the second layer, off-chain scaling solution for bitcoin has reached a new milestone, as it passed 4000 nodes for the first time at press time, November 14, 2018.
2018-11-16 16:00 | |
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Efforts to improve the scalability of Bitcoin appear to be bearing fruit as the Lightning Network, a second layer off-chain scalability solution on the network designed to handle vast transaction throughputs without resulting in high prices has recorded an important milestone.
2018-11-15 21:32 | |
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The world’s leading blockchain crowdfunding platform Coinchase has launched a new trading solution for its customers. It has now enabled no-fee consumer-to-consumer trading, making it the only crowdfunding platform to offer this feature.
2018-11-15 13:29 | |
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Bitcoin giveaway scammers claim another victim After we saw several verified Twitter accounts fall victim to the infamous cryptocurrency giveaway scammers a couple of weeks ago, another account suffered the same faith today.
2018-11-14 13:40 | |
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IBM revealed it was developing a blockchain-based system allowing a dynamic cooperation between scientific researchers beyond institutional borders and outside interference. Breaking down Barriers IBM is one of the leading computer and software technologies in the world pushing innovation by quickly developing blockchain solutions.
2018-11-14 02:00 | |
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Malaysia’s ministry of education announced on Twitter on Nov. 8th that it teamed up with a consortium of six universities to launch a blockchain-based system known as e-Scroll to issue and verify the authenticity of university degrees.
2018-11-12 17:29 | |
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HashCash has just recently launched a first-of-its-kind white label payment platform that is based on Bitcoin currency. The new ecommerce payment option will help merchants receive Bitcoin as payment.
2018-11-9 18:42 | |
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Remittancetoken. io is a tokenized money transfer platform with unparalleled speed. The off chain version of Remco token is on a run rate of $20,000,000 by the end of 2018, and the solution is Jurisdiction and Money Transmission Flow Agnostic.
2018-11-8 13:30 | |
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Developers behind the privacy-focused crypto Decred have released details about the project's upcoming privacy rollout. The new features will include hiding user identities and jumbling customer transaction data together, making it harder to track specific coin movements.
A research report from crypto exchange Binance has claimed that the digital currency being developed by the People's Bank of China (PBoC) will be backed one-to-one by fiat, replace notes and coins in circulation, and operate on a two-tiered system.
Investors in messaging app Telegram's Gram token will reportedly receive the first batch of tokens starting October 31. Telegram has also informed investors that the Gram testnet will be made available a couple of weeks before the tokens are delivered.
Researchers at sharia advisory firm Amanie Advisors have published a white paper certifying that Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency, Ether, is sharia compliant because of its utility token classification.
Through a partnership with the HackerOne bug bounty platform, the Libra Association is inviting the public to report vulnerabilities in the Libra network code, offering a max reward of $10,000.
Though the issue has since been resolved, crypto payments firm BitPay blocked a $100,000 donation made in an unnamed cryptocurrency to charity Amazon Watch, which is working to stop the fires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest.
Three unnamed members of the Libra Association, the group tasked with overseeing Facebook's Libra network, have considered leaving the group, citing disappointment related to crypto regulations and fears of backlash from publicly showing support for Libra.