[ad_1] Crypto exchange Bittrex is set to delist Bitcoin Gold (BTG), a hard fork of Bitcoin (BTC), by Sept.14, after details of an $18 million hack of the BTG network in May emerged this week. How unexpected was this announcement coming from the exchange, and what are the chances for BTG now that it has found itself in the midst of yet another scandal?“One CPU one vote” ideology: How Bitcoin
[ad_1] Deutsche Börse has identified blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) as growth technologies. To move forward in the field, the unit “DLT, Crypto Assets and New Market Structures” was founded. In an internal interview Jens Hachmeister, the head of the group, provides insights into Deutsche Bank’s DLT / Blockchain strategy. In the Roadmap 2020 of the Deutsche Börse Group, three pillars are anchored as a growth program. According to
[ad_1] On Aug. 31, Line, Japan’s most widely utilized messaging app with more than 200 million active users, revealed the launch of its own cryptocurrency called LINK.Upon its announcement, Line immediately listed LINK on its digital asset exchange BitBox, which it launched back in July of this year.Uniquely, as Cointelegraph reported, Line has decided not to conduct an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to raise a significant amount of capital in
[ad_1] Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, worth nearly $ 800 million, have been removed from Wallet, which are linked to Silk Road’s defunct “black market” and former owner Ross “Dread Pirate Roberts” Ulbricht. This could point to a possible Bitcoin crash course. The Silk Road-related crypto-wallet has split over 111,000 BTC and BCH into smaller amounts, with the total amount spread over 80 wallets. The movement of such large amounts of
[ad_1] Venezuela has been living with hyperinflation since at least 2014. Its national currency — the Venezuelan bolívar — hit an official inflation rate of 57.3 percent in February 2014, while independent currency analysts were reporting that, by that September, the real inflation rate had already topped 100 percent. In other words, the bolívar (VEF) was depreciating rapidly in value, and ordinary Venezuelans needed something to fill the void it
[ad_1] Venezuela, Turkey, Iran and Zimbabwe: these countries are all facing ongoing economic crises. They’re suffering from high levels of inflation, and as a result the people living within them are increasingly turning to crypto as a store of value and a means of exchange. Their recent troubles have heightened the distant possibility that, at some point in the future, hyperbitcoiniztion will take place, with Bitcoin (or some other coin)
[ad_1] Volatile or not, there's growing public demand for retailers and businesses to accept payment in cryptocurrency. According to a survey published in June by the United Kingdom-based crypto-exchange CreditCoin, 75 percent of American consumers want the option to use cryptocurrencies to pay for items they purchase in stores. Sadly, the proportion of stores providing this option doesn’t seem to have reached three-quarters yet.However, the number of merchants accepting Bitcoin (BTC)
[ad_1] Another index fund for digital assets enables institutional investors to enter the crypt world. The investment product developed by Morgan Creek Digital and Bitwise comprises ten of the largest cryptocurrencies. However, already-crafted cryptos like XRP or Stellar are not part of the portfolio. With “only” 25,000 US dollars to be there: The target group of the “Digital Asset Index Fund” baptized funds are, as for all financial products of
[ad_1] The Rakuten Group currently does not limit its activities to e-commerce, but offers over 70 diverse services, from internet services such as travel, digital contents and communications, to FinTech (financial) services such as credit cards, banking, securities, insurance, and electronic money. These various services cover a wide range of life scenes and are organically linked together around membership, centering on Rakuten members, enhancing cross use activity by users within
[ad_1] Argyle Coin is making heads turn in the global crypto community by protecting the interest of investors like never before. This Blockchain-based platform for buying and selling fancy colored diamonds has purchased a surety bond. The Bond is designed to pay back original purchasers of Argyle Tokens (RGL) in case the Token fails to trade cryptocurrency from the company’s wallets because of any unforeseen issues. August 30, 2018 Argyle
