NASDAQ HAS ADDED AN INDEX TO TRACK XRP Today the second largest stock exchange in the world Nasdaq will begin to display the index on the basis of the third capitalization of the digital currency XRP. The index was developed by the…
LOGISTICS GIANT FEDEX IS CALLING FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF THE BLOCKCHAIN Director of information technology American logistics company FedEx’s Rob Carter called for the establishment of uniform standards in the industry of the blockchain. Speaking at the conference Global Revolution Blockchain, he…
THE NUMBER OF INFECTED WALLETS ELECTRUM REACHED 152 THOUSAND Experts of the company on cybersecurity Malwarebytes said that the owners of digital storage have become victims of intruders. Total losses are estimated at $4.6 million. They managed to find a new software…
OKEX EXCHANGE HAS ITS OWN TOKEN The OKEX cryptocurrency exchange announced the launch of its own OKB token in the public blockchain. From April 29, users were already able to withdraw OKB tokens to wallets that support the ERC-20 standard, or to…
MATI GREENSPAN: “FOR THE GROWTH OF THE BITCOIN ETF IS NOT REQUIRED” Mati Greenspan, a senior analyst at eToro, expressed the view that Bitcoin growth does not necessarily require approval of Bitcoin ETFs from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According…
IOTA CAN BE INTEGRATED INTO JAGUAR LAND ROVER CAR Jaguar Land Rover has started testing smart contracts. The participants of the new program will be able to earn IOTA tokens for providing certain data. According to the recent information, the company is…
BITMAIN LAUNCHES ASIC MINER ANTMINER T17 SALES The manufacturer of mining equipment, Bitmain, announced the sale of a new device based on the 7-nm chip, Antminer T17. According to the developers, this is the first model of the 17 series, which is…
THE TV SERIES “MINERS” WILL BE SHOWN ON BERLIN WEB FESTIVAL On the eve it, became known that the Russian TV series “Miners” by Director Alexander Bezzubtsev will be shown at the web fest. The event will be held in Berlin on…
JOHN MCAFEE ANNOUNCED THE RELEASE OF HIS OWN BITCOIN DEBIT CARD Well-known programmer, entrepreneur and bitcoin enthusiast, John McAfee, has announced the release of a debit card for Bitcoin. According to the teaser, it can be used to pay for goods and…
E-TRADE LAUNCHES CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADING The brokerage company E-Trade Financial Group plans to provide clients with the opportunity to trade cryptocurrencies on its platform. According to the latest information, the company will first offer Bitcoin and Ether trading, but later other crypto assets…
The Bank of Thailand, Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), and the state oil company, PTTEP, announced the successful testing of the blockchain usage for international transfers. Last year, a large commercial Bank of Thailand launched a project aimed to optimize operational efficiency between…
TETHER SUDDENLY EMITTED $ 300 MILLION USDT TOKENS Tether, the company, issued 300 million new USDT tokens. Attention to this news was attracted by Whale Alert — a popular service for tracking the movements of large amounts of crypto assets on Twitter. This…
COINME AND COINSTAR HAVE INSTALLED MORE THAN 2,000 KIOSKS (GROCERY STORES) IN THE US TO BUY BTC FOR CASH Coinstar has expanded its network of cash withdrawal kiosks – more than 2,000 new kiosks have been installed in stores in 19 different…
BINANCE LAUNCHED A CRYPTO-FIAT PLATFORM IN SINGAPORE The largest in terms of trading volume, cryptocurrency exchange Binance, announced the launch of a Crypto-fiat trading platform in Singapore. So far, only one trading pair is available on the platform – BTC/SGD. Earlier, the…
As confirmed by the company’s executives on Twitter, Final Frontier, in which Bitfury owns a minority stake, has received approval for the launch of the fund from the regulatory body of Liechtenstein. The fund will focus on institutional investors. The fund will…
The South Korean Corporation is probably developing an altcoin based on the Ethereum blockchain and wants to add it to public trading platforms. At the moment, the system is at the stage of internal testing. Sources of the publication claim that later…
Lightning Labs, one of the main developers of solutions based on Lightning Network scaling technology, has released the first desktop application for the main bitcoin network. Previously, the desktop version of the wallet worked with the bitcoin test network, which is accessed…
The founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, Anthony Pompliano, believes that bitcoin can show parabolic growth in the next five years. “Bitcoin is the only asset with a capitalization of $95 billion, which I believe has the potential to grow 20-50 times…
Is Blockchain PR Necessary? The cryptocurrency industry was born as a counterculture movement against the economic status quo established by big banks and sovereign states. Bitcoin was created shortly after the financial crisis of 2008, in what most people consider a…
Two of the Russian Federal Security Service agents were recently accused and charged of a BTC scams, as a result of an operation to eliminiate cyber-criminals from the agency. Sergei Belousov and Aleksey Kolbov were charged of fraud of $1 mln, based…