BITHUMB LAUNCHED A NEW SERVICE TO VOTE FOR THE NEW TOKEN LISTING The leading Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announced the beta release of a new service — Pickthumb. Bithumb opened a platform to assess and vote for the new token listing on…
BITCOIN CASH WILL BE ADDED TO THE GEMINI CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE The popular American cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, founded by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss will add support for Bitcoin Cash. Recall that on November 15, Bitcoin Cash blockchain was divided into two separate…
ALMOST EVERY THIRD FREELANCER IS READY TO RECEIVE PAYMENT IN CRYPTOCURRENCIES As reported in Humans.net research, almost every fifth freelancer would like to get paid in Bitcoin, and 11% would accept a partial payment, and 4% have already received earnings in that…
The bitcoin move is making people feel like they are in the hell being cooked slowly, as time goes by. Fortunately we see some key tuning points making us feel that bitcoin will not be reduced in its price much further than…
THE NUMBER OF SHORT POSITIONS ON BITCOIN HAS EXTREMELY INCREASED On Thursday, December 6, the number of short positions on bitcoin updated the six-week high, reaching 37 891, on the popular Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex. Last time, the indicator reached such high values…
THE NUMBER OF NODES IN THE NETWORK LIGHTNING IS MORE THAN 16 000 The Lightning network (launched as a second layer solution to make bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper), after launching in January, is continuously growing and has reached 16,000 nodes. Now…
SWISS POST CREATES A BLOCKCHAIN-BASED PLATFORM FOR THE DIGITALIZATION OF BUSINESS Swiss post office in partnership with the state-owned company Swisscom is developing a blockchain platform for digitizing business processes. The launch of the first applications on the platform is scheduled for…
HYPERLEDGER HAS LAUNCHED A NEW TOOL FOR BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPERS Blockchain consortium Hyperledger has launched a new tool for developers – modular cryptographic library Ursa for sharing. Hyperledger consortium announced that the Ursa library, a repository of “proven” cryptocurrency implementations, is designed to…
FOUR EUROPEAN BANKS CONDUCTED A TRANSACTION FOR $100 000 ON THE CORDA BLOCKCHAIN FROM R3 Four European banks, Commerzbank, ING, Natixis and Rabobank, settled a transaction with a short-term debt instrument on the Corda platform developed by the R3 blockchain consortium. As…
THE LARGEST LATIN AMERICAN BANKING CONGLOMERATE ITAU HAS CREATED A BLOCKCHAIN PLATFORM FOR RETAIL LENDING Itau Unibanco and Standard Chartered provide international banking services. In order to launch a new credit platform, the two companies jointly developed their own Proof-of-Concept algorithm for…
POLONIEX LAUNCHES CRYPTOCURRENCIES FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS American cryptocurrency trading platform Poloniex, which was acquired in February 2018 by the provider of payment solutions Circle, announced that it plans to offer cryptocurrency trading services to institutional investors with the ability to open new…
NASDAQ OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED THE LAUNCH OF BITCOIN FUTURES IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2019 Nasdaq Vice President Joseph Kristinat confirmed that the US exchange will launch bitcoin futures trading in the first half of 2019 and currently is awaiting approval from the…
EXCHANGE COINBASE HAS ADDED THE OPTION OF WITHDRAWING FUNDS THROUGH PAYPAL Coinbase has added the option to withdraw Fiat via PayPal: now crypto-exchange users can directly transfer their Fiat funds to their PayPal accounts. Without any preliminary announcements, the crypto-exchange added the…
BITGO ANNOUNCED STELLAR SUPPORT BitGo crypto-custodial service announced the addition of one of the largest digital assets on the market – Stellar Lumens (XLM). As the company noted in the blog, it became the first supplier of wallet with multi-signature and custody…
TREZOR WALLET HAS ANNOUNCED THE BEGINNING OF NATIVE SUPPORT FOR ETH, ETC AND ERC20 TOKENS Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor today announced the addition of native support for Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and ERC20 tokens in the beta version of Trezor Wallet. These cryptocurrencies…
IN THE US IS OPENED THE FIRST COURSES FOR CRYPTO-INVESTIGATORS The American company BIG Blockchain Intelligence Group has launched a course on training experts in the investigation of crimes related to cryptocurrencies. Initially, the program was designed for law enforcement officers. BIG…
FREE COIN INCREASED BY MORE THAN 245% PER DAY Free Coin has risen sharply over the past day — according to CoinMarketcap on December 4, 22:30 GMT coin has been trading at $0.000016 (+246.34%). According to the recent reports, the cost of…
BITFINEX ADDS SUPPORT FOR LARGE STABLECOINS This Tuesday, the Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange announced that from now on, all six major stablecoins will be available on its main platform and platform Ethfinex. The company notes that the USDT token, issued by its affiliated…
BINANCE TOKENS CAN BE USED TO PAY FOR ROOMS IN 450,000 HOTELS Binance Coin (BNB) owners can now book hotel rooms in 450,000 hotels around the world using a token on the Tripio booking service blockchain platform. On 4th December blockchain platform…
EOS CRYPTOCURRENCY FELL BY 21% On Tuesday EOS cryptocurrency was trading at $2,3528 at 08:58 (05: 58 GMT), according to the Investing.com index. The coin fell up to 21.83% during the day. This was the biggest drop in the value of the…