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Japanese Crypto Firm Snaps up a Deutsche Bank Heavyweight for Strategist Role

September 4, 2018 0 0

Japanese crypto firm FXcoin has recruited Deutsch Bank’s former foreign-exchange dealer, Yasuo Matsuda as a senior strategist for the cryptocurrency startup. According to Business Times. the Japanese cryptocurrency startup which was founded by Deutsch Bank AG veteran, Tomoo Oshi, hired the alumnus of the German lender to furnish the startup with daily reports on market speculations […]

Alibaba Has Filed for over 10% of the World’s Blockchain Patents: Research

September 4, 2018 0 0

China’s ongoing drive to dominate the emerging global blockchain technology sector has been underlined by news that Alibaba Group Holding alone filed more than 10 percent of all blockchain patents worldwide in 2017. Intellectual Property Rights Arms Race Research by Thomson Reuters shows that 56 percent of all 406 blockchain patents issued around the world in 2017 […]

Tom Lee: Bitcoin to Hit $20k in 2018 Despite Struggle of Emerging Markets

September 3, 2018 0 0

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, a Bitcoin permabull known for his optimistic price targets for the dominant cryptocurrency, has said that Bitcoin will likely end the year explosively higher possibly at $20,000. In an interview with CNBC, Lee stated that over the past year, Bitcoin, which has failed to show a correlation with the broader financial market […]

Korean Entertainment Project Taps Ethereum Blockchain in K-Pop Idol Search

September 3, 2018 0 0

Z-POP Dream Project, a South Korea based entertainment provider, plans to use blockchain technology to find the next K-pop talent and develop a new entertainment platform. K-pop is a form of South Korean popular music. CEO Jun Kang, who played a key role in creating the company, wants to build a global entertainment ecosystem to support and […]

Bitcoin Price Intraday Analysis: BTC/USD Surges Towards Wedge Resistance

September 3, 2018 0 0

Bitcoin price on Sunday continued to stick to its uptrend path, recording as much as 4 percent gains against the US Dollar. The BTC/USD began the Asian trading session with a small upside push in continuation of the overall bullish momentum. As the day progressed, there was visibly a weaker selling sentiment towards the interim […]

The $257 Million Cryptocurrency that Wants to Upend Cloud Data Storage is Almost Ready to Go Live

September 2, 2018 0 0

Filecoin, a decentralized storage network that turns cloud storage into an algorithmic market monetized through cryptocurrency, has announced that it will go public within the coming months. Filecoin prepares for liftoff This announcement is contained in a blog post by the company, in which it stated that, having passed the critical period when it needed to have […]

Global Bitcoin ATM Market to be Worth $145 Million by 2023: Report

September 2, 2018 0 0

As cryptocurrency awareness and adoption grows, the bitcoin ATM market is forecast to expand at a CAGR of over 50% in a five-year period. This is according to a study conducted by business-to-business research firm MarketsandMarkets indicating that the cryptocurrency ATM market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 54.7% between 2018 and 2023. Consequently, […]

Clear-Headed Response to Crypto ETF Rejections Drove Bitcoin Price to $7,100: Analyst

September 2, 2018 0 0

What’s behind the recent bitcoin rally price to $7,100? Michael Moro, CEO of Genesis Trading and Genesis Capital, thinks the market’s stable reaction to the SEC’s ETF rejections last week played a big role. Interviewed on CNBC, Moro noted that the selloff that has greeted SEC rejections in the past did not materialize. The important question now, he said, […]

Opinion: Bitcoin, not the Blockchain

September 1, 2018 0 0

I’ve been waiting a while before writing this one, as I wanted to capture the essence of why so many people confuse blockchain with distributed ledger technology. My goal, today, is not to call-out “crypto-experts” for propagating (pun intended) misinformation, but to explain to every single one of you why understanding the proper definition of blockchain and […]

Craig Wright Releases ‘Satoshi Vision’ Bitcoin Cash Client, Launches Mining Pool

September 1, 2018 0 0

Despite multiple attempts at breaking the standoff through a compromise, the war over “Satoshi’s original ‘original vision’” continues to intensify within the Bitcoin Cash technical community, as the fourth-largest cryptocurrency hurtles toward a potential blockchain split in November. nChain Releases Alpha Version of SV Client The latest move in this $9 billion chess game comes […]