Gabrijel Šerjak, Author at 2100 NEWS

Ontology Airdrop to NEO holders

March 1, 2018 0 0

The NEO Council manages 10% of ONT tokens and has decided to airdrop 20,000,000 of these tokens to NEO holders. This is both a gift to the community and an effort to support a joint ecosystem. The council will airdrop the tokens in two phases using the same snapshot. The first phase of the Airdrop […]

Waltonchain rigged the giveaway on Valentine’s?

March 1, 2018 0 0

Waltonchain shoots themselves in the knee, with Valentine’s giveaway contest, yesterday when they announced the winners of the contest. One of the employees who managed their Twitter account accidentally tweeted on their official account to thank them for winning. This makes it appear as if Walton rigged this giveaway. Giving the community benefit of the doubt, […]

LitePay Delay the Release of Visa Card

February 28, 2018 0 0

Litecoin’s market value increased when they announced LitePay and Litecoin Visa card. Since then the decision to withdraw the card was announced on Twitter. The creators of Litecoin blamed the ‘hostile actions’ taken by card companies towards cryptocurrencies. Earlier in the year, some card issuers pulled their backing from established cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. It seems […]

Bill Gates thinks cryptocurrencies used for buying drugs

February 28, 2018 0 0

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Microsoft stated on Reddit cryptocurrencies are “a rare technology that has caused deaths in a fairly direct way” during an “Ask Me Anything” session. Gates wrote: “The main feature of crypto currencies is their anonymity. I don’t think this is a good thing. The Government’s ability […]

Poloniex Has Been Bought by Circle company backed by Goldman Sachs

February 27, 2018 0 0

Internet Financial, a mobile payments company Circle had bought major US-based cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex for $400 mln. Poloniex ranked as the 14th largest crypto exchange by CoinMarketCap.com. It says on its website that the U.S.-based company was formed in January 2014 by Tristan D’Agosta Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Who is Circle and why did they buy Poloniex ? One […]

Porsche has successfully tested and implemented blockchain in their cars

February 27, 2018 0 0

Porsche has become the first automobile manufacturer to successfully tested and implemented blockchain in their cars. After developing and testing applications over the past three months, the German automobile manufacturer has introduced blockchain technology into the Porsche Panamera. The Ethereum-based blockchain applications successfully tested so far include locking and unlocking the vehicle using a decentralized […]

Brussels bank closes cryptocurrency traders bank account

February 27, 2018 0 0

Belfius headquartered in Brussels, Belgium is the latest bank alleged to target individual cryptocurrency traders. On the 24th of February, a cryptocurrency trader uploaded a post on a cryptocurrency Facebook group showing a received letter. He claims is coming from the bank giving him a 2 months’ notice to close his bank account. A cryptocurrency trader […]

Are Banks afraid of cryptocurrencies?

February 26, 2018 0 1

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are getting more and more recognition and adoption. People are pouring their life savings and banks saving in cryptomarket. This started to crumble the whole foundation of the modern banking system. That is why banks are starting to consider cryptocurrency a material risk to its business. Bank of America posted an annual filing in Edgar with the […]

Multifunctional Blockchain Platform Paymon is lunching an ICO

February 19, 2018 0 2

Paymon is a Multifunctional Blockchain Platform that includes several innovative products, such as Atomic swaps, Smart contracts, DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph, which is a better, improved version of the Blockchain (IOTA uses it)) called Hive. The main idea of the Hive is the following: to issue a transaction, users must work to approve other transactions. Therefore, users who […]

Lisk Rebranding Comming next Week

February 14, 2018 0 1

A Brief History of Lisk Lisk was born when it forked away from Crypti in early 2016, and since its inception, there has been some confusion as to what exactly it is and what it’s for. There are various reasons for this – early advertising tactics to various crypto communities, being a little bit slow to release […]