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2100NEWS Promotes Responsible Reporting
Responsible reporting is important to us. Facebook announced yesterday that they will no longer allow promotion of ICO projects. They feel their ads pose a high risk of being misleading or deceptive. At 2100NEWS we foresaw this issue long ago. We recognised that while cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology hold great promise for the future, they […]
SQUEEZER – REVOLUTIONIZING APPS DEVELOPMENT WITH BLOCKCHAIN
Imporant aspect of blockchain aside cryptocurrency is creating secure applications which store data on the blockchain cluster. Squeezer is the world’s first software development platform that’s blockchain oriented and it helps software developers to build apps easily without tackling the entire blockchain infrastructure . It is also a powerful tool to provide high quality blockchain software […]
NEO, China’s Largest Cryptocurrency, invests almost $3M in the PikcioChain
From a Lausanne, Switzerland: came news of a new major partnership announcement. Pikcio AG, the creator of PikcioChain, has announced that NEO Council has already purchased for $3M PKC tokens which were made available during the PikcioChain pre-ICO. This significant investment shows NEOs confidence in PikcioChain technology, the utility of its PKC tokens and its […]
Facebook bans ICO advertising
Facebook bans ICO advertising Facebook has taken a very anti-ICO stance by calling them “misleading and deceptive” and banning their promotion on its platform. Is it just coincidence that this policy change comes shortly after Facebook CEO announced plans to research how they could leverage the blockchain technology themselves? Conspiracy theories aside, here’s what […]
Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin, Says US Govt Standards Agency NIST
“Technically, Bitcoin is a fork and Bitcoin Cash is the original blockchain,” according to a draft report on blockchain technology by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) The controversial statement appeared in a draft document titled “NISTIR 8202 – Blockchain Technology Overview” It attempts to set a clear definition of what blockchain technology […]
The Lightning Network goes on BTC Mainnet
The Lightning Network is a proposed scaling solution that may help cure the bitcoin core protocol’s transaction congestion and rising fees. The idea is to enable off-chain transactions and micropayments through a peer-to-peer network of bidirectional payment channels. Over the past six months there’s been a lot of testing using test-BTC. But lately, there’s been […]
Bullish signs in cryptocurrency market
Bullish signs in cryptocurrency market The cryptocurrency market has continued to recover at a rapid rate over the past 24 hours, as several major cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum recorded major gains. Ethereum is on a roll In particular, Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, demonstrated a staggering 15 percent increase in […]
IS cryptoworld going mainstream?
IS cryptoworld going mainstream? A race might be on as merchants try to gain a competitive advantage through far lower fees and by opening themselves to a new half a trillion global crypto market. Starbucks opened the firing shot, with its chairman, Howard Schultz, making it clear the world is going the crypto way. He said: […]
Why the Chinese Crypto trading Ban is Ineffective
When the Chinese government banned crypto-currency exchanges in September of last year the effect was fairly large, but also very short lived. So how did the Chinese crypto-enthusiasts get around the trading ban? Why is Chinese Crypto trading Ban ineffective? In the aftermath of the Chinese crypto-trading ban, the largest Chinese crypto-currency exchanges underwent minor […]
Is Bear turning Bull?
Last month, most of the bitcoin futures contracts were bearish as traders forecasted a downtrend in value of Bitcoin. However, according to recent data, current futures are mostly betting ‘long’ on bitcoin’s price — predicting that BTC’s value will be rising shortly. Bull and bear The introduction of Bitcoin linked futures contracts brought a lot […]