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Visa Cuts WaveCrest
Many users who have been looking forward to spending their newfound cryptocurrency based fortunes via a Visa backed debit card such as CryptoPay, Bitwala, TenX, Wirex and others, will be very disappointed to learn that they won’t be buying coffee with their crypto anytime soon. Cryptocurrency debit cards using the company called WaveCrest, have ceased […]
Why Ripple is against everything true Crypto community stands for.
Early innovators and investors, saw the technology behind Bitcoin as a global evolution of how we manage our wealth and conduct business, in the day to day lives. This technology called blockchain is greater than invention of the centralized internet because it is decentralized. Blockchains are politically decentralized (no one controls them) and architecturally decentralized (no infrastructural central point […]
What will crypto-currencies bring in 2018?
2017 was full of gains in crypto-currencies and many investors who stepped into crypto-trading made massive profits. Based on that we expect very interesting things in 2018. We believe that the volatility of the crypto-currency market will increase even more in 2018, as the rapid capitalization growth of late 2017 will attract even more retail […]
Will Tron take the throne?
TRON blockchain is designed to overcome the traditional internet by creating a free content entertainment system. It aims to make the payment, storage, development and credit sharing easy for entertainment enthusiasts. And it enables a person in one continent to purchase live entertainment from another continent. It helps overcome the traditional payment obstacles such as […]
Ripple rips past $3
Ripple continues to defy odds as it blasts past $3 and now has a market cap of over half that of bitcoin. At the time of writing this article, the value of each one of 38,739,144,847 premined XRPs is $3.75, giving it a market cap of $145,104,440,071. This places it firmly in the 2nd spot and […]
Cryptocurrency Influencers May Be Aiding Pump and Dumps
Cryptocurrency influencers on websites like YouTube and Twitter, hold a lot of sway over their audiences and must be very tempted to use it for their own gain or to sell it on to third parties. A simple mention of a coin can send prices soaring hundreds of percent in a single day. What’s to […]
Belarus Legalizes Cryptocurrencies and ICOs
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has signed the decree “On the Development of Digital Economy”. This gives the crypto-economy in Belarus a very welcome, official green light. Cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings (ICOs), and smart contracts are now fully legal in the state and all crypto transactions and related income, including from mining, will be […]
South Korea Steps Up Inspections
Given the popularity of crypto-currencies in South Korea and following the recent Youbit exchange hack; South Korean regulators have been beefing up their inspection efforts. More than a dozen bitcoin exchanges have received onsite inspections to determine whether they are compliant with regulations governing cryptocurrency trading. The inspectors were not pleased by what they found. […]
SegWit2x Hard Fork Launches Today
We are about 5 hours away from block No. 501451, when the new version of the dreaded SegWit2x hard fork will launch. It will join Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond and Super Bitcoin as the 5th Bitcoin fork of 2017. This new version has very little, if anything, to do with the original SegWit2x […]
Bitcoin Predicted By ‘The Economist’ In 1988?
At the beginning of 1988, this appears an outlandish prediction. The Economist published a prediction of a world currency and its front cover contained an image of a gold coin around the neck of a phoenix that looks suspiciously like Bitcoin’s logo – the date on the coin is 2018! Predicting a ‘one world currency’ is not […]