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Bitcoin Friendly Signature Bank Offers Clients Superfast Payments Services

January 7, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain

Signature Bank, a bitcoin (BTC)-friendly New York-based full-service commercial bank founded in 2001, has joined forces with Prime Trust, a Nevada-based tech-driven financial institution that claims to be focused on providing dependable infrastructure solutions for the digital economy. The alliance will enable both organizations to leverage each other’s technologies to...

Taiwanese Startup Unveils Solution to Bridge IoT and DLT

January 6, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain

International Trust Machines Corporation (ITM), a Taiwan-based startup that claims to be focused on empowering Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices with blockchain capabilities and make it easier for businesses to adopt distributed ledger technology (DLT), has joined forces with Microsoft and Qualcomm to launch a solution aimed at boosting the performance and...

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Crypto Enthusiast Launches Pro-Ethereum Blog to Educate the Masses

January 6, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Ethereum

Udi Wertheimer, a diehard crypto enthusiast and coder has launched Buterin.org, an online crypto publication designed to promote all-things Ethereum, the underlying blockchain technology and altcoins. Making Ethereum Great Again Barely a week after the launch of Nakamoto.com, a platform whose creators claim is a pro-Bitcoin site focused on publishing...

Zcoin (XZC) Enhancing Privacy with Receiver Address Privacy (RAP) Feature

December 31, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Decentralized privacy-centric altcoin, Zcoin (XZC) is about to become the first distributed ledger technology (DLT) to integrate the Receiver Address Privacy (RAP) feature into its desktop wallet, thereby enabling users to publicly share a single permanent wallet address without compromising their privacy, according to a press release on December 31,...

Coinbase Wallet may Soon Remove the dApp Browsing Feature

December 30, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain

Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange is contemplating the removal of the decentralized applications (dApps) browsing feature on its mobile cryptocurrency wallet, Coinbase Wallet. The San Francisco-based company's move is in a bid to comply with Apple's App Store policy, according to a Finance Magnates reports, December 30, 2019. Coinbase Wallet Removes dApp...

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Huobi Indonesia now Facilitating Rupiah (IDR) to Tether (USDT) Trades

December 30, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Huobi Indonesia, a local partner of global cryptocurrency exchange Huobi Global has launched a fiat-to-crypto trading gateway that will enable the direct trade of Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) to Tether (USDT), and also grant the exchange's local customers access to over 250 cryptocurrencies supported by the platform, reports Coinpedia on December 30,...

YouTube Claims it Deleted Bitcoin Videos in Error

December 27, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

Carl from The Moon (@themooncarl), a crypto-YouTuber revealed that the world's largest video-sharing website YouTube has made an official response after wilfully taking down his crypto-related videos. Nonetheless, @themooncarl says he can never trust centralized platforms again, instead, he will move his audience to a decentralized and censorship-resistant ecosystem, according...

YouTube Launches Attack on Bitcoin, Allegedly Deleting Crypto-Linked Content

December 24, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

Chris Dunn (@ChrisDunnTV), Chico Crypto (@ChicoCrypto), and BTC Sessions (@BTCsess), three popular YouTubers that have been creating highly informative and educating Bitcoin (BTC) related content on YouTube for several years now, have taken to Twitter to lament that the platform is now flagging their content, labeling it as “harmful and...

TRON (TRX) dApp Just.Game Breaks 430M TRX Volume Within Six Hours of Launch

December 23, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Just.game, a new blockchain game on the TRON Smart Contracts blockchain platform gained a massive transaction volume of over 430 million TRON (TRX) within six hours after its official launch. The game also had the highest 24-hour volume of all TRON decentralized apps (dApps), according to a tweet by the...

Japan’s GMO Internet to Roll Out Yen-Backed Stablecoin in Q1 2020

December 23, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

GMO Internet, Japan’s information technology heavyweight and bitcoin (BTC) trading service provider, has announced that it's now putting the finishing touches to its yen-pegged stablecoin dubbed GMO Japanese Yen (GYEN), alongside its proprietary distributed ledger technology (DLT) network which is slated to go live in Q1 2020, according to a...

IOTA (MIOTA) Launches Experimental Crypto Wallet Dubbed ‘Spark’

December 20, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

The IOTA (MIOTA) team has launched the Spark wallet via IOTA Labs. Spark is a low-security, temporary web wallet designed to hold only small amounts of funds for a very short period. In addition, the IOTA team has also released the project’s 2020 roadmap, according to a blog post on...

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U.S. Congress Introduces a New Crypto Bill to Foster Regulatory Clarity

December 20, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

The United States Congress is introducing the Crypto-Currency Act of 2020, to put in place a sweeping regulatory framework for cryptoassets and to clearly outline the responsibilities of each federal financial regulator in the country, while also mandating these agencies to guide the public on how to participate in the...

Top Slovenian University Unveils Blockchain-Powered Christmas Tree

December 20, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Blockchain developers at the University of Ljubljana, the largest and oldest university in Slovenia, have created a distributed ledger technology (DLT) powered Christmas tree that allows anyone to control the color of its lights by sending Ethereum donations, reports Decrypt on December 19, 2019. Xmas Trees on the Ethereum Blockchain...

Hackers Using Taylor Swift Image to Embed Monero (XMR) Miner

December 19, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Bad actors are now embedding the MyKings Monero (XMR) mining botnet in JPEG images of popular singer, Taylor Swift, in a bid to cover their cryptojacking activities on their hosts’ computers, according to a ZDNet report on December 19, 2019. MyKings Monero (XMR) Miner on Rampage In a bid to...

EY Upgrades Its ZKP Technology to Boost Ethereum’s Scalability & Reduce Costs

December 19, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain

Ernst & Young (EY), one of the largest professional services firms in the world has announced the release of its third generation zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) technology to the public domain of the Ethereum blockchain. The firm aims to significantly reduce transaction costs on the network while also boosting scalability, according...