About Author: Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel

Indian Bank Set to Adopt Ripple for Cross-Border Payments

August 4, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Business, Finance, News

While India remains a no-go area for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Ripple Labs, the developer of XRP, is busy making inroads into the Asian nation, as per a report on August 2, 2018. Ripples Everywhere According to an FXStreet, the State Bank of India (SBI), the country's institutional banking authority, is set...

Hedera Hashgraph Raises $100 Million for its Highly Functional Distributed Ledger Technology Project

Hedera Hashgraph Raises $100 Million; Seeking Another $20 Million via Crowdsale

August 4, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Blockchain, ICO/IEO, News, Regulation

The Hedera Hashgraph alternative blockchain platform has successfully raised $100 million through a future token sale targeted at institutional investors. As first reported by VentureBeat on August 1, 2018, the Hedera Hashgraph team is primed to use the funds to develop a new distributed public ledger that would be faster, more...

CreditCoin: 44% of U.S. Residents Find it a Herculean Task Purchasing Cryptocurrency

August 4, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Ethereum, Finance, News

The result of the latest survey by CreditCoin released this summer has shown that a vast array of prospective digital currency investors do not own cryptoassets because they find the purchasing process quite complicated. Roughly 40 Percent Millennials in U.S. Own Cryptos According to the CreditCoin survey of 1,000 consumers...

Cryptocurrency Startup TravelbyBit Receives $100,000 Grant from Australian Government

August 3, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Investment, News

TravelbyBit, a cryptocurrency payments firm that makes it easy for tourists to pay with digital currencies such as bitcoin is among the 70 startups given grants by the government of Queensland, Australia, as announced on August 1, 2018, by Innovation Minister Kate Jones. The new funds would enable the firm to scale...

Founders of Shinil Group Investigated by South Korean Police for Cryptocurrency Scam

August 3, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Crime, News

Korean law enforcement agents are now pointing their searchlight into the operations of Shinil Group, a firm that claimed to have found more than $100 billion worth of gold in a sunken Russian shipwreck. The firm then lured investors into buying its Shinil Gold Coin, promising them huge rewards in...

U.S. Prosecutors Take Down $722 Million Ponzi Scheme

Bostonian Nabbed for Stealing Millions in Bitcoin via SIM Swapping

August 1, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Crime, News

California investigators have arrested Joel Ortiz, a 20-year old college student who is a key suspect in the phone jacking and SIM swapping operation that saw more than 40 bitcoin and other cryptocurrency holders lose their cryptoassets. Victims included attendees present at the Consensus blockchain conference. Where's the Bitcoin? Per...

Blockchain, Fintech, and AI Companies Join the Linux Foundation Open Source Initiative

August 1, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain, Business, News, Tech

Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating highly functional open source projects for the good of humanity, has announced on July 30, 2018, the successful addition of twenty-two organizations, including blockchain, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, to augment its open source software offering. A Robust Open Source Ecosystem Since the year...

Malaysian Electricity Authority Nab Illegal Bitcoin Miners

No more Electricity Supply to Bitcoin Miners for now – Franklin PUD

August 1, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Mining, News

Franklin Public Utility District (PUD), local electricity providers in the rural areas of Franklin County, Washington, announced on July 29, 2018, that they will suspend the supply of electricity to bitcoin miners in the city till further notice, in order to review the impact of bitcoin mining operations on the...

Cryptocurrency Wallet SafeWallet Introduces Alternative to Private Keys and Mnemonic Phrases

July 30, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain, News, Tech, wallet

In a bid to entirely eradicate the issues of loss, theft and other challenges that comes with crypto wallet private keys and mnemonic phrases, SafeWallet has introduced a new system of wallet security that enables users recover their digital currencies with just their QR code based user IDs and preset...

South Carolina Regulators “Unban” ShipChain Blockchain Project

July 30, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain, News, Regulation

In a significant triumph for the ShipChain supply chain blockchain project, authorities in South Carolina have on July 26, 2018, vacated the cease-and-desist order hammered on the project earlier in May 2018. The South Carolina Securities Commissioner had no choice but to lift the ban after results of its investigations...

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