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Facebook Heavily Criticized in Congressional Hearing, Zuckerberg Evades Specific Questions

Why the U.S. Federal Reserve May Never Green-Light Facebook’s Libra

December 19, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

The United States Federal Reserve Governor, Lael Brainard has highlighted the major reasons why the nation’s financial authorities still feel reluctant to greenlight Facebook’s Libra global stablecoin project. Speaking during a central bank conference in Frankfurt Germany, Brainard hinted that regulators are concerned that Libra could gain global adoption within...

European Central Bank Explores Anonymous Transactions With CBDCs

December 19, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

As part of a knowledge enriching proof of concept, the European Central Bank (ECB) studied the viability of anonymous transactions by implementing such a feature on its DLT based CBDC, which is strictly for research purposes at the moment. This experiment offered more clarity on the direction CBDCs could take...

Governance and Anti-Fragility are Key to Robust Decentralized Systems, and Synthetix Intends to Stand Out

December 19, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

A prolonged debate in the space is that of whether decentralization is a spectrum or an absolute state. That is, can a system have different degrees of decentralization or is it simply just a binary function of ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Synthetix, one of the largest dApps on Ethereum, believes that...

Bitcoin and Ether Market Update: December 19, 2019

December 19, 2019 by Georgi Hristov at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency Market Outlook, Ethereum, News, News Digest, Price Analysis, Price pages

Total crypto market cap lost $2.3 billion of its value since the morning of Monday, December 16 and now stands at $190.7 billion. Top ten coins are all in green for the last 24 hours with EOS (EOS) and Bitcoin (BTC) being the best performers with 9.4 and 7.3 percent...

TRON’s (TRX) Justin Sun Donates $1M to Climate Change Activist

December 18, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Justin Sun, the founder of the TRON (TRX) distributed ledger technology (DLT) project and CEO of BitTorrent, has pledged to donate the sum of $1 million to Greta Thunberg's climate change initiative, according to a tweet on December 18, 2019. Sun Fights against Global Warming Justin Sun, the high flying...

Justin Sun Announces Beta-Testing of TRON Shielded Transactions

December 18, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins

On December 17, 2019, decentralized web blockchain project TRON CEO Justin Sun, tweeted that the initiative is set to beta-test its shielded transactions which hide the sender and receiver’s addresses, transaction input and output, and the amount transacted. TRON Jumping on the Privacy Bandwagon Despite global authorities showing apprehension toward...

NEM: Catapult Migration and Tokenomics Proposal Voting Guide

December 17, 2019 by Guest Post at Altcoins

How to Vote Voting will take place on the NEM public chain using the NEM Wallet (the newest NEM Wallet version can be found at https://nem.io/downloads/). Step 1 Download the latest version of the NEM Wallet at the NEM.io website or the NEM Github page. You will need...

Summary of Catapult Migration and Tokenomics Proposal For NEM Community POI Vote

December 17, 2019 by Guest Post at Altcoins

VOTING AND TOKENOMICS PROPOSAL LAUNCH On December 16, 2019 at 3:00 PM PST (December 17, 2019 at 8:00 AM, UTC+9) there will be a POI vote on the proposed data migration process and tokenomics. It will be a yes/no vote on the combined items summarized below. Data and Token Migration...

DAI Savings Rate Makes Exchange Debut as Maker Partners with OKEx

December 17, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

Maker Protocol's internal savings product is set to be integrated on the OKEx platform in order to bring stable value accretion to the Asian market. Set to go live on December 23, the DAI Savings Rate (DSR) enables a trustless way to secure one's wealth without the pitfalls of volatility....

Sweden’s Central bank Partners Up With Accenture to Launch E-Krona

Sweden’s Central bank Partners With Accenture to Launch E-Krona

December 17, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

The Swedish central bank announced that Accenture, an Irish-domiciled multinational professional services company, will be its technology partner to create a pilot platform for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as the e-krona. The news was released by all-stocks.net on December 16. Sweden: Cashless Society and Digital Transformation Sweden is...

SIBEX and Paxos to Facilitate Gold Trading Across a Blockchain

December 16, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

SIBEX a crypto liquidity provider is partnering with New York-based cryptocurrency company Paxos in order to improve peer-to-peer (P2P) over the counter (OTC) trading for physical gold. The news was released by enterprise times on December 16. Improving Gold Liquidity SIBEX is the creator of a P2P protocol that allows...

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IOTA Launch Hackathon to Promote Adoption of Its Industry Marketplace

December 13, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

IOTA (MIOTA) a distributed ledger technology (DLT) project for internet things (IoT) has joined forces with [email protected] to launch the Industry Marketplace Hackathon. The duo is calling on developers to create innovative solutions on the Industry Marketplace 4.0 using both IOTA and [email protected] hardware, according to a blog post on...

Orchid (OXT) Now Live on Coinbase Pro Exchange

December 13, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Orchid (OXT), the native altcoin of Orchid Labs, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) project that’s focused on building highly secure custom virtual private networks (VPNs) for users is now live on Coinbase Pro cryptocurrency exchange, according to a blog post on December 12, 2019. Orchid (OXT) Meets Coinbase's High Standards...

Stellar 2019 Tezos (XTZ) Performance Could Shoot Token into Top-10 Ranking

December 12, 2019 by Anthonia Isichei at Altcoins

After a stellar 2019 performance, Tezos (XTZ) appears set to upstage Stellar (XLM) and break into the top-10 crypto rankings based on market capitalization. Meanwhile, Kraken has joined other crypto exchanges in launching XTZ staking promising returns of up to six percent. XTZ Looking to Upstage XLM According to data...

Enjin (ENJ), ICON (ICX) Lands Price-Boosting Listing on Binance.US

December 12, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins

In a blog post published on December 12, 2019, Binance cryptocurrency exchange’s U.S. arm – Binance.US – announced that it will be listing Enjin (ENJ) and ICON (ICX) digital tokens. Binance.US Adds ENJ and ICX Support Binance.US, the U.S.-centric arm of Maltese crypto exchange Binance now allows its users to...

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