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Around The Block With Jeff and Dave – June 4, 2019 – Yahoo’s Cryptocurrency Exchange, JP Morgan and Alibaba, and the all new Ledger Nano X Reviewed. Join Us!

June 4, 2019 by Around The Block With Jeff And David at Commentary

In this episode, we review what JP Morgan and Alibaba are working on, how large enterprises are using blockchain and what this means for ICO/IEO coins. Yahoo! has also gone live with a new cryptocurrency exchange - what does this mean for the broader adoption of coins? Finally, we take...

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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Urges Cryptocurrency Traders to Use VPN

June 4, 2019 by Osato Avan-Nomayo at Commentary

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of Binance, is advising cryptocurrency traders to use virtual private networks (VPNs) to circumvent country-specific blockades while trading. CZ’s comments come amid a recent pop-up on the Binance website that some commentators incorrectly ascribed to the platform geoblocking traders from specific countries including the U.S....

Cobinhood Founder Dismisses Exit Scams Allegations

June 1, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Commentary

On May 29, 2019, Popo Chen, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Cobinhood cleared the air surrounding the trading platform in stating that reports of the exchange filing for bankruptcy or pulling an exit scam were false. A Series of Unfortunate Events On May 21, 2019, based on Twitter user @SandorReport’s...

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Bitcoin-Based Smart Contracts Platform Adds “Third Layer” Scaling Solution

May 22, 2019 by Liam J Kelly at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, Development

RIF Labs officially launched their Bitcoin scaling solution at Consensus 2019. The RIF Lumino Network is comparable to the Lightning Network in its scalability potential, but as it’s built on top of the RSK protocol, there are many differences. RIF Labs CEO Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar walked through these differences as...

U.S.: Decision on VanEck Bitcoin ETF Delayed Again

May 21, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News, Regulation

The wait for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) continues to drag as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 20, 2019, again delayed deciding on a Bitcoin ETF proposal by the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust. SEC Taking its Time In its official notice, the SEC wrote that it...

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Payments Platform BitPay Hints at Adding a Top Five Cryptocurrency

May 20, 2019 by Liam J Kelly at Adoption, Altcoins, Business, Commentary, Event Coverage

The blockchain payments platform BitPay has added a new member to help continue growing its business. In a May 7, 2019, press release, the company announced that Glen Braganza, formerly of WorldPay, would join BitPay’s operations as their Chief Financial Officer. Beyond that, Rolf Haag, head of BitPay’s business solutions,...

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Blockstream Satellites Could Prevent Bitcoin Forks, says Blockstream CSO

May 20, 2019 by Mohammad Musharraf at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, News

During an episode of the Keiser Report, a discussion hosted by Max Keiser, streamed on May 17, 2019, the Chief Strategy Officer of Blockstream, Samson Mow, declared that their satellite in the geosynchronous orbit broadcasting the Bitcoin blockchain could prevent network splits. Keeping the World in Sync The Blockstream Satellite...

Cornell Computer Science Professor Looks to Launch a Crypto Token

May 18, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Adoption, Blockchain, Commentary, News

According to a Bloomberg report published May 16, 2019, a computer science professor from Cornell University, Emin Gun Sirer, is set to launch a cryptocurrency and blockchain network with financial backing from some of the most prominent VC firms in the tech industry. Ava Network to Tackle the Blockchain Scalability...

Survey: 18 Percent of Americans Will Invest in Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

May 17, 2019 by Mohammad Musharraf at Adoption, Altcoins, Commentary, News

A small scale survey conducted by LendEDU found that seven percent of Americans had previously invested in digital currencies while 18 percent of them showed interest in investing in Facebook’s cryptocurrency. The detailed results were published on LendEDU’s official website on May 16, 2019. Investors Trust in the Facebook Brand...

Blockchains that Neglect their Social Contracts Will Likely Fail

May 16, 2019 by Liam J Kelly at Blockchain, Commentary

It’s likely that there won’t be one blockchain to rule them all, and betting on which handful will survive is sure to have a huge bounty for whoever guesses correctly. Thus, establishing a metric instead of blindly throwing money at the top ten projects on CoinMarketCap has in itself become...

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