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Cryptocurrency Virus Threatens Facebook Users, Gets Shut Down Before Causing Damage

May 3, 2018 by contributor at Altcoins, Commentary, News, Tech

The fully-digital nature of cryptocurrencies makes the asset class highly susceptible to online crimes, phishing, and the computer industry’s most dreaded threat; hacking. As the popularity of digital asset continues to grow, hackers and cyber-thieves find new, innovative methods to steal cryptocurrencies, usually without alerting the victim in any manner....

BBVA Bank Successfully Uses Blockchain Technology to Issue a Corporate Loan

May 2, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Blockchain, Business, Entertainment, Finance, News

Spain's second-largest bank, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), has reportedly started using blockchain technology, also known as a distributed ledger, to issue loans. The first such loan, worth €75 million ($91 million), was disbursed a few days ago, in April 2018. BBVA released a public announcement on April 26, 2018,...

Viola.AI Introduces REL-Registry – The World’s First Global Relationship Registry on The Blockchain

May 2, 2018 by Guest Post at Press Releases

Viola.AI, the world’s first blockchain-powered Relationship Registry and Love AI that is created by the team behind dating giant Lunch Actually Group, has introduced REL-Registy — a global and transparent relationships and marital registry. REL-Registry protects users through decentralized ID verification with visual recognition and social media accounts and hashes...

South and North Korea Unification Recorded on Ethereum Blockchain

May 2, 2018 by Pratik Makadiya at Altcoins, Blockchain, Ethereum, News, Tech

After a long time of unrest on the Korean peninsula, both Southern and Northern leaders Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un signed a peace treaty at the 2018 Inter-Korean Summit at Panmunjom on April 27, 2018. Marking the unforgettable event, a South Korean developer decided to record the Panmunjom Declaration on...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain Super Conference II: Bring Your Kids, Friends, Colleagues for Just $97 per Head

May 1, 2018 by Guest Post at Press Releases

DALLAS, TX – Organizers of the second Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain Super Conference (which is being held in September at Dallas) are running a special promotion. Attendees who reserve their spot before midnight on Sunday, May 6 will be able to add “companion” tickets for just $97 per head. Tickets...

Bitcoin Continues Rally for Third Week in a Row, Eyeing the $10,000 Mark: Week in Review May 1

May 1, 2018 by Alex Lielacher at News Digest

The crypto asset market rallied for a third straight week with the price of bitcoin gaining another six percent week-on-week to close at $9,400 on Sunday, April 29. The bulls are definitely back, and this is not only reflected in the 30 percent rally in bitcoin since the start of...

Sergey Brin Talks AI and Ethereum Mining in Annual Alphabet Founders’ Letter

May 1, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Bitcoin, Commentary, Ethereum, Tech

Alphabet President and Google co-founder Sergey Brin published the 2017 annual founders’ letter, acknowledging the roles of artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency mining in pushing the computing age forward. Alphabet Founders’ Letter 2017 Sergey Brin began the letter with a quote from Charles Dickens’ book ‘A Tale of Two Cities.’...

Etherisc to Roll Out Decentralized Insurance Application on Ethereum for Puerto Rico

April 30, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Ethereum, Finance, News

Over the years, Puerto Ricans have reportedly become frustrated with delayed and inefficient payouts from insurance companies. A new decentralized insurance application built on the Ethereum blockchain may soon change all of that though. A more transparent insurance system is perhaps the best news for the region since Hurricane Maria,...

Ethereum Co-Founder Finds Similarities between ‘Radical Markets’ and Decentralization

April 30, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Altcoins, Blockchain, Commentary, Ethereum, News

Vitalik Buterin released a new blog post on April 20, 2018, wherein he shared his thoughts on Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s book Radical Markets. The book is majorly divided into five sections, each highlighting different reforms such as self-valuation of property, quadratic voting, a new immigration program, disintegrating large...

Blossom Finance Launches a ‘Halal’ Cryptocurrency Microfinance Fund

April 29, 2018 by contributor at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Finance, News

Blossom Finance, the Indonesian consultancy which recently declared cryptocurrencies as ‘halal,’ has partnered with a local VC to launch a service targeted at Islamic investors. The fund would raise money in BTC, ETH, and BCH, and invest in socially-engaged businesses in the province of Central Java. The ‘Halal’ Venture Fund...

Ethereum-Based Decentralized Crypto Exchange Trades More Than $1 Million On First Day

Ethereum-Based Decentralized Crypto Platform Trades More Than $1 Million On First Day

April 29, 2018 by Samantha Chang at Altcoins, Ethereum, Finance, News, Tech

AirSwap, a decentralized Ethereum-based cryptocurrency platform, managed more than $1 million in transactions on its first day of operations. It’s a stellar debut for a crypto upstart with a novel approach to trading. AirSwap may be the new kid on the block(chain), but the people behind it have serious crypto...

Hodlmoon is Making a Small Fortune from ‘Ugly Crypto Sweaters’

April 28, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Ethereum, News

You may have heard of companies that turned their stocks into hot buys just by changing their name to include the word 'blockchain.' Now, a new clothing company has caught the cryptocurrency bug and is generating substantial revenues from the sale of ‘ugly' crypto-themed sweaters. Hodlers Fashion The business at...

Community Reacts to Vitalik’s April Fools Prank: Fixed Supply EIP (EIP 960) Rejected

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin to Boycott CoinDesk’s Consensus Conference

April 28, 2018 by Pratik Makadiya at Commentary, Ethereum, News

A statement by Vitalik Buterin on April 26 shows his displeasure with the online cryptocurrency news platform, CoinDesk. Buterin bashes the crypto news outlet for taking some past issues lightly while promoting competitors and scam projects, and announces a boycott of the outlet’s annual event, Consensus. CoinDesk Report Links to...

DeVere Sets $2,500 Ethereum Price Target For End Of 2018

April 27, 2018 by Samantha Chang at Commentary, Ethereum, Finance, News

While bitcoin’s price spikes continue to generate headlines, ether (ETH), the cryptocurrency underpinning Ethereum, is set to hit a record $2,500 by the end of 2018 according to consultancy deVere. Despite being down 53 percent from its highest ever peak of $1,594.89 on January 13, 2018, independent consulting firm deVere...

OKEx Cryptocurrency Exchange Suspends ERC-20 Deposits on Its Platform

April 27, 2018 by Pratik Makadiya at Altcoins, Blockchain, Ethereum, News

Following the discovery of a smart contract bug, BatchOverFlow, which allowed attackers to generate tokens and deposit them in a wallet freely, the Hong Kong-based exchange OKEx has halted all Ethereum ERC-20 transactions on their platform on April 25, 2018. BatchOverflow Bug Targets Smart Contracts The blockchain security startup PeckShield...

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