Bithumb, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in South Korea, in the foreseeable future, may begin to offer services to residents of the United States and Japan. About this in an interview with Cointelegraph said BC Kim, CEO of the Blockchain Exchange Alliance (BXA), which owns the controlling package in Bithumb. According to him, the BXA strategy consists in the so-called reverse merger, involving the purchase of a company whose shares are already […]
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Blockchain will become the main technology for the work of American civil and military government agencies. The US federal government intends to increase spending on the blockchain 10 times – such data is contained in the report IDC Government Insights. According to the authors of the study, the amount of spending on this direction will increase to $ 123.5 million by the end of 2021, while in 2017 only funds worth $ 10.7 million were allocated. It is also expected that spending on the implementation of distributed registry technology will also grow at the state and municipal level: in total,…
According to analysts from the Adamant Capital cryptocurrency fund, the price of Bitcoin has really gone through the bottom, and the accumulation stage is now taking place – the first stage of the future bull market, when shrewd investors start preparing for the next rally. Moreover, say the authors of the report Tuur Demeester and Michael Leskrauvet, the general investor sentiment has changed from despair to hope. In support of this statement […]
Russian commodity companies have appealed to the State Duma and the Central Bank with a proposal to implement in the country the concept of steylcoin – cryptocurrency , the value of which is tied to real assets. This was announced by the head of the Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, during a plenary session at the Yalta International Economic Forum. Aksakov told : “Serious Russian resource companies have turned to us in the State Duma, to the Central Bank with a proposal to implement the idea of steyblockcoins – these are cryptotools based on a real asset.…
The internal token of the Binance exchange has grown by more than 15% over the past 24 hours and rose on Saturday, April 20, above $ 25, thereby updating the historical maximum relative to the USD. Also, the price of BNB has risen to record levels against BTC – at some point 0.00479217 BTC was offered for a token. The previous historical maximum of the BNB token was recorded 12 […]
The popular cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex has announced the beginning of support for the stablebcoin USDT, produced on the Tron blockchain (TRX). Poloniex will support USDT on the Tron network and extend the airdrop to customers @Tronfoundation https://t.co/DE1klTl1we – Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) April 19, 2019 Poloniex's statement says that the decision to list Tron-USDT is due to the enhanced flexibility that this token gives […]
The Central Bank of Russia examined the potential advantages and disadvantages of digital currencies of the central bank. Digital currency of the Central Bank is a digital currency issued by the central bank, which has the status of legal tender in the country and other properties of centralized, fiat money. Cryptocurrencies from central banks (CBDC) can become “the least risky and most liquid asset available to a wide range of people,” the Russian Central Bank believes. The financial regulator presented the report “Does the digital currency of central banks have a future?” Experts say that a new kind of assets…
Since the addition of the cryptograph to the newest Galaxy S10, the South Korean electronics maker Samsung, along with Elron and Benson Oak Ventures, has become one of the investors in the new cryptograph of ZenGo. After attracting an amount of $ 4 million from several investors, a new cryptographic card with a simple and easy-to-use interface is already preparing for launch. What is the difference between a new wallet and other solutions on the market? First of all, it includes a unique cryptographic protocol, which makes the process of recording a private key and its secure storage unnecessary, which…
Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange officially announced the launch of the main network of its own blockchain Binance Chain. “Binance Chain launches the main network and plans to implement the tokens on April 23,” the exchange writes, noting that all the dates it specifies are indicative and may change depending on the specific conditions. The initial issue of the native token blockchain Binance Chain will be 200 000 000 BEP2-BNB. 11,654,398 BNBs of the new format will be destroyed, and 48,000,000 – frozen, which corresponds to the number of BNBs on the Ethereum blockchain , which have undergone the same operations. The…
The operator of the same name blockchain platform tZERO, a subsidiary of the retail giant Overstock, was unable to raise $ 100 million from Chinese investment firm GSR Capital and Singapore direct investment fund Makara Capital on time. This platform reported in a letter to shareholders. According to Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock, the parties have not yet been able to conclude a final deal, although "negotiations with companies are proceeding smoothly." Summer […]