Back to the indicators of 2017 at the level of $ 20,000, Bitcoin will be able not earlier than in 10-11 years. However, for this cryptocurrency should begin to use millions of people. This was stated by the founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, writes Cointelegraph . According to the entrepreneur, institutional investors who are interested in complex trading strategies and tools will be able to give impetus to the development of a Bitcoin ecosystem. “Digital money developers should present a well-thought-out roadmap to major players, since Wall Street has long been looking for new derivatives, options, short sales for investment,…
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The Hyperledger consortium introduced the Grid framework for developers of blockchain supply chain solutions. We are excited to announce the Hyperledger Grid, a supply chain solutions! This will make it possible to use a framework for cross-industry supply chain scenarios. https://t.co/zH9upkNvaQ pic.twitter.com/EZWB13HAXy – Hyperledger (@Hyperledger) January 22, 2019 The initiative has already been supported by Cargill, Intel and Bitwise IO. Previously, the Hyperledger technical steering committee approved the Ursa project, a modular cryptographic library for solution developers based on distributed registry technology. Subscribe to the BlockchainJournal news in Telegram: BlockchainJournal Live – the entire news feed, BlockchainJournal – the most…
network monitoring portal Augur, a protocol-based veil trading platform operator for creating peer-to-peer prediction markets, Augur, has acquired Predictions.Global web portal. The deal took place a few months ago, The Block said. Note that the Predictions.Global user interface allows users to easily track bids and prices in Augur markets. It is noteworthy that not all of the top management of Predictions.Global will join Veil. Recall that the launch of Veil took place on January 15 and provoked a sharp increase in the price of REP tokens. Subscribe to the BlockchainJournal news in Telegram: BlockchainJournal Live – the entire news feed,…
According to the biggest TRON fans on Twitter, the popular network, which Bloomberg recently called “the hottest cryptocurrency,” surpassed a set of key milestones, even amid a downturn in the market. In a series of tweets that were retweeted by the founder of TRON, Justin Sun, an investor under the nickname “Mr. Gordon "wrote that the network exceeded 200 million transactions, just 38 days after overcoming the level in 100 million. Misha Lederman, a die-hard fan of TRX, who co-founded Iamdecentralized.com, subsequently released additional statistics. Referring to data from an internal study, Lederman said that a six-millionth unit was…
The CEO of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), Li Xiaojia, said that companies that are applying for an IPO must demonstrate a “sustainable” business model. A radical change of activities, in his opinion, can only indicate the absence of such. It is reported by CoinDesk, with reference to the news blog of technology giant Tencent. Responding to a question about the requests of mining companies, Xiaojia stressed that it is important for HKEX to understand that, despite the change in direction, the first business model still makes a profit. At the same time, according to him, during the consideration…
A cryptocurrency-oriented trading bank Galaxy Digital, established by ex-partner of Goldman Sachs and former top manager of Fortress Investment Group Mike Novograts, plans to raise $ 250 million under the fund for lending to cryptocurrency companies in difficult situations. This is reported by Business Insider. As the newspaper notes, the new fund will issue loans to companies affected by the bear market, including ICO-startups. Probably, borrowers will be able to mortgage cryptocurrency funds and mining equipment. Earlier, Novograz increased its stake in Galaxy Digital to 79.3%, having bought 7.5 million shares for $ 4.8 million. Recall, Galaxy Digital is actively…
Cryptobirge Huobi plans to release its own steblecoin this year as part of its roadmap, Cointelegraph writes. During a presentation in Singapore this Tuesday, company commercial director Chris Lee also announced plans to upgrade the trading platform and continue its global expansion. “The year 2018 threw us serious challenges, but personally I am optimistic about the prospects for the cryptocurrency market. “I really think this situation will be corrected this year, ” he said. This year will be very important for the stablecoins, and we are not going to keep up with the trend. Probably, the Huobi Group will launch…
The Dutch bank ABN AMRO presented the infrastructure for the storage of cryptocurrency assets called Wallie and connected 500 clients to the service on an experimental basis, Bitcoinist writes. According to the information posted on the financial institution's Twitter, ABN AMRO plans to provide a service for storing bitcoins in the same interface that its customers use for daily banking operations. Hoi Jazeker! Heb je dit bericht ontvangen? We do op op dit moment een experiment met 500 klanten. ? ^ Roeland – ABN AMRO (@ABNAMRO) January 22, 2019 Thus, ABN AMRO became the first Dutch bank to develop tools…
The team of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges Binance announced the opening of over-the-counter trading (Over-the-Counter, OTC) to provide additional liquidity to its large customers. The new service will operate in the crypto-crypto format, and allow Binance users to trade large amounts of different cryptocurrencies on the exchange. Transactions will be made directly on their Binance accounts. The OTC panel will allow traders operating large sums to save time by completing their transactions in one go. All transactions will be private and will not affect the order books. As previously mentioned, all transactions will be conducted using user accounts,…
Bitwise Cryptocurrency Investment Fund made a request to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to launch Bitcoin-ETF. The company plans to place new instruments on the NYSE Arca. Bitwise has posted this on Twitter: Today Bitwise announced the filing of an initial registration application on the S-1 form to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the new proposed physical exchange-traded fund. Bitwise Bitcoin ETF will be based on Bitwise Bitcoin Total Return Index, calculated by Bitwise Index Services, LLC. It is assumed that it fully reflects the value of investment in Bitcoin, including their fork.…
