The financial giant ING Bank has concluded a 5-year agreement with the blockchain consortium R3, under which it obtained the right to an unlimited number of licenses to use the corporate platform Corda. Check out our new press release! If you’re looking for a Corridor, you’ll have a number of business functions. Read more here- https://t.co/glqI7vNgpE #blockchain #cordaenterprise pic.twitter.com/Fr3Z9Xg1gY – R3 (@ inside_r3) January 22, 2019 The partnership will allow the Dutch bank to begin integrating Corda distributed applications (CorDapps) into its international business operations. The latter are focused on a range of financial services, including trade finance, customer identification,…
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Binance made a statement yesterday that new trading pairs for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) will be added soon. New listing listings appeared after the general manager of the Changpen Zhao Exchange made it clear that he was not a fan of the ramifications of projects. As a result, Zhao decided to leave BCHABC and BCHSV as symbols associated with new Bitcoin Cash projects. Despite its CEO’s disdain for Bitcoin forks, Binance, in its latest announcement, announced that BCHABC / TUSD, BCHABC / PAX, BCHABC / USDC, BCHSV / TUSD, BCHSV / PAX and BCHSV / USDC will…
According to local media, a virus is spreading in China, attacking ASIC miners mining cryptocurrency. Losses already amount to tens of thousands of dollars. It seems that the virus infects, in the first place, the Antminer device from Bitmain. Extortionist requires 10 bitcoins, threatening, in case of failure, overheating of the equipment. You can get rid of the virus by formatting the memory card of an infected ASIC – this process resembles reinstalling the OS on a regular PC. However, the process takes four days, during which the farm is idle, because it should be turned off, as soon as…
Coinbase, the leading US cryptocurrency company, said on Tuesday, January 22, that henceforth its professional trading and custodial platforms are available to institutional clients and investors with large volumes from the Asian region. In particular, according to the Coinbase blog , users of Asia will have access to the option of depositing accounts and withdrawing funds using SWIFT transfers through non-US bank accounts. “Over the past 12 months, hundreds of cryptocurrency hedge funds have been launched all over the world, in addition, numerous traditional institutions have begun to actively trade in digital assets. The set of professional services Coinbase focuses…
It is obvious why central and commercial banks do not like decentralized forms of financing. Giving financial control to people takes it away from them, along with their fatty profits and the bonuses of a big bank boss. A senior adviser to the Bank of England said that cryptocurrencies do not pass fundamental financial tests and do not occupy one of the first places on the list of problems. In a conversation with Bloomberg, Ha Van Steenis, Senior Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of England, added that he “doesn’t care much about cryptocurrencies.” Van Steenis, the former head…
Bitcoin enthusiast was divided in opinion with Nick Sabo about the fate of gold and made his prediction of the price of the first cryptocurrency . Alistair Milne (Alistair Milne), one of the earliest investors in Bitcoin, is confident that the cryptocurrency will rise again to its historical maximum. He substantiates his point of view by the fact that there is more “transparency” in the regulation of the cryptocurrency market, which means that “the asymmetric possibility of raising the price of an asset has become obvious.” Milne does not exclude that Bitcoin will still become cheaper, but predicts that the…
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies can rid the world of the need to trust centralized institutions, reduce bureaucracy, create new business models and significantly improve management efficiency. This is stated in the latest UN report “World Economic and Social Survey 2018. Frontier technologies for sustainable development”. Referring to the creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto and his proposed model, the authors of the report , in particular, call the cryptocurrency “a new frontier in the field of digital finance”. “The innovation of this system is how different parties can work together to create trust and guarantees, while the traditional financial system is…
The cryptocurrency market today shows a lull, a lot of coins are in narrow ranges. The total value of all digital assets remains unchanged from yesterday and is about $ 121 billion. Bitcoin (BTC) continues to fluctuate around $ 3,600, as market participants cannot decide on the next step. The BTC / USD pair recovered from the Asian low of $ 3,572, but at this stage the growth potential is limited. Ethereum (ETH) did well, despite the postponement of the long-awaited update of Ethereum Constantinople Hard Fork. The ETH / USD pair is trading at $ 122, showing a 0.21%…
The creator of the popular Telegram messenger, Pavel Durov, can use the site of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and present his digital currency Gram to experts and businessmen. This was reported by some media, citing the opinion of representatives of the crypto community. The presentation of the TON blockchain project and the Gram coin can take place precisely in Davos, since this forum brings together not only representatives of major investors, but also heads of IT companies who are betting on the development of blockchain technologies . Pavel Durov previously visited the Davos forum, but he never…
They are eagerly awaited by the real trading sharks. From them you can read the thoughts of whales and catch a whiff of insider information in the camp of major players. With their help, a professional will be able to create for himself a sufficiently focused vision of the cryptocurrency market for the next week or even a month. We're talking about COT futures reports (Commitments of Traders). On how exactly reports on Bitcoin futures can be useful to traders, Ekaterina Skobitskaya, fund manager portfolio manager Dmitry Perepelkin, tells in a special material for BlockchainJournal the communication department of the…
