The cryptocurrency market did not show any significant fluctuations in recent days. But today Augur (REP) cryptocurrency has been in the spotlight, the price of which has increased by as much as 50% in the last 18 hours. Augur is a prediction project built on the Ethereum blockchain. Yesterday a new platform was launched called Veil, which today stimulates a huge trading impulse for its REP token. Representatives of the company noted in their blog: We foresee the near future, in which millions of people create and trade in millions of markets. And we are very happy to finally…
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Martin D. Weiss of Weiss Ratings stated that Bitcoin is much like gold . He believes that the rising cost of digital gold is just around the corner: “Like gold, Bitcoin and altcoins can become a haven for investors fleeing Fiat devaluation. Digital gold cannot be confiscated by any government. And this is its main advantage , ”said Martin D. Weiss. The dynamics of the course Bitcoin Bitcoin has a developmental pattern similar to gold. At the minima, both assets form long bottom patterns, known as “rounded bases. Gold reached a minimum last August and since then a new three-year…
The popular cryptocurrency exchange Bitpay has published data indicating that the company maintained strong performance during 2018, despite the market downturn. For example, while other enterprises were forced to reduce staff, the number of Bitpay employees increased by 78% over the previous year. Bitpay announced a high performance payment processing platform in 2018, after more than seven years of operation. During the year, the company reportedly processed payments in excess of $ 1 billion and set a new record for revenue from transaction fees, adding new customers. The B2B company reportedly also had a record year, as operations grew…
In 2018 the inflow of Bitcoins on the darknet market where you can buy everything – from drugs to stolen personal data, decreased by $ 100 million compared to 2017 and totaled $ 600 million Such data are in his. Research analyst firm Chainalisys. The reduction in the volume of bitcoin transactions is explained by the activities of law enforcement agencies, which in 2017 closed two large trading platforms of the darknet AlphaBay and Hansa. True, by the end of 2018, the bitcoin inflow rates had recovered – operations on the darknet market using bitcoin by the end of 2018…
TRON founder Justin Sun in his Twitter announced interesting news for the crypto community – TRON is preparing to launch a decentralized live broadcast protocol. It is expected that this protocol will compete with Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, etc. It will allow users to freely exchange files of enormous size, such as music and video, with very high speed. This will be one of the projects based on BitTorrent. The founder of TRON has repeatedly said that his network will change the online world in the future: TRON transforms the work of the Internet into its core. I believe that any…
cryptocurrency A few days after the publication of the conditions and details for its ICO, the BitTorrent Foundation posted details of the airdrop for TRON (TRX) tokens holders. The first of seven coin distributions will be 10,890,000,000 BitTorrent (BTT) and will begin on February 11, 2019 in a 1: 1 ratio, based on the TRON blockchain image of block number 6,600,000. It is also reported that longtime TRX holders will be rewarded for an additional 99,990,000 BTT during online and offline events. Here, no details are specified and it can be assumed that this airdrop is called BitTorrent Protocol Airdrop…
Based in Zurich, Falcon Private Bank provided private and institutional clients with the possibility of direct cryptocurrency transfers between “segregated wallets” and exchanging for fiat funds. This is stated in the press release of the organization. Note that Falcon Private Bank supports Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC). At the same time, the bank stressed that digital assets are included in the organization’s portfolio and tax records. In addition, Falcon Private Bank has developed a custodial solution, which allegedly successfully passed an independent audit. We add that, according to representatives of the bank, all cryptocurrency services…
kiosks Soon, residents of the United States will be able to buy Bitcoin (BTC) in grocery stores. Such an opportunity will come from cooperation between Coinme (Bitcoin's licensed ATM network ATM) and Coinstar (coin-to-cash converter). Both firms confirmed the partnership yesterday, and it turned out that the services would be initially deployed in certain Safeway or Albertson stores located in Texas, California and Washington. According to the press release, there are “plans to extend this proposal to additional US markets after a successful launch.” This partnership was created to enable consumers to access Bitcoin in a “convenient and easy way”.…
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have announced the start of cooperation in the framework of a project related to the release of a new cryptocurrency , reports the government news agency Emirate News Agency . According to the publication, a meeting of the executive committee of the Saudi Emirates Coordination Council was held on January 19 in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, which was attended by 16 representatives of both countries, who discussed joint initiatives in the framework of the so-called “decision strategy”. It includes seven projects and covers such areas as civil aviation, raising financial literacy among…
RIF Labs has introduced the first implementation of the protocol as a name service for the RSK network that will allow users to easily find addresses and public keys through readable aliases and domain names. RIF Labs Officially announces RSK Name Service (RNS) for Public Use The service allows users to identify the network by name https://t.co/x2ydjJOBT1 pic.twitter.com/rIN5QrFwKp – rif os (@rif_os) January 16, 2019 As noted in the company, without the domain name system, we would still enter IP addresses from memory, which would slow down the mass adoption of the Internet. So, in the messenger from RIF Labs,…
