In recent weeks, the situation in cryptocurrency markets has been at least monotonous. Over the past few days, despite the 17% increase in XRP, the total market capitalization of digital assets has been stable, being in the range of 200 to 220 billion US dollars. At the moment, the market needs to push it in the right direction, and this could be the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Krypto experts predict that the cryptocurrency market will inevitably grow. However, significant growth may begin either before the end of this year, or in a few years. A well-known blockchain…
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The developers of the popular Ledger hardware wallet continue to implement their plan to add new coins every first Tuesday of the month. This time, Ledger Live for Ledger Nano S has added support for the following assets: Lisk, Factom, MIX Blockchain, Musicoin, GameCredits, and EtherGem. Happy #CryptoTuesday ! On the 4th edition, we are welcome @LiskHQ @ETHERGEMCOIN @musicoins @mix_blockchain @gamecredits @factom . The apps manager is now available on the Ledger Live manager tab. Read more here: https://t.co/MaxhicoJvp pic.twitter.com/zBffM3AprF – Ledger (@LedgerHQ) November 6, 2018 Note that MIX Blockchain, Musicoin, GameCredits and EtherGem are also compatible with the Ledger…
$ 4 billion – exactly such a profit is expected in late December by cryptocurrency exchanges over the past twelve months. Compared to 2017, this figure has doubled, according to a report by Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. The study also indicated that information about the decline in interest in cryptocurrency trading is greatly exaggerated. Expert opinions of digital assets exchanges and the main development trends for the near future. What awaits cryptocurrency traders in 2019? Trends of 2018 on cryptocurrency exchanges The report “Crypto Trading – the next big step is near?” Is a futuristic document for the coming…
The number of short positions on Bitcoin on the Bitfinex exchange reached a two-month minimum, having decreased by 33% in just eight days. The number of long positions increased by 10%, reports CoinDesk. At the same time, in October, the average weekly volatility of bitcoin futures, according to MarketWatch, reached a historic low of 6.6%. Specialist of the Chicago Option Exchange (CBOE) Kevin Devitt stressed that […] BlockchainJournal.news
Graphene is a third-generation blockchain technology that differs from alternative platforms in high performance, no transaction fees, and a simplified process for creating smart contracts. It can increase network bandwidth through the use of Bloom’s Inverted Search Tables (IBLTs) and Bloom filters based on Simplified Payment Verification technology. At the moment, the maximum transaction rate detected in the testing process is 10,628 h / s. For comparison, the maximum rate of transactions in the Ethereum blockchain is 30 x / c. BlockchainJournal told blockchain-architect and creator of blockchain-protocols Scorum.com and DEIP.world Alex Shkor about BlockchainJournal's existing infrastructure, its main problems…
in El Petro Some banks suffering from a severe economic crisis Venezuela began to display the balances on users' accounts in the national cryptocurrency El Petro, Bitcoin.com reports. Thus, despite the fact that the majority of residents are not particularly interested in using cryptocurrency “oil-secured”, financial institutions of the country carry out the orders of the authorities, actively integrating new means of payment into online banking. It is, in particular, the Venezuelan banks Banesco and Mercantil. The source also reports that BBVA Provincial and BFC will soon follow the example of these banks. In August, the authorities of Venezuela, in…
The eToro social investment platform introduced a Bitcoin-enabled cryptocurrency wallet, Ethereum and Litecoin. We have expanded! The Wallet is now available in all EU countries, Switzerland and Gibraltar. Platinum & above clubs (for now) can transfer $ BTC and $ ETH from eToro to the wallet. Coming (really) soon: Crypto to crypto conversion. Stay tuned – eToro (@eToro) 6 leaf fall 2018 r. Representatives of the company say that eToro Wallet is available to all EU residents, as well as Switzerland and Gibraltar. However, in order to take advantage of the new wallet, platform users must be members of Platinum…
Researchers at the Santiment analytical platform came to the conclusion that some ERC-20 tokens no longer correlate with Ethereum, as they usually did before. This is reported in the company's blog . Analysts say that the prices of at least ten tokens of the ERC-20 standard have recently “live their own lives”, amid the stagnation of the second most capitalized cryptocurrency. In the graph below, you can see that the BAT and ZRX tokens , which recently appeared in the Coinbase Pro listing, have completely ceased to correlate with the Ethereum price over the past two months: At the same…
cryptocurrency The IOTA Foundation team announced the compatibility of their MIOTA tokens with the popular Ledger hardware wallet . According to reports in the IOTA blog: “Ledger wallets integrate with IOTA Trinity and Romeo wallets and isolate user account keys from a PC or smartphone, providing another level of security.” Users were also able to verify MIOTA transactions on their Ledger Nano S hardware wallet as part of the security protocol. As Ledger CEO Eric Larshevek (Eric Larchevêque) noted, ensuring a high level of safety and quality is the main focus for both Ledger and IOTA. “Collaboration between the teams…
The developers of Blockchain are organizing the largest $ 125 million airdrop in the history of cryptocurrencies. Together with Stellar, the company will donate about half a billion XLM XLM users to Blockchain wallets. It is reported by CoinDesk . According to The Block , already this week, the first batch of cryptocurrency will go to the wallets of users who leave applications on the site . For airdrop, 2.6% of all outstanding XLMs, or 0.47% of the total coin issue, are allocated. In October, the Blockchain team announced that it plans to help cryptocurrency projects with airdrop campaigns for…