Author: BlockchainJournal

5/5 (1 vote) A few days after the Deribit exchange launched bitcoin options for June 2020 and established the probability of BTC exceeding its historical maximum by June 20 at only 4%, the main cryptocurrency completely changed the landscape of the cryptocurrency market. On October 25, one of the most significant leaps of 2019 was recorded, when the coin added more than 35% in 10 hours, raising the value of the coin from $ 7,674.85 to $ 10,350. The cryptocurrency market also benefited from this price rally, as Ethereum, XRP and Litecoin also showed double-digit profits. The Bitcoin price movement…

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Samsung's technology corporation, based in South Korea, has introduced an updated version of the Samsung Blockchain SDK toolkit – the developers implemented support for the TRON altcoin operation. The partnership with the largest corporation, Justin Sun, CEO of the Tron project, announced last week. Some crypto amateurs began to speculate that Samsung could become one. Images began to appear on the network confirming conjecture, but now there is already reliable information about the cooperation of the two companies. Even then, Sun drew the attention of the crypto community to the fact that the new cooperation will have a positive impact…

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The effectiveness of the application of regulatory sanctions in the digital currency network Libra will be higher than that of other payment systems. This was stated by Calibra CEO David Marcus during a speech at the Money 20/20 USA conference, Finextra reports. “Digital payment technology is more traceable than when it comes to cash, and will be even safer when working in real time,” […]

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Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange has added support for native SegWit addresses in bech32 format. True, the option is available only when withdrawing bitcoins. We are excited to announce that Bitfinex now supports bitcoin withdrawals to bech32 addresses. Learn more about our latest update https://t.co/mktJui1TpP – Bitfinex (@bitfinex) October 29, 2019 Note, as of October 28, the share of SegWit transactions in the Bitcoin network was […]

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5/5 (1 vote) Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Platform plans to release a new cryptocurrency payment application. Bakkt Product Director Mike Blandina this Monday said: “We will launch a consumer application to uncover the value of digital assets, as well as new ways to transfer and track them. Outlets will gain access to a wider range of customers with increased purchasing power. ” Blandina admitted that support for cryptocurrencies in the company's new application may not be limited to just bitcoin , for which it currently offers futures contracts. “A key feature of our model is to support an expanded set of…

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OKEx, the fifth largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, is about to launch linear futures contracts based on the stable Tether coin with leverage up to x100. According to a press release, platform customers will have access to pairs with coins such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Tron, Bitcoin SV, EOS and Ethereum Classic. Representatives of OKEx argue that derivative contracts based on stablecoin will provide users with simpler and at the same time effective tools for market research and risk calculation. So, a new product will save OKEx customers from the need to switch between crypto assets in…

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5/5 (1 vote) The China Information Technology Industry Development Center (CCID) has published the 14th cryptocurrency rating. The composition of the three leaders remained the same, but not without a small, but quite remarkable rotation. The traditional leader in the ranking is EOS . This time the coin received 151.8 points for manufacturability, practical value and innovativeness. TRON cryptocurrency overtook Ethereum , taking second place. Chinese experts lowered Ethereum's grades for manufacturability, which is why the coin lost 13 points. Bitcoin received a slight increase to its previous assessment and retained its 11th position in the CCID rating. The most…

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Bakkt's Bitcoin futures platform, which was launched this fall, intends to provide its customers with access to a new application with which it will be possible to carry out operations with cryptocurrency. It is expected that the launch of development will take place in the first half of next year. Mike Blandina, product development chief at Bakkt, explained that the decision to launch a consumer application was dictated by the desire to reveal the value of crypto assets and innovative options for exchanging and tracking them. Partners who will support the functionality of the application will be able to expand…

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The US division of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced the start of support for Waves. Bidding WAVES paired with USD will start on Tuesday, October 29, at 21:00 EST. https://t.co/AZwoBOy3iq Will List @wavesplatform $ WAVES and, in addition to bitcoin, it also supports ETH, XRP, BNB, LTC, ADA, ETC, XLM, […]

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5/5 (1 vote) News from China is getting hotter for the cryptocurrency industry. Speaking at the First Financial Summit in Shanghai, which brought together world financial leaders, Huang Kifang, vice chairman of CCIEE (China Center for International Economic Cooperation), gave a detailed commentary on the future of China's digital currency , having previously criticized Libra and SWIFT. Libra is unpromising, and SWIFT is deprecated The official said that he does not believe in the success of the digital currency Facebook Libra . In his view, a decentralized corporate currency that is not based on sovereign currency is doomed to failure.…

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