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One of the largest insurance companies in the African continent, Old Mutual, which is part of the eponymous financial holding, refused to insure the equipment for the extraction of cryptocurrency because of the high risks and speculative nature of the industry, ItWeb reports. The company conducted its own research, as well as appreciated customer reviews that have lost money on mining. This was the rationale for the decision to terminate the insurance of any business, […]

The Cointelegraph edition, citing an informed source, reported that the intention of the Liquid Exchange to start selling Gram tokens on July 10 has nothing to do with the official plans of Telegram. In a separate comment, one of Telegram's investors stated that no one has the right to sell tokens before their official launch in accordance with the signed agreement. Moreover, representatives of the popular messenger […]

Coinbase, the largest US cryptocurrency company, included the DAI coin in the Earn educational program. Learn DAI, earn DAI. Starting today, Coinbase customers around DAI. https://t.co/Gq73Y6msgC pic.twitter.com/H9QEt6WmcH – Coinbase (@coinbase) 10 June 2019 р. DAI became the first steablcoin added to the Earn program. The latter allows Coinbase users to receive tokens and […]

The blockchain technology is one of the steps to the formation of open networks. In particular, it will eliminate the need for intermediary banks to participate in international transactions by financial institutions. This statement was made by Blockstream CEO Adam Beck during the G20 meeting in Japan, Cointelegraph writes. He also indicated that he considers cryptocurrency “electronic money for the global Internet space”, but the scale of […]

The developers of the blockchain project Zilliqa announced the launch of smart contracts based on the Scilla language in their core network. In 2017, we envisioned a high performance platform. Guess what? Today, we've delivered on this. We are thrilled to declare smart contracts officially launched !!! […]

Interest in cryptocurrencies is growing again – in May, the number of search queries for the word “bitcoin” increased sharply, exceeding the values for the entire previous year. This is evidenced by Google Trends. According to statistics, the greatest interest in Bitcoin is shown in Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana, followed by Austria and the Netherlands. It is also noteworthy that in May Bitcoin was searched more often, […]

The international human rights group Agora announced the collection of donations in support of the journalist of the Medusa portal Ivan Golunov. Means accept including in Bitcoins and ETH. As the head of Agora Pavel Chikov wrote in the Telegram, over the past 24 hours the organization has received several dozen donations. At the moment, the donation amounts at BTC, however, are quite modest – for the last day on […]

Donald Trump's trade wars, protracted uncertainty over the expected UK exit from the EU (Brexit), and the looming threat of a global recession could be factors that in May revived activity in cryptocurrency markets, Bitcoinist writes. Against this background, traffic on the leading bitcoin exchanges, in particular, Binance and Coinbase, has noticeably increased. So, according to SimilarWeb, Binance, which […]