This week, the U.S. Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies banded together to bring down some bad actors on the dark web. EOS is undergoing some growing pains with the launch of its network, exposing the trials and tribulations of an all-too-centralized governance model. It wasn’t all unsavory news, though. A new $300 […]
Technologist and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak played contrarian at the NEX technology conference in late June, comparing the hype around blockchain to the fervor he witnessed just before the implosion of the dot-com bubble. Still, Wozniak stood by his unflinching loyalty for Bitcoin, even in the midst of the market’s 2018 downturn. To be […]
Charles Hoskinson is the man behind Cardano and leads the Cardano Foundation. He’s authoritative and spearheads Cardano’s development. In the spirit of interoperability, he reached out to Justin Sun of Tron. In a publicized tweet, he asked him to consider integrating Mantis, which ETC uses, instead of their code which appears to be an “Ethereum […]
Although we are yet to see confirmations, the fact that most alt coin prices as Litecoin, IOTA, EOS and to some degree Stellar Lumens are stable and trading within tight ranges means bear pressure is slowing down. Well, it may be a coincidence because this week marks the end of bearish June where pull backs […]
For a significant part of 2017 and even this year, social media platforms have taken a lot of heat over their alleged role in influencing the 2016 U.S. presidential election. And for a period of time on Tuesday during a congressional hearing, cryptocurrencies were put in the same spot — at least with regards to […]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided, in a circular issued on April 6, that banks in the country will no longer be allowed to do business with crypto exchanges. The deadline, which expires on July 5, is forcing companies to prepare for the worst. Zebpay, one of the largest digital currency operators in India, […]
While supervisory special agency Kyle Armstrong says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sees cryptocurrencies in a neutral light, he mentioned at a conference that the agency currency has 130 open cases related to virtual currency. Armstrong made his remarks at Wednesday’s Crypto Evolved conference in New York. He said the cases are a “small […]
Akon is creating a new cryptocurrency founded to empower youth all over the African continent which has some hopeful and others skeptical.
In a sign of the shift in attitudes regarding traditional investments and finance, a study conducted by a real estate developer in the United Kingdom has revealed that 27% of male millennials consider bitcoin a better investment than property. According to real estate developer Get Living, part of the reason the particular demographic saw bitcoin as […]
Recent Bitcoin block data shows that Bitcoin’s mining pools BTC.com, AntPool and ConnectBTC, respectively mined about 25.7 percent, 16.1 percent and 0.2 percent of all new blocks over the past week. This makes for a combined hash rate of 42 percent; an all-time high for the Chinese mining giant’s mining pools. Several media sources have […]