Augur, a peer-to-peer prediction market platform, is all set to launch its main network on July 9th at 11:01 PST. Augur raised $5.5 million in 2015 by offering its token REP in a crowdsale. Augur was one of the earliest ICO’s on the Ethereum blockchain and has been under development since. Decentralized Prediction Markets The […]
CCN reported in June that Australian blockchain startup Blockbid pioneered a new risk management and identity verification system that substantially reduces the risk of identity fraud. Using data aggregated from a 1.4 billion-strong identity database held by ThreatMetrix with a LexisNexis database of potentially high risk identities, the service establishes customer identities so as to […]
Cryptocurrency scams are on the rise. In a recent workshop organized by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission dubbed ‘Decrypting Cryptocurrency Scams’, it was revealed that consumers lost approximately $542 million in the first two months of this year in crypto-related fraud. By the end of 2018, this figure could hit the $3 billion mark according […]
Cut through the tantalizing visions of cars with wallets trading with each other, and you’ll find debates taking shape over nitty-gritty details.
The long-awaited reveal of the private keys – once able to trigger a bitcoin alert system – occurred Monday via email by two Bitcoin Core developers.
The ambitious project thinks token-based governance can tackle not just censorship, but fake news, echo chambers and journalism’s other crises.
On July 1, 2018, Héctor* received 0.5 nano. The transaction was a first for the Venezuelan, and he received it thanks to a donation from one of his fellow countrymen. To some, the roughly $1.80 sum in USD may be inconsequential. But to Héctor, whose country’s native currency is worth next to nothing, it was […]
In general, there is a broad-based recovery in cryptocurrencies and that includes Ripple (XRP) coming at a time the company is dealing with three concurrent law suits. On the charts, prices are down three percent in the past day but still up 10 percent for the week. What we need for our XRP longs to […]
Most coins under our focus have been on a slide for the better part of the year. It seems like it may continue at IOTA especially if sellers continue to push prices below $1 and 90 cents in the days to come. Like $110 and $90 is important for Litecoin, 90 cents which is a […]
Kenyan MPs have given the Treasury secretary a two-week deadline by which he must decide the fate of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, specifically regarding their status as legal tender in the nation of 48 million people. The deadline follows a warning issued in April by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). The Finance and National Planning […]