It has been a pain to watch the bitcoin charts these past couple of months, but lucky enough I’ve been busy reading about the latest discussions around technology developments to take my mind out of it. Why is the market crashing? What’s bringing it down? Who’s responsible for this calamity? When will it recover? I, […]
A small Bitcoin exchange based in Alberta, Canada, has gone offline. Before their Twitter page went offline, MapleChange had announced on Twitter that they “[had] no more funds to pay anyone back.” In the way of an explanation, the exchange had, approximately one hour before deleting its Twitter page, said that a “bug” had enabled […]
Declining volatility in crypto markets has allowed startups, investors, and industry leaders to slow down, and postulate about the future of this nascent industry, catalyzing a series of positive developments. For one, in the past week, certain crypto-centric entities were awarded wheelbarrows of regulatory traction, with leading governmental agencies from Japan and the U.S. expressing […]
The Model T democratized the car industry – and the bitcoin white paper did the same for payments, says Ripple’s top technologist, David Schwartz.
When it comes to trading in the crypto space, there are three mistakes new traders often make. Here’s how to avoid them.
Key Points Bitcoin price is holding the $6,380 and $6,350 support levels against the US Dollar. There is a major contracting triangle forming with resistance at $6,420 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair needs to surpass the $6,420 and $6,460 resistance levels to gain momentum. Bitcoin price […]
FOMO Moments Sleepy Sunday in crypto land; Veritaseum making a move, Ravencoin flapping. It is another slow Sunday in crypto land with markets still slumbering. There has still been no movement for most of the major cryptocurrencies leaving markets at the same level around $210 billion. Still at the same level a touch below $6,500, […]
Bitcoin’s white paper solving the double-spend problem in the digital world makes near real-time commerce possible across the entire planet.
The race to build the best public blockchain will be won by those that would scale in line with volume. On a Sunday, a blockchain project realistically did it, though for 24 hours. Waves Platform, comprising of a digital ledger project and decentralized exchange (DEX), processed 6.1 million real-time transactions in a stress test. As it […]
The US regulatory body for state banking has filed a lawsuit against the federal government for granting bank charters to fintech companies. The complaint calls into question the leniency of fintech “sandbox” charters. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an arm of the US Department of the Treasury, has awarded these special charters to many […]