Some of the crypto industry’s biggest exchanges are joining with the Winklevosses in an effort to bring self-regulation to a market that many perceive to be fly-by-night and unstructured. Five months following its creation, the Virtual Commodity Association (VCA) has onboarded Bittrex, bitFlyer USA and Bitstamp, a site update reveals. A press release detailing the […]
The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hosted a hearing Tuesday on the “energy efficiency of blockchain and similar technologies.”
Leading blockchain payments provider Pundi X and its XPASS card platform will power transactions for over 30,000 XPASS holders at the annual Ultra Music Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. Ultra Attendees Can Pay with XPASS at 35 Retail Outlets The largest independent electronic dance music festival promotion in the world, Ultra Music Festival, will see their […]
As the old maxim asserts: those who made the most money in the gold rush were those who sold shovels. With our own digital gold rush in a downturn, however, the shovels aren’t selling so well, as mining companies themselves are struggling to move hardware because miners are struggling to turn a profit. As prices […]
BTC/USD shorts on Bitfinex are nearing record highs, leaving many to wonder if a short squeeze will occur like it did when the prior mark was set.
Blockchain and cryptocurrency media accounts in China have been banned on WeChat, the messenger app owned by Tencent.
ECoinmerce, a DAO e-commerce platform, has announced the launch of the Crypto Community Watch program, in partnership with a consortium of crypto industry organizations including ICO Alert, GZH, Step VC and NewEconomies. The main purpose of the program is to create an anonymous tip line as well as a whistleblower reward mechanism to deal with […]
The post Bitcoin News Summary – August 20, 2018 appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. Here’s what happened this week in Bitcoin in 99 seconds. The popular mining company Bitmain is looking to IPO, forcing it to disclose its financial position. Surprisingly, Bitmain has over 1 million Bitcoin Cash while their Bitcoin holdings are at […]
Apart from IOTA which on paper seems to be outperforming peers adding 15 percent in the last days, other coins as Tron, Litecoin and Stellar Lumens are up roughly two percent on average. Of all coins though, Stellar Lumens (XLM) is the most stable as they consolidate horizontally along our previous buy trigger line at […]
Data from app research firm Sensor Tower and Nomura Instinet have revealed that cumulative downloads of Square’s Cash App have surpassed that of its rival, Paypal’s Venmo, per a Bloomberg report. Square’s Cash App now has a cumulative total download of 33.5 million, which exceeds Venmo’s 32.9 million for the first time, after a successful […]