Industry Downturn Fails To Stop The Popularity Of Cryptocurrency Conference
By Sam Mitchell
Despite the Crypto market being bearish for the better part of 2018, digital currency and blockchain conferences continued to experience tremendous growth. According to the analytical data site Tradeblock, in the last 6 months of last year, no decline was observed in the number of conferences held. New York, London, Moscow, and Malta are some of the places that hosted thousands of attendees who spent millions of dollars learning about...
Philippines Now Boasts Of Ten Approved Crypto Exchanges
By Sam Mitchell
There is something about the Philippines trying to catch up with Japan. This is the ever-growing number of approved crypto exchanges in the country. So far, ten crypto exchanges have received the green light from the Philippines’ Central Bank. Bitcoin adoption appear to be growing so strong in this country. One of the largest banks in the country now even has a BTC ATM at one of its main branches...
Anonymize Your Crypto Transactions
By Sam Mitchell
Most people still think that blockchain and all cryptocurrencies offer full privacy. With the exception of private coins, the rest cannot guarantee anonymity. The truth is that your crypto transactions can be visible to who cares hard enough to look. The prying eyes of the government tax auditors and criminals could be auditing your ledger. That should worry you, but thankfully, we are here for you. The information in this...
Tips Before Investing In Cryptocurrencies
By Sam Mitchell
Now that cryptocurrencies are recovering from a bearish year, everyone now wants to invest. Who wouldn’t want a piece of the crypto when they are projected to rise? That being the case, it doesn’t mean you should invest blindly, you have to be careful where you put your money lest you lose your entire investment. The crypto space is vast and doesn’t stop at bitcoin. In many instances, you will...
Tom Lee: Trump’s Comments Could Carry Bitcoin’s Price To New 2019 Highs
By Sam Mitchell
On Thursday, the US president came out to speak his mind about cryptocurrencies. In a series of tweets published on the night of July 11, Donald Trump criticized cryptocurrencies specifically Bitcoin and Facebook’s upcoming coin – Libra. Trump went on to demand that companies should seek a banking charter and present themselves as subject to both the US and global regulations if they want to “become a bank”. While it’s...
Crypto Investing Tips
By Sam Mitchell
We are in that season again, where crypto prices increase proportionately with popularity. It's 2019, and you can buy a digital currency as easily as accessing an exchange site. And more people are interested in cryptocurrencies, nearly as many as during the 2017 crypto boom. As the crypto craze continues, we thought it wise to provide readers with some basics on cryptocurrency investment. The tips discussed here today should come...
The Bitcoin Bull Market Is Back
By Sam Mitchell
2018 was a year to forget on matters cryptocurrency. Prices just couldn’t stop diving. The same continued at the beginning of the New Year. However, things began to change in February as the prices recorded in the first positive month. When it came to April, price began to rise steadily, and signs of a positive year were now more apparent than ever. The trend didn’t stop in May; in fact,...
Ripple XRP: A Budding New Business
By Sam Mitchell
Like other cryptocurrencies, Ripple XRP is back on course. However, the price retardation that has been experienced in the last 48 hours has not spared Ripple XRP either. This kind of shakeup has certainly affected unconfident crypto enthusiasts. Perseverance Is Key The Ripple XRP community is an ecosystem of crypto enthusiasts anticipating to see Ripple XRP grow into prominence with the emerging adoption options. An outstanding quality with entrepreneurship is...
BTC Price Above $8,700 Following The Closure Of Binance US
By Sam Mitchell
BTC is slowly growing to become a hedging tool even against a host of other virtual currencies. This leading virtual coin was able to profit as much as 6% just a day ago. With that, it closed the day at a price that was more than $8,700. As all that was going on, other top rated cryptos also recorded some price changes in the market. Some of the cons that...
Why You Should Start Accepting Payments In Crypto
By Sam Mitchell
Change is inevitable. So is the move towards a digital ecosystem. Cryptocurrencies are fast becoming a great addition towards the digitization. And why not? They provide merchants and consumers with unique benefits. Digital currencies as a topic has been quite interesting in the past couple of years. The rise of bitcoin in 2017, which saw it reach an all-time high of $20,000 caught the attention of investors worldwide. Statistics, according...
Top Crypto Performers Of The Week
By Sam Mitchell
According to Binance research, bitcoin has rallied alongside other crypto assets considered safe havens. Bitcoin is slowly gaining acceptance as a hedge against political issues and monetary easing by banks. Bitwise, in a letter to investors explained that all the attention brought by Libra coin has forwarded the public discourse on crypto by two to three years. But not all the attention has been positive, although the involvement by regulators...
Facts On Bitcoin Gambling
By Sam Mitchell
Bitcoin gambling is becoming more popular by the day. Online gamblers are finding digital currency more convenient for their online gambling activities. The online gambling market, on the other hand, has been positively influenced by digital currency and has been made more advanced and innovative. Fast and easy withdrawals and verified and tracked payments have greatly improved and popularized the online gambling experience. There is a growing number of brands...
New Initiative Uses Blockchain To Tackle Global Ocean Plastics
By Sam Mitchell
SC Johnson, the household supply multinational, has announced that it will be partnering with Plastic Bank, a start-up focused on recycling plastic waste, to deal with the high number of plastics in the oceans. They will be doing this by boosting recycling in Indonesia’s less privileged areas. Indonesia’s Marine Life Under Threat Plastic Bank utilizes a Crypto solution to interact with plastic waste buyers and waste collectors and in this...
Philippine SEC Postpones ICO Regulation Issuance
By Sam Mitchell
The Philippine Star has reported that the country’s regulations have pushed forward the date for the issuance on new ICO (initial coin offering) to mid-January.
Typosquatting: Yet One More Threat to Your Crypto
By Jason Bloomberg
Let’s say you want to log into your bank account. You type the URL in your browser, only you make a simple typo. Instead of an error page, however, you get a page that looks just like the bank login page you expect – it’s even TLS-secured. So you attempt to log in, only to get an error message. Meanwhile, a hacker has just stolen your credentials via what we...
Telegram ICO/Blockchain Project Management 101
By Sam Mitchell
Telegram is very essential in today’s crypto space. Since most crypto enthusiasts are on Telegram, it’s thus the best way for any ICO or Blockchain project to actively engage members. Why the crypto community prefers Telegram? It is a cheaper communication means and you can communicate without revealing your identity. Companies out there may be wondering how to manage Telegram accounts for their crypto or Blockchain projects. Below are a...
Romania’s Crypto Earnings Now Have 10% Tax Imposed On Them
By Sam Mitchell
Romania is the latest countries that has had its tax laws amended. This has come with so much development. One of such is the ability to begin taxing the Bitcoin gains at a 10% rate. There is a new way this upgraded fiscal code legislation has categorized the earnings. The earning obtained from selling and purchasing the cryptos are now categorized as income from other sources. The Romania’s crypto earnings...
BTC Trading At $5,000, The Difference With 2017
By Sam Mitchell
After a long, long wait, bitcoin is finally showing real signs of recovery. If you haven’t heard, earlier this week, the flagship currency crossed the $5,000 price range. The last time it crossed from the downward side was in 2017 before going on to reach an all-time high of $19,000 at the end of the same year. Hence, brace yourselves people, we might be heading for a similar run. We...
Kraken Adds Bitcoin Cash And Ripple To Its Margin Trading Options
By Sam Mitchell
Kraken has announced the addition of BTC (Bitcoin Cash) and XRP (Ripple) to its list of margin trading options which brings its total margin trading offering to eight digital currencies. Increase In Number Of Cryptocurrencies On The Kraken Platform As of the time of the addition of the two currencies, the complete list of Cryptocurrencies on the platform are Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Cash (ETC), Tether (USDT), Ripple (XRP), Bitcoin (BTC),...
ETFs Are More Stable Than Bitcoin
By Sam Mitchell
Bitcoin is undoubtedly the most volatile crypto asset in financial history. It’s incredible, the thought that bitcoin’s price was once at $0.003. 2017 was the peak of the digital currency markets and Bitcoin itself hit an all-time high of $19,783 for a single unit. What a time it was for bitcoin holders. The good times were short-lived. The frenzy didn’t last long and soon enough, the prices started dropping. For...
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October 14, 2019
Going on 2020, What Crypto And Blockchain Investors Have To Know
The markets have revealed a lot in 2019. We now have to use some of those insights coming into 2020. Considering what happened in 2018, 2019 wasn’t such a bad year per se. We had a bull run during the first half of the year, although the prices stagnated and dropped at some point, it’s […]
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Find Love on Blockchain
From use cases in energy, finance and insurance industry, blockchain now has a new use case; finding love. Yes, you read it right, blockchain is now a solution to finding your soulmate. If you have tried other technologies like tinder, then you know that not everything is real and the world can be very deceiving. […]
October 10, 2019
Celebrities Totally Into Bitcoin
Bitcoin used to be synonymous with the black market purchase of illegal goods. But now celebrities have joined the crypto craze. We explore some of the celebrities who have joined the crypto bandwagon or shown interest in the new wave of digital money. Kanye West Besides suing a crypto project for trademark infringement, Yeezy himself has […]
