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...
Modern Terminals Adopts Blockchain For Documents Logistics
By Sam Mitchell
Modern Terminals, a container terminal operator that is currently Hong Kong’s second largest, is the latest entrant into the TradeLens project. The TradeLens project is a technological solution that is supported by Blockchain and has been created by IBM and Maersk. Modern Terminals Joins The TradeLens Project Modern Terminals has stated through its press release that the TradeLens ecosystem is geared towards digitizing and streamlining the processes within the world’s...
Robinhood Receives License To Operate Within New York City
By Sam Mitchell
Robinhood and LibertyX have been officially gained the approval to deal in Virtual currencies within New York City from the NYDFS. Robinhood Crypto Launches in New York City Robinhood, which is a trading platform for stocks, will be expanding its affiliation with digital currencies for the citizens of New York. This feature is however not new to Robinhood users in other parts of the United States, the only difference is...
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),...
China Introduces Regulations For Blockchain Firms
By Sam Mitchell
On January 10, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced new regulations for the blockchain companies that the agencies claim will 'promote healthy development' of the technology. The new rules will require blockchain platforms to remove "undesirable" content. Furthermore, authorities will now be able to check private data stored by the companies and the identity of users. Although the government appears to be coming down hard on blockchain companies, it...
Research Shows Teenagers Prefer Cryptos Over Gift Cards
By Sam Mitchell
A recent study by Piper Jaffray has revealed that most teenagers would prefer to be given Crypto and Fortnite V-bucks than gift cards. V-bucks are the digital assets used in Fortnite, a popular video game among teenagers. Although the "baby boomers" could help in boosting Crypto investment, only less than 2.5 percent of those in this category have interest in the Crypto according to a recent study. Cryptos Top...
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...
Reasons Bitcoin Price Is Going Up
By Sam Mitchell
Before we begin exploring possible reasons for bitcoin’s upsurge, we have to acknowledge one factor. Bitcoin has a finite supply. There can only be a supply of 21 million bitcoins ever. It’s a crucial factor in understanding why bitcoin is rising in value today. Now, we can never really know all the factors that contributed to its run-up to now. What we can do is speculate and reflect on the...
Rare Cryptos You Should Ponder
By Sam Mitchell
It is estimated that there are over 1600 cryptocurrencies on the market today. Not all stand the test of time and instability being currently experienced in the market. Many of these projects have come crumbling down especially after the bearish run of 2018. One of the other reasons why new crypto projects crumble down in their early stages is people’s perception of altcoins. People perceive the dominant cryptos as the...
Report: Cryptocurrencies And Blockchain Are Maturing
By Sam Mitchell
The price upheavals in the past year and a half have caused tremendous changes in the crypto industry. The result of the changes has been a market, more mature than ever and that which is experiencing more appreciation, acceptance and infrastructure development Most crypto enthusiasts today are blind to the fact that there are different tiers of cryptocurrency besides the investment and price perspective. The technology part of cryptocurrencies is...
Amazon’s Centralized And Decentralized Solutions
By Sam Mitchell
The upcoming launch of the new currency-the Libra coin has brought to light debates over the differences and benefits between the centralized and decentralized blockchains and cryptocurrencies. There is a pending debate about the Libra coin itself, whether it should be classified as a cryptocurrency or not. The centralized nature of Libra is causing quite a debate in the crypto space. A consortium of major corporations are behind the currency...
The Top 2019 Blockchain Trends
By Sam Mitchell
2019 presents a new set of Blockchain trends and benefits for the community and as usual, new trends are followed by Blockchain development companies and businesses. A report by IDC shows that by October 2018, at least $1.5 billion had already been spent by technologies like the Ethereum and Hyperledger. The number is projected to reach $11.7 billion by 2022. The same statistics predict a growing value in the Blockchain...
BlockJakarta Blockchain Conference
By Umberto Papa
Muhammad Neil El Himan - Director of ICT Infrastructure, Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy (BEKRAF) shall speak at BlockJakarta Blockchain Conference. Pro has joined BlockJakarta conference as silver sponsor. Gabriel Rey De Leroy – CEO of Triv Exchange shall speak about ‘Bitcoin for milenail investment’. BlockJakarta Best Blockchain Startup winner announced - ‘mameCoin’. Sendy Ariani CEO of PT mameCoin Indonesia Berbagi shall advise on their project. Other speaker list: Oscar Darmawan - CEO & Founder, INDODAX Dr...
Malaysia’s Finance Minister Says Central Bank To Handle Cryptocurrency Issuance
By Sam Mitchell
In the past few months, there have been debates about Cryptocurrency regulation in Malaysia. This has forced the country's Minister of Finance Lim Guan Eng to come forward and say that it is only the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the country's central bank has the final decision on the issuance of Cryptos. The recently launched political fundraising platform, Harapan Coin project has attracted support and criticism in equal measure due...
Corporations Boosting Blockchain Adoption
By Sam Mitchell
When Satoshi designed bitcoin, his vision was getting rid of the authority, roles, and purposes of central institutions especially when it came to finances. The objective is getting twisted as time goes on, bitcoin may end up getting affected by centralized corporate actions it avoided in the first place. Whether it’s for the better, we can only wait and see. But, as long as the gospel of Blockchain is preached,...
Blockchain In The Search Marketing Industry
By Sam Mitchell
Only a few technologies manage to have huge an impact in their respective industries. Blockchain, however, is a special case. The technology is a turning point that is impacting a wide range of industries, from finance to health and energy and now in marketing. And more coming. Although the technology has not yet penetrated the marketing industry as it ought to be, it is clear. The marketing future is blockchain....
When To Use Cold Wallets Or Hot Wallets
By Sam Mitchell
Cryptocurrencies, unlike fiat currencies, are not physical. Consequently, whereas hard currencies such as USD, GBP, and EURO can be stored in a physical wallet, altcoins require a different kind of wallet. A virtual currency wallet is a software that keeps public and private keys thereby enabling the holder to store, send, or receive different coins and check the balance. Most of the Cryptocurrencies have their official wallet. However, many wallets...
Bitcoin Cash: History And Purpose
By Sam Mitchell
Bitcoin developers always knew that they would one day encounter a scaling issue. More specifically the size of transaction blocks, being limited to 1MB. It’s not news that the issue reached its climax with substantial delays in transaction processing and limitations regarding the number of the transaction the network processes. And what do users, miners and developers do on the onset of such a problem? They look for multiple ways for solutions....
Interesting Bitcoin Conspiracy Theories
By Sam Mitchell
There is no denying that most of the mysteries surrounding bitcoin fall back to the mysterious identity of its original creator. Also, the fact that there are no unequivocal proofs to dismiss claims supported by the notion further fuel the plausibility of some of these theories. Regardless of the case, some of these theories serve a comical relief in these tough crypto times. But before we look at the theories,...
Blockchain-based Mobile Payments Service Developed by Gates
By Umberto Papa
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are introducing an open-source software to facilitate the creation of payment platforms for developing economies, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are introducing an open-source software to facilitate and Melinda Gates Foundation are introducing an open-source software to facilitate the creation of payment platforms for economies...
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July 19, 2019
Blockchain For Engineers
Blockchain is the technology underlying cryptocurrencies. Businesses are looking into its use cases. And quite a number have emerged. The same have been applied in different sectors of the economy. Health, energy, supply chain are among the beneficiaries of blockchain. Engineering use case has been proposed as well. Implementation however is nonexistent in the early […]
July 17, 2019
Bitcoin And Bitcoin Futures
By now, the term bitcoin is familiar to a considerable number of people. Some have only heard of it, some know it’s a cryptocurrency or a digital currency, whichever name they chose to use. According to bitcoin.org. Bitcoin as a technology, is a protocol that has a strong security track record and the underlying bitcoin […]
July 15, 2019
Major Industries Where Blockchain Technology Can Be Applied
There are numerous other sectors that can use blockchain to improve their operations. Essentially, blockchain began as the core component of cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and blockchain. Blockchain technology by definition is a virtual ledger that can record and verify a huge amount of digital transactions. This technology is now being adopted in many different […]
