Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has begun accepting fiat currencies through online payment service Alipay and mobile messaging and payment app WeChat. Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has begun accepting fiat currencies through online payment service Alipay and mobile messaging and payment app WeChat, CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed in a tweet on Oct. 9. Zhao was quick to…
Read more
Startups target poverty and waste from a blockchain platform. In September, Cointelegraph reported on a Dutch company said to have created the world’s first collection of recycled fabrics made from ocean plastics and whose provenance can be traced via blockchain.The premise is that socially minded consumers want assurance that they are really wearing recycled materials…
Read more
Digital Currency Group’s 2019 annual survey gives an insight into companies’ expectations regarding blockchain and cryptocurrency use cases. Almost 23% of Digital Currency Group (DCG)’s portfolio firms think asset tokenization will be the next major use case for blockchain. According to DCG’s 2019 annual survey, close to a quarter of 60 polled portfolio companies believe blockchain…
Read more
In the light of the recent report by research and advisory company Gartner, which claims it’ll take another five to ten years to see the transformational impact of blockchains, the company’s Senior Director Analyst, Fabio Chesini, said that the pattern we are now witnessing with blockchain is similar to that of the Internet’s development. In…
Read more
A report from the Canadian Digital Chamber of Commerce shows that salaries in the Canadian blockchain industry are among the best paid in the country. A recent report from the Canadian Digital Chamber of Commerce shows that salaries in the Canadian blockchain industry are amongst the highest in the country. Much needed legal clarity The…
Read more
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Cryptocurrency exchange news Major exchange Binance has launched peer-to-peer (P2P) trading functionality with BTC, ETH and USDT available for trading against Chinese yuan. Moreover, the company is now Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy…
Read more
A victim of a Muhstik Ransomware attack paid in bitcoin (BTC) to unlock his files just to strike back and hack his hackers. In turn, he released nearly 3,000 decryption keys for other victims, along with free decryption software. German programmer Tobias Frömel was forced to pay 0.09 BTC (USD 700) after attackers hacked into…
Read more
Bitcoin futures and options trading platform Deribit is launching a weekly research publication on various cryptocurrency topics. The Netherlands-based Bitcoin (BTC) futures and options trading platform Deribit is launching a weekly publication called Deribit Insights. Research publication on crypto In a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 9, Deribit announced that it will be…
Read more
OpenLibra, a permissionless fork of Facebook’s stablecoin Libra, is announced at the Ethereum developer conference Devcon 5. Lucas Geiger, co-founder of blockchain infrastructure startup Wireline, has announced OpenLibra — a permissionless fork of Facebook’s planned stablecoin. Ethereum developer Lane Rettig tweeted on Oct. 8 that OpenLibra was announced by Geiger at the Ethereum developer conference…
Read more
In the almost impeccable sea of green that’s the top 20 list this week, one coin keeps standing out as the greenest of ‘em all – Chainlink (LINK). Meanwhile, the network came out with several announcements. Just two days ago we reported that this no longer 15th, but 13th coin by market capitalization (USD 1…
Read more
