A scene from The Magnificent Seven, a classic Western movie (1960). Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin advocates claim that the real beauty of cryptocurrencies is their ability to allow ordinary folk to do away with bank-centered finance. Perhaps that is why many banks have maintained a very conservative stance on everything crypto-related – and why they…
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It was an eventful crypto-week. Seven golden crosses were seen shining among the top 10, including BTC, yet a surprising Bitcoin crash left the market bewildered, but still BTC may be at a pivotal point. Alibaba launched a blockchain-powered initiative amid coronavirus fears, Fcoin failed and has no money to pay back its users, IOTA…
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Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum, and Justin Sun, Founder of Tron. Tron (TRX) is a superior platform to Ethereum (ETH), claim multiple Bitcoin (BTC) people. For several weeks now, certain Bitcoiners have been trolling the Ethereum camp, claiming that Justin Sun and his Tron are coming to take its throne as the platform of choice…
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What sort of metrics can you use when you are trying to determine the health of a crypto project? Perhaps one of the most intuitive yardsticks – particularly in a bear market – is developer activity. So let us take a look at the major crypto projects that have shown the highest amount of developer…
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Altcoins are coming for bitcoin (BTC). Many of them – ethereum (ETH), cardano (ADA), EOS, XRP – were initially conceived more as utility tokens for blockchain platforms than as mediums of payment. But increasingly, many of them are turning to payments, while an expanding range of third-parties are building payment services around them. According to…
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This week in crypto, analysts predicted Bitcoin may go higher after breaching USD 10k. Justin Sun told people to buy his ‘shitcoin,’ and OKChain testnet went live; Voice Beta went live too, but not for all. Meanwhile, Ripple announced partnership with the National Bank of Egypt, Hadera is working with Google Cloud, BlockFi raised USD…
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Nasdaq is among the shareholders of Fnality. Fnality International, a technology firm founded in 2019, with fifteen major financial firms, including ING, Nasdaq, UBS, Barclays, as shareholders, aims to roll out its payment system this year, launching the first ‘version’ of its USC token. As previously reported, Fnality was estimated to become operational in 2020,…
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Bitcoin (BTC) traders say they are still waiting to regain access to their tokens two weeks after peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange LocalBitcoins quietly suspended their accounts. Account-holders say they have been severely inconvenienced by the move, which has brought their trading operations to a halt. LocalBitcoins is a Finland-based platform that allows buyers and Read more…
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It is no longer a secret that bitcoin (BTC) is the best performing asset of the last decade. However, in light of bitcoin’s volatility, many traditional investors are skeptical about how beneficial adding bitcoin to their portfolio would be for their returns. In the following analysis, we will look at how a traditional portfolio –…
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Let’s recap what happened in this crypto week. Total value locked in DeFi hit 1 billion! The public war-of-words between the co-founders of the IOTA Foundation took a fresh turn, Bitspark will close due to internal issues despite reporting positive results, but the first phase of Ethereum 2.0 is most likely coming this year. While…
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