AMD Q3 Report Reveals Blockchain-Related GPU Sales “Negligible”
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) — the multinational semiconductor company — recently released its Q3 financial report that shed light on the falling demand for GPU miners for cryptocurrencies. AMD and NVIDIA maintain a duopoly in the GPU ...
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CoinGecko Q3 Report Highlights Declining ICOs and Surging Non-Fungible Tokens
CoinGecko -- the crypto market analysis and research website -- released its Q3 Cryptocurrency Report last week highlighting several major trends within the industry over the last few months. Notably, the report covers topics including the prevalence of trans-fee...
Bisq P2P Exchange Volumes Surging With XMR Driving Activity
Bisq -- the increasingly popular decentralized P2P Bitcoin marketplace -- has seen its global volumes surge in October, with Monero (XMR) accounting for the vast majority of the volume. According to CoinDance, Bisq’s global weekly trading volume for Bitcoin increased...
Truffle Surpasses 1 Million Downloads
Truffle -- the popular open-source Ethereum smart contracts development environment and testing framework -- recently surpassed 1 million lifetime downloads. Truffle is one of three primary tools in the Truffle Suite, along with Ganache and Drizzle. Truffle provides...
“The Future is Decentralized” Blockchain Report by Blockchain
Blockchain -- the popular Bitcoin wallet service -- released a couple of blockchain reports focusing on developments in the cryptocurrency realm. One of the reports, named “The Future is Decentralized” from the company’s research initiative emphasizes how blockchain...
Visa CEO Says Cryptocurrencies Are Not a Big Threat
Al Kelly -- Visa CEO -- was interviewed by Mad Money’s Jim Cramer where he gave his take on cryptocurrencies. Kelly’s statements on cryptocurrencies were relatively typical of banking and payment executives who have spoken on the technology. According to Kelly,...
FOMO3D Relegated to Same Fate as Other Ethereum Dapps
FOMO3D -- the polarizing exit scam and social experiment game on Ethereum -- has plummeted in volume and daily active users since its high-profile entrance into the mainstream and highs of more than 10,000 daily active users in late July earlier this year. FOMO3D is...
Canada’s Biggest Stock Exchange Has Successfully Tested Blockchain for Settling Securities
The Bank of Canada has announced its successful testing of the feasibility of clearing and settling securities using blockchain technology in a 36-page report. The report follows a collaborative research effort between the Bank of Canada, Payments Canada, and TMX...
Monero Transaction Fees Drop More Than 95% After Bulletproofs Go Live
Monero -- the popular privacy-oriented cryptocurrency -- implemented bulletproofs into its protocol last Thursday following the Beryllium Bullet release that provided numerous updates including increasing the ring signature size to 11. Bulletproofs are short...
Brave Browser Releasing In-Browser Tipping With BAT for Reddit and Twitter
Brave -- the upstart ad-blocking web browser -- has been working on a new in-browser feature where users can directly tip other Reddit and Twitter users directly with their native BAT token. The release is scheduled for Q4 2018 and will be a valuable experiment for...
Annual Octoverse Github Report Highlights Explosion in Collaborative and Open-Source Software
Github recently released its annual State of The Octoverse Report reviewing the last 365 days on Github and the magnitude of development on the platform. Github has experienced massive growth in 2018 alone, substantiating the notion of increasing global collaboration...
The Undeniable Value of Bitcoin for Large Money Transfers
One of the most clearcut use cases for Bitcoin is its unprecedented value for transferring large sums of value. As a censorship-resistant and decentralized network, transferring value between two parties is exceedingly faster, cheaper, and safer than traditional...
Chilean Cryptocurrency Exchange Buda Now Supports Lightning Network
In another meaningful sign that Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) is gaining serious traction, Chilean Bitcoin exchange Buda recently announced its support of the LN. Buda claims to be the largest cryptocurrency market in South America and was in the news cycle earlier...
Evaluating Cryptocurrency Communities Around The World
Meetup offers some interesting insights into the size, location, and growth of various cryptocurrency communities. The investors are provided an insight into the established innovations such as Bitcoin prime which is an automated trading bot. Bitcoin Prime is one of the first automated trading bots that traded Bitcoin specifically. The trading bot really got popular during 2017. We need to identify the legit and best provider. ...
Major Universities Investing in Cryptocurrency Funds
Following reports that Yale invested in the cryptocurrency investment fund Paradigm, a group of other prominent university...
Princeton and FIU Study Reveals the Powerful Influence of China on Bitcoin
A recent study from Princeton and Florida International University (FIU) details the potential threat that China poses to...