by Brian Curran | Dec 13, 2018 at 23:49 | Cryptocurrencies
Basis — the well-known stablecoin startup that raised $133 million earlier this year — is reportedly shutting down following regulatory complexities. The startup will return nearly all of the $133 million to its investors in an unprecedented move in the...
by Brian Curran | Dec 13, 2018 at 11:43 | Cryptocurrencies
Samsung — the South Korean multinational conglomerate — recently filed trademarks unmasking rumored plans to launch an integrated hot/cold cryptocurrency wallet with their upcoming S10 phone. According to SamMobile, the app will feature a hot wallet for...
by Brian Curran | Dec 3, 2018 at 22:34 | Cryptocurrencies
The G20 Summit in Buenos Aires recently concluded and with it came the release of a declaration titled “G20 Leaders’ Declaration: Building Consensus For Fair and Sustainable Development,” which addressed several topics including emerging technologies, such as...
by Brian Curran | Dec 1, 2018 at 11:39 | Cryptocurrencies
TRON — the Chinese-based smart contracts platform led by Justin Sun — announced a $100 million fund to support the blockchain gaming ecosystem. The game fund is called TRON Arcade and will invest up to $100 million in blockchain gaming development over the...
by Brian Curran | Nov 29, 2018 at 22:50 | Cryptocurrencies
Analyzing blockchain transactions and deriving definitive conclusions is a notoriously challenging task, considering both the general noise of the data and the nuances of determining which transactions are output change (i.e., UTXO blockchains) and the effect of...
by Brian Curran | Nov 27, 2018 at 20:16 | Cryptocurrencies
Harbor — the blockchain-based security token platform — recently launched along with its first investment option, a private real-estate investment token from Convexity Properties for The Hub at Columbia building, located in Columbia, SC. Speculation of the...
by Brian Curran | Nov 20, 2018 at 23:41 | Cryptocurrencies
According to all-time high (ATH) metrics provided by Messari, 15 out of the top 25 cryptocurrencies by market cap are down more than 85 percent from their ATHs at the time of writing. Further, three are down by more than 80 percent, and no cryptocurrency in the top 25...
by Brian Curran | Nov 16, 2018 at 01:03 | Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin Cash has split into Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin ABC today following the community rift led by Craig Wright (Bitcoin SV) and Roger Ver (Bitcoin ABC) that had escalated in the days leading up to the hard fork. It remains unclear which protocol will become the more...
by Brian Curran | Nov 13, 2018 at 23:05 | Cryptocurrencies
Amazon has been awarded two patents in digital signatures and distributed storage techniques by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The move follows a recent collaboration by Amazon with startup Kaleido on an Ethereum marketplaces targeting enterprises. Amazon’s...
by Brian Curran | Nov 6, 2018 at 06:42 | Cryptocurrencies
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...
by Brian Curran | Nov 1, 2018 at 20:55 | Cryptocurrencies
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...
by Brian Curran | Oct 26, 2018 at 21:26 | Cryptocurrencies
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...
by Brian Curran | Oct 22, 2018 at 20:46 | Cryptocurrencies
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...
by Brian Curran | Oct 19, 2018 at 19:42 | Cryptocurrencies
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...
by Brian Curran | Oct 12, 2018 at 21:16 | Cryptocurrencies
Meetup offers some interesting insights into the size, location, and growth of various cryptocurrency communities based on their meetups across the globe. Unsurprisingly, Bitcoin sits at the top with more than 1.65 million people going to approximately 5,570 meetups....
by Brian Curran | Oct 11, 2018 at 18:04 | Cryptocurrencies
Following reports that Yale invested in the cryptocurrency investment fund Paradigm, a group of other prominent university endowments have reportedly invested in cryptocurrency funds. Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, UNC Chapel Hill, and MIT have each invested in at...
by Brian Curran | Oct 5, 2018 at 22:12 | Cryptocurrencies
In a significant step towards attracting institutional investors, Gemini — The Winklevoss brothers’ cryptocurrency exchange and digital asset custodian — secured insurance coverage for custodial digital assets through a global consortium of insurers...
by Brian Curran | Oct 4, 2018 at 19:40 | Cryptocurrencies
Coinbase — the US-based digital asset exchange and custodial giant — has surpassed 25 million users, adding 5 million over the course of the last 6 months. Put by Jameson Lopp, there are now not enough bitcoins for everyone with a Coinbase account to own...
by Brian Curran | Sep 24, 2018 at 20:56 | Cryptocurrencies
Airbnb – the giant online marketplace for hospitality sharing services — recently submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow the company to offer equity to its hosts. Following in Uber’s footsteps — who...
by Brian Curran | Sep 24, 2018 at 13:15 | Cryptocurrencies
Cryptoinfluencers.io has recently rebranded to Hive.one as part of its transition to its phase 2 practical application of its influencer algorithm. Hive.one is a unique mathematical algorithm that maps how much attention individual influencers in the cryptocurrency...
by Brian Curran | Sep 20, 2018 at 19:46 | Cryptocurrencies
Zaif — a Japanese cryptocurrency exchanged operated by Tech Bureau — has been hacked, totaling losses of more than $60 million in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and MonaCoin. Zaif is a licensed exchange under Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) regulatory...
by Brian Curran | Sep 19, 2018 at 20:12 | Cryptocurrencies
According to an interview with Ripple’s Sagar Sarbhai on CNBC, Ripple’s xRapid product launch for bank payment rails will launch for commercial application within the next month. Building on the news of the launch of Ripple’s cryptocurrency product, PNC Bank —...
by Brian Curran | Sep 18, 2018 at 14:13 | Cryptocurrencies
Tezos — the self-amending smart contracts and dapp platform — officially launched its live mainnet today following a roughly 3 month Beta testing phase that began in late June. As one of the largest ICOs ever, Tezos was subsequently the subject of a...
by Brian Curran | Sep 14, 2018 at 13:35 | Cryptocurrencies
BitBounce — a blockchain-based email spam service — has recently surpassed 600,000 active users and is growing at a monthly rate of roughly 12 percent, according to founder and CEO Stewart Dennis. With a similar model to Earn.com, BitBounce aims to...
by Brian Curran | Sep 13, 2018 at 14:42 | Cryptocurrencies
Stellar — the open-source cryptocurrency payments network — is now ranked as the second most valuable cryptocurrency (behind Bitcoin) according to OnChainFX’s implied market cap. The Stellar Network has seen some recent positive news including the official...
by Brian Curran | Sep 11, 2018 at 21:00 | Cryptocurrencies
The Tether stablecoin has had a polarizing existence with some high-profile negative coverage from mainstream news outlets and an ongoing debate about the legitimacy of its USD reserves. The concerns around Tether stem from its reported sizeable share of Bitcoin’s...
by Brian Curran | Sep 6, 2018 at 20:54 | Cryptocurrencies
The plausibility of use cases for many cryptocurrencies has been analyzed as significant barriers or gateways to their adoption. Onchainfx provides some interesting insights into the actual usage of cryptocurrencies with its “daily active addresses” metric. Notably,...
by Brian Curran | Sep 5, 2018 at 13:53 | Cryptocurrencies
The problem of cryptocurrency exchanges reporting fake volumes is nothing new. The incentives for why certain exchanges provide fake volumes are clear and directly tied to their relationships with rankings sites and altcoin issuers. As the industry continues to...
by Brian Curran | Aug 31, 2018 at 18:38 | Cryptocurrencies
The Stellar platform has somewhat flown under the radar over the last few months, parallel with some other platforms during the extended bear market. Stellar offers some unique features that allow it to function as a decentralized exchange (DEX) itself with instant...
by Brian Curran | Aug 30, 2018 at 15:23 | Cryptocurrencies
DFINITY — the decentralized blockchain cloud computer — announced yesterday that it raised an additional $102 million in funding from powerful VC firms Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto branch and Polychain Capital. Following an initial round of $61...
