by Brian Curran | Feb 15, 2019 at 20:16 | Cryptocurrencies
BEAM — the Mimblewimble cryptocurrency — recently announced a cooperative effort with the Litecoin Foundation to integrate Mimblewimble technology with the established cryptocurrency founded by Charlie Lee. The initiative will seek to build ‘extension...
by Ben Hiscox | Feb 14, 2019 at 21:11 | Cryptocurrencies
Status — the Ethereum based messaging app and company — has relaunched its hardware NFC wallet as Keycard. The cold storage card is entirely open-source, and the API enables developers to integrate the wallet with desktop and mobile apps, smart cards, and...
by Brian Curran | Feb 13, 2019 at 21:43 | Cryptocurrencies
Reality Shares — a branch of Blockforce Capital — has recently filed a new ETF prospectus with the SEC with NYSE Arca. The new ETF proposal is unique and an effort by Reality Shares — who has already submitted another ETF proposal — to...
by Brian Curran | Feb 7, 2019 at 21:31 | Cryptocurrencies
Blockstream — a leading Bitcoin development company — recently introduced a new standard for the cryptocurrency exchange industry for proving Bitcoin balances to third-party auditors that improve upon the currently fragmented in-house models. Called ‘Proof...
by Brian Curran | Feb 7, 2019 at 14:38 | Cryptocurrencies
Diar — the digital asset institutional publication — released their weekly report detailing the increasing prominence of collateralized debt in the cryptocurrency markets — with both on-chain and off-chain services. Their report follows last week’s...
by Brian Curran | Feb 3, 2019 at 20:00 | Cryptocurrencies
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) officially launched on January 30th and represents the first one-to-one backing of an ERC-20 token backed by Bitcoin. WBTC is basically a tokenized version of Bitcoin that exists as a smart contract on Ethereum. WBTC employs a similar model to...
by Brian Curran | Feb 1, 2019 at 23:04 | Cryptocurrencies
Casa — the multisig wallet key security and hardware node company — recently announced the release of their Lightning Network (LN) Bitcoin node browser extension. The extension will enable users to connect their Casa LN Node to external websites for easier...
by Brian Curran | Jan 28, 2019 at 19:54 | Cryptocurrencies
Robinhood — the popular investment and trading app — recently announced that it has received the virtual currency license from the New York State Department for Financial Services (NYSDFS) — known as the BitLicense — that will enable the...
by Brian Curran | Jan 25, 2019 at 20:26 | Cryptocurrencies
Bitfury — a full-service blockchain technology company — recently announced their launch of a suite of Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) tools targeting businesses, developers, and users. Created by their LN development team — Lightning Peach —...
by Brian Curran | Jan 21, 2019 at 13:08 | Cryptocurrencies
The Thai Stock Exchange (TSE) is set to apply for a license from the Ministry of Finance so that they can list digital asset trading on their platform. The move by the TSE is the start of the first stages of enabling securities companies to become brokers and dealers...
by Brian Curran | Jan 7, 2019 at 22:28 | Cryptocurrencies
Brave Browser — the blockchain-based, ad-blocking web browser — detailed in a recent post their highlights from 2018, including user metrics, partnerships, publisher developments, and software updates. Brave surged from 1 million monthly active desktop...
by Brian Curran | Jan 3, 2019 at 22:34 | Cryptocurrencies
BEAM — the privacy-focused cryptocurrency — officially launched their mainnet today of the first full implementation of the Mimblewimble blockchain protocol. BEAM’s launch comes just before the scheduled launch of Grin — an open-source cryptocurrency...
by Brian Curran | Dec 30, 2018 at 14:47 | Cryptocurrencies
During the C5C3 Refreshing Memories Conference, security researchers from Wallet.fail successfully demonstrated a hack of the Trezor One, Ledger Nano S, and Ledger Blue cold storage wallets. The team demonstrated how they were able to manipulate the firmware of the...
by Brian Curran | Dec 18, 2018 at 19:14 | Cryptocurrencies
AION — the enterprise-focused smart contracts platform — recently released their first AION Foundation Report aimed at providing comprehensive insights into the platform’s development, investments, and direction since the July 2017 ICO. In light of the...
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 11, 2018 at 23:04 | Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency exchanges seem to be popping up everywhere you look. While the major players that have been in the industry (i.e., Binance and Coinbase) for several years continue to dominate, smaller exchanges have emerged offering their unique benefits. The...
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....
