Naysayers continue to believe that Bitcoin is a scam and can neither become a currency nor act as a store of value. The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own […]
Continue ReadingConsenSys, AMD and Abu-Dhabi-based Halo Holdings have partnered to build a blockchain-based cloud computing infrastructure for the public and private sector. Blockchain software company ConsenSys, semiconductor producer AMD, and Abu-Dhabi-based investment management firm Halo Holdings are jointly working on a blockchain-based cloud computing infrastructure. ConsenSys announced the collaboration in a press release published on Jan. […]
Continue ReadingCrypto exchanges OKEx and Huobi will support the upcoming Ethereum Constantinople hard fork which will fundamentally change the Ethereum blockchain. Leading cryptocurrency exchanges OKEx and Huobi Global will support the Ethereum (ETH) Constantinople hard fork which is estimated to happen between Jan. 14 and 18, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph. The Constantinople […]
Continue Readingsponsored The “first arts and games smart economy on the EOS blockchain” is planning to use non-fungible tokens to address issues of provenance in the art community. A new project is gearing up to be the “first arts and games smart economy on the EOS blockchain” — offering games and giving artists the chance to […]
Continue ReadingCo-founder of U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase Brian Armstrong confesses that Bitcoin is his first love and that the “full promise of Bitcoin is still yet to be realized.” Brian Armstrong, founder and CEO of United States cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, has confessed that “Bitcoin is my first love” in a series of tweets commemorating the coin’s […]
Continue ReadingChinese banking blockchain platform will be built with funds from various banks and the United Nations Development Bank. China’s self-regulatory bank organization the China Banking Association (CBA) will launch a blockchain-based platform to improve efficiency across the sector, participants confirmed in a statement Dec. 29. The project, formally dubbed the ‘China Trade Finance Inter-bank Trading […]
Continue ReadingMorgan Stanley isn’t the only bank to have been fined recently for Anti-Money Laundering non-compliance. In 2018, barely a month passed without an official at a financial institution or government department calling on crypto to clean up its act. In the last quarter of the year alone, the United States Department of the Treasury, the […]
Continue ReadingThe Reserve Bank of India issues its annual financial report, stating that cryptocurrencies pose no threat to the financial industry. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has stated that cryptocurrencies currently pose no threat to financial stability in its recent financial report, published Dec. 28. The document entitled “Report on Trend and Progress of Banking […]
Continue ReadingThe American Economic Association’s annual meeting will see authors of four academic papers on crypto announce their findings. The American Economic Association (AEA) will host four dedicated presentations of cryptocurrency and blockchain research today, Jan. 4, as part of its ongoing annual meeting. The session, dubbed ‘Blockchain and Tokenomics,’ will cover four academic papers from […]
Continue ReadingAll major cryptocurrencies are seeing some further corrections today, Bitcoin hovers around $3,800. Friday, Jan. 3 — after crypto markets tipped back into red yesterday, most cryptocurrencies are today seeing some further corrections. All of the top twenty coins by market cap are seeing tempered losses on the day, as data from CoinMarketCap shows. Top […]
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