People in Australia will now be able to purchase Bitcoin and Ethereum at over 1,200 newsagents. The minimum purchase is $50 AUD, which must be made in cash, using an interface on an iPad mini available at each of the stores. Bitcoin.com.au launched the digital currency exchange service in 2016 and has been pushing out […]
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Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin and ex-Director of Engineering at Coinbase has endorsed the technology behind NANO in a tweet. This comes just two months after selling off all of his shares of Litecoin (LTC). I took a look at Nano currency recently. Pretty neat. Every account has it’s own blockchain. It focuses on […]
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Elastos (ELA), currently trading at $79.93 with a 24-hour trading volume of $101.7 million according to CoinMarketCap, has partnered with iNex, a green energy exchange focused on the “new ecology of energy internet.” Our new partner New Energy Exchange https://t.co/Jc8epFBeX5 pic.twitter.com/7y7RuOheyg — Elastos (@Elastos_org) February 28, 2018 Elastos is marketed as a “smart-web powered by […]
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Circle, the Goldman Sachs-backed payments company has acquired Poloniex on February 26, 2018, according to a press release on the Poloniex website. Poloniex is a cryptocurrency exchange and current users are able to trade against Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and Tether. With a payments company backed by one of the world’s largest investment banks coming into […]
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Ethereum has been the gold standard for Initial Coin Offerings, with ERC-20 tokens dominating the charts for new digital assets. However, Ethereum is not without its shortcomings. Compared to some of the newer decentralized platforms, Ethereum is relatively expensive and slow. Adoption of other platforms has been minimal, but there are tokens on platforms other […]
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At the Bosch Connected World Conference, Volkswagen announced that they would cooperate with the Berlin-based company, IOTA in developing decentralized technology for connected cars. This comes shortly after the automotive supplier, Bosch invested in IOTA last year. Volkswagen Chief Digital Officer, Johann Jungwirth described the potential of the partnership. Besides the geographic proximity of the […]
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Coinbase made their official announcement that they would support Bitcoin Segregated Witness (SegWit) transactions. It has been rolled out to over 25% of their customers with 100% roll-out over the next week. SegWit is an important upgrade to Bitcoin (BTC) that will make transactions more secure and efficient. The system works by segregating the main […]
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Ledger, makers of the popular hardware wallet, the Nano S, has released new wallet desktop and mobile applications. This appears to be the first major step since raising $75 million USD during its Series B round in January. This was the largest VC fundraiser in the crypto storage sector, and a contrarian approach to fundraising, […]
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At the heels of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee meeting this past Wednesday, the CFTC has issued a warning against pump-and-dump schemes, specifically related to digital currencies. The Customer Advisory on virtual currency pump-and-dumps warns people against “thinly traded or new ‘alternative’ virtual currencies and digital coins or tokens.” This would […]
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Stellar Lumens is among the first to market with developing a platform for a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. Stellarport, unrelated to the team behind Stellar Lumens, has released a new decentralized exchange built on this platform. Currently, the Stellar distributed exchange can be accessed using the StellarTerm interface. There are a handful of coins that can […]
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