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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Coinbase has released Coinbase Commerce, a new service that enables ecommerce websites to accept Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin payments. The service is available worldwide and pushes payments in multiple cryptocurrencies directly into a user-controlled wallet. Coinbase has offered merchant products in the past, however they have always been fully centralized. Coinbase Commerce is […]
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The digital currency market is growing, and with growth, we can only expect growing pains. Among these are the latest reports of hackers and digital currency theft. There was the BitGrail hack, which resulted in $170 million in NANO disappearing, and there was the Browsealoud plugin hack where an intruder injected Monero mining JavaScript into […]
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VeChain (VET / VEN) has been consistent about releasing news and updates on a regular basis, and this latest bit of news is big. Last month, VeChain passed a PwC audit, putting them in league with some of the largest financial institutions in the world. Cyber security and risk management are factors that you might want […]
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2017 saw a lot of capital race into the cryptocurrency world. Many of those who started to invest in digital currency did it for a variety of reasons. A November poll from LendEdu found that 41% of those who put money into Bitcoin saw it as a “world-changing technology”, while 21% characterized it as a […]
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Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan is upgrading itself as a Smart City by integrating blockchain technology. The IOTA Foundation, a Berlin nonprofit will provide the backbone to the IoT platform, known as Tangle, along with BiiLabs. This partnership is in accordance with Taipei’s smart city milestones, where the distributed ledger technology will be used […]
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Until recently, Amazon, Google and a few other centralized services have cornered the market in cloud computing. Cloud providers offer “pay-as-you-go” services where you pay for the computing power that you need, drawing from a network of available hardware. Amazon.com popularized the term cloud computing when it released its Elastic Compute Cloud in 2006 and […]
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