Torque Capital Partners, a Venture Capital firm that focuses on blockchain projects has announced three new partnerships. These include Matrix AI Network, CPChain and Zebi. TCP is a group that funds projects of the future. Their organization includes investors, influencers and specialists who partner with top blockchain projects, worldwide. They invest between $500k to $10 […]
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As India steps up its regulatory framework for the digital currency industry, the arguably unexpected consequence is that customers are flocking away from digital wallet companies as they struggle to become KYC (Know Your Customer) compliant. According to the India Times, customers were no longer able to add funds to digital wallets with a number […]
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Overstock-backed ICO, tZero has released an amended statement to the SEC regarding a previously confidential Private Placement Offering Memorandum, initially dated December 18, 2017 and supplemented on January 27, 2018. In the amended, supplemented and restated statement made on March 1, 2018, tZero outlines a number of changes to their ICO, presumably to maintain compliance […]
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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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