Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has expressed skepticism regarding top-10 digital currency BSV, claiming that the coin “offers nothing for Wikipedia.” Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has expressed skepticism regarding top-10 digital currency Bitcoin SV (BSV), claiming that the coin “offers nothing for Wikipedia.” Wales made his statement right after the team behind the CoinGeek London conference […]
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Paystand’s hybrid blockchain platform is achieving success in the commercial payments industry, allowing it to raise $20 million in Series B funding. Paystand has successfully raised $20 million in its Series B funding round, VentureBeat and others reported on Feb. 6. The company will use this money to accelerate the growth of its blockchain-based commercial […]
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Hot on the heels of surpassing the 500 million transaction milestone, Bitcoin daily confirmed transactions are soaring to levels not seen since September. Hot on the heels of surpassing the 500 million transaction milestone, Bitcoin (BTC)’s daily confirmed transactions (txs) are soaring too. The latest available data on Blockchain.com, for Feb. 6, indicates 315,370 daily […]
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With Ether breaking through the $200 mark yesterday, a bullish $1 billion in value is now locked in the DeFi markets. With Ether (ETH) breaking through the $200 mark yesterday, $1 billion in value is now locked in the DeFi markets. Total value locked in DeFi markets, Feb. 7. Source: defipulse.com As of Feb. 7, […]
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Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb has sold more than a billion XRP so far and has another 4.7 billion left to sell, according to a new analysis. Analysis by blockchain monitor Whale Alert suggests that Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb sold off more than one billion XRP between 2014 and 2019. In a Medium post published on […]
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WRX, the first IEO from any Indian exchange, can strengthen sentiments of Indian crypto industry amid an ongoing battle over the status of crypto. Despite regulatory uncertainty and banking restrictions imposed by the Reserve Bank of India, WazirX — the Indian cryptocurrency exchange recently acquired by Binance — launched its WRX coin through an initial […]
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Veteran investor and crypto pioneer Rana Yared leaves Goldman Sachs for VC firm. Financial service powerhouse Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lost another one of its top brass on February 5 after two other executives expressed departure plans several days prior. Goldman Sachs partner Rana Yared plans to exit her position at Goldman Sachs for a […]
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The Blockchain Association has launched a working group to push for a U.S.-wide regulatory framework… Will the legislators listen? A new working group, spearheaded by senior employees of Ripple and Coinbase, is going to advise United States regulators on crypto-friendly policies. But congresspeople are too busy preparing for the upcoming elections, which means that U.S. […]
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Receiving $9.5 million, Simba Chain, a blockchain software startup, will install a secure messaging platform for the Department of Defense. The Naval Air Warfare Center, a California-based research group of the U.S. Navy, has given blockchain software startup Simba Chain nearly $10 million to put a secure messaging platform in play. “The platform will be […]
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Distributed Ledger Technology powers a new visualization tool from a blockchain company to track the coronavirus. Blockchain-enabled applications developer Acoer has created a data visualization tool to track the deadly coronavirus. The tool, known as the HashLog data visualization engine, interacts in real-time with Hedera Hashgraph’s distributed ledger technology. This allows researchers, scientists and journalists […]
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