Sudden fresh volatility came without reason Saturday as Bitcoin price abruptly abandons its trading corridor. Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped $800 in 15 minutes July 27 after a dramatic bearish move destroyed support at $10,000. Bitcoin 24-hour price chart. Courtesy of Coin360 Bitcoin traders eat their wallets Traders were scratching their heads on social media Saturday […]
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With SWIFT looking to match Ripple’s transaction settlement rate, is speed the determining factor by which the success of a payment network will be measured? The emergence of blockchain technology has undoubtedly altered the course of global digital payment development. With the likes of Ripple and Facebook’s Libra challenging the monopoly of banks and other […]
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Bank of America has filed a patent application for a settlement system citing the Ripple ledger. Bank of America has filed for a patent for a settlement system citing the Ripple ledger, according to a filing on Google Patents. The patent in question — the application of which was published on June 6 — describes […]
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iOS also gets a blockchain browser in Opera. Freedom of privacy vs. corporate control: Users have to choose what is more important for them… The appearance of blockchain technology can be compared with the emergence of internet at the initial stage of its development: Users were cautious about a decentralized system and failed to understand […]
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Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano — co-founder of crypto asset management firm Morgan Creek Digital Assets — predicts bitcoin (BTC) will hit $100,000 by the end of 2021. Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano — co-founder of crypto asset management firm Morgan Creek Digital Assets — predicts bitcoin (BTC) will hit $100,000 by the end of 2021. In an interview […]
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Binance and digital asset Trust company Paxos have partnered to integrate a new fiat deposit gateway on Binance’s flagship trading platform. The biggest crypto exchange by volume Binance and digital asset Trust company Paxos have integrated a new fiat deposit gateway on Binance’s flagship trading platform. According to a press release published on June 26, […]
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SWIFT will enable blockchain-based platforms to use its global payments innovation platform. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) will allow distributed ledger technology (DLT) firms to use its global payments innovation (GPI) platform, according to a recently published report. In the report, SWIFT revealed that it will soon allow GPI payments on DLT-base […]
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Visa launches a blockchain-based centralized payment settlement service for international business transactions, challenging USC and Ripple. Visa has launched a payment system for business-to-business (B2B) transactions partially based on blockchain technology. The United States payment behemoth says its platform, called Visa B2B Connect, offers seamless cross-border payment processing for institutional clients without going through the complex web of third-party […]
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Web server security service firm Cloudflare announced the launch of its Ethereum gateway. Web server security service firm Cloudflare announced the launch of its Ethereum gateway in a blog post on June 19. Per the announcement, the gateway — which is part of the company’s broader Distributed Web Gateway toolset — lets users “interact with […]
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Ripple wallet provider GateHub has announced that a phishing scam has been targeting its wallet users and has published a timeline of the campaign so far. Ripple (XRP) wallet and gateway-as-a-service provider GateHub has warned that there is a phishing scam campaign targeting its cryptocurrency wallet users, as per an announcement on June 13. According […]
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