Bitcoin price continues to push higher but major cryptocurrencies should sustain above their 20-day EMA to confirm that the downtrend might be over. On April 2 the U.S. Labor Department reported that the U.S. weekly jobless claims skyrocketed to 6.6 million. In the previous week, the claims stood at 3.3 million, meaning over the past […]
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Cointelegraph has had an in-depth talk with Bail Bloc’s Grayson Earle about how the charity project helps release people from incarceration through cryptocurrency. One cryptocurrency project is using Monero (XMR) to give undocumented immigrants a better shot at a fair treatment in the United States judicial system. The Bail Bloc project collects cryptocurrency to help […]
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Blockchain is an amazing technology, but there are pros and cons to its mass adoption. Let’s have a look at both perspectives. Yes, that’s the question we are asking today. Is blockchain technology necessary? The answer is tricky. To arrive at the conclusion takes an unbiased perspective. Bankers and people in the stock market will […]
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More than 35,000 ‘blockchain’ companies are operating in China, but there are doubts that many of them even use blockchain technology. More than 35,000 blockchain companies are operating in mainland China — but it’s believed that many of them do not even use blockchain technology. In the first quarter of 2020, as COVID-19 shut down […]
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After two previous halvings, Bitcoin is expected to moon… or is it? Many industry experts hold varied expectations for Bitcoin’s price following the block reward halving in May, proving 2020 is anything but mundane. “On both prior occasions, Bitcoin surged to a new all-time high within 12 months, with the latest coming in December 2017 […]
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Futurist and author Daniel Jeffries shared with Cointelegraph his view on two possible scenarios awaiting Bitcoin in the aftermath of COVID -19. Futurist and author, Daniel Jeffries, shared with Cointelegraph his view on the future scenarios awaiting Bitcoin in the aftermath of COVID-19. Two possible outcomes In one particularly dark scenario, the global economy will […]
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Canadian conservation authorities and technology firm Insolar are conducting a test-bed blockchain project for renewable energy management. Canadian conservation authorities and technology firm Insolar are conducting a test-bed blockchain project for renewable energy management. Within the scope of its Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP), on April 1 the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) announced […]
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A new report estimates that global investment in blockchain in the energy market will reach $35 billion by 2025. According to a new report released by Premium Market Insights (PMI), global investment in blockchain technology in energy markets is set to reach $34.7 billion by 2025. Valued at just $156.5 million in 2016, the sector […]
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Lightning Labs believes its new protocol can redefine online payments by making use of a long forgotten HTTP status code. Lightning Labs has published its draft specification for Lightning Service Authentication Tokens (LSAT) — a protocol standard that promises to redefine online payments through employing a little known HTTP status code. According to a March […]
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A crack team of IT experts has been assembled to fight ransomware attacks against hospitals during the coronavirus crisis. A crack team of cybersecurity experts in 65 countries has come together to combat ransomware attacks on hospitals during the coronavirus crisis. Calling themselves the COVID-19 CTI League the community of experts aims to protect the […]
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