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Cryptocurrency asset trading and custodian BitGo is expanding its offering for institutional traders with the news BitGo Prime platform.
Laszlo Hanyecz mined around 100,000 BTC in total, and about half of it went to pizza. If we use the historical maximum price of $20,000, then 50,000 BTC comes out to $1 billion.
Tencent, one of China’s tech giants has allocated $70 billion to help the digital infrastructure growth of China as Beijing intensifies effort to digitize the economy.
Decentralized sharded protocol Polkadot, which helps to connect several blockchains in a unified network, has announced the launch of the CC1 version i.e. initial version of the mainnet.
Facebook has re-branded its Calibra digital wallet to Novi which will facilitate instant cross-border money transfer without any hidden charges associated. The Novi digital wallet will launch along with the Libra network.
U.S.-Mexico remittances are tilting towards the crypto space. This comes as Ripple indicates that XRP transfers account for about 10% of these cash flows.
Three European Union data experts, Guardtime, SICPA, and OpenHealth, are developing a blockchain-backed coronavirus passport that will register and store users coronavirus health status in real-time which will aid proper management and control of the pandemic
Crypto trading can be a risky venture. That’s why it’s a good idea to rely on trustworthy trading firms that have rich experience in managing money and making big investment decisions.
An early Bitcoin (BTC) miner has signed a cryptographic message with 145 wallet addresses containing unspent UTXOs calling Craig Wright (CSW) a fraud and a liar.
A cybersecurity firm Under the Breach reported that Ethereum forum hacker is now selling the databases of Trezor, Ledger, and BnkToTheFuture. However, Trezor and Ledger claim that their systems are secure but have taken the matter seriously.
Ethereum 2.0 which is built to work on the Proof of Stake Network has been facing delays and postponement in going live as attributed to bug fixing. The developers planned the upgrade of the proof-of-stake algorithm for June.
Bitcoin is seeing a downward selling pressure as it fails to hold $9000 support levels. After the Bitcoin halving, miners are selling more than they mine to meet the surging operational costs.
Ripple has joined the Faster Payments Consortium (FPC) that offers its members the possibility to work together and to get access to the latest research and data.
Crypto trading platform BitMEX has lately been fully involved into lawsuits. Due to this fact some users are starting to think of moving to other exchanges. Bexplus could become a good alternative.
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! Ten years ago, a programmer from Las Vegas made the first-ever purchase with Bitcoin. The deal has made it into history, 22 May has become a great day, and the programmer will be forever known as “Bitcoin Pizza Guy”.