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The former employees have accused TRON CEO Justin Sun and BitTorrent engineering head Cong Li of pressurizing them on the release of BitTorrent software. Sun has also been accused of engaging in verbal abuses at the company.
Having received big-fat funding last year, Ripple is all geared up to expand its XRP payments network globally. The company is in talks with commercial banks and financial businesses willing to adopt its solution.
The partnership between BitPay and Simplex will facilitate the process of purchasing cryptocurrencies within the BitPay app.
One of the most dangerous kinds of attacks for cryptocurrencies costs Bitcoin Gold its reputation, as January 2020 becomes the happy double-spend month for some selfish hackers.
A new Market Integrity Working Group, tasked with the responsibility of ensuring fairness and accountability in the crypto space, will be co-chaired by senior executives of both Ripple and Coinbase.
It has become known that the professional cricket club based in the United Kingdom will use blockchain-based ticketing for all its domestic and international matches at its home ground this season.
Bakkt is going to launch its app already in 2020. And it is expected that it will have more in common with PayPal than with Coinbase.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, there were a lot of discussions of the role of digital assets and the U.S. dollar in the global economy. Facebook’s Libra has also influenced the direction of the talks.
The Winklevoss twins-led exchange, Gemini, proved its mettle once again as it became the first exchange in the crypto space to pass the much respected Deloitte SOC 2 Type 2 security examination.
During an interview at the WEF 2020 event in Davos, Garlinghouse said that more crypto companies will plan to go for an IPO in 2020. The Ripple CEO is confident about the company’s position in the evolution of the payments industry.
Despite a growing interest by global organizations and government institutions for the blockchain technology, the industry saw a drop in new funds raised. Ripple managed to steal the show with over $200 million raised in Series C funding.
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BTCMEX is making a play to increase its lot in the market sector through its incentivized affiliate program and trading bonus.
BitMEX has announced that it will launch the XRP/USD quanto product while the platform’s UP and DOWN contracts will be delisted.
Tether, the issuer of USDT, announced a new gold-backed stablecoin. This token is said to be issued on the Ethereum and Tron blockchains.
Ripple experienced a massive 80% drop in its total sales of XRP in Q4 2019. The figures in the recent report are the lowest in the past 36 months.