The Blockchain Life Forum 2018 took place on November 7-8, 2018 at the Expoforum, St. Petersburg. The forum became one of the largest global events in the crypto industry, which gathered crypto traders, representatives of world cryptocurrency exchanges, owners and…
New data is offering insight into how crypto traders are pricing in a coming technical update to bitcoin cash, one that could cause the world’s fourth most valuable blockchain to split into two competing networks. At press time, there are…
The global network of computer operators who today help power the bitcoin cash cryptocurrency are beginning to signal that they may take differing paths ahead of a technical update scheduled for Thursday. Data from Coin Dance indicates that bitcoin cash…
Japanese IT giant GMO has reported a loss of 640 million yen (about $5.6 million) for its cryptocurrency mining business in the third quarter of 2018. Revealed in the firm’s latest financial report, published Monday, that figure is markedly worse…
Ready for a hash war? Bitcoin cash’s upcoming network update (or hard fork) is coming on November 15, but a fractious divide between competing stakeholders has raised the specter that the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap – which broke…
New Economy Movement (NEM) hit a nine-week price high on Monday despite a neutrally toned cryptocurrency market. That market development coincided with a more than three-month high in 24-hour trading volume the same day, according to data collected by CoinDesk. The world’s…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the country’s stock exchange, Singapore Exchange (SGX), have developed a settlement system for tokenized assets that can work across different blockchains. Announced by the nation’s Ministry of Communications and Information in a press…
Market capitalization gets a lot flack for being a poor metric to measure the value of a cryptocurrency – and perhaps rightly so – but that shouldn’t stop traders from using it as a tool to generate a market bias.…
“If you build it strong enough, the law will follow.” That’s how Daniel Nagy, the leading developer behind Swarm – ethereum’s decentralized storage-layer – described his “takeaway lesson” after a seven-year legal battle over the hosting a file-sharing node. A precursor…
A new use case is emerging for cryptocurrency: helping women who’ve suffered sexual harassment or assault gain financial independence while also protecting their privacy. Case in point, a sexual assault survivor used the crypto-powered payment processor Seeds to crowdfund $500…