Peter Ivancic

Bitcoin SegWit transactions now constitute over 40% of all Bitcoin network activity as adoption continues steady growth amongst scalability concerns. Recent statistics from transactionfee.info show that SegWit adoption has maintained robust growth as large exchanges continue to support the scalability...

Chinese conglomerate Tencent is aiming to launch a range of distributed ledger technology-based solutions with both taxation and ride-sharing onto the blockchain by partnering with government and local developers. The tech giant announced the joint signing of an agreement...

Japan’s GMO Internet Group officially announced the June 7th release of its new Bitcoin mining card— “GMO Miner B2”, marking a new era of powerful, energy-efficient processing units as the world’s first 7nm consumer mining card. This announcement highlights...

The development of the IOTA network has taken a significant step forward with the launch of several new testnets that will replace the current “Mainnet Lite” test Tangle. The suite of new IOTA testnets will allow developers to work...

EOS is set to launch its mainnet on June 2nd, but statistics from EOSAuthority, a block producer candidate in London, reveal that 65% of users have not registered their tokens for the upcoming migration. Since release EOS has operated...

The privacy and security-focused coin Verge has been subject to yet another 51% attack, seeing a price of XVG drop 15% over the past 24 hours. Last month, a Bitcointalk forum user ‘ocminer’ announced Verge was experiencing a similar...

A development fund for Bitcoin Cash is seen by CNBC’s Brian Kelly as a possible catalyst for an upside breakout in price and the coin’s recent performance amongst a market-wide downtrend indicates strong support from the community. As Kelly...

The decentralized exchange protocol, 0x, announced a significant update in the form of V2. With a projected launch of July, the newest version brings some exciting features for trading tokenized assets. The Ethereum-based protocol acts as a communication layer...

ICON (ICX) has announced a new partnership with LINE Corporation, the Japanese-based app development company best known for its LINE social media platform. Together, the companies have co-founded ‘Unchain’ in order to construct LINE’s blockchain-related services that will be integrated...

Users of the popular privacy-focused coin Monero have taken to Reddit in outrage over Changelly implementation of Know Your Customer regulations, publicly announcing the exchange should be boycotted. While KYC has become the common standard for anti-money laundering and...

Wanchain has continued to steadily develop its platform with the goal of providing a private cross-chain smart contract ecosystem that enabling a confidential distributed financial infrastructure. WCN’s recent listing on Huobi, the world 3rd largest exchange, saw the network...

Quarterly cross-border transaction growth for Mastercard declined by 2% over the last year partly due to the lack of customers using the service to purchase cryptocurrencies, according to Mastercard’s CFO. During the May earnings call, Mastercard’s CFO Martina Hund-Mejean...

A legislative body within South Korea is moving to lift the government’s ban on initial coin offerings as a group of lawmakers led by Rep. Hong Eui-rak is drafting a bill to legalize ICOs under government supervision. During a...

UNICEF Australia is helping to pioneer a new advertising and donation revenue stream by allowing users to donate their computational power and mine cryptocurrency through their browsers. The United Nations program announced on April 29th the launch of a...

The Cardano Project begins to take shape with the announcement of two testnets alongside major advancements in providing a provably secure Proof of Stake protocol. The latest version of Cardano’s Ouroboros staking algorithm, dubbed Genesis, will allow parties to...

Request Network announced that it has partnered with Wikimedia Foundation to provide a transparent donation mechanism for one of the internet’s most popular websites. The request platform, called WooReq, is designed to be a flexible payment gateway to provide...

This Friday saw the first annual meeting of Korea’s Open Blockchain Industrial Association where ICON’s parent company, the Loop, attended talks alongside electronics industry giants such as SK Telecom, LG, and Hyundai as well as two of the countries...

The COSS platform has taken one step closer to becoming a multifunctional crypto gateway, with this month’s latest roadmap release is expected to mark the start of first cross-border fiat to crypto pairing with the support of USD, EUR,...

Buying and selling Bitcoin in America’s capital city just became even easier with the recent rollout of 20 Bitcoin ATMs across Washington DC. The launch of the machines follows a global surge of installations in which 9 new Bitcoin...

Nano blockchain’s latest version 12 update looks set to quell investor concerns after a rocky development cycle and intermittent disruption across supporting exchanges. Initial concern surfaced after the BitGrail heist that occurred earlier this year in which an estimated...

IOTA integration into vehicle charging stations demonstrates the potential of seamless Machine-to-Machine transactions. Netherlands-based ElaadNL has officially unveiled the world first Internet of Things capable charging station by harnessing the IOTA tangle to facilitate direct transactions between vehicle and...

Alibaba Group, the conglomerate responsible for China’s largest e-commerce platform, has seen rapid expansion into neighboring markets growing at an incredible rate. As part of a recent forward-leaning development strategy, Alibaba has formed The IoT Connectivity Alliance, which now...

Institutional acceptance of cryptocurrency is gaining steam as Germany’s second largest stock exchange announces development of a crypto trading platform. Sowa Labs — a fintech subsidiary of Börse Stuttgart — announced last week a crypto trading app under the...

A year and a half after completing its successful $8 million ICO, Golem’s “Brass” beta is up and running on the Ethereum mainnet. As one of the first major milestones on the GNT roadmap, Brass serves as a proof...

Following the trend of international banking institutions in limiting their customers’ interaction with cryptocurrency associated accounts, Bank of Montreal, one of Canada’s “Big Five,” has taken a conservative stance on the new crypto economy. Last month, rumors of a...

Cryptocurrency investors received an incredible shock today after seeing a double-digit spike in less than an hour. After being on a downward trend since the start of the year, many are hoping for the end of the four-month-long bear market...

Monero, the world’s largest privacy coin by market cap, underwent an emergency hard-fork as an active measure against miner centralization. Monero’s latest Version 12 update marks a significant milestone for the currency. With the recent release of the BK-N...

During the week, news broke of India’s changing stance on cryptocurrency with headlines from several news sources hinting at a potential Indian crypto ban, sending markets into a panicked whirlwind and causing a Bitcoin price drop to $6,600. With...