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Uğur İbrahim Altay, the Mayor of Turkey’s pioneering blockchain city Konya, will speak at the upcoming IstanBlock 2020. Held on April 9-10 in Istanbul as the crowning event of Istanbul Blockchain Week, Mayor Altay will provide deeper insights into project ‘City Coin’ which aims to drive improvements in local government services and infrastructure. Turkey’s pioneering […]

Ever since Binance appeared on the scene in 2017, its growth has been nothing short of astonishing. The crypto-to-crypto exchange that came from nothing became the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform in the speed of a bullet. And if you had any suspicions whether Binance and its charismatic CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) were eyeing world […]

It’s no secret that the majority of Bitcoin’s miners are located in China, with the geographical centralization of this mining power being a go-to critique for the cryptocurrency’s critics. This sentiment was recently echoed by Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who explained in a recent interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterley that the heavy concentration of miners […]

As the cryptocurrency markets are in freefall, global cryptocurrency regulation appears to be turning bearish as well. While one SEC Commissioner proposes a “safe harbor” for cryptocurrency projects, the US Secretary of the Treasury announces “significant” new regulation. So, what gives? Top five countries promising stricter cryptocurrency regulation 1. Brazil The cryptocurrency scene in Brazil […]

Bitcoin (BTC) has led the crypto markets to see some intense bearishness over the past couple of days, with its recent drop below $10,000 leading many of the altcoins that were previously caught within intense uptrends to see sizeable retraces. In spite of the conspicuous bearishness stemming from the market-wide downtrend seen over the past […]

Bitfinex announced a series of changes for its Tezos trading pairs that are meant to “enhance the trading experience” of its customers. Despite the significance of the announcement, XTZ continues pulling back after the 190 percent rally it went through since the beginning of the year. Maximum leverage for Tezos In a recent blog post, […]

Major alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) including TRON, XRP, and Cardano (ADA) dropped by more than 12 percent against the USD on the day. The move follows a strong 50 to 90 percent upsurge within a span of two months. A big upsurge is often supplemented with a big correction In the past two weeks, while the […]

Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum and the head of ConsenSys, the biggest blockchain software company in the world, re-affirmed his initiative to bring more than a million developers into the ETH ecosystem at ETHDenver. ConsenSys first introduced the “1 Million Developers” initiative in October 2019 to expand the developer community of Ethereum and encourage […]

For a long time, most applications used traditional centralized databases to manage their data. Applications could read and write to a set database that was managed by a single entity, a master. But these systems had a major flaw: reliance on a single entity leaves the database more vulnerable to failures and attacks. Systems that […]

Bitcoin (BTC) bulls were surprised to see the benchmark cryptocurrency plummet to below $10,000 yesterday, which this drop marking a bearish resolution to the tight trading range the crypto had previously been caught within in the lower-$10,000 region. Today, this bearishness extended further as the crypto reeled down to lows of $9,700, with today’s drop […]