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Lior Yaffe is the Co-Founder and Director of Jelurida and has 20+ years of experience in design, development, and deployment of enterprise applications for large organizations. Lior has his B.A. in computer science from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Before establishing Jelurida, he led the development and product management of a leading mainframe integration product […]

Yesterday, in a move out of left field, Twitter added an emoji for Bitcoin. To use the emoji, all you need to do it enter the hashtag of “Bitcoin,” and the emoji will magically appear on your screen. Although this may seem extremely trivial—the addition of the Bitcoin emoji doesn’t add any functionality to Twitter—this […]

As Bitcoin closed out its best January in seven years, open interest rocketed to a new all-time high on Bakkt’s physically-settled Bitcoin futures market, and institutional traders on CME Group looked to position themselves for higher highs. Bulls at Bakkt On Friday the Bakkt physically-settled contract saw a new record of $11.6 million in open […]

Following a brief overnight selloff that sent Bitcoin to lows of $9,200, the cryptocurrency’s bulls have been able to post a strong defense of this key support level and have subsequently rallied BTC back up to its 2020 highs of $9,500. BTC’s rally up to these levels elucidates that it is firmly in the control […]

Investing as little as $1 every day into Bitcoin over five years would have yielded an incredible 12x return. According to James Todaro, the managing partner at Blocktown Capital, an investment of $1,858 into Bitcoin would now be worth over $22,000 even when accounting for Bitcoin’s violent price swings. A dollar a day keeps bankruptcy […]

The Grin developer tasked with implementing privacy features in Litecoin announced the introduction of a new type of transaction that will “open up more opportunities going forward.” MimbleWimble development update In a blog post, David Burkett, the project lead for the Litecoin MimbleWimble (MW) proposal, announced the integration of non-interactive transactions. The new feature eliminates […]

Bitcoin has seen its price surge by nearly 40 percent since Jan. 3. The bullish impulse allowed the flagship cryptocurrency to move far beyond the $9,000 resistance level. As a result, BTC has today a year-to-date (YTD) return of 170 percent making Q1 2020 the best performing Q1 in the last seven years, according to […]

When consumers hold money in banks, they expect to be paid an interest rate—there’s a reason why people don’t store their money under a mattress in a safe in their house. But, this financial trend is changing, with there being banks that now charge consumers and businesses for storing money, something unheard of ten or […]

In December, analysts across the board were almost certain that Bitcoin was poised to fall to the $5,000s and maybe even lower; after surging to $14,000 by June 2019, the cryptocurrency had entered a steep downtrend, marked by successive lower lows and lower highs. But, this changed at the turn of the year. After stalling […]

Bitcoin HODLers, uh, rejoice! Today, Twitter bequeathed on us a gift: the Bitcoin hashtag now has its own emoji. To use the emoji, all you need to do it enter the hashtag of “Bitcoin,” and the emoji will magically appear on your screen. While this isn’t a case of crypto mass adoption per se, the […]