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Billionaire Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz announced a multi-million dollar foray into the crypto-lending sector, predicting that the total cryptocurrency market capitalization will exceed $800 billion in the next 12 months. Novogratz, who previously predicted a market cap of $800 billion by the end of 2018, adjusted his bullish stance on the future of the cryptocurrency […]

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the launch of a new service allowing customers in the EU and Australia to exchange cryptoassets for e-gift cards. Announced on July 25, 2018, the new service allows users to spend their Coinbase funds on e-gift cards via WeGift, skipping the crypto to fiat bridge and facilitating the near-direct exchange […]

On August 10th, 2018, the SEC will announce their decision to either approve, deny or extend the decision-making period on Cboe/VanEck/Solid X’s Bitcoin ETF. As that historic date rapidly approaches, both excitement and chaos regarding its details have ramped up. Here are a few conflicting or unclear stories circulating regarding proposed ETFs. Outdated Quote On […]

Days after marking its first-year anniversary, leading exchange Binance is reportedly poised to enter South Korea. Seeing more than $600 million worth of cryptocurrency traded every day, the South Korean market is the fifth-most active in the world. While Binance — the world’s largest exchange by trade volume — is yet to issue an official […]

Recent reports of privacy-email provider ProtonMail planning an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for its product were widely circulated in cryptocurrency communities. However, the firm has since refuted such claims. ProtonMail ICO Rumors As per a job listing on ProtonMail’s careers page, the company is searching for a blockchain developer to join the team. The full-time […]

Publicly launched on July 9, 2018, Augur prediction markets are using Ethereum smart contracts to allow users to bet on almost anything. Taking it to the extreme, Augur users created the first assassination prediction markets prediction on the platform. A decentralized prediction market, Augur’s open-source protocol gives users complete control over which markets they create […]

Gaining momentum in its recent price rally, Bitcoin is increasing institutional investor interest. During the last week of July 2018, Wall Street traders completed their first-ever Bitcoin futures swap for physical BTC. Exchange for Physical (EFP) Crypto Transactions In a major stride for Bitcoin mainstream adoption, two institutional investors completed the first-ever exchange for physical […]

The third round of blockchain rankings has been released by China’s CCID Research Institute and EOS received the top rating for the second time in a row. Ethereum and Nebulas followed close after. Despite the complications Block.One faced during EOS’s main net release, CCID still felt that EOS remained supreme among all the blockchain projects […]

Amidst rising fears of cryptocurrency growth as a terrorism-funding and money laundering vehicle, the city of London established an educational outlet for its Police force to understand digital currencies. Coursework Addition As reported by CityAM on July 22, 2018, the “first of its kind” program will be added to existing coursework of the Economic Crime […]

The emergence of blockchain technology equips industries across the board with solutions for inefficient data storage, payment transfer and more. Keeping pace with blockchain’s surging popularity, Google joined with Digital Asset to bring users a developer toolkit for decentralized applications (dApps). Digital Asset Delivers Enterprise Blockchain Solutions Announced on July 23, 2018, New York-based startup Digital […]