The MIT Media Labs Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) is setting up a multi-year program to harden the Bitcoin network. The initiative was able to raise $4 million from prominent backers in the crypto community. The...
Bitcoin is becoming increasingly attractive to investors as the cryptos price almost doubled in just two months. BTC, which traded at around $29,000 when the year started, is priced at $49,034 at the time of writing based...
As Bitcoins rallied to a new all-time high last month, crypto adoption also surged in January with the number of cryptocurrency users worldwide rising past 100 million users for the first time. Now, a New York-based...
Crypto mining has now become the new source of income for PC bang owners in South Korea. The coronavirus-related restrictions, which have resulted in the shutdown of a number of gaming rooms, have forced others to seek new...
UK-based payments company Bottlepay successfully raised 11 million (around $15 million) in a recent funding round. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the payments space with its app that lets users send Bitcoin (BTC) and...
A number of Asias largest banking institutions have recently banded together to work on a CBDC project. The groups aim is to harness blockchain technology to speed up cross-border payments capable of real-time...
The long-awaited gas-saving upgrade for Ethereum could be just a few months away now according to industry insiders. Predictions Global founder and Ethereum developer Ryan Berckmans has suggested that the upgrade could...
The crypto markets recent rally saw Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether smash their previous records and set new all-time highs. Anticipating an increase in the demand for mining hardware, Nvidia announced a new graphics card...
Cryptocurrency critics have always highlighted cryptos potential use in criminal activities such as money laundering. A recent study by a blockchain analytics firm revealed that more than half of crypto-related activities...
The crypto markets recent rally saw Bitcoin set a new record with it traded past $42,000 this week after Tesla revealed that it invested $1.5 billion in BTC. While investors are understandably excited with the...
With the crypto market rally pushing Bitcoin and Ether prices to new all-time highs, one of the worst things that could happen to investors is to forget the passwords to their crypto wallets. Fortunately, theres an expert...
According to data from filfox.info, as of 05:00 UTC on February 4, the effective hashrate of Filecoins entire network now marks 2.295 EiB. The FIL production in the last 24 hours reads 282,878FIL, and the amount of pledge...
Most central banks are already exploring the possibility of issuing their own central bank digital currency (CBDC). In a recent report, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) projects that a number of countries will...
2020 has been a banner year for the crypto market. Despite initially faltering in March with the coronavirus pandemic-induced crash, it recovered and even rallied to new heights with various cryptocurrencies such as...
Yantai Ferry is modernizing its operations by integrating blockchain, the same technology used in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), into its payments and settlement system. The Korea-China shipping...