Market Still in Good Position; Real Crypto Volume 2x Larger

Twitter Facebook LinkedIn In an interview on CNBC Crypto Trader hosted by Ran Neuner, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) stated that the crypto market and Binance are still in a good position even after nearly a year of downward price movement. Binance Maintaining Healthy Business Over the past 11 months, the cryptocurrency market has lost more than 70 percent of its valuation amidst the fourth biggest correction in its 10-year history. CZ stated that the volume of Binance is down nearly 90 percent since January due to the correction and…

Blockchain Set to Change the Face of Commercial Real Estate As We Know It

The real estate industry has seen significant growth since the recession. With market prices predicted to increase along with millennial demand in 2019, the industry is as welcoming as ever. Although the market is improving, it is still plagued by issues that make the investment process less convenient than it should be. Major drawbacks of the real estate industry Real estate investment has three major drawbacks: the presence of intermediaries, the lack of affordable funding options, and fraud.   Agents take up to six percent of the total payment made…

What Will You Do With Your Coins?

Death and Dying in the Bitcoin Age: What Will You Do With Your Coins? November 11, 2018 by Evan Faggart In recent years, people have began to wonder what they should do with their digital lives after they die. Now, since Bitcoin has become more popular in the mainstream, there is a new worry: what do you do with your crypto when you die? Also read: Fork Wars: 66% of Bitcoin Cash Miners Now Backing Satoshi Vision  Subscribe to the Bitsonline YouTube channel for great videos featuring industry insiders & experts…

Markets Update: All Eyes on Bitcoin Cash Prices Before the Pending Fork

Since our last markets update five days ago, a lot has changed as a good chunk of the top cryptocurrency markets have dipped in value over the last three and a half days. Bitcoin cash markets touched a high of $638 on Wednesday, Nov. 7, but now prices are hovering around $544 per BCH on Sunday, Nov. 11. Also read: Bitcoin Cash Miners Break Records Processing Multiple 32 MB Blocks Digital Assets See Some Slight Losses Over the Last Three Days Cryptocurrency markets have had an interesting week after a long…

Star Trek’s Captain Kirk Defends ETH Decentralization, While Fake Elon Musks Overrun Twitter

Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Elon Musk Impersonators Flood Twitter With Fake Crypto Giveaways Although impersonators on Twitter pretending to be famous celebrities offering crypto giveaways are many, this week saw an influx of these crypto pretenders posing as Tesla CEO Elon Musk. After compromising verified accounts with…

Web Summit 2018, a Great Event for Crypto Community

This year’s Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon witnessed impressive giveaways in the form of free digital assets from various blockchain companies. The annual event hosted various A-list panelists including Pinterest’s CEO and Co-founder Ben Silbermann, Medium’s Ev Williams and a number of prominent executives from the tech industry, startups, media, and investors. The conference was attended by close to 69,000 participants, from 159 countries and addressed by 1,200 speakers. Among them were 1,800 start-ups, 1,500 tech investors and representatives from 2,600 media outlets, all on a single platform.  The scale…

Private Blockchains Could Be Compatible with EU Privacy Rules, Research Shows

Private blockchains, such as interbanking platforms set to share information on customers,  could be compatible with new E.U. privacy rules, according to research published Nov. 6. The study was conducted by Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge, U.K. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) act, a recent legislation that regulates the storage of personal data for all individuals within the European Union, came into effect this May. According to the law, all data controllers have to respect citizens’ rights in terms of keeping and transferring their…

Ethereum’s (ETH) Constantinople Upgrade Could Happen as Early as January 16th

Fans and investors of Ethereum (ETH) have something to look forward to as we head into the Holiday season. This is due to the fact that during an Ethereum core developer meeting held this past Friday, a new timeline was proposed to implement the Constantinople upgrade. In the minutes of the meeting currently available on GitHub, two dates were suggested in January 2019. The first one was the 16th January and the second was the 12th. January 16th Date Many of the core-developers agreed that the hard fork should happen in mid-January…

Arbitrators Able to Reverse Transactions

A screenshot circulating on social media has revealed a decentralized blockchain protocol EOS practicing authority over its network. AUTI9003, a pseudonym on Reddit, posted a photograph which demonstrated arbitrators on the EOS network in action, reversing confirmed transactions. A so-called judge referred verses from the EOS blockchain’s constitution to resolve a dispute between two account holders. The claimant accused an unidentified individual of possessing private keys to its EOS account via a phishing attempt. The user reached out to the EOS with his/her complaint and the network chose one Ben Gates…

Singapore Exchange Successfully Trials Blockchain for Tokenized Assets Settlement

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), along with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), have successfully tested the use of blockchain technology for tokenized assets settlement, according to a SGX release issued Sunday, Nov. 11. The report reveals the data on the trial that began in August, shortly after MAS and SGX had partnered with U.S. stock market Nasdaq, “big four” consulting company Deloitte, and Singaporean tech company Anquan. As per the release, the partners have developed a blockchain-driven solution for Delivery versus Payment (DvP) capabilities — a settlement procedure where the…