Day: January 3, 2019

Bitmex Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Bitcoin on the Front Page of The Times Newspaper

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Ten years ago on a day like today, the Bitcoin Genesis lock was mined. Bitmex has taken to the front page of Times Newspaper to thank Satoshi Nakamoto for the creation of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is exactly 10 years today. Back in October 2018, there was the decade anniversary of BTC. However, that was the anniversary for the original Whitepaper published by Satoshi Nakamoto. Today is exactly 10 years since the first Bitcoin came into existence. Hence, it is the decade-old anniversary of the mining of the cryptocurrency genesis block. Bitmex…

Binance Launchpad Keeps Faith in Token Sales as Blockchain Industry Matures

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Binance Launchpad Keeps Faith in Token Sales as Blockchain Industry Matures January 3, 2019 by Jon Southurst Binance Launchpad — the platform designed to make token sales more accessible to the public and help raise capital for blockchain startups — is showing faith in the initial coin offering (ICO) market. The popular exchange announced today that it plans to list new token launches almost every month in 2019, starting with BitTorrent and Fetch.AI. Also read: New Year New ETH: Ether Retakes 2nd Place in Crypto Market Cap Swing Subscribe to the Bitsonline…

Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Stall at $4,000, Arthur Hayes Bullish

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Latest Bitcoin News At spot prices, Bitcoin may be facing resistance with some investors taking this reprieve to shed off their crypto holding after a year of steep declines. However, in the midst of this recovery, Mike Novogratz, the investor behind Galaxy Digital Holdings—a fund that ultimately plans to become a crypto friendly bank, is looking at the upsides. Arguing that blockchain is there for the long haul and early adopters are still a couple of times over and outperforming the S&P 500 and other indices, he is now plowing…

HitBTC Dismisses Allegations It Froze Accounts in Response to Proof of Keys Event

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Cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC has rejected allegations by some of the industry’s best-known figures that it was deliberately freezing user accounts, the company told Cointelegraph in an email Jan. 3. Responding to a request for comment, Peter Swen, a representative from the exchange’s marketing team, denied any link between account freezes and Thursday’s ongoing Proof of Keys event. After user complaints on social media, Proof of Keys’ organizer Trace Mayer had publicly suggested that HitBTC may be deliberately disabling withdrawals in response to the event. He was subsequently joined by others…

Nasdaq-Powered Exchange to Launch EU-Regulated Tokenized Stock Trading

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Estonian digital trading platform DX Exchange will begin offering tokenized stocks on the Ethereum blockchain next week, the company confirmed in a press release Jan. 3. DX, which will reportedly be the first exchange to offer such trading in a fully regulated environment in the European Union, will use Nasdaq’s Financial Information exchange (FIX) protocol to deliver the product. According to the company’s press release, cryptocurrency users will be able to purchase tokens that will be backed by stocks in various major companies, including Google, Facebook and Amazon. The shares…

How Does Crypto’s 10-Year Performance Sync Up?

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Bitcoin has been among the most fascinating tradable assets to watch over the last year. From reaching dazzling new heights to its most recent tumble to fresh one-year lows, the cryptocurrency market has been nothing short of exciting when attempting to characterize its volatile ebb and flow. Amid the growing chorus of enthusiasts, activists and investors calling for greater adoption — and more importantly, the launch of new financial instruments designed to give the budding new asset class greater exposure — Bitcoin prices have become a bellwether for the market.…

Deploying Blockchain and Smart Contract based Solutions

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As discussed before, the blockchain-based solution is built to provide strong integrity and independent verifiability. An exception to the independent verifiability is private blockchain solutions. In this part, we discuss both of these technological dimensions and detail their applicability and limitations. Public distributed blockchain provides the most robust integrity assurance and independent verifiability feature. Deploying a service on a public distributed blockchain has to take into consideration: The benefit the deployed service would like to gain from the blockchain (smart contract) technology. What information the deployed service would push onto the…

Dx.Exchange Launching Crypto Trading Platform With Tokenized Stocks

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Dx.exchange is launching a new cryptocurrency platform that tokenizes the stock market. The Estonia-based fintech company is the first non-CFD crypto exchange to offer stock trading that are tokenized on the blockchain. Publicly listed companies like Google, Facebook, Intel and Apple will be listed on DX.exchange. This is the first time securities can be purchased directly with popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The exchange is expected to launch its service January 7th. https://t.co/gavrewTi9F is ready to go live! The platform will launch on the 7th of January #exchangeyourway https://t.co/naAIacseUb — DX.Exchange (@DXdotExchange) December…

Happy Tenth Birthday, Bitcoin: BitMEX, Crypto Community Celebrate

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In late-October, NewsBTC reported that Bitcoin turned ten. While this was factually accurate, the world’s first cryptocurrency turns a decade-old yet again on January 3rd, as Satoshi Nakamoto processed the first official block on this exact day, only ten years ago. This industry occurrence didn’t go unnoticed, as crypto enthusiasts en bloc(k) have taken to Twitter, expressing their love for Bitcoin’s inherent ability to turn the centralized establishment on its head. Even BitMEX, one of the most influential crypto startups in 2018, got in on the fun. Happy (Actual) 10th Birthday,…

Bitcoin Eyes Test of Key Price Hurdle in First Since November

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Bitcoin (BTC) could test a key resistance line for the first time in nearly two months. The widely followed 50-day simple moving average (SMA) line is currently located at $3,940 – $100 above bitcoin’s current price of $3,840 – according to Bitstamp data. The crucial SMA line was last put to test on Nov. 8. Back then, the SMA was located at $6,450 and was serving as a stiff resistance. On Nov. 14, BTC nosedived below $6,000, putting the bears back into the driver’s seat.  As a result, the gap…