Day: March 21, 2019

US Prediction Startup Numerai Raises $11 Million in ICO

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U.S. prediction market startup and hedge fund Numerai raised $11 million in an ICO to launch its Erasure project. American prediction market startup and hedge fund Numerai (NMR) has raised $11 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) to launch its project Erasure, crypto industry media outlet Coindesk reports on March 21. Introduced in late 2016, Numeraire network provides a blockchain and cryptographic token-based ecosystem for incentivizing anonymous data scientists to create predictive models. Based on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, Numeraire tokens are used in trading market predictions on the…

Why Square’s Bitcoin Hiring Spree is Crucial for Crypto Adoption

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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square, the $32.7 billion mobile payment giant based in the U.S., revealed that Square would fund three to four developers and a designer to work on the open-source protocol of Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystem. Independent of the core business strategies of Square, the team of developers and a designer will work to contribute to the cryptocurrency ecosystem in a variety of ways, potentially by contributing to the open-source codebase of the Bitcoin network. Join CCN for $9.99 per month and get an ad-free version…

Why Square’s Bitcoin Hiring Spree is Crucial for Crypto Adoption

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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square, the $32.7 billion mobile payment giant based in the U.S., revealed that Square would fund three to four developers and a designer to work on the open-source protocol of Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystem. Independent of the core business strategies of Square, the team of developers and a designer will work to contribute to the cryptocurrency ecosystem in a variety of ways, potentially by contributing to the open-source codebase of the Bitcoin network. Join CCN for $9.99 per month and get an ad-free version…

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Prices Cool Off, Correction to $140 in Progress

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Bitcoin Cash outperforms all assets in the top 10 The ABC team will implement Schnorr signatures in May 2019 Participation levels drop despite BCH registering double-digit gains Schnorr Signatures, it appears, will first call Bitcoin Cash home before implementation at Bitcoin core. Nonetheless, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is outperforming other assets and up 24 percent from last week’s close. Bitcoin Cash Price Analysis Fundamentals In recent weeks, Bitcoin Cash has been on a roll. With supportive fundamentals such as Digitec and Galaxus, Avnet and Vordex Suisse all offering support, it’s only…

Ripple (XRP) Under Pressure Within a 4 Cents Range

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Ripple prices oscillating in a 4 cents range xRapid adoption will catalyze XRP interest Average participation levels more than half those of Feb 24-2. Aside from IBM’s World Wire–which would in a way loosen banks allowing these conservative intermediaries to experiment with digital coins, Ripple enthusiasts are watching xRapid and how banks are responding to its value proposition. By using XRP, fund transfer will be faster and cheaper benefiting both parties. If banks are interested, prices of Ripple (XRP) will edge higher as demand increase. Ripple Price Analysis Fundamentals Mercury…

Not Just BNB: Up 120%, Huobi’s Crypto Exchange Coin Is Breaking Out

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Following in the footsteps of the world’s largest exchange cryptocurrency, Binance Coin (BNB), another exchange coin, Huobi Token (HT), is flashing a more than 100 percent price increase in 2019. Used as an alternative to trading fees on their respective exchanges, exchange cryptocurrencies are also commonly paired with other cryptocurrencies to form new markets and increase overall liquidity. Recently, however, Binance created a new demand driver for its token by requiring participants of its token sale platform Binance Launchpad to make purchases either with bitcoin (BTC) or BNB. While that…

Not Just BNB: Up 120%, Huobi’s Crypto Exchange Coin Is Breaking Out

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Following in the footsteps of the world’s largest exchange cryptocurrency, Binance Coin (BNB), another exchange coin, Huobi Token (HT), is flashing a more than 100 percent price increase in 2019. Used as an alternative to trading fees on their respective exchanges, exchange cryptocurrencies are also commonly paired with other cryptocurrencies to form new markets and increase overall liquidity. Recently, however, Binance created a new demand driver for its token by requiring participants of its token sale platform Binance Launchpad to make purchases either with bitcoin (BTC) or BNB. While that…

China’s Alibaba Partners With Chinese Software Giant to Promote Blockchain Development

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Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba and Aerospace Information Co., a major software developer and provider, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement for cloud computing, blockchain and other technological services development. Chinese finance publication Securities Daily reported on the deal on March 21. The two parties have agreed to take advantage of their respective brand technologies “to actively integrate resources and carry out in-depth cooperation” in in the fields of cloud computing services, finance and taxation, government affairs and blockchain technology, among others. As the publication states, Aerospace Information will collaborate with…

WSJ Falsely Overstates ‘$9 Million’ ShapeShift Money Laundering Claim: Analysis

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Blockchain investigation and cybersecurity firm CipherBlade has done its own research, the results of which seem to exonerate crypto exchange ShapeShift from a scathing report in The Wall Street Journal. Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees was the first to tout the results, which exposed holes in the Journal’s methodology, knowledge of crypto, and other shortcomings. In CipherBlade’s published response, the firm dismantles the Journal’s key allegations one by one, chief among which was that ShapeShift facilitated a $9 million laundering comprised of swapping bitcoin and Ethereum for under-the-radar coins like Monero.…

Hold Bitcoin (BTC), Billionaire Recommends Even as Coin Demand Wane

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Bitcoin prices likely to crumble Chinese billionaire recommends hodling Transaction volumes low averaging 6k. Although Bitcoin is on an uptrend, it may correct in days ahead as sellers of Feb 24 flow back pouring cold water on bulls’ effort. All the same and according to Zhao, a Chinese billionaire, Bitcoin holders should hold as much as possible when nobody cares. Bitcoin Price Analysis Fundamentals According to the US SEC, Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two most decentralized platforms. Indeed, as a pioneer and a growing network powered by a global…