By CCN Markets: Stamp collecting just entered the 21st century, as the Austrian Post Office unveiled its limited edition ‘crypto stamp’ collectibles, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Send Your Stamp, Keep A Collectible Crypto Stamp A limited 150,000 unit run of five different stamps – black, red, blue, yellow, black – allows the owner to Read more…
From Cash to Satoshi’s Vision, to Private, to Gold, to Atom and to Adult, the prefix Bitcoin has been used to depict and more commercially, sell and market a host of cryptocurrencies. Currently, there are 38 among the 2186 coins listed on CoinMarketCap, that sport the name “Bitcoin” as their introductory sell. This excludes the Read more…
One of the most recognizable figures in investing has had a change of heart in his opinion towards Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Mark Mobius, cofounder of Mobius Capital Partners, recently spoke in a Bloomberg podcast where he claimed that Bitcoin will be “alive and well” into the future. Despite his current positive attitude towards Bitcoin, Mobius Read more…
Crypto is making its way into the world of finance, slowly taking over an important part of the global markets. The recent Bitcoin (“BTC”) Bullrun seems to have attracted a substantial amount of fresh investors and this new wave of enthusiasm is very beneficial for the expansion of the ecosystem. This impression was shared by Read more…
One of Shark Tank’s most prominent investors has taken aim at Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Kevin O’Leary, who also goes by the nickname ‘Mr. Wonderful’ on the show, recently appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box and gave his negative opinion of Bitcoin. O’Leary told the host that Bitcoin is neither a valuable asset or a currency, but Read more…
Bitfinex, the embattled cryptocurrency exchange, says it raised about one billion in USDT from private investors even amid accusations that the company and Tether covered up losses to the tune of $850 million. Bitfinex: Investors Trust us, We Need Not Brag Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer (CTO) of Bitfinex announced the news via a Read more…
The CEO of crypto analytics firm Messari is predicting that the Proof of Stake (PoS) transition for Ethereum will be later than what the current time table for the currency is indicating. While Ethereum devs in February announced the intention to transition away from a Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain to Proof of Stake within Read more…
Vitalik Buterin has put forth a proposal to increase the staking reward for Ethereum in the upcoming implementation of Proof of Stake (PoS). In a post to GitHub published on April 20, the Ethereum co-founder shared his opinion on the amount of ETH that should be paid out in staking once the currency switches to Read more…
The ecosystem of crypto currencies and blockchain technologies has grown so much that it has already become a matter of political strategy in different parts of the world. Despite the opinion of many anarchists, government authorities are taking the issue more and more seriously. G20 Summit Following the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Read more…
Tom Shaughnessy, a co-founder at Delphi Digital, an independent research boutique for institutional-grade analysis, believes the next bull run of bitcoin will be bigger than the previous rally. “The last BTC bull run was driven by hype around magical internet money. The next one will be driven by an actual macro based understanding of the Read more…