Over the past several days, the world has watched a precarious situation surrounding Tron-blockchain founder and “crypto whiz kid,” Justin Sun, and the Chinese government unfold, primarily surrounding his controversial upcoming lunch with Warren Buffett. Despite this controversy, China’s Center for Industry Development (CCID) has continued to favor Tron, and...
On August 6th, a patent application was filed by IBM detailing an idea quite unlike any seen before by the company. The patent describes web browser supported by a blockchain-harnessing peer-to-peer network. According to information harvested from the patent application, the theoretical browser is to collect predetermined information from web...
Crypto & Blockchain are Alive Once Again Despite Bitcoin’s absolutely stellar performance in 2019 so far, some skeptics have claimed that this crypto resurgence is entirely hype-based yet again. In fact, one traditional markets trader called BTC’s recent boom to $14,000 an “echo bubble”, likely implying that he expects for...
The past weeks have been harsh on the price of Ether, and public concern has been mounting over the future of the currency. Ethereum hype seems to be tied directly to the value of Ether, but where does Ethereum’s advantage truly lie in such a Bitcoin-centric world? Indeed, Ethereum continues...
Circle Internet Financial, a global fintech firm focused on the crypto and blockchain sector, is looking for a general partner who will help the company raise $100 million. Leveraging SeedInvest’s Network of 250,000 Investors The multi-million dollar venture capital fund is reportedly set to take advantage of the deal flow...
The blockchain industry has been facing a meteoric phase of growth over the past several years, and it appears that the demand for those who are well-versed in blockchain technology has exceeded the supply of skilled workers. One executive at blockchain-focused FinTech company Ripple is now explaining that this labor...
Overstock Loses Bitcoin Proponent, But Keeps Crypto Focus This week, Overstock, a large pro-Bitcoin and pro-crypto American technology and retail giant, saw its chief executive bite the dust. Patrick Bryne issued a letter to shareholders late last week, announcing that he would be stepping down from his position as a...
Bitcoin Fundamentals Continue Higher Last week, we reported that Bitcoin’s metrics had taken a turn for the worst. Citing a report from blockchain analytics firm Coinmetrics, we wrote that “metrics for all the leading blockchains are currently on a downtrend. Bitcoin’s active addresses, active one-year supply, transaction count, aggregate transaction...
Despite the opinions of some who consider crypto to be a detriment to the world, younger generations are certainly idealistic on the place of blockchain technologies in the future of society. On Wednesday, Coinbase published the 2019 version of its annual study looking at the world’s top 50 universities and...
Regardless of one’s opinion on whether Ethereum is dying or not, cross-compatibility between tokens is clearly beneficial for moving the industry forward. Telegram is not the first messaging app company to be offering a token. Alongside the announcement of Gram, was Kik’s announcement of their own crypto, known as Kin,...
Dapp.com, a Singapore-based platform for discovering and analyzing thousands of ranked decentralized applications (dApps), closed a $1 million Pre-A investment round on Thursday. The round was reportedly led by Du Capital and Hashed, a South Korean venture capital company focused on blockchain technology. According to its Crunchbase profile, Dapp.com ranks...
Telegram’s blockchain-focused startup TON Labs has released the final set of test code before the Gram project is set to go live. The code provides the ability to run a Gram node, and is being provided ahead of the eventual release date of the token for developers and enthusiasts alike....