Omega One, which is developing an off-exchange venue in digital assets and capital market infrastructure, has launched Omega Dark, the first regulated dark pool for digital assets. According to a recent press release, Omega Dark is the first company to be granted a provisional Digital Asset Exchange License in Bermuda under the country’s new Digital […]
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Bitcoinmap.cash Helps You Find Places to Spend BCH
An application called Bitcoinmap.cash lists locations where decentralized digital currencies such as bitcoin cash can be spent directly. It provides information about hundreds of restaurants, bars, hotels, and stores around the world that accept electronic cash without intermediaries.
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Promoting Direct Payments With Bitcoin Cash
The Bitcoinmap.cash platform, a community project open to new participants and developers, has a web-based version and a mobile app for Android devices. All the venues displayed on its map accept bitcoin cash (BCH) or dash, while some of the shops also take bitcoin core (BTC). Many of these places – such as the Cara B Cafe-Bar in downtown Barcelona or the La Sirene Soho Restaurant in New York – offer discounts of up to 20 percent on the first BCH payment you make.
Win $5K of BCH Playing Cashgames From Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin.com’s gaming portal is filled with a plethora of casino-style games that allow you to wager and win with bitcoin cash (BCH). Last week, one punter did just that, scooping $ 5,000 of BCH from a progressive slot. All of the games that feature on Bitcoin.com’s Cashgames portal are provably fair, with a typical return of 99% or greater. All it takes is a little BCH to participate.
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BMW, Intel Partner With Government-Backed Blockchain Accelerator
BMW Group Asia, Intel and Nielsen are now corporate partners of the Singapore government-supported blockchain accelerator Tribe.
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Indian Supreme Court Set to Hear Crypto Case on March 29
The four-week window that the Indian supreme court has given the government to come up with crypto regulation is coming to an end. According to the court’s Advance List, the crypto case is listed for March 29. Meanwhile, the community is ramping up efforts to bring about positive crypto regulation and the end of the banking ban imposed by the central bank.
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Nexo (NEXO) Now Pays 6.5% Interest on 5 Major Stablecoins
Nexo (NEXO), a cryptocurrency-backed loan platform, revealed on Friday that investors can now earn up to 6.5% interest on major stablecoins stored on the platform. Earn Interest on DAI, PAX, USDC, USDT & TUSD: – 6.5% p.a. compounding interest, paid out daily – Fully automated & available for all Nexo Wallets – No minimum amounts […]
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Cloud9 Unveils New Apex Legends Roster
North American esports giant Cloud9 has officially revealed the roster for its Apex Legends team and, based on the talent displayed in the highlight reel, they chose well. We are excited to introduce the start of the Official Cloud9 @playapex roster, #C9Apex, presented by @Sneaky! ©️9⃣ @Frexs ©️9⃣ @GregoFPS ©️9⃣ @C9PVPX ©️9⃣ @iam_chappie 📺 https://t.co/BAX7JZqNCu pic.twitter.com/IOgryAL8Kk […]
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The Fed’s Low Interest Rates and QE Have Created a Dependent Generation
On March 20, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) unanimously decided to keep federal interest rates unchanged. Critics believe that the central bank’s policy of near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing (QE) has corrupted the U.S. economy for nearly a decade and spawned a generation of socialists.
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BitMEX CEO Gives $10,000 Bitcoin (BTC) Price Target for 2019
Arthur Hayes, the CEO of cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX, recently revealed that he sees Bitcoin (BTC) reaching a price of $ 10,000 in 2019. In a newsletter published yesterday by BitMEX, Hayes delivered some charged assertions on everything from major influencers in the crypto industry to predictions for the upcoming year of trading. While he thinks […]
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Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem
Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
Bitcoin and the Agora: Every Transaction Outside the Nexus of State Control Is a Victory
The cryptoconomy means many things to many people. For example, since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009, some individuals have used digital currencies as a form of agorism otherwise known as counter-economics. These people believe that using bitcoin as a tool to avoid state harassment is one of the technology’s key features with the potential to reduce the manipulation and civil abuses perpetrated by government bureaucracy.
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U.K. Brexit Deal Beamed Into Space Through Blockstream’s Satellite Messaging App
Earlier this month, blockchain startup Blockstream announced that its satellite messaging application programming interface (API) was launching on Bitcoin’s mainnet. Now, one enterprising bitcoiner has used this platform to beam the U.K.’s proposed Brexit deal into space.
The application allows users to beam data into space, which can be downloaded by anyone with the appropriate receiver. Users can pay for the service using the Lightning Network.
New Crypto Exchange Bitzlato Offers P2P Trading
There’s a new digital asset exchange on the market that offers opportunities for peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading and a variety of fiat payment options. Bitzlato is a Russian platform integrated with a P2P exchanger that features a web-based version and a Telegram bot buying and selling six cryptocurrencies.
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Numerous Payment Methods Available
The integration allows Bitzlato to provide users with a variety of deposit and withdrawal options including bank transfers, payment processors, credit cards and ATMs. Traders in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and a couple of dozen other countries can use popular services in the region such as those offered by Qiwi, Yandex Money, Sberbank, Tinkoff Bank and many more.
UPS Targets B2B Sales With New Blockchain E-Commerce Platform
U.S.-based shipping giant UPS has announced a new blockchain integration aimed to bring business-to-business sales into the digital age.
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Diar: $4 Billion Currently Staked in PoS Cryptocurrencies
Roughly $ 4 billion in investor capital is currently locked in proof-of-stake (PoS) networks, according to the latest report by crypto market research firm Diar. In the report, Diar reveals that over 70 projects currently rely on some type of PoS format, with an average of 40% of the total token supply across the projects delegated […]
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China Favors Tron and EOS in New Crypto Ranking but Downgrades Bitcoin
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development has released its latest crypto project ranking. Tron and EOS top the list out of the 35 crypto projects evaluated while Bitcoin has been downgraded slightly. The center also evaluated the projects independently based on basic technology, applicability, and creativity.
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March Ranking
The Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID), under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, released the 11th update of its crypto project ranking report on Friday. The number of crypto projects evaluated this month was 35, unchanged from the previous month.
Research: 95% of Bitcoin (BTC) Trading Volume Is Fake
Trading volumes on cryptocurrency exchanges are largely an illusion. That’s according to a research report by Bitwise that accompanied its recent Bitcoin (BTC) ETF filing with the SEC. 1/ New Research from us @BitwiseInvest. As part of 226 slides presented to the SEC on our ETF filing, we did a first-of-its-kind analysis of *order book […]
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Bitcoin Price Analysis: Slow Upward Drift Tests Market Supply
A slow, grinding upward drift has been the name of the game for bitcoin’s market over the last few weeks. The upward drift is bringing us slowly to a level that was previously rejected violently:
Figure 1: BTC-USD, Daily Candles, Upward Drift
Here’s the Latest Blockchain Project Gaining Mainstream Attention
Every so often, the mainstream tech and investing media pick up on a new project or platform within the blockchain industry. This is precisely the case when it comes to Cosmos (ATOM), a decentralized network of independent parallel blockchains, each powered by BFT consensus algorithms… You must be a subscriber to continue reading Members can login […]
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Markets Update: BCH Holds Above $150, RVN and XTZ Explode
In recent market action, bitcoin core (BTC) has struggled to hold above $ 4,000 following four consecutive green weekly candles, while bitcoin cash (BCH) appears to be consolidating above $ 150 after comprising the best performing of the 10 largest crypto assets by market cap of the last seven days. In other news, ravencoin (RVN) and tezos (XTZ) are among the highest capitalized top gaining markets of the past week.
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