Ripple’s xRapid Launch Low-Key as Company Joins New Coalition
Ripple has slipped in the launch of its new xRapid product without the accompanying fanfare which usually greets such events. The xRapid tool is designed to accelerate Ripple’s cross-border payments network, so news of its impending release impacted on the XRP price with almost instant effect, taking another small jump as the product went live. […]
UK Finance Minister Sees Blockchain Solution for Post-Brexit Irish Border
The UK’s finance minister Philip Hammond thinks he may have found an answer to the issue of trade across the Irish border after Brexit takes place: tracking cross-border trade with blockchain. At the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, Hammond said that despite his lack of expertise in the area, blockchain seemed to be the ”obvious” choice […]
Deloitte: 5 Hurdles for Blockchain to Enter Mainstream
Blockchain adoption barriers can be lowered significantly if five “key issues” can be addressed, according to an article published by Deloitte. Barriers Published on 28 September, the article titled “Blockchain and the five vectors of progress” takes a deep dive into the many issues that are stifling mass adoption of the technology. In order for progress […]
Russian Nuclear Authority to Develop Blockchain System
Russian State Nuclear Corporation Rosatom has announced plans to develop new and advanced technologies including blockchain to make their systems more efficient. The move comes after the Russian government unveiled a policy of blockchain promotion and Rosatom is following suit. Rosatam is an umbrella organization of more than 360 enterprises including scientific research centers, ice-breaking […]
Crypto Pioneers Attack SEC over Regulation in Joint Letter
A group of crypto pioneers has laid out concerns about the regulation of cryptocurrencies to the US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), outlining caution that further regulations passed could be detrimental to the industry as a whole. The news of this letter to the SEC follows another written last week by the US Congress in […]
Study: Ethereum ICOs Have Cashed Out as Much as They Raised
A report published by BitMEX on Monday shows that blockchain startups hosting initial coin offerings (ICOs) and raising funds in Ether (ETH) have now cashed out just USD 11 million short of what was raised. The research indicates that the 222 startups that were tracked managed to raise USD 5,463 million or around ETH 15 million via […]
StellarX Launches as Decentralized, No-Fee Crypto Exchange
A new decentralized cryptocurrency exchange platform from Interstellar has now been launched, free of any transaction or trading charges. StellarX is open source and based on the native Stellar (XLM) cryptocurrency’s universal marketplace, the sixth largest crypto with a USD 4.8 billion market cap. The platform differs from other exchanges as it allows users to load […]
Malta PM Informs UN on “Inevitable” Crypto Future
The Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, gave a speech to United Nation’s General Assembly (UNGA) remarking that cryptocurrencies are the “inevitable future of money”. Future-Proof During the speech given on 27 September, the Prime Minister believes that any nation can secure themselves as a “future-proof society”, the sooner they “pair the new digital economy […]
BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast, 1st October 2018
Listen to the 1 October 2018 BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast below. [su_audio url=”https://anchor.fm/s/58aba88/podcast/play/1445478/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F2018-8-30%2F4871444-44100-2-a869d4ac23c3c.mp3″] On this edition of the BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast, we discuss how JD.com is exploring how to build a smart city with artificial intelligence and blockchain, and how experts are disappointed with Russia’s crypto bill. Hear about how John McAfee says crypto is freeing […]
