Binance.US CEO Brian Brooks has announced his resignation from the company, citing "strategic differences" as a main reason for stepping down. This marks an abrupt change of plans after just weeks ago he had been promoted to co-CEO alongside Binance's current CEO Changpeng Zhao; something that was hailed by...
Amazon has not been one to shy away from innovation, as they have recently hinted that cryptocurrencies may soon be accepted. The company is looking to expand their payment options by allowing Bitcoin for purchases, as they are hiring a digital currency and blockchain product lead This move will appeal...
Square is looking to create a new business dedicated to DeFi aka "decentralized finance" applications. The projects will rely on smart contracts that are executed without the need for third parties like banks or other financial entities in order to conduct transactions of any kind, including lending and borrowing money...
Cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has announced the launch of their new marketplace for Non Fungible Tokens, where users can buy and sell unique digital works of art. The creators will be able to take advantage of an economy that is booming in recent times with billions worth being exchanged across a...
The prominent figure in IT world, Facebook CEO – Mark Zuckerberg recently made comments on how blockchain based authentication system for user data can eliminate usage of the third-party systems. In an interview with Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain on Feb. 20, Zuckerberg quoted that use case involving a blockchain system...
Recently we reported about Russian scientist being arrested for mining Cryptocurrency using supercomputers at the Federal Nuclear lab at Sarov, a major military research center located in Western Russia. Soon after that fellow researchers from ITMO University have claimed to find that silicon particles exposed to short and intense laser...
Ukrainian pawnshop Skarbnytsya, founded in November 1992, launched a loan service secured by cryptocurrency. They have more than 300 branches and are planning to provide loans based on the type, amount and price of the cryptocurrency. According to Skarbnytsya’s website, the company has millions of customers and 1,200...
In the month of January, a group of scientist revealed a major security vulnerability called ‘Eclipse attack‘, wherein virtually anyone with the internet connection can modify individual users access to publicly accessible ledger. The study was led by the researchers Ethal Heilman and Sharon Goldberg of the University of Boston,...
Discover the apps for cryptocurrencies which are necessary to have good control, trading and managing with your iPhone. Today i am presenting to you the 5 best apps to manage Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on iPhone Coinbase Coinbase is one of the most popular cryptocurrency portfolios in the world. The...
Garrett Camp, the co-founder of Uber announced the launch of the new cryptocurrency ‘Eco‘. For around six months the proposal was undergoing simulations to test the usability of services and payments. As reported in Fortune, Garrett is in views that Resuscitate the original promise of the digital currency: an instant,...
600 computers to mine bitcoins and other virtual cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Data Center’s in Iceland, to which the police call this as nation’s largest series of robberies. Last time we saw the price of mining hardware like GPU is increasing due to boost in sales for...
