Category: ETH

In an otherwise slow start to the week for cryptocurrency, billion-dollar payment services company VISA has posted a cryptocurrency and blockchain-related job, giving indication that the company is looking to begin development in that sector. According to the job posting on SmartRecruiters, a San Francisco based recruiting firm, VISA Fintech is looking for a technical…

The 8th largest cryptocoin by market capitalization [current – $2.1 bln] is one of the only in the green as today’s market performance with 3.65% in the green leading the BTC market by 4.00%. Source: coinmarketcap The aforementioned value movement marks out a monthly [30 days of trading] gain of 36.144 percent with the positive…

Analyst Awaits Bitcoin Breakout Each and every day, the cryptocurrency market trades. More often than not, it seems to move in a random manner, with Bitcoin ( BTC), Ethereum, or whatever other flavors of the week posting gains or losses without as much of an indication. But in the eyes of a prominent analyst, BTC moves…

Litecoin price finally broke the key $60.00 resistance area against the US dollar. LTC is currently consolidating above $60.00 and it could continue to move higher. Key Talking Points Litecoin price climbed higher and broke the $58.00 and $60.00 resistances (Data feed of Kraken) against the US Dollar. There was a break above a major…

The Famous XRP Army has been during the last months, the manifestation of Ripple’s acceptance beyond the boundaries of being a product oriented to satisfy the requirements of the traditional players in the world of financial services. The growing number of followers and users excited about XRP’s potential has helped Ripple clean up its image…

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin made the prediction that blockchain will be a primary catalyst for the growth of the global economy over the next 10 to 20 years. Speaking in a keynote at the SXSW conference in Austin on Mar. 14., Lubin claimed that he expected the global economy to grow ten times larger over…

Bitcoin Skeptic Doubles Down Per previous reports from Ethereum World News, Mark Dow, a skilled chartist who heads mainstream finance hedge funds, has long been a skeptic of Bitcoin. In late-2017, he opened a BTC short, closing the profitable position just recently. Days after he closed his short, he went on to draw a harrowing…

Bitcoin Trading Volumes Boom Over recent weeks, it has become more and more apparent that life has returned to Bitcoin ( BTC), and the broader digital asset ecosystem by extension. Independent cryptocurrency researcher Kevin Rooke recently drew attention to data that would corroborate this sentiment on Twitter. Rooke notes that per statistics from Nic Carter’s CoinMetrics,…

During Thursday’s “Blockchain Beyond the Hype: The Ripple Effect” session at SXSW, Ripple CTO David Schwartz explained to the audience why the Ripple team considers XRP not a security. According to Schwartz, it is necessary to know the history of XRP and Ripple in order to evaluate whether or not the token is a security.…

A Swedish miner claims to have cut mining costs by approximately 75% after opting to install solar panels on his home as a measure to keep his business afloat without having to pay high electricity rates or overload his local grid. In a Reddit post, the miner identified as Candese explained that he decided to…