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New York University Offers Students Major in Cryptocurrency

Leave a Comment / Crypto World, Altcoin, Bitcoin / September 18, 2018 September 18, 2018

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There’s been a major boom in the number of colleges across the country letting students study cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, and the technology that makes them possible. CBS2’s Clark Fouraker checked out New York University, the first university in the nation to let students major in the new financial tech. Inside the Stern School of Business, …

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Privacy Coins, Verge Offers Little Privacy, but Nothing Unique

Leave a Comment / Altcoin, Crypto World / September 18, 2018 September 18, 2018

Battle of the Privacycoins: Verge Offers Little Privacy and Nothing Unique Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. Government agencies, analytics companies and other interested parties — let’s call …

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SBI Holdings (Japan) has Announced to Integrate Ripple Ledger System in Money Transfer APP

Leave a Comment / Altcoin, Blockchain, Crypto World / September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018

SBI Holdings is not quite done with its foray into blockchain. The Japanese financial giant has announced plans to launch a mobile payment app for iOSand Android that will use Ripple’s distributed ledger tech. So far, all we know is that the app is expected to arrive this Fall and that it will be called Money Tap. This …

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Binance to Start Testing of New Crypto-Fiat Exchange in Singapore

Leave a Comment / Crypto World, Altcoin, Bitcoin / September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018

Binance, the largest global crypto exchange, will soon start private beta testing a crypto-fiat exchange in Singapore, as Binance co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) tweeted on September 15. As Changpeng Zhao revealed, the testing will be launched on September 18: “I just slipped that we will begin #Binance Singapore fiat exchange live money closed beta testing on Sept 18th, …

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Ripple Partners With the $120 billion National Commercial Bank (NCB), Saudi Arabia

Leave a Comment / Altcoin, Crypto World / September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018

In a move that will thrust Ripple into dominance in the middle east, Ripple has announced their partnership with Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank (NCB). NCB is one of the largest banks in the country commanding a market capitalization of around $120 billion and with Ripple saying the bank will become a bona fide member of the Ripple Net network …

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Cardano Coin Story: Attempt To Improve What Bitcoin And Ethereum Done Wrong

Leave a Comment / Altcoin, Blockchain, Crypto World / September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018

Since Bitcoin’s inception in the financial world it has given birth to a new field of ideas and solutions to be explored by many for the issues that are globally met right now. Mostly and tremendously in the currency industry. One of the most influential and respected figures trying to shape-up and improve the crypto-verse by no …

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Bitcoin Drops Below $6,500 but The Bulls are on Horizon

Leave a Comment / Bitcoin, Altcoin, Crypto World / September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018

Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, has recently seen its price dip below the $6,500 mark, at a time in which analysts are pointing to oversold conditions and claiming a bull run may be around the corner because of historical trends. BTC, according to CryptoCompare data, dropped 0.9% in the last 24-hour period, and is currently trading at …

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The 2 Billion Dollar Whale that Caused Latest Bitcoin Price Crash

Leave a Comment / Bitcoin, Crypto World / September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018

There are whales out there. With Bitcoin still in a developmental phase awaiting mass adoption, the distribution of the coins are skewed to big holders. In fact, it has been reported that around 1000 wallets hold about 40% of all Bitcoin. There are nearly 22 million Bitcoin wallets and about 6 million active users of Bitcoin, so with some …

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Justin Sun CEO of TRON Foundation Announces 4,9 Billion Token Burn

Leave a Comment / Altcoin, Crypto World / September 14, 2018 September 14, 2018

Justin Sun, the CEO of TRON (TRX), announced this week that the project has staged the fifth round of the TRX ERC20 token burn, which took more than 4.9 billion TRX ($97 million) out of circulation. Justin Sun ✔@justinsuntron 4,917,487,036.059613 #TRX ERC20 token were burnt by #TRON Foundation. $TRX https://medium.com/@Tronfoundation/4-917-487-036-059613-trx-erc20-token-were-burnt-by-tron-foundation-2653a4dfbc32 … 12:47 PM – Sep 13, 2018 4,917,487,036.059613 …

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Tezos Will Launch Mainnet Next Week

Leave a Comment / Crypto World, Altcoin, Blockchain / September 14, 2018 September 14, 2018

NEW YORK/ZURICH – The Tezos cryptocurrency project is preparing to launch the long-awaited main version of its network that underpins a new virtual token on Monday, a Swiss foundation that promotes the initiative said on Twitter on Friday. The Tezos Foundation raised $232 million in July 2017 to build the network and issue a new …

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