Tagged: btc

November 3, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The OLB Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OLB), a provider of Cloud-powered omnicommerce and payment acceptance solutions for small- and mid-sized merchants and Bitcoin mining firm, announced that it is ready to process Mastercard Bitcoin payments. Merchants utilizing OLB’s OmniSoft business management platform and the firm’s SecurePay… Read More

October 31, 2021 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralization is one of the core tenets or value propositions of blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT). As explained in a blog post by Qtum (QTUM), decentralization is the process by which the “governance activities of an organization are distributed or delegated away from a… Read More

October 31, 2021 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Kraken notes that after a “predictably underwhelming” September in the crypto-asset markets, “history was made in October as BTC hit new all-time highs.” Kraken wrote in an extensive report that, as foreshadowed last month, data “indicates that a supply… Read More

October 27, 2021 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has teamed up with Nuvei, via its subsidiary Simplex, a fiat-crypto gateway provider, allowing clients to introduce its suite of crypto on-ramp services. Bitfinex clients with an intermediate verification level will get access to the Simplex funding options. Users… Read More

October 26, 2021 @ 11:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions and NYDIG, a provider of Bitcoin (BTC) platform solutions, have entered an agreement where Wolters Kluwer will act as an “exclusive” vendor to interested financial institutions seeking assistance in meeting their regulatory and compliance requirements while “exploring and implementing services for… Read More

October 20, 2021 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, announced that it is expanding its partnership with NYDIG, a Bitcoin tech and financial services company, in order to carry out a purchase of BTC for the firm’s balance sheet. NYDIG played a key role in supporting Chainalysis to acquire… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (October 18) that for the week ending October 15,… Read More

October 11, 2021 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OKCoin is reportedly the only US-licensed exchange to provide Lightning Network (LN) enabled deposits and withdrawals, and they’re doubling down on their commitment to the LN with their support for the recent ShellHacks hackathon and with the introduction of their Lightning API. As noted in… Read More

October 8, 2021 @ 4:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network was recently tapped to enable Twitter payments and as of last week, the number of nodes that are running the LN reached a record high, increasing around 105% since 2020. Only about a year ago, the Lightning Network had… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 8:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Coin Metrics, including researchers Nate Maddrey and Kyle Waters have released their State of the Network Q3 2021 wrap-up report. In the latest edition of the State of the Network report, the Coin Metrics team has taken a data-driven look at what… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (October 4) that for the week ending  October 1,… Read More

October 2, 2021 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cosmostation has been chosen by Kava Labs as the very first ecosystem partner to receive a certain portion of the $185 million Kava Ignition Fund. As mentioned in an update from Kava Labs, an open-source developer of financial services for decentralized finance (DeFi), the funds… Read More

October 1, 2021 @ 1:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIFROST, a blockchain middleware that enables multichain connectivity, has introduced the “first” native Bitcoin (BTC) Lending on decentralized finance (DeFi), “connecting both Bitcoin and Ethereum networks.” BiFi, the DeFi initiative that’s powered by BIFROST, is now the first DeFi lending platform that “works across native… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitPay, an established provider of cryptocurrency payment services, and Verifone, an international Fintech platform and payment solution provider to major retail brands, have announced the extension of BitPay’s blockchain payment tech to enable consumer crypto  payments on Verifone’s in-store and eCommerce Cloud Services platforms in… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 11:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The cryptocurrency markets have been trading down after news of another crackdown on the industry from China. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has issued a statement that has reiterated that all cryptocurrency trading activities in the country are illegal, and regulatory authorities will be… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 10:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Internet Computer Community has adopted the threshold ECDSA signatures Motion proposal. All Bitcoin keys and signatures are being generated by using ECDSA. An ECDSA signature allows us to share a public key and create a signature of certain data using their private key. This… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As widely reported, China has expanded its ongoing cryptocurrency crackdown. This reportedly includes increasing enforcement against illegal digital currency mining, as well as preventing financial transactions involving crypto-assets. The Chinese central bank also confirmed that any trading, order matching, token issuance and derivatives on cryptocurrencies… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 7:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) difficulty, a parameter that virtual currencies use to keep the average time between blocks fairly steady as the blockchain network’s hash power changes (where a relatively high difficulty may help with securing the blockchain against attacks), increased for the fifth straight  time –… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Portal, a self-hosted Layer-2 wallet and “true” cross-chain DEX on Bitcoin that “makes atomic swaps between Bitcoin and other digital assets fast, secure, and private,” is pleased to confirm that it has finalized an $8.5 million round to develop a self-sovereign and “uncensorable” DeFi solution… Read More

September 22, 2021 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (September 20) that for the week ending September 17,… Read More