Charlie Sheen? Jon Cryer? Angus T Jones? Holland Taylor? Nope, none of the above. If you’re a fan of the original runs of Two and a Half Men, and exclude the latter series from your memory, you’ll be surprised to know that Ashton Kutcher now plays a starring role in the US sitcom – Two and a Half…

Most altcoins recorded double digits losses today as Bitcoin (BTC) sell off continued to drag the crypocurrency market to an overall market cap of $346 Billion, down from $813 Billion in January. However, Steem (STEEM) stood out among other altcoins by holding ground. It recorded a meager 3% loss…

Bitcoin (BTC) is currently under heavy pressure from sellers. The price seems to have found support around the $7,800 mark that coincides with the support line of the triangle, but the volume is fading and buyers are nowhere to be seen. However, this does not mean that the bears are in full control.…

In a new report, Ripple’s Jinal Surti has published an article on the Ripple news website that discusses why transaction banking is not the future. Of course, Ripple would argue this point as they wish to provide enhancements to transaction banking, through blockchain technology, either way though…

As it stands, TRON is making big losses much like the rest of the markets. As we know, TRON are on the verge of the launch of their new MainNet. This will see TRON migrate from the Ethereum blockchain onto its own native blockchain. As it stands, the TRON currency, TRX is built upon an Ethereum…

Yesterday, we reported that Verge was under attack once again. Whilst initial reports seemed to suggest the attack was but a mere DDoS of the Verge network, it is now clear the Verge have been subject to a 51% attack, similar to that suffered by Verge just a few months back. In essence, a 51% attack…

Bitcoin is the currency of the day. If you mention ‘cryptocurrency’ to a lay person, they may act confused and unsure of what you’re talking about. Say ‘Bitcoin’ though, and its likely the same person, will at least understand you are referring to a sort of digital money. Whilst many people still…

At present, Ethereum is really struggling to hold any value within the markets. Of course, the majority of cryptocurrencies are taking big hits at the moment, with the bears really taking a hold of the markets, overall though Ethereum’s performance has stood out as quite poor to say the least. As a…

Within Europe, cryptocurrency regulation is a super hot topic. With many countries still weighing up the benefits and drawbacks of cryptocurrencies , Malta have stepped ahead of the game and has created new regulations that will see all aspects of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies into a…

SWIFT is a money transfer service, one with such a huge scope, it is causing trouble for cryptocurrencies that wish to break into the money transfer and cross-border payments market. Services such as Ripple believe they are the future for services such as SWIFT, however, until Ripple can give people…

According to reports out this morning, the Monero network is due to see some big changes, changes that could entirely change the face of Monero. Recently, Monero has been under scrutiny on the basis that it has statistically been under a large volume of mining attacks, due to certain vulnerabilities…

This morning, it seems the real scene of the week has finally been set. As we enter the middle of the week, the markets are taking bigger tumbles than we would like to imagine. This time last week, we hoped we would be seeing the end of this through the weekend, unfortunately though, this bearish…

As the battle between cryptocurrency regulation and ultimate liberation continues, United States and Canadian authorities have teamed up in a new move that is aimed at regulating cryptocurrency investment schemes. According to CNBC, members of the North American Securities Administrators…

Ethereum Classic (ETC) is known for a lot of things. It is known as the original Ethereum blockchain. It is known as the smaller, less popular version of Ethereum (ETH) and it is known as a forgotten coin which I admit is extremely boring to trade. However, if history is any indication, we have seen…

As South Korea really begin to nail down their stance on cryptocurrencies and crypto-regulation, we are seeing new news this week coming straight from a Mayoral candidate in the upcoming Seoul mayoral elections. Running for a third term in office, Mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon is turning to…

Long term trends are one of the best indicators of future price action for any asset, including Bitcoin (BTC). The reason why they work so well is that they have been tried and tested at different phases of the market cycle on a much larger scale. While we may not have as much data for Bitcoin (BTC)…

At the moment, UK authorities including the Government and the Bank of England are working together as a part of a cryptocurrency taskforce which has been established to provide further research into cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in the UK, with the eye to establish new regulations. As…

it appears some mining pools are under ddos attack, and we are experiencing a delay in our blocks, we are working to resolve this. — vergecurrency (@vergecurrency) May 22, 2018 Verge and XVG seem to have an awful lot of bad luck when it comes to attacks and security breaches. This is most ironic…

Bitcoin , the first cryptocurrency and the kind of the markets is not unfamiliar with the concept of a fork. What exactly is a fork? According to Tech-recipies.com: “To overly simplify, cryptocurrency uses computer generated code to create a form of digital money. Bitcoin was the first to gain…

This current market is going to take casualties, this is an inevitable part of the cryptocurrency markets. As values fall, some currencies will remain afloat, yet others will see huge chunks of value stripped off them. At this point I must state that even though this is the case, it doesn’t mean…

Today marks the eight-year anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day. On this day, in 2010, a Bitcoin enthusiast used Bitcoin to purchase two pizzas at the price of 10,000BTC. At todays price of $8,267.85 per Bitcoin, these two pizzas would now be worth an incredible $41,339,250.00. If that doesn’t mark the…

Reports out this week highlight that American commerce giants, Walmart, have filed for a patent which shows a blockchain based marketplace. The idea behind the blockchain in this, is that Walmart could record transactions and purchases from customers on the blockchain, then, using this platform, the…

#TRON $TRX According to @TokenInsight , #TRX keeps it’s first place in 7-day Github Commits Rankings.😀 pic.twitter.com/QMk2zu9fT4 — Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) May 21, 2018 TRON has been labelled as an up and coming currency for some time. There’s a few reasons for this. First of all, the TRON…

As the major cryptocurrencies fall, we should always take a look at the state of the markets further down. Currencies just outside the top ten can also indicate upcoming trends and can also help us make predictions with regards to future movements within the markets. Today, no altcoins really stand…

Zilliqa (ZIL) has gained a lot of traction over the last few weeks for its blockchain scalability solutions. Many blockchains ignored the need for scalability solutions initially as they considered the industry to be in its infancy and that adoption and use might take some time. However, the…

Astral9 is a new concept which has been designed to facilitate data transfer across the world by using the Stellar ecosystem. They refer to an information ‘superhighway’ and believe that by using the Stellar ecosystem, Astral9 can deliver all forms of data and information, all over the planet, and…

According to reports out today, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) are due to begin trials of a custom cryptocurrency which, if it turns out to be a success, could very well become the first cryptocurrency produced by a major banking group. MUFG are a branch of the Mitsubishi Group, creators of…

WIth a recovery underway, we remain optimistic that finally, we could soon see Bitcoin hit $9,000.00 once more, possibly as soon as this week. Through an analysis of historical figures, we know that after periods of downtime, Bitcoin is well known to shoot up. Markets are driven by emotion, buying…

Ripple (XRP) is a leading cross borders payments solution in the blockchain industry. The cryptocurrency did exceptionally well in 2017 outperforming both Bitcoin (BTC) and Etheruem (ETH). While, it may seem difficult for Ripple (XRP) to record such gains in 2018, it does seem very likely that…

During the weekend, reports have aired with regards to a vulnerability located within NEO tokens. The vulnerability was found within the code of some NEP-5 Smart Contracts, according to a press release on the NEO website. The actual NEO blockchain was not affected by this. According to NEO: “There…

Last week, we saw Bitcoin Cash execute a hard fork which was designed, in collaboration with Bitcoin ABC, to allow the network to have an increased block size. Blocks have thus been upgraded from 8MB, to 32MB. This of course did trigger some controversy. Ultimately, the upgrade was designed to…

The past week or so of negative market movements has taken its toll on TRON . With anticipation building regarding the launch of the TRON MainNet, we expected to see some huge growth within the value and market capitalisation of TRON. However, the market climate seemed to have stunted this…

We awake this morning to signs of a positive market in the wake of a very recent depression, which has seen value and confidence drawn out of cryptocurrencies market-wide. This depressive campaign seemed to be kick started by some bad news regarding South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, UPbit. The…

There is no doubt that Ripple is one of the most talked about cryptocurrencies in the market; however, a lot of talk has been surrounding the price at the moment, as this has been a little disappointing, and not reflective of its development. Statements that have been released by the XRP team, does…

Bitfinex is a popular cryptocurrency exchange that is registered in the British Virgin Islands – an area that is known as a tax haven thanks to the fact that business registered there want to keep as much of their profits as possible. The exchange has now sent an email informing their customers that…

Without entering the political sphere too much, recent tensions between the United States and Iran has caused the value of the Iranian currency, the Iranian Rial, to fall dramatically against the US Dollar. Because of this, many experts are starting to suggest that, should the Rial continue to fall,…

In a great shift for the cryptocurrency sector, which has long been nearly completely male oriented, female leaders within the industry are now fighting to shake this boyish image at the world’s largest blockchain conference. There was even a slogan at Consensus 2018, which read ‘Satoshi is female’.…

Bitcoin has remained at the centre of focus for the cryptocurrency industry. Whether it is performing well, or not, you can almost guarantee that someone will be talking about it for good or bad. At the moment though, the news seems to be good, and experts are even predicting that it is destined for…

It’s so easy to get hung up on current facts and figures, current trajectories, 24-hour trading volumes and 24-hour price changes. Sometimes though, we really need to look past that and have a look at how the future looks for various cryptocurrencies . Many, do indeed have the possibility to achieve…

Bitcoin (BTC) is currently struggling hard to stay above the $8,000 psychological mark. The price seems to be defending well for now but it will most likely come down over the next few days to complete a long anticipated double bottom. This would also complete a pattern of three bounces which will…