In January this year, a question was posted on a Quora forum which asked for information on the most eco-friendly cryptocurrency. Now we know that many cryptocurrencies require high energy and a lot of power to process transactions, mine tokens etc. The entire industry has been referred to as…

Nervous cryptocurrency investors watched Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) hit a 13-month low of $167 on Wednesday as part of a two-week slump that affected the whole market. ETH short-selling on exchanges such as Bitfinex reached all-time highs this week. But most digital coins saw the welcome color of green…

Chart for BTC/USD (1W) Bitcoin (BTC) might be the single biggest winner of the US China trade war that has left investors completely perplexed. The stock market is completely clueless as to what Trump might to next to escalate the trade war. This has created a serious trust deficit as far as stock…

Stellar’s native token XLM is one of the few that has been able to keep on its toes and make sure it stays in the green over the past week. Being able to gain over 6.40% within the last 24 hours has put XLM at 1.87% despite some of their competitors being on the double digit negative. XRP is the…

Ripple Labs and XRP II LLC have reached an agreement with the R3 blockchain after a long and stretched out lawsuit across the past year over 5 billion token of XRP (worth around $0.0085 each). The idea of such a huge sum of XRP was offered to R3 at such a massive discount shows the centralised…

TRON has now teamed up with another crypto company, the Satowallet-Multi Crypto wallet and Exchange. The partnership is beneficial for both parties involved, it brings TRON into Satowallet’s roster of supported tokens and also brings in a load of perks for the TRON community for example, customers…

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie in Brooklyn, New York said that U.S. federal securities laws may cover initial coin offerings (ICOs), per Bloomberg report. This week’s ruling enhances the regulatory framework that governs cryptocurrencies by leveraging existing rules that already…

It does seem like investors have been losing interest in Bitcoin (BTC). The search volume for Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies have been on a constant decline since the beginning of the correction. This has convinced many in the crypto community that investors have lost interest for now and that…

In the first week of September, we saw Localbitcoins witnessing the lowest global peer-to-peer trade volume on record for Bitcoin. Data from Coin.dance suggests that the presence of only six markets appears to represent the pervasion of lowered trading activity with most of the Localbitcoin markets.…

Have initial coin offerings (ICOs) cashed out their Ethereum tokens (CRYPTO: ETH) in order to realize gains from last December and avoid this year’s bear market? You might think so but guess again. A lot of ICOs still have plenty of Ethereum on their balance sheets, according to research by crypto…

The inventor and co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin has explained his recent statement in that blockchain won’t see 1,000-times growth again. In an interview with Bloomberg, Buterin said that: “If you talk to the average educated person at this point, they probably have heard of blockchain at…

The launch of stablecoins is viewed as a palliative measure to decrease the impact of the recent crisis with Bitcoin, some have even described it as ETFs replacement for a short time. However, Barry Eichengreen, a professor of Economics UC Berkeley has said that stablecoins are not the way to fix…

The SEC (U.S Securities and Exchange Commission) revealed on Tuesday that is has taken action against two digital currency companies. Both mark the first ever action of their kind by the SEC. One of the firms is against a ‘superstore’ for ICOs and the other is against a firm which claims to bring…

Ripple (XRP) is probably the most bullish looking coin right now. This is because Ripple (XRP) has already complete an almost 92% correction since its fall from $3.31 in January this year. In addition to that, as the above weekly chart for XRP/USD shows, Ripple (XRP) has just completed a giant…

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) has advised against the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ idea to bring in a digital currency as a second legal tender as well as the US dollar. The Marshall Islands are based in the central Pacific as a remote chain of islands. The Marshall Islands passed a law…

Canada is one step ahead of the SEC as they approved the very first regulated Bitcoin trust fund the status of a Mutual fund that enables accredited traders to invest in Bitcoin through their retirement savings plan and free of tax saving accounts. The first and only regulated Bitcoin fund granted…

It seems like Nasdaq could be at the tipping point for giving institutional traders a leg up on trading hundreds virtual assets. According to an inside source who knows the businesses goals, the United States stock exchange is preparing to add tools for predicting movements of price for crypto…

The volatile cryptocurrency market is seeing red — dipping to $198 billion in market capitalization late Monday. Notably, Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) plummeted to under $200 USD for the first time since July 2017 after peaking near $1,400 in mid-January. “The blockchain space is getting to the point…

Three big industry giants, Bosch, Fujitsu and Volkswagen have joined forces with IOTA to utilise its Tangle Technology in order to automate their services and products. Blockchain projects which offer to real-life situations provide a unique service and have succeeded in the past to get visibility…

Seven months ago, the government in Korea brought in a new ‘crypto real-name system’ however, there is only up to 50% of accounts that have been converted into real-name ones, even in the top four cryptocurrency exchanges for Korea. South Korean banks are taking action against customers which don’t…

Despite its nature, Dogecoin is maintaining its progress on a bull run even when the market tries to find the strength to get a leg up. The recent boost by the coin is suggestive from the steady upward surge it has been going through within the past month. At the time of writing the coin has…

Despite the Ripple coin dropping to 27 cents today it has also reached a high of 29 cents and it’s currency direction is a positive one. It could be that the low price is attracting is bringing in new traders to invest in Ripple despite their legal issues. This week, TransferGo released the channel…

The bear market has reached a 10 month low after the the biggest rival to Bitcoin falls and US regulators are suspended trading in two securities linked to virtual assets. The second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, slumped just under 9% on Friday and Bitcoin lost just over 2%. The market cap of…

The Ethereum and Bitcoin exchange-traded notes, which was designed as a way for traders to get into digital currencies in the US, have now been suspended by the United States SEcurities and Exchanges Commission (SEC). They were quoted for their reasons for the suspension of trading saying “Confusion…

Bitcoin has been experiencing an unpredicted surge in its price. This surge, on the 10th September, saw the price rise from just under $6,200 to then jump to $6,450 however, the rest of market has struggled to get back on its feet and showing slow movement. The cryptocurrency saw its lowest point on…

The ICO widespread continues to expand throughout the world, PoW-issued crypto claim that the tokens issued through public funding aren’t right to be named bona fide decentralised backed by blockchain assets. The argument between ICO issued utility tokens and proponents of ‘pure’ digital currencies…

Ripple (XRP) is currently trading within a tight range against Bitcoin (BTC). The price broke the resistance at 45,860 satoshis earlier this month but soon afterwards, it retraced. Initially, the 45,860 satoshis resistance turned into support as the 4H chart above for XRP/BTC shows that Ripple (XRP)…

Chart for BTC/USD (1M) Bitcoin (BTC) appears to have just completed its correction. Meanwhile, the ratio of Commodity Research Bureau Total Return Index (CRB) to that of S&P 500 sits at 0.2. This ratio is currently at a 50 year low which means that stocks have been on a massive bull run against…

Goldman Sachs building On Wednesday and Thursday, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) tumbled nearly 14% (from $7,380 to $6,410) on news that Goldman Sachs would be pulling out of plans to set up a cryptocurrency trading desk. However, an artificial intelligence (AI) software firm finds suspicious activity that…

Cardano (ADA) has now lost 95% of its value since its all time high of January. The above weekly chart for ADA/BTC shows that Cardano (ADA) which until now has been trading in a pitchfork as well as a falling wedge is now at the end of its correction. RSI for the above chart has also been trading in…

Smart Valor, a blockchain company in Switzerland has recently been given the approval from the country’s regulators to function in the local financial market. Instead of the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) regulating the Swiss blockchain company, they will instead be regulated by the…

VeChain has teamed up with BYD for a carbon ecosystem after adding the insurer PICC to its list of partnerships. VeChain has also just recently released mainnet v1.0.2 hwilst VET has raised over 200% in less than a month since bulls starting racing into the crypto market in August. VeChain is the 18…

Bitcoin (BTC) is an interesting point. The price has just found a strong resistance at the 21 Week EMA shown on the BTC/USD weekly chart above, but it has also found a strong support at the 21 Day EMA. What does this mean for Bitcoin (BTC)? If both of these 21 EMA resistance and support hold strong…

A few outstanding CEOs have been discussing where the crypto market could be heading as we enter the closing months of 2018. Bobby Lee, the co-founder of BTCC predicted that Bitcoin could surpass the $60,000 mark within the next coming years and that it will reach a total circulation value of $1…

Tech giant IBM has recently in announced that they are introducing, cut costs, lower transaction times and the Blockchain World Wire (BWW), which is a cross-border payment system aimed to phase out banking intermediaries. The World Wire announcement by IBM will allegedly all clear and settle…

Yesterday, the Lightning Ramp team revealed that they joined Casa a few months ago and that they have been building a Casa Lightning Node which is the easiest way use Lightning that is usable today. Speaking on Medium , the team behind the Casa lightning node go onto explain the history in creating,…

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has entered a stage of uncertainty since the month of May. This has made it difficult for investors and analysts to decide whether the price is still going down or if it has already broken the downtrend. The correction which began in December shows the price to be in a…

Cryptocurrency is rife with problems, we know that, otherwise Bitcoin would have been adopted years ago. The good thing is, a lot of these problems can and will be addressed. When we think of problems, we think of things like hacks, security, volatility and accessibility. Regarding cryptocurrency…

Greg Pinn has a decade of experience leading global best practices in anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) industry. Greg currently serves as head of product strategy for iComply and previously ran strategy for World-Check, the world leader in risk-based intelligence data.…

Bitcoin (BTC) is an uptrend as the price seems to have entered a new ascending channel that can be seen on the 4H chart for BTC/USD above. This channel has held so far since the last few weeks of August and can be seen as the gateway to a trend reversal. However, the price seems to have lost the…