Cryptocurrency Highlights, News, Use Cases And Other Reckonings : #28 (2018-09-15)

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Abra Adds Native Bitcoin Cash Support, Wins Roger Ver’s Praise: Lester Coleman


Abra, a mobile cryptocurrency investing app, has added native bitcoin cash (BCH) support, allowing users to deposit and withdraw BCH directly, Abra announced on its website. Anyone who held BCH in Abra previously can now withdraw it to a hardware wallet or us…

Crypto Firm Adds Two Nobel Winning Economists to Advisory Board: David Hundeyin


Cryptic Labs, a commercial blockchain research lab has announced the addition of two Economics Nobel Prize winners to its team. Dr. Eric S. Maskin and Sir Christopher Pissarides will provide their unique insights on incentive mechanisms, game theory and macro…

Gemini Can Freeze its USD-Pegged Cryptocurrency at Any Time: Researcher: Josiah Wilmoth


Much has been made in recent days about how Gemini dollar (GUSD), a USD-pegged stablecoin created by the Winklevoss-founded Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, can help regularize cryptocurrency as a mainstream asset class. However, decentralization hardliners ma…

Coinbase, BitGo Reaffirm Plans to Focus on Serving Institutions in Crypto: Joseph Young


Two US-based crypto behemoths, Coinbase and BitGo, will continue to facilitate growing demand for Bitcoin from institutional investors by operating as trusted custodians. Earlier this week, BitGo was approved by South Dakota regulators to create and operate a…

Vlad Zamfir Codes Sharding Prototype, What it Means for Ethereum Scalability: Joseph Young


Ethereum researcher and developer Vlad Zamfir has created the first successful proof-of-concept of second-layer scaling solution Sharding with developers Tim Beiko and John Marling. At ETH Berlin, one of the world’s largest Ethereum hackathons, Zamfir said in…

Friends = Money?! Earn Free BMX with BitMart Exchange!: Press Release


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Mining Gold Requires 20x the Energy of Bitcoin Mining: Joseph Young


According to LongHash, every year, more than $87.3 billion is spent on mining gold. In contrast, less than $4.3 billion is used to mine Bitcoin. Essentially, gold mining requires 20 times more energy and cost in comparison to Bitcoin mining, despite the narra…

Mastercard Thinks Blockchain Can Simplify B2B Transactions in New Patent: Josiah Wilmoth


Financial services giant Mastercard has invented a blockchain system that it believes can simplify business-to-business (B2B) transactions in a high-volume enterprise environment. That system is outlined in a series of three patent applications filed by the N…

New Approach Promoting Products through Smartphones. EasyVisual Introduced an App for Banner Ads: Press Release


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Blockchain Protocol Bytom Invites Developers to Win 2 Million BTM in Global Dev Competition: Sponsored


This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. The Global Dev Competition has been launched by digital asset blockchain protocol Byto…

Bitcoin Price Intraday Analysis: BTC/USD in Near-term Rising Wedge: Yashu Gola


Bitcoin on Friday broke above its psychological resistance level near $6,500 and formed higher highs towards $6,600. The BTC/USD kickstarted the Asian trading session with an impressive rally from 6462-fiat to 6595-fiat. However, the pair failed to sustain th…

Mike Novogratz Says the Cryptocurrency Market Has Found a Bottom: Josiah Wilmoth


For the past nine months, the cryptocurrency market has seen steady declines, forcing most altcoin prices down 80 percent or more from their all-time highs. Even bitcoin, “digital gold,” has shed 68 percent from its mid-December peak. However, the wind, says …

South Korean Police, FBI Bust International XRP Phishing Scam: Conor Maloney


A phishing scam which stole over $800,000 worth of XRP from dozens of victims in South Korea and Japan has been busted in a joint operation between the Seoul police cybercrimes division and the FBI. Two people have been arrested so far in relation to the oper…

Crypto Market Cap to Hit $80 Trillion in 15 Years: Bitcoin Bull Tim Draper: Mark Emem


Bitcoin bull Tim Draper has predicted that the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies will increase by four hundred times in the coming one and a half decades. Equating the current state of the crypto market to the early days of the internet, Draper, howev…

ETH Birds— First Cryptogames Multi-Level Reward System!: Press Release


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DigiByte Joins Africa Blockchain Alliance: Press Release


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Bitcoin Will Rebound, But Altcoins are ‘Never Coming Back’: BitPay Exec.: Josiah Wilmoth


A top executive at one of the oldest and largest cryptocurrency payment processors said that he firmly expects bitcoin to rebound within the next year but that altcoin prices may never again see their early-2018 peaks. Sonny Singh, chief commercial officer at…

Medici Ventures’ Latest Blockchain Investment Bridges Fiat With Crypto: Lester Coleman


Medici Ventures, Overstock’s blockchain technology company, has invested an undisclosed sum in a Utah based company called Bitsy that specializes in bridging cryptocurrencies with fiat. The investment marks one of several that Medici Ventures has made in rece…

‘Nerdy’ Australian PM Pushes Blockchain ‘Agenda’ to Take On Big Banks: Samburaj Das


Australia’s newly-elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing his agenda of backing blockchain technology to disrupt and bring “much tougher competition” to the big banks and other sectors in the country. Speaking to reporters within weeks of being sworn…

GAW Miners’s Josh Garza Gets 21-Month Prison Term for Defrauding $9.2 Million: Yashu Gola


A former cryptocurrency entrepreneur will spend time behind the bars of a Federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding customers of $9.2 million. According to court documents, Hartford Federal Court sentenced Homera Joshua Garza, 33, the former CEO of a…

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