Category: Currency and Forex
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SBI BITS and nChain Announce Strategic Partnership to Support Cryptocurrency Security and Bitcoin Cash
TOKYO, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — SBI BITS Co., Ltd., the financial technology provider company that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc. (HQ: Tokyo, Japan; Representative Director, President & CEO: Yoshitaka Kitao) and nChain, the blockchain research and development pioneer (HQ: Antigua; nChain research business in London, UK; Chairman of the Board: Stefan Matthews) announce a strategic partnership to collaborate on…
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What Gives Cryptocurrencies Their Value
The value of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, just like any other kind of money, comes fundamentally from what you can do with it. As a follow up to What Backs Bitcoin, I want to dig into that value. The idea, which comes from Austrian economist Carl Menger, is that just as a shovel’s value comes from its…
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Bitcoin Investment Trust Announces Abandonment of Bitcoin Diamond and Bytether
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Grayscale Investments, LLC, the sponsor (the “Sponsor”) of the Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTCQX: GBTC) (the “Trust”), announced that it has irrevocably abandoned (i) all of the rights to Bitcoin Diamond tokens currently held by the Trust as a result of the fork in the Bitcoin blockchain on November 24, 2017 and (ii) all…
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62 Insane Facts About Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that uses Blockchain technology for secure payments and storing money electronically, without requiring a bank or a person’s name. Satoshi Nakamoto created this cryptocurrency back in 2009. The biggest advantage of Bitcoin is that it’s not under control of central authority, government or private company, so people are free from…
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Monaco Selects Gemalto’s Innovative Metal Card to Bring Power of Cryptocurrency to Every Wallet
HONG KONG, Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Monaco, the pioneering payments and cryptocurrency platform, announced today that it has selected Gemalto to supply innovative card bodies, among which are high-end metal cards for Monaco’s range of Visa Platinum cards. Such cards, coupled with the Monaco app, deliver perfect interbank exchange rates and up to 2% cryptocurrency cashback on all purchases. In the…
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STK Global Payments Launches Pre-sale
GIBRALTAR, Oct. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — STK Global Payments, creators of the STK token, is launching a pre-sale today, ahead of its Token Generation Event beginning November 13, 2017. Built on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC20 token, the STK token will enable instant cryptocurrency payments at point of sale — the first such solution to bridge cryptocurrency…
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Cashaa Partners with Airbitz for Secure and Speedy Global Payments
Cashaa, the blockchain-based banking platform for Global Payments, has partnered with Airbitz to ensure the highest levels of security for its easy-to-use global financial services LONDON, Oct. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Cashaa, which aims to provide access to financial services for the billions of unbanked, uses blockchain technology to enable value transfer, without the end user having…
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Cryptocurrencies meet XTRABYTES for Unmatched Security, Unlimited Scalability and Uncompromising Transaction Speed
Has XTRABYTES Already Rendered The Top Cryptocurrencies Obsolete? XTRABYTES is a project that most people have never heard of, yet it has the potential to render all of the top cryptocurrencies obsolete. XTRABYTES is a completely decentralized, secure platform that has real world use, as it is scalable, with a transaction volume capacity that is head and shoulders…
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WaterToken Launches on Oct. 25, 2017
Blockchain Goes Green for WaterToken ICO DALLAS, Oct. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The notion that man may one day live on another planet has been talked about for centuries. Elon Musk is preparing for a possible colonization strategy on Mars and a typical person could live on the red planet one day. Many technological breakthroughs must fall into place, but…