Binance and The President's Trust of Malta signed a Memorandum of Understanding on July 25th, in order to commemorate the decision to start implementing blockchain technology for their charitable work. World-renown goodwill ambassador and TedX speaker Helen Hai representing Binance and entrepreneur Michael Bianchi, a trustee of The President’s Trust, signed the memorandum. The main goals of this memorandum were…
If we as humans were honest, transparent, or held steady and true to our values, then blockchains would be redundant. Since we are not, they are incredibly valuable and successful in keeping human emotions in check. Similar to this was the demise of Communism, where the usual scenario involved a flawed human central figure of power…
Cosmos is a blockchain interoperability platform (the Blockchain). Tendermint is a Proof of Stake (PoS) platform (operating on Tendermint Core - the software). These two projects work together to build an Internet of Blockchains in order to create scalable, private and safe blockchain ecosystem.
How Tendermint and Tendermint Core Operate
The Tendermint…
On July 3rd, Bloomberg reported on Bitcoin mining in Iceland. Authors Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir and Nick Rigillo talked to Johann Snorri Sigurbergsson, who is a Business Developer at "HS ORKA", the main power provided for the cryptocurrency mining operations on the island. And although you talk about cryptocurrency and blockchain as a fad Bloomberg, we forgive you.
They speak…
In light of the Google Ban, followed by Facebook and Twitter, we've reached out to advertising companies working with cryptocurrency related traffic. The idea behind the interview is based on a simple premise: "Evaluate the effects of mainstream social media banning cryptocurrency advertisements." For this, we've met with three different advertising companies: BitMedia.io, CoinTraffic.io, and Coinzilla.io.
We've asked them the…
On the 26th of June Crypto Briefing, Bitcoininst, CryptoVest, Smartereum, LiveBitcoinNews and CryptoCoinNews all reported on the Bitmain-owned pools Antpool & BTC.com reaching close to 51% of Bitcoin's total hashpower together. What they failed to consider is the fact that the company does not own the majority of the miners participating in the pools, but rather just supports them with infrastructure…
Satoshi Nakamoto is set to receive a "digital statue" in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. The creator of the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency Bitcoin will replace what used to be a statue of Vladimir Lenin. During the Ukraine civil unrest in 2013/14, Lenin's statue was toppled and has remained this way since, but this is soon…
On June 20th, at about 3 am UTC, Bithumb announced a notice for Twitter subscribers explaining that the reason behind the suspension of deposit and withdrawals is because they noticed $30 mil to be missing from the exchange.
They assured everyone that Bithumb would cover all expenses and affected users will be fully refunded.
Then this tweet…
Baidu is an international tech company based in China. It was established in January 2000 and currently it is the second largest search engine after Google. The company announced this week that they are launching a space game operating on a blockchain. The game is called “ Du Yuzhou ” which translated means “The Universe”…
For what is the second time this year, the Asian crypto markets have been hurt by hackers. "Coinrail," a major crypto exchange in South Korea, and one of the top 100 crypto exchange companies in the world temporarily lost control over $40 mil worth of crypto.
The hack which was said to have happened in…
