In an interview discussing emerging digital payment technology a lead executive at Bank of America praised Ripple as a partner. She noted Ripple’s passage of the bank’s compliance processes, and praised its ability to deliver quality services. RIPPLE PRAISED FOR ITS POTENTIAL TO INTEGRATE WITH BANK SERVICES Julie Harris, head of global banking, digital strategy
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The first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit of a mixed bag for the crypto sphere, but one of the most remarkable happenings has been the rally in Chainlink (LINK). The cryptocurrency has gained as much as 50% over the course of the past month and has emerged as one of the tokens
Law enforcement authorities in Kyrgyzstan have reportedly detected an illegal cryptocurrency mining farm on the territory of a local free economic zone (FEZ). The State Service for Combating Economic Crimes, an anti-corruption service in the Kyrgyz Republic, has reportedly discovered a large-scale mining farm at FEZ Bishkek. Kyrgyz authorities posted a video of the facility
The amount of bitcoin held by small investors has more than doubled in the past five years as so-called whale holdings declined by an almost similar margin during the same period. According to new data from Glassnode, the percentage of supply owned by entities holding 10 BTC or less has grown from 5.1% to 13.8%
CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is partner at Castle Island Ventures, a public blockchain-focused venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass. He is also the cofounder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup. A quietly important phenomenon has gained steam in the last few months. And I’m not referring to Grayscale gobbling up all the new coins
Bitcoin’s (BTC) dominance relative to altcoins has fallen to its lowest point in 12 months, with the leading cryptocurrency representing 61% of the $359.5 billion combined cryptocurrency capitalization. Bitcoin’s dominance has slid from more than 67% as of mid-May and is down from a local high of 69.9% during September of last year — the
Chainlink (LINK), in partnership with a video game called War Riders, has introduced human readable Ethereum (ETH) names. These names will use a different approach than the Ethereum Name Service, or ENS. Removing friction for newcomers War Riders employs blockchain elements like non-fungible tokens which represent in-game items. It also has its own native cryptocurrency
Plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Status and its 2017 initial coin offering of the Status Network Token (SNT) are asking the judge to authorize official document delivery, or serving, via alternative channels like Twitter and emails. In court documents obtained by Cointelegraph and filed on Aug. 3, the judge is presented with a ready-to-sign
The composition of Bitcoin’s investor base is rapidly shifting, with smaller investors garnering greater dominance over the total circulating BTC supply. This comes as the dominance of so-called crypto whales sees a sharp decline, signaling that the market is currently seeing inflows of smaller retail investors. This shift comes as more investors start turning to
Will Bitcoin break the next resistance at $12,000? Which altcoins are looking promising (and which aren’t)? Tune in now to this week’s Crypto Markets Live to find out! Trading experts Big Cheds and Big Chonis apply their signature technical analysis to Bitcoin (BTC), Chainlink (LINK), Tezos (XTZ), Ripple (XRP), and more. They will also discuss
Parity Technologies’ Polkadot has launched a testnet, Rococo, of the protocol’s first parachain specification, according to a blog Thursday. Parachains underlie Parity Tech’s vision of a “protocol for protocols.” Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial
Bitcoin (BTC) is the most popular cryptocurrency for trading in every region of the world, but North American investors are the cryptocurrency’s biggest fans, a new report says. On Aug. 6, major crypto analytics firm Chainalysis published a report devoted to key trends in the North American crypto market. According to the report, North American
Over the past few years, many companies have launched their own tokens, and one of the latest to hit the crypto markets is the LINK token. It is the proprietary crypto token that belongs to the Japanese messaging behemoth LINE’s crypto services subsidiary LVC Corporation. LINK’s appearance is a testament to the sort of resurgence
CEO and founder of Real Vision Raoul Pal says his “conviction levels” in Bitcoin are rising on a daily basis as he compares the crypto asset to traditional investments on various timescales. Applying economic cycle theory in a series of charts posted to Twitter on Aug. 6, the former Goldman Sachs fund manager stated that
Following the successful but imperfect launch of the Medalla testnet, the first community testnet for Ethereum 2.0, developers spoke on the issues and needed improvements highlighted by the event. In an Eth 2.0 Dev call held on Aug. 6, the network’s client developers discussed what initially went wrong. As Cointelegraph previously reported, it took some