Crypterium – a financial technology startup based in Estonia — launched the Crypterium Card, the first crypto card available globally. Prior to this launch, crypto cards, such as the Coinbase Card, were only accessible in specific countries or by region, according to the company. Coinbase recently announced it would roll out services to six additional

Google has tapped a startup token project, Chainlink, as an official Cloud Partner and the relationship suggests a deep and detailed interest in blockchain technology by the Mountain View giant. The partnership, described in a detail Google Cloud blog post, aims to place BigQuery data on the blockchain using a “Chainlink oracle smart contract.” BigQuery

Facebook’s GlobalCoin project, also known as Project Libra, may face significant hurdles as the social media giant works toward a prospective launch. Despite reports that Facebook is gearing up to reveal its new cryptocurrency as early as next week, a source with knowledge of Facebook’s operations said the project’s software has a long way to

By CCN Markets: The bitcoin price climbed as high as $8,450 on Friday morning, lifting the flagship cryptocurrency to its highest mark since June 3. The trigger for that rally? Binance. The fallout? A punishing “altcoin winter” that could slaughter altcoin valuations while bitcoin continues to trend higher. Binance US Launch Could Trigger Brutal Altcoin

Facebook’s hiring spree for its upcoming cryptocurrency, reportedly called “GobalCoin,” continues with the addition of a senior bank lobbyist from Standard Chartered, according to the Financial Times. In a report Friday, the FT said that the new hire, the bank’s managing director for group public and regulatory affairs, Edward Bowles, will join the social media giant in

By CCN Markets:  Morgan Stanley economist Ellen Zentner told clients today that June may be a rough month in the economy, going so far as to suggest “June Gloom” is looming. This comes on top of a similar warning two weeks ago from the very same Wall Street firm. The latest research note reportedly states: “The

Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber are all backing Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the social media giant has signed on more than a dozen backers for its GlobalCoin cryptocurrency, a stablecoin that has been developed in secrecy for more than six months. Each of the

BitBay, a Katowice-based cryptocurrency exchange, released a survey of Polish cryptocurrency users in an attempt to “create a portrait of this community.” The answers may astound. The central questions asked in the survey are: who uses cryptocurrencies… and how? At this point, it should be disclosed that BitBay is the corporate owner of BitBay Pay,

By CCN Markets: On June 7, Coin Street News (@CoinStreetNews) shared a chart on Twitter that could have serious implications on bitcoin’s price action. The account specializes in technical analysis of cryptocurrencies and other assets. They posted a Google Trends chart and revealed that “there are more people searching ‘bitcoin’ now than during the 2013

Noted cybersecurity expert and eccentric crypto fan John McAfee has just launched a cryptocurrency trading platform. Dubbed “Magic,” the site is touted as allowing users to “trade cryptocurrencies on multiple exchanges within a single dashboard, automatically and manually.” Notably, the exchange appears to be non-custodial, with users crypto holdings remaining on eight other exchange platforms.

By CCN Markets: Over the past three months, the bitcoin price has risen from $3,911 to $8,120 against the U.S. dollar on major crypto exchanges, demonstrating strong momentum supplemented with a clear rise in volume. The bitcoin price is up nearly three-fold in the past three months (source: coinmarketcap.com) In recent weeks, the interest towards

By CCN Markets: With reports indicating that the new trade deal with Mexico secured by the U.S. has some specifications that are not fully agreed upon by both countries, the prospect of the U.S. stock market has slightly declined in the past several days. The Dow Jones is down 0.23 percent on the day, falling

Payments company Square has hired former Google director Steve Lee as the first member of its new crypto team. A Square Twitter account teased the news Wednesday afternoon without specifying what Lee’s role at the company would be. A spokesperson for Square declined to comment. The maker of the bitcoin-friendly Cash app led by Twitter CEO

Tezos Foundation, a non-profit, educational wing of the smart contract and Dapp platform, announced Roman Schnider, co-creator of PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland’s blockchain initiative, to supercede Eelco Fiole as Chief Financial Officer. Schnider’s appointment to the Zug based firm will begin summer 2019, about six months after investment executive and adjunct professor of financial ethics Fiole filled

By CCN Markets: After vowing to “f**king bury” the U.S. government over the weekend, Bitcoin firebrand John McAfee has now ruffled the feathers of the Bahamas’ anti-corruption czar, according to Tribune 242. Bahamian Anti-Corruption Chief Doesn’t Appreciate Being Accused of Corruption Earlier this week, McAfee leveled corruption allegations against the acting deputy commissioner of the

Cryptocurrency data and indices provider CryptoCompare is working to make it easier to spot good, and bad, crypto exchanges. Announced Wednesday, the company has launched a benchmark ranking of over 100 active spot exchanges from across the globe, offering users a “comprehensive, granular and reliable source of information on the best trading venues.” CryptoCompare’s Exchange

DOrg, a company that builds DAO-related software founded by Ori Shimony, Asgeir Sognefest, and Jordan Ellis, has created what it calls the first Limited Liability Decentralized Autonomous Organization or DAO, a legal way to “reference blockchain code (smart contracts in our case) as the legitimate source of authority for their company’s operations and governance.” The

Visa’s blockchain-powered business-to-business payments service, first made public in October 2016, has officially gone live. As reported by Reuters on Tuesday,  the payments giant has launched its Visa B2B Connect network – a product that was originally developed alongside blockchain startup Chain. Visa B2B Connect at launch will serve businesses seeking to make payments to 30 markets,

June 11, 2019 – DGaming, a technology company that seeks to push the decentralized gaming industry towards mass adoption, has announced the release of a decentralized wallet specifically designed for gamers. The wallet is immediately available to iOS users on the App Store and Android users on Google Play. The DGaming Wallet forms part of

The development team of the high-end TERA blockchain platform has announced the launch of the TERANova update of the system. TERA blockchain project, launched on the 1st of July, 2018, has resolved the main issues, such as scalability and speeds, with full decentralization, that currently limit the development of the blockchain industry. On April 5,

The chief of the Philippines central bank has warned over the risks of growing cryptocurrency use in the country. On Monday, The Philippine Star quoted Benjamin Diokno, governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, as saying his institution would continue to address the use of cryptocurrencies, especially given the tech’s potential use in the funding of

Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford, who often goes by the handle “fanquake,” has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project. Ford will join the four other current Bitcoin Core maintainers — Wladimir van Der Laan, Jonas Schnelli, Marco Falke, and Samuel Dobson — in doing the “janitorial” work that keeps the

Cryptocurrency news site CCN.com is shutting down after experiencing a 71% fall in mobile traffic due to a recent update to Google’s search rankings. Founder Jonas Borchgrevink posted the news on his site saying: CCN was founded in the summer of 2013 as CryptoCoinsNews. We have been around for six years. We are (were?) the

Dear readers, Let’s get straight to it. Google’s June 2019 Core Update rolled out on June 3th 2019 and CCN’s traffic from Google searches dropped more than 71% on mobile overnight. Our traffic has experienced a massive impact by Google’s June 2019 Core Update. Image from Sistrix.com. CCN’s visibility index on Sistrix.com shows how our

SINGAPORE, 10 June 2019 – Sparrow, the Singapore-based options trading platform has launched its revolutionary platform which empowers institutions and individuals to trade options that are settled by smart contract. Sparrow offers a simple and secure way for traders to control risk in the volatile digital asset market and monetize their assets. With its full-featured

By CCN Markets: Global finance ministers and central bankers reconfirmed their multilateral support of crypto-industry regulations on the weekend in Japan. They were attending the G20 Finance Summit ahead of the Leaders’ Summit in late June. There were no surprises for the crypto-currency markets in the Communique sent out by Japan’s Minister of Finance on

By CCN Markets: In their most current mutant form, the Bitcoin Evolution/Bitcoin Revolution scams are using X-Men star Hugh Jackman as bait. According to the fraudsters, the Australian actor who is best known for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men franchise has stumbled upon a ‘wealth loophole’ which can make anyone a millionaire within

The mobile bitcoin wallet project Samourai Wallet is partnering with the French hardware retailer Nodl to create a bitcoin node device that syncs with Samourai’s privacy-centric mobile wallet. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Nodl co-founder Michel Luczak said this new product will be a “full, self-validating, bitcoin and lightning node” that allows people to use the

By CCN Markets: In the past 24 hours, the bitcoin price has dropped from $7,900 to around $7,500 by more than five percent against the U.S. dollar in a minor pullback in the crypto market. The bitcoin price has dropped by around five percent in the past 24 hours (source: coinmarketcap.com) Within the last seven

By CCN: A bitcoin analyst and blogger confirms that the recent rise in the bitcoin price was not due to any kind of organic investor flow. My theory was that crypto whale traders swooped in late last year not merely because of the 85% decline in BTC but because of a key technical trading factor