5 Ledger Adopts Crypto.com Pay Learn and Earn Coinbase has announced a new initiative meant to incentive people to learn more about cryptocurrencies. The Coinbase Earn educational platform will reward users with tokens for completing various tasks such as watching videos and taking quizzes on crypto-related content. The service has launched in invite-only mode with…

Bitcoin’s terrible 2018 doesn’t bode well for the future of crypto Daniel Cooper Reblog If someone approaches you saying that they have a way to get rich, quick, without any effort, then they’re scamming you. If you don’t believe me, then ask yourself this: If someone gave you a winning lottery ticket, would you hand…

Opinion Bruce Haring We continue our series of predictions from the industry’s thought leaders on what may happen in the coming year. By almost any measure, 2018 was a challenging year for the blockchain/cryptocurrency industries. Beyond the usual issues facing young businesses in hiring, marketing, technology and financing, companies were engaged in a crisis of…

thecryptonewsreporter Blockchain , Crypto , Cryptocurrency , Invest in Blockchain December 20, 2018 Following the recent price surge that Bitcoin has experienced after dropping into the low-$3,000 region last week, it has since recovered much of its recent losses and has now climbed above the $4,000 price level. Bitcoin’s positive price action has led the…

BERLIN , Dec. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Substrate 1.0 Beta is out now , opening the door to a new wave of innovation in blockchain and decentralised application development. Substrate is an open-source tech stack that makes it simple to create a blockchain customised for your application. “Substrate takes all of our lessons learned in…

This was the year the world woke up to cryptocurrencies. When the Bitcoin price bubble burst in December last year, having hit almost $20,000 (£15,886) per coin in value, governments, banks and tech giants alike began to sit up and take notice. The City was faced with a decision: is Bitcoin a vehicle for fraud…

photo credit: John Fowler In this post, we’ll explore the Lightning Network (LN): what it is, how it works, what makes it special, what tradeoffs it makes and some of the weaknesses it has. At a high level, the Lightning Network utilizes smart contract functionality within Bitcoin allowing users to temporarily keep the state of…

Coinbase Pro Adds ETH-Based Quartet; Golem (GNT), Dai (DAI), Maker (MKR) and Zilliqa (ZIL) Published Greg Thomson Coinbase Pro extended its run of listing Ethereum-based tokens on Tuesday, when it announced the addition of Golem (GNT), Dai (DAI), Maker (MKR) and Zilliqa (ZIL). The exchange recently released a list of more than thirty coins and…

Substrate is here BERLIN , Dec. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Substrate 1.0 Beta is out now, opening the door to a new wave of innovation in blockchain and decentralised application development. Substrate is an open-source tech stack that makes it simple to create a blockchain customised for your application. abspielen “Substrate takes all of our…

Blythe Masters Stepping Down and the End of a Blockchain Era; Crypto Pump-and-Dumps Dec 19, 2018 Bitmain – What’s Happening to the Billion Dollar IPO? Thom Thompson, John Lothian News For the first three quarters of 2018, investors and analysts speculated about when, then if, Bitmain would go public. During a pre-IPO private fund raising,…