Cryptocurrency Exchange

Swipe Is the Latest Project to Integrate Chainlink’s Price Oracles

Swipe wallet and crypto debit card platform has integrated Chainlink (LINK) data oracles to improve the accuracy of reward issuance and token burns. Swipe CEO Joselito Lizarondo said Chainlink’s decentralized price feeds will provide more accurate and fair token conversion prices for users and was an important step towards  greater decentralization:“This is important to us to bring transparency to our users, especially as we're kind of leaning towards starting to migrate from custodial products to noncustodial products in the future. So this is a starting point of decentralization in our system

Bitcoin a Hedge Against Elon Musk Mining Asteroid Gold, Say Winklevoss Twins

The Winklevoss Twins suggested that Bitcoin (BTC) is a better investment than gold because the metal’s supply will increase after Elon Musk starts mining asteroids.In an interview with internet personality and Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy, the Winklevoss Twins claimed that Bitcoin is a better investment than gold because gold does not have a fixed supply:“There’s billions of dollars of gold floating in asteroids around this planet, and Elon [Musk] is gonna get up there and start mining gold. [...] That’s why gold is a problem, because the supply isn’t

Championing Blockchain Education in Africa: Women Leading the Bitcoin Cause

It’s no secret that women are underrepresented in the technology and financial industries. In the U.S, women only hold a quarter of computing-related jobs. Some sectors, like software engineering, fare even worse, with female representation as low as 15%. And now along comes blockchain, a technology that promises a global revolution through decentralization. Blockchain has already begun to transform many industries, from finance and supply chain management to healthcare and governance.  However, it has yet to significantly change the demographics of the tech industry. According to a study conducted by

Cardano, EOS, Dash Price Analysis: 10 August

Cardano, EOS, and Dash, all seemed to be consolidating/range-bound, with their prices waiting to break out on the charts, at the time of writing. However, in the short-term time frame, all the aforementioned cryptos seemed to be expecting a short decline in the near-term.Cardano [ADA]Source: ADAUSD TradingViewCardano [ADA] no longer holds the eighth position on CoinMarketCap’s charts, with its position taken over by Litecoin [LTC]. At press time, ADA had a market cap of $3.7 billion, having registered a 2.15% decline over the last 24 hours. With Cardano’s PoS blocks

Ethereum Classic Under Multiple 51% Attacks | Bitcoin News Summary Aug 10, 2020

 Ethereum Classic has suffered its second 51% attack in less than a week, bringing the ongoing security of the network into question. During the attack, the offending miner managed to double-spend $5.6 million worth of ETC after spending only $200,000 to acquire the hash power for the attack. The ETC team was advising its clients to halt interactions with the network while corrective steps were taken. The US branch of global cryptocurrency exchange, Binance has halted all trading and orders following an incident. CEO Catherine Coley tweeted, “Your funds

OKCoin Awards Latest Developer Grant To Marco Falke

Cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin announced today that the latest contribution from its Open-Source Developer Grant is going to Marco Falke, who has served as a Bitcoin Core maintainer since 2016 and is one of the most active contributors to Bitcoin’s code. “Marco’s work … focuses on making development more efficient,” Elaine Song, a member of OKCoin’s business operations team who is involved with the grant program, told Bitcoin Magazine. “He is the most active contributor to the Bitcoin code since 2017. He is presently dedicated to the improvement of Bitcoin’s test

Buy DGB From the DigiByte Foundation Website with 36 Fiat Currencies Using ApplePay, Credit Card, Debit Card, SEPA

Decentralized proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain protocol DigiByte has partnered with MoonPay and Change Angel — a UK-based non-custodial wallet and exchange, to enable its users to buy DGB in any of the 36 supporters fiat currencies by simply clicking on the “Buy DGB” tab on the DigiByte Foundation’s homepage. Individuals can use ApplePay, SEPA, and Visa or Mastercard credit or debit cards to purchase DGB. MoonPay and Change Angel Ally With the DigiByte Foundation, Fee Sharing Formula Announced Of note, a new fee-sharing formula was also announced. Fees will be shared

All Hope Not Lost; Court Grants Cryptopia Users Entitlement to Funds in New Ruling

Users of defunct New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, Cryptopia, have finally gotten a reason to smile again after more than a year of losing their funds in multiple hacks. A new ruling by a high court today will ensure that victims receive part of the company’s assets worth over $100 million as compensation for their losses in the Cryptopia hacks. Justice David Gendall at the High Court in Christchurch declared that the users of the exchange are entitled to the assets they hold in Cryptopia accounts. He, therefore, decided that they

‘Critical Security Vulnerability’ Forces Bisq Exchange to Halt Trading Service

Non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange, Bisq has announced that it will temporarily halt trading service on its platform following a newly discovered security vulnerability.  Based on the development, the exchange has notified its users not to proceed with any existing transaction or send funds to any party as it could result in a loss.  The temporary halt in trading service does not stop users from overriding the key responsible for this action. However, Bisq does not support the idea as it could hamper users’ security.  “Bisq is a proper distributed peer-to-peer network. So you