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The largest cryptocurrency exchange platform, Coinbase, is looking to add five more coins, including Cardano (ADA), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC) and 0x (ZRX). "We are exploring the addition of several new assets, and will be working with local banks and regulators to add them in as many jurisdictions as possible," Coinbase writes. The statement does emphasize...

Power Ledger partners up with Silicon Valley Power as it further expands across the globe. What does Power Ledger do? Power Ledger uses world-leading blockchain technology to create a peer-to-peer marketplace for renewable energy. They achieve this through the assurance that the platform provides a transparent automated market trading and clearing mechanism for residential and commercial businesses which can also...

If you look at a lot of big companies, it normally is the case that the bigger they get, the more enemies they get, too. Booking.com, Uber, Facebook, all were applauded in the beginning, but as soon as they started getting bigger, things changed. Booking.com is charging too much commission (according to hotels), Uber is not good for taxi...

"While not quite ready for primetime yet, blockchain is getting closer to its breakout moment with every passing day." Deloitte’s 2018 survey of more than 1,000 blockchain-savvy executives globally is a leading indicator of where blockchain is headed. While Deloitte is saying that the Blockchain is not quite ready for primetime, it is getting closer to its breakout moment every...

United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order which orders the Department of Justice to create a task force focusing on the integrity of the financial market. This executive order specifically mentions digital currency as an area to be investigated. The text from the executive order reads: "Sec. 4.  Functions.  Consistent with the authorities assigned to the Attorney General by...

Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Global Markets has issued a yet another request to get a license for Bitcoin ETF, from the Securities Exchange and Commission (SEC). The exchange has partnered with Van Eyck Investment and SolidX and will offer clients to buy shares in SolidX, currently worth close to 25 BTC. This begs the question: Are we about to witness a...

Robinhood Crypto has just added support for buying and selling Litecoin (LTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Robinhood is a financial services company that allows trading of traditional stocks. The company added support for purchasing digital assets in late February of this year in 5 U.S. states. Today, Robinhood announced on their blog that they now allow their users to buy and...

Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency trading platform, has struck a deal with Market Synergy GmbH (MS), a trading network that enables major institutional players to trade using cryptocurrency. MS is a Swiss-based company and part of the FXecosystem Group which creates trading networks between institutional investors and its FXecosystem and Bondecosystem services providing access to FX and bond markets. MS emphasizes that the demand for cryptocurrency is...

A new Blockchain network lets firms in Delaware automate their business processes and allows investors to track stocks in real time. About two-thirds of Fortune 500 firms are incorporated in Delaware due to its business-friendly laws and corporate legal precedence. Delaware doesn't have any sales tax, and it's getting around one-third of its revenue from franchise taxes, accounting for $1.3 billion. In...

John McAfee, a crypto celebrity, former CEO of MGT Capital and POTUS candidate, is back. A couple of weeks ago he recovered from a "spike something that i ingested," in other words, an ostensibly intentional poisoning, restated that he is a free man and slammed the Reserve Bank of India as well as Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors. To begin with, McAfee...