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Fintech firm and social trading platform, eToro, has announced the launch of a professional financial podcast called Economize Me. In a press release shared with Altcoin Buzz, eToro disclosed that the podcast aimed at knowledge sharing among the crypto community, helping them stay informed. Being in the crypto space for over a decade, the launch of Economize Me by eToro couldn't have...

Blockchain project, Zilliqa, is now closer to the launch of staking on mainnet before the end of Q2. It announced this in a Medium blog post on April 9, a day after its AMA with the GAINS community. The announcement noted the significant progress of the Zilliqa staking project since its inception. There was also a call for developers to...

Decentraland, a virtual reality platform built on the Ethereum blockchain has join forces with global crypto exchange, Binance, to launch a #CryptoAgainstCOVID initiative. The partnership with these companies will enable its clients to donate towards the fight against the pandemic currently ravaging the world. Decentraland announced this in its official blog on April 10 and also tweeted about the development. https://twitter.com/decentraland/status/1248658642435551232?s=21 Details...

Litecoin Foundation has taken a step further in supporting films as they become executive producers in a Johnny Knoxville horror movie. On April 13, Litecoin Foundation uploaded the movie trailer on their official Twitter handle. As seen in the trailer, the Foundation's logo appears in the opening credits together with other partners. We Summon The Darkness: A Litecoin Foundation production The movie...

What annoys you about YouTube? Do you wish there was an alternative? Even if you are satisfied with their service, there are more than a few reasons to consider testing the waters with this YouTube competitor. Let's look at the strengths and weaknesses of the DTube platform in this review. As you may already be aware, YouTube has been on...

Chinese crypto entrepreneur, Justin Sun seems to be hell-bent to bake fresh controversies every now and then. However, this time Justin went a little too far. You guessed it right, we are referring to the Steem/Hive split. And we do believe his attempts to centralize the Steem blockchain led to this unfortunate 15-day voting war and then the hard...

Liquid proof-of-stake network Tezos has disclosed plans to launch its own specially crafted mobile wallet named Phoenix. It made the announcement via a Medium blog post on April 13. The blockchain platform stated that all hands were on deck to facilitate the launch of the wallet. It, however, did not give a definite timeframe of when Phoenix will become available...

HTC, the Taiwanese electronics giant, is set to enable Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency mining through its blockchain smartphone, Exodus. It is set to partner with the ASIC chip design company, Mida Labs, for this initiative. According to an announcement on April 10, this is a giant stride for HTC as this is the first instance of bringing crypto mining to the...

Ciara Sun, Huobi Group’s global business VP, revealed that the Singapore-based crypto exchange intended to relaunch in the US soon. She also indicated a possible partnership with a locally licensed trading platform to facilitate this. Readers will recall that Huobi’s San Francisco-based over-the-counter (OTC) brokerage, Huobi US (HBUS), previously ended operations in the US. Although Huobi had always maintained its intention...

The open-source messaging platform and mobile interface, Status (SNT), recently released a slew of developmental updates. In a series of blog posts, Status revealed several interesting projects they have been working on, including an updated version of their mobile app, keycard integration, and Nimbus. Introducing Waku According to one of the blog posts, SNT version 1.2 of the consumer mobile application has been...