Materials by tag Cryptocurrency

The short-term rebound on February 19, saw Bitcoin surge to the $4,000 price level, leaving several cryptocurrency investors hooked and some analysts keeping their attitude inert. Bitcoin could “melt our faces off” in the long run with an amazing rebound.

The latest credit card fee increases have generated debate over the comparative advantages of using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum and others.

The giant U.S. bank, JPMorgan, declared plans to roll out JPM Coin on February 14 and has shown love for cryptocurrency on Valentine’s Day, notwithstanding Jamie Dimon having criticized Bitcoin (BTC) as being a fraud some time ago. It will be employed to conduct payments between customers and the lender will then labor to transfer international payment on to the distributed ledger technology (DLT), which could make a potential impact on the fintech sector.

Internet users have recently reported being provoked to open a phishing email containing crypto ransomware links. Cybercriminals used the ransomware program ‘GandCrab’ to encrypt victim’s data and requested a payout in Bitcoin or Dash for lifting a block from their files.

Italy is open to innovations and cryptocurrency adoption due to its security and decentralized nature. Indeed, the only way one can get access to crypto funds is possessing an alphanumeric private key.

CoinsBank announces the biggest event on the sea of the year, it's fourth annual blockchain conference.

The e-commerce sector in Italy is expanding. According to the 2017 statistics, nearly half the total number of Internet users in the world have purchased something online at least once. This trend seems to be popular in China, the USA, Germany, as well as in Italy.

XMR developers, and the whole team at large, are ready and in high gear to fork their network on Saturday, March 9th 2019 in order to lower the effectiveness of ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits). The hard fork might cause a change to the Monero proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm and also lower the hash rate competences of ASIC miners by a significant factor of over 2.5.

After the hack that saw over $16.2 million illegally stolen from New Zealand’s hacked cryptocurrency exchange, police in New Zealand has given the go-ahead to Cryptopia, a crypto exchange that was recently hacked, to reopen and start operating at any time it's ready, according to a report on Wed February 13, 2019, by the New Zealand Herald, a local news outlet.