bestofsnooker (16)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agoIndia’s Central Bank Quietly Forms New Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Research UnitThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reportedly established a new internal unit dedicated to researching and regulating new emerging technologies, specifically cryptocurrency…bestofsnooker (16)in #trending • 6 years agoETF Rejections, Printing Money, and the Woz: This Week in CryptoPrice Watch: Bitcoin is up 6% this week to $6,700 in a relatively calm week. flat price last week and falls of 12% and 15% in the preceding weeks which themselves followed a…bestofsnooker (16)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agoNvidia Launches Latest Retail GPU Cards While Playing Down Crypto RevenuesIndustry giant Nvidia unveiled its new GeForce RTX™ 2000 series of graphics card this week, within days of making a focused retreat from the crypto mining retail space. The…bestofsnooker (16)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agopornhub Partners With PumaPay to Accept Crypto as PaymentsCanadian adult entertainment streaming website Pornhub has announced a partnership with cryptocurrency payment and billing startup PumaPay to enable its users payments in…bestofsnooker (16)in #trending • 6 years agoCrypto Exchange Coinbase Lists ‘Core Principles’ for Institutional Investment ServicesCoinbase has unveiled a set of guiding principles designed to facilitate the adoption and growth of its new range of products and services aimed at institutional investors. In…bestofsnooker (16)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agoRipple Picks Three Crypto Exchanges for International XRP PaymentsBlockchain payments and remittance startup Ripple has picked three cryptocurrency exchanges to facilitate xRapid – its cross-border payments solution for banks using the…bestofsnooker (16)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agoCrypto Market Recovers to $210 Billion, Tokens Surge as Ethereum Rises 4%In the past 24 hours, despite the strong downtrend of major cryptocurrencies, the crypto market demonstrated a quick recovery from this week’s losses. On August 14, as the…bestofsnooker (16)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agoUK Watchdog: Summer’s Cryptocurrency Fraud Costs £2 Million in LossesThe UK’s national policing lead for fraud has revealed figures wherein victims have reported 203 instances of cryptocurrency fraud totaling a little over £2 million ($2.54…bestofsnooker (16)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agoCoinbase Effect: Ethereum Classic Price Surges Ahead of ListingEthereum Classic was at a two-month high of $18.50 earlier this month, the same level it had reached on 7 July when the Coinbase announcement made further rounds. The listing on…bestofsnooker (16)in #trending • 6 years agoSocial Cryptocurrency Kin Selects 40 Apps for $3 Million Developer IncubatorThe Kin Ecosystem Foundation, creator of the cryptocurrency backed by social media company Kik Interactive, has selected consumer 40 apps to participate in the inaugural edition…bestofsnooker (16)in #trending • 6 years agoSouth Korea Crypto Industry More Optimistic Than Ever Despite Bear MarketThroughout the past two months, investors in the local crypto market of South Korea have continuously expressed their optimism towards a drastic change in the regulatory…bestofsnooker (16)in #trending • 6 years agoTyler Winklevoss: ‘It Will Take Time’ for Wall Street to Make Crypto JumpCrypto exchange Gemini CEO Tyler believes “it will take time” for the majority of Wall Street to enter the cryptocurrency sector. The Winklevoss brothers also said they won’t…bestofsnooker rebloggedthecryptokid-yt (56)in #blockchain • 6 years agoMOAC - Is it truly the Mother of All Chains? BETTER THAN ETHEREUMMOAC is a 3.0 blockchain protocol that launched in the beginning of January, so it really has not seen much more than the bear market. MOAC wants to design a scalable and…bestofsnooker (16)in #trending • 6 years agoDid ICOs Cause Ethereum to Drop by 44% in 2 Weeks by Dumping on the Market?Within a period of two weeks, from August 1 to August 14, the price of Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, dropped by 44 percent. In 14 days, the price of…bestofsnooker (16)in #trending • 6 years agoNow You Can Earn A Little Bit of Money by Running A Lightning Network NodeThere’s now a new perk for running a Lightning network node: you can earn some money (not much though). The network that was devised to solve the scalability issues of Bitcoin by…bestofsnooker (16)in #trending • 6 years agoDespite its 70% Price Drop, Bitcoin Surpassed Gold in Settlement VolumeNic Carter, a well respected cryptocurrency researcher, has said that Bitcoin has surpassed the OTC gold market in settlement volumes, even amidst a 70 percent drop in its…bestofsnooker (16)in #bitcoin • 6 years agoCrypto Market Decline Aggravates as Ripple and Ethereum Hit Yearly LowsThe market is down $25 billion from yesterday’s high of $219 billion, sliding to $193 at the time of writing. Altcoins have been hit hard with Ethereum down almost 18%…