With 2017 over and 2018 upon us, many experts and commenters in the blockchain community are coming forward with predictions about what we could encounter this year. A number of these voices are saying that many altcoins will soon be disappearing from the market or lose all their value. Is there any truth to this […]
George Soros. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/ Central European University Bitcoin (BTC) has two new – and high-profile – fans from the world of traditional American finance, with George Soros and the “hedge fund king” Steve Cohen both reportedly going crypto. Both have hinted before that they could branch out into crypto, but their latest […]
Source: Adobe/Maksym Kapliuk The US is now seemingly increasing pressure on El Salvador that is pushing forward with its plans to adopt bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender alongside the US dollar. Tensions have been rising between El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and the Joe Biden administration in the United States, and Victoria Nuland, the American […]
Source: Adobe/niyazz The operators of Russia’s blockchain voting system say their platform successfully repelled a hacking attack in the nation’s referendum on constitutional reform. Blockchain voting is being piloted in the cities of Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod, and began on June 25. Citizens in both cities were required to pre-register their interest in casting blockchain […]
Russia’s Sberbank has announced its plans to trade cryptocurrencies abroad through its Zurich-based Swiss subsidy Sberbank (Switzerland) AG, per its Head of Global Markets, Andrey Shemetov. The bank has taken the move in order to sidestep Russian legislation, which currently forbids cryptocurrency trading. Shemetov said that Sberbank did not intend to offer its services to […]