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Apple Is Looking Into Cryptocurrencies Says Apple Pay Vice President

Max Moeller

Speaking to CNN regarding cryptocurrency trading and other values of decentralized digital assets is the tech giant, Apple. While it’s largely known that many established enterprises from Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan are looking into blockchain and cryptocurrencies, Apple is doing the same, though they haven’t talked about it much. The Vice President of Apple Pay,…

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Bitcoin Needs Gold-Backing to Have Any Value, Says Expert Investor

Max Moeller

Mark Mobius, a long-time investor in emerging markets, doesn’t necessarily believe in the potential of Bitcoin trading. That’s right. The expert claims that it should be backed by gold, in fact, if it were to have any sort of value. During an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, the asset manager at Mobius Capital Partners not…

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Ripple Moves Another 500 Million in XRP Tokens

Max Moeller

Ripple Labs, the owners and creators of the Ripple blockchain and equivalent XRP cryptocurrency have just sent away 500 million in XRP from its escrow wallet, reports CoinTelegraph. This news comes to us via Whale Alert, a space that tweets out significant movements in cryptocurrency. Interestingly, this transaction of 500 million isn’t the only one…

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Hyperledger Adopts ConsenSys’ Pantheon Project in First Ever Public Acquisition

Max Moeller

Believe it or not, but Hyperledger just brought in its first-ever public blockchain project, reports CoinDesk. The platform, Pantheon, is actually developed by ConsenSys. Interestingly, this news comes to us this Thursday after the Hyperledger technical steering committee allowed it, reports the publication. Apparently, Pantheon had been sitting in limbo since August 8, when it…

Brave Browser Expanding Its Offerings To Ethereum-Based Crypto Wallets

Max Moeller

Brave, an internet browser that takes advantage of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, has just announced that it will be expanding its wallet services from its own asset (BAT) to also support Ethereum (ETH.) According to a blog post, the platform will integrate this wallet into the Brave browser itself. Not only will it support BAT…

SEC Slaps a Hefty Fine on ICORating.com for Paid Assessments

Viraj Shah

The rating provider published issuer-paid assessment listing to users for months, which attracted an SEC fine for defrauding investors. What was the case? ICOrating.com, a platform for providing rating and reviews of initial coin offerings, was recently fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the US for defrauding investors. The platform published listings that…

Ghana Investors Have No Way Of Accessing Over $1.6 Billion in Funds, Cryptocurrency May Be An Answer

Max Moeller

Over 70,000 investors in Ghana have no way to access their money, reports local publication Aljazeera. This is largely due to the territory running a crackdown on its banking space. According to the publication, 23 savings and loans companies have closed down, with a significant amount of lenders going down and fund managers as well….

Goldman Sachs Catching Up To Competitors With a $100 Million Trading Platform

Max Moeller

Goldman Sachs isn’t exactly the first name you think of when you hear cryptocurrencies. In fact, considering the company is more of an investment bank than anything else, you’d probably expect them to stand against the digital assets as much of Wall Street and related companies did toward the beginning of Bitcoin’s rise. But, believe…