Reading Time: 2 minutesA new proposal from software developers would allow Ripple users to send and receive private transactions over the XRP ledger. In a Github submission at the start of this week, Nik Bougalis said he, and a host of other Ripple developers, had built a private payment system for the XRP ledger, designed to protect users […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing a crypto market crash in the middle of March, the amount of wallets with 1 BTC in them has started rising, peaking at all-time-highs. However, at the same time, it seems that the coin is leaving exchanges. According to crypto market researcher, Glassnode, addresses with 1 BTC are on the rise, even as Bitcoin […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesEthereum is right around the corner from implementing Ethereum 2.0 (experts believe that it’ll happen sometime this year), but that hasn’t stopped Vitalik Buterin from laying out the groundwork for the next decade. Here’s what Vitalik sees for Ethereum in the coming 5 to 10 years. Phase 0: Prep In a tweet posted on 18 […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesRipple, a blockchain-focused remittance company, has officially reached the number two spot on the list of the most valuable businesses in fintech. The San Francisco-based company was valued at $10 billion, after raising more than $200 million in a funding round in December 2019. So, Ripple is officially the 2nd largest fintech company in the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOriginally posted on Crescent City Capital By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern The federal funds rate is a tool of the fed to apply monetary policy on the market by controlling the short-term circulation of the US Dollar on the market. The Fed is able to adjust the federal funds rate […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to new reports, Ripple’s XRP coin could gain ⅔ of its current price by the end of 2020, reaching $1. On 16 February, XRP dropped to $0.26, but quickly gained reaching $0.29. Following this, some crypto analysts blew up Twitter – making predictions that Ripple’s XRP could reach $1 in 2020. What is Ripple? […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s pretty much common knowledge that Litecoin (LTC) will be a privacy coin in the future. Charlie Lee, Litecoin’s founder, partnered with David Burkett, a Grin developer, to implement the MimbleWimble protocol. MimbleWimble will improve the scalability and privacy of the blockchain by using extension blocks. So, Litecoin’s creator believes MimbleWimble will be better than […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesDerivative Market heats up by Jacob Pouncey | Saxo Bank Analyst | Crypto Current Contributor This week the entire crypto market cap rose by 25%, bringing the market cap to USD 360 bn. Etheruem and Bitcoin rose by 22% and 37% respectively. This marks a meteoric rise in Bitcoin price since the start of the quarter, […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesActual BTC volume much lower than advertised By Jacob Pouncey | Saxo Bank Analyst | Crypto Current Contributor Bitcoin market overview The basis for this overview is primarily derived from the recent Bitwise presentation for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in which the firm addressed several of the oft-cited concerns of the commission in regards to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Jacob Pouncey | Saxo Bank Analyst | Crypto Current Contributor This week the entire crypto market cap rose by 1%, bringing the market cap to just above USD 175 bn. Bitcoin rose by 5%, while Ethereum saw a negligible decline over the week. Recently the number of on-chain transactions reached a volume not seen since late 2017. The […]
