Deloitte Luxembourg will have its employees pay with bitcoin (BTC) for their lunch as part of a test. This is according to an article from the Luxembourg Times of 17 September. We in the crypto world have been constantly fighting for the general acceptance of cryptocurrency by the masses. One of the ways this can be achieved …
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The Hedera Hashgraph blockchain has been launched. The long-awaited network promises greater transaction speeds than all other blockchains in the market and is supported by several large companies. This appeared from a press release published on September 16. According to a tweet from the official team which read “ Hedera’s mainnet (beta) has officially …
Here are quick cryptocurrency updates for the previous week to help keep you updated with the happenings in the sector. Last Monday, we saw how bitcoin (BTC) went as low as $10,060. The rate recovered somewhat in the run-up to Tuesday, but the decline continued after that. On Tuesday evening the price of bitcoin fell …
The Spanish banking giant Santander is the first institution to use a public blockchain to settle a $ 20 million bond. The bank reports this in a press release published on 12 September. The settlement took place on the Ethereum blockchain and both sides of the redemption were paid with ERC-20 tokens. The bank itself was the issuer, the bond has a quarterly …
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Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, was a guest at CNN’s First Move today. In the interview with Julia Chatterley, Garlinghouse claims that “no one can influence the price of XRP “, partly due to the huge daily volume. In the interview, Garlinghouse gave a simple explanation of how XRP works exactly and what benefits banks …
Message service provider Telegram has released the source code of its blockchain project known as the Telegram Open Network (TON), as part of the final test phase for the launch of the Gram token. The Gram Token is the personal cryptocurrency token of Telegram. With the code, you can run a so-called node of the TON blockchain in preparation for the …
The Spanish football club Atletico de Madrid is planning to collaborate with the blockchain platform Socios.com to release its digital fan token. Socios.com reported this in a blog post published on the 6th of September. Socios.com uses the Chiliz (CHZ) cryptocurrency on its platform. Fans can purchase this cryptocurrency on Socios.com and then exchange it for …
Samsung is reportedly launching a special version of the Galaxy S10 that should make the use of cryptocurrencies and decentralized applications (dApps) even easier. For this, it cooperated with Klaytn, a subsidiary of messaging giant Kakao. The WSJ writes this based on sources that are familiar with the subject. Samsung is said to have collaborated …
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Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, spoke on the 3rd of September during a three-hour podcast about a variety of topics, including cryptocurrencies, Facebooks Libra and Ethereum 2.0. In the podcast, he states that he has every confidence in the launch of Ethereum 2.0. The launch is scheduled for early next year and should resolve …
Travala.com, a large hotel booking platform that uses Blockchain Technology, will migrate to Binance ‘s blockchain, called Binance Chain. The company announces this in a blog post published on the 3rd of September. Travala.com plans to transfer its native token AVA (NEP5) to the Binance Chain to improve the usability, security and speed of the token. The hotel …
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