BITCOIN

  • Wealth Managers Want Clarity on Bitcoin Rules: Reuters

    Leuthold Group Chief Investment Officer Jim Paulsen told Reuters he is frustrated by not being able to hold bitcoin (BTC, +5.14%) for his clients. Leuthold Group manages $1 billion but regulatory barriers prevent the firm from holding cryptocurrency. “What I like about bitcoin is … its correlation to stocks and other assets is extraordinarily independent,” Paulsen told Reuters. In lieu of holding the asset itself, wealth managers are clamoring for the approval of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that would meet the legal standards required of traditional investments, according to the report. The U.S. Securities and…

    03/07/2021
  • Ethereum’s ‘EIP 1559’ Fee Market Overhaul Greenlit for July

    One of the most significant and contentious alterations to the Ethereum blockchain in recent memory is now scheduled for inclusion into its codebase. Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 will be packaged with the London hard fork this coming July regardless of the mining industry’s discontent with the proposal, according to the All Core Developers call Friday. At least five other EIPs are likely to join EIP 1559 in London. EIP 1559 flips a typical blockchain transaction on its head in order to fix numerous issues with Ethereum’s user experience. Traditionally, a user sends a gas…

    Business 03/07/2021
  • Galaxy’s Institutional Ethereum Funds Raise $32M at Launch – From a Select Few

    Galaxy Digital’s institutional-grade ether (ETH) funds have raised over $32 million since their February launch, according to documents filed Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Early returns – for an “onshore” $22 million fund and its Cayman-domiciled $10 million sibling – reveal a small but deep-pocketed clientele participated in the twin funds’ earliest days. Just five total investors have joined the funds since Galaxy unveiled them in late January. The funds debuted as ETH settled in the $1,500 range, well below highs set February when the native asset of the world computer…

    03/07/2021
  • Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stuck Below $50K, and Blockchain Data May Show Why

    Bitcoin ended the first week of March with little fanfare as the market reset after the prior week’s 21% plunge. There are more signs the global economic recovery might come faster than previously expected, and traders are speculating on what that might mean for the largest cryptocurrency. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $49,196.78 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Climbing 1.93% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $46,393.39-$49,462.13 (CoinDesk 20) BTC trades above its 10-hour and 50-hour averages on the hourly chart, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading…

    03/07/2021
  • US Senate Approves $1.9T Stimulus Plan; Measure Now Returns to the House

    The Senate passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid 19 relief package Saturday, a possible positive development for cryptocurrencies. The measure, which was passed by a 50-49 party-line vote, now heads back to the House, which would have to approve Senate changes to the package before it can head to the president for signing. The House is expected to take up the measure next week, according to The Wall Street Journal. The legislation would provide $300 in weekly unemployment benefits through early September, send $1,400 payments to some Americans and direct…

    03/06/2021
  • Hayek’s public chain

      Hayek’s public chains are open-source public chains independently developed Hayek team based on the blockchain technology. To salute the Nobel Economics Prize winner Hayek, it is named Hayek. Hayek’s public chains apply the unique blockchain data structure and virtual machine design, apply the on-chain upgrading system and off-chain channel technology to realize expandability, high efficiency, usability, and interoperability of Hayek’s public chains, maximize protection of community completeness, solve the impossible trinity problem of the blockchain, and turn into the global top-notch public chains covering different fields including DeFi, payment,…

    Digital Currency 03/05/2021
  • Asthe Insurance Industry Evolves, BIG Takes the Lead with BlockchainTechnology

    Thedevelopment of China’s insurance industry started relatively late.However, as the living standards of its citizens improved, theinsurance industry went through a similar overhaul. In 2020, theinsurance industry realized 4.53 trillion yuan in premium income, ayear-on-year increase of 6.1%. Among them, health insurance isgrowing at a rapid rate. In 2020, the premium income for healthinsurance will be 817.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of morethan 15%. Even so, compared with the United States, Japan and othercountries, the development of China’s insurance industry is still inits infancy. In terms of insurance depth…

    03/04/2021
  • A new type of online job opportunity has spread through the whole Kenya under the COVID-19 lockdown. Join to increase your revenue streams!

    Life has been being consistently limited from the global Covid-19 lockdown, while social isolation has also brought thrives on the short-form social video platforms, such as TikTok and Instagram. And in this situation, influencer marketing incorporating social media is a new phenomenon within the industry. For example, some non-celebrity social media influencers can pull in millions of dollars each year from brand partnerships and sponsorships. No wonder that, it illustrates perfectly how big a fan community of a Social Media Influencer and how successful Social Media Influencer can nowadays become….

    02/28/2021
  • TTI LABS will soon be launched on the Firecoin eco-chain with unlimited potential

    In the history of human development, innovation is eternal. Behind them, there must be the cooperation and integration of countless people’s ideas. In December, 20 years ago, the official announcement was made on the Firecoin global website, to help developers build decentralized applications flexibly and efficiently, Firecoin announced the official launch of the Huobi ECO Chain (“Heco” for short). With the market value of Bitcoin surpassing $1 trillion, many institutions and ecosystems are running to enter, and various tracks are still starting a war that cannot be seen. TTI LABS,…

    02/26/2021
  • Emperor blue ecological public chain, to create the third world super intelligent city 2.0 pioneer

    With the continuous progress of society, the continuous development of science and technology, the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, the continuous diversification of demand, the global intelligent construction is imperative. According to the data, there are thousands of smart cities in the world. The market size is expected to be 700 billion US dollars in 2023. In order to promote the rapid development of intelligent city, the perfect use of block chain technology and unique characteristics, Di Lan chain came into being. DiLan Chain —— Building Distributed Bottom Data…

    02/19/2021