Chainlink’s LINK Cryptocurrency Hits New Record Price High

news Tech giant Samsung Electronics is joining six other major South Korean firms to develop a blockchain-based certificate and ID authentication network. Announced on Sunday and reported by CoinDesk Korea, the other founding firms include mobile carriers SK Telecom, LG Yuplus and KT, two banks – KEB Han and Wooriand – and government-founded securities infrastructure…

Ping An, the Chinese insurance giant that built the eTradeFinance blockchain, is modifying the platform to give its 12 participating banks more control over customer relationships. Frank Lu, head of the blockchain division of OneConnect, PingAn’s fintech arm, and the architect of eTradeFinance, told CoinDesk his team is revising the way businesses submit their data…

Jan 24, 2020 at 00:45 UTCUpdated Jan 24, 2020 at 02:43 UTCNO LEADERS: The proposed upgrade to bitcoin's code "is obviously conditional on getting community support," says developer Peter Wuille. (Image via Scaling Bitcoin.)Bitcoin’s Privacy and Scaling Tech Upgrade ‘Taproot’ Just Took a Big Step ForwardA privacy and scalability upgrade that could turn out to…

opinion Let’s be clear: It was not the substance of Donald Trump’s tweet that made his critique of bitcoin and Libra so important last week. It should be of no surprise that this US President would declare himself “not a fan” of “highly volatile” cryptocurrencies “based on thin air” that “facilitate unlawful behavior” or that he…

The Arbitrum Foundation said new "layer-3" networks created via the project's "Orbit" program can now settle to the Arbitrum main network.The foundation, an organization that says it's dedicated to the decentralization of Arbitrum, which is the biggest layer-2 network atop the Ethereum blockchain, made the announcement Thursday on X (formerly Twitter).The move followed "months of

NEWS Sep 19, 2018 at 18:07 UTC Cody Wilson, founder of the 3-D printed gun company Defense Distributed and cryptocurrency advocate, has been charged with sexually assaulting a minor. According to an affidavit obtained by CoinDesk, Wilson was accused of assault against an unnamed minor he allegedly met through an online dating site. Wilson, who…

Bitcoin (BTC) could be at risk of a short-term reversal following recent price bumps, while the dismal performance of ether (ETH) futures exchange-traded funds (ETF) weighed down on crypto majors.“Bitcoin continues to tend to sell on growth, failing to make a fresh attack on the 200-day moving average,” FxPro senior market analyst Alex Kuptsikevich said

The Takeaway:Audius is an Ethereum-based streaming app looking to take on Spotify and Apple Music by offering artists a better deal.Like many blockchain projects, Audius is both a company and a network controlled by token holders.Audius has thousands of regular listeners using it, with a strong base in EDM and a growing cadre of underground…

feature This is a visualization of the lightning network taken at 22:29 (UTC) on Friday. Created by blockchain analytics startup 1ML, the snapshot represents all of the nodes running lightning software and creating public payment channels atop the bitcoin blockchain. Looks complex, right? And believe it or not, this network is getting progressively larger each day according…