Honeyminer Signs Up 50K Users for Easy Crypto Mining App

Central banks around the world are accelerating their experiments with issuing digital currency. Whether it’s the New York Fed’s announcement of a successful proof-of-concept, or the Bank of England’s recent completion of the next phase of its digital pound experiment, over 130 countries around the world are toying with issuing central bank digital currency (CBDCs). And why…

news After a long courtship, Overstock’s security token platform, tZERO, has lost another potential investor. “Makara will not be investing in tZERO right now,” Interim CEO Jonathan Johnson said during the Overstock investor call on Monday. Johnson did mention that the Singapore-based fund will keep an eye on tZERO and possibly reconsider its decision in…

news Facebook is continuing to grow the team for its Libra cryptocurrency project with the hiring of a new economics researcher. The social media giant currently has almost 40 posts open for roles at Libra and its wallet app Calibra – mostly taking a focus on data professionals. In addition to the bunch of data…

The world’s largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), has risen 25% in the last month, with most of these gains accumulating during U.S. trading hours, crypto services provider Matrixport said in a note on Wednesday.“This is a significant development and shows that U.S. institutions and U.S. investors are embracing the news that a U.S.-listed spot bitcoin exchange-traded-fund

El Salvador's bitcoin-friendly president Nayib Bukele is on his way to another five-year term, according to exit polls which show him with an overwhelming lead shortly after voting ended on Sunday evening.The result was widely expected as Bukele, who served since 2019 as president, enjoyed great popularity in the country and led in pre-election polling

NEWS Oil industry giants Shell and BP are among a group of firms planning to launch a blockchain platform to automate post-trade processes in the energy industry by the end of 2018. VAKT Global, the consortium building the platform, revealed the news at a digital commodities summit hosted by S&P Global Platts on Monday. The effort…

May 29, 2020 at 14:26 UTCUpdated May 29, 2020 at 15:10 UTCJoe Roets, Dragonchain's CEO and chief architect (Credit: Vision Tree Media) Discovery Science to Premier Crypto-Funded TV Series About… Dragonchain?A new series about blockchain project Dragonchain is premiering on Discovery, and it’s been fully financed with $1 million in crypto. Production house Vision Tree…

news KB Kookmin, the largest bank in South Korea, is preparing launch a digital asset custody offering. According to a report from CoinDesk Korea, the institution is teaming up for the effort with blockchain startup Atomics Lab, with the two entities signing a strategic business agreement on June 10. Atomics Labs is developing a product called Lime…

Two weeks after ICE introduced Bakkt, a new digital assets platform, the latter's CEO has set out to explain what the service will offer consumers.