Mastercard, JPMorgan integrate blockchain payment solutions 

Bitcoin’s hash rate seems to be feeling the consequences of the drama at Bitmain. Bitcoin (BTC) mining activity doesn’t seem to be reacting to the recent price rally that took the asset from approximately $9,000 in early July to almost $12,000 at time of publication.According to data from Coinmetrics, hashrate spiked around July 7 and…

Developers have suggested changing Solana’s current data transfer protocol UDP to QUIC, stake-weighted transaction processing and a fee-based transaction priority. 293 Total views 4 Total shares The Solana network faced its seventh outage on Saturday, resulting in a downtime of over seven hours. The developer team has come out with an outage report, along with three…

Quantstamp, Status Research, Civic Technologies, HDR Global Trading and Kaydex are off the hook, after five securities related lawsuits were dismissed in New York Courts earlier this week. 1610 Total views 11 Total shares Five proposed class-action lawsuits against crypto firms have been voluntarily dismissed without prejudice in New York federal courts — without costs…

SI's new service, called "Box Office," will allow event organizers to issue commemorative nonfungible token tickets, including pre-attendance and post-event audience perks. 190 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTOn May 2, Sports Illustrated's ticketing subsidiary SI Tickets launched the "Box Office" platform, a self-service event…

Celsius bankruptcy report by court-appointed examiner Shoba Pillay either has a typo or a “mis-characterization,” Tether CTO stated. 150 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTTether (USDT) — the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization — has never received any loan from the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender…

For wine collectors, provenance is everything. With as much as 20% of all wine circulating the globe deemed to be fake, it’s hardly surprising. In days past, sniffing out a bogus burgundy required a good nose and an eye for detail. Now, thanks to blockchain technology, the problem is being resolved at its root —…

Bitcoin’s volatility index reached its highest level in 20 months, but traders aren't too sure if there's more pain ahead.

The year 2020, for most of the inhabitants of our planet, was passed in lockdowns or quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic; many were forced to stay at home. Social events were canceled or postponed, and entire sectors of the world economy suffered huge losses. The start of this year wasn’t any better, as governments across…

It’s one of the biggest challenges facing blockchain and crypto — a hurdle only the industry can solve. Without a solution, even CEOs from major global exchanges fear that mass adoption will never be achievable.Scalability is the long-running thorn in the side of this fledgling technology, which is still relatively young and has yet to…