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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of the African National Congress (ANC) party was re-elected on Friday, and will lead the country's first multi-party coalition government.The ANC managed to secure only 159 seats in this the election, short of the 200 seats required for a majority. After days of back-and-forth discussion, they announced the formation of

ETH and BTC are trading flat as Asia's business week opens.Traders are looking at the ETH ETF decision, and Nvidia earnings this week.The crypto market was listless early Monday, with bitcoin (BTC), the biggest digital asset market by value, trading flat at $67,156 and ether (ETH) changing hands at $3,127, according to CoinDesk Indices data.The

The broker raised its price target for Coinbase to $230 from $160.The broker believes the crypto exchange offers unique exposure to the long-term growth of the crypto economy.Coinbase’s trading activity continues to surge, with daily volume for March averaging $5.1 billion, the report said.Coinbase (COIN) offers investors unique exposure to the long-term growth of the

news What started with a single tweet quickly turned into an escalating debate Wednesday when the CEO of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges appeared to entertain the idea of encouraging revisions to the bitcoin blockchain. Following Wednesday’s revelation that crypto exchange Binance was robbed of 7,000 BTC (worth about $40 million), a proposal…

May 23, 2020 at 13:00 UTCThe Bank of England (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Igor Mikhalev is an expert principal at BCG helping clients develop business models with blockchain technologies and digital currencies. Kaj Burchardi is a Managing Director with BCG and leads the blockchain practice of BCG/Platinion globally. Digital currencies hold a long-term promise to change…

Zero-knowledge proofs help to ensure that transaction privacy does not come at the expense of trust. Read on to learn what zero-knowledge proofs are, how they work, and why we need them in Web3.This is partner content sourced from Laura Shin’s Unchained and published by CoinDesk.Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are protocols that help prove the validity

Apr 22, 2020 at 15:15 UTCSolar panels on Australian homes. (Credit: Shutterstock/zstock)Power Ledger will provide the blockchain technology to enable energy trading at new housing developments in Western Australia.Under a deal announced Wednesday the energy-focused startup will install its platform across 10 residential estates being built in the Perth metropolitan area by local property developer…

It’s an intense crypto dogfight as dogecoin (DOGE) and shiba inu (SHIB), two of the most popular meme coins, battle it out for the ninth spot on the list of top digital assets by market capitalization. Some traders are profiting from the action by taking spread trades.DOGE has come alive after lagging SHIB by a…

The bitcoin (BTC) hashrate continues to hit new all-time highs as competition between miners escalates ahead of the next halving event, expected second-quarter 2024, JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report Thursday.The halving will reduce issuance rewards to 3.125 BTC from 6.25 BTC, “implying a reduction in miners’ revenues, effectively increasing bitcoin’s production cost at…