Dash, the fastest growing cryptocurrency this year, has announced a business partnership with digital payments platform BlockPay that allows people to pay for goods in Dash, directly from the merchant. The deal follows several corporate alliances the Dash team has cultivated in Q1 2017, stemming from meteoric gains in value Continue Reading
Dash Becomes Third-Most Valuable Cryptocurrency Based On Market Cap
The past 48 hours have proven to be quite intriguing for anyone involved in the Dash cryptocurrency. With prices spiking to a new all-time high yesterday afternoon, things got off to a good start. Albeit Dash has seen a small correction ever since, the price per individual coin still hovers Continue Reading
Dash Partners with Wall of Coins to Help Users Exchange Crypto for Cash
Dash, the rising alternative to bitcoin, has today announced a partnership with Wall of Coins that allows people to buy and sell Dash from a nearby bank or financial services branch. Dash users will now be able to exchange the 3rd most valuable cryptocurrency at major national banks such as Chase, Bank Continue Reading
Nearly Nine in Ten Ransomware Attacks Target Hospitals
Ransomware is a serious threat to computer users and corporations around the world. But very few people are aware of how coordinated these attacks can be. For example, eight in ten ransomware distribution attacks target hospitals specifically. Those are the findings of the Solutionary Security Engineering Research Team. Hospitals Are Continue Reading
Node40 Unveils Masternode Portfolio Insight Reports
Node40, a blockchain governance company providing investors with an easy-to-generate and passive revenue stream, today announced a highly requested feature for Masternode owners, Masternode Portfolio Insight. The feature is designed to showcase asset performance for every Node40 customer, all of whom are investors in the popular, stable cryptocurrency Dash, and Continue Reading
Could Monero’s Price Surge Be Tied to the Bitfinex Hack?
Could the recent dramatic increase in the market capitalization of Monero be linked in some way to the Bitfinex hack and theft of $70 million in Bitcoin? Monero, which has competed fiercely for the label of the anonymous and private cryptocurrency, experienced a recent growth spurt, over tripling in value Continue Reading
How Are Cryptocurrencies Solving Bitcoin’s Adoption Issue?
The great frontrunner of the cryptocurrency world, Bitcoin has hit a snag in growth. While the blockchain distributed ledger technology behind cryptocurrency is certainly in the process of revolutionizing the technological and financial world, and while Bitcoin itself continues to grow in value and stability, its original mission of revolutionizing the Continue Reading
FBI Announces Post-Election Attack on Encryption
The FBI announced a plan to crack down on encryption. In a keynote address on August 30th, James Comey, the FBI’s director, announced a renewed push to break encryption after November’s election is over. He stated that the push would be to install backdoors in encryption of private data for easy Continue Reading
Bitcoin (BTC): new all-time high ahead ?!
I’ve been writing and saying it for a long time: In 2017 we had a bitcoin or ultimately even a crypto hype, in the course of which the “mother of all cryptocurrencies” – Bitcoin (BTC) – hit an all-time high of around 20,000 US dollars rose. This was a hype, Continue Reading
Deutsche Bundesbank discusses the digital euro
Adapt to stay happy – this is how Burkhard Balz quoted Confucius to justify the considerations for a possible digital central bank currency (CBDC). The board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank presented some questions that the European Central Bank, as the highest central bank in Europe, has to answer. Central Continue Reading