Digital Currency

  • Wealth Managers Want Clarity on Bitcoin Rules: Reuters

    Leuthold Group Chief Investment Officer Jim Paulsen told Reuters he is frustrated by not being able to hold bitcoin (BTC, +5.14%) for his clients. Leuthold Group manages $1 billion but regulatory barriers prevent the firm from holding cryptocurrency. “What I like about bitcoin is … its correlation to stocks and other assets is extraordinarily independent,” Paulsen told Reuters. In lieu of holding the asset itself, wealth managers are clamoring for the approval of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that would meet the legal standards required of traditional investments, according to the report. The U.S. Securities and…

    03/07/2021
  • Ethereum’s ‘EIP 1559’ Fee Market Overhaul Greenlit for July

    One of the most significant and contentious alterations to the Ethereum blockchain in recent memory is now scheduled for inclusion into its codebase. Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 will be packaged with the London hard fork this coming July regardless of the mining industry’s discontent with the proposal, according to the All Core Developers call Friday. At least five other EIPs are likely to join EIP 1559 in London. EIP 1559 flips a typical blockchain transaction on its head in order to fix numerous issues with Ethereum’s user experience. Traditionally, a user sends a gas…

    Business 03/07/2021
  • Galaxy’s Institutional Ethereum Funds Raise $32M at Launch – From a Select Few

    Galaxy Digital’s institutional-grade ether (ETH) funds have raised over $32 million since their February launch, according to documents filed Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Early returns – for an “onshore” $22 million fund and its Cayman-domiciled $10 million sibling – reveal a small but deep-pocketed clientele participated in the twin funds’ earliest days. Just five total investors have joined the funds since Galaxy unveiled them in late January. The funds debuted as ETH settled in the $1,500 range, well below highs set February when the native asset of the world computer…

    03/07/2021
  • Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stuck Below $50K, and Blockchain Data May Show Why

    Bitcoin ended the first week of March with little fanfare as the market reset after the prior week’s 21% plunge. There are more signs the global economic recovery might come faster than previously expected, and traders are speculating on what that might mean for the largest cryptocurrency. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $49,196.78 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Climbing 1.93% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $46,393.39-$49,462.13 (CoinDesk 20) BTC trades above its 10-hour and 50-hour averages on the hourly chart, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading…

    03/07/2021
  • Hayek’s public chain

      Hayek’s public chains are open-source public chains independently developed Hayek team based on the blockchain technology. To salute the Nobel Economics Prize winner Hayek, it is named Hayek. Hayek’s public chains apply the unique blockchain data structure and virtual machine design, apply the on-chain upgrading system and off-chain channel technology to realize expandability, high efficiency, usability, and interoperability of Hayek’s public chains, maximize protection of community completeness, solve the impossible trinity problem of the blockchain, and turn into the global top-notch public chains covering different fields including DeFi, payment,…

    Digital Currency 03/05/2021
  • Blockchain+ energy, IEA is born strong

    The rapid growth of the earth’s population and the industrialization of developing countries are pushing global energy demand to unprecedented levels. The world’s energy dependence on fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas poses a major risk to the environment and is one of the main factors causing adverse climate change. With these challenges, new approaches to energy production and distribution are needed. The solution must support dynamic and sustainable global growth, for which the IEA came into being. The IEA Foundation was established by the Japanese IEA…

    Digital Currency 02/18/2021
  • The dark horse of decentralized lending is coming, HecoLend has a full analysis!

    According to recent data from Coingecko, the total market value of DeFi is US$65,505,319,366, and the total lock-up volume is US$42,446,215,841. However, in this increasingly large DiFi ecosystem, as the underlying financial structure of DeFi, the lending business is usually ignored by many people, but in fact all financial portfolio products, derivatives, etc. are inseparable from the support of lending business. HecoLend, an open source currency market protocol, realizes asset financing based on the Huobi ecological chain technology and the relationship between capital supply and demand. Participants can conduct financial…

    02/08/2021
  • The world premiere of FIL II is bound to be a rising star

    With the rapid development of 5G, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, it is estimated that by 2023, about 40% of storage systems will be distributed storage architectures.   Although the realization process of large-scale applications continues, the potential advantages of distributed storage accelerate the transformation of the new data era.   FIL II is a distributed file storage network based on blockchain technology, a network transmission protocol for distributed data storage and shared files.   FILII is the only incentive layer for FIL II, a decentralized distributed storage network….

    02/04/2021
  • A New Blockchain Financial System – MIGO

    As the core behind the Internet 3.0 era, blockchain technology has been increasingly accepted by mainstream institutions. The global economy has slowed down on its growth, but the digital economy is still ushering in exponential growth, with a number of digital currencies such as Bitcoin entering a new bull market. The new bull market is not just about the growth of assets and value. Digital assets have formed a new financial model through the immutable and decentralized nature of blockchain. Right now, how to truly combine blockchain technology with physical commerce has become an important question to ponder, so as to ensure the success and authenticity of the new financial model. A New Financial System The advent…

    01/28/2021
  • Zelator sharing matrix is strong

    2020 is a turbulent year, for the currency circle, the project circle is very, countless people fell before the bull market, today, a new decentralization of the global sharing matrix project, a decentralization of the divine wave field matrix appeared! Zelator, comes, strong and born. Zelator is the international community of the global decentralized ecosystem and the first ever intelligent contract marketing matrix of the Tron network, developed by a group of network technology geeks and block chain community enthusiasts, without project parties. No manager behind the scenes, all data…

    01/25/2021