Bitcoin is nearly at $11,000 and other major cryptocurrencies ike ethereum are also up. There seem to be four major driving factors: 1. Facebook is creating the Libra cryptocurrency, a new digital wallet called Calibra, and there are many powerful companies in the Libra Foundation including Visa. This is seen as validation for Bitcoin and the [...]
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A total supply of 1.5 billion TOP Network tokens completely sold out within 19 seconds of active prime trading. Huobi Global passed a milestone yesterday, launching a better way to provide the crypto community with access to cutting-edge projects at discounted rates. Huobi Prime went live at 21:00 (Singapore Time) on Tuesday, March 26, offering TOP, [...]
Invesco is launching an innovative ETF (exchange traded fund) designed to target companies with potential to generate real earnings from blockchain technology. The Invesco Elwood Global Blockchain UCITS ETF has been developed in partnership with Elwood Asset Management (“Elwood”), an investment firm specializing in providing institutional investors with exposure to digital assets and blockchain technology. The [...]
Forbes has published its list of the top 50 FinTech companies for 2019. There are 20 new Fintech companies. Two of the new companies are Axoni and Bolt. Axoni (New York) is using blockchain-based smart contracts to overhaul the back office of the world’s biggest derivative markets. They received $59 million in funding from Goldman Sachs, [...]
Crypto wallet provider Blockchain will distribute cryptocurrency to millions of its users in what appears to be the largest such giveaway of its kind. The giveaway airdrop will see recipients each get about $25 worth of the cryptocurrency commonly known as Stellar as part of an overall distribution worth $125 million. Stellar is currently the sixth [...]
Chris Larson is first Cryptocurrency billionaire on Forbes 400
StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. (https://www.startengine.com/) has its third StartEngine Summit on October 19th, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. Nextbigcoin readers can use the discount code "NEXTBIGCOIN" will get 20% off tickets. Buy tickets at this link. Tickets are normally $450 but are $360 with the discount. This conference focuses on ICOs, the tokenization of securities and alternative [...]
Jed McCaleb has been a central figure in the cryptocurrency industry. He is 43 years old and at various points his net worth has been valued in the multiple billions of dollars. Jed McCaleb was co-founder of Ripple (XRP) and co-founder of Stellar (XLM) Ripple is the number three cryptocurrency as of August 29, 2018. Ripple [...]
Blockchains are not for simple raw efficiency. The creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, explained how Ethereum is one million times less efficient than Amazon EC2 for computing, network and storage at this time. Ethereum World Computer Compared to Amazon EC2 Cloud prices Looking at Amazon EC2 (cloud) pricing. For medium scale computing the cost is 4 [...]
There is $5 trillion in Exchange traded funds. About 75% is in actively managed funds but passive index funds are growing and will be about one-third of the ETF market around 2021. ETFs are sometimes used as substitute for futures and investors can use passive ETFs to implement active strategies. Exchange traded funds are marketable securities [...]
