Cryptocurrency Analysis and News Portal
Although coronavirus conditions have created global economic difficulties, cryptocurrencies could see growth amid the struggle, according to one blockchain incubator's head."Short-term: digital currencies suddenly look appealing," Polyient Labs CEO Brad Robertson told Cryptox in a May 1 email. "If someone only looked back at the last two weeks, they might think
Read More
The Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF), an affiliate of the University of Cambridge dedicated to the study of alternative finance and financial channels, has developed a new Bitcoin data tool called the Bitcoin Mining Map. The team claims the solution helps users get a clear picture of the global
Read More
A new bitcoin mining map by the University of Cambridge shows that China accounts for 65% of the world’s hash power. About half of the country’s hash rate is produced in just one place, the autonomous Xinjiang region, which makes up 35.76% of the global total.Launched recently, the university’s
Read More
A team affiliated with the University of Cambridge has released a new bitcoin data tool showing the countries with the highest concentration of mining activity. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), which is based at the Cambridge Judge Business School, said Wednesday the Bitcoin Mining Map would visualize countries'
Read More
The Cambridge University’s Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has launched a Bitcoin Mining Map that provides the average monthly hash rate produced by each country across the globe.The map is informed by the data of mining pools ViaBTC, Poolin, and BTC.com. Cambridge claims the platform is the first to publicly offer
Read More
Ripple has become a member of the ISO 20022 standards body, which is driving a new data standard for payments and data messaging between global financial institutions.The company claims to be the first distributed ledger technology (DLT) focused member of the group, which includes a number of international commercial and
Read More
The number of bitcoin ATM locations has been growing rapidly amid nationwide lockdowns and the coronavirus crisis. With hundreds of new machines added each month, there are now more than 7,700 bitcoin ATMs spread all over the world. A new bitcoin ATM operator also installed its first bitcoin machines
Read More
COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, with United States meat producers being the latest victims of the pandemic in a “cascading series of events,” including shutting down of the food service sector, universities and school lunch programs, all likely to impact millions of Americans.Meat processing plants around the U.S., which emerged
Read More
No central bank is currently working on a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC, that can be used by consumers, according to enterprise blockchain firm, R3.A recent report by R3 claims that no central bank is currently pursuing the development of a retail CBDC. As the authors of the document
Read More
Genesis Global Trading has reported a 100% jump in new loan originations in the first quarter. The cryptocurrency lender and trading platform added a record $2 billion in new loans in the three months leading to March 2020, up $1 billion from the previous quarter. BTC accounted for 44.8%
Read More