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Bitcoin trading and transaction volumes surged at the pro-crypto Silvergate Bank in the first quarter of 2020.According to an April 29 transcript filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on its Q1 2020 earnings, Bitcoin (BTC) trading volume on the Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN) grew 75% over the
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Bitcoin rallied to $9,500 before starting a downside correction against the US Dollar. BTC price might dip towards the $8,200 support zone before a fresh increase.Bitcoin jumped more than 20% and tested the main target of $9,500 (as discussed yesterday).The price is down more than 8% and it is now
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London Stock Exchange-listed bitcoin miner Argo Blockchain Plc said on Wednesday full-year 2019 revenue rocketed 1,000% to £8.62 million ($10.78 million) from £760,000 a year earlier. The company stated that the increase was due to a realignment of operations, from consumer-oriented mining as a service (MaaS) business to a
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The transition of royalty payments into the blockchain should empower artists in the music industry by increasing their bargaining power for asking higher payouts, claims a report that blockchain-based digital music platform, OPUS has shared with Cointelegraph.According to OPUS’ study, given the novelty of introducing blockchain to the digital music
Read MoreMajor crypto exchange, Binance, now has over 1,000 employees, showing tremendous company growth since its 2017 start."When Binance first started in 2017, there were under 50 people," Binance co-founder, Yi He, told Cointelegraph on April 23. "We have more than 1,000 employees today (currently at 1,002 and counting; we are
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The block reward halving for BTC is 32 days away and crypto businesses and mining operations are steadily preparing for the event. Today, Bitcoin’s hashrate is hovering just above 100 exahash per second (EH/s) and one year after the 2016 halving, the digital asset’s price and hashrate climbed over 240%.
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Nik Bougalis, a cryptographer, software engineer and lead of the C++ team at Ripple, has published a proposed method for enhancing the privacy of transactions on the XRP ledger.In his Github post on March 30, Bougalis focused on the destination tags that are assigned to transactions made between wallets
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Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed BC Group, the operator of institution-focused digital assets trading platform OSL, reported a 737% increase in revenue in 2019.On March 31, BC Group revealed that its OSL digital assets platform had been its largest 2019 earner, accounting for 44% of the Group’s revenues — up
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Research conducted by Gartner Inc. predicts a 50 percent increase in overall data quality by 2023 for all businesses and organizations using blockchain smart contracts.“When an organization adopts blockchain smart contracts, whether externally imposed or voluntarily adopted, they benefit from the associated increase in data quality,” said Lydia Clougherty Jones,
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Gartner Inc., the world’s leading research and advisory company, predicts that by 2023, organizations using blockchain smart contracts will increase overall data quality by 50 percent, and trim data availability by 30 percent. The net impact is a positive result for data and analytics (D&A) Return on Investment (ROI). The impact of blockchain
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