Cryptocurrency News

More than two years after starting work, the development team behind Raiden - a second-layer network for Ethereum, functionally similar to the Lightning Network on Bitcoin - has announced the mainnet launch of the alpha version of its product called Red Eyes...

In a survey conducted by analysts at the central bank of the United Kingdom, respondents were asked to choose their preferred New Year gift from such options as cash, a bank transfer, a gift voucher or digital currency...

Despite skeptics' claims that Bitcoin is "dead" or "has become useless" in 2018, the reality is that this year Bitcoin has become a genuine cultural phenomenon, gaining momentum and capturing the minds of millions of people around the world. On December 20, the Bitcoin network recorded the largest trading volume in

This week the release of the beta version of the blockchain-based game 0xWarriors was officially announced. The game is designed to run on the EOS and Ethereum networks. 0xWarriors is a game for collecting various items and for battles...

A blockchain platform has been launched in Switzerland that allows users to acquire a share in real estate in the form of tokens. So the tokenization of real assets appears to be becoming a new trend in the global economy...

At present, 90% of all Monero has already been mined. What next? Next comes an emission period called Tail Emission. The issuance of coins will not stop, but the block reward will decrease and will amount to 0.3 XMR per minute...

On December 17, Western Union Global Money Transfer, a company specializing in providing money intermediary services, announced its readiness to work with cryptocurrencies to facilitate international payments. Odilon Almeida, president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, said that Western Union is ready to make

Israel's largest financial services company, GMT, has joined the Ripple network. Founded in 2001, GMT has 250 branches in Israel alone, specializing in money transfers, medical insurance for tourists and foreign workers, currency exchange, prepaid card issuance, and other financial services...

At the end of October, a software update of the Zcash cryptocurrency network took place. The developers implemented new transaction-processing algorithms, which made it possible to significantly increase their speed and security. However, according to statements by analysts of the BL Blockspur service, which tracks

The application being developed will make it possible to use bidirectional payment channels in the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. The start of the development process for the new feature was announced by Chris Pacia, who published a post on the Medium portal, where he shared some details of the development...