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How Bitcoin continues to prove a lifeline for troubled nations

24 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Blockspectator

Bitcoin is continuing to earn its stripes as a significant geopolitical asset for some of the worlds most maligned countries as countries are increasingly exploring the concept of Bitcoin bonds. The governments of three different countries have forma...

Request | Possible PayPal killer?

22 Apr 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Blockspectator

Request (REQ), formerly known as Request Network is a decentralized platform that allows anyone to request peer-to-peer payments. A recipient can receive payment securely with all the information stored in an authentic decentralized ledger. This res...

Big-money players increasingly pouring into Crypto

20 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Blockspectator

This is something the crypto community will be hearing more and more of, over the coming weeks, months and years- major organizations looking and getting involved with cryptocurrency. The Harvard Endowment has decided to invest up to $12.65 million...

Insights Network announces token migration using EOS Open Source Software

19 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Blockspectator

Insights Network has announced that they plan to migrate their existing ERC-20 INSTAR token contracts onto the INSTAR blockchain, using the EOS Open Source Software. An article, initially published by InvestInBlockchain, brought forth the news this w...

NANO back in the top ten of most active blockchains

16 Apr 2019 1 minute read 1 comment Blockspectator

NANO (NANO) is back among the busiest blockchains according to Block’tivity. Block’tivity’s Blockchain Activity Matrix lists the top twenty-five current blockchains projects, in order of the busiest when measured according to Block’tivity’s performan...

Block’tivity’s Activity Matrix lists new projects – INSTAR among them

15 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Blockspectator

Block’tivity– the often used blockchain benchmark website has refreshed its list of the top blockchains measured by transactions, and the latest list includes some new names. The Block’tivity Blockchain Activity Matrix is used by the website to disp...

Why China ‘banning’ Bitcoin mining should be considered old news

12 Apr 2019 2 minute read 1 comment Blockspectator

China wants to ban Bitcoin mining. The news released a couple of days ago rattled many in the community that the leading mining nation of Bitcoin intends to do away with the entire process altogether. The reason given by the National Development and...

Waltonchain | The best blockchain-based supply management project?

11 Apr 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Blockspectator

Try to imagine all the products in a person’s life. A daunting task no doubt, but when given closer thought and attention, it’s easy to take for granted the sheer number of items people use and take for granted in their daily lives. Whether it’s our...

WAX – the new marketplace for decentralized gaming assets?

10 Apr 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Blockspectator

Steam is one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world. The platform is the largest digital distribution platform for PC gaming and is estimated to have 75% of the market space. Currently, the platform has over 150 million registered account...

QuadrigaCX end game finally arrives- exchange declared bankrupt

10 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Blockspectator

The Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX has declared its bankruptcy – putting an assumed end to one of the longest and strangest cryptocurrency sagas in many years. The accounting firm Ernest and Young have been appointed to handle the bankruptcy from here...