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Cardano is pursuing an offline solution for Cryptocurrencies

29 May 2020 2 minute read 6 comments FKlivestolearn

The blockchain project is developing a crypto-native microchip that would be embedded within the devices   Cardano is an open-source, decentralized public blockchain & cryptocurrency project and the 11th largest by market cap. Input Output (IOHK) — t...

Bitcoin Options surge past the $1 billion mark for the first time

19 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Analyzing the price action and other metrics in the premier digital coin, a week after the block rewards were cut in half   The much-touted Bitcoin halving has finally taken place — an in-built mechanism to control the inflation in the crypto kin...

Bitcoin is on the move with the all-important halving in sight

5 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Looking at the price action, hash rate and transaction costs of the premier digital coin before the mining reward splits into half   To summarize the concept of halving, it is simply a process of reducing the mining rewards to half, done to maint...

The mystery behind the “Covid Toes”

2 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

This dermatological condition may be appearing in otherwise asymptomatic patients   One of the biggest hindrances in reliably identifying people who have (or previously had) COVID-19 are those asymptomatic cases who didn’t exhibit the most common sym...

Project Incognito provides robust privacy to DeFi transactions

30 Apr 2020 2 minute read 3 comments FKlivestolearn

The stand-alone blockchain project aims to bring privacy & interoperability to Ethereuem decentralized finance platforms   There have been some innovative solutions lately to address the so-called trilemma of Cryptos — privacy, scalability & int...

World’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine trial underway in the U.K

29 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Efforts are being ramped up to come up with a medical solution earlier than the anticipated timeline of 12–18 months   With the number of global coronavirus infections surpassing well over 3 million, the pressure is mounting to come up with a medical...

Another competitor lands in the Crypto payment space in Africa

27 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment FKlivestolearn

Incubated by Binance, Bundle allows users to request, send, and receive cash or crypto from their peers, all for free   Africa is increasingly becoming a target market for digital assets and service providers. The continent has the largest youngest p...

Will the COVID-19 pandemic lead to mass digital surveillance?

23 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

To enforce country wide lockdown, governments have resorted to digital surveillance which might not be retracted     In some ways, it already has. It was expected that the enforcement of such an endeavor would need the implementation of extensive sur...

Binance Chain adds smart contract functionality to its platform

20 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Dubbed as Binance Smart Chain (BSC), it could perform better than the main rival Ethereum on some key metrics   Binance is perhaps one of the most well-known names in the blockchain/crypto space. What started off as a cryptocurrency exchange just thr...

Most of the DApps exhibit this vulnerability

18 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Cryptocurrency wallet provider ZenGo has demonstrated the security flaw using a test net     Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has gained a lot of traction in the last year or so. Although the total value of the funds locked in DeFi has halved from the re...