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Calvin Ayre Increases Investment in Bitcoin SV Ecosystem

December 4, 20194 min

Recent investments have come thick and fast as the momentum builds (literally) on the BSV blockchain. BSV can now boast consistently more transactions and bigger block sizes than BTC, but don’t take our word for it: https://coin.dance/. Now new venture sCrypt Inc. receives a funding boost which will bring smart contracts to the BSV blockchain: sCrypt is a high-level smart contract language which allows developers to more easily write smart contracts on Bitcoin SV, without having to use the more cumbersome...

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Crypto Currencies

Calvin Ayre Increases Investment in Bitcoin SV Ecosystem with Funding for sCrypt Smart Contract Venture

December 3, 20194 min

Recent investments have come thick and fast as the momentum builds (literally) on the BSV blockchain. BSV can now boast consistently more transactions and bigger block sizes than BTC, but don’t take our word for it: https://coin.dance/. Now new venture sCrypt Inc. receives a funding boost which will bring smart contracts to the BSV blockchain: sCrypt is a high-level smart contract language which allows developers to more easily write smart contracts on Bitcoin SV, without having to use the more cumbersome...

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Crypto Currencies

Bitcoin Association Appoints APAC Ambassadors to Advance Bitcoin SV

November 2, 20198 min

Bitcoin Association announces its new global Ambassador program, appointing notable representatives who will contribute their time to advance Bitcoin SV (BSV) in their specific countries. The Ambassador program is the next step in expansion of Bitcoin Association’s worldwide activities for BSV. Bitcoin Association is the global industry organization for the business of Bitcoin. It supports BSV as the only coin with a blockchain that significantly scales (now), has robust utility (now), and is committed to a...

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Crypto Currencies

MICROBITCOIN, New Network Launch with Massive Upgrade in October 2019

October 8, 20196 min

MicroBitCoin (MBC), first Bitcoin hard-forking cryptocurrency in Korea, is launching new network with massive upgrade in October 2019. MBC, successfully hard-forked at Bitcoin’s 525,000th block level as of May 2018, is a peer-to-peer payment protocol with a very low transaction fee of 0.0001% compared to Bitcoin and a significant increase in transaction rate per second. After said hard-fork, MBC has received positive reviews for its stable mining and fast network speed. MBC’s core dev teams announced...

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Payments

Wirex Launches Enhanced Cryptoback™

September 13, 20193 min

Not All Rewards Programs are Created Equal Today, payments platform Wirex launched a supercharged update of their revolutionary Cryptoback™ rewards programme. Customers can now earn up to 1.5% back in Bitcoin on Wirex Visa card purchases. Released in 2018, Cryptoback™ was the world’s first rewards programme that paid out 0.5% in cryptocurrency for all in-store spending with the Wirex Visa card. Thanks to the recent launch of the Wirex Token (WXT), customers can now triple the...

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Crypto Currencies

BeNative Launches Bitcoin Incentive System for English Learners

September 12, 20194 min

A new incentive system for English learners using bitcoin - BNV Token Release for global subscription and enterprise advertisement

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Asset Management

BlockFi Raises $18.3M Series A Led by Valar Ventures

August 7, 20194 min

BlockFi, the leading wealth management solution for crypto investors, announced today that it has raised $18.3 million in Series A funding led by Valar Ventures with participation from Winklevoss Capital, Galaxy Digital, ConsenSys Ventures, Akuna Capital, Avon Ventures, Susquehanna, CMT Digital, Morgan Creek and PJC. The capital will be used to add new products to BlockFi’s existing platform, which includes interest-earning accounts for Bitcoin and crypto-backed USD loans. Valar, a New York-based and fintech-focused VC firm, led the funding round....

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Crypto Currencies

Bitcoin.com Set to Launch Exchange with Rewards for Pre-Registration

August 2, 20195 min

Industry leader Bitcoin.com has announced plans to launch a new cryptocurrency exchange on Monday, September 2. The exchange offers a user-friendly place to trade with a clean, simple interface to promote easy navigation, along with high-liquidity and a powerful matching engine to support fast trading. As a trading platform, The Bitcoin.com Exchange will complement the existing Bitcoin-focused products and services provided by the fintech company. Bitcoin.com Executive Chairman Roger Ver explains, “We’re always working to...

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Crypto Currencies

Bitcoin Hyper Launches the World’s Fastest Bitcoin, a Cryptocurrency for Real World Use

July 24, 20195 min

Bitcoin Hyper (“BHY”), an innovative new cryptocurrency that provides consumers with the ability to conduct every day transactions with unprecedented speed, launched today on Alterdice.com, a virtual exchange. Bitcoin Hyper is a speed enhanced version of Bitcoin. It is digital money for the digital age. Whether a consumer is buying something online, at a store or sending money around the world, Bitcoin Hyper overcomes the processing delays of eight to seventy minutes, which is typical other tokens....

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Crypto Currencies

BuyBSV.com Launches to Allow People to BuyBSV

July 2, 20196 min

Users can now buy Bitcoin SV (BSV) with VISA or MasterCard without the hassle of personal identification*; just buy immediately, straight into their wallet. On the new web service BuyBSV.com, the initial buy amount permitted is €100 (without identification) but users can upgrade levels thereafter (with identification) to buy up to €3,000 worth of BSV. (*No personal identification is required to buy smaller amounts of BSV below Anti-Money Laundering rule compliance thresholds for Know Your Customer requirements;...