Actifit Fitness Tracker, or just Actifit, is an application of a rare category for decentralized fitness and health programs. Actifit follows human activity and pays out its own AFIT tokens for steps taken. We figured out how the app works and how it differs from classic fitness trackers.
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Actifit Fitness Tracker: Review of an App That Pays for Steps
A fitness app that actually rewards users for moving a lot.
How does the Blockstream satellite project work? What do you need in order to participate? What is it useful for? These are the questions that Andreas Antonopoulos answers in his latest Bitcoin Q&A session.
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Bitcoin Q&A: How does the Blockstream Satellite Work?
How does the Blockstream satellite project work? What do you need in order to participate? What is it useful for? Let me bring your science fiction imagination back down to earth...
0:00 How do Blockstream's Bitcoin satellites work? What are their potential…
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💵 Payment processing company Square sold more than $166 million worth of Bitcoin in 2018, with a large percentage coming from Q4.
via The Block
🤝 Peer-to-peer payments technology firm Circle has partnered with Nice Actimize, a financial surveillance provider company.
via Bitcoin.com
💰 London Stock Exchange has led a $20 million funding round for capital markets blockchain startup Nivaura.
via Forbes
👋🏻 Coinhive, the in-browser Monero mining firm, will cease operations from March 8.
via Cointelegraph
💳 Switzerland-based Pangea Blockchain Fund has secured $22 million in a seed round backed by famous crypto entrepreneur Roger Ver.
via CoinDesk
💵 Payment processing company Square sold more than $166 million worth of Bitcoin in 2018, with a large percentage coming from Q4.
via The Block
🤝 Peer-to-peer payments technology firm Circle has partnered with Nice Actimize, a financial surveillance provider company.
via Bitcoin.com
💰 London Stock Exchange has led a $20 million funding round for capital markets blockchain startup Nivaura.
via Forbes
👋🏻 Coinhive, the in-browser Monero mining firm, will cease operations from March 8.
via Cointelegraph
💳 Switzerland-based Pangea Blockchain Fund has secured $22 million in a seed round backed by famous crypto entrepreneur Roger Ver.
via CoinDesk
Figure, a startup that uses the blockchain technology to provide online home equity loans, has raised $65 million, with the amount of funds raised by the firm totaling $120 million. The company is currently lending $1.5 million per day, the figure that company’s CEO expects to double every few months.
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Report: Blockchain Home Equity Loan Platform Raises $65 Million
Fintech startup Figure, which was founded by SoFi founder Mike Cagney, has reportedly raised $65 million from major venture capital funds.
Coin Metrics, a cryptocurrency data provider startup, has raised $1.9 million of venture funding in a round led by Castle Island Ventures with participation from Fidelity Investments, Highland Capital Partners, and Dragonfly Capital.
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Fidelity Joins $1.9 Million Round in Blockchain Data Startup Coin Metrics
Coin Metrics, an open-source data research project, will now offer commercial services to institutional investors.
According to The New York Times, Facebook is reportedly negotiating with cryptocurrency exchanges about the possibility of listing its coin. The largest social media network’s employees are supposedly telling exchange representatives that they plan to roll out a working product in the first half of this year.
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Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed (Published 2019)
Even as cryptocurrency prices have plunged, several big tech companies are working on their own digital tokens for use in text messaging systems.
Some still consider cryptocurrencies “suspicious” assets, citing the opinion of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). But it is impossible not to notice that the FATF shows great concern in connection with cryptocurrencies due to the fact that they interfere with the execution of U.S. sanctions against a number of states. The cryptocurrencies themselves, which work on the blockchain, provide transparency of transactions, the one that SWIFT—an organization that is a supporter of financial purity of banks’ operations in the world—is afraid of. The largest percentage of financial crimes is attributed to the U.S. dollar, given its long history as the main global currency. The blockchain of cryptocurrencies makes such financial crimes less likely. DeCenter figured who the financial future stands with—cryptocurrencies or cash.
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Cryptocurrencies vs. Cash: What Choice to Make?
The prophetic forecasts about the doom of fiat continue as cryptocurrencies are slowly gaining more support.
EOS Lynx is the first wallet application that was created on the EOS platform. As of today, the program is one of the most popular among all of the alternatives available for download. The application itself allows users to keep all their tokens in one storage on the platform and send them to the balances of games, exchanges, and other devices on EOS. We downloaded it and found out how EOS Lynx works.
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EOS Lynx: Review of the First EOS Blockchain Wallet
EOS Lynx, a wallet with plenty of competitors that it can’t seem to catch up with.
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✅ The Constantinople hard fork upgrade has gone live on the Ethereum network.
via The Block
➕ Coinbase, one of the leading U.S.-based digital asset trading platforms, has added support for Ripple’s XRP token to its retail platform and mobile apps.
via Cointelegraph
🏦 J.P. Morgan Chase has been quietly testing the zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) privacy technology.
via CoinDesk
💵 U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is offering “USD 100,000 (fiat or crypto) as a reward for the tip(s) that best lead to the discovery of the missing” QuadrigaCX crypto assets.
via official blog
🇯🇵 According to a recent study, cryptocurrency amounts to less than 2% of all money laundering cases in Japan.
via Bitcoin.com
✅ The Constantinople hard fork upgrade has gone live on the Ethereum network.
via The Block
➕ Coinbase, one of the leading U.S.-based digital asset trading platforms, has added support for Ripple’s XRP token to its retail platform and mobile apps.
via Cointelegraph
🏦 J.P. Morgan Chase has been quietly testing the zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) privacy technology.
via CoinDesk
💵 U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is offering “USD 100,000 (fiat or crypto) as a reward for the tip(s) that best lead to the discovery of the missing” QuadrigaCX crypto assets.
via official blog
🇯🇵 According to a recent study, cryptocurrency amounts to less than 2% of all money laundering cases in Japan.
via Bitcoin.com
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID) released its latest ranking of major cryptocurrencies, ranking EOS first and TRON second. More info: https://ct.com/7cwx
In its (possibly) first investment in the cryptocurrency industry, a Singapore-based government-owned wealth fund GIC Private Limited backed Coinbase’s $300 million fundraise last year.
The fund has over $100 billion in assets in over 40 countries across various asset classes.
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The fund has over $100 billion in assets in over 40 countries across various asset classes.
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Singapore State-Owned Fund Backed Coinbase's $300 Million Raise: Report - CoinDesk
GIC Private Limited, a Singapore government-owned wealth fund, backed Coinbase’s major funding round last year, say Bloomberg sources.
This week we have a partnership that fell apart, a follow-up lawsuit to a previous mining-related lawsuit, and a case where Bittrex is gonna have to cough up the deets on a user.
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Crypto Caselaw Minute #25–2/28/2019
This week we have a partnership that fell apart, a follow-up lawsuit to a previous mining related lawsuit, and a case where Bittrex is…
A popular idea among crypto enthusiasts is that large institutional investors will soon come to the market in droves of dozens, invest billions of dollars, and take the industry to the moon. This “soon” has been lasting for several years and is always being postponed. But, in February, a significant event occurred for the first time, as two U.S. pension funds invested in cryptocurrencies. What is the significance of a new venture fund for the crypto market? Does its appearance mean that institutional investors did not lose interest in the industry against the background of a prolonged bear market? DeCenter tried to figure it out.
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Institutional Investors and Crypto Markets: How Their Relationship Is Developing
While cries echo about the arrival of institutional investors, they are already investing in the crypto market.
Auctionity 360, or AY 360, is an application for tracking lots and participating in public auctions from the cryptocurrency firm Auctionity, which is owned by the blockchain-based company DomRaider. The French company launched its website last year, and it has become quite a popular platform for holding auctions in European countries, so, for convenience, Auctionity has developed apps for smartphones that are available for download on Android and iOS.
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AY 360: Review of the Application for Crypto Auctions from the Auctionity Platform
Auctionity, a blockchain-based auction platform that has yet to migrate properly to mobile devices.
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🗣 Coinbase’s head of sales revealed that the decision to acquire blockchain analysis startup Neutrino was made because the exchange’s previous provider was selling user data.
via Cheddar
⭕️ Cryptocurrency trading company Circle is reportedly seeking to raise an additional $250 million.
via The Information
💸 Five out of six cold wallets used by notorious Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX have been empty since April 2018.
via Bloomberg
🗞 According to a recent study from KPMG, 41% of technology leaders support the idea of adopting blockchain for business in the next three years.
via Forbes
👨💻 Binance has announced a $100,000 simulated trading competition that will take place on its decentralized exchange from March 7 to March 21.
via Cointelegraph
🗣 Coinbase’s head of sales revealed that the decision to acquire blockchain analysis startup Neutrino was made because the exchange’s previous provider was selling user data.
via Cheddar
⭕️ Cryptocurrency trading company Circle is reportedly seeking to raise an additional $250 million.
via The Information
💸 Five out of six cold wallets used by notorious Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX have been empty since April 2018.
via Bloomberg
🗞 According to a recent study from KPMG, 41% of technology leaders support the idea of adopting blockchain for business in the next three years.
via Forbes
👨💻 Binance has announced a $100,000 simulated trading competition that will take place on its decentralized exchange from March 7 to March 21.
via Cointelegraph
A popular financial trading charts and analysis platform TradingView has added HB10, Huobi’s cryptocurrency-based index, in the company’s debut listing of such product.
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TradingView Adds Huobi-Launched Crypto Index HB10
The financial trading charts and analysis platform has added HB10 as the first crypto index on the platform.
LGO Markets, a new U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange targeting institutional investors, has launched with limited functionality. The company has already secured ten institutional clients, with another 56 currently being in the process of onboarding.
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A New Exchange Launches, Letting Institutions Custody Their Own Crypto
LGO Markets, a new crypto exchange for institutional investors with an unusual approach to custody, will launch spot trading on March 11.
Cryptocurrency broker Tagomi has secured $12 million in a new fundraise led by Yale-backed Paradigm Fund, with participation from Pantera Capital and a number of other digital asset investors.
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Pantera and Yale-backed Paradigm get behind crypto broker in new fundraising round
Yale-backed Paradigm and Pantera Capital are getting behind crypto broker Tagomi as part of a $12 million fundraise, the company announced Monday. The new round brings the firm’s total funding to date to $28 million, according to a press release. Previously…
Only two months have passed in 2019, and they have already brought significant changes to the cryptocurrency market. The largest and most anticipated event among crypto investors was the decision to hold the long-awaited Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network. Positive news from the key financial centers of the planet like Wall Street and Switzerland have also maintained the stability of the highly volatile cryptocurrency exchange rates in recent weeks, as well as the latest news about the popular messenger WhatsApp which is ready to launch its own token in the first half of 2019. DeCenter figured out how these events have influenced the cryptocurrency market.
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Great Events That Will Go down in Crypto History
The crypto market is on the move as great events are afoot that herald new achievements.
Lumeos is a decentralized social network from Ali Ayyash, the ex-employee of Google Cloud (Snapchat and Pokemon Go) and Amazon. It is an application where users can vote and participate in polls. Users publish surveys in which other members of the platform respond and receive LUME tokens for their actions. We reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of the social network.
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Lumeos: A Review of a Social Network App where Users Can Vote and Participate in Polls
Lumeos is a social network that is a perfect fit for running polls and surveys.
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👋🏻 Coinbase has fired those Neutrino employees who previously worked for Hacking Team.
via The Block
🤝 Cryptocurrency trading firm Circle has finalized the acquisition of an equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest.
via CoinDesk
💵 Tether has announced it will launch its USDT stablecoin on the TRON blockchain.
via Cointelegraph
🔎 A new pilot project, backed by dominant fashion houses, aims to use blockchain to ensure the integrity of organic cotton supply chains.
via Forbes
🏦 According to Bloomberg, companies in the cryptocurrency industry still have trouble opening bank accounts.
via Bloomberg
👋🏻 Coinbase has fired those Neutrino employees who previously worked for Hacking Team.
via The Block
🤝 Cryptocurrency trading firm Circle has finalized the acquisition of an equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest.
via CoinDesk
💵 Tether has announced it will launch its USDT stablecoin on the TRON blockchain.
via Cointelegraph
🔎 A new pilot project, backed by dominant fashion houses, aims to use blockchain to ensure the integrity of organic cotton supply chains.
via Forbes
🏦 According to Bloomberg, companies in the cryptocurrency industry still have trouble opening bank accounts.
via Bloomberg