Coinbase tripling staff to meet hypergrowth of cryptocurrency and adding Toshi app

Coinbase is now focused on two, separate businesses: To better highlight the difference between these two products: · Coinbase is a place for consumers to easily buy, sell, and store digital currency. · GDAX (formerly Coinbase Exchange) is an exchange for professionals to trade digital assets. Coinbase offers the GDAX exchange. It offers institutions and …

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Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple added to Bloomberg Financial Terminals

Bloomberg added price quotes for three other crypto-currences—Ripple, Ethereum and Litecoin—to its terminal service, which is used by major banks and investment houses worldwide. Bitcoin price quotes were added previously. Come one, come all — @TheTerminal has officially added ether, litecoin and ripple pricing pic.twitter.com/RDGchH5QEP — Lily Katz (@LilyKatz) December 14, 2017 Ethereum relies on …

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Bitcoin Futures Trading

Brokerage TD Ameritrade said on Friday it will allow clients to trade bitcoin futures on the newly minted CBOE Futures Exchange from Dec. 18. TD Ameritrade’s shares were up 2.4% in extended trading. Bitcoin prices hit a record high of $17,428 on Friday, amid warnings that it was a bubble on the verge of bursting. …

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Litecoin nearly quadruples since last week as it could be the coin for eCommerce

Litecoin has doubled today and has nearly quadrupled from last week. Litcoin is up over 100 times this year. Litecoin is considered the leader of the altcoins. An influx of new money from both retail investors and institutional entities means that these alternative cryptocurrencies, or “altcoins”, are under new scrutiny as traders look to diversify …

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Hacken.io secures Jibrel Network which has financial assets on ethereum blockchain

Hacken.io, a tokenized bug bounty marketplace driven by white hats, helped Jibrel Network neutralize phishing attacks that occurred during the first week of its public sale of the Jibrel Network Token (JNT), which began on November 17th. Jibrel Network is the first decentralized protocol for storing and transacting traditional financial assets on the ethereum blockchain. …

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Venezuela making oil backed cryptocurrency as its economy implodes

Venezuela is creating its own “petrocurrency,” backed by reserves in oil, gas, gold and diamonds. It will enable Venezuela “to advance in monetary sovereignty, carry out its financial transactions to overcome the financial blockade,” Maduro said. The black market rate for one dollar weakened to 103,000 bolivars on Friday compared with 10,000 at the end …

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Foresight Vision – Blockchains – Master Key to Unlock the Future

Foresight Vision – Blockchains – Master Key to Unlock the Future – Panel Zooka Wilcox, Nathan Sharma (Singularity University), Mark Miller, Nick Kritikos on how to build better realities block by block. Beyond Crypto – ICO hype and hope. Decentralized governance Zooka Wilcox is working on zCash. Bitcoin does five things now 1. Store of …

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Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent could make ultimate cryptocurrencies

Many believe that Bitcoin with a price over $10,000 and a market valuation of $176 billion are unstoppable and will remain the dominant cryptocurrency. In the past there were other products and companies who were commonly believed to be insurmountable in their dominance. Netscape for browsers. Internet Explorer for browsers. Yahoo in search. IBM in …

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