Coinmarketcap lists over 1400 alternatives to Bitcoin. There are 42 cryptocurrencies with market capitalization over $1 billion as of Jan 13, 2018. Bitcoin’s block size is 1 Megabyte. This limits the number of transactions each block can hold. Bitcoin has a maximum of 7 transactions per second. Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Classic, and Bitcoin XT were …
The global remittance market is a big business. In 2016, remitters sent nearly $600 billion in cross-border payments to help support family members living in their home countries or to settle transactions with business partners. Money transfer companies allow people to send cross-border payments. Unfortunately, the current model requires money transfer companies to use pre-funded …
There were 235 ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) with a total value of $3.7 billion in 2017. Top Ten ICOs of 2017 Position Project Total Raised 1 Filecoin $257,000,000 2 Tezos $232,319,985 3 EOS Stage 1 $185,000,000 4 Paragon 183,157,275 5 Bancor $153,000,000 6 Kin Kik $97,041,936 7 Status $90,000,000 8 TenX $64,000,000 9 MobileGO $53,069,235 …
RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) Capital Markets analyst Mitch Steves says cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology underlying them could become a $10 trillion market in 15 years. This $10 trillion estimate comes from taking one-third of the roughly $30 trillion in assets held in offshore funds and gold. Though startups that enable cryptocurrency protocols to …
Ethereum hit a high of $914 this morning. Most of the top 20 digital currencies are in the green today, and the market cap for all cryptocurrencies is closing on a new record, standing at $645 billion Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per …
The Winklevoss twins, who were ousted from Facebook, are now Bitcoin Billionaires. The twins won a $65 million settlement with Facebook after claiming Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea. They invested $11 million in to bitcoin in 2013. The price has gone up 100 times. The twins say that they will not sell and are in …
Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend, Dec 2-3, SF You may apply the code “THENEXTBIGFUTURE” for a 50% discount when purchasing your Vision Weekend ticket. (This is a Foresight member-only event, so if you’re not a member already, join when registering.) The Vision Weekend is a gathering dedicated to taking stock of the most compelling ideas of …
There could finally be return to a global economic boom (GDP growth over 4%) similar to the PC and internet boom of the 1990s and early 2000s. The Boom years of the 1960s and early 1970s at over 5% global GDP growth could also be possible. This would be seen as coming true if 2018 …
Neufund is an ecosystem of smart contracts operating on the Ethereum blockchain. Neufund is a community-owned fundraising platform. It acts as a bridge between the investment world and the blockchain space. By first quarter of 2018, companies will be able to raise equity on the Neufund platform. Startups and established companies alike can legally issue …
mytime is a decentralized blockchain platform with its own cryptocurrency — mytimecoin (MYTC). The number of services that require a human’s attention to operate is growing daily. However, our time is finite and will never be enough for all the activities which genuinely interest us. Our time is the most valuable thing we have. So …
Singapore wants to bolster its status as a wealth management and foreign-exchange center as part of plans to create more financial-sector jobs and mitigate the effect of rapid changes in technology. Singapore adding financial jobs when globally 30% of banking jobs are being automated by 2023 In a plan unveiled Monday, the Monetary Authority of …