Blockchain

Bitcoin vs Ripple Bitcoin was created to be a form of peer-to-peer electronic cash which was created in 2009, making it the world's first digital currency to be secured by cryptography, and which did not have any central authority to govern it. Bitcoin holders are able to send and receive the coins among each other, [...]

Ripple has come back to reclaim its position as the world's 2nd largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap, a spot it took briefly from Ethereum in mid-September of this year. Cryptocurrency market moment of relative stability ended suddenly yesterday. Most major digital coins hit their lowest level of the year, dipping as low [...]

What is an ICO? ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering which is a token sale carried out by crypto startups in order to raise funding for their project. Most of the time, a company launches the ICO before they release the coin for trading on any exchanges. There are currently thousands of ICO projects on [...]

Brad Garlinghouse told Bloomberg in an interview Nov. 13 that Ripple aims to overtake Swift. He reiterated Ripple has no plan whatsoever for a partnership with SWIFT. Also, the Society for Worldwide Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) refuted claims that it is partnering with Ripple, Finance Magnate reported. A few weeks ago, a rumor had it that [...]

Even if you've just started to get your bearings within the crypto space, there's a good chance you've heard about Ethereum, a distributed and open-source blockchain network, famous for its cryptocurrency (the ETH token) and for its ability to run and host smart contracts. What is ERC-20? Wikipedia defines ERC-20 as being a technical standard [...]

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and IMF Deputy General Counsel Ross Leckow were in Singapore on Monday 12. The two had an interesting conversation. Leckow is very positive about Fintech and blockchain. We have never heard anything so positive come out of the mouth of the IMF before. He said: "The IMF is devoting a lot [...]

What is a Sidechain? Sidechains are a concept first surfaced in 2014 when several important developers in cryptography and early digital currency published their paper on Pegged Sidechains. A sidechain is a blockchain separated from the original blockchain, which enables users to securely transport tokens and other digital assets between blockchains and then link back to [...]

The co-creator of Ethereum - the world's 2nd largest digital coin by market capitalization - is one of the biggest crypto market's bulls. Unlike other Bitcoin bulls like venture capitalist Tim Draper and Tom Lee, Lubin is not too much enthusiastic about cryptocurrency prices, but rather the technology that underpins it. In an interview with [...]

If you've just entered the world of crypto, you might have heard the word "fork" being used quite often. What exactly is a fork and what does it have to do with blockchain? In today's article, we shall explain this term as well as its role and importance in the cryptoverse. A blockchain protocol is [...]

Former chairman of Google and billionaire investor Eric Schmidt told economist Tyler Cowen that Ethereum blockchain is a powerful platform with endless possibilities. The two met in San Francisco at a live event sponsored by Village Global. Schmidt and Cowen discussed a range of topics including bifurcation of the internet, Google's hiring practices, governance reform [...]

Check out the second part of this article (Part II) How and Where to Buy Ripple (XRP). A couple of years ago, cryptocurrencies started to capture the imagination and the attention of investors from all over the world. Since then, there have been many big-time investors who loathed the idea of cryptocurrencies calling the rising trend [...]