1. Mark Hipperson, who was head of technology for the Barclays group for over a decade as well as co-founder and former CTO at U.K. challenger bank, Starling, is planning a Q1 2020 launch for his latest digital banking venture, Ziglu. Ziglu aims to offer exchange as well as the purchasing of cryptocurrencies from multiple exchanges. Users will also be able to spend the cryptocurrency they hold using Mastercard debit card. Company has applied to the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to become an issuer of electronic money. Read Full on Cointelegraph
2. Bitcoin analyst Willy Woo has predict that the number of Bitcoin could exceed internet commerce when it comes to transaction volume in 2019. The total value of digital payments, which include such segments as digital commerce and mobile POS payments, is $4.1 trillion and bitcoin volume alone is $3.8 trillion. It's worth noting that the data posted by Statista is likely to be underestimated since China alone is responsible for nearly $40 trillion worth of digital payments. Read Full on U.Today
3. Gavin Andresen, IT engineer that took part in developing Bitcoin products back in 2010, believes that so far the most interesting things in the crypto industry for the last two years have been built on Ethereum. Gavin Andresen seems to believe that Ethereum is the best platform for dApps. He stated that in 2017 the most interesting thing in crypto was CryptoKitties and and 2018 it was PoolTogether. Both of them are built on Ethereum. In 2020 he expects the most interesting thing to be powered by Ethereum too. Read Full on twitter
4. Upon being asked, ‘how much Bitcoin should the average person reasonably own’ by a Twitter user, Charlie Lee states, “I would say 10% of your wealth,” adding that this has been the go-to number so far. Subsequently, Monero's Riccardo Spagni stated that the number differs based on whether the person is risk-averse or not, adding that there were several other variables that play a part in this scenario. Read Full on AMBCrypto
5. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Shared his thoughts on how the crypto space has progressed over the last ten years. Armstrong noted that Bitcoin hasn’t failed once in its birth ten-year history. Despite any doubt about Bitcoin’s survival, Armstrong pointed out that the digital currency has actually thrived. He told, There were over 379 articles written, prematurely declaring the end of Bitcoin. Not only did Bitcoin survive, it thrived, becoming the top performing asset of the decade despite many thinking it wouldn’t. Read Full on Cointelegraph
6. BTC network hashrate touched an all-time high. Despite the crypto market lull and lower BTC prices, the 2020 milestone happened just before the blockchain’s 11th anniversary. On January 1, 2020, the BTC network hashrate touched 119 EH/s surpassing the chain’s previous all-time high of 100 EH/s. Statistics show that the hash power typically gets a decent lead before the prices start kicking into gear. This means that it could take some time for the price to follow the climbing hashrate. Read Full on Bitcoin News
7. Binance has confirmed it will offer euro (EUR) trading against six cryptocurrencies in the platform’s latest fiat expansion. Binance confirmed trading for EUR pairs would begin at 8am the same day. Users will be able to trade EUR against Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP and Binance Coin (BNB). Binance will also support trading against two stablecoins: Tether (USDT) and its own U.S. dollar-backed token, Binance USD (BUSD). CEO Changpeng Zhao, said one of our key goals for 2020 is to enable fiat-to-crypto trading for 180+ fiat currencies. Read Full on Cointelegraph
8. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that the country will sell oil and part of the gold it produces for its national cryptocurrency petro. Venezuelan government is successfully introducing its cryptocurrency into citizens’ daily lives. Maduro said that at least 6 million families in Venezuela have used petro as a payment method to purchase goods and services during the New Year holidays. As petro is pegged to the price of oil, Maduro recently said that Venezuela will back the cryptocurrency with some 30 million barrels of crude oil. Read Full on The Block
9. Litecoin Foundation presented an important partnership that can bootstrap product mass adoption. It will bring a wallet solution of the blockchain to a new level. It has been announced today that BitGo, the U.S. digital asset trust, and security company will act as a wallet provider for Litecoin Foundation. A new wallet solution will support multi-signature technology. BitGo, multi-signature security architecture uses multiple cryptographic signatures to enact a transaction, thereby eliminating the single point of failure with traditional wallets.
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