📮 09-10-2019
📈 MarketCap: $226 B
📊 24h Mcap %: 0.08%
⚠️ Bitcoin Dom: 65.3%
Active Coins: 2,580
24h Vol %: -12.01%
24h Vol: $42 B
Dash is becoming more popular as means of exchange on a global scale, Coinify, a global digital currency services provider has integrated Dash. After being added by Coinfy, Dash has become exposed to tens of thousands more merchants around the world than before. Users and traders will now be able to pay for their purchases with Dash, as well as buy or sell it, using the in-wallet trading API provided by Coinfy. The Coinfy CEO, Mark Højgaard, said the integration of Dash will accelerate the adoption of crypto around the world.
The first mention of Telegram Open Network (TON) and its native gram tokens appeared on Telegram’s official website in the form of a terms of service (ToS) for the token’s wallet app. According to the ToS, Telegram will integrate the wallet into the company’s flagship messaging app and will also offer it as a standalone product. This is the first time Telegram has publicly acknowledged the link to TON. According to the ToS, Telegram will not keep either personal information of its users nor their public and private keys.
Justin Sun, Founder and CEO of TRON platform, just shared another Milestone Hit by Tron. Justin shared a report by Dapp.com, On His Twitter account, which showed that the platform has added 500,000 users in quarter 3 of 2019 alone pushing the total number of addresses on the mainnet over 3.7 million. It was also revealed that a total number of 47 Dapps were launched, bringing the number of active Dapps in this quarter to 299. The report also records a total volume of $462 million for Tron during this same time period.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is pushing back against legacy leader Swift, the international payments network. Speaking in Manhattan at The Economic Club of New York, Garlinghouse said at present $20 trillion is going cross border each year. However It is fraught with error rates and it’s slow and it’s expensive. He said banks, Their Customers don’t like Swift. They’re frustrated with Swift. He however believes that Ripple, which is growing its network of 200 banks and financial institutions, is solving a real problem at scale.
Crypto custody startup Casa releases Casa Node 2, a new version of the industry’s popular pre-synced product for Bitcoin full node. Casa Node 2 offers a faster and smoother Bitcoin and Lightning experience by deploying a faster processor on the Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. The firm was planning to improve their hardware and early upgrades to Casa Node 2 are available in pre-order mode, the firm added.
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has launched a crypto fund to receive, hold and distribute donations of bitcoin and ether in its aim to back open source technology for children around the world. UNICEF said in an announcement on Wednesday that in a first for United Nations organizations, the Cryptocurrency Fund will receive contributions in cryptocurrency and grant out in the same digital currency form. The UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund is the UN children agency’s latest push to adopt blockchain technology.
Forbes chairman and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes has described Bitcoin (BTC) as a “high-tech cry for help” driven by a lack of trust in traditional currencies. Speaking on her company’s podcast, he said Bitcoin's challenge now is becoming a coin as trustworthy as gold, an assert that has earned its status the hard way over thousands of years. He added “It’s performed a very important role in helping people in distressed situations around the world: getting around governments that want to control you and starve you and hurt you.”
Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin claimed that Ethereum will run on a more secure consensus mechanism than Bitcoin when it moves to proof of stake over the next few years. In his keynote address at Devon 5 , he said that the new consensus mechanism will make it safer, by making attacks against the network more costly to run. Buterin maintains, it will be worth it—not just for scalability, but for security too. Instead of miners creating new blocks, the network will be run by people known as “validators".
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has launched peer-to-peer trading for Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Tether (USDT) against the Chinese Yuan (CNY). The exchange revealed that the service will be initially available to Android users who already have Binance accounts registered for at least 30 days. The exchange states that users should update their Binance Android app to the latest version in order to gain access to the new service and that it will slowly roll out support for iOS and web interface going forward.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is set to add two more channels to its fiat gateway - WeChat and Alipay, allowing users in China to buy bitcoin (BTC) with the two payment options. The initiative is currently in a testing phase for Android users and will eventually be fully rolled out on iOS and Web.Binance have officially been banned in China by the country's central bank, PBoC, since late 2017. However, Users can still buy bitcoin via P2P platforms or through OTC trading desks.
Cardano (ADA) cryptocurrency payments are now supported at ToStart, the first established coworking space in Sasebo, Japan. The space targets a mix of content creators, web designers, programming engineers and entrepreneurs from various sectors who are motivated to form new crypto-friendly and cashless working environments. According to organizers at ToStart, coworking spaces have been gaining in popularity as a new kind of shared office environment, with 1300 new locations appearing every month, including 200 just within Japan.