The official Bytecoin wallet for android smartphones has been released. This will allow bytecoin users to send and receive BCN from anyone on their mobile devices. The app is easy to use and runs without hiccups on any android phone. You will be asked to register the first time you log on. We found if you earlier registered on bytecoin’s web wallet, you can use your existing credentials.
Neon wallet is a popular wallet for managing your NEO and many people prefer it over Neo’s official desktop wallet since it does not require the user to download entire blockchain before using it. This means the user is able to use the wallet immediately after entering his secret WIF code. This new version adds support for Nano Ledger S, a popular hardware wallet for storing crypto currencies. Earlier, the only way to use Ledger S was by using official Neo wallet.
Bittrex which is one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world has made it official that it will be supporting the Segwit2x (B2X) coins. So if you have bitcoin on bittrex during the Segwit2x hard fork block 494784 in mid-November, you will be getting equivalent amount of coins in 1:1 basis. For instance, if you have 1 btc, you get one B2X coin. Deposits and withdrawals will be disabled 24 hours prior to Segwit2x fork. All incoming withdrawals will not be credited and bitcoin wallet will remain closed until hard fork has completed. You will still be able to trade.
Kyber Network was a successful Ethereum ICO with Vitalik Buterin listed as advisor. The company has announced its partnership with StormX, which is a blockchain based platform which makes use of smart-contracts to manage micro tasks between buyers and sellers. StormX was founded in 2014 and has achieved more than a million downloads across whopping 187 countries. Its users have been able to earn cryptocurrency for playing new games, products and services from their app, Storm Play.
The IGNIS ICO completed on November 4th 2017. This makes the IGNIS first ICO to make use of NXT as base. So now that the ICO has concluded, 100 million JLRDA + all unsold JLRDA from the last round minus marketing expenses are put up for sale for 1.45NXT. Any unsold JLRDA tokens will be kept by the Jelurida until the IGNIS shapshot is done. They will be used for promotion and fund future development.
MalwareBytes has added BitConnect website to the list of its blocked sites. One of the users enquired about this on Malwarebytes’ website thinking it could be a false positive but the staff member immediately responded by saying “fortunately, this is not a fp (fake positive)”, implying that the BitConnect’s website is indeed harmful for the users. Bitconnect crypto coin has been getting a lot of heat lately. Bitconnect has been deemed as Ponzi scheme. It promises its users 500 percent return in cash. In addition, users also get guaranteed profit of over 90 percent. The team promises users there is no risk of loss which raised quite a few eye brows.
India is on the verge of imposing a Chinese-style crypto currency ban for bitcoins and altcoins. Bitcoin, which is around 0.49 million rupees in India is growing in popularity at an amazing rate and being used for terrorist activities and black money, as said in this article by economic times. This ban will directly affect bitcoin dealers like unocoin, bitxoxo, zebpay and so on. It is not clear whether the ban will affect crypto currency exchanges or not but it looks like it will.
Claim your free bitcoin gold. Everybody knows about the free BTG but there is scarce information on how to claim bitcoin gold. This new cryptocurrency was forked out of bitcoin’s blockchain on 24th October 2017 from block height of 491407 and to be eligible, you must know the private keys of your bitcoin wallet or use a wallet that automatically credits it for you. In this article, we will be making use of an android wallet to claim bitcoin gold.
Dr Julian, Co-founder of TenX has confirmed that his company has indeed signed a partnership with the Wirecard to issue credit cards. While TenX is yet to make a public announcement about it, Dr Julian has confirmed in a reddit thread stating that this partnership will allow them to get the cards available worldwide. However, they do not have a concrete timeline regarding this. TenX is expected to make an announcement about this soon.
First Neo iOS wallet called the O3 wallet has made its debut. It is already available for download from the app store. Registrations for beta testing the O3 Neo wallet began few weeks back and after numerous bug fixes and extensive testing, the developer has made it available to everyonen. The wallet offers similar functionality to the official bitcoin’s blockchain wallet where you can store private key and monitor your cold or Neo paper wallets in read-only mode. This allows you to easily manage all of your NEO wallets.