Few days back, Charlie Lee captured world’s attention by doing the first litecoin-to-bitcoin atomic swap. Komodo team was also hard at work and they have just announced on their official twitter that they too have done successful atomic swaps by making use of only electrum servers. Litecoin to bitcoin swap was done using local coin daemon while the Komodo-bitcoin swap was done using hosted electrum nodes. For whatever reason, they did a Komodo / Dogecoin swap too.
If you hold Qtum on myetherwallet, we highly suggest you to move them to Bittrex for the Qtum blockchain upgrade. Folks at Qtum coin will be upgrading from ERC 20 token to full mainnet blockchain that will feature EVM based smart contract platform and proof of stake consensus model. Bittrex has announced on their support page that they will be upgrading the blockchain for users.
At 32:02 in today’s Q&A, Julian of TenX confirmed that he and his team are in talks with Kraken, a very popular crypto currency exchange to add TenX (PAY) to their website. This is big news as Bittrex is the only big cryptocurrency exchange out of 15 exchanges that trade PAY token. So if Kraken adds TenX on their website that will bring the much need boost to the TenX price which went down from $5.4 to $1.6 in single month.
PivX team has released their roadmap for the quarter 2017. This includes new android wallet update; zerocoin protocol implementation; iOS wallet and multi signature integration in wallet.
Yunbi is a top 40 exchange in China and it has been ordered to shut down permanently. An announcement has been posted on the Yunbi portal where it says that it must stop trading most pairs so withdraw Chinese Yuan and other digital currencies. The shut down operation must be completed within 3-months.
Kyber Network ICO will be taking place on September 15th 2017 which is about 5 days from now. Recent tweet from the official twitter account indicates that the there was an attempt to hack KyberNetwork’s blog. The team says that they got notified early so they are taking their KyberNetwork blog down temporarily to take measure.
OmiseGo was at Google Thailand headquarters today for some partnership. They teased their investors by posting a photo with its team with a caption saying “deeper partnership discussion!” Right after posting the photo, the tweet went viral and gave OmiseGo a huge boost. Infact, OmiseGo broke its all-time-high, approaching almost 0.003BTC which is quite a jump from 0.00233.
PivX is a fast growing crypto currency. There is a lot of hype around the privacy which is why currencies like Monero and PivX are on the rise. If you are not a day trader and want to store the PivX for a long time, the best way is making a paper wallet, thus storing it offline. PivX paper wallet generator is now online and you can generate one for yourself easily. Follow the steps given below to generate your own PivX paper wallet.
If you invest in right crypto currency in its early days, then there is a good chance that you would not have to worry about investing in pension funds – like the new Auctus ICO. It claims to be the a smart contract powered pension funds but once you visit their website, you are presented with a big blue button pointing to a whitepaper. Nothing else – no other link – nada.
Hshare started its life as a small crypto currency coin and has been trading around 20 dollars from quite sometime. It had extremely small marketcap of 20 million dollars. Today, the company gave everyone 500 times the amount of Hshares they had. The thing is – each coin should technically be worth $0.04 but the market hasn’t reacted to the supply change. This can be explained like this – Imagine you are the first one to do the trade after your balance got multiplied 500 times and the bid book has not reset you to the new prices.