Bitcoin Gold will be removed from popular cryptocurrency exchange, Bittrex on September 14th 2018. All the pairings, BTC-BTG, ETH-BTG and USDT-BTG will be removed. That said, Bittrex is not the top liquidity provider as Bittrex’s popularity has been going downhill from quite some time. Majority of volume comes from HitBTC, Bithumb, Binance, Bitinka, and Bitfinex.
There is major news coming and it is related to the upcoming hard fork for Ethereum blockchain. The block reward is going to be reduced to 2 ETH in this Constantinople hard fork. This update is intended to smoothen out the changes that will be happening from PoW to PoS – proof of work to proof of stake.
Remember everybody used to bite Nickel,
Now everybody doin’ Bitcoin
Yes, Bitcoins gets a mention in the new album of Eminem “Kamikaze” where Royce da 5’9” said the aforementioned words. This is the tenth album by the top rapper. The mention of bitcoin clearly shows the significance of bitcoin. He says everybody is doing bitcoin and is not something to get rich quick or to buy bad things online.
Vertbase is an ambitious project that aims to provide a simple and secure way in purchasing Vertcoin with the US dollar. Think of it like a Coinbase but for Vertcoin. The experience is as simple as buying Bitcoin from Coinbase.
KuCoin crypto currency exchange has extended the lock-up period for the KuCoin shares held by founders and angel investors. The exchange has decided that these tokens will remain locked for an additional year, until September 2, 2019. This will definitely have a positive effect on the price of KuCoin Shares.
ELEC (Electrify Asia) is a utility token targeting the huge energy market in Asia. It will be using OMG wallet and Plasma network to deliver a scalable solution for maximizing returns for electricity producers whilst also saving customers money by ‘missing out the middle man’. Already has big partnerships including TEPCO (4th biggest global energy provider). Built on pre existing profitable business.
O3 wallet was the first iOS wallet for Neo which was later removed from the app store. Later, somehow the developer was able to launch v2 of the O3 app for both android and iOS. Today, the developer has churned out a dApp browser that works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Localbitcoins.com is a very popular P2P website where users can buy and sell bitcoins. And this has not made banks happy, especially the ones in the UK. HSBC and Barclays have frozen bank accounts of users that are trading on localbitcoins.com.
Until now, the best GPU for mining was the Nvidia GTX 1080Ti and while Nvidia Titan V yielded 30 percent more power, it cost 3x the money too. The new Nvidia RTX 2080Ti is many times more powerful than the Nvidia 1080Ti but it is not better in terms of mining. So just like the Nvidia Titan V, we may get around 30-50 percent more performance.
