Bytecoin developers have churned out BytePay, a payment solution that lets the business houses receive payments from consumers in Bytecoins. Bytecoin is one of the most popular crypto currencies and offers free transfers from one user to another, making it ideal for business houses and consumers. And since Bytecoin payments are usually processed instantly, the order is instantly processed. All the received payments are credited to the vendor’s external bytecoin wallet address after 6-hours.
We have some good news for the Centra Tech Card users. The team is adding support for more crypto currencies including NEO, EOS, NEM and IOTA and eight more coins in upcoming version. The team says that they have been busy collaborating with other crypto coins and are working to create a larger eco system for its users.
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.
Vertcoin has announced on twitter that they are going to release Vertcoin TOR wallet that will allow users to send transactions anonymously. This includes banned places as well. There is no concrete release date but it will likely to be released in two weeks from now. The wallet is said to be based on the Electrum wallet and connects to the network over a TOR proxy connection.
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.