Indian government evaluates blockchain as a governance tool

Guest Post – Anujith Union Government of India (GoI) is intensifying its already spectacular anti-corruption drive, which has so far seen impactful actions such as using technology to minimize subsidy leakage, and demonetization of high value currency notes that were…

The future of Bitcoin: What are the main drivers of Bitcoin (BTC)?

By Guest Author – Sam Reads, Birmingham, UK In 2017, the price of Bitcoin was mainly influenced by Fundamentals and less of technical analysis. It was largely affected by three major factors which helped fuel its all-time of $20,089. The…

What really caused the Ripple to fall on Friday?

By Guest Author – Sam Reads, Birmingham, UK Ripple has had a  successful week with its price hitting a new all-time high of $3.86 on Thursday. It later fell to new week low after Coinbase nixed rumors of a possible…

Visa Ditches Several Crypto backed European Cards

By Guest Author- Danie, Philippines It was only last year when the bridge between cryptocurrency and fiat materialized in crypto enabled Visa debit cards. At the onset, predictions were optimistic about the fusion of these two. Cryptocurrency aficionados were delighted.…

Will ICO token sales survive in 2018 ?

By Guest Author – Sam Reads, Birmingham, United Kingdom The cryptocurrency market has experienced a major boom in investors and speculative buyers pushing its market capitalization to a new high of close to $1 trillion. Bitcoin claimed much of the…

Merrill Lynch Bans the Grayscale’s Bitcoin Investment Trust GBTC

By Guest Author – Sam Reads,  Birmingham, United Kingdom Merrill Lynch a brokerage arm of the Bank of America has banned its financial advisors from trading. Bitcoin-related investment. This prevents its 17000 financial advisors from suggesting, complying or placing positions…

Australia goes big with BlockChain Development

By Guest Author : Kate Yong , Australia There is a lot of hype attached to blockchain right now and Australia is not missing out either. Just last month, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has announced it would the first…

Ripple may not be a True cryptocurrency, centralized and not a mineable coin, Its a token – To Investors

Ripple(XRP) took over Ethereum(ETH) as the second place with the marketcap of over 135 billion past week. The value of the token has skyrocketed from around 20 cents to $3.5 in less than a month. The idea behind the Ripple…