Cryptocurrency News

Bitcoin has been here for a while. Its existence proves to be steadfast, especially since it started trading above $5,000. As such, more eyes are set on the world’s leading digital currency. It is really not a surprise when it became the highest in Google searches since November last year.

Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple, the San Francisco-based technology startup, and his wife Lyna Lam have made a donation of $25 million worth of XRP (Ripple) to the SFSU’s (San Francisco State University) College of Business via RippleWorks. RippleWorks is a private foundation that provides support to upcoming social entrepreneurs that show promise.

The Austria-based power supplier Wien Energie and electronics giant Bosch have decided to team up in an attempt to put forward a blockchain refrigerator. The appliance is specifically designed to give consumers the ability to effectively control and even monitor electricity consumption, allowing them to save on energy costs.

The company called Radar has unveiled a brand new suite of tools designed for developers working directly on the lightning network. It is worth noting that the startup has managed to raise at least $10 million in a series A funding last year. The said network, on the other hand, is Bitcoin’s very own second layer when it comes to scaling payments.

Both Coinbase and Paradigm are known for being among the biggest players in the blockchain world. Interestingly, the two companies have just invested in a blockchain that, in one way or another, makes its blocks disappear. Apparently, it managed to raise at least $15 million.

The blockchain firm called Digital Asset has just open-sourced its very own Digital Asset Modelling Language or DAML. The latter is basically the beating heart of projects like ASX’s partial re-plumbing. Here is everything about it in a nutshell.

The Bitfury Group and Longenesis, the health data company, announced via a press release on April 4 that they had jointly launched a Blockchain-powered consent management system designed for the healthcare industry.

A new app has just been recently launched, with an aim to significantly tackle the underlying issue of “inbound capacity.” The latter, in particular, refers to the world’s leading crypto, Bitcoin, and its lightning network.

In a Davos report from the World Economic Forum, there are over 40 central banks from across the world that are experimenting with blockchain. It appears that they are interested in leveraging the benefits that technology offers. Here is everything about it in a nutshell.

According to mainstream media reports, the number of active BTC (Bitcoin) wallets went up in the two weeks before the cryptocurrency market suddenly surged in the last couple of days.