From the current state of crypto innovation to Ripple's plan to revolutionize cross-border payments, here are some of the stories that open up in the world of cryptography.
Bitcoin and Crypto Markets
The president of the main cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, Coinbase, says he is not surprised by the December crypto rally.
On CNBC's Fast Money, Asiff Hirji talked about how much the crypt has come in the last few years and where he thinks that space is heading for 2019.
"Things are never as good as they seem, nor are they ever as bad as they seem, and to mention Buffet," Be greedy when others are afraid, and be fearful when others are greedy. "So I think it's not surprising for me that we had a bit of a rebound I think that the amount of innovation that has happened in the cryptocurrency in the last year has surpassed everything in all previous years, and if you look only at the number of engineers that are entering in cryptocurrencies and the number of real products that are launched, we have never had as much innovation as today.
Three or four years ago, Bitcoin was the only thing that counted in the cryptocurrency. So, Ethereum arrived. And now, we're at a point where there are probably 3,000 to 4,000 cryptocurrencies out there. There are probably around 200 people. And you should take it for granted that, over time, we will add all the cryptocurrencies that count in as many geographical areas as we can add. This is the beginning, I think, of the next big wave of technological innovation, and you should expect to see more and more cryptocurrencies over time.
I think the institutions need a good place to trade on. They need a qualified custodian to store. And they want to make sure there is real liquidity. Thus, we have accumulated a lot of liquidity. We have the best, most regulated and most compliant location on the planet … and we have the only qualified storage solution in space. And so we think we have thrown a lot of infrastructure to allow institutions to start investing in cryptocurrencies.
In reality we have had hundreds of institutions available to our caretaker: you know, we have exceeded the internal objectives that we set ourselves for that business … So we feel very good about where we are with that business, and we think that 2019 will continue to be a Happy New Year for the institutions that are entering the crypt ".
Ethereum
The last blog of the week sponsored by ConsenSys in Ethereum was released.
This week's edition covers new protocol updates and news on a number of Ethereum-based platforms, including Raiden, Status and Augur.
Ripple
A new talk from Ripple's main market strategist, Cory Johnson, is now online.
At the Singapore Slush conference, Johnson talks about the current "fragmented" infrastructure of cross-border payments and how Ripple could help revolutionize the global financial system.
Tron
The founder and CEO of Tron, Justin Sun, expressed satisfaction with the increase in regulation for blockchain and cryptocurrency.
In a new interview with Inc., Sun states that, in the long run, the process will help legitimize the industry.
"We operate from the premise that regulation will come to industry in many places – in many ways, it will be necessary to legitimize the market and separate good practices from evil." We recently hired a chief compliance officer to ensure we are always a good partner. with our community and with governments ".
NEO
The program and the arrangement of speakers are set for the NEO DevCon 2019 in Seattle.
At the annual developer conference, the NEO team plans to release its new roadmap and platform innovations, as well as "show how the global NEO blockchain community is giving life to the Smart Economy vision."
XRP, Stellar, Binance Coin, Monero and Other
Crypto Metal Pay payment app says all funds in USD held on the platform are now FDIC insured.
This means that for the first time users in the United States can purchase a long list of cryptocurrencies by sending money to a bank account protected by the federal government, in the event that the bank in possession of this account is not successful.
Currently Metal Pay supports Bitcoin, XRP, Ethereum, Binance Coin, Basic Attention Token, Monero, Zcash, Litecoin, 0x, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Stellar, Dash, Dogecoin, Waves and Metal.
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