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iStock.com/josefkubes Bitcoin Price Recovers If you like your investments to be exciting—if at times unnerving—then cryptocurrency is the market for you. While the bitcoin price soared to new heights in 2018, it came crashing down just as fast in a massive meltdown that had many detractors dolling out “I-told-you-so’s” left and right. But now the […]

Ether price volatility could spike in the days ahead, courtesy of an upcoming ethereum upgrade scheduled for Thursday. Advertisements The Constantinople hard fork, a planned two-part upgrade to the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, is scheduled to occur once block 7,280,000 on the ethereum blockchain is mined. At the time of writing, ether’s block height is 7,272,826, meaning […]

The ethereum-based token maker (MKR) is outperforming the broader markets with a 37 percent gain so far in February. Advertisements Ranked 16th by market capitalization on CoinMarketCap, 1 MKR was valued at 4.6 ETH on Feb. 14 – the highest level since Oct. 8 – and was last valued at 4.37 ETH. The pullback is […]

This week, we discuss kidnappings & gunpoint attacks demanding cryptocurrency. We often say that cryptocurrency is unseizable. But in one sense, it’s actually more seizable than dollars in your bank account: Kidnappers’ crypto accounts, unlike bank accounts, are unfreezable and are themselves unseizable — making stolen funds completely unrecoverable. Advertisements What can we do to be safe […]

September 26 2018 Advertisements Ryan Dennis, Head of Content at ICO Alert, joins us on this week’s Roundtable to talk all things happening in the crypto and blockchain space. We covered the following topics on this week’s episode: – Q gives away his most prized CryptoKitty — Ryan tell us about Waltonchain and their social media blunders — We […]

Christian Kameir, the Managing Partner at Sustany Capital and member of the Forbes Finance Council, joins the ICO Alert Podcast to offer sweeping commentary on the cryptocurrency space, including the need for good tools in the space, including custody, and why every company should be investigating blockchain (though perhaps not launching a token). Advertisements Kameir […]

On this episode of the ICO Alert Podcast, I talk with Thomas Schouten, Head of Marketing at Lisk. We talk about Lisk’s use of sidechains, their competition and where Lisk is headed in 2018 and 2019. Advertisements I have a lot of respect for the Lisk team and have had the pleasure of meeting many […]

What is Block66? “Block66 is building a new blockchain-enabled marketplace for mortgages. Institutional and private lenders can use the service to offer loans to a wide range of borrowers, introduced by Block66 broker partners. Through the practical use of smart contracts, loans can be taken from origination to facilitation, quickly and efficiently.”— CEO Joe Markham ICO Alert […]

Wise words from Nick Spanos of Zap.org always remind me why I love our industry. When I sat down with Nick, I knew I had to cover two things. One, his awesome oracle-based blockchain project which is allowing people to stake and bond their subtokens to another token. Advertisements The other topic I had to […]

An interview on Corporate to Crypto with Alex Scagz, CEO of Coinvention Speaking to Alex Scagz is like listening to music. His relaxing demeanor and passionate approach is astounding when you consider how much pressure is on his shoulders. He is so busy, I couldn’t (didn’t want to) edit out the phone calls and vibrations […]