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Chinese Crypto Mining Farm Shuts Down Because Of Coronavirus - A cryptocurrency mining farm, BTC.top, has been forced to shut down over the coronavirus epidemic. Per a Weibo post published by BTC.top’s CEO Jiang Zhuoer, the mining farm’s machines have been shut down as the firm was told it is not allowed to keep working at the moment.

Zhuoer’s post details personnel at the mining farm never stopped working before the quarantine period being enforced. The mining farm shut down shortly after cryptocurrency miner manufacturer Bitmain, Canaan, and MicroBT issued notices to their clients over shipment delays.

Businesses in China are being affected by the coronavirus outbreak, as people are now staying indoors over the existing quarantine control.

According to World Health Organisation, "Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans."

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Ethereum (ETH) Price Breaks This Year's ATH Against Bitcoin. The second-largest cryptocurrency in the market, Ethereum, has been outperforming Bitcoin in terms of its year-to-date returns. Ethereum’s YTD was reported to be 44%, while Bitcoin noted a gracious rise of 29.17%.

Ethereum has been reporting its all-time high trading against Bitcoin. Skew, in a tweet, stated, “ETH / BTC new high for the year – trading 0.0208 (2.08% ETH / BTC new high for the year – trading 0.0208 (2.08%)”

Ethereum is an open source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system. It features smart contract functionality and supports a modified version of Nakamoto consensus. It was initially released on 30th July 2015 and was written in C++, Go, Python and Solidity with original authors as Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood.

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Crypto ATM startup CoinFlip has added Stellar Lumens (XLM) to its network of 450 machines across the United States, allowing customers to buy a variety of crypto with credit cards, Co-founder Daniel Polotsky said.

It also runs 40 two-way ATM locations where users can sell their crypto for hard cash USD. CoinFlip ATMs already offer BTC, LTC, ETH, DASH, KMD, LINK and TRX. Polotsky said XLM’s high daily liquidity and market prominence prompted him to list the token.

It can be seen that the technological growth of cryptocurrency is increasing at a fast rate which is making its adoption swift and fast. Many people now use cryptocurrency in their day to day transactions which is making it a great market to invest in.

According to the CoinFlip about us page, the tech giant said they " strive to provide the best cash-to-crypto experience possible. Our next-generation ATMs have never made purchasing and selling cryptocurrency easier. Skip the long onboarding times of traditional exchanges and join the revolution."

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GoSolar Mining grants you a unique opportunity to discover a new revenue stream and to monetize your renewable energy investment through crypto mining. Located and headquartered in Gibraltar, it provides 24/7 customer support for the people who are interested to invest in clean energy crypto mining.

Investment has got fixed daily payouts for the investors which are sent directly to their crypto wallets. Join GoSolar Mining today with a promo 14-day $200 dollar account, after 14 days upgrade to our minimal amount or take your funds.

Cryptocurrency mining is a process whereby transactions for various forms of cryptocurrency are verified and added to the blockchain digital ledger.

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Today, Twitter bequeathed on us a gift: the Bitcoin hashtag now has its own emoji. To use the emoji, all you need to do it enter the hashtag of “Bitcoin,” and the emoji will magically appear on your screen.

While this isn’t a case of crypto mass adoption per se, the community has gone mad over this small nod to Bitcoin by Twitter. So from the looks of it, this is Dorsey acknowledging his love for Bitcoin through a simple emoji.

It is on record the Twitter founder has been a lover of Bitcoin as he even professed this when he came to my country, Nigeria. The tech giant said Africa is the hub for crypto development and has been projecting Bitcoin directly and indirectly ever since then.

This move of adopting an Emoji for Bitcoin has also gone a long way to prove his love for not just Bitcoin but other cryptocurrencies Probably.

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According to Data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, cryptocurrency scammers duped their victims out of $4.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency last year, tripling the amount from 2018.

Per the security firm’s report, the majority of the funds were linked to alleged Ponzi schemes, including OneCoin and Plustoken. The report read:

“The vast majority of that $4.3 billion went to just two large-scale Ponzi schemes, without which crime overall would account for just 0.46% of all cryptocurrency activity.”

Apart from the Ponzi schemes, cryptocurrency scammers used blackmail, fake cryptocurrency mixers, phishing schemes, and fake token sales to get to the $4.3 billion. To cash out their gains, scammers mostly used cryptocurrency exchanges, as 57.6% of the funds associated with scams were liquidated on trading platforms.

Chainalysis’ report says that scammers are taking advantage of the cryptocurrency space’s unique position with the wider public. This is because though most have heard about cryptocurrencies, many still believe it has “get rich quick” potential.

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According to Andrew Yang, who is running for the 2020 US Presidency, the country needs to provide more clarity on cryptocurrency regulations and come up with a uniform set of rules that would govern the industry.

However, he ultimately thinks that regulators wouldn’t be able to stop people from buying Crypto. Yang also mentioned that he believes the underlying technology of cryptocurrencies, the blockchain, has a “very very high potential” and that they should be investing in it.

If Yang eventually becomes president and continues promoting cryptocurrency as he is doing now, many countries will not have an option but to adopt cryptocurrencies and the spreading Blockchain technology. Since the launch of Bitcoin, many cryptocurrencies have sprung up and are really performing greatly in the Cryptocurrency market.

Also the Blockchain technology Development is now a major sort after course and employment opportunities in Developed countries according to LinkedIn.

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Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser believes Blockchain technology is an important tool in addressing the data protection crisis. Kaiser expressed confidence that emerging technologies like blockchain will help people protect their personal data, which is, per Kaiser, the most valuable asset in the world.

Kaiser said that she is excited to see some blockchain-powered social media solutions, while opposing social media giant Facebook as well as its messenger WhatsApp.

The Blockchain sector has been experiencing a tremendous growth since its's inception. Many countries and organisations are adopting the technology making it's job opportunities one of the most sort after according to LinkedIn.  It is aimed and estimated that the technology will bring transparency in all the sectors including Politics.

According to Wikipedia, "A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data. By design, a blockchain is resistant to modification of the data."

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Zermatt, a municipality in Switzerland and popular tourist resort, in cooperation with Bitcoin Suisse; announced today that it will accept bitcoin (BTC) as a means of payment. This applies to taxes and official transactions with immediate effect.

Bitcoin Suisse has installed a point-of-sale (POS) solution in the Zermatt town hall so fees for services from local authorities can be paid in bitcoin. In addition to having access to a POS device in the Zermatt town hall, taxpayers will also be able to pay their taxes at a communal level using bitcoin.

Bitcoin is spreading like wild fire and many are keying into the trend. The era of cryptocurrency is here and the fiat currencies are trembling. As of now, there are many cryptocurrencies in the crypto space and many more might still come in.

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has recommended crypto-assets, once again, as the solution to economic woes, debt-monetization, and other problems facing the global economy. Armstrong Tweeted his endorsement for crypto-assets and went on to cite a report which projects that US national debt will increase to 98% of GDP by 2030.

He said, Millenials and Gen Z, who have grown up with the internet, are far more comfortable with the idea of digital currencies and tokenization of real-world assets than older investors.

Cryptocurrencies are getting wider adoption by the day and it has been predicted that if by 2030 you do not own a cryptocurrency (Bitcoin preferably) then you might not be existing anymore. The idea of cryptocurrency started with Bitcoin in 2008 and since then has been followed by multiple other cryptocurrencies ranging from Ripple, Ethereum, Dash, Cardano, Dogecoin, Akoin and others.

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Deutsche Bank has published a new research paper on the future of payments, in which it compares the growth of crypto wallet users to the early-stage evolution of the Internet and predicts that crypto wallet users will reach 200 million by 2030.

According to the research paper, titled Digital Currencies: the Ultimate Hard Power Tool, blockchain’s adoption rate mirrors that of the Internet in its early years - although its actual user numbers are an order of magnitude smaller.

The Internet recorded such a growth that the world has never witnessed. These days most richest men in the world are made by the internet. Most rich and powerful men are regretting not investing in Technology and you shouldn't be in that line by not investing in Cryptocurrency today - no matter how small.

Coming to my Country Nigeria, most rich young people made their money from cryptocurrencies. Boys like Bnaira, Bitcoin Chief and many others made raw money from cryptocurrency investment.

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BitMEX is set to launch the XRP-US Dollar (XRP/USD) quanto swap. The quanto swap derivative allows traders to speculate on the price of XRP/USD without having to deposit US dollars. While the price of XRP will be tracked using USD, a third foreign currency will be used to settle the contract at a particular interest rate.

The exchange has announced that the new derivative will be launched on February 5, 2020. BitMEX says it’s scrapping its UP and DOWN contracts for XRP, which give traders a way to bet on the potential upside and downside of the third-largest cryptocurrency. leading-cryptocurrency-derivatives-exchange-launching-xrp-swaps.

According to Wikipedia, BitMEX is a cryptocurrency exchange and derivative trading platform owned and operated by HDR Global Trading Limited. It is registered in the Seychelles and has offices worldwide. It was founded in 2014 by Arthur Hayes, Samuel Reed and Ben Delo.

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Malta-based crypto exchange Binance‘s CEO Changpeng Zhao[CZ] announced that the exchange pledged “10m RMB ($1.5m USD) to help coronavirus victims.” With this move, Binance becomes the first in the crypto space to have lent a helping hand to the victims of the deadly coronavirus.

Noting that Binance was now working on the logistics of the move, Zhao stated that there was no use of crypto assets in the move and that it was not realistic to do crypto to end beneficiaries.

The cryptocurrency space is well known for Charity donations to better humanity. There is no doubt that cryptocurrency will rule tomorrow for it is already ruling today. Many crypto firms and exchanges are springing up and LinkedIn has projected blockchain technology as one of the best areas for employment with Salaries in Big sum.

What are you waiting for to invest in Cryptocurrency? The time is now for the future is Crypto!!

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More than 85% of employees in the crypto space work for companies focused on three major service areas: exchanges, development, and mining. The largest employer is Asia-based exchange Huobi Global.

Huobi is followed by two other exchanges, OKEx and Coinbase, in terms of the number of workers employed. Nearly 46% of employers with more than 100 employees are digital asset exchanges. Development firms account for roughly 29% of employers in that category.

Cryptocurrency exchanges can also be regarded as the bedrock of the crypto community because the make everything go round. Without exchanges, what will trading crypto look like?

In Africa however, there are no many local exchanges around making crypto traders in Africa to trade via foreign exchanges.

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Ruling party lawmakers in Japan are reportedly working on a proposal to issue a national digital currency. This appears to be a response to fears of a Chinese digital yuan. The planned digital yen would be jointly developed by the government and private companies. Deploying the digital yen will take some time due to Japan’s late start.

The decision represents a cardinal change for the country, whose central bank representatives saw “no demand” for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as late as December 2019.

Japan is really trying to Key into the future with the idea of a digital currency. This will also make them to develop their Blockchain Technology and these two recent technologies are the future. I suggest that Africans consider this too.

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Tim Draper, has recently spoken out about Bitcoin, suggesting that millennials need to invest in Bitcoin if they want to secure their financial future. Draper accused the banking system of putting millennials in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt.

He said, millennials are standing at a point in history, where they have the whole future of the world’s financial system ahead of them. But the biggest problem, Draper says, is that millennials have inherited a system from previous generations that just simply no longer work for today’s generation.

The fact is, I love this Draper guy because he is in the future already. The Future is Crypto, nothing can be done about it. The world's financial system is changing and people are busy clubbing and partying in Dollars and Naira. The invention of the blockchain technology is the best thing that has happened in the last decade and might still trespass into the future decade. The only thing holding the crypto world down this moment is the battle on the issue of anonymous transactions.

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According to information from on-chain blockchain intelligence firm Glassnode, the number of addresses holding at least one Bitcoin has increased notably over the last year. As of Jan. 14, there were 784,000 addresses holding one or more bitcoins, up nearly 11 percent from 707,000 seen a year ago. The rising number of addresses accumulating greater amounts of BTC is a sign that adoption as a store of value is increasing, said Connor Abendschein, analyst at Digital Assets Data.

It is no longer news that the era of cryptocurrency is here and nothing can be done to reverse it. With Bitcoin as the lead crypto, many other good digital currencies ans assets are still a good place to invest in on time. The future is crypto and blockchain and the transparency that will be brought along by these two will heal the world.

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The Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP), a non-profit Hong Kong-based news website covering local affairs, has started promoting the Brave browser and its basic attention token (BAT) as a tipping method to support it. Its readers can reward it with the BAT token simply by viewing ads and tipping it. Less than a day after enabling Brave browser donations, HKFP’s editor-in-chief tom Grundy revealed the firm had already received 153 BAT, worth about $33.

It is worthy of note that everybody is adopting cryptocurrency and you will not like to be left out. In my country Nigeria with LAGOS as it's biggest city, Lagos alone is now recording much transactions with crypto on a daily. People pay for houses and cars with cryptocurrencies now.

Also in Africa, crypto is trending like wild fire with many people picking interests in crypto trading. Countries like Uganda are also busy with trying to develop Blockchain Technology.

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Despite the collapse of altcoin markets in 2019, the Litecoin network still saw massive usage which brought its yearly trading volume to over $100 billion. The amount is still lower from the yearly volume of 2018, although this is mostly due to the bull market that was still raging in January 2018. Before the bear market kicked in and the prices started to drop, each day brought over $5 billion in transactions. In the first half of 2019, daily transactions — on average — saw only $200m -$300m.

Litecoin is a peer-to-peer internet currency. The digital coin is a fully decentralized open source, global payment network which was developed with the aim to improve on Bitcoin's shortcomings. It was first released on 7th October 2011 and has a supply limit of 84,000,000 LTC.

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The Bank of England (BoE), has officially announced that it will explore potential use cases for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The BoE has created a group with five other central banks - the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden) and the Swiss National Bank - to explore CBDCs. The group will be overseen by the Bank for International Settlements.

The group will “assess CBDC use cases; economic, functional and technical design choices, including cross-border interoperability.

The success rate recorded by Digital currencies has made central banks want to look into and adopt these digital currencies. Even here in Africa, Ghana and some other countries has considered has considered getting a central bank digital currency.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the nation's central bank, has explained that it "ringfenced" financial institutions from dealing with cryptocurrencies over a range of perceived risks. In a response to a petition from the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) – which is currently fighting a supreme court case over the issue on behalf of companies affected by the April 2018 order the RBI further said that in restricting bank involvement, it had not banned cryptocurrency use generally in India.

India has been going up and down, blowing hot and cold when it comes to the issue of cryptocurrencies. Sometime last year India came out with full force threatening to ban cryptocurrencies and the services relating to it. To me, i just think India wants to get their own Central Bank Digital Currency to replace all the cryptocurrencies having seen the gains accruing from Cryptocurrency.

India like China has however welcomed the bedrock of cryptocurrencies which is the Blockchain technology.

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Elon Musk can have Mars—there’s potential right here, says Ray Youssef, as the peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace begins work on its third African school, funded by its #BuiltwithBitcoin initiative. The new school is in Machakos County, Kenya, not far from the capital, Nairobi. Children from three to six years old will benefit from the education provided, and from a new water well system. Paxful is also donating $30,000 towards the initial operating costs of the school.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are really taking over. I am also of the view that cryptocurrencies and blockchain should be taught in schools as part of the effort to make digital currency a widely recognized asset and a medium of exchange. As days go by, many people are beginning to  key into the idea and the objective of cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

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Tim Draper, a Billionaire venture capitalist has said that once Bitcoin goes through some improvements, there is no way anyone will want to use fiat currency again. Crypto supporter, known for his early investments in tech companies with transformative technologies, such as Tesla, Skype and Coinbase, predicts the widespread adoption of Bitcoin over the next decade as the king coin renders cash obsolete. The reasoning he gave was that, merchants don’t want to lose 4% every time you swipe your credit card.

It should be noted that with the way Bitcoin is going, many organisations and countries are considering getting  a digital currency. Also with the blockchain technology making things more transparent, everybody is embracing cryptocurrencies and the technology which brought it into place, Blockchain.

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Crypto outspoken critic and gold bug Peter Schiff claimed on Twitter that his BTC is now intrinsically worthless and has no market value. As his wallet got corrupted somehow and that his password is no longer valid. However, Morgan Creek Digital, Anthony Pompliano, argued that Schiff simply forgot his password and tried to blame it on Bitcoin. However, the disgruntled crypto critic continued to insist that it was his wallet that actually "forgot" the password. However it looks like the BTC may indeed be gone for good.

Recovering passwords when it comes to cryptocurrency business is somehow hard and sometimes impossible once forgotten. Every reader of TestBoo is hereby urged to continue keeping his or her password where it will be found easily once forgotten. You are advised to use passwords which you can easily remember.

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Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, former LabCFTC Director Daniel Gorfine and investor Charles Giancarlo want to take the dollar digital – and they're not waiting for the Federal Reserve. The three are forming the Digital Dollar Foundation, working with Accenture to design and push for a potential U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC). The digital dollar would “meet the demands of the new digital world and a cheaper, faster and more inclusive global financial system,” Giancarlo said.

The wide success recorded by Bitcoin and other digital currencies has led many countries, Organisations and people into considering launching a digital currency to meet up or key into the trend of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have come to stay and the sooner you realize it, the better for you.

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According to a recent list shared by investor Adam Cochran, over 359 projects outside of The Ethereum Foundation and ConSensys are building on the protocol. Among the list are heavy hitters and well-known brands like Nike, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, and many many more.

The list is eye-opening, and really sells the fact that not only are many of the world’s biggest brands building on Ethereum, but it also shows just how much potential the asset holds in the future

According to Wikipedia, "Ethereum is an open source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. It supports a modified version of Nakamoto consensus via transaction-based state transitions."

It was first released on 30th of July 2015 and was written in C++, Go, Rust, Solidity with original authors as Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood.

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Agustin Carstens, head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) which acts as the bank of central banks, has stated bitcoin took them by surprise. “We are trying to avoid being surprised by innovation, as we were with bitcoin and Libra.” “Events with Libra have been a wake-up call for central banks.

We central bankers were in a comfort zone, but Libra showed we needed to change. So, there has been a lot of consulting and debate with Facebook, and ourselves,” Carstens said.

The invention of Bitcoin has opened the eyes of many tech giants to the idea of a digital currency and it's benefits. When Bitcoin was launched, nobody believed that it will thrive as it is doing today which has attracted many investors to the cryptocurrency circle.

Big brands like Facebook and Telegram are already working on their own digital currencies though with little pressure from SEC and concerned bodies.

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The Sacramento Kings, an NBA team, will auction off starting guard Buddy Hield’s game jersey from Wednesday’s game using a blockchain-powered marketplace. It would be auctioning off team memorabilia live using an ethereum-based platform operated by Treum, a supply-chain product.

During home games, Kings fans can bid on gear worn by players on the team. A digital token which will contain data detailing the game, season, player and timestamp will represent proof-of-ownership for items, and will be held by the item’s owner.

Blockchain will be a force to reckon with in the nearest future with the way it is going. Many firms are adopting the blockchain technology and the demand for workers in the sector is really on the fast increase.

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Bitcoin ads were shown during a Premier League match between Tottenham and Liverpool last night. The ads were seemingly taken out by the trading platform eToro which last year signed a deal with Brighton & Hove Albion, Cardiff City, Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Newcastle United, and Southampton where all these clubs were paid in bitcoin for advertising opportunities. The Premier League is one of the most watched sport season and claims they’re watched by about 70% of the UK population in total.

Cryptocurrency has made its name in the global assets market. Bitcoin as the foremost is the most popular and most valuable of them all and with premier league now showing ads on Bitcoin, it should be noted that the era of cryptocurrencies is just starting.

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The US Treasury Department is concluding a series of tests of a blockchain-based platform that monitors grant payouts. The agency is nearing the completion of a proof of concept program that would track the letter of credit for recipients of financial grants.

The blockchain-based program tokenizes letters of credit which are transferred to grantees through peer-to-peer transactions. The process enables the Treasury Department to monitor the release of grant payouts from the government’s purse to qualified recipients.

Blockchain is on of the best innovations to ever hit humanity judging from its decentralized and transparent nature. Many countries have adopted and are working on their blockchain technology just like China. Also via the Blockchain tech, Countries like Venezuela have developed their own cryptocurrency dubbed Petro.

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Samsung Electronics' blockchain smartphones, such as Galaxy S10, are set to feature Elrond project’s gaming app “Battle of Elrond.” Europe-based Elrond said that the gaming app is scheduled to get launched in Q1 of this year. “Battle of Elrond is a mobile multiplayer game.

Players earn ERD [Elrond’s native token] for defeating their enemies,” Beniamin Mincu, founder and CEO of Elrond added that the game will be “exclusively” available via the Samsung Galaxy Store for smartphones with native blockchain capabilities will support the app.

Samsung has been playing a very vital role in fusing the Smart Phones with crypocurrency and the emerging Blockchain technology. The Phone producing company is seriously trying to pioneer the industry with regards to this emerging tech.

The Samsung Blockchain Wallet is currently compatible only with ether (ETH) and ethereum-based ERC20 tokens. Bitcoin is yet to be supported.

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The total number of bitcoins that haven’t changed hands in more than a year has crossed 10 million. About 10.7 million bitcoins haven’t moved in more than 12 months, according to Digital Assets Data, a fintech company building crypto data feeds.

Considering the total number of bitcoins in circulation is 18.14 million, this also means nearly 60 percent of the coins remained dormant and only 40 percent participated in the price action seen in 2019. The percentage of bitcoins lying dormant for over a year is at its highest level since early 2017.

With the continuous increase in the value of Bitcoin, the hodlers are not ready to let go. These hodlers eventually turn out to make more than 1000 percent gain in some cases.

Cryptocurrency is no doubt the Gold of the internet age with Bitcoin as the foremost.
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From TestBoo.com - https://testboo.com/10m-bitcoins-have-not-moved-in-more-than-a-year/