Covid-19

On the 2nd April 2020, the Blockstream Co-Founder and CEO, Adam Back, took to his Twitter account to address the upcoming Bitcoin halving issue. The halving will take place on the 13th of May 2020. Adam pointed out that just as central banks worldwide are doing enormous amounts of qualitative easing (QE), Bitcoin will do what he calls qualitative hardening. He claims that this qualitative hardening will occur next month with Bitcoin’s next block reward halving. The Bank of England…

Get the weekly summary of cryptocurrency market trends, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The Crypto Market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $173 billion. Bitcoin gains 10% in dollar value and trades safely above the $6,500 mark. Ethereum traded steadily between $135 and $140 XRP rises to $0.19 but drops by 3% on the weekend The Trump Administration announces a $2 trillion economic stimulus. The equity market also increases by 10% Covid-19 has now spread to…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has partnered with several gargantuan institutions to set up a COVID-19 information network. The blockchain-based solution is an open-source data hub for verifying data accuracy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The solution, named "MiPasa", is expected to expand as a range of data analytics tools are introduced to its network. Additionally, the tools will be subsequent to data testing and other information, to enhance accurate detection of COVID-19 infection red zones. MiPasa is an invention…

Crypto Against Covid is a campaign launched by Binance Charity Foundation, aiming to raise $5 million in crypto to battle the Covid-19 pandemic. The campaign also seeks to buy medical supplies for the countries heavily hit by the pandemic. Binance Charity Foundation allocated $1 million in BUSD tokens and will also help set up a wallet to put all public donations for the project. Binance exchange will convert the donated BUSD to fiat, and the funds will purchase medical supplies…

The People's Bank of China (PBoC) intends to launch its much-awaited central bank-backed Digital Currency (CBDC) in Shenzhen and Suzhou. The WHO recommends using digital currencies over banknotes. They suggested this after discovering that the COVID-19 virus could be transmitted through banknotes leading to many central banks speeding up issuing their digital currencies. Recent reports say that research into China's central bank digital currency (CBDC) is dragging because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Still, the central bank has completed another milestone…

As the markets continue to shift negatively, the US looks to Congress for agreement on a significant stimulus package to rescue the economy from impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. The Democrats in the US house want to create a ‘digital dollar’ and the establishment of ‘digital dollar wallets according to a proposed draft stimulus bill, which has been circulating ahead of formal publishing. The digital wallets would be maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank. The new proposals will facilitate payments…

Many stock markets across the world may likely close due to the recent pandemic. BTC could save the financial world after the current crisis comes to an end. It has survived any shutdowns caused by the Coronavirus. The cryptocurrency market runs throughout, setting it apart from any other financial market. Famous crypto trader Dan Hedi revealed via a tweet that Bitcoin could be one of the last assets still trading despite growing market turmoil caused by Coronavirus. News media worldwide…

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of Binance was quoted saying that the current global financial system is broken. He believes Bitcoin and other crypto are the solution to this global problem. CZ notes the corporate culture which gang presses CEOs to pursue short-term objectives instead of lasting solutions. His blog post views investors as part of the cause,  vaunting CEOs who can push up stock prices and make good profits every quarter. He thinks investors should rather praise their CEO…

On March 20, 2020, reports show that Senator Kelly Loeffler, the founder, and CEO of Bakkt exchange, was involved in possible insider trading as per a 20th March 2020 report. The senator dumped most of her stocks shortly before the latest market crash  The disruption of global markets and daily life appears to have been a beforehand knowledge to the Trump administration before going public. A secret senators meeting may have been instrumental in briefing them on this. Interestingly, the…