South African Kidnappers Demand Ransom in Bitcoin
It was gathered during the weekend that kidnappers kidnapped a South African teenager from a playground during the weekend demanding a ransom in bitcoin worth about over $120,000, the Witbank police have said. Theguardian A 13-year-old boy was taken by…
Zimbabwe High Court Lifts Cryptocurrency Trading Ban.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) as was gathered, failed to appear for court proceedings in a case involving the Zimbabwe crypto exchange, Golix (also known as Bitfinex) is seeking reversal of the central bank’s directive that it stop virtual…
SHACKLEWELL MOSQUE UK USES BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM FOR ZAKAT
The Shacklewell Lane Mosque in Dalston UK registers as the first mosque in UK to accept Cryptocurrency as a mode of payment for the Ramadan offering. The payments were to be made through the official website after which the funds…
Cryptocurrency Market Update
The Cryptocurrency Market saw a big market loss which saw the whole Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization at $370b against a previously total of $250.05b loosing up to $20b within a little period of time. Two-three days time frame starting from 21/05/2018…
Bitfinex Partners With Connamara
Connamara specializes in delivering large scale, highly-available, distributed systems. Quality is assured through the use of strong reliable development methods. Connamara is focused on test driven development, automated testing and continuous integration. gateway-support@connamara.com for FIX accessibility via integrations as its…
INDIA STATES NEW TAX FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY
As reported on Bloomberg, India government will likely attach an 18 percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on cryptocurrency trading. Currently, the new development is under consideration by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, and shall be brought…
BTC Tickets Denied Access To Wole Soyinka’s Drama Review
Wole Soyinka, an Iconic playwright and international literary critic did what he does best at the New Arts Theatre in University of Nigeria Nsukka where one of his plays was brought to life on stage. CHILDE INTERNATIONALE. Lovers of Playwright…
BITCOIN AND ALTCOIN UPDATE.
BTC MARKET UPDATE The bitcoin market is showing a good strong support at 7800-8900 The current crypto-market cap still at over $370b with the bitcoin market having 37.7% of the market cap. The support level really strong indicates a new…
VERGECURRENCY NETWORK HACKED.
A day ago, various reports emerged of a potential hack on the mining protocol of VERGE CURRENCY , The percentage increase was a huge 51% famous hack. The hacker(s) managed to take control of up to 50% of the computing…
KRUNGSRI TESTS THE FIRST CROSS-BORDER PAYMENT USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
Krungsrithe current Thailand’s fifth largest bank by total assets reports on May 22nd 2018 that major global banks have successfully and efficiently conducted a cross-border payment pilot test using Thai bank Krungsri’s (Bank of Ayudhya) Blockchain Interledger, The cross-border payment…