The Fantom ICO preview that we published offers a high-level view of the high-performance blockchain project, so I won't spend too much time talking about the ICO goals and the industries Fantom wants to work within. Today's goal is a code review to see where they're at with their tech progress.
Warren Buffett does not seem to think that Bitcoin is a good investment. Bitcoin "is probably rat poison squared," the billionaire CEO told CNBC, shortly before Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting.
Banking jobs are under threat by blockchain technology. That's simply a fact of life. When car manufacturers find that aluminum is cheaper, lighter, and easier to work with than steel - they make trucks using aluminum. No more steel. It has been replaced. Banks may have to start considering the overhead.
Markets trembled this weekend amid rumors of a regulatory crackdown on Ethereum, which may, or may not, be labeled an unregistered security. After two days of tense sell-offs and plummeting prices, investors woke up on Monday morning to learn that the US government had decided....nothing.
The Fantom ICO offers a DAG-based blockchain protocol for higher speed and infinite scalability. The proposed transactions per second (TPS) on Fantom? 300k TPS. The ICO team have set the bar high and aim to be the first platform to truly disrupt the existing payments and supply-chain management paradigm.
The Newton ICO recently appeared on our radar. Upon taking a closer look and realizing the ICO is still in its early stages, we decided to give Newton Founder and CEO Xu Jizhe a call to learn more. Before we go on to release a full review, let’s take a look at what interests us most about the project.
A cryptocurrency designed to implement sharding technology, the Zilliqa market cap pushed past the $1bn today. With strong plans to replace conventional payment processors like Visa, the project - which only had its ICO a few months ago - claims to be able to process 2,000 transactions every second.
Singapore residents may soon be lining their pockets with digital currency—literally. Tangem, a Switzerland-based technology firm, has begun selling preloaded Bitcoin “smart notes” to the Island country, allowing residents to interact with cryptocurrency in physical form.
