San Francisco-based blockchain startup Ripple saw a decline in XRP sales of 74% for Q3 2019, with the company citing increased fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) during that timespan.  According to Ripple’s XRP Markets Report released Oct. 18, the sale of XRP dropped from $251.5 million in Q2 to $66.2 million in Q3, constituting a decrease of 74%. Ripple’s sale of XRP constitutes a portion of the coin’s 100 billion max supply that the company controls, primarily…

Dubai-based real estate developer Emaar Properties says that it plans to launch this year a blockchain-based referral and loyalty platform called EMR that is being built on Quorum, JPMorgan Chase's enterprise-focused fork of Ethereum. Emmar Properties is one of the world's leading real estate development companies. Its best-known project is Burj Khalifa, which is the world's tallest building. This is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) that has a roof height (i.e. total height - the height of the…

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which calls itself "the definitive record of the English language", has added the word "satoshi" to its database. The Oxford English Dictionary is published by Oxford University Press (OUP). The OED follows the development of the English language over the past thousand years, "providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the world."  Work on the OED began in 1857 and although…

On October 11, CREDITS.COM announced the addition of a new member in the position of Chief Business Officer. The replenishment in the ranks of the company has become a major event in the market due to previous employee experience. Jennifer Trelewicz, who previously held the positions of Director of the Systems & Technology Laboratory at IBM, CTO of Google Russia, and Director of Risks & Market Data at Deutsche Bank, will now make every effort in…

There has been little to get excited about this week on crypto markets. The bears have ramped up the pressure and the selloff has continued resulting in $14 billion leaving the space since late last week. Leading exchange Binance is soldiering on regardless and has just completed another coin burn. Binance Burns 2 Million BNB The world’s leading crypto exchange Binance has just completed its quarterly coin burn resulting in the destruction of just over 2…

TwitterFacebookWhatsAppGoogle+BufferLinkedIn ATFX is a broker offering the ability to trade a range of assets and aims to make their platform simple to use with support for the MetaTrader 4 software. ATFX prides itself on offering competitive pricing for clients. Trading with ATFX gives clients access to an FCA-regulated broker for trading CFDs and forex. The goal of ATFX is to deliver the best possible trading experience. The broker has a client portal that is state-of-the-art and…

TwitterFacebookWhatsAppGoogle+BufferLinkedIn If you haven’t opened Blockfolio or CoinMarketCap today, you’re in for a bit of a harrowing surprise. Over the past 48 hours, Bitcoin (BTC) has lost all semblance of a bull trend, failing to react positively to the launch of the much-ballyhooed Bakkt Bitcoin futures contracts. Since the week’s open at $10,150, the cryptocurrency has shed $1,600, falling under key historical technical supports that are threatening to turn into resistance. This move to $8,600 is…

How to change a Slack channel name Did you inherit a mess of a Slack workspace? Find out how to clean that up by renaming channels. You've been handed the keys to your company's Slack kingdom and told to make it productive. You log in as the administrator only to discover whoever originally set it all up did you and your fellow employees no favors by naming the channels in ways unconducive to efficient usage. What…

Apple's iOS 13: The most notable new features Here's what iPhone users can expect from Apple's iOS 13. Apple unveiled iOS 13 at its June 2019 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Apple wasted no time getting into the nitty-gritty details of the new mobile operating system, and had quite a few surprises like splitting up support for iPad and iPhone into their own unique OSes with separate features for the first time since the iPad was released.…

5 most in-demand tech jobs and skills The ever-changing tech industry is always seeking top talent, but these jobs are in the greatest need for employees, according to Hired. The software industry is outpacing the overall US economy, according to a report the BSA Foundation released today. "It's clear from our work that there is no shortage of job openings in any of a range of different software jobs, from traditional coding to emerging fields like…