The IOTA Foundation yesterday announced a new mechanism that will radically overhaul how the IOTA network secures itself. Known as ‘Coordicide’, the new protocol will manage transaction security, without relying upon checkpoints from the IOTA Foundation.

It’s hard to pin down what exactly Jeremy Millar, ConsenSys’ Chief of Staff, does all day.

Speaking to Crypto Briefing atop a shipping crate in Brooklyn, he rebuffs suggestions like ‘troubleshooter’ as being “too narrow.”

Instead, the Chief of Staff outlines a complicated role that involves creating, and subsequently heading up, some of the initiatives instrumental to furthering the main objectives of ConsenSys. “I try and take on what I see as the most urgent and critical problems for the company,” Millar explained.

• IOTA has a bullish short-term trading bias, with the cryptocurrency advancing to a new 2019 trading high
• The medium-term trading outlook for the IOTA / USD pair has now turned bullish
• The daily time frame is showing that a major technical breakout has occurred

IOTA has a bullish short-term trading bias, with the cryptocurrency advancing to a fresh 2019 trading high.

• Pundi X has a bullish short-term outlook, with the NPXS / USD pair advancing to a new 2019 trading high
• The four-hour time frame shows that bulls have successfully invalidated a bearish head and shoulders pattern
• The daily time frame is showing that a major bullish breakout is currently underway

Pundi X has a bullish short-term outlook, with the cryptocurrency advancing to a fresh 2019 trading high.

• Ripple has a bullish short-term trading bias, with the cryptocurrency moving towards the best levels of 2019
• The XRP / USD pair continues to hold firm above its key 200-day moving average
• The daily time frame continues to highlight the 0.6000 level as a possible bullish target

Ripple has a bullish short-term trading outlook, with the XRP / USD pair still holding firm towards the best levels of 2019.

Manipulation is not unique to crypto. It’s alive and well in stock markets, not to mention the Forex market. So why is the SEC so afraid of approving a Bitcoin ETF? And why is “manipulation” the main reason for not approving one?

From its beginnings in 2014, OKEx has become one of the dominant exchanges outside of the United States, serving 20 million customers and consistently listing among the top crypto exchanges by trading volume.

Africa has come a long way in technology and connectivity. Before the start of the decade, few knew what a smartphone was. However, according to data from The GSM Association, around 250 million Africans own a smartphone as of last year. The number of mobile internet subscribers has quadrupled in the last nine years, with growth expected to be even more aggressive in the next five years.

Block.one, the company which built the EOS blockchain, is expected to make a significant announcement at an upcoming event in Washington, D.C. Details of the live-streamed event remain secretive, and the crypto community has worked itself into a frenzy of speculation as to what B1 will unveil. 

In recent years, the world economy has made incredible strides: access to technology is steadily increasing, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is at its highest point since 2015, and unemployment is at a four-decade low.