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Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, recently announced that they successfully upgraded its trading platform. Earlier, Binance announced that they were going to upgrade their trading platform, the upgrade took about 2 hours. All deposits, trading, and withdrawal were disabled on spot and margin trading, P2P trading, OTC Portal trading, savings & redemption, as well as asset transfers from sub-accounts at the time of the upgrade.   The company has had major upgrades since 2017. Some were noticeable and some were not. Many Binance upgrades were aimed towards improving the performance of the trading platform, as well as giving the best user experience to their users.   A year ago, Binance introduced staking, lending cryptocurrency, and margin trading. Not only that, but Binance has also introduced other projects since the start of 2020, which includes Binance P2P and Binance B2B. Binance P2P operates similarly to LocalBitcoins and Paxf...

via nbcnews A Geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant outside the village of Rahivka, Ukraine . Radiation levels in the Chernobyl exclusion zone spiked 17 times over the normal background reading Sunday, the head of Ukraine's ecological watchdog said Sunday, as forest fires blazed about 12 miles into the Chernobyl disaster area.   Ecological inspection Chief Yegor Firsov wrote in a Facebook post from the closed Chernobyl region. "At the center of the fire, radiation levels are high ... readings are 2.3, when the normal level is 0.14." Firsov's post included a video of a Geiger counter, a device used to measure radiation levels. According to Firsov, the alarming jump in radioactivity was found only in the centre of the fire. In a later post Sunday, he wrote that nuclear specialists had charted no increase in radiation levels in the capital, Kyiv, only about 60 miles fro...

                                         image: cryptoworldnews For those that need a refresher, here’s one: over the course of approximately a year, scammers largely focused in Asia managed to garner billions of dollars of Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, and XRP, and other cryptocurrencies. The scammers operated a “wallet” called PlusToken, which promised users high returns on their deposits. The wallet naturally featured a system of incentives that created a pyramid of users. A transaction from a wallet of a ringleader with the message “we have run” cemented the collapse of the scheme in the middle of 2019. Fortunately, the law caught up with PlusToken, with it being revealed shortly after they “ran” that the authorities had caught up with six of the ringleaders. Reports said at the time that the PlusToken operators were arrested in Vanuatu. Yet Dovey Wan, a partner at Primitive ...

This has been revealed by China’s Centre for Information and Industry Development (CCID) on its 18th CCID Global Public Chain Technology Evaluation Index. This index ranked 37 well-known global cryptos using technical specifications. Bitcoin (BTC) was placed in the 12th place with 106.2 points. The criteria used to evaluate cryptocurrencies include basic technology, applicability, features, performance, safety, creativity, and decentralization. EOS remains leading the ranking with 156.1 points, followed by TRON with 138.43 points and Ethereum (ETH) with 136.4 points. The leading cryptocurrency scored 20.4 points in applicability and 24.7 in creativity, while the second place had 28.4 and 15.5 points, respectively. It is an improvement for BTC as it has scaled up from previous ranking of the 17th place The fourth and fifth places are IOST and LSK with 130.3 and 119.3 points, respectively, highlighting that XRP is in 14th place with only 105 points. Bitcoin was even lower dow...

                                              Image: CIA Bitcoin (BTC) is on the risk of invalidating a bullish pattern as cryptocurrency analysts see the latest surge extending towards Bitcoins 200 a day moving average. Until Monday morning, BTC had a likelihood of running towards $11,800 but fell by 2.26 per cent to $9,114 leading to massive loss realizations as it had invalidated a bullish technical pattern called Ascending Triangle which BTC broke the Triangles support. A senior analyst in Cryptocurrency highlighted some possible projections as to why BTC could continue its dip after breaking the Ascending Triangle’s Support level. He says that, the diagonal support has now turned into resistance and Bitcoins trial to break above it all over again stands defied and null.                           ...

                                                Image Credit: Forbes First off, Zoom isn’t bailing your security for free! Those who use this video platform for free will no longer enjoy the encrypted calls anymore, the company announced. The justification to this is that the company is aiming at complying with local law enforcement authorities the FBI included in the likely event that Zoom is used maliciously. You will therefore need to fully verify your Zoom account before you can enjoy those end-to-end encrypted Zoom meetings. v   The impact of this move to your business: This move by Zoom looks like a tactical marketing concern than just a security compliance urge. This would give me the lead to start a search for an alternative communication platform.   Cash Payments have really Sunk, Thanks to Covid-19 .  In a measure to control the spre...

Facebook Pay, the payments service WhatsApp owner Facebook launched last year has been unveiled as WhatsApp Pay in Brazil. Users in Brazil would be the first to be able to send and receive money by way of its messaging app. The payments service — which currently is free for consumers to use, but businesses pay a 3.99% processing fee to receive payments — will work by way of a six-digit PIN or fingerprint to complete transactions on the platform. You use it by linking up your WhatsApp account to your Visa or Mastercard credit or debit card. The feature will be available to both regular WhatsApp users and Business WhatsApp users. This gives WhatsApp and Facebook another shot at building a revenue stream based on its vast scale, one which does not turn the app over to monetising its users through ads and the data that is amassed around them.