Tagged: tron

November 15, 2019 @ 6:23 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Malta-based Binance, one of the world’s busiest cryptocurrency exchanges, and Tron, the 11th largest blockchain project, have had their accounts blocked on Weibo, a Chinese social media site similar to Twitter, The Block reports. According to the outlet, all content, including the follower count, has… Read More

October 8, 2019 @ 10:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized applications’ (dApps) overall transaction volume and user activity dropped significantly during the third quarter of this year, according to a Dapp.com report shared with CrowdFund Insider. Dapp.com, an analytics platform for dApps created on Ethereum (ETH), EOS, Tron, Steem, TomoChain, IOST, and Blockstack, published… Read More

August 12, 2019 @ 8:45 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitmain, the world’s largest cryptomining firm and manufacturer of cryptomining equipment says the company name is being fraudulently used by a project called “Mangocoin.” “We recently become aware of the fraudulent use of the ‘Bitmain’ brand in the sale of a product named ‘Bitmain Cloud… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 2:56 am By Cali Haan  |  

Have coin, must influence. Justin Sun, founder of the TRON cryptocurrency network, canceled his much advertised Thursday charity lunch with Warren Buffet last week, but then made an appearance that same evening at a party held for TRON YouTube influencers in San Francisco, according to CoinDesk…. Read More

July 26, 2019 @ 2:20 am By Cali Haan  |  

Justin Sun, founder of the cryptocurrency network TRON (known as ‘Wave Field’ in China), has apologized on Chinese social media for “vulgar” and “out of control” marketing of his lunch with famous value investor Warren Buffet, Bloomberg reports. “(I) would like to express my sincere… Read More

July 10, 2019 @ 9:44 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Protestors believing they were bilked out of 200 million yuan ($29 million USD) by the cryptocurrency/blockchain project TRON occupied the offices of TRON affiliate company Raybo Monday in Beijing. The protestors were eventually “removed” from the offices by police, TRON CEO Justin Sun claimed in a response on… Read More

June 13, 2019 @ 8:20 am By Cali Haan  |  

The “cryptosphere” has been aflutter over news that Tron cryptocurrency network co-founder Justin Sun successfully bid $4.56 million USD in a charity auction to have lunch with Warren Buffet. Buffet, 88, billionaire CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is vociferous crypto-detractor who has often taken to the… Read More

March 25, 2019 @ 10:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

eToro, announced on Monday it has added Tron’s TRX token to its global investment platform. eToro reported that this brings the total number of cryptoassets available on its platform to 15. According to eToro, Tron is an ambitious, multi-faceted project seeking to “decentralise the internet.”… Read More

March 4, 2019 @ 3:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

TRON announced on Monday it has teamed up with Tether to issue USDT Tokens on its blockchain platform. According to the duo,  TRC20-based USDT enables interoperability with TRON-based protocols and Decentralised Applications (DApps) while allowing users to transact and exchange fiat pegged currencies across the… Read More

February 27, 2019 @ 11:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese cryptocurrency exchange CoinAll announced on Wednesday it has listed TRON’s BitTorrent token. CoinAll also reported it has started an interactive cooperation with BitTorrent at the product stage. BitTorrent users are notably able to sign in to CoinAll through the BitTorrent website directly. CoinAll is also… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 9:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain software firm BitGo is now set to provide wallet and custody support for TRON (TRX) currency later this year. TRON will reportedly be joining Bitcoin, Ethereum and more than 100 other cryptocurrencies. While sharing more details about the launch on BitGo, Justin Sun, founder of TRON… Read More

February 13, 2019 @ 1:25 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Many fans of the “free Internet” bemoaned the sale of “filesharing” (commercial content producers prefer to call it “piracy”) site BitTorrent to the cryptocurrency project Tron last year. The “quiet” $140 million USD sale prompted a reported exodus from BitTorrent of particularly hardcore “file sharing”… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 3:10 am By Cali Haan  |  

“Decentralized apps” (dApps) built to run on newer cryptocurrency blockchains Tron and EOS have steadily taken over from Ethereum as gamblers’ financial media of choice, DIAR reports. Ethereum still processed $7.6 billion in dApp transactions in 2018, but this was mainly business coming from trades… Read More

January 28, 2019 @ 2:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Binance announced last week it is set to support the BitTorrent (BTT) Airdrop Program for TRON (TRX) holders. Binance reported that for the first airdrop, corresponding to 1.1% of the total BTT token supply, we will take a snapshot of all TRX balances on the… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 11:12 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), a regulated token issuance and digital asset exchange, has announced the addition of TRON (TRX) to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). GBX says that TRON has been brought to the GBX-DAX by sponsor firm StratX. The new listing follows the… Read More

November 27, 2018 @ 1:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BitTorrent, Inc., the company behind P2P communications protocol and products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, announced on Tuesday that customers can pay for its Pro and Ads Free products by using the cryptocurrencies TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC). Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard… Read More

October 1, 2018 @ 1:14 pm By Cali Haan  |  

There have been multiple news stories this year of businesses in the adult sector increasingly using crypto, but according to PornHub, only 1% of visitors to the site are so far paying with digital currencies, Hard Fork reports. Still, given that PornHub claims 28.5 billion… Read More

July 27, 2018 @ 6:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain tech startup TRON reportedly had a productive week – the company not only declared it now has more than 100 million users on its platform but also revealed it has acquired software company BitTorrent. Founded in 2017, TRON describes itself as a company dedicated to building… Read More

March 9, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BitGuild, a new blockchain gaming platform led by gaming and virtual currency industry veteran Jared Psigoda, announced on Friday it has formed a partnership with TRON, a blockchain-based open-source global digital entertainment protocol. According to the duo, through this new partnership, BitGuild will release a set… Read More