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Ripple (XRP) And Litecoin (LTC) Might Get Accepted On TapJets Private Airlines Booking Platform

A survey carried out by a US private airlines booking company, TapJets, indicates a high interest in customers who would like to pay airfares using cryptocurrency. The survey allowed customers to vote for which crypto they’d like to use between Ripple (XRP), Liteceoin (LTC), and Verge (XVG).

The first place was secured by Ripple (XRP) with 44%, while the second spot went to Litecoin (LTC) with 35%. As it is clear now, Verge (XVG) lost the battle, ranking the last with only 21%.

TapJets will add Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC) as its cryptocurrency payment method

“People have voted, and we have listened to your comments. TapJets will perform the technical evaluation of Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC),” announced the company’s representatives.

This announce is obviously showing that Verge (XVG) has been completely ejected from the options list. On the other hand, it is still not clear yet if TapJets plans on adding both the remaining cryptos, XRP and LTC, or they will only opt for one of them.

Part of this activity will depend on how agile the XRP and LTC development teams are in responding to our requests. Our goal is to enable TapJets customers to use these alternative currencies on June 1, 2018. We have already been in contact with the LTC team and will contact the XRP team on Monday.

TapJets Team

On the other hand, among Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC), LTC would be more suitable for such a project, at the first glimpse.

What would this action mean for Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), and TapJets?

With several millions of people flying throughout the United States on a daily basis and a significant proportion of them supporting the work of private airlines booking platforms such as TapJets, both Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC) will be on the brink of a massive adoption that many crypto enthusiasts long-awaited.

Surely, for XRP and LTC, the addition to the TapJets private airlines booking platform will return higher demands.

On the other hand, for TapJets, adding Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC) would mean bigger profits as there are many XRP and LTC holders which would have a new way and platform to spend their cryptocurrency.

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Bitcoin (BTC): Win 1 BTC For Solving A Puzzle On Reddit – Are You Up For It?

Reddit users were surprised a few days ago with a new puzzle that will give away 1 Bitcoin (BTC) to whoever manages to solve it. The puzzle is contained in an image that features the Bitcoin (BTC) logo surrounded by words that allude to the technology that gave life to it. According to its author, the key to finding the solution is contained in Bitcoin’s white paper, written in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto.

The publication was made by an Internet user nicknamed Cryptogreetings, who accompanied the image with the phrase “A bitcoin is contained in this puzzle. Good luck!”

Additionally, in an update, the author added that the image contains, in logarithmic scale, the ideas that inspired Satoshi Nakamoto to create the distributed accounting technology:

This work is composed of the words from Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper, in logarithmic scale. The ideas that inspired Satoshi to create a solution that would revolutionize the modern economy and industry in a scattered manner. This paper reflects on the elements that gave life to this technology and challenges the underlying security model. Hidden in plain sight lies a treasure hunt. A BTC is hidden in this work.

Cryptogreetings, Reddit User

The last similar puzzle rewarded with Bitcoin (BTC) has been solved in 3 years

To verify that the reward announcement is legitimate, Cryptogreetings added a link to the address where the Bitcoin (BTC) was uploaded, which has received small transactions, as of May 19th, to make a total of 1,00152936 BTC, at this moment.

The addition of small sums to this address could be the result of testing by those interested in solving the riddle. The reward currently stands at $8,200 worth of bitcoin on the CoinMarketCap portal.

This announcement was quickly acclaimed by the community and the fact that the reward has increased some satoshis in just two days is reminiscent of the puzzle known as “The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto”, which took three years to be deciphered and gradually increased its reward to a total of 5 BTC, to be finally solved in November last year.

A large number of comments have accompanied the Reddit thread in which the image was published, and in solidarity with the users, they have shared their findings to contribute to the construction of the solution.

If you want to give it a try, here is the 1 BTC-worth puzzle.

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ETHLend CMO, Nolvia Serrano, Talked About The Future Of The Platform During The Blockchain Summit 2018

At the Blockchain Summit 2018 (Chile), Nolvia Serrano, the CMO of ETHLend, a blockchain-based cryptocurrency lending platform, talked about the project she represents, commented on its history and debated its future aspirations.

ETHLend is a decentralized financial market that has been built on Ethereum (ETH) blockchain network. This market allows for peer-to-peer, user-to-user loan agreements between lenders and borrowers around the world, using blockchain and smart contracts.

Nolvia Serrano, CMO of ETHLend

ETHLend ICO raised more than $17 million in just three days in December 2017

During her presentation at the Blockchain Summit Latam 2018, Nolvia Serrano described how a group of young people with no reputation in the blockchain ecosystem managed to create a global network and a great team to build a decentralized lending platform – ETHLend.

Believing in decentralization, they did not wait for investors and decided to bet on an initial currency offer (ICO), which by December 2017 managed to raise $17 million dollars in just three days, an important milestone, given the small budget they began with.

Nolvia also attributes the success of this cryptocurrency lending platform to the fact that it was not only a white paper project but also a prototype already built, which could be evaluated by the public, and therefore, has attracted the attention of media such as Bloomberg, Forbes and The Observer, as well as being finalists for the LendIt 2018 awards for the FinTech industry.

She also explained that the platform works to make peer-to-peer loan agreements with smart blockchain contracts. It is not the person but the code that is trusted because the smart contracts guarantee that if a debt is not paid, the amount of the guarantee will be given to the lender.

What’s next for ETHLend?

Among the future plans of the increasingly popular blockchain-based cryptocurrency lending platform, there is, at first, the desire to provide greater liquidity to people who invest in cryptocurrency

On the other hand, loans in various ERC-20 tokens and enabling investment in other projects will be improved in the future. Besides, ETHLend aims to get involved more in startups financing.

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Verge (XVG), Recently Adopted By The Health Sector, Is Going After PayPal

When Verge (XVG) partnered up with MidGeek’s PornHub and Brazzers, two of the biggest names in the pornographic industry, the community showed disappointment and asked for some real partnerships with FinTech sector. However, Verge team kept on moving forward and some names from the health sector adopted XVG. Now, Verge is targeting even higher and is going after PayPal.

Many words were spoken when XVG teamed up with MindGeek who adopted it as a new cryptocurrency-based payments method on its PornHub and Brazzers porn sites.

However, XVG continued to be adopted by small companies and some online stores. But nothing big, apparently.

Verge (XVG) has been adopted by a big name in the health sector

Silently, while the community was still debating the low-profile partnerships Verge signed, a big name in the health sector, Dioxyme, announced on its site, Dioxyme.com, that they have accepted Verge (XVG).

Dioxyme is a big player in the supplements industry where is activating in an interesting niche. The company offers dietary supplements for active people who want to enhance their sportive performances.

Besides Dioxyme, however, XVG has also been adopted by HealthCare, a platform that sells and rents scaffoldings and provides their construction advice when big projects involve them.

Verge (XVG) price

All these news would definitely be good news for every other cryptocurrency but not for XVG. Despite the positive news surrounding the crypto, Verge (XVG) is still trading lower and lower against the USD.

As we speak, XVG is traded at $0.053, registering a decline of 3.21% in the last 24 hours.

However, all these deals it made lately helped Verge coin moving closer to the $1 billion market cap milestone. For the moment, it scores a market cap of only $807 million.

Verge (XVG) is going after PayPal

Supposedly, some inside sources announced that “Verge is aggressively pursuing PayPal via their Venmo platform.” According to the sources, PayPal and its Venmo platform are working on listing a lot of cryptocurrencies and XVG might be one of them.

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TRON (TRX) Moves Up To Secure The 9th Position In The Cryptocurrencies Market

TRON owner Justin Sun has tweeted that TRON is going to introduce a ‘TronVM’ virtual machine on May 25th. The engine is reputed to support the Ethereum (ETH) virtual machine. This comes in a moment when the approaching deadline for the implementation of the TRON’s core network is now counting less than 9 days and has caught the crypto enthusiasts attention.

At this moment, TRON (TRX) is traded at $0.079, registering an increase of about 5% in the last 24 hours.

TRON (TRX) moved up to secure the 9th position in the cryptocurrencies market

With a market cap of about $5.2 billion, TRX is securing the 9th position in the crypto market, ahead of IOTA (MIOTA) by about $400 million. Even more, TRON (TRX) seems unstoppable now and is heading towards Stellar (XLM).

Not surprisingly, TRX was one of the big gainers of the day, as it marked a gain of about 19% earlier today. On the other hand, this crypto coin is the only one in the Top 10 which registers gains, while all the other major cryptocurrencies are ‘downtrending’.

TRON community will strongly contribute to the TRX growth once the TRON’s Mainnet will be up and running

The TRON community strongly supports the idea that with each accomplishment within the system, shifts in crypto-verse are going to be of the utmost relevance in terms of accountability.

The TRON network has enhanced its TPS system with better features than that of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).

Its highly decentralized allocation system is on a par with the rise in its world ranking among the other cryptos. It is rumored that the introduction of TRON’s mainnet will unleash more than 1 million TRX owners who will actively contribute to the TRON (TRX) constant growth in market cap.

In the meantime, TRON devs got two new co-workers in the name of Marius Gill, a German DApp developer, and Sean Liu, an ex-data engineer at Gridsum.

The future looks good for TRX, definitely.

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