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FIFA 19 Release Date Sooner Then Expected

This week, during its E3 conference, EA Sports is set to announce the new FIFA 19. We will not only find out when this game will be released, but also which players will feature on the cover.

Who will appear on the cover?

With every passing day, we are getting closer to the official release of EA’s football game, so it’s no surprise that FIFA’s fans are more and more curious to learn which great players will appear on the game’s cover. In the past, FIFA’s box featured, amongst others, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi.

With the end of the season in most of the important football leagues, we can see the names of the football stars that could potentially appear on the cover circulating the internet. According to various sources, it is very likely that either Ronaldo or Messi will be the face of the game, with some of the influential YouTube gamers leaning towards Ronaldo, who just won the third Champions League title in a row.

Two other possible candidates could be top premier league goal-scorers, Mohamed Salah and Harry Kane, who both had a very good season.

Potential acquisition of UEFA tournaments

It is expected by the community of fans that EA Sports will announce the purchase of the license to present the Champions League and the Europa League. So, it is possible that FIFA 19 will allow you to enjoy a Champions League campaign in a tournament that is very close to the original one.

When to expect FIFA 19?

With the upcoming E3 we should have more details regarding the new game of the FIFA series. EA’s conference will take place on Tuesday, one day before the start of E3, where the company will announce the plans for the new games, including FIFA 19. It is expected that, as usual, the new version of the game will be released in the second half of September 2018.

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Cryptocurrency Mining Entrepreneurs To Enjoy A New Energy Plan From Hydro-Quebec, in Canada

Hydro-Quebec will finally make 500 megawatts (MW) available to cryptocurrency mining, leaving many contractors hungry. “We think we can connect customers this fall,” stated the Hydro-Quebec spokesman Jonathan Cote, on Thursday.

In the coming days, Hydro-Quebec will file a request for proposals with the Energy Department but it is the regulatory tribunal that will have to set a new electricity rate for this class of Canadian corporation’s customers.

Annually, Hydro-Quebec plans to supply 5 terawatt-hours (TWh) to meet this rapidly growing sector, even though it has significant energy surpluses.

A ministerial decree, tabled last week, now regulates the sale of energy to cryptocurrency mining projects, a technology that, as it is well-known already, requires powerful computers which consume a lot of energy.

Over 300 cryptocurrency mining projects have applied for the upcoming Hydro-Quebec energy plan

Hydro-Quebec says it has received more than 300 cryptocurrency mining projects applications in the recent months for a potential demand of more than 15,000 MW on its system.

Recently, Hydro-Quebec senior management met in Montreal with leaders of the Chinese cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain, which wants to establish itself in Quebec, Canada.

Hydro-Quebec currently offers a 120 MW block to the cryptocurrency mining industry but several cryptocurrency entrepreneurs informed on Thursday that they are very disappointed with this new government policy and they demanded for more. Some of these local cryptocurrency miners fear they won’t be able to compete with the big players of the cryptocurrency mining industry as some of them, such as the before-mentioned Bitmain, are already in the picture and in discussion with the Canadian government.

The Crown corporation, on the other hand, plans to use “forced load shedding” to have access for 300 hours in winter to electricity from these companies while the Quebec power grid is operating at maximum capacity.

Quebec province is the ideal place in Canada, and one of the few in the world, as the annual average temperature is ideal for cryptocurrency mining equipment to work flawlessly and cost-effective, and this is why many cryptocurrency miners are drawn to this region.

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Bitcoin (BTC) To Be Trading At $25K by The End Of 2018, According To Fundstrat’s Tom Lee

Although it may start to look like a track played in a loop, Tom Lee from Fundstrat has not yet dismissed his $25,000 prediction regarding the Bitcoin (BTC). At the beginning of the year, Lee declared that Bitcoin (BTC) will be traded at $20,000 by mid-2018 just to end the year at $25,000.

Now, even though the mid-2018 is here alright and Bitcoin (BTC) is traded at  $7,245 (-4.83 in the last 24 hours), thus, pretty much behind Lee’s $20,000 prediction for the mid-year, Tom Lee still refuses to change his mind regarding his $25,000 prediction for the end of the year.

According to him, it is very achievable for BTC to grow about 250% in the following 5-6 months to reach $25,000 by the end of 2018. However, even though Bitcoin (BTC) did it once, this year’s cryptocurrencies market is different and, as we speak, it follows a sort of a long-lasting downtrend.

Bitcoin (BTC) to be trading at $25,000 by the end of 2018, predicts Tom Lee

In a recent interview Tom Lee had on Bloomberg, he showed himself very comfy and confident with its predictions, despite the fact that he has already mistaken half of the forecast, as BTC hasn’t reached $20,000 in mid-2018 and is quite impossible for it to grow so much in only a month or two.

Based on what did Lee say, the cryptocurrencies count is supposed to surpass its former all-time high. The Fundstrat’s market analysts pointed to the rise of increased exposure in institutional work. In the last few months, businesses both within and beyond the mainstream cryptocurrency environment have released products and services targeted to big institutional investors. He gave Nasdaq and Goldman Sachs as examples.

Additionally, he also thinks that well-established cryptocurrency regulations, such as those in Japan, will, in fact, help the cryptocurrencies market on the long-term, especially the Bitcoin (BTC).

Tom Lee is completely sure the Bitcoin (BTC) will be trading at $25,000 by the end of 2018 also because Bitcoin mining will become costly, reaching around 13,000 by the end of the year, therefore the cryptocurrency has to be twice as valuable.

 

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Crypto

IOTA (MIOTA) To Become A Fierce Competitor For Ethereum (ETH), Thanks To Qubic

There is ongoing excitement in the just-released IOTA (MIOTA) Qubic, as the community lists potential examples of using the technology, such as oracle computers, subcontracted calculations, and smart contracts, which makes it a prospective contender for Ethereum.

As a result of the introduction of Qubic, the staff behind IOTA (MIOTA) is currently preparing an expanded AMA to shed light on the ongoing strategies for advancing Qubic.

Very soon we will have an extensive #AMA on #IOTA, Qubic, strategy and so on. I encourage a healthy and constructive discussion about #Qubic (microHash is a good example), but if you are not sure, etc., wait for WADA.

David Sonstenbo, IOTA (MIOTA) co-founder, on Twitter

Since Qubic was disclosed, IOTA enthusiasts have been full of hope. Several analysts have been speculating on the different applications involving the product and their implications. But no one appeared to be completely correct until the crew behind the concept came out to thoroughly discuss what technology has to say in the blockchain universe.

Qubic makes IOTA (MIOTA) a fierce competitor for Ethereum (ETH)

Qubic is reputedly a standard protocol that defines the IOTA standard for quorum-based calculations, including systems such as oracle machines, subcontracted computing, and smart contracts.

One of Qubic’s greatest benefits is its smart computing power, which will put IOTA (MIOTA) at the same level to Ethereum (ETH) that has taken advantage of the development of its new market for ERC20 tokens which are completely reliant on ETH.

As many have grumbled about the poor scalability of Ethereum (ETH) system, which has a high transactional fee that leaves it relatively undesirable for the applications, IOTA (MIOTA) Qubic has the chance to surpass the ETH platform with its outstanding characteristics.

Qubic, that will totally follow the IOTA (MIOTA) protocol, is reported to be much more satisfying and proactive than the Ethereum (ETH) platform. Also, amazingly, Qubic provides tokens which are referred to as “toqens” on the platform.

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Minecraft Bedrock Update Download Available with Improved Cross-Play and Fixed Issues

It has been announced that Minecraft Bedrock will be released for Nintendo Switch in June. According to Mojang, with this update the company will address all the existing issues.

Multiple platforms, one codebase

First of all, the Bedrock update will make it easier for future updates to be implemented on all platforms at more or less the same time. This is extremely important because so far every platform had to get its own version of Minecraft, each with a unique codebase. Because of this, it was much harder for Mojang to release updates, as every platform required a separate update for the game.

Improved Cross-Play

Secondly, different versions of Minecraft created for different platforms meant that cross-play between players that were not using the same platform was much more complicated. The Bedrock update will use just one codebase, thus making it possible for gamers to play with each other using distinct consoles. However, not all platforms will be included in this unification. As usual, Sony wants to stay away from the others, so cross-play between PlayStation and other platforms will be impossible.

One update for all platforms

The Bedrock update of Minecraft will not only improve compatibility between different consoles, but it will also allow for any future updates to be released on all platforms, at pretty much the same time.

Also, the Minecraft Marketplace will become available for Switch users. With this feature, they will gain access to additional content created by other users, such as skins, textures and even entire worlds. Additionally, you’ll be offered some mini-games through the community servers.

The Bedrock update will be available for you at no cost at all in case you already have Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition. If not, you can purchase it from the Nintendo shop online or you can buy a physical copy. You can get your own copy for approximately $30, starting with June 21st.

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