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Cryptocurrencies Market Dropped Today As Microsoft Acquired GitHub Code Repository

Mircosoft acquired GitHub code repository and the cryptocurrencies prices fell on Monday, today, as the crypto community is not yet sure how this acquisition will influence cryptocurrencies market. Bitcoin (BTC) fell by more than 2.9% after it had risen to $7,754. However, BTC has dropped below the 7,500 USD mark earlier and now is trading at $7,488.

Most virtual currencies collapsed in May after the U.S. Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into the possibility that traders are manipulating the Bitcoin (BTC) market.

All major cryptocurrencies have also fallen today as Microsoft acquired GitHub

Besides Bitcoin (BTC), the Ethereum (ETH), the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, dropped to $587, shedding about 4.65% in the last 24 hours.

The third cryptocurrency by market cap, the Ripple (XRP) has fallen by 1.93% to 0.65, while the Litecoin (LTC) has reached the level of $119 after dropping by 5.30%.

The cryptocurrency community has not taken very well the news that the software giant Microsoft acquired GitHub, a well-known code repository that hosts many blockchain and cryptocurrencies projects.

In fact, on GitHub, the cryptocurrency community’s members can contribute to or gain a deeper insight into the code of the future projects. Now, as Microsoft has been announced that it acquired GitHub, many Twitter and Reddit users are concerned about the impact that a massive company, that is Microsoft, could have on the decentralized blockchain community on GitHub and beyond it.

A new cryptocurrency trading platform has been introduced in Europe

Besides the allegedly bad news that GitHub has been sold to Microsoft, Gibraltar, a British territory, has launched a regulated and licensed cryptocurrency trading platform called the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange.

This is a subsidiary of the Gibraltar stock market, therefore, it would be one of the first cryptocurrency trading platforms to be regulated by a European Union stock market.

Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange cryptocurrency trading platform has started to operate with limited trading but the platform already has more than 300 retail accounts and even some institutional investors.

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Crypto News

Ripple (XRP): Ripple Company To Allocate $50 Million To 17 Universities For Blockchain And Cryptocurrency Study

Ripple is one of the largest blockchain companies in the world and its currency, Ripple (XRP), is the closest crypto coin to become a centralized cryptocurrency. In any case, Ripple (XRP) is one of the strongest cryptos on the cryptocurrencies market and the only one which managed to deal with big financial institutions such as Western Union and Banco Santander. Now, Ripple, the owner of the XRP crypto coin allocated about $50 million for cryptocurrencies study to 17 universities, as part of its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

Ripple has donated more than $50 million to 17 universities to be invested in studying the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. This is not Ripple’s first massive donation, however, as the company has already spent $29 million on public education in the United States.

The new initiative is called the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) and will provide funding for research programs related to the blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital payment systems.

In addition to the money, the company will also contribute with its expertise and resources to the research.

Ripple (XRP) will finance the blockchain and cryptocurrency study at 17 universities

For the time being, there are already 17 universities that will participate in Ripple’s UBRI project. Among them, there are some prestigious ones, such as Princeton or MIT, in the USA, while the others are in countries such as Australia, Luxembourg, or South Korea.

The universities’ dedication to the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystems will create new job profiles, while the aim of UBRI is precisely to encourage students to pursue a line of research in these fields. Universities may carry out the work and research they deem appropriate in any way they wish.

Besides Ripple (XRP) UBRI project, there are even more prestigious universities that are going to carry out research on cryptocurrency, a fact which says a lot about this digital financial ecosystem.

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Games News

Clash of Clans’ Town Hall 12 Newest Update Brings Bug Fixes

A few days ago, the new Town Hall 12 update of Clash of Clans was revealed. Now, thanks to a post on Supercell’s forum, we are able to review all the balance changes that are included in the update.

Similar to all defenses in Clash of Clans, Town Hall 12 has five different levels that change as you start gaining experience in the game. The balance adjustments that will be implemented can be divided into three main categories: fixing exploits, buffing troops that were underused, increasing rewards and loot. Also, the most important gameplay change is hidden into the patch notes. It looks like upgrading the levels of the game now requires players to place the buildings. This will make it very hard for the manipulation of war weight needed for engineering bases to be accomplished.

As we know by now, Supercell doesn’t like to spoil anything for their fans, most probably because they have various things to work on in the same time and they want to make sure they reveal only final ideas regarding update changes. However, one thing has been already confirmed. It seems that we will get more than one update this year, maybe as much as three or four of them.

The first big update was expected to launch in the first half of the year, so we should have some official news soon.

What has been unsatisfactory for most players up until this point, is the situation with Clan Wars, as engineered bases can handle much higher adversaries than their war weight. So we do hope to see some significant changes made by Supercell when it comes to the matchmaking queues for engineered and non-engineered bases.

You can download Clash of Clans on iOS and Android. We do not have an official release date for the Town Hall 12 update yet, but hopefully, it will be announced not far from now.

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Mass Effect 5 Update – Game Suggestions and Potential Improvements

Since the most recent Mass Effect game was released back in March 2017, fans of the popular Sci-Fi video game series have been waiting for the announcement of the newest version. At the moment this seems unlikely to happen because the game’s developers are focused on another project. Still, the community of fans keeps on discussing about potential improvements, based on which a game even better than Andromeda could be developed. In this article, we will talk about some possible changes proposed by fans.

Here are some of the suggestions that we have gathered:

  • Instead of allowing us to explore multiple open worlds, the game should focus on the storyline and the characters.
  • The game developers should try to choose quality over quantity, to create a more original set of enemies, with unique abilities.
  • In order to add excitement to the game, the villains should have more complex personalities.
  • Rather than a failed idea of resource gathering, ready-made weapons should be available to collect.
  • The game’s storyline should contain more references to the original Mass Effect trilogy.
  • In addition to pure shooting, diplomacy should be brought back as an option.
  • BioWare should consider adding new alien races.
  • The gameplay must be enriched with more choices that will really matter in the scenario.
  • The game developers could give more importance to the romance in Mass Effect.
  • Gamers should be allowed to choose to play as an alien character as well, in order to see things from a different perspective.

The ball is now in BioWare’s court and it will be interesting to see how the fifth game of the series will be like. If they decide to take fans’ suggestions into consideration, then we can be sure that the new game will be a success.

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Xiaomi Mi 8 vs. iPhone X – Slightly Better Specs vs Affordable Price

Xiaomi Mi 8 was recently launched and it’s taking smartphone industry by storm. There aren’t that many Android smartphones which can compare against the likes of iPhone X, but it seems like Xiaomi Mi 8 might just be able to get the job done. With that being said, today we are going to pin Xiaomi Mi 8 and iPhone X against each other and see which one comes out on top.

Top-Notch Display

The biggest similarity between Xiaomi Mi 8 and iPhone X is their top-notch display. Therefore, we are going to start with the display technology. iPhone X is renowned for its sleek looking 5.8-inch OLED Super Retina display that features a high pixel resolution of 2,436 x 1,125 and 458ppi. On the other hand, Xiaomi Mi 8 ships with a larger 6.21-inch AMOLED panel which features a slightly smaller Full HD pixel resolution of 2,248 x 1,080 and 402ppi.

Hardware Power

Leaving the display technology aside, hardware power is all that really matters when it comes to high-end smartphones such as Xiaomi Mi 8 and iPhone X. Xiaomi Mi 8 is fueled by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 845 CPU which is paired with 6GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB or 256GB of internal storage space.

Apple equipped its flagship smartphone with its own-made hexa-core A11 Bionic CPU which is known to be more powerful than Xiaomi Mi 8’s Snapdragon 845. On the downside of things, iPhone X’s CPU is paired with only 3GB of RAM and 64GB/256GB of internal storage space.

Final Words

From the looks of it, Apple’s high-end iPhone X is the device which has the upper hand in this brief comparison. However, we should mention that iPhone X is priced at $999 while Xiaomi Mi 8 can be purchased for only $420 which gives it a great advantage.

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