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The weekend saw Bitcoin climb back above $50K. Though the period wasn’t action-packed, two main developments signaled a new bullish wave. Americans could in the next few weeks receive stimulus checks of $1,400 with the bill passed during the weekend.
2021-3-9 16:38 | |
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Key Takeaways: – Decentralized finance (DeFi) has witnessed staggering growth in 2020.– There is now more than $11 billion locked in Ethereum DeFi platforms and more than 100,000 users. – Open lending platforms, decentralized exchanges, and digital asset staking are among the most common use-cases, but new tools and platforms are emerging regularly.– Though many DeFi […]
2020-10-17 19:10 | |
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Nobody needs reminding that Bitcoin has plunged to a seven month low today. It has all happened before though and a recovery has followed as it will again. There are several bullish factors building up that will cause a BTC trend reversal next year.
2019-12-18 10:00 | |
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The Chinese PlusToken scam may have influenced Bitcoin’s price, Chainalysis hypothesizes in a blog post. Though it’s unlikely to be the main factor, movements of stolen funds correlate very well with market downturns.
2019-12-17 23:17 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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According to most experts, the fundamental growth in the cryptocurrency market is achieved only through increased adaptation. This is exactly what is happening now in Canada. Canada can be considered one of the leading countries in crypto industry.
2019-8-15 13:06 | |
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Ripple enables almost instant cross-border, international money transfers. Ripple’s main target market are banks which will hold large amounts of XRP to transact almost instantly with each other. Even though banks are the main target for Ripple, everyday people like you and I can use Ripple for money remittance purposes. A Tweet by XRP_Anderson set […]
2019-5-18 20:52 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened.
2019-4-8 18:08 | |
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Whether an investor is involved in traditional or crypto-related trading, privacy appears to be a “must have” when determining where funds will be placed. Though the responsibility to uphold this privacy is often the role of the exchange where trading is done, the federal government also has a responsibility to protect citizens. Perhaps those needs […]
2019-3-6 19:39 | |
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As if Bitmain’s year hasn’t been rough enough, having posted big losses and laying off entire departments, its flagship product now has a firmware vulnerability. A few weeks ago, Bitcoin Core contributor James Hilliard discovered an exploit in Bitmain’s S15 firmware.
2019-2-21 23:44 | |
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Neither the Dow nor the bitcoin price made a strong move following Wednesday’s opening bell, though US President Donald Trump’s bombastic stock market commentary provided more than enough entertainment for investors on Wall Street and Main Street alike.
2019-2-21 17:19 | |
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Even though one of the biggest advantages of Blockchain was supposed to be to increase transparency, traceability, and trust, this is not the case. Blockchain Defender just released a new report that shows how a lack of trust in the crypto industry affects the prices of the coins.
2019-2-4 20:03 | |
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Even though cryptocurrencies wasn’t one of the main topics of discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, it still managed to bring out some interesting debates. Notably, since the last meeting in 2018, the industry has suffered a massive downfall.
2019-1-26 21:27 | |
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Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending money, all the way to contributing to what’s underneath the hood.
2019-1-16 01:14 | |
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Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token.
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
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Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token.
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
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The Bitfury Group has recently announced a partnership with crypto payment processing system Paytomat, working to bring the Lightning Network to Paytomat’s participating merchants.
2018-12-6 22:48 | |
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Even though it would appear Dogecoin is a more stable hedge than most other cryptocurrencies right now, that is not always the case whatsoever. As today’s market momentum shows, even the DOGE value can drop by over 6% in a matter of hours.
2018-12-5 13:23 | |
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After severe draw downs that has so far clipped investor confidence, the founder of Binance Changpeng Zhao is confident of what next year holds. Of course much has been talked about entry of institutional investors and facilitators—read Fidelity, NASDAQ and others.
2018-12-1 10:21 | |
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Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.
2018-10-11 20:44 | |
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Is maths cool? It’s a question that has plagued philosophers for centuries. For every hip cat like Einstein, there are thousands of math teachers who ruin numbers for everyone. Luckily though, there are some stars out there, such as the person who worked out the maths behind the dice rolls in Nintendo‘s new Switch game, Super Mario Party.
2018-10-8 12:50 | |
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Another year, another Assassin’s Creed. The series made a triumphant comeback from a year-long break in 2017 with Origins. Now it’s aiming to duplicate that success with Odyssey, yet another jaunt through Classical Antiquity starring a tragic hero.
2018-10-2 02:46 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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According to reports out today, the Bank of Communications, one of the four major state banking groups in China have completed a major transaction on the blockchain, one that has seen the issue of residential mortgage backed securities (RMBSs) on a blockchain network.
2018-9-27 14:00 | |
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Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
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Though everyone is focusing on the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Google likely has more devices planned for its October 9 event. Following rumors of two new Chromebooks, a leak of Google’s Home Hub smart display is making the rounds today courtesy of MySmartPrice.
2018-9-19 02:17 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Crypto, charity and cycling. It’s an unlikely triad, but two fitness enthusiasts-turned-crypto philanthropists believe that, taken in combination, the three can drive positive change.
2018-9-12 21:42 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed daring plans for investment in private companies, with the potential to open the doors to Main St. in a way that could prove more inclusive to mom and pop investors than any regulation in years.
2018-8-31 00:47 | |
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Bitcoin ETFs is not yet a yes from the main US regulator, the SEC. However, as things stand, there is Bitcoin Tracker One and though it is tradable via broker’s OTC market, investors can now invest their USDs in Bitcoin.
2018-8-20 05:00 | |
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For the first time in more than n days, the top 10 is green and printing double digits right at main support lines. Of course, in the last days, support lines were melting but gains at Litecoin, IOTA, Tron and EOS are steeling coin supporters.
2018-8-16 03:02 | |
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In the world of cryptocurrency, centralized exchanges are still a very common sight. That is a bit unusual, especially in an industry where decentralization is the main selling point. Even so, there are several positive aspects of centralized exchanges, especially during these early stages of the cryptocurrency industry. 6. High Volume Even though there have […]
2018-8-12 17:00 | |
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IBM and Maersk’s Blockchain Supply Chain Grows Tech company IBM and shipping giant Maersk are developing a global trade blockchain platform. The project, called TradeLens, is growing. To date, 94 other firms have joined the project.
2018-8-10 00:14 | |
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2020, two years from now and time for another presidential election in the United States. Now as we know, the current president, Donald Trump, is able to run for a second term in office, assuming nobody from the Republicans successfully takes the top spot from him.
2018-7-31 13:00 | |
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The following is a diagram from a slide that I made in one of my presentations at Cornell this week: </img> If there was one diagram that could capture the core principle of Casper’s incentivization philosophy, this might be it.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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