Debate about Ethereum’s supply is no better than Roubini bashing Bitcoin: Andreas Antonopoulos

Aside from DeFi, the debate about Ethereum’s current circulating supply has been the most-discussed topic on Crypto Twitter over recent days. The post Debate about Ethereum’s supply is no better than Roubini bashing Bitcoin: Andreas Antonopoulos appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum Thought Leaders Fight It Out over “SupplyGate”

Over the past week, Bitcoiners insisted that Ethereum’s total supply is impossible to calculate, however, those in the Ethereum community disagreed and say its relatively easy. It resulted in a huge debate of sorts, termed “SupplyGate” by those in the space.

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“How many Ethereum in circulation?” asks the Bitcoin community

The great Ethereum supply debate is on—and it’s turning fierce.

The post “How many Ethereum in circulation?” asks the Bitcoin community appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Pompliano Sparks Twitter Debate After Saying Warren Buffett Can Buy Every Bitcoin in Circulating Supply

In a way that juggled peoples’ minds, Anthony Pompliano, the co-founder & partner at Morgan Creek Digital, conformed to his twitter page to stimulate the crypto community. This is after he stated that Warren Buffett, the American investor, business tycoon, and philanthropist, has $137 billion in cash, which he, therefore, concluded that it is almost […]

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Fear of Mining ‘Death Spiral’ Blocks Path to $100,000 Bitcoin

Bitcoin will undergo its third halving event to date this May. The supply of new BTC released to miners with each block will reduce by half to 6. 25 BTC. The impact of the event has been the source of much debate in the industry.

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Early Bitcoin Adopter Throws Cold Water On Halving Narrative; Here’s Why

As NewsBTC has covered over the past few weeks, a debate has erupted around Bitcoin’s impending block reward reduction. Informally known as the “halving” or the “halvening,” every four years the number of BTC issued per block (every 10 minutes or so) gets cut in half, resulting in a negative supply shock on the market.

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Bitcoin’s Nearest Potential Buy Zones Outlined by Popular Analyst

There is an ever-present debate over whether the current Bitcoin (BTC) price movement is bullish or bearish. While the short and medium-term price movements can remain unpredictable, long-term calculations suggest Bitcoin might eventually reach $1M.

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How Open Finance and Scalability Can Thrust Ethereum into Orbit

The amount of ETH locked in open finance applications broke its all-time high, with 2. 37 million ETH – representing 2. 19 percent of total supply – now locked in various financial protocols.

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Bitcoin Wealth Centralization Is A Myth, Says VanEck Strategist

Bitcoin does not have a wealth distribution problem after all, another expert has said as the debate continues to mushroom within the industry. BTC Ownership ‘Seems Balanced’ In a tweet August 15, Gabor Gurbacs, digital asset strategist and director at investment management giant VanEck, took claims the Bitcoin supply was centralized to task.

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Bitcoin Wealth Disparity: This Research Claims 2% Of Bitcoin Addresses Control 80% Of The Coin’s Total Supply

Yesterday, the founder and CEO of TruStory Preethi Kasireddy, presented some data alluding that bitcoin is concentrated in the hands of very few individuals. She noted: “Bitcoin wealth distribution: 2% of addresses control 80% of the wealth.

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Vitalik Buterin Says Decreasing Miner’s Reward Schedule is Dishonest for Bitcoin

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), said that decreasing reward schedules are somehow dishonest for Bitcoin (BTC). There have been several discussions regarding Bitcoin’s supply cap of 21 million BTC.

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Bitcoin’s [BTC] decreasing reward schedules are dishonest, says Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin

The issue around Bitcoin’s supply cap of 21 million BTCs is one that has been around for quite some time now. The debate was pushed into the limelight as recently as February, when heated discussions about the subject made their way to Twitter.

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Proposal to Increase Bitcoin’s 21 Million Supply Sparks Debate

21 is a number that holds deep symbology to bitcoiners. In addition to denoting the total number of bitcoins, in millions, that will ever be issued, it’s inspired scores of cryptocurrency business names, websites, and merchandise designs.

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How to Compare Bitcoin (BTC) vs Bitcoin Cash (BCH): A New Perspective

One year ago, a storm of debate around sizing Bitcoin ensued and out of it came Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Bitcoin Cash followers viewed the traditional high fees, caused by blocksize supply constraints, as prohibitive to mass-scale adoption.

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‘Extinguishing Capacity’: Bitcoin Could Swallow All M1 Fiat At $223K Per Coin

$223,186 is the price Bitcoin would need to be in order to convert the entire world supply of fiat currency, industry figures calculated July 2. M1 Fiat Could Go At Less Than $250k Part of an ongoing debate on social media, Blockstream CEO Adam Back and CSO Samson Mow joined Bitcoin Think editor Beautyon in discussing the phenomenon of ‘hyperbitcoinization’ – the as yet untested process by which consumers abandon fiat en masse for Bitcoin.

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The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It

All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.

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