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Vitalik Buterin on Bitcoin ETF: Too Much Investment, Not Enough Usage

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has taken to social media to decry the heavy emphasis placed on cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds in lieu of real-world crypto adoption, stating that while complex crypto financial products are beneficial for short-term gains, the ability to easily and quickly purchase cryptocurrencies is more important. дальше »

2018-7-31 11:00


Mike Novogratz Leads $50 Million Dollar Investment in Crypto-Lending Startup BlockFi

The merchant bank belonging to billionaire and Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz, Galaxy, has led a $52. 5 million dollar fundraising round for New York-based crypto-lender BlockFi. BlockFi allows investors to borrow as much as $10 million dollars in fiat currencies against their balances of Bitcoin or Ethereum. дальше »

2018-7-25 04:27


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Bitwise Files With SEC for Cryptocurrency ETF

Bitwise Asset Management is the latest venture to apply for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF). Called the Bitwise HOLD 10 Cryptocurrency Index Fund, the ETF will track the returns of the company’s HOLD 10 Index, a “market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies” that captures roughly 80 percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization. дальше »

2018-7-25 02:18


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Brand new digital wallet that assures safety and security of Bitcoins stored in the app

However, Samourai Wallet’s Android app, arguably the bitcoin industry’s leading privacy wallet since the project was founded in 2015, has garnered at least 27,000 downloads. Although funds are otherwise viewable on the blockchain itself, Wasabi will be the only wallet that obscures from nodes how much bitcoin the total wallet holds. Plus, Samourai Wallet offers дальше »

2018-7-24 09:56


Consecutive Losses for Tron [TRX] – Price Outlook Changes From Bullish to Bearish

For much of 2018, there has been a reoccurring trend in the crypto markets. When Bitcoin falls, altcoins fall but fall further. When Bitcoin rises, altcoins rise but rise higher. However, for much of 2018 the crypto market has been in a downtrend, and last week when Bitcoin blasted through $6850 as noted here, this […] Consecutive Losses for Tron [TRX] – Price Outlook Changes From Bullish to Bearish was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. дальше »

2018-7-23 20:01


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Bitcoin Futures Average Daily Volume Grows 93 Percent In Q2

CME Group has released data indicating that the Average Daily Volume (ADV) of bitcoin futures contracts grew 93 percent in the second quarter of 2018. In a July 20,2018, tweet on its Twitter account, the derivatives trading giant also revealed that over the same period, the rate of open interest (OI) in bitcoin futures expanded by 58 percent. дальше »

2018-7-23 01:00


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Notes on Blockchain Governance

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


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BCH Roundup: Markets Spike While the Community Debates Token Protocols

There’s been a lot happening this week within the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem, and much of the community’s discussion revolves around tokenization concepts on the BCH chain. Meanwhile, the network has been running smoothly, and BCH markets seem to be reversing their trend after cryptocurrencies values were experiencing bearish sentiment for the past six months. дальше »

2018-7-20 00:20


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Crypto Company Alter Dispatches App to Exchange Bitcoin Commission-Free

One of the latest products is Change Wallet, a mobile app for trading Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with zero commission fees. Change CEO Predicts: Cryptocurrencies Will Be Used As Much As Fiat Money Change, a company headquartered in Estonia and financed from Singapore, has launched Change Wallet – a mobile app that allows users to дальше »

2018-7-19 10:45


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Schnorr on its Way to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Improvement Since SegWit

Bitcoin is close to achieving a new improvement proposal. Known as Schnorr, this unique technology has been cataloged by several analysts as Bitcoin’s Biggest improvement Since SegWit. Despite not having much hype during the early stages of its development, the slow but steady work of Pieter Wuille, an influential personality in the Bitcoin ecosystem, bore […] The post Schnorr on its Way to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Improvement Since SegWit appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-18 19:45