2020-11-24 18:01 |
Decentralizing the financial sector and putting trust in distributed ledgers means less reliance on the continent's corrupt intermediaries.
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An investment analyst, Timothy Peterson says Ripple’s XRP is not likely to reach $1 and much less likely to reach $10. The analyst who uses value estimates to project the future performance of digital assets based on adoption and user interest said the number of users on its network isn’t improving, which means that XRP […]
2020-8-31 17:41 | |
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Building on the Solana blockchain means the new platform's operations are less restricted than those on Ethereum, the firm says.
2020-7-27 14:30 | |
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In the past two days, bitcoin finally saw some action. After being stuck in a rut for weeks, BTC/USD recorded slight greens to make it to $9,300 on Wednesday, and then yesterday, we moved less than 1% only to drop back below $9,000 to $8,970.
2020-7-3 15:29 | |
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Increase in the number of addresses with less than 0.1 bitcoins means most small investors are using the downturn in prices to increase their Bitcoin holdings Even as the bears push prices to their lowest levels since the halving, it appears the market is taking current price levels as buying opportunities, especially small investors that […] The post Retail investors increase their holdings as Bitcoin’s price hovers below $9,000 appeared first on Coinjournal.
2020-5-26 18:13 | |
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A Redditor recently analyzed Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust activity in the last 100 days and found out that the investment company has accumulated over 60,000 BTC in its Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). With the Bitcoin value at the time of reporting at around $9,420, it means the company has chipped in $0.5 billion in less than four […]
2020-5-21 00:06 | |
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Bitcoin halving is past us and during this time there have been some changes in the network. As expected, the hash rate of the network crashed 40% from the all-time high put on the halving day as smaller and less profitable miners turned off their machines after being unprofitable. A decline in hash rate means […]
2020-5-16 19:32 | |
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Predictions and price models abound ahead of Bitcoin's halving, expected in less than two weeks.
2020-4-30 20:42 | |
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The crypto market continues to trade sideways. The movement for a majority of coins has been downwards. Led by Bitcoin, most are recording a drop of less than 1%. This means they continue to trade within support ranges.
2020-4-16 18:38 | |
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Another (price) halving means controversial altcoin HEX now trades at less than a single satoshi — and no one’s buying
2020-1-5 12:21 | |
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The May 2020 Bitcoin halving might not have such a dramatic effect on Bitcoin’s price. According to Meltem Demirors, the chief strategy officer of CoinShares, the popularity of the Bitcoin derivatives market means that the price of the underlying asset is becoming less relevant, which will keep it in check even after the halving.
2019-12-28 00:39 | |
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Institutions have long been looked upon by Bitcoin and crypto investors as a mysterious force that would help catalyze the next major bull run. Throughout 2019, however, there was much less brazen institutional involvement than was previously expected, which greatly disappointed embattled investors.
2019-12-20 02:24 | |
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After first acquiring cryptocurrency, many holders tend to look to trading as a means to grow their investment. However, less than half manage to turn a profit due to a lack of experience or just pure bad luck.
2019-10-26 18:14 | |
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Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
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Less than 30 days ago Ripple announced major brand changes for their product fleet, dropping the established names for xCurrent, xVia and xRapid as the new comprehensive name of RippleNet encompasses all three.
2019-10-21 15:55 | |
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Lisk, a blockchain platform designed to make developing decentralized applications (dApps) as easy and accessible as possible, has just completed its penultimate block reward halving. As of block 7,451,520, Lisk (LSK) has now reduced its block reward by one third, while reducing inflation to just 4.
2019-10-16 00:34 | |
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Google has announced it will not pay European news publishers for the right to show their content on Google News, which will be mandatory under the EU’s new copyright directive that will come into effect next month, The Financial Times reports.
2019-9-25 17:48 | |
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One of the major problems of Bitcoin’s use case as a means of payments is its high volatility. It still persists despite the increasing market capitalization. Can the largest crypto smooth its wild fluctuations with time? Volatility Hinders BTC’s Adoption as Payment Method Merchants that adopted payment systems accepting Bitcoin are encountering several issues due to the crypto’s high volatility, slow block validation (transaction confirmation), scalability, and relatively high fees for small payments.
2019-9-10 19:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Bakkt Will Launch in Less Than a Month, What Does this Mean for Bitcoin Price?The Bakkt launch is one of the most anticipated and talked about in the sector currently. We take a look at whether or not this means anything for Bitcoin at all.
2019-9-2 13:50 | |
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The third-largest bank in Denmark, Jyske Bank, now offers a 10 year fixed rate mortgages at -0. 5%. This means customers will pay back less than the amount borrowed. Mortgage fees are still payable, likely negating any benefit to borrowers, but some see this unprecedented move as indicative of a troubled economy.
2019-8-12 17:19 | |
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Minecraft and Roblox, two games that have been around for a decade or more, are enjoying a rise in popularity and user base at the moment. Meanwhile, the fortunes of Epic Games’ Fortnite appear to be mellowing out somewhat.
2019-8-6 21:56 | |
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Many of the critics of cryptocurrency asset like Bitcoin and Ethereum argue that nobody spends them as they are intended to be, and even less accept it as payment making everyday tasks like shopping or traveling extremely challenging if only using cryptocurrency as a means to pay for goods and services.
2019-7-6 03:00 | |
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Bad news for U. S. citizens trading on Binance. They have less than 90 days before their trading functionality is disabled. But CZ has a plan. ‘Binance America’ is coming. Less Than 90 Days to Cease Trading on Binance On June 14, the world’s most popular exchange updated its Terms of Use.
2019-6-14 12:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Every skeptic says the same thing: the bitcoin price is too volatile to be a real currency. And they’ve got a point. Bitcoin’s huge swings make it risky as an investment and difficult as a day-to-day payment method.
2019-6-14 19:35 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Bitcoin’s block reward is scheduled to drop from 12. 5 BTC to 6. 25 BTC on May 22, 2020 at 7:48:03 UTC. That’s less than a year away – so we decided to explore how bitcoin’s block reward halving will affect you.
2019-6-6 21:28 | |
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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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The balance of power between startup founder and venture capital investor has changed – and the rules of the courtship reversed. Falling software costs and better management mean Software as a Service (SaaS) startups are accessing less funding, keeping their capital and more often finding success on their own.
2019-5-9 05:30 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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By CCN. com: According to blockchain data and CCN/Hacked reporter Greg Thomson, an anonymous miner who embeds the words “Satoshi Nakamoto” into all of the blocks they mine currently controls more than 40% of Bitcoin Cash’s hashrate.
2019-4-30 20:34 | |
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By CCN: Nobody puts Elon Musk in a corner. Well, maybe the SEC. The Tesla CEO has reached a settlement with the U. S. securities watchdog. According to the court filing, which still requires a judge’s John Hancock, Musk will be tweeting a whole lot less than he’d probably like, certainly less than his 26.
2019-4-27 02:32 | |
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The BMW marque is synonymous with German build quality and engineering prowess. It didn’t earn that respect overnight; BMW has been manufacturing and innovating automotive components for over 100 years.
2019-4-26 17:18 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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Bitcoin is looking a lot less like the S&P 500 every day. Good thing, too, especially considering the doom-and-gloom pessimists have been peddling about the economy and especially corporate earnings.
2019-4-13 00:15 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olusegun Ogundeji. Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 price range again (after its first reach to that level in 2017) following a sudden breakout on April 2, 2019.
2019-4-4 18:42 | |
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First they came for our privacy. Then our data. Finally they took our memes. If the more hyperbolic headlines are to be believed, the EU’s ratification of the controversial Article 13 copyright law will have repercussions for purveyors of highly shareable online content.
2019-3-30 01:00 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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Bitmain’s long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is officially a bust. The mining titan’s IPO expired on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.
2019-3-26 00:22 | |
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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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BitWings token, a native currency of Wings Mobile ecosystem, has 100% guaranteed issuing value and is the only means to pre-order the first (40 000) ultra-secure blockchain smartphones in the world able to generate up to 2 ETH a month without any power consumption, powered with neural technology.
2019-2-21 20:03 | |
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The cryptocurrency market has been slow this past month. There have been days where the price of Bitcoin has moved less than 1%, unusual for the typically volatile asset. With such little movement, major trading opportunities are few and far between and margin trading has become a popular means to turn a profit.
2019-2-22 11:53 | |
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LXDX is the crypto derivatives exchange. We give you access to institutional liquidity with products you can’t get anywhere else. LXDX uses Smart Routing and our proprietary matching engine to secure the best-priced trades across all exchanges.
2019-2-17 16:47 | |
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The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published today in the journal Science Advances. Despite having a brain containing less than one million neurons, the honeybee has recently shown it can manage complex problems – like understanding the concept of zero.
2019-2-16 20:00 | |
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Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
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For those QuadrigaCX users who were fortunate enough to have withdrawal requests honored, some appear to have received their funds through unconventional means. An anonymous QuadrigaCX user who corresponded with Bitcoin Magazine said that they received a bank deposit from Robertson Nova Consulting Inc.
2019-2-15 20:28 | |
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According to Elections Canada, the agency that runs federal elections in Canada, there has been “a growing interest” in cryptocurrency donations. This trend has prompted some political parties to ask for a ruling on how best to manage bitcoin and other cryptocurrency political donations and how to navigate the various reporting systems required by both Elections Canada and the parties so that they comply with the Canada Elections Act.
2019-1-24 20:28 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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An opportunity has risen far east that challenges the established Western Bitcoin order.
A pragmatic look at the issue of Ordinals and tokens on Bitcoin, and how to address their presence as a consumer of blockspace.
The principle of an open internet underpinned the growth of the early Web and is just as necessary now. If only the SEC could back innovation in a similar way, says Sarah Aberg, General Counsel at Nova Labs, the company behind Helium Mobile.
Some outlines of rough consensus are shaping up
In the land of the blind, the DOJ is king
Today, offshore firms dominate the list of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges. Expect the center of gravity to come onshore going forward, says Paul Brody, head of blockchain at EY.
The Lummis-Gillibrand stablecoin bill subordinates state regulation to federal control, giving Washington too much power as to which entities can issue these important digital assets, say Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp at the Cato Institute.