2019-12-30 18:30 |
From a time when they were viewed as tools for outlaws, cryptocurrencies have come a long way. However, the same cannot be said for those cryptos that take pride in their privacy-enhancing features.
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2019 saw a number of large crypto exchange hacks, resulting in millions of dollars stolen per attack. Here are 5 of the biggest breaches in the last 12 months. While cryptocurrencies are well-known for increased security — mostly thanks to the decentralized nature of their underlying technology — the same cannot be said for crypto exchanges.
2019-12-26 17:45 | |
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Bitcoin hash rate has been performing exceptionally this year. Miners around the world clearly see a bright future for the leading crypto asset. The same cannot be said for other big projects in the industry.
2019-12-24 23:00 | |
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The Poloniex crypto exchange with Justin Sun among its investors ditches KYC for some customers, and a crypto CEO asks ? why cannot other exchanges do the same?
2019-12-24 16:57 | |
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Fundamentally, Ethereum has had a solid year with growth on many fronts. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for price which has now returned to crypto winter levels. All cryptocurrencies, with the possible exception of one or two, are bearish at the moment but Ethereum is likely to bounce back stronger next year.
2019-12-16 08:00 | |
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Ripple has been on the good books of the lawmakers lately while the same cannot be said about Facebook and Libra. The blockchain firm's CEO Brad Garlinghouse had previously expressed his interest and The post Ripple exec slams 'Stablecoins Are Securities Act'; claims Libra accelerated crypto talks appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-3 01:30 | |
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Trading appears to be off to a positive start on Bakkt following its launch late yesterday. The same cannot be said for Bitcoin which at the moment is experiencing a lull in volume and volatility.
2019-9-23 09:30 | |
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The week has ended positively for Bitcoin which has made a move up to resistance, gaining 3 percent on the day. The same cannot be said for the majority of the other crypto coins, which are still languishing at lows and unable to get in gear.
2019-9-13 07:00 | |
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If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.
2019-9-5 13:23 | |
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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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Despite the cryptocurrency market recording all sorts of wild movements, XRP whales continued to carry out significant volume of transactions. However, these movements cannot be considered as an anomaly as the same pattern was recorded last week too.
2019-8-20 14:30 | |
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Tech industry employment is a seller’s market firmly on the side of top talent, but competition for the best jobs remains fierce. Candidates cannot skate by on common skillsets and expect to secure the lucrative salaries, prestige, and perks for which the tech sector has become known.
2019-8-18 22:42 | |
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This week in crypto has been a miserable one for altcoins with a number of them dumping double digits. Bitcoin has largely held on to its gains but the same cannot be said for its siblings which are in danger of freezing over once again.
2019-8-9 13:00 | |
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On August 2nd, 2019, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao went ahead to tweet in jest about risk-averse investors who had sold bitcoin when it was trading below 10k telling such people to slap themselves so that they cannot repeat the same mistake next time.
2019-8-7 22:33 | |
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June saw major security breaches on two XRP trading platforms. While Bitrue’s final official statement stated that 100% of the stolen funds would be recovered, the same cannot be same for GateHub.
2019-7-20 15:00 | |
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A source in France’s Finance ministry has disclosed that France would take the same stance as made clear by President Trump’s tweets earlier today, reported Financial Times. More specifically, the ministry shares the idea that allowing a private company to set up the equivalent of a national currency was a red line that cannot be […] The post France shares President Trump’s apprehension about Facebook’s Libra appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-13 01:30 | |
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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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David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple explained the need for a complete restructuring of payments and how blockchain and purpose-built technology will help enforce it during ‘We are Developers’ conference in Berlin on June 8.
2019-6-9 03:30 | |
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Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the African continent. Through Bitcoin, millions of unbanked Africans will have access to financial services. These and many more such statements exist across the internet.
2019-6-1 21:48 | |
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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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Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
2019-5-14 04:03 | |
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By CCN: Bitcoin is a lousy tool to launder million and billions worth of cash. But the same cannot be said about a mere $6,989, as not noted by Malcolm Turnbull. The former Australian Prime Minister led his office to launch a crackdown on cash-in-hand payments.
2019-5-7 22:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges around the world have been accused of having faked volumes in order to rank better in sites such as CoinMarketCap. In the same site, the “Reported” and “Adjusted” volumes also differ.
2019-5-5 20:12 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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Positive market momentum is rather enjoyable to watch on a Saturday afternoon. At the same time, it tends to make a lot of people nervous, as they acknowledge this uptrend cannot be sustained indefinitely.
2019-4-7 22:24 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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Cryptocurrency space is flooded with over 1500 listed crypto tokens and while Bitcoin along with many altcoins has seen a recent surge in its prices, the same cannot be said for all of them. It's quite a norm that Bitcoin leads the market trends if it rises the market charts, the rest follows and vice […]
2019-4-3 01:51 | |
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It would appear the cryptocurrency exchange industry is far from drama-free at this time. Although there are numerous companies operating without problems, the same cannot be said for Bithumb. Once South Korea’s largest exchange, it has now become a seemingly prone target for hackers and criminals.
2019-3-30 15:55 | |
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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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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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In a demonstration titled “Wallet. fail,” a team of security researchers hacked into the Trezor One, Ledger Blue and Ledger Nano S. Unfortunately, it appears as if their findings were first put on display at the 35th Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) in Leipzig, Germany, rather than through accepted Responsible Disclosure practices, which would have allowed the manufacturers to patch the vulnerabilities and protect their customers from any potential attack.
2019-1-1 19:15 | |
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Nick Spanos is an early adopter and innovator in the blockchain space. He is best known for launching Bitcoin Center NYC, the world’s first live cryptocurrency exchange, in 2013, right next to the New York Stock Exchange — as immortalized in the Netflix documentary “Banking on Bitcoin.
2018-12-15 21:43 | |
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In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view.
2018-12-6 04:03 | |
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Latest Ethereum News It’s a selling frenzy out there. Although we cannot exactly pin-point the cause of this massive sell off, analysts and market pundits are linking this to the protracted hash wars between Bitcoin Cash ABC and SV.
2018-11-20 05:45 | |
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Although a majority of cryptocurrencies have experienced mixed fortunes in 2018, the same cannot be said for Tron. The digital currency and its blockchain platform have made significant progress since the beginning of the year.
2018-11-15 22:44 | |
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“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992.
2018-11-15 18:50 | |
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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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Alfred Nobel died with regrets. After making a fortune off of explosives, he indicated in his will that his fortune should be used to make a prize awarded each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
2018-10-23 23:22 | |
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Blockchain cannot only be used for revolutionizing the world of business and finance but can also be utilized to bring social good. Keeping the same in mind, the Tron Foundation has extended its support to the Blockchain Charity Foundation (BCF).
2018-10-18 21:19 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) does not just go up and down, breaks supports and resistances based on sudden whims. Most traders are so focused on the 15 min chart that they miss the big picture. They fail to realize that major trading on exchanges is done by algorithmic bots.
2018-10-15 21:30 | |
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Verifer provides AML, KYC, PEP and several Compliance verifications but also investigation reports from Companies, products, crypto-currencies etc. Verifer is producing two separate platforms, one designed so that we can speed up the verification process up to a dozen fold compared to the current one.
2018-10-14 13:46 | |
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Ripple (XRP) seems to be undeterred by Bitcoin (BTC)’s uncertain moves. It did fall yesterday like the rest of the market. However, it was very keen on reversing those losses today. The above chart for XRP/USD on the daily time frame shows Ripple (XRP) in a clear ascending channel.
2018-10-13 00:30 | |
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Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) held its ground when the stock market plunged deep into the red yesterday. Both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average registered significant drops. However, Bitcoin (BTC) remained unaffected by it.
2018-10-11 17:00 | |
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Chart for ETC/USD (1W) Ethereum Classic (ETC) is currently the only Turing Complete blockchain that will run on Proof of Work (PoW) forever. It has a limited supply of coins, just like Bitcoin (BTC).
2018-10-9 17:00 | |
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Getting consumers excited about cryptocurrencies has been very challenging, even with the current lower prices. At the same time, one cannot ignore the overall interest in Bitcoin and top altcoins continues to grow, which might hint at bigger things to come.
2018-10-6 21:15 | |
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Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
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In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal.
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
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In this overview, we explore Kraken and its journey from a Mt. Gox alternative to soften the blow of bitcoin’s dependence on just one exchange to becoming one of the most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.
2018-9-27 21:21 | |
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Newer opportunities have stalled Friend.Tech’s initial growth wave, and applications such as New Bitcoin City are quickly emerging as one of the biggest bets.
Marina Picasso – granddaughter of the renowned painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso – said she and her son Florian will continue launching NFT collections depicting the artist’s work. The digital collectibles caused disputes among the family as some members did not agree with the initiative.
The renowned singer, songwriter, and producer – John Legend – launched a non-fungible token (NFT) platform for musicians and entertainers. His partners in the initiative are Chris Lin – the man in charge of the digital music service KKBOX, Kevin Lin – Co-Founder of Twitch, and Matt Cheng – Founder of Cherubic Ventures.
The American video game retailer – GameStop Corp. – partnered with Immutable X Pty Limited (a scaling solution for non-fungible tokens) to establish an NFT marketplace. As part of the deal, both parties created a $100 million fund.
The recently forked BCHA chain is currently under attack by an anonymous miner that is attempting to force whatever is left of the chain into non-existence. The anonymous miner, known as voluntarisThe post Bitcoin Cash hard fork BCHA faces 51% attack appeared first on AMBCrypto.
The entire asset class is tied together. Whenever Bitcoin rises there is a certain inevitability of other altcoins rising along with it. It happened in 2017 and now it is happening in 2020. Over thThe post Data clarifies why 2020 is a defining year for Bitcoin appeared first on AMBCrypto.
For BitMEX, it hasn't been the best of years from a popularity perspective. First, it faced massive criticism during the March 13th crash, when traders lost money due to an alleged DDOS attack, andThe post Why we can't rule out Bitmex from the Bitcoin game just yet appeared first on AMBCrypto.