2020-11-21 17:02 |
Since at least 2008 central banks have poured money into the economy at an accelerating rate. Now twelve years later, the temporary printer that was turned on back then not... origin »
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The banks are borderline following the playbook created by Bitcoin and cryptocurrency believers in the past few years: Deny all ties to the asset class at first, try to disallow clients from banking crypto profits to their accounts then, and wholeheartedly embracing the sector later.
2020-11-16 14:53 | |
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When Bitcoin came out in 2009, it was perceived as the revolutionary currency that will slowly replace the fiat currency system we know. While now, over 10 years later, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies still have a long way to go until they become our number one payment method, debates over which system is better continue […]
2020-9-22 10:36 | |
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Hal Finney battled ALS until his death on August 28, 2014. Six years later, we’re working with the Bitcoin community to continue that fight. The post Our Hero Hal: Fundraising For A Bitcoin Visionary appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-8-29 19:17 | |
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Three years ago at approximately 2:14 p. m. ET, the first Bitcoin Cash blocks were mined. That day, block 478,558 was the last common block found, and six hours later Viabtc mined the first Bitcoin Cash block (nr 478,559).
2020-8-1 15:30 | |
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Coinfirm details what happened to the first mined Ethereum after the asset's launch in 2015.
2020-8-1 02:00 | |
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Five years later, Ethereum is still chugging along as a decentralized platform for self-executing code. Eth 2.0 is quite close, but for real this time.
2020-8-1 15:50 | |
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Ethereum was always a wild experiment. Now, five years later, a few early believers explain why they are more bullish than ever.
2020-8-1 15:46 | |
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The Ethereum ecosystem is now seeing the growth and adoption of ideas outlined more than five years ago, including many of the components of DeFi.
2020-7-31 16:36 | |
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XRP, the fourth largest cryptocurrency in the market has not had the best of years. Beginning the year in good spirit with some optimistic price action, it was soon overshadowed by Ethereum and later The post XRP short-term Price Analysis: 18 July appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-7-18 11:00 | |
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After three years of development, the Cambodian national digital currency may be out later this month, according to a recently released whitepaper. The permissioned blockchain-based payments system differs from the central bank digital currencies, also known as CBDCs, being offered by several states, including China and Russia, the paper states.
2020-6-22 21:04 | |
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After four or five years of Bitcoin's existence, it achieved a wider exposure from retail investors. A decade later, retail investments in the Bitcoin market are still huge. According to the latest ChThe post Bitcoin retail traders account for 96% but 'professionals' hold sway over market appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-6-21 15:00 | |
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Coinbase distributes OMG airdrop, three years later Long term Ether holders on Coinbase are set to receive a gift from the exchange in the form of OMG tokens, a recent email to Coinbase customers revealed.
2020-5-29 15:52 | |
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Ten years ago today someone spent 10,000 bitcoin on about $30 worth of pizza. Today, nations are redrafting crypto regulation and crypto firms report millions in revenues.
2020-5-23 19:00 | |
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Segregated Witness or SegWit was first activated on the Litecoin network exactly three years ago. First proposed by Pieter Wiulle in 2015, to address malleability issues. But later, it was found that The post Litecoin: Three years since SegWit activation, usage stands above 70% appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-11 18:30 | |
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Bitcoin is fast approaching the much-awaited halving event, but its main forks will start first. BCH will reduce its block reward today, while BSV will do this later this week. BCH, BSV Price Hit 1-Month High The Bitcoin community is preparing for one of the most important events that takes place once every three or four years – the halving.
2020-4-8 11:53 | |
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Bitcoin price dropped from 8000$ to 3800$ last week, but recovered later to 5900$, and closed the last week candle at 5300$. Bitcoin also lost important price support of 5500$, which was 200MA weekly support.
2020-3-16 12:58 | |
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After one of the most challenging weeks in recent memory we're talking about a new consensus driven approach to DeFi oracles and revisiting Johnston's Law (anything that can be decentralized will be decentralized) with the man who coined the phrase so many years ago.
2020-3-16 16:15 | |
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New technology takes time to filter down to the masses but even after ten years, bitcoin still remains largely user-unfriendly for most. There could be a number of reasons why. Over ten years after it was conceived, bitcoin is still primarily used as a vehicle for speculation rather than a decentralized peer-to-peer currency as was originally envisioned.
2020-1-28 22:00 | |
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Investors who bought Japanese stocks in 1990 are 1% away from breaking even, 29 years later. The staggering statistic was reported via Twitter. Does Bitcoin represent a safer investment? If you bought into the Japanese stock market 29 years ago, good news.
2020-1-19 12:25 | |
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It was December 17, 2017, when Bitcoin hit its all-time high, and nearly a month later on January 12, 2018, Ethereum peaked at $1,400 per crypto token. After that, it’s been two full years of a bloodbath, with sheer carnage across the entire crypto market.
2019-12-30 19:00 | |
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In 2002, SpaceX was valued at $27 million. Seventeen years later, Elon Musk’s ambitious space transportation company is worth $33.3 billion. The post In Spite of Elon Musk, SpaceX’s Valuation Has Surged 122,233% Since 2002 appeared first on CCN.com
2019-12-7 04:00 | |
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TV host in China refused to accept bitcoin for free in 2014. Five years later, he refused again. Bitcoin performs better than fiat currency. The post TV Host Refusing Free 100 Bitcoin Because It’s Worthless Is Hypocritical appeared first on CCN.com
2019-11-28 18:00 | |
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Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, recently spoke out against Ethereum in a 28-post tweetstorm outlining his concerns about the project’s viability. The crypto community is no stranger to drama, and a new one is seemingly unfolding right now.
2019-11-26 15:17 | |
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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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Back at the tail end of the crypto hype bubble in 2017, it wasn’t uncommon to find posts throughout the cryptocurrency community that demonstrated what a small investment made in Bitcoin at the beginning of the year would have brought savvy investors for riches.
2019-11-8 22:00 | |
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During the initial coin offering boom and the height of the crypto hype bubble in 2017, Ethereum’s price ballooned to as much as $1,400 per ETH at its peak. Nearly two full years later, and the asset is still 85% down from its previous all-time high price, yet one crypto analyst claims that Ethereum is.
2019-11-4 21:00 | |
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Some still assert that the launch of two bitcoin futures products crashed markets in 2017 as it was the first time investors could short the asset. What they have done has completely changed the landscape two years later.
2019-10-24 11:00 | |
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In March, NASA announced plans to conduct its first ever all-women spacewalk with astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain. However, what would have been a giant leap for womankind was canceled because NASA hadn’t packed enough spacesuits.
2019-10-17 16:52 | |
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Happy 8th Birthday Litecoin (LTC) Litecoin (LTC), the sixth largest cryptocurrency in market capitalization, celebrated its 8th birthday on Oct. 13. Former Google employee and former Coinbase developer, Charlie Lee, released the open source blockchain as a Bitcoin fork on Oct.
2019-10-14 15:45 | |
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After Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block in 2009, Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies as a whole, struggled to achieve legitimacy and acceptance. Ten years later, there are over 1,600 unique cryptocurrencies worth billions of dollars.
2019-10-14 13:06 | |
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Over the years Boston has been given some pretty grand nicknames. Back in the 19th century it was called ‘The Hub’ by Oliver Wendell Holmes; later, in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan referred to the capital of Massachusetts as ‘the shining city on a hill’.
2019-10-4 19:57 | |
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Can you tell us a bit about your background? I am a former Peace Corps volunteer where I spent two years serving in Lesotho, Africa helping with HIV/AIDS education. Later I was an assistant professor teaching first year communication classes in Korea for 10 years.
2019-10-4 17:00 | |
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If you’ve been keeping up with iPhone launches from the Android side of the world, you might find Apple’s design language has gotten a bit… stale. Shortly after the iPhone X was announced in 2017, other manufacturers had copied the notch, reduced it, or removed it altogether.
2019-9-26 21:09 | |
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According to Investopedia, the first paper money in the U. S. was issued on February 3, 1690 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Less than two hundred years later, Americans were able to trade $20.
2019-9-14 17:30 | |
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Since the birth of the Silk Road, there’s been a cat and mouse game between global law enforcement and darknet market (DNM) operators. Over the last two years, law enforcement agencies have knocked out a slew of markets like Hansa and the massive Alphabay.
2019-9-9 22:00 | |
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Over the past few years, Asian countries have been at the crux of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, with major developments constantly transpiring on the continent. The likes of China, South Korea, and Japan are regularly talked about in the cryptoverse these days and a shift towards significant progress may prevail sooner than later for these nations.
2019-9-3 13:00 | |
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It will come as a surprise to precisely nobody that we love our furry friends. Yet although the bond between humans and animals goes back thousands of years, the way we approach pet ownership has changed quite a lot in recent years.
2019-9-2 23:02 | |
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Another Google service bites the dust, and this time it’s Google Hire. The company said it’ll shut down the job tracking system by next year. Hire helped HR departments keep track of and communicate with candidates.
2019-8-28 11:26 | |
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Age of Empires IV, a game that’s been teased for two years, is finally going to make its gameplay debut later this year — at least, we hope so. Microsoft turned up empty-handed to this week’s Gamescom.
2019-8-23 01:18 | |
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Bitcoin is described as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system in its whitepaper. Early adopters hoped it would be used by anyone across the globe. Ten years later, bitcoin has not yet become a universally accepted currency and has instead evolved to become different things to different people.
2019-8-12 10:00 | |
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Some 15 countries, including Australia and Singapore, are reportedly banding together to create a data collection and sharing system on individuals carrying out cryptocurrency transactions. According to Nikkei, the common goal would be to prevent funds from being laundered or used to finance terrorist organizations.
2019-8-9 16:22 | |
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Facebook is keen to become a major news distributor again, after being lambasted for years over its role in aiding the spread of misinformation. A report from the Wall Street Journal last night indicated that the social network is offering major publications multi-million dollar deals to bring them on board its upcoming news service.
2019-8-9 09:00 | |
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Are you worried about the carbon dioxide that’ll be released if you get cremated? Well, worry no more, because this ‘Frankensteined’ Tesla Model S hearse could be yours for $200,000. The eco-friendly car was created in 2016 after a funeral transport firm, Vander der Lans & Busscher BV based in the Netherlands, commissioned a Tesla Model S to be turned into a hearse so that it could offer zero emmision funeral transport, obviously.
2019-8-8 15:43 | |
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To be honest, I’m kind of impressed Facebook held out this long. After buying WhatsApp and Instagram several years ago, Facebook has decided it’s time to let everyone know who’s in charge. A report from The Information details Facebook plans to change the names of the apps to ‘Instagram from Facebook‘ and ‘WhatsApp from Facebook.
2019-8-5 02:35 | |
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Today marks the second anniversary of the User-Activated Hard Fork, which split the Bitcoin community into two competing currencies. While there have been many forks since then, none have been as successful or long-lived as Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
2019-8-2 02:15 | |
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Bitcoin Cash launched at Bitcoin block #478559, just over two years ago today. The Bitcoin block height as I write this is #588122. The Bitcoin Cash blockchain just added #593909. Two Years in Survival Mode In the intervening 100,000+ blocks, the chain has successfully proven that it can survive a hostile marketplace, multiple technical attacks, […] The post Two Years Later, Bitcoin Cash Is Still Not Bitcoin appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-2 22:36 | |
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Drug dealers active on the darknet will get caught sooner or later. In the case of Hugh Brian Haney, his arrested occurred just a few days ago. It seems he was arrested for selling drugs on Silk Road, a platform which has been defunct for many years now.
2019-7-21 00:00 | |
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The English rock band Joy Division released their debut studio album “Unknown Pleasures” 40 years ago. The front cover doesn’t feature any words, only a now iconic black and white data graph showing 80 wiggly lines representing a signal from a pulsar in space.
2019-7-20 12:00 | |
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Pour one out for another gaming legend we’re losing. Microsoft revealed last week it’s no longer supporting its suite of Internet Games that have been a staple of Windows for 19 years. Games Services for Windows XP and ME will end later this month, while the same service for Windows 7 will end next January.
2019-7-11 23:27 | |
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Asian markets retreated on Thursday as investors rotated out of technology stocks amid mounting concerns over the escalating cost of artificial intelligence investment. At the same time, precious metals markets were rocked by another sharp decline in silver prices, while geopolitical and macroeconomic developments, including renewed US-China engagement and continued weakness in bitcoin, added to […]
Markets are ending the day on edge as sharp moves ripple across stocks, commodities, and crypto. AMD slumped despite an earnings beat, underscoring how unforgiving investors have become around AI expectations.
A fresh wave of macro stress and technical breakdowns pushed Bitcoin price deep into correction territory as traders remained defensive.
Assets under management in US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds slipped below $100 billion on Tuesday, following renewed investor withdrawals and a sharp downturn across the broader cryptocurrency market.
OG enters a growing but contentious space as Crypto.com separates its event-driven trading from its core crypto business.
Polymarket is stepping away from screens and apps and into the physical world. The crypto-based prediction market platform is opening a free grocery store in New York City, pairing the initiative with a major donation aimed at tackling food insecurity.
Tonight’s digest tracks a trillion-dollar retail coronation, a fragile geopolitical tariff truce, a pharma darling losing its halo, and crypto’s brutal reminder that liquidity rules all. Walmart’s transformation is real, India’s leverage play is bold but murky, Novo Nordisk’s stumble exposes execution risk, and Bitcoin’s slide confirms it’s trading like a high-beta asset, not digital […]