2019-11-22 13:17 |
Bitcoin’s price gains have put critics’ predictions to shame. Schiff, Roubini, and… The post Bitcoin Price Gains Prove These Critics Were Dead Wrong appeared first on CCN.com origin »
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Even with Bitcoin surging past $100,000 for the first time, some critics have remained skeptical about the cryptocurrency’s future.
2024-12-28 18:00 | |
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El Salvador's Bitcoin investment has turned profitable, showing an unrealized gain of over $3. 6 million, leading President Nayib Bukele to demand apologies from critics of the country's crypto adoption.
2023-12-5 20:30 | |
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A pair of high-ranking officials in El Salvador’s ruling party, Nuevas Ideas, took aim at critics who stand in opposition to the country’s forthcoming Bitcoin legal tender law on Tuesday.
2021-9-3 14:26 | |
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When Bitcoin came into existence about a decade ago, critics jumped on to brand it a scam. As the truth continued to come to light and Bitcoin started catching on as an attractive investment, critics still said that it wasn’t viable.
2019-5-6 00:03 | |
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By CCN: Even as he sues his critics left, right, and center over their refusal to recognize him as Satoshi Nakamoto, self-declared Bitcoin creator Craig Wright continues to drop bombshells that ignite even more controversy.
2019-5-4 21:35 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) has expanded all over the world in the last few years. However, there are several critics that are against the most popular digital asset and how it operates in the market. Some experts compare Bitcoin to other bubbles such as the tulip mania a few centuries back or the dotcom bubble twenty years […]
2019-4-30 19:02 | |
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Backed by leaked internal messages, Revolut’s senior staff has been accused of attacking critics for speaking against them while job applicants complained about the company demanding them to fulfill requirements such as getting ten users to sign-up on their platform to qualify for the job, WIRED reported April 29, 2019.
2019-4-30 19:00 | |
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For the first time, a Bitcoin conference is bringing together advocates and critics. Beyond the price volatility, the adoption of Bitcoins continues at a rapid pace. At BayernLB in Munich, international experts discuss the value of Bitcoin and its potential impact on businesses and the world economy.
2019-4-30 10:30 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against BitcoinBitcoin’s core value proposition is that it is an uncontrolled, apolitical money.
2019-4-30 20:16 | |
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The acceptance of Bitcoin in its early years was at a very low ebb. Many critics sold fear into the hearts of uninformed populace and pitch the whole digital dream as a blurry nightmare that we all would awaken from.
2019-4-29 18:44 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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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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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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Craig Wright continued his campaign of serving legal threats to those claiming he is a fraud. Today, legal notices were served to Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and popular podcaster Peter McCormack.
2019-4-15 13:39 | |
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The Russian Duma approved a bill that would enable the country to have a “Great Firewall” or “Iron Curtain” similar to what China has. The result of the law is that, whenever the government wants to, it can censor all incoming and outgoing traffic traveling through state-owned channels.
2019-4-13 00:58 | |
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Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, had his attorneys serve legal papers to an anonymous Twitter user who publicly denied he created Bitcoin. In response, the crypto community rallied against Wright, culminating in the CEO of Binance threatening to delist Wright’s Bitcoin SV (BSV).
2019-4-13 14:44 | |
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Cryptocurrency is no stranger to critics, especially because of the revolutionary way it has changed the world of money. Proponents and opponents alike have used social media outlets and interviews to discuss major coins, like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
2019-3-27 04:37 | |
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One of the most vocal Bitcoin critics has cautioned central banks against issuing their own digital currencies, claiming that they are a threat to financial stability and monetary policy-making, as reported by Bloomberg on March 22.
2019-3-25 15:59 | |
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Bitcoin economist Saifedean Ammous says that nothing has ever risen as fast and as much as Bitcoin price – which makes it ‘incomparable’ even to the most successful companies and innovators.
2019-3-25 15:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency space is open for everyone, and people should learn to deal with it, says Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao while referring to the questions raised by some critics about Square’s growing involvement in the ecosystem with the launch of Square Crypto.
2019-3-25 14:59 | |
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On March 20, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) unanimously decided to keep federal interest rates unchanged. Critics believe that the central bank’s policy of near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing (QE) has corrupted the U.
2019-3-24 23:50 | |
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Many critics of Bitcoin often argue that its four occasionally five-figure price point is entirely unjustified based on the lack of BTC use in retail. However, over the years, plenty of companies have attempted to nurture the gradual adoption of cryptocurrency by offering to accept payment for goods and services in different digital assets.
2019-3-20 02:00 | |
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After the blackout experienced by Venezuela a few days ago, Bitcoin (BTC) transactions dropped around 40%, according to Professor Steve Hanke. He wrote on Twitter that since the blackout hit Venezuela, transactions on the Bitcoin network fell massively.
2019-3-19 17:23 | |
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The decentralized web is hard to use, complain its critics. And to be fair, they’ve had a point up until recently. With improved UX and new layer two solutions built on top of Web3 protocols, however, interacting with these technologies is getting easier.
2019-3-16 04:00 | |
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) announced that it will not list upcoming Cboe Bitcoin (“XBT”) futures contracts for trading in March 2019. The Cboe Futures Exchange said that the company is “assessing its approach with respect to how it plans to continue to offer digital asset derivatives for trading,” stating that it has no intention to list additional contracts for trading relating to the cryptocurrency.
2019-3-16 01:00 | |
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Justin Sun believes that Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies have the potential to create opportunities for the younger generation of investors. TRON’s CEO also implied that critics of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were focused on the business side of things rather than the more profound technological implications virtual currencies provide within the emerging digital economy.
2019-3-14 16:00 | |
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As the 116th Congress gets underway, a wide range of proposals affecting blockchain technology are on the agenda. Some of the bills would provide greater regulatory clarity for operators within the space.
2019-3-13 18:18 | |
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Since 2011, mainstream media outlets, bank executives, economists, and other skeptics have gleefully proclaimed Bitcoin’s demise after every major correction from its all-time high. Bitcoin Will Keep Defying its Critics In the past ten years, Bitcoin has experienced five 85 percent corrections including the recent 14-month bear market.
2019-3-2 17:00 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are experiencing a bearish experience, but that hasn’t dampened the experience of this phenomenon. Russian cybersecurity titan Kaspersky and Coinmap have conducted a study that proves critics wrong.
2019-2-16 14:00 | |
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Since Bitcoin (BTC) came into being, incumbents of the legacy world, such as Jamie Dimon or Janet Yellen, have bashed the cryptocurrency en-masse. Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan (ironic, I know), remarked that Bitcoin is a “fraud” and of no inherent value, while former Federal Reserve chair Yellen quipped that the asset is […] The post Don’t Listen To Crypto Critics, Bitcoin “Really Is Money” appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-2-16 03:36 | |
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The use of cryptos and blockchain technologies has proved to be an unstoppable phenomenon, and despite the bearish streak, adoption is growing steadily under the gaze of critics and proponents. A study by the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Labs has found that more than 13% of consumers have used crypto to make some kind of […] The post Bitcoin Use Increased by 571% in the Past 5 Years and 13% of Online Buyers Have Used Cryptocurrencies, Coinmap and Kaspersky Reveal appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-2-15 05:45 | |
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One of Wall Street’s fiercest bitcoin critics may have been playing us all along. JP Morgan Creates ‘JPM Coin’ Cryptocurrency JP Morgan, the gargantuan investment bank led by Jamie Dimon, just became the first major US financial institution to launch its own cryptocurrency.
2019-2-15 15:34 | |
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Although virtual currencies have been expanding all over the world, there are still critics that believe that they are completely useless. One of these individuals is the cryptographer and technology researcher at Harvard University, Bruce Schneier.
2019-2-10 08:31 | |
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This is the third time that BTC has experienced a bear run since its launch. Looking at past bear runs, this one happens to be one of the most prolonged runs ever. BTC critics have come out to state that it is only a matter of time before the cryptocurrency eventually hits the zero mark. […]
2019-2-5 18:19 | |
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Latest Litecoin News Charlie Lee, as controversial as critics think he is, is an ardent supporter of Litecoin and Bitcoin. He might have liquidated his stash at the peaks of late 2017—unheard of from a project founder, “interrupting” and even warning investors that asset prices were overextended and may crash.
2019-2-1 13:15 | |
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Ever since the origination of Bitcoin, there have been many critics in the traditional financial system who went after it as an alternative. They quickly attacked, saying that cryptocurrency is slow, expensive, and even supportive of anarchism.
2019-1-31 18:15 | |
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Since Bitcoin (BTC) seemingly lost its value proposition as a form of digital cash, investors have searched high and low, doing their utmost best to determine what defines the world-renowned cryptocurrency.
2019-1-30 16:30 | |
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Skeptics and critics have continuously attacked Bitcoin as worthless and a useless speculated object backed by nothing. I once came across one Bitcoin investor who out of frustration of losing all his investment sided with the popular line by critics that “Bitcoin is worth nothing and Backed by nothing.
2019-1-3 00:23 | |
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A few days ago, Tuur Demeester, a Bitcoin proponent and founder of the Adamant Capital, wrote a series of Tweets criticizing Ethereum (ETH). Clearly, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder did not like that and decided to answer him back.
2018-12-31 20:10 | |
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Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of San Francisco based startup Ripple, has focused a lot of his efforts in the past to defend the cryptocurrency his company made, XRP. Many critics pointed out in the past that XRP is a heavily centralized cryptocurrency, mostly due to the way its validator network is structured and due to […] The post Is XRP Really More Decentralized Than Bitcoin And Ethereum, as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.
2018-12-26 07:08 | |
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As Bitcoin (BTC) collapsed in 2018, many naysayers and cynics claimed that the end was nigh for the world’s first cryptocurrency. Some critics drew attention to Bitcoin’s mining ecosystem, claiming that the hashrate drought would catapult BTC into a “death spiral,” whereas miners would flee en-masse.
2018-12-25 01:30 | |
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Nouriel Roubini Attacks Back; Says Crypto Is The Most Manipulated Financial Market In History Bitcoin has many supporters all around the world and a very active community. However, there are also several critics that have attacked the virtual currency several times.
2018-12-22 20:47 | |
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Bitcoin has been underperforming since the last few months, and the entire cryptocurrency market is not doing any better which has brought discouragement to most enthusiasts who supported the breakthrough of the digital asset right from the onset.
2018-12-20 17:33 | |
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin lanced a “tweet storm” on December 10, 2018, and briefly noted the non-financial applications of blockchain technology, such as academic degree verification and determining the “integrity of processes.
2018-12-14 07:30 | |
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Today’s Video Briefing takes a look at one of the oddest ducks in the cryptocurrency space – IOTA. Unlike other cryptos, IOTA does not use a blockchain, and the DAG-based Tangle is expected to overcome some of the problems facing Bitcoin and Ethereum.
2018-12-12 18:02 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).
2018-12-4 21:02 | |
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Bitcoin critics always seem to be the loudest during bear markets, which means the most ridiculous negative statements about the digital asset are also made during these times. In addition to plenty of claims of bitcoin’s death from the likes of angel investor Jason Calacanis and economist Nouriel Roubini, there is now also the theory […] The post Debunking the Bitcoin Death Spiral Theory appeared first on Coinjournal.
2018-12-4 11:47 | |
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The energy costs of bitcoin mining are often cited as canceling out the. We must also consider the savings made, in avoiding some of the hidden costs of the alternative. Gold Standard Critics of gold originally made the same arguments — that the mining and storage cost of gold meant paper money was more economical.
2018-11-22 08:00 | |
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Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reached a $1 billion valuation after closing a $70 million Series C funding round backed by major financial institutions.
Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin has issued more than $20 million in tokenized private credit on Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock and is targeting $100 million by April.
Bitcoin’s rebound masks weak technicals and onchain signals that point to continued downside risk, with miners and exchange flows reinforcing the bearish trend.
The Canadian self-regulatory organization outlined custody limits, capital thresholds and reporting rules while long-term regulation remains in progress.
Base’s Jesse Pollak says L2s can’t be “Ethereum but cheaper” as builders respond to Vitalik Buterin’s call for specialization.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino scaled back the company's $20 billion funding plan, calling the target a "misconception," while maintaining a $500 billion valuation.
Base is rolling out month-long infrastructure upgrades aimed at preventing future transaction delays and improving overall network reliability.