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Bitcoin Price Up Nearly 3 Percent, Is the Market Turning Bullish?

Ever since December 2017 when the price of Bitcoin reached its all-time high of $19,511, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stuck in a very bearish market. Over the last six to seven month’s, the top-ranked cryptocurrency‘s value fell approximately 70 percent and even fell below $6,000 during the end of June 2018. However, despite […] дальше »

2018-7-24 13:28


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‘Very Specific Recommendations’ Crypto Deadline Scraped by G20 Forum

Cryptocurrencies will continue to receive a broadly hands-off approach from the G20 until at least October, a meeting of the forum confirmed July 21-22. A summary of interim decisions made by the dedicated Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors (FATF) group sees any hard-and-fast regulatory steps regarding cryptoassets remain absent. The results follow a four-month дальше »

2018-7-23 17:36


Will Bitcoin [BTC]’s big break be during the imminent financial meltdown?

OPINION: The financial crisis of 2008 is still fresh in the minds of those on Wall Street and those in the cryptocurrency space, albeit for very different reasons. While Wall Street is still reeling from the aftermath of the crisis, the cryptocurrency community indirectly exists due to the crisis. As timelessly engraved in the genesis […] дальше »

2018-7-23 13:12


Amidst Mastercard’s Outage, Bitcoin Community Compares Its Payment Advantages

Mastercard experienced a major glitch last week, which kept their customers from charging anything on their cards. Instead, the transactions were declined. However, rather than impacting a city or even a single state, this outage had a worldwide impact, which led to a very unhappy group of users voicing their opinions on social media. Even […] дальше »

2018-7-23 09:20


Philippines Based LoyalCoin Is Using Cryptocurrency To Create The First Global Loyalty Scheme

Philippines-based LoyalCoin is aiming to create the world’s largest loyalty network where points from thousands of different brands are interchangeable – all thanks to cryptocurrency. Customers will be able to turn reward points from numerous brands into taxi rides, air miles, fast food treats and pretty much anything else they want. дальше »

2018-7-23 23:00


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Some Crypto-Mining Operations Are Not What They Say They Are

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining has become a very competitive industry, and the amount of processing power hashing away to mine these digital assets is truly amazing. However over the years since the inception of GPU and ASIC mining, essentially when home mining turned into an industry, the cryptocurrency mining space has been riddled with fraudulent […] The post Some Crypto-Mining Operations Are Not What They Say They Are appeared first on Bitcoin News. дальше »

2018-7-22 18:35


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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


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. 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


New Zealand’s SBS Bank Explores Using Blockchain For User Experience Benefits

In some very positive blockchain news, one of New Zealand’s leading banks, SBS Bank, appears to consider integrating blockchain support to provide better user experience to their local clients. This proactive approach is very promising as most financial institutions are not offering enough options for their clients who are interested in investing in cryptocurrencies. Based […] дальше »

2018-7-21 00:38


Introduce your entrance to the Internet: How Investor’s Preferred Crisp Crypto Dizma Take Blockchain.io

The buzz around the Crypto industry brings around a flood of information full of enthusiasm since it advances the conversation on the development of digital economy. However, it seldom helps investors choose among the different features and technicalities that exist on the exchange market. To pinpoint the very reason why Bitcoin seduces so many, we дальше »

2018-7-20 21:55


Equity Token Offering: Better Benefits Than Initial Coin Offering Model?

In Europe, there are exciting developments that are taking place, just like the regulators and also the various blockchain companies in the market playing cat and mouse. Last week the cryptocurrency community watched in awe as Malta became the very first country that has been able to pass on the new regulations to be used […] дальше »

2018-7-20 12:19