2018-12-1 03:23 |
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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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With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts. Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain.
2018-10-30 21:45 | |
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The judge presiding over a class action lawsuit against Coinbase over allegations of insider trading has approved Coinbase’s motion to dismiss the suit. In March of 2018, Jeffrey Berk filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California on behalf of himself and other investors against Coinbase.
2018-10-26 22:26 | |
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One of the 2018 Nobel Prizes in physics went to Donna Strickland, a major accomplishment for any scientist. Yet much of the news coverage has focused on the fact that she’s only the third female physicist to receive the award, after Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer 60 years later.
2018-10-16 10:22 | |
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Gemini recently announced that Litecoin is to be the latest cryptocurrency to be supported on the platform. The news broke out last week, that the digital currency will now be offering Litecoin on its exchange.
2018-10-15 12:30 | |
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For some time now, there have been a lot of buzz about how the Bitcoin network can be scaled up to better cope with the budding competition from the likes of Ripple and Tron. Just recently, Bitcoin’s Lightning Network went live amid much pomp and big expectations.
2018-10-13 19:25 | |
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A recent update to Ardor is introducing several new features, the most notable of which is the platform’s new transaction vouchers. Version 2. 1. 2 of Ardor went live this week and added the feature to the blockchain’s mainnet.
2018-10-12 17:33 | |
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Earlier this week, the teams behind the TRON Foundation and BitGuild announced their first game to be added onto the TRON blockchain called Magic Academy. The fiction game will allow users to barter and haggle gaming items as well as buying upgrades for their items and so much more.
2018-10-11 08:00 | |
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I went through some d more excited than I thought I’d be given how much we knew about the device beforehand. Note: We covered the device’s specs and features extensively in our announcement post.
2018-10-10 05:28 | |
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The United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a few important crypto related decisions to make and is pushing back dates and causing a lot of distress in the blockchain and cryptocurrency communities.
2018-10-9 21:30 | |
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Ethereum World News published a report in early August regarding Chris Franko (Expanse) who claimed that he was ordered to pay 400 Bitcoin – which is equal to around $2. 5 million – for a listing position on Binance.
2018-10-9 16:30 | |
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On Oct. 5, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin wrote on Twitter that he is planning to “detach” from the blockchain protocol because it can “absolutely survive” without him. I think ethereum can absolutely survive me spontaneously combusting tomorrow at this point.
2018-10-8 17:19 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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Way back in April, we heard rumors that LG would be launching a smartwatch using Google’s newly rebranded (at the time) Wear OS. Called the LG Watch Timepiece, it was a hybrid that would somehow combine Wear OS with a an analog, mechanical watchface.
2018-9-29 03:00 | |
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Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.
2018-9-28 23:08 | |
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Kin Ecosystem Foundation, the nonprofit governance organization for the Kin cryptocurrency, has announced the appointment of Matthew DiPietro as its chief marketing officer (CMO) today, September 18, 2018.
2018-9-18 19:38 | |
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Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.
2018-9-15 21:50 | |
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On the latest episode of The Bitcoin Game, host Rob Mitchell explains the recent trip he took to the World Economic Forum. Based in Davos, Switzerland, this international conference featured a wide number of economic experts and panelists within the international financial industry.
2018-9-12 22:24 | |
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As an emerging cog in the global digital economy, cloud mining offers a tool for enthusiasts to mine cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin without having to acquire hardware or other oft-required elements.
2018-9-11 16:09 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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Creditors of Mt. Gox, the defunct cryptocurrency exchange, can now start submitting proofs of claim in a newly approved rehabilitation process, according to an update posted on the exchange’s website.
2018-8-27 17:14 | |
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As the old maxim asserts: those who made the most money in the gold rush were those who sold shovels. With our own digital gold rush in a downturn, however, the shovels aren’t selling so well, as mining companies themselves are struggling to move hardware because miners are struggling to turn a profit.
2018-8-22 22:53 | |
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The price of Bitcoin fell sharply going into the daily close, marking another bearish start to the week. With prices plummeting firmly back towards previous lows, investors and traders alike are once again wondering how much bullish resolve there is in the cryptocurrency market.
2018-8-8 13:00 | |
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Capital gains on crypto transactions are easy to track, one at a time. What about when there are thousands?Cryptocurrency capital gains taxes are becoming a point of interest for governments.
2018-7-31 20:04 | |
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Bitwise Asset Management is the latest venture to apply for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF). Called the Bitwise HOLD 10 Cryptocurrency Index Fund, the ETF will track the returns of the company’s HOLD 10 Index, a “market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies” that captures roughly 80 percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization.
2018-7-25 02:18 | |
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Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Online travel agency CheapAir. com has announced it is no longer working with Coinbase to process its customers’ bitcoin payments. In Coinbase's stead, the company has turned to BTCPayServer, an open-source bitcoin payment processor.
2018-7-19 02:28 | |
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There are over 600 million Africans living without electricity despite an abundance of sunshine and hundreds of thousands of solar projects on the drawing board.
2018-7-17 17:41 | |
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As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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Since its invention, a recurring question for cryptocurrency holders has been how to best secure their digital assets. This question of security carries the greatest weight when one understands the stakes of holding unprotected cryptocurrency — vulnerability to hackers.
2018-7-6 03:51 | |
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On June 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director of corporate finance made waves in the cryptocurrency space when he commented at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto that ether is not a security.
2018-7-3 23:16 | |
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This is the first post of three in a series on Ripple’s vision and product strategy. You can read the second here and the final post here. Though it didn’t happen overnight, we’re living in a new world; blockchain and digital assets went from niche to mainstream in 2017.
2018-6-17 12:52 | |
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All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.
2018-6-15 23:31 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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With the creation of Bitcoin and its blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced an entirely new practical application for cryptography, unearthing an unexplored area for computer science and technological development.
2018-6-11 17:04 | |
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The Bitcoin price has stabilized above $92,000 after a period of notable fluctuations, with eyes now on the interplay between institutional flows and market sentiment. At press time, Bitcoin was trading at around $92,829, rebounding from recent lows near $83,800, while Bitcoin ETFs have shown a mixed performance, breaking a streak of consecutive inflows that […]
The Build on Bitcoin (BOB) coin has experienced a remarkable surge in value, signalling one of its most significant price movements in recent months. At press time, BOB was trading at approximately $0.
The cryptocurrency market is showing signs of stability following days of heavy selling pressure. Bitcoin reclaimed the $93k level a few hours ago, adding 7% to its value in the last 24 hours. The recent positive performance comes amid renewed bets that the Federal Reserve is nearing its first rate cut of the cycle. Fed […]
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Bitcoin faces a pivotal point as price approaches the key $98,000 Fibonacci level that could confirm reversal momentum or trigger deeper corrective movement.
Onchain news site, Lookonchain reported that a big Bitcoin whale, who did a huge leveraged short, has capitulated on a huge position of around $91 million.
Bitcoin could be preparing to turn a corner after a period of seasonal weakness, according to BTIG chief technical strategist Jonathan Krinsky. The world’s largest cryptocurrency has climbed steadily in recent sessions, and analysts suggest historical patterns may support further strength into the year-end.