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Where has the last ten years gone? To some, it will only seem like yesterday since Bitcoin first emerged on our computer screens, developed in early 2009 by the pseudonymous character, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2020-2-14 00:56 | |
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Only a few days left for the second edition of the largest blockchain conference of MENA and Eurasia regions. The conference will be held in Turkey, a country which is turning into the most attractive meeting location for the whole crypto community.
2020-2-4 16:40 | |
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On January 3, 2020, a small group of crypto enthusiasts celebrated the second annual Proof-of-Keys day with hopes to get people to withdraw funds from centralized digital currency exchanges. However, exchanges holding massive amounts of BTC only saw their reserves grow larger and data shows that Coinbase now holds 1 million BTC ($8.
2020-1-26 05:00 | |
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Only one month to go until everyone’s favorite annual Bitcoin weekend in Las Vegas. A truly unique and fun Bitcoin conference jam-packed with workshops, games, and parties happening on February 20thThe post Unconfiscatable 'Bitcoin Not Blockchain' Conference's second edition is happening on Feb. 20-23 appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-23 17:20 | |
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There are only a few days left for the second of the most comprehensive Blockchain and cryptocurrency conference of MENA and the Eurasia regions, which will take place in Istanbul for two days on February 20-21, 2020.
2020-1-8 20:52 | |
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On November 28, the creator of doublespend. cash, a web portal that tracks and collects double spend attempts on the Bitcoin Cash network, explained that only 1 out of 1,105 double spends succeeds when they broadcast one second after the first transaction.
2019-11-30 23:20 | |
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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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These are trying times for media companies trying to sustain a living from digital advertising. Despite $273 billion being spent on digital adverts last year, it is claimed that up to two-thirds of this investment is wasted and that only 9 percent of digital ads receive more than a single second’s engagement.
2019-11-16 15:47 | |
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Sony has shipped 102. 8 million PlayStation 4 units to date. PlayStation 4 is now the second best selling console of all time, beaten only by the PlayStation 2. Sony records an uptake in PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now subscriptions.
2019-10-31 15:38 | |
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Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
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Recommended pre-reading: https://ethresear. ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413 Alice slowly walks down the old, dusty stairs of the building into the basement. She thinks wistfully of the old days, when quadratic-voting in the World Collective Market was a much simpler process of linking her public key to a twitter account and opening up metamask to start firing off votes.
2019-10-2 04:03 | |
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Just when you thought Bitcoin scammers couldn’t stoop any lower, they’ve now taken to impersonating Buckingham Palace. The fraudsters have reportedly sent letters requesting donations to save the UK economy – because people would totally fall for that, right? The letters, dated September 16, claim this is the second time the Queen has reached out to a “certain number of people to save Great Britain’s economy” because “Brexit will happen quite quickly” – if only it were that easy! For those of you unfamiliar with British politics, Brexit refers to the UK’s impending divorce from the European Union (EU).
2019-9-30 14:13 | |
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Shift Cryptosecurity equip their customers to secure their cryptocurrencies by combining the authentication capabilities of applied cryptography with the physical security of offline hardware devices.
2019-9-26 18:15 | |
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Bitcoin slumped by nearly $1,500 in a day, wiping out as much as 16% from its price. Double-digit movements are not unusual for BTC, but they were a rare event this year. BTC Generally Less Volatile in 2019 BTC was notoriously less volatile in 2019, with a gradual price climb.
2019-9-26 17:00 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.
2019-9-24 04:03 | |
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Ethereum has been at the center of controversy as of late due to its scalability issue. At its current iteration, the number two cryptocurrency can only process 15 transactions per second. With over 2,500 decentralized applications (DApps) and more than 16,000 daily users, the network is struggling to keep up with the demand.
2019-9-12 01:10 | |
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Binance’s recent lending platform offering has not only managed to attract a fresh set of investors but also deliver a interest rate-based rewarding system. While the second phase of the rollout saw the inclusion of BTC and few altcoins including ETC and ADA, the third phase of Binance Lending Products includes other leaders from the […] The post Litecoin, XRP and USDC included in third phase of Binance Lending appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-9-9 17:00 | |
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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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The world’s second largest crypto asset has taken a beating recently. Not only has Ethereum price collapsed below $200 but it is constantly hounded by the majority of the crypto community which remain blinded by the performance of its big brother.
2019-9-3 08:30 | |
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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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HSBC, a multinational bank, has recently become the first bank to complete a blockchain transaction on the European We. trade platform. The project, which was started back in 2017, has only recently started its second round of pilot tests.
2019-8-28 22:57 | |
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A new report has shown that untrusted crypto exchanges are still commanding the market. According to it, the top-rated exchanges (rated AA and A) hold only 5% of the volume. Most of it is held by exchanges with the second and third-worst ratings, E and D.
2019-8-23 00:06 | |
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Coinspeaker OKEx’s Mining Pool on Target to Become Its Second Core BusinessOKEx is actively working to provide the services that will satisfy the needs of its growing customer base.
2019-8-12 11:22 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! It could just be me, but I love having a cheap second computer. Of course, I couldn’t live without a high-end machine to do complex, resource-intensive work on.
2019-8-4 15:01 | |
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Some say there are only two rules one needs to follow in order to succeed in the stock market. The first rule is “don’t fight the tape”. The second rule is “don’t fight the Fed”.
2019-8-1 11:00 | |
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After Facebook’s Libra, it seems likely that other major brands like Amazon, Delta, and T-Mobile will create their own stablecoins. Stablecoins of the future The coming years will see the advent of a second generation of stablecoins.
2019-7-30 22:18 | |
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According to a report out of Blocktempo, Cypherpunks Taiwan has successfully erected another Bitcoin satellite receiver. The island nation is apparently only the second country in Asia to do so after Japan pipped it to the post last year.
2019-7-27 13:09 | |
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Pocketful of Quarters (PoQ) can breathe a sigh of relief today. The SEC announced that it will not take action against the gaming rewards company. This is only the second time the SEC has issued a “no-action” notice to a token seller.
2019-7-27 06:00 | |
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European authorities are mulling over the idea of giving a second chance to young hackers instead of sending them straight to the clink – but only if they haven’t previously engaged in cybercrime.
2019-7-24 13:48 | |
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Bitcoin deep correction continue. The price has already collapsed below the round value of $ 10 K. Alts are also being corrected over and over. Someone is already talking about cryptocurrency wars! Since the beginning of the year, Bitcoin has already shown 3.
2019-7-23 16:08 | |
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Drop the anchor. Market dynamics within the cryptocurrency space are quite interesting. However, despite the isolated gains, the pump-and-dumps, and the coming of the ‘altseason,’ when the dust settles, only one coin remains tethered to the larger market, Bitcoin.
2019-7-19 15:30 | |
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Libra, Facebook’s much-talked about cryptocurrency, has not only gotten the United States riled up, but has also breached its shores to disrupt the Chinese market. A recent analysis of Weibo, China’s alternative to Twitter, has revealed that Libra was the second most searched entity on the social media platform.
2019-7-19 19:30 | |
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Ethereum ran into scalability difficulties, processing only 15 transactions per second [TPS]. Despite the much-hyped 2. 0 version, which was all set to roll out next year, Vitalik Buterin had planned on abandoning its native blockchain for a short period and instead, deploy other blockchains.
2019-7-17 01:00 | |
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Plasma is a scaling solution that can be used with various blockchains. It is commonly associated with Ethereum, but Plasma is compatible with other platforms as well. Essentially, it can help a blockchain perform computations more efficiently.
2019-7-13 20:16 | |
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The growing consensus among crypto pundits and experts is that this Bitcoin bull run is decidedly different from the one that left so many wide-eyed retail investors who succumbed to FOMO in 2017 out in the cold just months later.
2019-6-26 02:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Slack (WORK) Is Going Public Pricing Its IPO at $26 Per ShareSlack became only the second big company, after Spotify, to invite a free-for-all in its shares on Wall Street.
2019-6-20 18:14 | |
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MoonTrader team has developed and is supporting the trading terminal (MoonBot - moon-bot. com) which was introduced in October 3, 2017. Currently, the performance of MoonBot surpasses that of most existing trading systems as a result of its advanced functionality and the high security features designed to protect your trading activities.
2019-6-13 21:03 | |
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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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Blockchain Whispers opened the qualifications for its infamous, mega-popular Crypto Signals World Championship. Last time there were 132 traders participating. Only 9 qualified, passing the strict Blockchain Whispers accuracy requirements.
2019-6-11 09:30 | |
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Bitcoin has gone through many bear and bull cycles over the years. The first one was during September 27, 2010 – June 8, 2011, that saw 49,233% gains only to drop down 93.07%. Then in 2012, we surged 11,119% only to drop 71% in 2013. In the second half of 2013, that is from July […]
2019-6-9 20:12 | |
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The leading cryptocurrency is beating ‘em all! Bitcoin is not only outperforming the traditional assets like gold, oil, and government bonds in 2019 but also remains the king of the cryptocurrency market.
2019-6-8 20:27 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Some Chinese listed companies have jumped on the bandwagon of bitcoin mining following the bitcoin bull run throughout 2017, either under the guise of cloud computing or providing mining hosting services, in an effort to bypass regulations considering the country’s tough stance on bitcoin.
2019-5-29 18:53 | |
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By CCN: Elon Musk isn’t the only tech billionaire with a gaping Tesla-shaped dent in his net worth this year. As Tesla’s stock price crashes and burns, Oracle founder Larry Ellison is deep in the red with his massive stake in the company.
2019-5-24 00:33 | |
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By CCN: Is Bernie Sanders fighting a losing battle? The Vermont Senator entered the 2020 presidential race in February, marking his second attempt at attaining White House glory. For more than a month, the 77-year-old Democratic socialist appeared to be leading the race for his party’s nomination… That is until Joe Biden announced his campaign for the presidency only weeks ago.
2019-5-21 01:11 | |
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In its April 2019 Exchange Review, released on May 20, 2019, London-based crypto data analysis firm CryptoCompare found that fiat-to-crypto exchanges performed much better than crypto-to-crypto platforms did over the last month, as cryptocurrency prices rose across the board.
2019-5-21 20:48 | |
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Twitter says it has fixed a bug that resulted in a user’s approximate location information being shared with an unnamed Twitter partner. “We have discovered that we were inadvertently collecting and sharing iOS location data with one of our trusted partners in certain circumstances,” the company said in a blog post.
2019-5-14 10:46 | |
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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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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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Take a deep dive into how heightened volatility impacts deeply liquidly markets like E-mini S&P 500 futures, rebound rates, and effects on cost to trade (CTT).
Learn how a reduction in the VOLQ futures contract size enables more market participants to use it to trade at-the-money volatility of the Nasdaq-100 Index.
Prices for real estate and equities have taken turns to outperform each other over the years. If inflation proves to be persistent, housing could have an edge over stocks.
If equities underperform as soaring consumer prices lead to higher rates, S&P 500 Annual Dividend Index futures could be a hedge against inflation.
Could S&P 500 annual dividend futures serve as an inflation hedge if rising consumer prices turn out to be more persistent than expected by the Fed?
The spread of the coronavirus variant is impacting markets and economies around the globe, with several commodities seeing sharp price reversals.
The outperformance of China's shares over those of other emerging markets can be traced to the country's exceptional growth the past few decades.