2019-6-4 19:49 |
StarkDEX will reportedly speed up exchange-related transactions on the Ethereum blockchain, reaching 40-60 transactions per second in alpha and ramping up to 8,000 transactions per second in its full release. origin »
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The Facebook fronted stablecoin, Diem (formerly Libra)’s dismal testnet results undercut the assertion that the digital currency is a threat to global financial stability. This is the conclusion that can be deduced from a Diem blockchain explorer update which shows the network only processes an average of six transactions per second (tps), with the highest […] The post Testnet of Facebook’s Much Vaunted Stablecoin Only Executes 6 Transactions per Second appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-12-7 23:00 | |
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Bitcoin price drew closer to $9000 May 30 as fundamentals data revealed the network was nearing new records for hash rate, daily transactions, and block size. Fundamentals Drive BTC Price Higher According to monitoring resource Blockchain.
2019-5-30 15:00 | |
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By CCN: HTC plans to launch a second generation of the Exodus 1 blockchain smartphone by 2019, according to the company’s Chief Decentralized Officer Phil Chen. The upcoming Exodus 1s will provide more support for decentralized browsing, messaging, and social media apps (dapps).
2019-5-13 14:50 | |
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How do you scale a blockchain so that it can process hundreds or even thousands of transactions per second – but without compromising on decentralization? It’s a question that has kept some of the brightest minds in the space awake at night, and some of the more ardent crypto factions sniping at each other for […] The post Three Very Different Paths to Blockchain Scaling appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-5-12 22:28 | |
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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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When assessing the seemingly countless blockchain platforms appearing in recent years, neither users nor critics fail to emphasize scalability. Recently, with the development of sharding technology, real improvements are being made in the area of blockchain scalability.
2019-5-10 15:44 | |
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Coinspeaker Alephium Pushes the Boundaries of Blockchain Performance & ScalabilityAlephium, the brainchild project of Cheng Wang, aims to scale blockchains to handle tens of thousands of transactions per second in an open, permissionless network.
2019-5-10 11:06 | |
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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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Hut 8 Mining (named after Hut 8 in Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing broke the enigma code and accelerated the end of World War II) has just filed its audited financial statements for 2018, detailing a tight but still profitable bitcoin mining business.
2019-5-10 20:04 | |
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WeChat, the #1 messaging app in China, is also widely used for cryptocurrency transactions. Recently, WeChat Payment has revised the “WeChat Agreement for Payment Service,” which involves the control and regulation of illegal transactions, including cryptocurrency transactions.
2019-5-9 22:54 | |
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On 13th of May, X-Hive, a crypto-to-crypto exchange with advantages of both Decentralized exchange (DEX) and Centralized exchange (CEX), will launch the pre-IEO of the BEXAM token ($BEXAM) with 10% discount.
2019-5-5 20:23 | |
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Researchers have re-engineered the Hyperledger Fabric so it can support seven times more transactions per second
2019-5-3 01:44 | |
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By CCN. com: VeChain, which uses Proof of Authority rather than Proof-of-Work, clocked in more transactions than Bitcoin on Saturday. A Reddit user noticed and raised the celebratory alarm; Deloitte executive Cillian Leonowicz then claimed the activity via LinkedIn, writing: We wrote more transactions than Bitcoin over the weekend by migrating our client work from Ethereum to VeChain – we managed to execute 20+ smart contract transactions per second.
2019-5-2 09:57 | |
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Bank of America [BoA], the second largest bank in the United States based on assets held, signaled their concern for the cryptocurrency community. The North Carolina-headquartered bank secured a patent for a cryptocurrency risk detection system.
2019-5-1 20:30 | |
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Scalability is one of the biggest issues in cryptocurrency, and several leading blockchains are throttled at a handful of transactions per second. High-throughput networks like EOS, which can process 4,000 payments every second, have been able to capitalize – to the tune of a few billion dollars – on the sector’s unmet demand for fast […] The post Irony: Coinbase Pushes Binance Launchpad Project MATIC To New Heights appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-5-1 22:12 | |
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The average speed of bitcoin is approximately 4. 6 transactions per section. Visa, in comparison, is able to process 1,700 transactions per second. To anybody, these numbers seem quite disappointing.
2019-4-23 19:11 | |
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Unita is a new project just launched by Qtum. The project is meant to be a solution for enterprise adoption and it providers users with fully automated data storage and transfer protocols. Impressively, the platform can handle 10,000 transactions per second.
2019-4-21 02:16 | |
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Ethereum (ETH) Has Seen Transactions Spike in The Last 3 Weeks Ethereum (ETH) may be the second largest crypto network by market cap, but it is far from being on the top of its glory. These days, it is said to be slow and unresponsive and companies seem to be migrating away from it. Many […]
2019-4-19 15:43 | |
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Over the last few weeks, bitcoin cash (BCH) and the network itself have been shining brightly after a year of bearish sentiment and the blockchain split last November. Most notably, this month BCH has shown a significant increase in daily transactions, the price has doubled, and today the network has produced the second highest value […] The post Statistics Show Bitcoin Cash Is a Strong Contender After Crypto Winter appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-4-19 23:45 | |
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Qtum has just launched a new blockchain solution for enterprise adoption. The new project, dubbed Unita, is a fully automated data storage and transfer protocol capable of handling over 10,000 transactions per second.
2019-4-19 21:54 | |
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CryptoNinjas Qtum, the open-source public blockchain platform, announced today the launch of Unita, a blockchain protocol designed for enterprises. Unita securely stores data, utilizes existing developer tools and automates information transfer processes for businesses at a documented speed of 10,000 transactions per second.
2019-4-18 16:09 | |
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The leak, which was posted by Vedomosti newspaper, is about Pavel Durov’s TON network testing . Several teams were admitted to the blockchain and installed nodes to test it. Gram will move XRP? According to previous statements by Pavel Durov, TON will process about a million transactions per second. Leaving far behind all existing platforms, […]
2019-4-12 23:04 | |
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There was one issue with Bitcoin when it was first proposed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto: it couldn’t scale. Ten years later and Bitcoin has the same scalability problem. Throughout its existence, it hasn’t managed to go beyond processing more than seven transactions per second; which was enough in the beginning.
2019-4-10 19:21 | |
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Bitcoin has reached a milestone! The blockchain powering the world’s most popular cryptocurrency officially processed its 400,000,000th transaction overnight. That’s right. Check the records – at pixel time, there have been at least 400,251,742 transactions sent via Bitcoin‘s independent, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
2019-4-9 12:19 | |
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Brendan Blumer, one of the executives behind EOS, criticized Bitcoin’s slow transaction times, low transactions per second, and high costs per transaction (when inflation is considered). Brendan Blumer, the 32-year-old CEO of Block.
2019-4-8 23:39 | |
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What Is 6x? The 6X Digital Asset Trading Platform is a registered company in Singapore. It reaches out to over one million users in more than 100 countries worldwide, handling daily transaction volume of more than $200 million USD globally.
2019-4-7 09:35 | |
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Litecoin Founder Charlie Lee took to Twitter to make it clear that Litecoin is not just a “glorified testnet” for Bitcoin and that the second layer on Bitcoin blockchain, Lightning Network for cheap, fast and scalable transactions doesn’t make Litecoin useless.
2019-4-5 21:19 | |
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A new report by the software firm DataLight predicted that Bitcoin could become the world’s top payment system within the next decade if it maintains its current growth rate.
2019-4-5 21:51 | |
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From its inception, EOS was designed to crack the scalability challenge, promising speeds up to millions of transactions per second. It’s true the infrastructure is mostly in place and EOS is operating faster than many other public blockchains on the market.
2019-3-25 10:00 | |
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aeternity has just acquired a stake in micropayments startup SatoshiPay, to help the micropayments platform hit 2,000+ transactions per second. The post Aeternity Teams Up With SatoshiPay For Faster Transactions appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-3-22 00:01 | |
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said that the Ethereum network needs to process 100,000 transactions per second to be… The post Vitalik On Ethereum: “Right Now It Can Process 15 Transactions Per Second.
2019-3-21 10:27 | |
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Visa is hiring a Technical Product Manager for its Fintech division, according to a recent job listing on SmartRecruiters. Visa Crypto American multinational financial services giant Visa is taking the “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” strategy when it comes to cryptocurrencies.
2019-3-18 19:30 | |
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There’s a monumental shift planned for the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Ethereum is edging closer to its new consensus algorithm, which promises to fix the platform’s scalability and transaction throughput bottlenecks – but a new industry report claims it might not work.
2019-3-7 18:15 | |
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Bither Platform (BTR) is a Three-layer and multi-mining project that is an answer to the energy consumption problem in PoW mechanism, The first layer is a fully functional and secure layer with a reward system for the miners.
2019-3-2 00:03 | |
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For the second time since its inception, Bitcoin surpassed online payment giant PayPal in annual transactional volume. Per the data collected from global statistics portals, the Bitcoin network posted $1.
2019-2-26 16:19 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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Today’s Video Briefing takes a look at one of the latest platforms for Fintech smart contracts: IOST. The Internet of Services Token has announced a successful mainnet launch, as a first step to transitioning from Ethereum to a high-speed blockhain with potentially thousands of transactions per second.
2019-2-26 19:34 | |
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Bitcoin transaction rate is currently at its highest level since December 2017 despite the 14-month long bear market. With transaction per second on the rise, the top-ranked cryptocurrency is also experiencing a resurgence in both actual use, especially in emerging markets, and interest as seen in the latest Google search trends.
2019-2-21 22:00 | |
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Binance announced Wednesday that users are now able to set up accounts and begin trading cryptocurrencies on its new Binance DEX testnet, which went live earlier this morning. Built on the exchange’s new blockchain, Binance Chain, the DEX is intended to be a decentralized and secure marketplace.
2019-2-20 11:00 | |
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Bybit, a blockchain-based derivatives exchange platform has launched its second product, an Ethereum perpetual contract, just two months after it started its BTC/USD perpetual contract. According to the team, the new ETHUSD perpetual contract comes with leverage of 100x, functioning in the same way with the BTCUSD perpetual contract, processing 100,000 transactions per second (TPS).
2019-2-20 09:22 | |
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Ternio, a scalable blockchain architecture for enterprise organizations, has announced its acceptance as an Amazon Advanced APN Technology Partner. Ternio’s patent-pending Lexicon framework has made headlines in recent months as the only scalable blockchain framework capable of supporting over one million transactions per second, fully... Source
2019-2-20 15:55 | |
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Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has completed a $30 million Series B round led by American VC firm Accel and Benchmark, who led the startup's Series A funding in April 2018.
2019-2-15 19:41 | |
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Chainalysis, the company that works to track crypto transactions, has completed their second fundraising round. Led by venture capital firm Accel, a total of $30 million was raised. Chainalysis Doubling Down in London One of the first moves they will make with the cash injection is to double their employees in London.
2019-2-13 09:16 | |
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At a recent cryptocurrency conference, Vitalik Buterin answered a question about whether an Ethereum upgrade would have “any transaction throughput goals. ” Buterin took the opportunity to cast shade on Ethereum alternatives like EOS, NEO, and Tron.
2019-2-7 01:26 | |
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Старший аналитик по макроэкономике криптовалютной платформы eToro Мати Гринспэн отметил, что «наблюдается еще один подъем числа транзакций с Bitcoin в секунду — показатель составляет 3,8 операций в секунду, и в последние 12 месяцев демонстрирует устойчивый рост».
2019-2-7 15:04 | |
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When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary.
2019-2-5 23:06 | |
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OAX, a Hong Kong-based decentralized trading platform, announced last Friday they had successfully deployed a new scaling protocol which, they claim, enables it to handle 1,000 transactions per second (tps).
2019-2-4 19:01 | |
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Not only does Lightning Network negate the existence of many altcoins but also takes a hatchet to smart contract platforms by enabling various apps (LApps). Harnessing the BTC network while enabling instant transactions and near-zero fees, these Lapps are already demonstrating some promising use-cases for Bitcoin’s second layer.
2019-1-27 14:00 | |
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Even though its price has collapsed by nearly 70%, Bitcoin (BTC) is still growing, with transaction rates at an all-year high. Data collected by Blockchain.com indicate that the number of transactions added every second to the mempool – the holding area for crypto trades before they’re added to the ledger – have reached the highest level […] The post Bitcoin Movements At A Twelve Month High appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-1-25 22:53 | |
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According to a tweet from the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, the well-known cryptocurrency exchange has suddenly paused its trading due to what is being called “unscheduled maintenance. ” The tweet did not explain much more than that, but Binance has been facing issues for the past few weeks, infuriating their users.
Crypto exchange Binance has rolled out yet another service offering dubbed Binance X. The platform will serve as a hub to engage and support developers and foster third-party development within Binance's network.
Privacy-focused web browser Brave has announced plans to develop its own crypto wallet, which will run on MetaMask's open-source codebase. The wallet will support Ethereum tokens, including Brave's own native BAT, and cryptocollectibles like CryptoKitties.
Crypto exchange Binance has announced it will launch Binance Lending. The service will allow users to lend out their dormant holdings and earn interest in return. The service will launch with support for Tether, Binance Coin, and Ethereum Classic.
Agencies to include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, an Australian investigative agency, and an unnamed agency have opened separate investigations into the defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX.
Data firm Nomics has announced the launch of its transparent volume service, which calculates the percentage of real volume traded on crypto exchanges to push back against the trend of faked trading volume.
Though Binance has maintained that the know-your-customer hack earlier this month was not entirely made up of Binance users, those whose photos were successfully linked to the exchange will receive free, lifetime VIP membership accounts.