2018-12-28 22:14 |
The means were likely illegal, probably unethical, and definitely amusing.
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Blockchain and crypto projects that raised millions of dollars via tokenized crowdfunding means are now lining up to return their capital to their original investors. Because apparently, they were not allowed to raise funds in the first place.
2018-12-14 18:45 | |
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One of the largest UK phone networks, O2, is investigating a network outage that has rendered mobile data inaccessible to the company’s 25 million customers. The issue is also impacting customers of MVNOs that piggyback on O2’s infrastructure, like GiffGaff, Tesco Mobile, and Lyca Mobile.
2018-12-6 13:48 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges are catching up to their traditional counterparts, a new study suggests. According to a report released by global professional services company Accenture, revenue from cryptocurrency exchanges is now matching that of traditional exchanges.
2018-11-29 20:08 | |
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How Does Laundering Money Via Bitcoin Work? We hear about crypto exchanges being pressured to implement things like KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) all the time, which means that cryptocurrencies can likely be used for such illicit activities.
2018-11-28 00:16 | |
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After a bearish year of perennial price swings that culminated in months of tightly wound sideways movement, the (former) bottom has dropped out for bitcoin and the wider crypto market.
2018-11-28 21:44 | |
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Honeysuckle White is giving family and friends gathering for Thanksgiving dinner this year the opportunity to talk turkey with a traceable blockchain code on more than 200,000 turkeys sold through 3,500 retailers around the U.
2018-11-23 00:52 | |
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Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.
2018-11-17 01:42 | |
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The market for cryptocurrency tax services is growing rapidly, and it is providing forward-thinking tax professionals with an opportunity to capture oversized profits.
2018-11-15 16:58 | |
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Even though things were looking relatively smooth for Dogecoin, its imminent uptrend has not materialized by any means. Similar to most other altcoins, DOGE is bleeding value in both USD and BTC.
2018-11-8 20:25 | |
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Ripple (XRP) seems to be undeterred by Bitcoin (BTC)’s uncertain moves. It did fall yesterday like the rest of the market. However, it was very keen on reversing those losses today. The above chart for XRP/USD on the daily time frame shows Ripple (XRP) in a clear ascending channel.
2018-10-13 00:30 | |
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This year has been a strange one for XRP (and digital currency in general!), the token has seen fluctuation after fluctuation and the price has never stayed in one area for a long period of time. The token, owned and designed by Ripple, has recently seen a change in price over the past month and even a time when we thought that the bad times were essentially over but now it has crashed down by over 40% from its high in September of $0.
2018-10-11 12:30 | |
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Chart for BTC/USD (1W) Bitcoin (BTC) is finally out of the woods. The above weekly chart for BTC/USD shows that Bitcoin (BTC) has formed a weekly candle above the historical downtrend line. This is the first time since January 2018 that Bitcoin (BTC) has breached this resistance line and formed a candle above it.
2018-10-10 00:30 | |
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Life in Venezuela is anything but. Last year, the South American nation of 32 million led the world with 652% inflation and this year the economic turmoil is even worse. As of September 2018, the annual inflation was estimated at 200,000% and International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it could spike to a mindboggling 1,000,000% by December.
2018-10-10 22:30 | |
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Tron’s Odyssey 3. 1 update is finally happening, but that’s not even the real news. The real news is about what exactly this update means to TRX as a crypto and how Tron investors are likely to benefit from it.
2018-10-8 14:37 | |
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At press time, the father of cryptocurrency has dropped below the $6,500 mark and is now trading for $6,471. This means the currency has now lost approximately 54 percent of its value since the beginning of the year, and market players – particularly bitcoin-based hedge funds – are really starting to feel the heat.
2018-10-4 21:19 | |
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Are the odds against Bitcoin (BTC)? In the short term, yes, the odds are against Bitcoin (BTC). The above daily chart for BTC/USD shows Bitcoin (BTC) trading in a symmetrical triangle. As can be seen very clearly, the price was falling before August 14 when it entered the symmetrical triangle.
2018-10-3 17:00 | |
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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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Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
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On the most recent episode of Let’s Talk Bitcoin!, the hosts discuss the now-defunct Bitcoin Alert system, devised by Satoshi himself. A rarity in the podcast space, this episode’s exploration involved no guest appearances, instead relying on the wealth of experience that Adam B.
2018-9-22 22:58 | |
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As controversies surrounding Bitmain’s looming IPO spell uncertainty for the future well-being of the mining goliath, competitors are fast to move in on the manufacturer’s territory.
2018-9-21 01:04 | |
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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.
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
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It’s that time of year again: Microsoft is ready to announce new devices. The company just sent out press invites for an event on October 2, taking place in New York. Going by the company’s history, that means we should expect updates to the Surface line.
2018-9-8 20:20 | |
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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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One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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Cardano (ADA) is now down more than 90% since its all time high but that has not stopped it from entering a new bear trend. The price just broke below the 21 EMA on the 4H chart for ADA/USD above.
2018-8-20 18:00 | |
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Mobile payment company Square is expanding its bitcoin trading support to all 50 states through its Cash App. This means that residents in all corners of the U. S.
2018-8-16 01:20 | |
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Though altcoins are finding reprieve following rapid depreciation mid this week, the fact that most are trading at new 2018 lows as IOTA, Litecoin while some as EOS and Stellar Lumens are retesting important support line means the market might add to their losses in coming days/weeks.
2018-8-10 03:02 | |
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Researchers at Duo Labs have discovered that Twitter is home to at least 15,000 scam bots and have published their findings in a new report. Between May and July of 2018, staff members observed, collected and analyzed nearly 90 million public Twitter accounts that had released over 500 million tweets.
2018-8-9 20:51 | |
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Ethereum Classic (ETC) looks more bullish than any other coin at the moment. The reasons are not solid fundamentals and positive developments alone. The above weekly chart for ETC/BTC shows something that you would not find on the chart of any other top 20 coin.
2018-8-6 18:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency adoption means that eventually, companies will start to offer salary and wage payments in cryptocurrency. Indeed, this is likely to happen within tech companies and blockchain firms first of all, but the premise is pretty clear.
2018-8-2 08:00 | |
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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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Bitcoin (BTC) has run into resistance and now appears to have topped out once again as it sets for a pullback. EMA alignment for BTC/USD on the daily chart above continues to remain bearish.
2018-7-26 21:30 | |
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The Law Commission of India has recognized cryptocurrency as a means of electronic payment. The pronouncement came during the Commission’s recent feasibility study of the legality of online gambling in the country.
2018-7-26 13:14 | |
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Cardano (ADA) is trading at the lower half of the pitchfork on the ADA/BTC chart above. This means that the cryptocurrency is close to finish its correction and will likely find a bottom around mid August, if it trades with the same momentum.
2018-7-25 18:00 | |
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If you’ve updated Google Chrome to version 68, which rolled out this week, you’ll likely begin seeing a ‘Not secure’ warning in the address bar. That’s to let you know that the site you’re visiting is not HTTPS-enabled, and the traffic is being transmitted over the old, less secure HTTP protocol.
2018-7-25 09:58 | |
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Here is a file that contains data, extracted from geth, about transaction fees in every block between 4710000 and 4730000. For each block, it contains an object of the form: { "block":4710000, "coinbase":"0x829bd824b016326a401d083b33d092293333a830", "deciles":[40,40.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help and explanations, and Justin Drake for reviewing In the last part of this series, we talked about how you can make some pretty interesting succinct proofs of computation, such as proving that you have computed the millionth Fibonacci number, using a technique involving polynomial composition and division.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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The following is a diagram from a slide that I made in one of my presentations at Cornell this week: </img> If there was one diagram that could capture the core principle of Casper’s incentivization philosophy, this might be it.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Looks like it’s blockchain split season again. For background of various people discussing the topic, and whether such splits are good or bad: Power laws and network effects (arguing the BTC/BCC split may destroy value due to network effect loss): https://medium.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Ethereum (ETH) is still in a strong downtrend. The price has failed even to get past the 50 EMA since June as can be seen in the chart for ETH/USD above. The EMA alignment is strongly bullish and the RSI signals more downside to come in the days ahead.
2018-7-20 21:30 | |
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The EU’s Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies released a report entitled “Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead.
2018-7-3 23:28 | |
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While fundamentals are supportive of Litecoin, the mere fact that Bitcoin is on a slide, adding on to their losses means there is more room for LTC downsides. The effect is can’t be clearer, so far it’s down six percent in the last 24 hours and likely to break below $70, our first bear target.
2018-6-30 03:04 | |
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Daniel Larmier, the founder and technical architect of EOS, has confirmed that he wants to scrap the platform’s current constitution and build a new one. Speaking on the EOSIO Gov Telegram Channel, Larimer claimed he has doubts about the company’s current on-chain governance model and called the existing constitution “unwise.
2018-6-28 01:44 | |
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Monero Price Key Highlights Monero price is still in trading inside its descending channel despite the spike higher. This means that the downtrend is still likely to resume from here, as reflected by technical indicators also.
2018-6-27 06:37 | |
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The Japan-based Mt. Gox exchange had its bankruptcy stayed due to a petition filed by some of the creditors for the commencement of civil rehabilitation proceedings in Tokyo District Court on November 24, 2017, and heard today, June 22, 2018.
2018-6-23 19:39 | |
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Introducing on-chain governance to crypto networks is likely to make them more like nation-states with the inefficiencies that entails.
2018-6-22 11:00 | |
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Earlier this week, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland issued a new document as part of its annual economic report that warns citizens of the dangers of digital currencies.
2018-6-20 22:29 | |
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“When Blockchain Revolution came out, bitcoin was worth around $7 billion. Today, it’s more than twenty-two times that. Bitcoin is the workhorse of the cryptocurrency world and the cryptocurrency that launched a thousand ships.
2018-6-19 22:15 | |
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Canada’s government has released draft regulations for “virtual currencies” with a consultation period of 90 days, saying that proposed regulatory changes could mean a loss of $60 million over 10 years for businesses that deal in cryptocurrencies but will improve Canada’s international reputation and make it easier for crypto businesses to deal overseas.
2018-6-13 20:24 | |
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Sui recorded notable price actions over the past day, becoming the highest gainer among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap. The altcoin climbed from the daily low of $0. 8696 to $1. 0296, translating to an 18.
Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL) stock price has continued to lag behind the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 indices this year. It has crashed by over 35% this year as the two indices are hovering near their all-time highs.
Lumia has announced a significant milestone in its journey to revolutionize the blockchain space, with the company surpassing the sale of 25,000 nodes. This achievement coincides with the successful completion of a strategic fundraising round, marking a pivotal moment in the company’s growth.
Decentralised exchange (DEX) tokens have joined the rest of the crypto industry in a deep sell-off. Uniswap (UNI), the biggest DEX in the industry, has retreated to $5. 56, down by over 66% from its highest point this year.
The recent developments in the legal fight between the United States SEC and Binance brought optimistic news to the crypto community. The regulator has decided to revise its complaint against exchange Binance, seeking not to have to prove that assets such as Solana and Polygon are securities.
Spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are making waves in the cryptocurrency world, drawing billions in new investments and reigniting interest in related projects. Among the beneficiaries of this surge is AirSwap (AST), a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platform built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Bitcoin ATMs are on the rise in Latin America, with Mexico emerging as a significant contender. Although El Salvador remains the leader in Bitcoin ATM installations following its approval of the Bitcoin Law, it now faces increased competition from neighboring countries.