2020-2-18 18:15 |
American radio star, host of The Infowars, and far-right conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, met with pro-bitcoin champion Max Keiser. He admits, “You’re right, I should have gotten involved in bitcoin a long time ago”. origin »
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Full transcript: Jessica Walker (JW): We’re ending the year on another hugely positive note. We’re seeing bitcoin (BTC) as the best performing asset, over the past ten years. How are you reviewing this year’s performance in crypto? Alex Mashinsky (AM): Well, we were obviously tested a few times — once with COVID, and again, with … Continued The post EXCLUSIVE: Alex Mashinsky Says Take Whatever Spare Cash You Have And Buy Some Bitcoin appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-12-31 14:57 | |
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On July 11th, the president of the United States went on a Twitter tirade speaking about his distaste for cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and Facebook’s Libra. Following this announcement, bitcoin prices remained unaffected.
2019-7-16 22:14 | |
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A woman accused of running a Bitcoin-powered fake ID ring pleaded guilty on Tuesday after authorities busted the operation last year. Among other charges, Sarah Alberts, 35, who is due to be sentenced on October 8, admitted to money laundering, reports say.
2019-7-3 13:24 | |
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Bitcoin’s recent spike above $9000 has been the talk of the town, with several analysts and proponents of the cryptocurrency vouching for its revival. In a series of tweets, Alex Kruger, a popular economist, spoke about the entry of institutions into the Bitcoin ecosystem and how the switch from retail investors was beneficial to the […] The post Economist calls out JP Morgan analyst for incorrectly equating Bitcoin’s intrinsic value to its mining cost appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-17 11:30 | |
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By CCN: The man, the meme, the legend – Alex Jones has become an ingrained part of the Bitcoin subculture in recent years, thanks to several revelations made on his flagship show Infowars.
2019-6-9 17:12 | |
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The Chinese government may have stifled crypto companies, but that has in no way stopped the people of China from investing in Bitcoin (BTC). Alex Kruger, an economist and cryptocurrency trader, did some research on the BTC market and concluded that the theory that China may have caused some of the surge in BTC price […]
2019-6-4 19:27 | |
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By CCN: China may have cracked down on cryptocurrency companies, but that’s not stopping the local population from pursuing bitcoin as an investment. Economist and trader Alex Kruger did the research and found that there may be some truth to the theory that China fueled much of the gains in the BTC price last month.
2019-6-4 05:30 | |
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Self-professed cypherpunk Jameson Lopp has set the cryptocurrency community a seemingly impossible task: efficiently explain Bitcoin in less than 280 characters. A global, neutral payment network that allows anyone on earth to transact a huge or tiny amount of value with anyone else within minutes, without needing to ask permission from a government, without disclosing one’s personal information, and without the possibility of censorship.
2019-6-3 14:33 | |
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Over the past couple of months, BTCs native hashrate has been witnessing steady growth. According to Bitfury CIO ‘Alex Petrov’, PoW based altcoins are more secure when compared to currency’s that make use of other digital frameworks.
2019-6-3 09:46 | |
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By CCN: Bitcoin tycoon and Everus World founder Alex Johnson and his wife engaged in a threesome that ended with the mysterious death of a Dutch model in December 2017. Ever since, the couple has been living as outcasts, moving from one city to another while hiding from the anger and threats of vigilantes.
2019-6-2 02:30 | |
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About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
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Alex Tapscott, the co-founder of the blockchain company NextBlock, has reached an agreement with the Ontario Securities Commission after producing “misleading content”. Per the report by The Globe and Mail on May 13, 2019, the entrepreneur, aside paying the sum of $300,000 as penalty fine, will also be giving lectures on ethics to Canadian business schools.
2019-5-15 09:00 | |
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At the risk of making “an ass” of himself, a cryptocurrency veteran expects Bitcoin (BTC) to return to five-digit prices within the next few days. Alex Mashinsky, an early developer of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and founder of the Celsius Network, expects the price of Bitcoin to reach $10,000 before facing a significant correction.
2019-5-15 01:55 | |
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The price of bitcoin rallied by over nine percent week-on-week despite the revelations that market-leading stablecoin USDT is not fully backed by US dollars as we were made to believe. On Sunday evening, BTC/USD traded at $5,785.
2019-5-6 19:00 | |
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High-profile information transparency advocate and co-founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been sentenced by a British court to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail conditions after he was forced to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in which he has been seeking refuge since 2012.
2019-5-6 09:00 | |
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada have managed to increase the speed of Hyperledger Fabric blockchain transactions almost sevenfold through a series of optimizations. Waterloo Researchers Give Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain a Boost According to a blog post on the University of Waterloo website, researchers have increased transaction speeds on the Hyperledger FabricRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-4 23:00 | |
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Ethereum-based trustless digital asset trading venture, dYdX, has gone live and is now open to the public as announced by dYdX announced in a Medium post, May 1, 2019. The highly anticipated project, backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital, enables traders to trade ETH using leverage with DAI as the baseRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-3 11:00 | |
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The price of bitcoin closed effectively unchanged versus last week’s close – after hitting a recent high of $5,640 – as a result of the New York Attorney General Office’s claims that Bitfinex has been covering up an $850 million loss using funds from its sister company Tether.
2019-4-29 19:00 | |
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On April 23 to 24, 2019, more than 3,000 attendees from 70 countries gathered in the world’s blockchain capital — Singapore. Top crypto companies (Binance, Huobi, Listing. Help, crypto messenger ELVN and others), world famous experts (Tim Draper, Roger Ver, Alex Reinhardt and others), mining giants (Bitmain, Btc.
2019-4-28 21:00 | |
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Algorithmic digital asset trading company GSR announced the launch of a new cryptocurrency derivative, called a Bitcoin Variance Swap, which allows investors to hedge their cryptoasset portfolio against the volatility of bitcoin.
2019-4-26 18:18 | |
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Two Texan men have pled guilty at the Manhattan Supreme Court to selling illegal steroids and other drugs on the dark web, reportedly netting $2. 8 million during their five-year-long operation. Drug Dealers Plead Guilty Callaway Crain and Mark Sanchez, both 35, ran an illegal operation from 2013 to 2018 during which the duo sold steroidsRead MoreRead More.
2019-4-25 05:00 | |
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California-based online brokerage with zero-fees, Robinhood, announced that it has applied for a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency with the aim of being able to “offer traditional banking products and services.
2019-4-24 17:00 | |
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Blockchain technology company Blockstream has revealed that it was able to successfully complete a trust-minimized forward-contract transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain. The transaction occurred on April 16 between Blockstream and Crypto Garage.
2019-4-24 11:42 | |
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The recent bitcoin rally has driven bitcoin mining profits. Profits earned from bitcoin mining have seen a clear rise since the start of April 2019 and hit a near half-a-year high on April 15, 2019.
2019-4-23 19:35 | |
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The price of bitcoin has increased by over four percent week-on-week to $5,333 per coin as investors are starting to buy bitcoin again now that the ‘crypto winter’ is considered over and the sentiment is turning bullish.
2019-4-23 20:00 | |
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A report compiled by researchers at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge is providing insight into the global regulatory climate as it pertains to digital assets. The paper finds that a lack of standardized terminology is one of the main impediments to a consistent regulatory response across the world.
2019-4-20 09:00 | |
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Jonathan Nightingale, a tech professional who formerly worked at Mozilla, has made detailed allegations that technology giant Google has been sabotaging Firefox, Mozilla’s browser. Nightingale claims Google has been acting in this manner for years in order to provide Google Chrome with an advantage.
2019-4-19 17:00 | |
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Leading blockchain analysis company, Chainalysis, has managed to secure $6 million in funding from Japanese financial services giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and venture capital firm Sozo Ventures.
2019-4-17 11:54 | |
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Indian Bitcoin exchange Unocoin was reportedly forced to let go of half of its staff, this came after talks to raise a new round of funds have failed to conjure up new money for the struggling bitcoin startup.
2019-4-16 13:23 | |
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A federal jury convicted two hackers on 21 counts of cybercrimes including infecting computers with malware to steal credit card information. The culprits also attempted to sell sensitive data on dark web marketplaces, engaged in online fraud and illegally mined digital currencies.
2019-4-16 13:00 | |
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The price of bitcoin remained effectively unchanged at the $5,000 mark, week-on-week after the premier cryptocurrency retraced from its mid-week high of $5,421 per coin. The biggest story of the week was the attempted “doxxing” of Twitter user Hodlnaut by Bitcoin SV advocate Craig S.
2019-4-16 11:00 | |
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Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have rapidly become a hot topic in the ongoing crypto bear market. NewsBTC took some time to sit down with Alex Wearn, the chief executive of AuroraDAO, the company by the popular IDEX exchange, to talk about this crypto subsector, mainstream Bitcoin adoption, and this innovation’s long-term prospects when pitted against the.
2019-4-15 17:15 | |
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Be careful what you wish for. The crypto community continues to beg big investors to get on board with bitcoin, but there could be some unintended – and alarming – side effects. Most notably, bitcoin could be destined to hitch its wagon to the fate of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
2019-4-10 20:35 | |
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Liechtenstein-based private bank Bank Frick and Bitcoin Suisse have launched an active BTC-ETH tracker certificate that is available in traditional equity format and an ERC-20 token targeted at professional investors, this according to an official press release April 9, 2019.
2019-4-10 15:00 | |
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The New York Times has revealed the steps it takes to protect its journalists’ privacy and online security. Speaking to Vice on the CYBER podcast, Runa Sandvik, the newly-instated senior director of information security at The New York Times shed light on the tools and practices employed by the media organization to maximize safety forRead MoreRead More.
2019-4-10 05:00 | |
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The world’s newest sovereign state Liberland announced a partnership with Crowdholding, a blockchain-backed platform designed to improve communication and insights between startups and the public.
2019-4-10 23:00 | |
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The price of bitcoin rallied by over 25 percent week-on-week thanks to a hefty price jump on April 2, 2019, which some believe was caused by algorithmic trading hedge funds while others think it was the work of a single buyer.
2019-4-8 19:00 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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If one is planning to launch an ICO or an STO to fund a startup, one of the seemingly unconnected factors that may affect the failure of success of the token sale is the country in which founders are basing their venture.
2019-4-6 09:00 | |
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As the cryptoasset market has evolved into a popular asset class for professional traders, there are now more and more advanced trading strategies that are being applied in the crypto markets. In this guide, readers will be introduced to pair trading and how they can use this market-neutral strategy to generate a trading profit inRead MoreRead More.
2019-4-6 23:00 | |
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By CCN. com: After a long and bitter winter, the crypto thaw has arrived and bears have lost their grip on the market. One economist says the bears were sent packing into hibernation as many as three months ago from a technical standpoint, though you wouldn’t know it from March’s narrow bitcoin trading range.
2019-3-30 22:46 | |
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The open-source project behind the popular anonymous internet browser Tor has announced that it now accepts donations in several cryptocurrencies. Donors can choose between bitcoin and eight other digital currencies to fund the development of the open-source project’s applications.
2019-3-26 10:00 | |
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The price of bitcoin managed to remain above the $4,000 mark, suggesting that this psychological important resistance line has now become a support level, which means the next move may be another leg higher.
2019-3-25 21:00 | |
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Lightning Labs' Alex Bosworth talks about how the lightning network provides bitcoin's best hope for becoming the payments network of the future.
2019-3-24 14:05 | |
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A new cryptocurrency project, called Destroyer DAO, is attempting to clean up the cryptocurrency space. Through an interesting combination of two distinct features, proof-of-burn, and a DAO, the new project hopes to destroy valueless “shitcoins.
2019-3-23 02:00 | |
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Alex Saunders, who lives in Australia and is a normal and everyday citizen, is taking big steps to try and shift the government’s perception and position on cryptocurrency. Particularly, he will present his stance on cryptocurrency to the Australian Treasury.
2019-3-22 00:58 | |
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Lightning Labs, the development team working to grow the Lightning Network, just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop. Lightning Loop is designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels (the two-way payment gateways that allow users to send and receive funds to and from each other) without closing these channels entirely.
2019-3-22 20:32 | |
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The price of bitcoin has finally managed to surpass the physiologically important $4,000 mark to close the week two percent in the green versus last week’s close. At the time of press, however, the pioneer cryptocurrency has fallen under this important mark.
2019-3-19 12:00 | |
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A trio of researchers has found that the cryptographic e-voting system used by the Swiss Post has a vulnerability that enables authorities to manipulate the outcome of elections in an undetectable manner.
2019-3-19 00:00 | |
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A renowned economist disagrees with Bitcoin supporters who claim that cryptocurrency could someday solve the national debt of the United States. Related Reading: Energy Crisis In Iran — Is Bitcoin Mining To Blame? Economist Peter Schiff expressed his skepticism on the bold declaration of what he called “Bitcoin pumpers” that 1 million BTC can settle […]
A financial commentator warned that Bitcoin could potentially weaken the US dollar if the government would intervene in the cryptocurrency. Economist Peter Schiff believes that if the American government decided to adopt the firstborn crypto, it would have an adverse effect on the greenback by inflating the money supply.
Popular Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff dismisses claims of growing institutional interest in the maiden cryptocurrency. Schiff’s challenging statement comes following the recent Bitcoin market sell-off which resulted in a 10% price decline on Friday.
Bitcoin price was trading lower on Thursday as a negative sentiment in the crypto industry continued while the German government dumped more tokens. The BTC token dropped to a low of $59,918, its lowest point since May 1st. It has…
Bitcoin’s post-halving consolidation has prompted cynical rhetoric from popular crypto naysayer Peter Schiff.
The recent Bitcoin halving event, meant to slow down the creation of new coins, has ignited a fresh debate within the cryptocurrency community. Economist Peter Schiff threw gasoline on the fire by criticizing Bitcoin’s viability as a currency due to rising transaction fees and sluggish processing times.
Popular economist and vocal opponent of Bitcoin Peter Schiff has issued a warning to the cryptocurrency community, predicting that BTC Spot Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) buyers will soon start bailing out as they become overwhelmed by the volatility in the market.