Two Different Ideas Of The Lightning Network

The Lightning Network operates on channels which require funding and necessitate fees — but is everyone participating for the same reason?

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Survey reveals majority of Brazilians support El Salvador's Bitcoin move 

Despite El Salvador enduring a bumpy first week of making Bitcoin legal tender, different regions have showcased interest in the same. Neighboring Central American countries such as Panama, HonduraThe post Survey reveals majority of Brazilians support El Salvador's Bitcoin move  appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Assessing the risk-free returns potential of Algorand, Avalanche, AAVE, COMP

During turbulent markets, some traders look to different options for steady gains on cryptocurrencies. Of late, for the same reason, yield farming has gained popularity as staking/ lending cryptocurreThe post Assessing the risk-free returns potential of Algorand, Avalanche, AAVE, COMP appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin Is Undergoing A Similar Process Of Price Discovery To Gold In The 1970s, Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer Posits

Bitcoin and gold are probably common tools with which investors hedge against inflation today, but can be likened to two different players on the same team, asserts Jurrien Timmer, the Director of Global Macro at Fidelity Investments.

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DOGE Vs Real Estate: Elon Musk Amused by Irony of How Different Generations Invest Their Funds

Elon Musk feels amused about the difference of how current 30-year-olds prefer DOGE and their parents in the same age “invested” in their own house

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Splinterlands and Yield Guild Games (YGG) Partner for Growth and Expand Possibilities for Players

Splinterlands and Yield Guild Games (YGG) are joining hands on different fronts for growth and player empowerment, a press release on June 21 shows. Splinterlands and Yield Guild Games Partnership is a win for Players In the statement, the partnership will help expand the Splinterlands’ ecosystem.

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For XRP, is an additional sell-off on the cards? What then?

It has been a month since the crypto crash but the market has shown no clear signs of recovery just yet. Majority of altcoins have traded below major resistance marks and the same was no different forThe post For XRP, is an additional sell-off on the cards? What then? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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How one bitcoin factor became a boon for Litecoin

Bitcoin and gold are different sides of the same equation. There have been several instances in the past where financial studies have asserted how Bitcoin could potentially replace gold in the future.

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CBDC’s Unlikely To Threaten Cryptocurrencies, Market Has Evolved: Morgan Stanley Report

As central banks worldwide continue to establish their digital currencies, one of the largest US investment banks, Morgan Stanley, says they won't be a threat to cryptocurrencies. Analysts at Morgan Stanley believe that both central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and cryptocurrencies would co-exist because they are not the same and serve different purposes.

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Bitcoin 'brings something significantly different to portfolios:' Ruffer

While it's been a good few months for Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market, the asset class continues to surf the eye of the storm. The same was evidenced by Janet Yellen's recent comments on BitcoinThe post Bitcoin 'brings something significantly different to portfolios:' Ruffer appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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What Is the Difference between Ethereum and Ether?

Ethereum and Ether are terms that are often used in the same context. However, they are two completely different things and there are actually a number of differences that are imperative to be aware of.

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Blockfolio Review 2021 – Is This Still The King of Crypto Trackers?

Having completed my reviews of other crypto tools and portfolio trackers, I realized that I still had the same problems as before: I had a bunch of cryptocurrency all over different wallets and exchanges and I needed a way to keep track of it all.

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Bitcoin: How’s 2021 Different Than The 2017 Bull?

Traders have been waiting for three years for Bitcoin to climb back to the same price range it was before the crash in 2017. In 2017, Bitcoin’s rally was the talk of the town. Driven by FOMO sentiment, people who previously weren’t skeptical about cryptocurrencies flocked to the crypto market, which further pushed the BitcoinRead More

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Coinbase vs eToro 2021 – Fees, Features, Security Compared

On first sight, Coinbase and eToro should not have too much in common and won’t be mentioned in the same sentence too often. One is the leading on-ramp into the world of cryptocurrency and the other is a well-known platform for trading different kinds of financial products and derivatives.

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BTC dumps as Coinbase CEO mentions potential US regulations for crypto wallets

Veterans will say it’s the same story in a different dress.

The post BTC dumps as Coinbase CEO mentions potential US regulations for crypto wallets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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In this bull run, why are price rallies of Bitcoin and ETH not the same?

Everyone looks at Bitcoin and Etherum differently. To the ardent followers of one, the other is either too little or too much. To unfamiliar traders, they are just different ways of referring to cryptThe post In this bull run, why are price rallies of Bitcoin and ETH not the same? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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‘Control the Pandemic’ – Fed Chair Jerome Powell Predicts the Entry of a ‘Different Economy’

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told participants at the Bay Area Council Business Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony on Tuesday that the economy will never be the same after Covid-19. According to Powell, the use of accelerated technology will change the way the global economy operates as his commentary was quite similar to the recent […] The post ‘Control the Pandemic’ – Fed Chair Jerome Powell Predicts the Entry of a ‘Different Economy’ appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Bitcoin top signal from 2017 reappears, but here’s why it may not matter this time

The price of Bitcoin rose to $20,000 in 2017 and crashed. According to Glassnode, the same top signal has emerged, but feels different this time for several reasons.

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Bahamas on Track to Launch Its Sand Dollar in October

Coinspeaker Bahamas on Track to Launch Its Sand Dollar in OctoberThe digital currency dubbed “Sand Dollar” will not be much different from the Bahamas local currency as they will both have the same regulations.

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Bitcoin and Gold Correlation Leads to Matching Cup and Handle Patterns

Bitcoin and gold are regularly compared due to the similarities they share. But could those same similarities be the reason for each asset’s price charts forming the exact same continuation pattern? Across two very different timeframes, both the cryptocurrency and the precious metal are forming a cup and handle.

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Report: Ethereum Activity in 2020 Nearing ICO Euphoria Levels

Certain metrics tied to Ethereum’s ongoing surge in network activity and price is nearing levels seen previously in the infamous 2018 ICO market, a report noted in its Q2 market outlook. Same Conditions, Different Outcome Xangle – a research firm focused on-chain analytics for cryptocurrencies – recently released its report on “Decentralized Finance (DeFi) inRead MoreRead More.

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Binance Pool introduces ‘Smart Pool’ service with higher hash rate and returns for miners

Binance Pool, a cryptocurrency mining platform dedicated to empowering miners and the global crypto mining industry, recently launched a Smart Pool service to enable higher returns for miners. By auto-switching hash rates to mine different currencies with the same algorithm, the Smart Pool service provides higher hash rates and an increase of returns to its […] CryptoNinjas: Binance Pool introduces ‘Smart Pool’ service with higher hash rate and returns for miners

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Bitcoin CME Short Exposure Matches Previous Top, Is Another Crypto Crash Coming?

Bitcoin interest across retail exchanges and derivatives platforms has been surging throughout 2020. The Chicago Merchantile Exchange better known as CME is no different. Over at CME, short positions have recently grown to the same level as the February 2020 top.

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XRP's 2020 growth is commendable, but will it be different this time?

The story for XRP is the same in every bull run. Over the past year, whenever the third-largest crypto-asset has undergone a positive surge, the XRP community has been the first to put its bullish The post XRP's 2020 growth is commendable, but will it be different this time? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin Diamond, Qtum, and Stellar price: High-volatility underway?

Almost all cryptocurrencies followed the same pattern as the top coin during this market crash. Altcoins like Bitcoin Diamond, Stellar, and Qtum were no different. Stellar[XLM] Source: XLM/USD,The post Bitcoin Diamond, Qtum, and Stellar price: High-volatility underway? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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eToro vs Binance 2020 – Fees, Features, Security Compared

Only couple of years ago, eToro was a well known platform for trading different kinds of financial products while Binance was non-existent noun in English language. These two should not have too much in common and you won’t see them mentioned in the same sentence too often.

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Coinbase vs eToro 2020 – Fees, Features, Security Compared

On first sight, Coinbase and eToro should not have too much in common and won’t be mentioned in the same sentence too often. One is the leading on-ramp into the world of cryptocurrency and the other is a well-known platform for trading different kinds of financial products and derivatives.

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Hierarchies of Money: Why You Use Bank Money But the Bank Wants Reserve Currency

While people tend to think of money as being all the same, the fact is governments and banks use different types of money than the everyday individual. From the top of the economic pyramid of world reserve currencies, down through central bank and commercial bank money, the capacities and function of different kinds of money […] The post Hierarchies of Money: Why You Use Bank Money But the Bank Wants Reserve Currency appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Historical Data Shows Bitcoin’s Low For 2020 is Already In At $6,800

Markets are cyclical and history repeats itself, and although Bitcoin is a very different kind of asset and the crypto market is anything but atypical, the same rules apply. According to historical data, Bitcoin either sets its high for the year or low for the year in January each year, suggesting that $6,800 was the... The post appeared first on NewsBTC.

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Bitcoin IRA Could Face Sanctions as Lawsuit Intensifies

Custodian Kingdom Trust recently turned to a federal judge to call for sanctions against Bitcoin IRA after its lawyers filed the same court action in several different jurisdictions. Trust Kingdom, Bitcoin IRA Fight Heats Up Despite the fact that the cryptocurrency space is only 11 years old, there have already been several grudges that lasted for a long time, now.

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Ethereum pushes back difficulty bomb while traders may be turning bullish

Ethereum went through a network update that delays the difficulty bomb. Although the mining difficulty will remain the same, different technical analysts are starting to turn bullish on ETH. The Muir Glacier update On Jan.

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Digital Asset Security Firm Fireblock Backed By Fidelity Gets EY’s SOC 2 Type II Accreditation

Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS) thinks that in the future, custodians will work from behind the scenes to store cryptocurrencies for clients from different firms. At the same time, its enterprise-based platform for crypto transactions, Fireblocks, has just passed an EY audit that confirms it complies with data security standards, which has led to talks with […]

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Blockfolio Review 2020 – Is This Still The King of Crypto Trackers?

Having completed my reviews of other crypto tools and portfolio trackers, I realized that I still had the same problems as before: I had a bunch of cryptocurrency all over different wallets and exchanges and I needed a way to keep track of it all.

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As We Hunger for Viability, Let’s Stay True to Our Values

Sometimes we are so in fear of external attack that we risk morphing something technically the same but fundamentally different.

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Mozilla Removes Four Extensions From the Firefox Browser

When a popular browser removes multiple extensions from its platform, an uneasy situation is created. In the case of Firefox, four different extensions have now been outlawed.   What makes this decision even more remarkable is how all Firefox extensions belong to the same developers.

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Twitter CEO Sees Big Future for Bitcoin in Africa

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, recently published a tweet in which he announces his move to Africa, as he believes that the continent will ‘define the future. ’ Africa has always been a fascinating continent to a lot of people, and according to one recent tweet, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey feels the same.

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

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.

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Merged Mining on Bitcoin: Expanding Bitcoin’s Capabilities [with RSK Sidechain]

What is merged mining on Bitcoin?  Simply put, merged mining is a mechanism that allows different cryptocurrencies that use the same algorithm, to be mined together. When analyzing the study on the profitability of bitcoin merged mined blockchains, we found […] The post Merged Mining on Bitcoin: Expanding Bitcoin’s Capabilities [with RSK Sidechain] appeared first on CoinMarketCap.

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Analyzing Whether or Not the Next Bitcoin (BTC) Collapse Will Be the Same or Different?

Bitcoin experienced a strong upward movement over the last two days as it gained 43% in value. Before the move happened, analysts predicted that there would be a further upside gains before the move happened.

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Hideo Kojima’s games rely on sexist tropes — and Death Stranding will probably be no different

This article was originally published by Super Jump Magazine, an independent publication all about celebrating great video games and their creators through carefully-crafted, in-depth featured produced by a diverse team of games journalists, designers, and enthusiasts.

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Russia Blocks 2 Crypto News Websites

Russian authorities have restricted access to a couple of cryptocurrency news outlets. The formal reasons for the censorship move are different in each case but the end result is the same. In both, regulators have acted on the basis of a law that empowers them to block online sources of information that have been banned […] The post Russia Blocks 2 Crypto News Websites appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Bitcoin Will Break Out Again in November, Suggests Cryptocurrency Trader

Fractals are repetitive patterns in which the price of an asset within a period of time acts similarly as it did in a previous period, which is not necessarily of the same length. While these movements are not always identical, they always share numerous similarities, most often the ratios between different proportions of the movements.

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ConsenSys to provide $175,000 in grants to 7 Ethereum projects

Blockchain-based software company ConsenSys had previously launched a grants program back in February, a program that was intended to fund projects that enhanced the Ethereum network. Following the same, the Joseph Lubin-led company will be giving $175,000 in grants to about seven different projects on the Ethereum network, reports suggest.

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Bitcoin’s hash rate drop causes bewilderment; variance or technical problem?

Bitcoin network’s lifeline, its hash rate, seems to have put most people in a state of trance, as there are different explanations as to what transpired between 21 and 26 September and what caused a gigantic spike to the bottom.

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Cryptocurrency exchange Nova to shutdown; plans new service

Cryptocurrency exchange Nova to shutdown; plans new service - CryptoNinjas Nova, a cryptocurrency exchange focused mostly on altcoins, today announced that the board of its parent company has decided to set a different course to develop a new service experience.

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Google Play Pass isn’t Android’s answer to Apple Arcade

Welp, that didn’t take long. Within days of Apple launching its Arcade game subscription services, Google’s responded with a rough Android equivalent called Play Pass. Still, while the two seem similar on the surface, they’re actually quite different — and that’s to Google’s benefit.

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Understanding PLONK

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”.

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Prospects and advantages of cryptocurrency trading in virtual reality

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.

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The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols

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.

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