2019-7-18 07:00 |
Introduced Wednesday, a new proposal called Signet offers a fresh alternative to bitcoin's test network. origin »
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Li Bo, a deputy governor of People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the country’s central bank, said over the weekend that Bitcoin and stablecoins are ‘alternative investments’ in the eyes of the law. The post Chinese regulator says Bitcoin is an ‘alternative investment’ appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-4-19 11:35 | |
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This Wednesday marked the introduction of a new alternative to bitcoin’s test network called Signet. Signet is a new test network for the Bitcoin blockchain which adds an additional signature requirement to block validation.
2019-7-18 19:20 | |
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With Beam set to fork on August 15, the network upgrade will add a new minimum transaction fee and implement an ASIC-resistant proof-of-work algorithm dubbed Beam Hash II.
2019-7-17 18:38 | |
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Money managers are hungry for yield. Crypto continues to outperform just about any other asset class making this nascent market a hot-bed for alternative prediction solutions. And social media algos are front and centre of that speculation.
2019-7-18 13:34 | |
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Roughly a year ago, the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) debuted on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network, giving anyone the ability to mint, store, receive, and send SLP tokens. Since then there’s been a ton of tokens created on the BCH network as the simplicity of the system outpaces tokens built on alternative chains like ERC20s […] The post How to Create and Airdrop Your Own Token to Your Friends appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-7-17 21:45 | |
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The cryptocurrency landscape has always been closely scrutinized, with its cons highlighted by several lawmakers across the world. While conceptualized as a decentralized alternative to mainstream banking and financial institutions, cryptocurrencies today have emerged to become more than just a payment option.
2019-7-16 18:30 | |
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It has been yet another eventful week for “magic internet money. ” Bitcoin, which leads the cryptocurrency bandwagon in the financial market, has been in the headlines recently owing to two key comments.
2019-7-13 21:30 | |
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Coinspeaker FED Chairman Jerome Powell Compares Bitcoin to GoldJust recently, during his testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, FED Chairman Jerome Powell looked into the Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, compared Bitcoin to Gold, saying that it's an alternative to the asset.FED Chairman Jerome Powell Compares Bitcoin to Gold
2019-7-12 11:38 | |
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In a remarkable admission during his testimony to Congress, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admitted that bitcoin is used as an alternative to gold, conceding that BTC is a store of value. He said before the Senate: "Really, almost no one uses bitcoin for payment, they use it more as an alternative to gold really.
2019-7-12 01:20 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceeXo Platform, a leading open-source provider of digital workplace solutions, today announced it has partnered with ONLYOFFICE to offer an integrated office suite to its government, defense, and institutional clients.
2019-7-12 22:02 | |
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The United States SEC has given Blockstack clearance to raise capital under Regulation A+, an alternative method to IPO’s for growing businesses to facilitate a capital raise. The offering will be for $28 million and goes public on July 11, as reported by Wall Street Journal, on July 10, 2019.
2019-7-11 14:06 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceOpenfinance, a U. S. regulated platform for the secondary market trading of digital alternative assets, announced today Protos is available for trading to verified non-U.
2019-7-11 19:57 | |
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The entire world is currently facing economic uncertainties following the ongoing trade wars, the most prominent one being between the United States and China. Investors are therefore seeking alternative assets to gold and the US bonds and bitcoin is gaining traction due to its capacity to maintain a fierce rally amid the harsh economic times.
2019-7-10 12:01 | |
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Bitcoin is often called “digital gold,” pitched as an alternative to the real thing. In 2019, the meme is actually real, as the two assets have performed almost identically over the past 30 days.
2019-7-9 16:27 | |
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There are a lot of loopholes in the conversation around bitcoin and its annual energy consumption rate, says a clean energy specialist. Professor Katrina Kelly-Pitou of the University of Pittsburgh wrote that researchers overestimate their findings of the cryptocurrency’s higher power consumption rates.
2019-7-9 15:26 | |
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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance launched a new real-time index tracking the total electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network. The index, called Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI), provides a real-time estimate of the total annual electricity usage of the Bitcoin network and enables live comparisons with alternative electricity uses in order to put numbersRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-8 09:00 | |
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Correlation between the Bitcoin market and the altcoin market dipped in the second quarter of 2019, claims Binance. The Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange pitted Bitcoin against thirty alternative cryptocurrencies to determine whether or not it moved in lockstep with them.
2019-7-5 21:51 | |
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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has released an index of sorts devoted to macro data about Bitcoin, all of it relating to electricity consumption. Tree Huggers Take Solace Historically, one great objection to Bitcoin has been its perceived large-scale energy consumption.
2019-7-6 20:35 | |
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With BTC price consolidating, the brakes on this current bull run seem to be on. But that can only be a temporary stop. With global conditions fuelling the need for an alternative financial system, the next Bitcoin bull run will be epic.
2019-7-5 17:00 | |
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Bitcoin, The Best Store of Value? For the longest time, Bitcoin pioneers have been pushing the cryptocurrency as an alternative to the United States Dollar and other fiat monies. While many technologists and prominent investors, even Elon.
2019-7-5 03:00 | |
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Ethereum has been considered the most well-established, open-ended decentralized software platform to enable smart contracts and distributed applications (dApps). Conversely, Bitcoin was created as an alternative to fiat currencies and is thus a medium of exchange and store of value.
2019-7-5 09:00 | |
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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has just launched the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI). Its hope is to cut through the myths and provide unbiased and accurate real-time data for analysis.
2019-7-3 15:00 | |
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Bitcoin is on fire this year but you can’t quite call it a “crypto comeback”… just yet, as The Wall Street Journal points out. Investors are starting to doubt a corresponding return in alternative cryptocurrencies, and for good reason.
2019-7-1 00:30 | |
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American-based streaming services provider, Netflix, has officially announced their next documentary related to the cryptosphere reports OBN. This will be the second of its type, as Netflix previously released “Banking on Bitcoin” in 2016, and it will revolve around alternative coins (popularly known as “altcoins”).
2019-6-30 22:08 | |
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Emerging from the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Bitcoin promised an alternative to bailing out central banks. But all too often, Bitcoiners have found themselves paying for the mistakes of crypto exchanges, which continue to get hacked.
2019-6-30 22:00 | |
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The link between gaming and crypto is so strong, that were it not for Vitalik Buterin’s encounter with World of Warcraft, the Ethereum creator would never have founded the most well-known alternative to Bitcoin.
2019-6-30 13:38 | |
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Unschooling is an alternative education movement quickly gaining popularity and currency worldwide. Like Bitcoin, it is an individualist approach to an area of human action long thought to be established beyond question―education.
2019-6-29 10:30 | |
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Бывший трейдер и популярный американский телеведущий Макс Кайзер, известный своими громкими заявлениями, предрек фиатной валюте смерть от «руки» bitcoin. В интервью для World Alternative Media Кайзер сказал, что Librа выступила драйвером роста для bitcoin и теперь цена на него достигла своей критической массы.
2019-6-28 15:53 | |
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In the past 48 hours, bitcoin has been unstoppable, booming almost four times to hit, $12,876. 91, bagging 61. 8% dominance of the total cryptocurrency market. It has however not been the case for most altcoins as they struggle to pump further alongside the strongly rising crypto leader.
2019-6-28 20:25 | |
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The risk of easing, apparently, was one of the triggers for the recent bitcoin growth, suggests Deutsche Bank executive. In his opinion, the policy of central banks is too aggressive, and investors are moving to alternative currencies.
2019-6-28 18:54 | |
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The political and economic tensions between Italy and Europe are shaking the Eurozone. Italy has threatened to launch a currency parallel to the Euro to restore its debts to individuals and businesses, suggesting a possible “Italexit.
2019-6-27 20:00 | |
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Now that the Bitcoin price has gone on an absolute tear, it will be interesting to see how all other markets evolve accordingly. So far, it seems things are heavily in favor of the world’s leading cryptocurrency, as alternative markets struggle to keep up.
2019-6-27 17:00 | |
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The International Monetary Fund describes money as something that serves as a store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange. Over the years, many things have been used as money including shells, peppercorns, gold and silver.
2019-6-25 13:54 | |
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Adding to the swathes of problems and criticisms that have come since the release of the Libra whitepaper, Facebook’s crypto project. An anonymous developer has forked the Libra code and proposed a more privacy-oriented alternative.
2019-6-23 13:00 | |
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Adding to the swathes of problems and criticisms that have come since the release of the Libra whitepaper, Facebook’s crypto project. An anonymous developer has forked the Libra code and proposed a more privacy-oriented alternative.
2019-6-22 13:00 | |
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Zcash (ZEC), the privacy-centric distributed ledger technology (DLT) based digital asset created by Zooko Wilcox in 2016, has announced the release of Zebra, the first Zcash client written entirely in the Rust programming language.
2019-6-19 23:00 | |
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Craig Wright appears to have briefly forgotten that he wrote the Bitcoin white paper while speaking at a recent conference in Toronto. Wright, lead brain behind alternative cryptocurrency Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, caused controversy earlier this year after suing community members who refused to acknowledge that he created Bitcoin under the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym.
2019-6-14 17:12 | |
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In a press release shared with BTCManager on June 11, 2019, CryptoCompare has announced the launch of a new institutional grade pricing and data aggregation product in conjunction with Nasdaq. The cryptocurrency aggregation platform says the new service will be hosted on Quandl, another alternative data service.
2019-6-12 23:00 | |
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temtum, the next generation payments network designed to solve inherent problems with existing cryptocurrencies 2019, London, UK – Following the completion of its Temporal Blockchain and mainnet solution, temtum (TEM) will see the next generation cryptocurrency deliver feeless, instant transactions, backed by a highly scalable and quantum secure network.
2019-6-7 21:03 | |
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By CCN: “The war has begun. ” Thus thundered enigmatic crypto celebrity John McAfee as he issued an all-caps rebuke to India’s bombshell proposal to ban bitcoin ownership and slap offenders with draconian 10-year prison sentences.
2019-6-7 20:20 | |
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Bitcoin, being the first cryptocurrency to be developed and the most popular in the world has been described as the likely alternative to the current monetary system. It is decentralized and transparent making transactions easy and fast compared to the conventional monetary system.
2019-6-7 04:54 | |
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By CCN: Bitcoin price is unlikely to hit the December 2017 highs unless the U. S. -China trade war escalates to new levels, an analyst has told Kitco News. According to DailyFX’s senior currency strategist Christopher Vecchio, bitcoin has lately been inversely correlated with the Chinese yuan.
2019-6-5 18:14 | |
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When many hear “Bitcoin”, they think of a risky addition to an investment portfolio. They forget, however, that Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency – a digital currency – which can serve more purposes than investment.
2019-6-5 15:47 | |
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Banks have begun showing an increasing interest in alternative solutions for overseas transfers. A new trial by over a dozen banks will explore the concept of USCs, or utility settlement coins. While this sounds somewhat innovative, one has to wonder how things will play out exactly.
2019-6-5 11:30 | |
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BTC market prices in the pairing with the Canadian dollar fell significantly in a trading glitch, with an alternative theory being the work of a hacker.
2019-6-4 12:51 | |
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Now we all know that the Japanese have their tastes which are quite peculiar and different from the rest of us. When it comes to cryptocurrencies, they have also beaten everyone else by creating a little-known cryptocurrency known as monacoin (MONA).
2019-6-1 21:10 | |
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The Chief Information Security Officer at Coinbase, Philip Martin, has revealed that the firm has enabled its Coinbase and Coinbase Pro accounts to support securing Bitcoin and other crypto assets using U2F Security Keys – a safer, and somewhat ironclad alternative to SMS-based two-factor protection of accounts.
2019-6-1 04:01 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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Schnorr signatures are no longer just another idea for improving bitcoin thanks to a new code library from Blockstream.