Top Ether Whales Show Interest in New Intel Markets (INTL) Presale, Blockstream CEO Predicts 90% Price Drop for ADA

Amid the recent beef in the crypto community between Bitcoin advocates and the Cardano community, Blockstream CEO forecasts a 90% price reduction for Cardano. In other news, the number of Ethereum whale transactions has plummeted.

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Bitcoin OG Adam Back Says BTC Can Hit Fresh All-Time High This Easter Weekend — Here’s Why

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Adam Back doubles down on $100K before halving amid sustained market rally

Blockstream CEO Adam Back believes that Bitcoin (BTC) is on track to hit $100,000 per coin on or before the halving. Back reaffirmed his prediction in a series of tweets on Feb. 28 based on current trends and sentiments within the crypto market.

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Bitcoin’s Price Tide: Could ASIC Miner Values Signal An Approaching Crypto Surge?

Adam Back, the co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, has recently drawn attention to a notable correlation, which is that the prices of ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) miners tend to align with Bitcoin prices.

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Blockstream to raise $50m to expand ahead of next BTC halving

Major crypto mining firm Blockstream looks to raise $50 million to acquire mining equipment in anticipation of the next Bitcoin (BTC) halving. During a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Blockstream’s mining sales head James Macedonio said that the firm wants to…

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MicroStrategy Will Continue Buying Up To 300 Bitcoin Per Day: Analyst Predicts

According to a famous Twitter analyst and the Co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, Adam Back, MicroStrategy, a prominent player in the crypto ecosystem, is likely to continue its aggressive Bitcoin acquisition strategy.

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Crypto Industry Will Survive Regulatory Pressure – Blockstream CEO Adam Back

The last two weeks have been tough for the crypto industry in the US as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued Binance and Coinbase in a wave of regulatory crackdown. This ripple effect affects other countries as local regulators started to take a tough stand against crypto. As a result, strategists say the […]

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Blockstream CEO Adam Back responds to US crypto pressure

Amid the mounting regulatory pressures on cryptocurrency exchanges, Blockstream CEO Adam Back highlights the inherent resilience and adaptability of the crypto industry.

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Crypto Infrastructure Firm Blockstream Raises $125M for Bitcoin Mining

The company will use the fund to expand its bitcoin mining facilities amid strong demand for hosting.

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Crypto Infrastructure Firm Blockstream Seeks to Raise Funds at 70% Lower Valuation: Bloomberg

The under $1 billion valuation is a far cry from the $3.2 billion valuation it had received in 2021.

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Bitcoin Volcano bonds - A Crypto Market Sentiment Report

Bitcoin price action is subdued this week with Mt Gox jitters spooking the market. Blockstream has partnered with El Salvador to issue $1B in Volcano Bonds. It’s this week’s crypto market sentiment report.

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El Salvador to Build ‘Bitcoin City’ Powered by Geothermal Energy

A volcano-powered Bitcoin City will be partially funded by $1B in government-issued, dollar-denominated, bitcoin bonds via Blockstream’s Liquid Network, a sidechain of the Bitcoin Mainnet. The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, remains bullish about crypto, announcing the construction of an income and property tax-free “Bitcoin City.

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Hyperbitcoinization: El Salvador Is All Set To Become The Crypto Center Of The World

On Sunday, El Salvador announced that it had inked key partnership deals with leading firms, Bitfinex and Blockstream on its road towards hyperbitcoinization. Creating A Friendly Regulatory Framework In the front deal with Ifinex, the parent company of trading platform Bitfinex, the company announced that it would assist El Salvador with the creation of a […]

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Canadian Bitcoin miner Blockstream joins crypto unicorns with $3.2B valuation

Blockstream has secured $210 million in fresh investment from a U.K. private equity firm and crypto exchange Bitfinex’s operator.

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Blockstream’s Liquid Federation Adds New Members; 59 Crypto Companies In The Network

Blockstream has expanded the membership of its federated Bitcoin sidechain to 59 members by adding 6 members. The members include fintech-focused broker Watchdog Capital, Bitcoin-native financial service provider Vulpem Ventures, Liquid swap infrastructure provider SideSwap, Infrastructural privacy developer Nym Technologies, digital asset custody firm Komainu, as well as Bitcoin wallet app Coinos.

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Blockstream expands Liquid Federation, but LBTC adoption remains slow

Six prominent crypto firms have joined the federation governing Blockstream's Liquid sidechain.

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Blockstream’s Liquid Network Launches Its First Decentralized Exchange, TDEX

Blockstream announced its entry into the DeFi ecosystem with the launch of its decentralized exchange, TDEX. The exchange, built by Sevenlabs, a consultancy and licensing firm dealing with crypto, launched its Open Alpha Phase on September 7, 2020.

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Blockstream CEO Labels Ethereum, Cardano, Ripple, & Stellar As A Ponzi Scam Like Bitconnect

Adam Back, Blockstream CEO and well-known computer scientist in the crypto community, went on a rant on Twitter dissing several high profile blockchains, including the second-largest crypto project, Ethereum.

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Blockstream CSO Samson Mow: I’ve Been Bullish on Bitcoin Since Day One

“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading The post Blockstream CSO Samson Mow: I’ve Been Bullish on Bitcoin Since Day One appeared first on CoinMarketCap Blog.

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As Altcoins Rally, Blockstream CEO Says Bitcoin Is the Only Crypto

Even compared to Bitcoin, altcoins have done well for themselves over recent months. As one crypto data analyst observed early last month, BTC has actually underperformed small cap, medium cap, and large cap altcoins.

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Liquid Security Issue is Acknowledged by Blockstream, Patch Coming Soon

Crypto Reddit is currently paying very close attention to a recently discovered bug in the Liquid protocol. Some even claim that Blockstream knew about it and potentially put it there purposefully.

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Blockstream Partners With Crypto Garage on SettleNet, A Bitcoin OTC Trading Network In Japan

According to a launch release by Blockstream, the three companies (Crypto Garage) working on SETTLENET aim to improve efficiency and increase financial transaction speeds across the internet. The project will be built within the regulatory sandbox set up by Japan’s lawmakers.

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Blockstream с партнерами запустила OTC-платформу в Японии

Совместное предприятие компании Адама Бэка Blockstream и японских Digital Garage и Tokyo Tanshi — Crypto Garage — объявило о запуске OTC-платформы для расчетов с цифровыми активами Settlenet. В пресс-релизе сказано, что платформа должна помочь иностранным компаниям вести свой бизнес на территории Японии.

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“TRX is a shitcoin,” Blockstream CEO Adam Back Lambasts Tron

The crypto Twitter is on fire and Adam Back is holding the match box. The apparently heated conversation started when Adam Back sent out a tweet acknowledging the power of Bitcoin over most other cryptos.

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“Good time for Bitcoiners to stack sats,” Says Blockstream’s Adam Back On Goldman Sachs Crypto Rebuff

Following the public declaration by Goldman Sachs that it does not support its customers to buy Bitcoin, Blockstream CEO Adam Back says this is a “good time to stack sats.” Goldman Sachs had earlier today said during a client-facing call, that cryptocurrencies are not a viable investment option for its clients considering the current industrial […]

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Bitcoin Price Hitting $20k Overnight Won’t Be Surprising For Blockstream’s Adam Back

Bitcoin is currently very volatile after recording one of its greatest crashes last week and a massive recovery in the past few days. For outsiders and mainstream market investors, these huge price swings may be signals for an unreliable investment and an asset they would not likely bank on. However, in the crypto industry, this […]

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Next Bitcoin (BTC) Rally Could Be Huge. Blockstream CEO Explains Why

Bitcoin (BTC) investors are flocking to crypto exchanges to buy this dip, according to Blockstream CEO Adam Back

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How Many Women Users Before Crypto Is Not Sexist?

A recent headline on Micky — an iconoclastic media outlet that focuses on cryptocurrency — read “Crypto Twitterstorm: ‘Creepy sexist trolling’ or just a funny meme?” The article explained, “A post making fun of Blockstream’s Samson Mow has sparked a Twitterstorm over accusations of misogyny.

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BTSE Announces Token Sale on Liquid—Bitcoin’s Sidechain

Cryptocurrency exchange BTSE announced that it will host its initial exchange offering (IEO) on the Liquid Network in March. It will be the first token issued on Liquid, Blockstream’s Bitcoin...The post BTSE Announces Token Sale on Liquid—Bitcoin’s Sidechain appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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BTSE to conduct its own exchange token sale on Blockstream’s Liquid Network

BTSE, a crypto derivatives exchange company that utilizes bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies to develop financial products and services, has announced its exchange token sale – the first of its kind to be launched on Blockstream’s Liquid Network – will open to the public on March 5, 2020.

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Caitlin Long, Attracting More Wall Street Money to Crypto with Avanti Bank

Caitlin Long, a Wall Street veteran, is joining forces with blockchain firm, Blockstream to launch Avanti Bank, a crypto-focused financial institution that will offer regulated services to institutions working with digital assets, according to a tweet on February 24, 2020.

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In First ‘Pure Crypto’ Hire, Silvergate Bank Recruits Blockstream Liquid Network Exec

Benjamin Richman, formerly director of business development and partnerships at Blockstream, will help the crypto-friendly bank pursue its ambitious goals for serving the crypto industry.

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Blockstream CEO Says, $100k Bitcoin Price Doesn’t Seem So Far Now

Popular analyst PlanB who first used the stock-to-flow model to determine Bitcoin price shared a note written by Hal Finney, a computer scientist and noted cryptographer known in the crypto community for his contribution to the development of the Bitcoin network.

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Dubai-Based Crypto Exchange BTSE Plans to Raise $50 Million Using Bitcoin Sidechain Liquid

Coinspeaker Dubai-Based Crypto Exchange BTSE Plans to Raise $50 Million Using Bitcoin Sidechain LiquidDubai-based cryptocurrency exchange BTSE intends to use the Liquid Network Bitcoin sidechain created by Blockstream to raise $50 million.

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Crypto Exchange BTSE Eyes $50M for Exchange Token Sale on Liquid Network

Crypto futures exchange BTSE is looking to raise $50 million via a sale for a native exchange token based on Blockstream’s Bitcoin sidechain, the Liquid Network

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BTSE crypto exchange integrates Blockstream’s Liquid Bitcoin and USDt

BTSE, a UAE registered cryptocurrency exchange, today announced that as a launch member of the Liquid Network, it now offers support for two of the sidechain’s most notable assets: Liquid Bitcoin (L-BTC) and Liquid USDt.

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Litecoin Summit: Quantum computers not a threat to crypto, claims Samson Mow

The long-awaited second annual Litecoin Summit 2019 featured some prominent personalities of the cryptocurrency industry, many of whom touched upon various aspects of the space and addressed some of the FUDs associated with the industry.

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Blockstream CEO says Bitcoin sidechains will kill altcoins

The development of sidechains could transform Bitcoin into an all-useful blockchain protocol and make many altcoins redundant, according to sidechain pioneer and Blockstream CEO Adam Back. Speaking on a panel at Transylvania Crypto Conference, Forbes reported, Back stated that altcoins would have “less credibility” when sidechain technology could facilitate “easy-to-use extension mechanisms” for Bitcoin—that is, […] The post Blockstream CEO says Bitcoin sidechains will kill altcoins appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Unaware investors must opt out: Samson Mow on altcoin performance

Given Bitcoin’s elementary relation with the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem, the king coin’s ongoing bearish trend has required investors to question its impact on the alts. To discuss this in detail, prominent altcoin entrepreneurs including Blockstream’s Samson Mow, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee and Monero’s Riccardo Spagni featured in a Magical Crypto Friends interview.

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Пять лет назад Адам Бэк опубликовал white paper сайдчейнов биткоина

CEO Blockstream Адам Бэк и ряд известных разработчиков опубликовали white paper сайдчейнов биткоина пять лет назад — 22 октября 2014 года. На недавней конференции Transylvania Crypto Conference Бэк подтвердил, что сайдчейны, по его мнению, сделают альткоины менее привлекательными.

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Blockstream CEO Adam Back: How Bitcoin Sidechains Could Destroy Altcoins

Early cryptocurrency developer and British cryptography expert Adam Back has been speaking at the Transylvania Crypto Conference about Bitcoin sidechains. The basic premise is that this additional functionality could render many of the altcoins simply unnecessary.

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Bitcoin Core developers largely underpaid in ecosystem: Blockstream dev

Blockchain is the spine on any cryptocurrency project and the same goes for Bitcoin’s ecosystem. Just like every other crypto space, Bitcoin‘s network requires continuous development on the technological front, while dealing with major issues like scalability, transaction speed, and overall security.

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Blockstream’s CSO reveals efforts towards building ‘immersive world’ on Liquid

“There is a very strong connection, I think, between gaming and crypto. Gamers are early very adopters, they are very accepting of digital assets, digital currencies, virtual currencies, and virtual items, and contributing value to them.

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Bitcoin smart contract potential to be unlocked by miniscript, says Blockstream CSO

Recently, Samson Mow, Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream, appeared on the Magical Crypto Friends to talk about Miniscript, a language that builds on top of Bitcoin Script to make scripting smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain easier.

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Blockstream’s Liquid network participants stands at 35 with addition of another exchange

Liquid, a second layer tech for Bitcoin built by Blockstream, welcomed another crypto exchange to use its services. Coinut exchange, a Singapore-based exchange announced on 28 September announced the integration of Liquid network on its platform.

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Tether Minting Means Bitcoin Buying Demand from Investors, While Fed Is Printing Non-Backed USD, Says Blockstream CEO

On Friday, the US Fed Reserve conducted QE by printing $75 bln and $53 bln earlier in the week, making the crypto community expect the Bitcoin price to surge soon

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Canadian Crypto Exchange Bull Bitcoin To Use Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain Tech By Early Next Year

Liquid Exchange Network, the second layer technology for Bitcoin that was created by Blockstream recently took on board a new cryptocurrency partner. The chain which is meant to facilitate faster bitcoin transactions now has a total membership of 30.

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Bitcoin Dominance ‘Reverting to Mean’ of 90%, Says Blockstream CEO

Adam Back: Altcoins doomed to less than 10% of crypto market

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Global Mining Leaders Summit 2019

A lot has taken place in the world of crypto mining this year. Bitcoin hash rate and difficulty levels have hit record highs. New companies such as Blockstream have ventured into space while existing companies have expanded their infrastructure with new facilities dedicated towards mining being developed but the biggest mining event of the year […] The post Global Mining Leaders Summit 2019 appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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