AARON: Trump Does Not Give A Damn About Bitcoin

Trump is providing lip service to Bitcoiners, but that does not mean he will continue to be an ally of Bitcoin if he does get elected for a second term.

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Bitcoin shows short-term promise: Does this herald a recovery?

Disclaimer: The information presented does not constitute financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice and is solely the writer’s opinion. Bitcoin fell to a higher timeframe demand The post Bitcoin shows short-term promise: Does this herald a recovery? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Will the US economy face recession in 2023? And what does this mean for Bitcoin?

With investors continuing to warily eye the ever-changing economic situation, the way forward remains unclear. Will the U.S. experience a hard landing, a soft landing, or does the status quo persist? We look at the prospects for recession and assess Bitcoin’s role in investor portfolios.

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Bitcoin Cash offers short sellers an opportunity but does the risk warrant it

Disclaimer: The information presented does not constitute financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice and is solely the writer’s opinion The market structure was bearish on the 12-The post Bitcoin Cash offers short sellers an opportunity but does the risk warrant it appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Does Ethereum react to Bitcoin the way silver does to gold

Which cryptocurrency is going to explode in 2021? What coins can one buy right now, to make it big in the near future? Which crypto is the next best thing to Bitcoin? Many interested in cashing in The post Does Ethereum react to Bitcoin the way silver does to gold appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin Price Watch: Currency at $8,077

At press time, the father of cryptocurrency is down somewhat and trading for $8,077. This is about $100 less than where it stood yesterday afternoon. While this isn’t something to necessarily worry about, it does bring up some interesting notions regarding bitcoin.

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Early Bitcoin Investor: “Everybody Should Put Something Into Crypto”

To be frank, the cryptocurrency industry is a widely misunderstood place, with recent reports highlighting that a majority of the public does not understand the variety of facets in this nascent industry, including Bitcoin.

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How Does BitCoin Promise Progress? Schnorr Signatures.

These are standardized, but have a number of downsides compared to Schnorr signatures over the same curve: Security proof: The security of Schnorr signatures is easily provable in the random oracle model assuming the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) is hard.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: How Many Days Can We Trade Sideways?

Decisions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appear to have put a temporary damper on the current Bitcoin rally. Does the quick recovery to $8,250 mean the bull reversal is still intact? Market Overview BTC dipped to $7,900 on the recent denial of the Winklevoss brothers Bitcoin ETF application, and the postponement of Direxion BTC ETF decision by the SEC, but it’s clear that current events were not the sole factor for this Read More The post Bitcoin Price Analysis: How Many Days Can We Trade Sideways? appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.

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BitcoinHack.net Review: Legit Bitcoin Hack System for Earning Profits?

What is BitcoinHack? This is another Bitcoin scam, promising endless supplies of free cryptocurrency. The promise is that new users will make a minimum of $1261 weeks a year. You can exploit a supposed flaw in the system that gives out free profit.

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BCH Adoption goes up as well as dread

News The specter of the deep web looms large over everything bitcoin does. A periodic glance into the latest from the deep web provides an insight into the underbelly where bitcoin first bloomed, and where a significant proportion of cryptocurrency purchases still occur.

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Deep Web Roundup: BCH Adoption Increases and Dread Rises

The specter of the deep web looms large over everything bitcoin does. You won’t hear it mentioned by VCs funding blockchain startups, or by options exchanges applying for bitcoin ETFs, but the darknet is the reason we’re all here.

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With 1000 Coins Dead, What Does the Future Hold for Cryptocoins?

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have gained popularity over the last two years. However, 2017 marked the beginning of fast paced growth for the cryptocurrency industry. In this year, bitcoin’s price increased from a low of $1000 to reach a high of $19,000 towards the end of the year. In addition, the industry has experienced an […]

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Economic value does exist for all Bitcoin [BTC] and other crypto transactions

OPINION: On 26th July, Bloomberg claimed, “Up to Two-Thirds of Bitcoin [BTC] Transactions Have No Economic Value”. In their article, the author explained how they feel that Bitcoin has no economic value and has nothing to do with the purchase and selling of goods and services.

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Bitcoin and its Foundation in Austrian Economics

The recently published book “The Bitcoin Standard” by economist Saifedean Ammous makes the case that bitcoin is rooted in the principles of Austrian economics. This view is shared by many bitcoin maximalists who prescribe to this economic school of thought.

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Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Proposal Denied by U.S. SEC

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected the Winklevosses’ latest attempt to list a bitcoin ETF. After having a proposal rejected last year, the Gemini exchange founders had hoped to secure their Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust on BATS Global Market’s BZX stock exchange with this latest attempt.

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Yes, Stablecoins Can Secure Official Audits from Major Firms

“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.

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Top 3 Reasons for Bitcoin Bulls to Be Cheerful

Okay, so Bitcoin Bulls does sound a lot like a basketball team. But hey, investing in Bitcoin has a lot in common with an adrenaline-packed b-ball game. Highs and lows, wins and losses, regrouping in the locker room after a thrashing from regulators and cybercriminals… 2018 has been a tough year for Bitcoin and the […]

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Use abrasive skills to advocate Bitcoin acception.

The bitcoin. com team are simply “reaching out” to Bity regarding their current listing on the site. They “have noted” that Bity does not currently offer BCH, and point out the new requirements to remain listed.

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BKCM Crypto Hedge Fund CEO Lists Top 3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Markets will Boom

Bitcoin continues to go up, as it grew to USD$8,316 from its USD$7,339. Does this 13 percent signify anything? According to the CEO of BKCM Fund and CNBC’s very own crypto analyst, its growth might be contributed by three key factors, which include the possibility of a bitcoin ETF, the entry from several institutions and […]

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What Does The Historic XRP Surge Mean For XRP Today? XRP To $7?

With the markets running up value, Bitcoin surging, Ethereum flying, Bitcoin Cash soaring and EOS climbing, we want to assess what could happen to XRP, if it manages to latch on to the sudden market surge too.

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How Does The Bitcoin Trading Master: Simulator Crypto Game Work

Are you interested in trading cryptocurrencies? If you are, the new Bitcoin Trading Master: Simulator, which is available on early access on Steam right now, can be a good chance for you to learn how to trade Bitcoin without actually having to do it first and risk losing your money. Read our review. What Is […]

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G20 Crypto Regulation Decision Boosts Bitcoin to Two-Month High

Bitcoin has hit a two-month price high of $7,820, at the time of writing, amidst its ongoing resurgence following a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Buenos Aires on 21 and 22 July 2018. At the meeting, ministers discussed cryptocurrency and issued a communique stating that while it remains under scrutiny, it does not pose a threat to the global.

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Cardano Aims For A Trillion, Bets On Five Or Ten

Cryptocurrency is never dull. Bitcoin’s anonymous creator designed the protocol as a two-fingered salute to the financial sector; Ethereum wants to be the universal computer; when not battling the SEC, Ripple XRP cozies up to large corporations and central banks; Bitcoin Cash thinks it does a better two-fingered salute than Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: As Markets Rise, so Does Innovation

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Hashflare To Cease Bitcoin Mining Operations As It’s No Longer Worth Money

Hashflare is a cryptocurrency mining service that allows users to connect with crypto mining pools. What this does, is controls a set amount of your computers processing power via the pool and rewards contributors with a share of the transactions that they facilitate.

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Blockchain.com CEO Peter Smith Talks Bitcoin’s Institutional Adoption Timeline

Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain Inc. has recently released several statements in an interview given on the forward movement of the current cryptocurrency marketplace. Specifically, Smith has stated his view on the consolidation of the market happening over the next few months.

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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.

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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff.

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Notes on Blockchain Governance

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.

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BitMEX CEO Warns Bitcoin Has Yet to Hit Bottom, Expects Increased Volume Later This Year

BitMEX co-founder and CEO, Arthur Hayes, went on CNBC’s Fast Money recently, and said that he suspects the recent Bitcoin upturn could be a short squeeze. He stated further that he does not think the Bitcoin price has hit bottom for the year.

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Chongqing Financial Asset Exchange (CQFAE) Looks to Blockchain For Fair Auctions

Blockchain Can Keep Online Auctions Fair According To Financial Exchange Everyone knows that China does not love cryptocurrencies, but the blockchain technology stands on its own and even if you are like China and you do not see Bitcoin in a positive light, there is still a use case for blockchain tech. Recently, a financial […]

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Does Bitcoin Price Needs To Fall to $5000 Before Bear Market Is Over?

Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX) CEO Arthur Hayes says the Bitcoin price must still drop to $5000 before ending its 2018 bear market. Hayes: ‘I’d like To See Us Test $5000’ In comments which echo other prominent trading figures — such as Tone Vays — Hayes told CNBC yesterday that, despite prices rallying this week, sentiment will fizzle out and Bitcoin will continue falling lower.

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Billionaire Investors Trash Bitcoin Despite Recent Uptrend

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, and those who invest in it only do so in the belief that they’ll find a greater fool who’ll buy it at a higher price. This is according to billionaire investor Howard Marks who in a recent interview tore into Bitcoin, stating that it does not have any substance. His […]

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BitMEX CEO Warns Bitcoin Has Yet to Hit Bottom, Expects Increased Volume Later This Year

BitMEX co-founder and CEO, Arthur Hayes, went on CNBC’s Fast Money recently, and said that he suspects the recent Bitcoin upturn could be a short squeeze. He stated further that he does not think the Bitcoin price has hit bottom for the year.

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Chaincode Devs, Google Alumni Create Industry Group to Help Bitcoin Scale

Scaling has been a heated topic for the bitcoin community for some time. Further, even when a technology does become available, getting people to use it becomes the next big hurdle.

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Framework Vigilant Monitoring of Crypto Risks Revealed by FSB

Risks related to cryptocurrencies do not pose a serious threat to global financial stability at the moment. However, the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the international organization established by the G20 to monitor the worldwide financial system, does not want to get caught unprepared.

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Bitcoin Washing & the 12 of Mueller Examined

It contains a simple reconstruction of the most obvious Bitcoin transactions associated with the evidence documented in the Grand Jury indictment of July 13th, 2018. Everything is Public on BitcoinThe Bitcoin blockchain does not anonymize or hide details about its users like alternative blockchains like Monero.

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Dala Adds Stellar Blockchain to Ecosystem, Reveals Multi-Chain Strategy

Dala has officially announced a new multi-chain strategy that will include Stellar, the technology behind the seventh largest cryptocurrency (lumens) by market cap.

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Proof of Authority (PoA) Blockchain Network Consensus: How Does It Work?

Most people are familiar with bitcoin’s Proof of Work (PoW) consensus, and Proof of Stake (PoS). Yet, there other consensus types like the Proof of Authority (PoA), which is a relatively new consensus.

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Russian Crypto Owners and Bitcoin Miners Will Not Create Diffferent Tax Laws

Russia Will Not Create Separate Laws For Bitcoin Owners And Cryptocurrency Miners While speaking with the local media, Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the Financial Markets Committee in Russia’s state Duma, stated that the government does not have plans to create any separate tax frameworks for crypto. According to him, people who get money from […]

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CheapAir Says Goodbye to Coinbase, Hello to BTCPayServer

Online travel agency CheapAir. com has announced it is no longer working with Coinbase to process its customers’ bitcoin payments. In Coinbase's stead, the company has turned to BTCPayServer, an open-source bitcoin payment processor.

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HTC Says Blockchain Phone Exodus Will Be Released Later This Year

Computer manufacturing company HTC says it is on the verge of releasing its upcoming blockchain phone, Exodus, which was first announced in May of 2018. Chief crypto officer at HTC Phil Chen leads the company’s blockchain and cryptocurrency initiatives.

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Blockchain Startup Launches Platform for Risk-Managed ICO Investments

CoinMirror, a Berlin-based startup, is launching the public beta of its platform for ICO investments on the Ethereum mainnet today, July 18, 2018. The platform seeks to provide investment opportunities to investors regardless of available capital.

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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware

One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers.

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Will ETF Approval Really Lead To A Flood Of Crypto Cash?

Roses are red, Markets are Green.   ETFs coming, but what does that mean? Crypto-world has something new to get excited over. The Securities and Exchange Commission is discussing Bitcoin once again, this time over a proposed rule change that may open a new door into the world of high finance.

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Does XRP (XRP) Still Have What it Takes to Edge out both BTC and ETH in the Crypto Markets?

Back in January, and before the Ripple company started getting served with lawsuits, XRP (XRP) was the coin to have. Talk in the crypto-verse was that the digital asset was headed towards first dethroning Ethereum (ETH) from the number 2 spot according to coinmarketcap.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Technical Analysis July 16, BlackRock News Causing Price Jump

BlackRock and US Congress up Vote Boosting Bitcoin Prices It couldn’t be a good time to trade or even hold Bitcoin. Not only does it appear to be bottoming out but the mere fact that BlackRock is tinkering about it legitimizes this asset.

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Bitcoin Bearish Trend May Be Over Very Soon

Trends tend to be reversed. The year of 2018 has seen Bitcoin (BTC) demonstrate both its volatility and bearish nature. However, the second half of 2017 the crypto community witnessed the exact opposite.

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