Dogecoin vs Bitcoin: Key Differences and Similarities

What is Dogecoin? Dogecoin is an alternative coin — more commonly known as an Altcoin — that was established by co-founders Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus in 2013. It was initially created as a joke — based on the well-known “Doge” meme.

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Internet Computer will be a key alternative to AWS-like services — Dfinity exec

The Dfinity chief said that Internet Computer would prove to be a boon for the blockchain industry, which is currently dependent on centralized systems like Amazon Web Services.

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Regulation Key To Solutions Crypto Could Offer To The De-dollarization Debate

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Flasko (FLSK) launches first-ever alternative investment platform in rare wines and spirits industry

The alternative investments industry is growing at a $13.4 trillion pace. One of the key drivers of the latter is investments into rare high-end whiskeys, wines, and spirits – an industry set to groThe post Flasko (FLSK) launches first-ever alternative investment platform in rare wines and spirits industry appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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How XRP Will Be a Key In Partnership to Send Remittances Across These Asian Countries

In recent years, payment company Ripple has seen important growth due to its XRP-based solution On-Demand Liquidity (ODL). In collaboration with exchange platforms and other partners, the company has provided people across the world with an alternative to settle their transactions and leverage multiple use cases.

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$1 Million Bitcoin Price “Not Possible”, Says Billionaire Investor Ray Dalio As He Speaks On Era Of Competitive Monies

key Takeaways  Bitcoin proponent Ray Dalio speaks at length on the future of the asset. He predicts a surge in different forms of alternative currencies like Bitcoin, and their fight for dominance in the long term.

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$1 Million Bitcoin Price “Not Possible”, Says Billionaire Mogul Dalio As He Speaks On Era Of Competitive Monies

key Takeaways  Bitcoin proponent Ray Dalio speaks at length on the future of the asset. He predicts a surge in different forms of alternative currencies like Bitcoin, and their fight for dominance in the long term.

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Crypto.com makes two key partnerships aimed at bettering its platform

Crypto. com, a project that seeks to offer users an alternative to traditional financial services, recently announced that it had joined hands with Booking. com. The firm unveiled this news through a blog post on January 11, noting that this partnership seeks to offer its users a variety of travel deals.

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How Tether is key to turning profits in Bitcoin's volatile market

With the Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index noting a reading of 88 on the charts, based on data from Alternative, the trade volume of Tether was noted to have dropped by nearly 4%. In fact, the drop was preThe post How Tether is key to turning profits in Bitcoin's volatile market appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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New 5G Master Key Report by Strategic Investor EB Tucker Launches

Alternative financial information provider Casey Research has published a new marketing campaign online for E.B. Tucker’s Strategic Investor newsletter. It’s called the “5G Master Key”. Under this new marketing campaign, Casey Research attempts to convince you that 5G – fifth generation mobile wireless technology – is one of the biggest stories of 2020. According to […]

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Karvuon focuses on Mongolia’s key natural resources to establish sustainable blockchain infrastructure for global energy management

Blockchain meets renewable energy. While renewable energy has made its presence felt, the global demands continue to outpace the available supply of alternative sources such as wind, solar, and hydro.

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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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October 14-15 CryptoFin Conference & Expo will be held in the innovative city of Tallinn

The capital city of the Northern star Estonia will host the 2-day international event CryptoFin Conference & Expo on 14-15 of October 2019 at the Creative Hub. CryptoFin will gather the key figures of blockchain and alternative finance sectors to become the best networking platform for the market leaders and start-up companies. By bringing together 700+ […]

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Why Proof of Stake is the Future of Blockchain Technology?

Coinspeaker Why Proof of Stake is the Future of Blockchain Technology?Proof-of-Stake (PoS) is quickly replacing PoW as its environment-friendly alternative. Check out key features and benefits this blockchain consensus mechanism presents.

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CryptoFin Conference & Expo to be Hosted in Estonia, October 14th – 15th 2019

The capital city of the Northern star Estonia will host the 2-day international event CryptoFin Conference & Expo on 14-15 of October 2019 at the Creative Hub. CryptoFin will gather the key figures of blockchain and alternative finance sectors to become the best networking platform for the market leaders and start-up companies.

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Ethereum As An Altcoin? SFOX Explains Why ETH Is No Longer An Alternative Cryptocurrency

Ethereum Is No Altcoin – Here Are Some Reasons Why For a good number of people across the world, the one digital asset that sits on the throne of Crypto is Bitcoin. While this is true by a number of key metrics, like market capitalization, market dominance, along with being the most popularly known asset […]

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Decentralized Custodial Private Key Solution Launched by Austrian Security Agency

An Austrian high-security company with experience in e-governance solutions for the Australian government has launched Chainlock, a new decentralized private key management solution that mostly aims to target the B2B market.

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Future of crypto-assets will be prosperous, with or without Libra

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.

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3 key Observations as the Bitcoin Bull Run Continues Unabated

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.

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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy

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.

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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths, The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy

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.

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Andreas Antonopoulos says credibility of key performance indicators [KPIs] depends heavily on choice of metrics

The cryptocurrency industry maintains its position as the most volatile and unpredictable market for investors. As a result, the market is home to a huge number of people trying to accurately predict market changes, in order to reduce investment risks.

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New Cryptojacking Campaign Infects Asia Using More Profitable Tactics

Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.

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Key Bitcoin Indicators Rage Bullish as Crypto Gains $40 Billion in 1 Month

By CCN. com: Over the past 24 hours, the bitcoin price briefly surpassed the $5,300 mark in a short-term spike but retraced back to the $5,200 region. In the past 30 days, as the bitcoin price gained 31.

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Sluggish Bitcoin Price Creates Bullish Opportunities for Wider Crypto Market: Trader

In the past 24 hours, the Bitcoin price has remained stable above the $4,020 mark, unable to break out above a key resistance level at $4,200. Meanwhile, a handful of crypto assets and tokens recorded gains in the range of 5 to 30 percent.

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Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem

Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.

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Bitcoin Price Could Crash by 50% in 2019: Veteran Crypto Traders

Throughout the past week, the bitcoin price has increased from $3,901 to $4,048, by nearly 4 percent against the U. S. dollar. The relatively strong short-term performance of bitcoin led alternative cryptocurrencies to engage in large upside price movements, allowing the valuation of the crypto market to rise by about $7 billion.

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Stanford Student Calls Out Crypto Professor for Inaccurate Bitcoin Lecture

In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance.

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Bitmax.Io Offers a Great Alternative for Margin Traders

The cryptocurrency market has been slow this past month. There have been days where the price of Bitcoin has moved less than 1%, unusual for the typically volatile asset. With such little movement, major trading opportunities are few and far between and margin trading has become a popular means to turn a profit.

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NeuralTrade Network ICO

Most people are desperately seeking financial freedom in their life. Sadly financial freedom remains a dream to them or an elusive theory that forever escapes them. The biggest problem around financial freedom is some magic formula or some secret success model that they believe exists, they spend an endless amount of time, effort and even resources in obtaining this magic formula or the secret success model.

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Graftroot: How Delegating Signatures Allows for Near-Infinite Spending Variations

This article is a direct follow-up from our Taproot explainer. If you haven’t read that article, you should probably do so first. If Taproot is deployed on Bitcoin, many smart contract constructions will look just like regular transactions on the blockchain.

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Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin

Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.

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Canada’s First All-Crypto Legal Firm Opens Its Doors to Global Clientele

Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.

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Bitcoin Wallet Forced to Drop Key Privacy Features From Google Play App

Privacy-focused bitcoin wallet Samourai is having its hand forced by Google. According to a Samourai blog post, the wallet provider is disabling privacy features that are key to its design before its latest version, 0.

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Ten Years Later, a Reflection on Bitcoin’s Genesis and Satoshi’s Timing

October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.

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Crypto Holiday Guide: Gifts for Every Bitcoiner on Your Shopping List

The holiday season is here. And even if crypto prices are on the coal heap, you can still have fun spreading some holiday bitcoin cheer. For the bitcoiners in your life, this could mean a crypto-related gift as a token of solidarity.

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KPMG: Institutional Investment Key to Cryptoassets Growth

Auditors KPMG have published a report stressing the need for institutional investors to join the cryptocurrency industry. The report outlines the importance of cryptoassets as an investment alternative and how institutional investors can take part in the process.

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Op Ed: In Defense of Bitcoin: A Response to Nouriel Roubini

Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.

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Civic Looks to Expand Adoption With App-to-App Developer Tool

If blockchain-based identity platform Civic is to go mainstream, then making it simple for as many businesses and consumers as possible to start using its app will be key.

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Minting the Future of Cryptocurrencies - [BTC Media Sponsor]

In 2009, Bitcoin was ushered in as an alternative to fiat currency, promising to revolutionize the future of peer-to-peer spending. Since then, it has spawned scores of other cryptocurrencies with various value propositions and potential.

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Cryptos Gain Adoption Amid Venezuela’s Economic Turmoil

Life in Venezuela is anything but. Last year, the South American nation of 32 million led the world with 652% inflation and this year the economic turmoil is even worse. As of September 2018, the annual inflation was estimated at 200,000% and International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it could spike to a mindboggling 1,000,000% by December.

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Novice, Intermediate or Expert? A Quiz to Test Your Bitcoin Knowledge

Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.

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Kraken: An Overview of One of Europe's Top Bitcoin Exchanges

In this overview, we explore Kraken and its journey from a Mt. Gox alternative to soften the blow of bitcoin’s dependence on just one exchange to becoming one of the most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Details of One of Bitcoin’s Nastiest Bugs Yet

For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.

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5 Reasons Graft Will Bring Cryptocurrency Payments to Retailers Globally

Bringing cryptocurrency payments to retailers and the masses remains a very difficult task. Graft is looking to solve this problem through its universal payment blockchain. It is capable of providing an alternative payment processing network bringing cryptocurrencies to the point of sale.

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[promoted] Equity Trust Builds New Frontier of Crypto-Based Retirement Accounts

Index funds have more than proven their worth as a preferred option for those with an eye on retirement. But now there is conversation about the value of adding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to this investment mix.

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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term

One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).

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Chipotle is opening a startup accelerator, and I volunteer myself

Chipotle is good at two things: 1. ) making tasty burritos, and 2. ) poisoning the people who eat its burritos with norovirus. But now it’s branching into new territory. Buzzfeed News reports the casual Mexican chain is launching a new startup accelerator.

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Why We Have To See Bitcoin Regulation

Cryptocurrency regulation is one of the key features needed for a global cryptocurrency adoption. Governments, banks and other authorities will not allow a total adoption of cryptocurrency for as long as cryptocurrency remains self-governing and volatile, as a result of uncertainty.

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