2019-9-20 10:12 |
With high network load from a few apps, even regular transactions see their fees rise.
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2019-9-20 10:12 |
With high network load from a few apps, even regular transactions see their fees rise.
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As an exclusively online service, Xendpay is able to provide its customers with some of the most competitive rates on cross-border money transfers. The London-based company even gives customers the option to waive fees with its Pay What You Want service.
2019-8-22 09:00 | |
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There’s a new promotion happening for Bitcoin. com Cash Games, with new winners each week, and first place taking home $200 in bitcoin cash. It can be said that crypto and gaming are made for each other, thanks to low fees, easy access, and privacy.
2019-8-20 19:30 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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A lot of improvements can be made when it comes to the current cryptocurrency projects on the market. Every single project is far from as streamlined as it could be. For Monero, there are new development son the horizon which might help reduce transaction sizes and fees even further.
2019-6-5 16:00 | |
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Bitcoin’s [BTC] transaction rate fees have been one of the most debated issues over the last few years, with some even categorizing it as a hurdle to Bitcoin’s accessibility to general users.
2019-6-3 17:30 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Research has shown that the number of on-chain Bitcoin transactions has risen dramatically throughout 2019, nearing the volume of Bitcoin’s peak in December 2017. Even so, transaction fees are a fraction of what they were around bitcoin’s all-time high, likely due to the continued uptick of SegWit transactions on the network.
2019-5-8 00:53 | |
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While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.
2019-5-4 22:14 | |
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Binance has announced that its users are now able to trade ATOM, a token that is part of the newly-launched Cosmos blockchain. On Sunday, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao praised the project for managing to earn a listing on his exchange without asking.
2019-5-3 23:10 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] is currently maneuvering a market controlled by the bears, and has been consolidating its losses since a sudden collapse on April 25. The largest digital asset even tested the $4,900 level prior to the forced correction, which recovered its value and pushed the coin’s price above $5,000 and $5,300 resistance levels.
2019-4-30 01:30 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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There was one issue with Bitcoin when it was first proposed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto: it couldn’t scale. Ten years later and Bitcoin has the same scalability problem. Throughout its existence, it hasn’t managed to go beyond processing more than seven transactions per second; which was enough in the beginning.
2019-4-10 19:21 | |
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You may have noticed that despite the bear market, crypto exchanges are still having a good time. Why is that? Because price is not really what drives them, fees are. This way, they remained strong even when other companies in the crypto world are not.
2019-3-29 00:21 | |
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App-enabled cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider, Zebpay, has announced that it is enabling Lightning Network payments for all its users. The best part of the news? Zebpay claim that it will even pay the fees for Lightning transactions made through its wallet.
2019-3-28 16:00 | |
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By CCN. com: Drug manufacturer Purdue Pharma finally settled a lawsuit with the state of Oklahoma, with the OxyContin maker agreeing to pay $270 million to fund addiction research, addiction treatment, and legal fees.
2019-3-28 19:26 | |
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The trend for passive investing has reached new heights. According to a CNBC report, money continues to pump into ETFs tracking bundled assets – e. g. , major indexes like the Dow Jones or S&P 500) – which now make up almost 50% of the entire stock market.
2019-3-21 21:10 | |
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Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups.
2019-2-27 23:26 | |
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An IBM executive is unfazed by the current market realities, saying he sees Bitcoin (BTC) reaching a value of $1 million as a present possibility. Jesse Lund, vice president of Blockchain and Digital Currencies at IBM, shared his predictions at the IBM Think 2019 Conference, which took place February 12–15, 2019.
2019-2-23 00:42 | |
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Justice Wood has appointed legal counsel to represent some 115,000 creditors in incipient legal proceedings against seemingly insolvent cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, documents published today, February 19, 2019, from the Halifax, Nova Scotia court reveal.
2019-2-20 00:52 | |
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Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary.
2019-2-5 23:06 | |
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Bitfury’s new suite of Lightning products has been released to the public. Lightning Peach, the title of the product bundle, was developed by Bitfury’s Lightning Network team of the same name.
2019-1-23 20:02 | |
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This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4 and on Day 5.
2019-1-23 01:05 | |
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Bolton Coin (BFCL) offers a new amazing and unique approach to investing in the crypto sphere, generating aggregates profits from tangible luxurious markets such as gold and diamonds mining, real estate, integrated by eco-sustainable energy and extraordinary form of BTC crypto-mining.
2019-1-12 14:41 | |
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As many of our regular readers may be well aware of by now, 0x has carved a niche’ for itself within Ethereum decentralized finance ecosystem. However, despite all this, it is worth noting that the utility of 0Xs native token offering ‘ZRX’ remains largely muted at this point. To be even more specific, we can see […]
2019-1-6 21:34 | |
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The ongoing debate about whether or not Bitcoin can scale sufficiently on its path to mass adoption has led many people to question if it will ever reach that point at all.
2019-1-5 06:05 | |
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Even though prices don’t reflect, Tron has been slowly laying a groundwork to become one of the biggest names in the crypto ecosystem. There has been a surge in positive news of Tron, such as this one.
2018-12-27 19:26 | |
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IOTA is radically different from existing cryptocurrencies in the sense that it doesn’t even use blockchain. It uses an entirely new concept called “Tangle”. Consequently, No transaction fees, enabling true microtransactions.
2018-12-22 22:22 | |
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In today’s Video Briefing, Kiana takes a look at one of 2018’s hottest offerings. EOS made headlines around the world with a year-long token sale, which raised about $4 bn. The project was widely dubbed an “Ethereum Killer,” promising thousands of transactions per second for zero fees.
2018-12-14 18:27 | |
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With the exceptional achievement of reaching the worlds top 5 in terms of masternode count even before the market started, the highest crypto-growth rate in history. 3DCoin now joined the European exchange p2pb2b.
2018-12-14 12:59 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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As the market continues to tumble (and mining profits have dwindled), Bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped by its largest percentile in seven years — the second largest downward correction in the cryptocurrency’s lifetime.
2018-12-4 01:01 | |
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If you have traded on two or more crypto exchanges, even for a day, you would have noticed the high trading fees, low liquidity, days waiting for KYC procedures, unexpected downtime during trades, and many more.
2018-12-4 00:38 | |
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At Poloniex, we’re always looking for ways to make our customers’ experience even better. Last month we saved them $500K by waiving fees on USD Coin (USDC) trades. To keep the savings rolling, we’ve decided to waive all fees on BTC/USDC trades for the month of December.
2018-12-1 02:02 | |
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A critical vulnerability in an Ethereum token made it possible for malicious actors to force cryptocurrency exchange desks to spend extremely high fees on transactions. Even worse, the attackers could abuse the bug for profit.
2018-11-22 13:55 | |
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A bug centering around a new Ethereum token, GasToken, which was enabling abuse on cryptocurrency exchanges, appears to have been resolved. The details are provided in a report originally published on November 13, 2018, that discussed how the bug was exploited by attackers, and what digital platforms could do if they wished to protect their hot wallet funds.
2018-11-22 00:34 | |
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Galaxy Capital–backed BlockFiis taking its loan services to the global stage. According to a statement shared with Bitcoin Magazine, the platform is expanding its services to an international audience.
2018-10-31 17:17 | |
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On October 30, 2018, Storj Labs released a public alpha for their version 3 (V3) platform –– enabling developers and companies to test their decentralized cloud storage solution.
2018-10-31 17:07 | |
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Even though it does not happen all that often, the Monero price is going through a very positive spell right now. Some of the project’s recent developments have [finally] received the attention they deserve.
2018-10-23 11:55 | |
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The silver to Bitcoin’s gold is about to get even cheaper to send. The leading development group for Litecoin, the seventh most valuable cryptocurrency, has announced that its next release will “lower network fees by a factor of ten,” reducing the average transaction fee to around half a cent.
2018-10-22 18:20 | |
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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.
2018-10-22 17:11 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
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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.
2018-10-10 22:30 | |
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Ethereum World News published a report in early August regarding Chris Franko (Expanse) who claimed that he was ordered to pay 400 Bitcoin – which is equal to around $2. 5 million – for a listing position on Binance.
2018-10-9 16:30 | |
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Bitcoin miners have raised over $4. 7 billion in revenue so far this year, but rising electricity prices have rendered cryptocurrency mining almost completely unprofitable, even for the world’s biggest pools.
2018-10-9 15:33 | |
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Dubai will enable its citizens and residents to make digital payments for retail purchases, bills, and even school fees with a state-backed cryptocurrency thanks to a partnership between Emcredit – Dubai’s Credi Bureau and two blockchain-related firms.
2018-10-9 13:00 | |
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Binance Embraces Transparency As reported by Ethereum World News in early-August, Chris Franko of Expanse claimed that he was told to pay 400 Bitcoin (BTC) or the equivalent of $2. 5 million for a listing position on Binance.
2018-10-9 03:29 | |
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Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, said that it will make new cryptocurrency listing fees transparent and donate 100 percent of those fees to charity.
2018-10-8 22:20 | |
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