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CoinMetrics Says Sad Truth is Majority of Bitcoin Transactions are Worthless

The Sad Truth: Majority of Bitcoin Transactions are Worthless It turns out most of Bitcoin’s transactions don’t really do anything. About two-thirds of transactions made with the cryptocurrency are not for anything specific, meaning the exchanges have nothing to do with trading, buying or selling goods. A large number of actions taken by coin holders […] дальше »

2018-7-26 21:15


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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. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


XRP not a Real Cryptocurrency Like Bitcoin and Co, Expert Warns

Ripple XRP’s centralized protocol could have far more implications on the token performance both now and in the long run according to Elvis Investment CEO, Anatoly Castella. A central protocol means that XRP was created all at once by the parent company – Ripple Labs Inc – with a majority of the cryptocurrency held by […] The post XRP not a Real Cryptocurrency Like Bitcoin and Co, Expert Warns appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-7-19 19:35


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


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Bitcoin Remains the Best Cryptocurrency Investment, According to Wall Street Trader

Bitcoin has had a rough 2018. However, it is still hands down the best cryptocurrency investment — an opinion shared by one prominent Wall Street trader.   ‘The use case for bitcoin is valid today’ While the vast majority of the cryptocurrency market remains speculative at best, Bitcoin remains one of the only cryptocurrencies which people are actually using. дальше »

2018-7-11 19:00


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Estimated 4 Million Bitcoin is Lost Forever by Users’ Forgetfulness

As much as 20 percent of all the Bitcoin in existence is lost forever, Chainalysis has revealed — as the research firm says it handled contracts worth $750,000 since 2016. ‘We Don’t Help People Find Lost Bitcoin’ In comments to The New York Times, Chainalysis said that user failures to create robust methods of password storage meant as much as $20 billion of Bitcoin is locked out of reach. дальше »

2018-7-7 03:00


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Nearly 9 out of 10 Crypto Execs Need ‘Formalized’ management Self-Regulation: Research

Eighty-six percent of cryptocurrency firms’ executives and investors want the industry to self-regulate, new research published this week reveals. Part of the 2018 Cryptocurrency Survey by international law firm Foley & Lardner LLP, the majority of respondents also tipped Bitcoin to become the cryptocurrency of choice for transactions in the long term. The firm questioned дальше »

2018-6-28 18:30


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Will Bitcoin Rise To $60,000 Before The End Of The Year?

Everyone is aware that 2017 was a year of huge highs for Bitcoin, with the cryptocurrency proving itself to be the most resilient. The form of spending hit a record high of $19,796 per coin last year, sending the world into overdrive about what Bitcoin actually is and how it’s performing so well (especially considering it’s still difficult to spend in the majority of stores). дальше »

2018-6-20 08:00