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. дальше »

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bets on Ripple and Coil to Bring Financial Services to the Poor

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to extend financial services to billions of unbanked and underprivileged people around the world gained new momentum after it struck a deal with San Francisco based blockchain firm Coil. дальше »

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No, Tron’s Partnership With Baidu Isn’t Worth the Hype Justin Sun Created on Social Media

Tron CEO Justin Sun has done it again! Turns out the new partnership with “an industry giant valued at tens of billions of dollars” he was hyping so much about on social media actually only gives Tron access to Baidu Inc. дальше »

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North Korean Hacking Group Lazarus Behind $571M in Hacks Since January 2017

North Korean cybercrime hacking group The Lazarus Group is currently the biggest crypto hacking syndicate in the world, having stolen millions worth of cryptocurrencies from online exchanges. дальше »

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Bitcoin (BTC) May Never See $6,000 Again

Chart for BTC/USD (1W) Bitcoin (BTC) is finally out of the woods. The above weekly chart for BTC/USD shows that Bitcoin (BTC) has formed a weekly candle above the historical downtrend line. This is the first time since January 2018 that Bitcoin (BTC) has breached this resistance line and formed a candle above it. дальше »

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Fidelity Investments Is Pouring Billions Into Blockchain Research and Incubation

The company's research arm Fidelity Labs is dedicatedly involved in exploring new horizons and markets using the blockchain technology. The post Fidelity Investments Is Pouring Billions Into Blockchain Research and Incubation appeared first on CoinSpeaker. дальше »

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Blockchain is the New Cool, Fidelity Channels $2.5 Billion to Research

Fidelity, the 72-year mutual fund famous at Wall Street than in Silicon Valley, is changing tact and investing billions of dollars in emerging technologies as blockchain a Fidelity executive has revealed. дальше »

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Presenting a United Front of Blockchain Companies to Work With Congress

It’s a sign of the times and the growing maturity of the crypto industry that a new industry trade association launched in Washington, D. C. , on September 11, 2018, to lobby the U. дальше »

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Billion Dollar ICO Industry Governed by Securities Law, Judge Rules

U. S. V. Zaslavskiy, 17-cr-0647, U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), just might go down as a definitive case for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Many, many billions of dollars generated through initial coin offerings (ICOs) are now, according to a federal judge, considered under the jurisdiction of securities laws. дальше »

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50% Of Top Cryptocurrencies Have No Working Purpose, New Study

Cryptocurrency world may have matured into raising billions of dollars in Initial Coin Offerings or ICO’s, however such new fundraisers are mere eyewash says new study, since half of such projects do not have a “working product. дальше »

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ASX Head Says New DLT System Could Save Billions

The Australian Securities Exchange is looking to blockchain technology as a potential replacement for its clearing and settlement services. дальше »

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Chinese Aerospace Firm Looks To Blockchain To Improve Electronic Invoice Management

The new blockchain platform may help with the tracking of billions of financial documents.

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Pumps and Dumps of Cryptocurrencies: An Old Scam Made new

In sharp contrast to their original mission statement, there are many “pink sheet” or “penny stock” scams that go mostly unnoticed by the SEC and the exchanges. These Microcap Stock Fraud schemes run into the billions annually according to August 8, 2018, reports. дальше »

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BitMex Launches Ethereum Futures With 50x Margins

One of the biggest crypto trading platform, handling billions of dollars in trading volumes every day, has launched ETH/USD futures earlier today. Without much of an announcement, a new market. . дальше »

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Coinbase ads back on Google – All set to reach billions of new potential users

Coinbase, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchange platforms is back on Google ads. The news comes in the limelight after the CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, announced that the exchange platform was whitelisted for Facebook ads earlier this week. дальше »

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STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. дальше »

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New “Major” Crypto Exchanges Thriving on Fake Volumes, Bad For the Industry

Newly emerging crypto exchanges, equipped with billions of dollars in daily trading volume, are thriving based on fake numbers and malpractices, which may have a significantly negative impact on the long-term growth of the crypto market. дальше »

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EOS Makes Rapid Gains as Block.one Attracts New Investors

The crypto market has experienced a turnaround after weeks of instability that saw many of the cryptos shed billions in market capitalization. The turnaround has been attributed to a number of factors, top among them being the announcement by the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, that it was exploring the possibility of venturing into the […] дальше »

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Security, Regulations And Accessibility. The 3 Major Reasons Holding Bitcoin In The $6K Range

All three in one word made bitcoin volatile.  A single negative announcement revolving around the 3 issues has triggered a bitcoin dump that has shed billions in hours. The market has over the years also grown dependent on ‘new money’ bringing in new investors has ensured the market cap is on the rise. дальше »

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Minister For UK Housing Believes Blockchain Could Save The UK, Billions

Eddie Hughes MP, the UK Housing Minister has today released a report which explores the Blockchain under the guise of FREER. According to the report: “FREER is a major new initiative from the IEA promoting a freer economy and a freer society. дальше »

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Blockchain “could” save the UK government billions of pounds and reshape social structure, a new report claims

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With Coinbase Custody, Institutional Investors Can Now Invest Billions in Crypto

Coinbase, the world’s largest crypto exchange with more than 20 million active users, launched a custodian solution for large-scale institutional investors that could potentially attract billions of dollars worth of new capital into the crypto market. дальше »

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Global Government Debt Triples to $60 Trillion

We used to talk of billions, now trillions are the new billions. That’s inflation for you and debt is a big part of it. According to the Economist’s debt clock,... The post Global Government Debt Triples to $60 Trillion appeared first on Trustnodes. дальше »

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Updated Edition of Blockchain Revolution Fills In Some Big Gaps

“When Blockchain Revolution came out, bitcoin was worth around $7 billion. Today, it’s more than twenty-two times that. Bitcoin is the workhorse of the cryptocurrency world and the cryptocurrency that launched a thousand ships. дальше »

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