Major British Paper Edited by Former Chancellor Can’t Spell Ethereum

Former British Chancellor George Osborn once bought some bitcoin in 2014, but the paper he edits, the Evening Standard, can’t spell ethereum. “Bitcoin, etherium and other cryptocurrencies surge in popularity,”... дальше »

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About The Clouds: Bitcoin Holds Retest Of Key Weekly Level

Last night at 8PM eastern standard time, Bitcoin price closed its weekly candle at roughly $9,325. While the close marked yet another week of failed attempts to break above $10,000, it also marked the first retest of the Ichimoku indicator Kumo, or “cloud. дальше »

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Bitcoin Wallets Are Adopting This Tech to Simplify Lightning Payments

Bitcoin’s Lightning network has a long way to go in terms of user experience. To tackle this problem, a standard known as lnurl is quietly gaining ground. дальше »

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How would Bitcoin react if the world went back to the gold standard?

Remember the days when the standard economic unit was a fixed quantity of gold? The United States turned into one of the wealthiest countries during that era, however, nearly every economist refers toThe post How would Bitcoin react if the world went back to the gold standard? appeared first on AMBCrypto. дальше »

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Tech Investor Palihapitiya says Bitcoin Price will Either Reach Millions or go to Zero

In a recent interview with Anthony Pompliano, Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, crypto billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said bitcoin could reach $1 million once it is globally adopted, creating a new financial model similar to a quasi-gold standard. дальше »

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Chainalysis and Paxful Set Compliance Standard for Peer-to-Peer Exchanges

Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis has announced a partnership with Paxful to boost the Bitcoin marketplace’s KYC compliance efforts. Chainalysis’ Dim View of P2P Exchanges  For Chainalysis, peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency exchanges...The post Chainalysis and Paxful Set Compliance Standard for Peer-to-Peer Exchanges appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

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Human Readability and Privacy: BCH Can Be Sent by Email With Tips Tool, No Usernames Required

Tips.Bitcoin.com allows users of crypto to tip BCH to friends and family via email address, arguably cutting out some of the inconvenience associated with standard bitcoin address formats. Unlike Coinbase Wallet’s new username option, which achieves similar ease for transactions, sending keys via email does not require a centralized database of usernames connected to crypto […] The post Human Readability and Privacy: BCH Can Be Sent by Email With Tips Tool, No Usernames Required appeared first on Bitcoin News. дальше »

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Jack Dorsey Enables Bitcoin Emoji on Twitter Posts

The Twitter and Square founder also appears to be pushing Unicode to introduce the bitcoin emoji in the universal web standard. дальше »

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Bitcoin Trading Volumes in Venezuela Continue to Climb

Many Venezuelans have been buying up Bitcoin in ever-increasing numbers to hedge against currency devaluation. An Unparalleled Currency Crisis Venezuela was once one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America, with the highest standard of living on the entire continent. дальше »

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On the Coast of El Salvador, Bitcoin Is Becoming the Standard

Inside a circular economy built on bitcoin

The post On the Coast of El Salvador, Bitcoin Is Becoming the Standard appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Jack Dorsey is Building an Open Source and Decentralized Twitter

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has taken another step towards building a decentralized standard for social media. Bitcoin believer took to Twitter to announce his plans for an open-source Twitter for which the social media giant is funding a small independent team of up to five architects, engineers, and designers dubbed Bluesky. lo https://t.co/Yr1Bwjd4mA […] дальше »

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BitPay Enabling Merchants to Overcome Bitcoin Volatility with Stablecoins

BitPay, a leading bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins payments processor established in May 2011, has added support for top stablecoins including Circle’s USD Coin (USDC), the Gemini Dollar (GUSD) and Paxos Standard Token (PAX). дальше »

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Thai Government to Integrate DLT, A.I and Emerging Technologies into the Digital Economy

In a bid to improve the income, quality of life, and competitiveness of ordinary people in the society, Thailand’s Digital Economy and Society Ministry (DE)  intends to use innovative technologies like blockchain in developing mobile applications and e-commerce solutions over the next three months, reports Bangkok Post on August 11, 2019. дальше »

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Standard Chartered Bank Issues First DLT-Powered Letter of Credit

In a press release on August 7, 2019, U. K. -based Standard Chartered Bank, revealed it had successfully executed a pilot of the first cross-border Letter of Credit (LC) on blockchain for companies in the oil industry, including PTT Group, a Thailand state-run oil and gas company, PTT International Trading Pte Ltd, and IRPC Public Company LimitedRead MoreRead More. дальше »

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Hitting Milestones: Ripple Pushing XRP To Become The World’s Standard For Payments

Ripple, a blockchain company, has been advocating the use of cryptocurrency for cross border payments. Specifically, its native cryptocurrency – the XRP and its xRapid technology have been adopted by banks, governments, institutions, among others globally. дальше »

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Bitcoin Market Dominance Is Actually Over 75%: Ex Google Exec

Bitcoin in fact accounts for a much larger proportion of the overall cryptocurrency market, a former Google and Facebook executive has claimed. Bitcoin Market Dominance Has Long Been over 60% Presenting new figures on social media August 6, Avichal Garg, who now runs cryptocurrency asset management firm Electric Capital, said standard methods for measuring Bitcoin’s dominance were flawed. дальше »

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The Role of Gambling in Cryptocurrency’s Expansion

The number of digital currency users has grown exponentially over the past few years. There were approximately 3 million cryptocurrency owners in 2015 but that figure more than quadrupled by 2017. дальше »

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Deflationary Coins: Can These Tokens Explode In Price, Or Just Burn Out?

Inflation is a favorite antagonist in the cryptocurrency community. Most investors are probably familiar with the graphs showing how much value the U. S. dollar has lost since 1933, when the Federal Reserve left the gold standard. дальше »

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Trader Predicts Ripple to Dump by 60% Against Bitcoin Before It Moons

  Ripple is having a horrible 2019 against bitcoin. The Standard (Ripple) as known in the crypto community is down by over 66 percent against the leading cryptocurrency year-to-date. Ripple is so weak that it already posted seven consecutive red candles on the monthly chart. дальше »

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Стоит ли инвестировать только в Биткоин?

Автор книги The Bitcoin Standard и известный криптоаналитик Сайфиддин Аммос считает инвестирование в Биткоин «игрой с нулевой суммой». По его словам, все, кто не хочет вкладывать свои деньги в главную криптовалюту, проиграют. дальше »

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RBI Forced Inter-ministerial Panel to Propose Ban on Bitcoin: Report

The central government initially wanted to regulate the bitcoin sector but changed its stand due to objection from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), reports Business Standard. The Indian daily claimed that Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg, who was heading the interministerial committee to study cryptocurrencies, favored regulating them. дальше »

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55,000 cryptocurrency users affected in Bitpoint’s $28 million hack

Embattled cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has revealed that roughly half of its 110,000 users were affected by last week’s $3. 02 billion yen ($28 million) hack, reports The Mainchi. Speaking at a Tokyo press conference, Bitpoint president Genki Oda noted that of the 3. дальше »

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Spend.com app partners with Paxos enabling easier crypto payments

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceSpend. com, a crypto payment ecosystem, today announced a partnership with Paxos, a regulated Trust company, which operates itBit, a bitcoin exchange with oversight from the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS). дальше »

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Stratis SRC-20 token issuance contract now deployable

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceStratis, the blockchain technology company and platform, today announced that the SRC-20 standard token issuance contract has been voted into the whitelist by the community operated masternodes and is now deployable on the Cirrus Sidechain. дальше »

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Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Continues Upward Performance Against Main Indexes In 2019

2019 has been a pretty great year for cryptocurrencies so far. As revealed by the Wall Street Journal recently, this meant that the Grayscale Investments’ Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) has outperformed most of the other indexes this year. дальше »

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Erik Voorhees’ new ShapeShift platform takes a jab at Coinbase by providing self-custody services

Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift, spoke about a new feature for its users with Naomi Brockwell, and how it should be a standard for cryptocurrency platforms in the present day. Voorhees, a Bitcoin enthusiast, founded ShapeShift back in 2014. дальше »

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Tether slowly migrating from the Bitcoin to Ethereum blockchain

Tether’s USDT is steadily migrating from Bitcoin Omni-based addresses to Ethereum-based ones, with 40 percent of USDT now using the ERC-20 standard.  Major cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Poloniex announced they were both moving their Tether addresses from Omni. дальше »

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Setting the Stage for Bitcoin: Stock Market Hits Record Highs, All thanks to the Fed

“It took exactly nine months, but the Dow finally closed at a new all-time high,” said Ryan Detrick, Senior Market Strategist for LPL Financial. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 179 points, surpassing its high from October 3rd. дальше »

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4 Awesome Bitcoin Casinos!

Cryptocurrencies are all the rage right now. After all, there are a lot of advantages to them in comparison to standard currency; anonymity, security, direct transactions, etc. It’s even possible that in the future, cryptocurrencies will be the standard rather than paper bills and metal coins. дальше »

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West Africa Gets Serious with New Banking Technologies

Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa has announced plans to officially adopt an open banking standard powered by new technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT), to promote transparency in the financial services sector, according to a report by local news source the Guardian on July 1, 2019. дальше »

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Indian Police Busted Call Center Scam Who Stole $1.7 Million In Bitcoin From US Citizens

According to the Business Standard, a gang in India has been busted by the Police in Madhya Pradesh state. The scammers were stealing Bitcoin (BTC) from US citizens through a call centre. The reports show that the scammers were able to steal around $1. дальше »

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BREAKING: ICE’s Bakkt Will Start Testing Its Bitcoin Futures Platform on July 22

Coinspeaker BREAKING: ICE’s Bakkt Will Start Testing Its Bitcoin Futures Platform on July 22ICE's plans to set a new standard for institutional market quality for digital assets with the launch of its Bitcoin Futures platform on July 22, 2019. дальше »

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Indian Call Center Scam Milks $1.7 Million in Bitcoin From US Citizens

By CCN Markets: A gang in India’s Madhya Pradesh state which scammed U. S. citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars through Bitcoin and other methods has been busted and its members arrested. The gang which ran its operations out of a call center is estimated to have made around $1. дальше »

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Local Governments Work To Shape Bitcoin Mining's Impact On Climate

Officials in Missoula County, Montana, changed the way crypto mining operations need to implement clean energy initiatives, helping set a standard for how local governments can hold mining operations responsible for the energy they use. дальше »

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Bitcoin [BTC]: #DropGold campaign gets called out for being ‘Bitcoin cartel’

The Bitcoin [BTC] ecosystem has seen a resurgence of sorts recently, with multiple price fluctuations in the cryptocurrency field being spearheaded by the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Several movements and campaigns were launched to spread the message that Bitcoin is a thing of the future, along with its benefits over the standard ‘store of value,’ Gold. дальше »

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CME Bitcoin Futures Volume Reaches Record Highs During the Month of May 2019

CME currently makes use of a one hour period — between 3PM to 4PM every day— during which it calculates its CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR). This metric standard is used by the derivatives exchange to calculate the monetary worth of its futures contracts. дальше »

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Standard Tokenization Protocol (STP) to Launch IEO on Bittrex

Standard Tokenization Protocol (STP), an open-source decentralized platform for the issuance of tokenized assets, has joined forces with Bittrex International, a Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, in a bid to conduct its initial exchange offering (IEO) on the exchange, according to a press release on June 5, 2019. дальше »

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Bitcoin [BTC] is growing, but is not entirely free of ‘government interference’, claims Saifedean Ammous

Bitcoin [BTC] was very dominant in 2019 and the decentralized asset, which is free of any government oversight, retrieved positive market sentiment. According to Saifedean Ammous, Bitcoin is up by 18 million percent over the last 10 years, indicating its rapid growth over the period. дальше »

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Book Author Saifedean Ammous Says Bitcoin is Not Free From Government Interference

Saifedean Ammous, the author of ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ says that Bitcoin is not free from government interference as of now. Bitcoin has been promoted as the borderless peer-to-peer financial network free from the clutches of any authority. дальше »

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Автор The Bitcoin Standard: За 10 лет биткоин вырос на 18 000 000%, чего не смог добиться какой-либо актив или криптовалюта

В интервью немецкому финансовому журналу Boerse Online Сайдифан Аммус, автор книги The Bitcoin Standard, отметил, что «мы пока не можем точно сказать, угрожают ли биткоину правительства», когда его спросили о потенциальном влиянии регуляторов на использование криптовалюты, добавив, что из-за глобального характера биткоина какое-то отдельное правительство не сможет его полностью запретить. Аммоус упомянул несколько наиболее частых […] дальше »

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Saifedean Ammous: It’s ‘Not Certain’ That Bitcoin Is Government-Proof

Bitcoin is not free from the threat of government interference, ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ author Saifedean Ammous warned mainstream media this week. Ammous: BTC Up 18 Million Percent Speaking in an interview with German finance magazine Boerse Online, Ammous, who is well known as one of the biggest active Bitcoin bulls, said that despite being technically unstoppable, Bitcoin still faces its enemies. дальше »

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Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems

About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees. дальше »

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Russia Central Bank Mulls Gold Standard for National Cryptocurrency

Russia’s Central Bank could be considering a gold-pegged cryptocurrency, according to a report by Russian news agency, RIA on May 23, 2019. However, the apex bank states that virtual currency would not act as a substitute for the Russian Ruble. дальше »

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Kraken Proves Gold-Bug Peter Schiff Wrong, Pays Employees in Bitcoin

Peter Schiff claims that there is “no way that people are going to work for salaries paid in bitcoin”. But over a quarter of staff at Kraken do… and they aren’t the only ones. дальше »

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Dark-Horse Trump Rival Pumps Crypto, Aims to Make US a Bitcoin Nation

By CCN: Far from a first, California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell is accepting Bitcoin donations for his dark-horse bid to knock off Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. More significantly, the bombastic congressman wants to usher in a blockchain revolution after he vanquishes Trump from the White House. дальше »

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Fantom and Binance Team up for Multi-Asset Cross Chain

Fantom, a distributed ledger based on Directed Acyclical Graphs (DAG), is tying up with Binance to leverage Binance Chain in launching a cross chain platform, as announced on May 22, 2019. The partnership will support assets that follow ERC20, native Fantom standard, and BEP-2 (Binance’s token standard on BNB). дальше »

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BSV STN is mining 1.4-gigabyte blocks; Is this a scaling solution or a journey towards centralization?

Bitcoin SV, the fork of Bitcoin Cash, has set up an STN [Scaling Test Network], specifically intended to test on-chain scaling for large blocks, which also acts as a standard network in the latest update of Bitcoin SV. дальше »

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It’s Bitcoin Pizza Day: Here’s How You Can Buy a Pie with Crypto

By CCN: Nine years ago today, Laszlo Hanyecz, an early adopter of Bitcoin, offered 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. He was taken up on that offer and recently told Bitcoin Magazine that he spent as much as 100,000 BTC on pizza that same year. дальше »

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Peter Schiff Believes Gov’t Can Shut Down Bitcoin More Easily Than Gold

Veteran gold bug Peter Schiff still thinks gold will win out over Bitcoin – because it is allegedly easier to shut Bitcoin down. Peter Schiff: Bitcoin Won’t See Use If ‘Illegal’ That was one of the conclusions in a wide-ranging debate Schiff had with ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ author Saifedean Ammous on trader Tone Vays’ YouTube channel May 20. дальше »

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Imagine a World Where Bitcoin’s Volatility Levels Equal Gold’s within a Decade from Now

Bitcoin, the pioneer of the cryptocurrency space is often considered to be the modern-day store of value and digital equivalent of gold. However, the comparison between Bitcoin and Gold does not really go down well with the Gold proponents as they believe gold has been the standard for quite long and has a very stable […] дальше »

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