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Think carefully before buying Bitcoin – and don’t buy the ‘safe haven’ claims

Lee Smales, University of Western Australia The sharp rise and subsequent fall in Bitcoin’s value places it among the greatest market bubbles in history. It has outpaced the 17th-century tulip mania, the South Sea bubble of 1720, and the more recent Japanese asset price and dot-com bubbles. The rapid price rise garnered attention from an […] дальше »

2018-7-13 23:17


Australian Punter Makes $884 Million Bitcoin Bet Against Buffet

The cryptocurrency market is no stranger to big, bullish calls, but a new bet by an Australian punter puts Bitcoin price predictions such as Fundstrat’s Tom Lee’s $25,000 BTC to shame with a multi-million dollar bet that: the value of one Bitcoin will exceed the value of the unit-share price of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway […] The post Australian Punter Makes $884 Million Bitcoin Bet Against Buffet appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2018-7-12 19:00


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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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Uber Angel Investor Believes Bitcoin Will ‘Solve Biggest Problems With Fiat’

Early Bitcoin investors continue to bet on Bitcoin’s potential. For example, angel investor Jeffrey Wernick started investing in the “the currency of the people,” as he calls it, in 2009. Wernick believes that Bitcoin’s formidable power resides in the fact that its value “comes from its ability to solve the biggest problems with fiat money. дальше »

2018-7-12 11:00


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What Are MKR and DAI? Introduction to Maker

One of the biggest obstacles to crypto’s mainstream acceptance as currency is the volatile pricing. Bitcoin, for example, ranged in price from $6,000 to $17,000 in 2018 alone. Nobody wants to spend 10,000 seemingly worthless crypto tokens on a couple of pizzas one day, only to see the price jump to a value of over […] The post What Are MKR and DAI? Introduction to Maker appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-7-12 19:25