2021-1-15 22:08 |
He estimated it will take “years rather than months” before the Fed releases a CBDC.
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Bitcoin (BTC) price has seen a rather impressive performance in the second half of 2020, and particularly in the last 10 days. The coin has finally breached its previous all-time high, moving above $20,000 for the first time in three years.
2020-12-24 11:44 | |
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XRP’s price action has been rather lackluster as of late, with buyers and sellers remaining deadlocked as they struggle to gain control of the cryptocurrency’s near-term trend. This lack of momentum isn’t new for XRP, as the token has been stuck within a macro consolidation phase throughout the past few years against both its USD […]
2020-10-25 04:00 | |
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Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz doesn't see Bitcoin as a currency; rather, he doubles down on the digital currency as digital gold. “I don’t think Bitcoin is going to be used as a transactional currency anytime in the next five years,” said Novogratz, founder, and CEO of Galaxy Investment, in an interview with Bloomberg.
2020-10-25 16:30 | |
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Macro strategist Raoul Pal says the price of bitcoin will reach $1 million in five years. He attributes the price increase to adoption by large pools of investors and the “enormous wall of money” coming into bitcoin, rather than because “the world is collapsing.
2020-10-14 06:30 | |
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Bitcoin's adoption narrative over the past few years has been rather promising. With institutional investors stepping in along with more regulatory and tax clarity for digital assets and the larger crThe post Here's who will take the lead on Bitcoin's institutional adoption race appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-11 16:00 | |
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A recent study published by the Tokenist has shown that the number of people who trust cryptocurrencies rather than banks has grown by 27% over the past three years. Crypto has been gaining popularity for a while now – pretty much everyone on the Internet has at least heard of Bitcoin.
2020-7-29 07:28 | |
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Since the start of the year, Ethereum has done rather well. Per data from TradingView, the leading altcoin is trading approximately 80% higher than the price it started 2020 at. Analysts expect ETH to rally further in the months and years ahead as the underlying network’s fundamentals lend to increased demand for the asset. One […]
2020-7-23 01:58 | |
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Celcius Network recently passed $1 billion in deposits indicating a strong demand amongst the cryptocurrency community for ways to earn interest on their cryptocurrency. The community largely consists of crypto enthusiasts who would rather HODL than spend their Bitcoin.
2020-6-7 14:25 | |
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In the world of Bitcoin and other crypto assets, theft and hacks are rather common. Michael Terpin fell victim to such theft a few years ago, yet it now seems that the investigation is reaching a new milestone.
2020-5-12 05:00 | |
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Only in the cryptocurrency market can bullish and bearish be limited to days, rather than months. After a massive fall on March 12, Bitcoin's worst in 7 years, the coin sunk to a 10-month low.
2020-3-15 19:00 | |
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Bitcoin's adoption has improved over the years, but a part of the community feels that its adoption will eventually reach a dead end. Christopher Allen, former Principal Architect at Blockstream, iThe post Here's why Bitcoin adoption is accelerating, rather than stagnating appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-6 00:30 | |
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New technology takes time to filter down to the masses but even after ten years, bitcoin still remains largely user-unfriendly for most. There could be a number of reasons why. Over ten years after it was conceived, bitcoin is still primarily used as a vehicle for speculation rather than a decentralized peer-to-peer currency as was originally envisioned.
2020-1-28 22:00 | |
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Cyber attacks have become very common over the past few years. It would appear hackers are primarily targeting entire nations, rather than individual targets. One country dealing with plenty of cyber attacks is Iran.
2019-12-16 07:00 | |
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Ransomware has been a very big problem for many years now. Despite numerous incidents in 2019, it is unlikely that the threat will diminish in the years to come. Through 2019, the number of ransomware attacks has been rather impressive, for all the wrong reasons.
2019-12-6 06:00 | |
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As Bitcoin (BTC) has floundered over the past few months, falling by 50% from $14,000 to $7,300, American equities have been performing rather well. Earlier this week, the S&P 500 set an all-time high at 3,150, and the index has gained some 25% in the past year alone — likely one of the strongest years.
2019-12-2 23:00 | |
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Video games have gotten a bit of a bad reputation over the years. Solutions such as Blast might change that narrative, as it comes gaming with finances in a rather intriguing manner. Most gaming enthusiasts would love to make money by playing their favorite video games.
2019-11-16 23:20 | |
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Nintendo has a weird relationship with mobile games. Over the past few years, they started to see mobile games as a viable market and started releasing official games based on their IPs. Nintendo also said that they think of mobile games more as advertisements for their properties, rather than games in their own right or […] The post Nintendo’s Multiplayer Bump Won’t Fix Mario Kart Tour Trash appeared first on CCN.com
2019-11-4 15:28 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! In the past year or so a lot of companies including OnePlus and Motorola released their smart TVs. However, smart TVs don’t always feature apps like Netflix, and sometimes struggle when it comes to streaming locally-owned content.
2019-10-15 14:00 | |
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The current trend in the cryptocurrency industry comes in the form of stablecoins. Numerous projects pegging digital assets to fiat currencies have been launched in the past few years. So far, none of them has been able to compete with Tether.
2019-10-15 22:59 | |
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Sailing used to be considered as a rather sedate pastime. But in the past few years, the world of yacht racing has been revolutionized by the arrival of hydrofoil-supported catamarans, known as “foilers”.
2019-10-7 00:00 | |
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“Can machines think?”, asked the famous mathematician, code breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing almost 70 years ago. Today, some experts have no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be able to develop the kind of general intelligence that humans have.
2019-10-2 10:23 | |
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HP has been seriously upping its design game the last few years, what with some svelte laptops and even one that was basically half leather. Today HP announced the latest in its renewed product line, the impressively sleek Spectre x360 13.
2019-10-1 01:11 | |
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Ben Askren is an American Olympic wrestler who’s also a professional martial artist. Rather more interestingly, he’s a well-known Bitcoin bull. And on Sep 28, he ran a poll on Twitter posing an interesting question.
2019-9-30 13:15 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.
2019-9-24 04:03 | |
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Even though Bitcoin lending was one a prominent business model, the industry seems stuck in a rut. It is a business model which is hardly ever talked about in the open. The new report from GrayChain confirms things are still looking good despite some rather troublesome figures.
2019-8-16 04:00 | |
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Invention is the mother of all necessity. For years, what was coveted was what was harder to come by. Since the dawn of time, human beings have valued aspects of existence based not on their use, but rather on outward perception seen by the eyes of another.
2019-8-11 17:30 | |
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Well before Google decided it would leak the Pixel 4 on its own terms, LG had been teasing and revealing features on its own devices for years. Today, the company began the marketing efforts for its next flagship, posting a short teaser that seems to reveal a triple-screened device to be announced at IFA on September 6.
2019-8-7 23:54 | |
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Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to put us all out of a job or create more jobs than ever before. Either way, tech education is touted as the path to career success. But computer science majors keep launching startups that are technology- rather than people-centered.
2019-7-17 14:00 | |
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Ransomware is not a new technological concept, but it is a big problem in the cryptocurrency industry in the last few years. Rather than directly taking over an exchange, these hackers go after unrelated companies, demanding to be paid out in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency.
2019-7-12 21:31 | |
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Four years ago, in a move designed to explore the viability of new offline sales models, Alibaba ran a little experiment. Two of its financial service offerings, Alipay digital wallet and its onboard credit scoring platform Sesame Credit, cooperated in the launch of two unmanned supermarkets.
2019-6-23 10:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Longtime crypto critic and gold proponent Peter Schiff is excited. He’s not happy due to the stock market hitting new all-time highs or bitcoin prices surging but rather by a microscopic advance in the price of gold.
2019-6-22 22:45 | |
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People have been clamoring for Tesla to make a pickup truck for years. Though Elon Musk has repeatedly promised it’s on the way, there’s yet to be any indication of what it’ll actually look like, let alone a firm release date.
2019-6-19 00:54 | |
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The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
2019-6-4 19:03 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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By CCN: An Israeli court has ruled that Bitcoin is not a currency but rather an asset. This was in a case brought forth by Noam Copel, a blockchain entrepreneur, according to business publication Globes.
2019-5-22 15:39 | |
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By CCN: In a brazen but unsurprising move last week, Democrats issued a subpoena to accounting firm Mazars USA for eight years’ worth of Donald Trump’s financial records. It should thus come as no surprise that Barack Obama judicial appointee U.
2019-5-21 05:56 | |
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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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Facebook might be taking its bullying problem a lot more seriously than you think. Rather than hire more humans to flag troubling content, it plans on developing AI with human level intelligence to do the job.
2019-5-2 23:47 | |
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On April 24, 2019, Japanese crypto and blockchain company bitFlyer released the results of a study assessing public confidence in crypto assets of 10,000 people across 10 European nations.
2019-4-25 21:25 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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The story of what Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has been able to accomplish a little under two years has been nothing short of incredible. Having launched in July of 2017 amidst stiff competition from well-established rivals and a feverishly bullish market driven by Bitcoin hype, rather than pose a challenge for Zhao, the combination was.
2019-4-20 23:00 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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Bloomberg reports that Amazon is working on wireless earphones, similar to Apple’s recently refreshed AirPods – but with support for the company’s Alexa voice assistant built in. The buds are slated to arrive sometime in the first half of this year.
2019-4-5 09:44 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published an investment contract framework for digital assets, which is intended to give crypto companies guidance as to whether a cryptocurrency is a security.
2019-4-4 22:02 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Chloe Jiang. The price of bitcoin surged above $5,000 for the first time in 2019, bringing other major cryptocurrencies up with it.
2019-4-3 20:49 | |
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Every darknet market which has effectively launched in the distant or recent past will effectively shut down eventually. Whereas some of the most promising darknet markets were shut down in the past few years, things have gone rather quiet in the scene.
2019-3-28 12:17 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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Out of four recent crypto regulatory initiatives, the stablecoin bill has the highest chance of being passed before the U.S. presidential election, the report said.
The Qatar Central Bank (QCB) has announced the completion of the infrastructure development for its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) project, marking a significant milestone in its efforts to embrace digital financial transformations.
Israel's central bank is launching a challenge on the use of a central bank digital currency in payments as part of an "action plan for a possible issuance of the digital shekel."
Opinion: From Brazil to Norway, there is plenty of evidence that governments are planning to use CBDCs to abuse their people.
Unpacking the Incoherence and Hubris of Modern Monetary Theory and Its Intersection with CBDCs and Bitcoin
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand opened a new consultation period on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) on April 17. The current stage of development seeks input on “high-level design options for digital cash.
Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chairman Thomas Jordan said the central bank “sees no need” to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for public use despite the benefits of a wholesale version.