Private Equity Giant David Rubenstein Makes the Case for Bitcoin

Billionaire private equity titan David Rubenstein believes Bitcoin (BTC) is here to stay thanks to growing institutional interest as evidenced by BlackRock’s application for a spot bitcoin ETF as well as general global demand for a form of money that can’t be controlled by governments.

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Bitcoin Upgrades, Preparing for a Private Future

The Bitcoin Core 0. 21. 0 is now live as per an update on Jan 15. Setting a Secure and Private Foundation for Bitcoin The latest iteration of Bitcoin’s implementation introduces several changes setting the foundation for a more secure, private, and robust network.

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How Hard Is It to Brute Force a Bitcoin Private Key?

Trying to crack a private key with a brute force attack is a bit like trying to count to infinity: the sooner you begin, the faster you’ll never get there. Despite being as next to impossible as impossible gets, using a brute force attack to crack a bitcoin private key remains an intriguing idea for […] The post How Hard Is It to Brute Force a Bitcoin Private Key? appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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How to Keep Bitcoin Cash Transactions Private

There are many reasons to keep bitcoin cash transactions private and the top six ways to make them anonymous are outlined in a new video by Bitcoin. com. Meanwhile, the Financial Action Task Force has just released its global guidance for crypto assets, effectively calling on countries and crypto exchanges to strengthen their KYC measures.

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Разработчиков Bitcoin Private уличили в скрытом предмайнинге

Команда Coinmetrics опубликовала разоблачающий пост о Bitcoin Private (BTCP), обвинив разработчиков в скрытом от криптосообщества предварительном майнинге. Bitcoin Private является двойным форком блокчейнов Биткойна и ZClassic.

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Разработчики Bitcoin Private подтвердили тайный выпуск монет

Команда разработчиков альткоина Bitcoin Private (BTCP) официально подтвердила создание 2,04 млн. BTCP, «которых никогда не существовало в блокчейне». Bitcoin Private — это криптовалюта, которая была выпущена в результате слияния данных блокчейнов биткоина и ZClassic.

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Команда Bitcoin Private скрытно увеличила максимальное предложение монеты

Исследователи Coinmetrics заявили, что разработчики форка Bitcoin Private нарушили положения whitepaper, скрытно увеличив максимальное предложение данной монеты. Об этом говорится в опубликованном Coinmetrics отчете под названием «Не доверяй, проверяй: пример Bitcoin Private».

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Разработчики Bitcoin Private предложили уничтожить 12 млн монет

Команда Bitcoin Private провела собственное расследование инцидента со скрытым увеличением эмиссии в ходе премайна.

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Команда Bitcoin Private втихую увеличила предложение собственного токена

Об этом говорится в исследовании Coinmetrics, называющемся «Не доверяй, проверяй: пример Bitcoin Private».

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With the latest Bitcoin Private (BTCP) scandal, is it safe to say that all bitcoin forks are scams?

2 million Bitcoin Private tokens pre-mined Crypto data provider Coinmetrics released a report titled “Don’t trust, verify: A Bitcoin Private case study” which revealed some damning information about this popular fork-merge of Bitcoin and ZClassic.

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Bitcoin Private Price Gains 12% out of the Blue

There is still a lot of uneasy market momentum where cryptocurrencies and digital assets are concerned. It is very easy to simply look at the negative, rather than seeing what may turn into a positive moving forward.

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Hacker Livestreams 51% Attack on Bitcoin Private

On Oct. 13, ethical hacker “Geocold” followed through on his promise to 51 percent attack an altcoin. He eventually settled on Bitcoin Private (BTCP), and quickly gained majority hashrate control, but the spectacle was fraught with setbacks, including censorship from two streaming services that pulled the plug.

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Bitcoin Private: обзор и анализ уникального форка

Форком биткоина уже никого не удивишь. Именно поэтому разработчики новой монеты Bitcoin Private пошли дальше и создали валюту на основе двух криптокоинов: Bitcoin и Zclassic. Что из этого получилось, читайте в подробном обзоре и анализе Биткоин Приват.

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Two-for-One: SEC Slaps Crypto Hedge Fund, Broker With Registration Failures

In what it deems a first for both enforcement actions, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging two entities with registration failures.

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Stellar-Based Lightyear Acquires Chain, Forms New Entity

Lightyear Corporation, a universal payments network built around Stellar’s open financial protocol, has announced the acquisition of Chain, in a merger that sees both brands combine to form a new entity called Interstellar.

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Chinese Cryptocurrency Traders Circumventing Bitcoin Trading Ban via Tether and VPNs

While the Chinese regulatory watchdogs have not failed to renounce their support over digital assets trading and crypto businesses in the region, investors still engage in the “forbidden act” using virtual private networks (VPNs) and the Tether stablecoin, reported the South China Morning Post on September 8, 2018.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Lightning, Launches and Broken Promises

A handful of projects brought their tech to life this week, introducing new payment systems and coins to the industry’s offerings. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s Lightning Network makes headway for the dev community, and one of crypto’s older and more respected exchanges (arguably) takes a step against the space’s principles.

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[promoted] Equity Trust Builds New Frontier of Crypto-Based Retirement Accounts

Index funds have more than proven their worth as a preferred option for those with an eye on retirement. But now there is conversation about the value of adding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to this investment mix.

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Global Blockchain Technology Market Could Grow at 37.2% CAGR by 2024

In its recent research report titled Blockchain Technology Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Type (Public, Private, Hybrid), By Application (Financial Services, Consumer Products, Technology, Telecom), And Segment Forecasts, 2018–2024, Research and Markets claims that the blockchain technology market could grow to become a $7.

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Cyber Criminals Are Finding Ways To Steal Your Cryptos

You stored your Bitcoin private keys (CRYPTO: BTC) in a safety deposit box so you should be good, right? Not so fast. Criminals are getting more manipulative in how they access your cryptos. Hacked Browsers Can Steal Your Passwords This week, a Google Chrome extension for file-sharing service MEGA was hacked by cyber criminals who are potentially stealing private keys and login passwords, among other information.

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Proof-of-Stake is a Rebranded Version of the Old Financial System

Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of projects, both public and private, that are attempting to create a next-generation blockchain or something better than Satoshi’s Bitcoin. A great majority of these projects have condemned proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies because they think they waste resources, and many of these new blockchains have chosen to […] The post Proof-of-Stake is a Rebranded Version of the Old Financial System appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Research Finds Investors Remain Bullish on Bitcoin Despite Bear Market

The bearish sentiment in the cryptocurrency market has failed to deter most retail and institutional investors from investing in cryptocurrencies over the next 12 months, as concluded by SharesPost’s recent survey.

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Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Dash Is Not Really That Private

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.

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Abra Supports SEPA Bank Transfers, Enabling Crypto Purchases With Fiat

Abra, the all-in-one digital wallet and cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its support for Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) bank accounts. European users can now enable direct wire transfers from European banks to purchase any of Abra’s 28 available cryptocurrencies.

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Winklevoss Twins File New Patent For Virtual Asset Storing

The famous twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, have filed for a new patent in storing virtual assets in a secure manner. The Winklevoss IP, LLC patent, named “Systems and methods for storing digital math-based assets using a secure portal,” this includes a new method which allows the division of a virtual asset account “into a plurality or private key segments”.

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ANON Fork for Bitcoin (BTC), ZClassic (ZCL) Scheduled for September 10

The upcoming ANON hard fork has so far failed to lift the price of ZCL in the way theat expectations of the Bitcoin Private (BTCP) hard fork caused a historical price pump.

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The Private Key to Satoshi Nakamoto’s $8 Billion Bitcoin Fortune is on This Site—And So is Yours

It’s no secret that a cryptocurrency wallet can be accessed by a private key—a string of letters and numbers that, if revealed, allows all those who hold it access to the cryptocurrency held within.

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Bitcoin Core Software Upgrade to Bring a Range of New Features

The new features mainly focus on improving Bitcoin Core's default wallet, its integration with hardware wallets, and improving the way private keys are stored. The post Bitcoin Core Software Upgrade to Bring a Range of New Features appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Bitcoin as a Privacycoin: This Tech is Making Bitcoin More Private

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: More Than an Academic View of Progress

This past week has seen progress in two aspects of Bitcoin: privacy and payments. Attitudes toward blockchain technology are also showing progress as two surveys reveal.

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DNA: The Safest Way to Store your Bitcoin Fortune

To date, storing cryptocurrencies securely remains a significant concern for bitcoin enthusiasts. To address this challenge once and for all, Carverr has created a hack-proof way for digital assets investors to store their DLT-based virtual currency wallet passwords or private keys in a microtube of DNA, as first reported by CNET on August 28, 2018.

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PR: Access Sold out ICO’s Through Vertex Aftermarket

With the growing interest by investors in getting on board with cryptocurrency, often the most effective and popular tokens sell out quickly leaving many disappointed in the lack of access to these top tokens, or even if tokens are only offered on private sale to which the investor has no access.

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Forgetful Crypto-Enthusiasts Are Storing Private Keys in DNA

For those worried about memory loss, hard-drive failure, and over-efficient house-maids, help is now at hand. A startup by the name of Carverr is now offering a service to store your crypto passwords in a vial of DNA.

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The Anatomy of Anonymity: How Dandelion Could Make Bitcoin More Private

Many people know bitcoin as an anonymous digital currency, one whose privacy features prime it for concealed payments in sketchy recesses of the internet’s dark web.

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Guide To Understanding Monero

There is a popular belief among people that cryptocurrencies are private and untraceable, explaining their association with illegal transactions. In truth though, this is not the case, for example with bitcoin, all transactions are recorded on a public ledger (blockchain) which allows for anyone to view and verify transactions.

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Reddit Co-Founder Bullish Despite Bitcoin Volatility

Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian has revealed his optimism about the future success of bitcoin despite the daily slump in price in an interview with Yahoo Finance.

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TRON Announced a 6,666 TRX Private Key Bounty Hunt

TRON’s bounty hunt programs have ranged from crazy to outrageous. One of the most promising start-ups in the cryptocurrency industry and the 12th largest digital coin in the world is now offering 6,666 tokens to bounty hunters who can unlock private keys from an image.

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World Bank and Australia's Largest Bank Issue First Global Blockchain Bond

The World Bank and Australia's largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, have issued a public bond exclusively through the blockchain. The $100 million AUD ($73.

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New Blockchain Project to Use Telegram as KYC

Telegram has been at the forefront of blockchain revolution — whether it is via an ICO or getting banned in some locations, only to recoup via virtual private networks (VPNs). Now, another blockchain service provider is cashing in on the popularity of this platform to verify users.

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Swedish Tech Company to Trade Crypto Fund in Exclusive Partnership With German Bank

Stockholm IT Ventures AB (SITV), a Swedish technology company specialized in cryptocurrency production, announced that its subsidiary, Blocktrade Technology Ltd. (BTT), has signed a software license agreement with Valens Bank, an offshore private bank based in Germany that eases deposit of cryptocurrencies such as BTC, BCH, ETH, or LTC.

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Op Ed: Making Friends With Time in the Cryptocurrency Space

What follows is an open letter from Jimmy Zhong, co-founder and CEO of IOST, to his team members and shared with Bitcoin Magazine with permission. Recently, I’ve been thinking about an ultimate way of safely storing value — gold, Bitcoin, real estate and power all came to mind.

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Top Crypto Exchanges Join Winklevosses’ Self-Regulatory Organization

Some of the crypto industry’s biggest exchanges are joining with the Winklevosses in an effort to bring self-regulation to a market that many perceive to be fly-by-night and unstructured.

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Blockstream Proposes “Pay to End Point” (P2EP) to Boost Bitcoin Transaction Privacy

Blockstream Proposes “Pay to End Point” (P2EP) to Boost Bitcoin Transaction Privacy Bitcoin transactions are never private and they have never been private. However, a new proposal by Blockstream could significantly enhance transaction privacy on the bitcoin network.

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Coinberry Traders Keep Control of Keys With BRD Crypto Wallet Integration

Cryptocurrency trading service Coinberry has partnered with BRD, a secure bitcoin wallet service, in a deal that promises to bring BRD's Canadian users onto Coinberry's no-fee trading platform.

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PR: No More Waiting – Ronaldinho Soccer Coin Crowdsale Goes Live

Everything Ronaldinho does helps inspire others. If it’s in the playing field or off of it, he is sure to bring magic and joy to his fans. This is exactly what he did on February 2018 as he hinted to his Twitter followers that he would become a partner on a big project.

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Testing the Newly Transformed Non-Custodial Coinbase Wallet

A while back, the San Francisco-based exchange Coinbase announced the launch of an ethereum-based wallet called Toshi. The application was a private and secure messaging platform tethered to a non-custodial ETH wallet.

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Анонимность в интернете: Zcash, главный конкурент Monero и Dash

В последнее время команда криптовалюты Zcash (ZEC) реализовала несколько уникальных обновлений протокола. Но, поскольку технология zk-SNARK становится доступной и в других криптовалютах, среди которых эфир и, к примеру, форк биткоина Bitcoin Private, ZEC необходимо выделиться за счёт бол...

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Coinbase Wins Patent to Protect a Secure Bitcoin Payments System

The largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange has made another move towards providing a secure environment for digital currency trading. Identifying the Present Issues In a filing issued August 14, the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted protection for a secure Bitcoin payment system to Coinbase.

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Coinbase Seeks Patent for Security-Enhanced Bitcoin Payment System

U. S. -based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new Bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer. The new platform will provide an added layer of security for users’ keys and allow them to make Bitcoin payments directly from their digital wallets.

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