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Difference of Libra and Crypto Noted In Congress as Bitcoin Gets Clear Distinction from Facebook’s Coin

Deliberations in Congress about Facebook’s Libra have shown that Congress may have a grasp of crypto and what it entails. During the hearing where Facebook was represented by its executive David Marcus, legislators made it a point to differentiate between cryptocurrency projects that are currently in existence and the project Facebook proposes to launch. One […] дальше »

2019-7-23 18:37


Libra is Not Bitcoin, CoinShares Exec Testifies Before US Congress

Facebook cryptocurrency Libra is an imitator of Bitcoin, Meltem Demirors of CoinShares testified before the US Congress on Wednesday. The chief strategy officer appeared before the House Financial Services Committee to explain the difference between Bitcoin and thousands of cryptocurrency projects that takes inspirations from it. дальше »

2019-7-18 16:00


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Congressman Warren Davidson Suggests Libra is a Sh*tcoin

On Wednesday, Representative Warren Davidson suggested that Facebook Libra’s lack of decentralization placed it in the same category as other run of the mill sh*tcoins. Libra is Not a Cryptocurrency Events took a somewhat unexpected twist during today’s congressional hearing on the potential impacts of Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency. дальше »

2019-7-18 09:34


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UK regulator wants crypto-derivatives ban to protect ‘ill-suited’ retail investors

The UK‘s Financial Conduct Authority has proposed a ban on cryptocurrency-related investment products to protect retail investors. In an announcement released earlier today, the FCA said that cryptocurrency-based derivatives and exchange traded notes (ETNs) are “ill-suited to retail consumers who cannot reliably assess the value and risks. дальше »

2019-7-3 15:43


Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions. дальше »

2019-6-14 04:03


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Cryptocurrency and Cannabis: Risky Investments with a Twist

While classifying investments based on growth potential and risks, investors tend to cluster cryptocurrency, cannabis, and biotech together. While cryptocurrency has several more dimensions of risk, Rob Wertheimer of Melius Research gave a strong point of difference between cannabis and cryptocurrency in an interview with Yahoo Finance, June 11, 2019. дальше »

2019-6-12 17:00


Cryptodatum on Cognitive Bias in Cryptocurrency: Readability Has Positive Impacts

Cryptodatum.io founder Gerard Martinez published the results of a study showing the readability of a cryptocurrency’s ticker symbol correlates with positive higher returns. In laymen’s terms, the abbreviation of a cryptocurrency can make a difference in how user friendly and remember it is, thereby increasing its use and buy in. The hypothesis of this study […] дальше »

2019-6-2 22:36