2020-1-4 19:27 |
Israel registered 30% growth in the number of blockchain companies operating in the country, in 2019
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Bitcoin has wound up as 2019’s top-performing commodity despite its exclusion from the majority of commodities market wrap-up reports. With an annual increase of 90 percent, the number one cryptocurrency by market capitalization beat by a significant margin Palladium (+57 percent), U.
2020-1-2 07:07 | |
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2019 was a crazy year for cryptocurrency enthusiasts and a number of interesting events happened throughout the last 12 months. It’s hard to keep track of the day-to-day activities taking place within the cryptosphere and there may be a few incidents some of our readers missed.
2020-1-2 05:15 | |
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The year 2019 has been good to the cryptocurrency gambling industry, thanks to an increasing number of savvy internet users choosing the crypto-based online gaming platforms over conventional fiat-based gaming counterparts.
2020-1-2 18:26 | |
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With 2019 ending in a number of hours, here is a look at the positive performance for Bitcoin (BTC) across several network and market parameters. Bitcoin Price up 95% YTD At press time, the Bitcoin price is up by about 95% year-to-date (YTD).
2019-12-31 17:00 | |
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Despite the harsh market conditions this year, high profile closures of a few ventures and a lot of employee downsizing, the number of companies operating in the blockchain and cryptocurrency fields in Israel actually grew by 32% in 2019.
2019-12-31 12:46 | |
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The number of Bitcoin ATMs has risen by around 50% in 2019 to hit a total of 6384 according to CoinATMRadar. But have you ever met a person who actually uses one, and if so, who, and why? Who Is Using All These Bitcoin ATMs? December 2019 was a momentous month for many reasons, perhaps one of the least reported being the record number of new Bitcoin-ATM installations.
2019-12-30 16:30 | |
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It is not a secret that altcoins, such as XRP, haven’t done too well in 2019. While Bitcoin (BTC) is up over 90%, starting the year in the $3,000s and now trading at $7,200, a number of leading cryptocurrencies have actually posted losses on the year.
2019-12-30 12:30 | |
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Despite an overall bearish sentiment and high price volatility, the world’s largest cryptocurrency has had quite a successful year. From transaction count and volume, to hash rate and number of addresses, Bitcoin’s every major metric has reached its all-time-high.
2019-12-28 23:32 | |
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Despite an overall bearish sentiment and high price volatility, the world’s largest cryptocurrency has had quite a successful year. From transaction count and volume, to hash rate and number of addresses, Bitcoin’s every major metric has reached its all-time-high.
2019-12-28 23:32 | |
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2019 saw a number of large crypto exchange hacks, resulting in millions of dollars stolen per attack. Here are 5 of the biggest breaches in the last 12 months. While cryptocurrencies are well-known for increased security — mostly thanks to the decentralized nature of their underlying technology — the same cannot be said for crypto exchanges.
2019-12-26 17:45 | |
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The number of articles mentioning bitcoin in the free search engine for scientific publications Google Scholar jumped 19.1% within one year. The most common issues analyzed are bitcoin price fluctuations and market manipulations.
2019-12-26 19:41 | |
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As Ethereum nodes kept falling over the course of 2019, nodes in Bitcoin’s network continued to grow. As per Trustnodes, Ethereum’s network was the largest when it came to the number of nodes, and the blockchain dominated the industry in terms of size.
2019-12-22 17:28 | |
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As Ethereum nodes kept falling over the course of 2019, nodes in Bitcoin’s network continued to grow. As per Trustnodes, Ethereum’s network was the largest when it came to the number of nodes, and the blockchain dominated the industry in terms of size.
2019-12-21 17:28 | |
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2019 is coming to an end and Bitcoin price is currently trading at $7,265, down 63% from its all-time high of $20,000. But according to Blockchain Capital’s bold predictions for next year, Bitcoin could very well make a new ATH.
2019-12-14 22:58 | |
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The South Korean government is mulling imposing taxes on capital gains arising out of cryptocurrency transactions – including Bitcoin (BTC) – reports The Korea Times, December 9, 2019. South Korean Authorities Taming the Crypto Conundrum In their short history, cryptocurrencies haven’t exactly been able to earn the trust of a large number of financial watchdogsRead MoreRead More.
2019-12-9 18:00 | |
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Hitting at block number 9,069,000, the systemwide upgrade is the network’s third in 2019.
2019-12-8 03:26 | |
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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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After the 2017-18 boom-bust that took the market to new highs and dropped it 80-90 percent from there, the current scenario of over 70 crypto-focused hedge funds closing is not very surprising. The number of hedge funds focused on the space has reduced in 2019 relative to the past two years, and CME volumes areRead MoreRead More.
2019-12-5 10:00 | |
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An increasing number of authors in China are turning to blockchain technology for intellectual property (IP) protection, reports media outlet Khaosod English, November 27, 2019. Tackling the IP Problem Thanks to the immense, multi-faceted benefits of blockchain technology, it has become an ideal fit for various industries across the globe, The emerging technology, today, isRead MoreRead More.
2019-11-28 22:00 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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In typical crypto “FUD” fighting fashion, cryptocurrency exchange Binance outright denied that their Shanghai office was raided by police, stating that they have no office in the Chinese city.
2019-11-23 20:00 | |
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Blockchain analysis firm, Chainalysis’ recent study concluded that a small number of crypto exchanges continue to report falsified trading volumes reports Coin Telegraph. An example of this is BitForex, which will be later expounded upon.
2019-11-22 17:36 | |
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The Ethereum network will be undergoing a network upgrade, or a hard fork on approximately December 7, 2019, at block number 9,069,000. All node operators and miners are requested to upgrade their node clients to account for variable block times.
2019-11-21 18:00 | |
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The number of issued USDT by the Tether Treasury exploded in the first half of 2019. However, it has since stalled alongside Bitcoin’s own price. There was much buzz earlier this year about Tether (USDT) issuances and Bitcoin’s rising price.
2019-11-20 17:56 | |
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It wasn’t too long ago that CryptoKitties fever went overboard and crashed the entire Ethereum network with an unfathomable number of transactions. In a recent Twitter thread, Coin Metrics explains how Gods Unchained, a digital card trading game, has surpassed CryptoKitties in transaction volume without being a burden on the network, November 20, 2019.
2019-11-20 14:00 | |
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British digital asset management firm CoinShares has released a report that outlines a number of trends in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market in 2019. The report describes the social, political, economic, and technological forces driving cryptocurrency adoption, and the consequent trends that have materialized in the cryptocurrency market.
2019-11-19 14:31 | |
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Argo Blockchain, increased the number of its crypto mining machines to 7,000, with plans to add additional 10,000 machines in 2020. Argo to Increase Crypto Mining Machines by 10,000 The crypto mining industry saw a surge in interest due to recovering prices in 2019, with many of the miners who previously left the industry making a comeback.
2019-11-11 14:19 | |
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Last year at Swell, we first announced On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which leverages the digital asset XRP as a bridge currency to eliminate the need for pre-funding in cross border payments. Since then, we have seen tremendous growth and customer interest with more than 7x the number of transactions using ODL from the end of Q1 … Continued The post Swell 2019: How On-Demand Liquidity Is Changing the Global Payments Game appeared first on Ripple.
2019-11-7 13:36 | |
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The U.S. SEC has issued a report on enforcement actions in 2019 that notes a number of cases the regulator initiated against digital asset-related firms
2019-11-7 21:32 | |
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Crypto exchanges are having a gruesome week, as a growing number of platforms face sudden closures, multi-million dollar hacks and fierce lawsuits. Here’s a breakdown of all the latest exchange action.
2019-11-5 18:25 | |
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The Litecoin price starts showing signs of a minor recovery while the coin's hash rate continues to drop like a rock
2019-11-5 22:33 | |
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Bitcoin adoption in Italy, one of Europe’s largest economies is steadily on the increase, as a new research report released on October 28, 2019, by SEMrush, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for online visibility management, has revealed that bitcoin (BTC) the world’s number one distributed ledger technology (DLT) based virtual currency is now the third mostRead MoreRead More.
2019-11-2 22:00 | |
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On October 6, 2019, Bitcoin SV passed Bitcoin on the number of daily transactions on its network. This was a much-needed piece of positive news, considering that, since the hard fork from Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in November 2018, BSV has decreased massively in price and has mostly been associated with the negative coverage towards Craig […] The post Bitcoin SV Announcement Inbound as BSV Price Increases appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-10-26 19:30 | |
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The number of Americans owning some form of crypto has almost doubled in 2019, according to a survey by Australia-based firm Finder
2019-10-25 02:07 | |
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2019 is being proclaimed as the year which will finally see mainstream crypto-adoption, mainly because of the influx of institutional investors through the crypto-derivatives market, and the rising number of crypto-users in developing countries like Venezuela, Iran and Hong Kong.
2019-10-24 12:32 | |
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It’s an obvious fact that Bitcoin and other cryptographic forms of money have been affecting cybercrime. Since 2019, the number of ransomware occurrences has ascended. The payment technique used is mostly digital currency, mostly using bitcoin.
2019-10-22 20:22 | |
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Research is suggesting that the number of ransomware incidents has risen in 2019. The payment method of choice for the majority of this cybercrime is cryptocurrency, predominantly bitcoin. Could BTC price fluctuations be linked to the increase in this online nefarious activity? Bitcoin Price and Ransomware US state departments, public sector facilities schools, hospitals, and businesses are increasingly falling victim to ransomware attacks.
2019-10-21 10:35 | |
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Global markets business CME Group said that institutional interest toward the firm’s Bitcoin futures is thriving and 2019’s third-quarter data showed a record number of open interest. Moreover, despite the lackluster start, the Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Bakkt platform has seen an increase in interest with the company’s physically-settled bitcoin futures product.
2019-10-18 17:25 | |
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TikTok users are reporting an unusually high number of posts showing up in their feeds related to Donald Trump. While the network has long been considered a haven for Trump supporters, until now they appeared to languish in an echo chamber.
2019-10-16 00:42 | |
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Many crypto projects died a slow and painful death while a few of them were outright scams. Reports, however, suggested that the most common reason for the crypto projects falling into decay was either because these projects were abandoned or were scams [of which were some were orchestrated under the guise of initial coin offerings].
2019-10-13 12:51 | |
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The number of Bitcoin wallets holding more than 1,000 BTC this year has increased despite the BTC price surging since early 2019
2019-10-13 16:02 | |
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Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours.
2019-10-12 13:25 | |
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AnChain is a new analytics startup, and it’s on a mission: to uncover dApp bots wherever they hide. During Q1 of 2019, the firm surveyed TRON’s top ten gambling dApps and found a large number of bots.
2019-10-9 19:14 | |
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A report from the Financial Times states U. K’s top financial authority, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has seen a 74% increase in crypto firms under scrutiny in 2019 compared to the figure last year.
2019-10-8 22:34 | |
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The number of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s investigations into crypto businesses surges 74%: from 50 cases in 2018 to 87 already in 2019
2019-10-8 15:47 | |
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The number of investigations into cryptocurrency firms by the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority have reportedly seen a sharp rise in the last year.
2019-10-7 13:30 | |
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Bitcoin’s bounce from lows of $7,714. 70 on September 30th gave bulls a solid reason to be optimistic. At that point, the number one cryptocurrency shed over 44% of its value from the 2019 top of $13,880.
2019-10-5 22:30 | |
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Qtum is preparing for its first hard fork since its inception back in September 2017. The system upgrade is focused on the underlying technology behind the protocol. Dubbed Qtum 2. 0, it aims to integrate a number of functions and improvements to its blockchain.
2019-10-4 04:12 | |
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2019-10-3 23:11 | |
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The global adoption trend for Bitcoin-related investment products continues to strengthen, with Six new mutual funds set to debut in Israel. According to a report by the Calcalist on Wednesday, Dec.
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