2020-10-10 22:54 |
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Popular crypto analyst Anthony ‘Pomp’ Pompliano has claimed to have convinced investment guru Jim Cramer to buy Bitcoin. Cramer’s Mad Money television show has over 200,000 daily viewers, and the announcement did coincide with a small rally—but is Jim Cramer influential enough to galvanize markets? Just convinced @jimcramer to buy Bitcoin.
2020-9-11 10:46 | |
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The video sharing giant filed a motion to dismiss Ripple’s lawsuit that alleges that YouTube did not do enough to stop free XRP giveaway scams, copyright infringement.
2020-7-24 19:38 | |
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Bitcoin has once again extended its long-held bout of sideways trading, as it has now been hovering around $9,700 for the past few days The crypto did decline to lows of $9,400 this weekend, but buyers quickly absorbed the selling pressure that was driving this movement It now appears that there are some factors that suggest a downside movement could be imminent If these factors are enough to shatter a key trendline Bitcoin bulls have […]
2020-6-9 21:00 | |
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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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Wednesday saw Circle release the results of the latest audit performed on the current supply of USDC, and the reserves of fiat the tokens are pegged to. According to the numbers, not only does the company have over 50% more stablecoins in circulation than it did in January, but it also has enough US Dollars […] The post USDC Audit Confirms Circulating Supply Up 50% This Year appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-11-21 10:31 | |
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Another Canadian cryptocurrency exchange has shut down following allegations of misappropriating client funds. Recent findings revealed that customers’ money held by the crypto exchange was missing, as it was discovered that the company did not have enough funds to pay indebted customers.
2019-11-21 10:00 | |
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Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! The days of phones getting smaller and smaller are over. I mean, who really wants a device that they might actually lose in, say, a shoe? Not me, for one.
2019-10-6 15:01 | |
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The kind people at Satoshi Labs were kind enough to send me a few Trezor wallets to do a review on. Little did they know that I will be putting their devices to the test in a much different way than anticipated.
2019-9-29 22:45 | |
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I tried to get ‘red pilled’ by r/The_Donald and I didn’t even get a T-shirt. What I did get though, was a deep enough understanding of the bigots, racists, ableists, homophobes, and other ‘forgotten’ people huddling in this safe space to develop some empathy for them.
2019-9-28 01:45 | |
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Bitcoin’s price, which was stuck in a limbo, is facing a tipping point. If the volume is high and the price continues to trend higher, the bulls are back in action. However, if the volume is not enough, BTC prices will face uncertainty, just as Schrodinger’s cat did.
2019-9-6 16:31 | |
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If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.
2019-9-5 13:23 | |
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If there were a color for painting a black hole, it’d probably be Vantablack. One of the darkest materials known to man, Vantablack uses carbon nanotubes to absorb up to 99. 96 percent of visible light.
2019-8-29 00:08 | |
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By CCN Markets: As if Facebook didn't have enough privacy issues, the company now confirms that it has been transcribing the audio chats of its users for quite some time. Facebook Claims It Wasn't Being Sneaky Facebook claims that the only conversations that were transcribed were from those users who selected that option in the […] The post Privacy Shocker: Did Facebook's Libra Plans Just Go Up in Smoke? appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-14 03:20 | |
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Court transcripts from Craig Wright’s Jun. 28 Florida hearing showed that not only did he fail to comply with court orders to disclose his Bitcoin addresses, but he did so “willfully.
2019-7-11 00:36 | |
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As if 2019 hasn’t been crazy enough, earlier today someone seemingly tried to counterfeit an entire Bitcoin block. Bitcoin had an invalid block at height 584,802, as spotted by @juscamarena All 8 nodes at https://t.
2019-7-11 23:45 | |
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Bitcoin is on the move again! Most people may not realize it, but within the price movements of Bitcoin there exist several safe zones which if carefully entered may be of the greatest advantages for anyone who can navigate them well enough.
2019-7-2 20:59 | |
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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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October 1, 2018, marked five years since I was imprisoned. My physical surroundings today are ironically similar to what they were after my arrest back in 2013. I’m in the SHU again (Special Housing Unit, aka “the hole”).
2019-5-29 22:50 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! You might think the world is complicated enough and there’s no need to make basic tasks harder, right? Right? Wrong.
2019-5-25 15:00 | |
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Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed by bitcoin. As detailed in court documents obtained by The Block, Tether admitted to using some of the cash reserves meant to back its stablecoin to purchase bitcoin, among other assets.
2019-5-22 23:02 | |
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The US Court for the Southern District of Florida has dismissed the case of initial coin offering (ICO) fraud against DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather. The court decided that despite Khaled and Mayweather shilled defunct cryptocurrency firm CentraTech (and its associated ICO of CTR tokens) on their social media profiles, they did not play a big enough role in its promotion to warrant further legal action.
2019-5-15 17:05 | |
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Chinese crypto exchange Binance suffered a major hack on Tuesday, which the company’s CEO responded to by proposing a rollback of the Bitcoin blockchain to rectify — a suggestion that riled up the community.
2019-5-8 21:39 | |
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Meghan Markle’s designer friend’s Misha Nonoo’s fashion company has been targeted by a Bitcoin hacker. Nonoo, who is rumoured to have introduced Markle to Prince Charles, said she was “mortified” after a hacker gained access to her eponymous label’s email list and began sending threatening messages.
2019-4-23 11:30 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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Best cryptocurrency exchange debates usually come down to choosing between Binance and Coinbase. While these two arguably did enough to reach and stay on top of people’s all-star crypto exchange lists, the market is chock full of competition looking to swoop in and take over some of that sweet, sweet market share and trading volume.
2019-4-9 21:08 | |
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This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened.
2019-4-8 18:08 | |
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At the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong’s Lightning Hack Day on March 31, 2019, Bitcoin developer Felix Weis presented a successful demonstration of his Lightning-enabled plugin for a Bitcoin ATM.
2019-4-2 22:02 | |
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After a week of community discontent, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to sever its business relationship with Neutrino employees who previously worked at the notorious Italian malware/software provider Hacking Team.
2019-3-5 19:09 | |
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Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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Thursday’s closing bell couldn’t come soon enough for the US stock market, which plunged across the board and prevented the Dow from crossing the 26,000 point threshold. Dow Recovers 80 Points But Still Sees Triple-Digit Loss The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by 103.
2019-2-22 00:27 | |
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Jimmy Song, a well-known Bitcoin developer and entrepreneur, did a live stream a few days ago explaining why he considered Bitcoin SV, the Bitcoin Cash fork promoted by Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre, to be.
2019-2-16 06:02 | |
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This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4 and on Day 5.
2019-1-23 01:05 | |
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This is the third instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 and on Day 2.
2019-1-18 00:05 | |
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Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending money, all the way to contributing to what’s underneath the hood.
2019-1-16 01:14 | |
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“The point is to get people to think about bitcoin, not spend it. I don’t think it’s good for that. It’s not meant to be used like cash,” Jeremy Gardner, founder of Ausum Ventures, advised me.
2019-1-15 17:50 | |
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In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view.
2018-12-6 04:03 | |
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Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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Greek lore tells the tale of Medusa — a fearsome monster who could turn mortals into pillars of stone, should they be unfortunate enough to gaze upon her. For the digital age, there’s something similar.
2018-11-19 16:10 | |
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“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992.
2018-11-15 18:50 | |
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The BlitzWolf team was kind enough to send us a free pair of BW-FYE1 wireless headphones to review. I tried them out myself and was impressed with the products. This is my written review complimentary to the youtube video I did about the headphones.
2018-11-7 01:06 | |
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Tether Limited is back in the news; this time, it has confirmed a banking relationship with a financial institution based out of the Bahamas. The issuer of the controversial USD-pegged stablecoin tether (USDT) announced its partnership with Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust Limited.
2018-11-2 00:27 | |
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First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete.
2018-10-24 22:00 | |
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Following a partnership between Samourai Wallet and goTenna, which now allows users to send bitcoin transactions offline, one developer in New Zealand is staying ahead of the curve.
2018-10-18 00:36 | |
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A strong round of buys hit the market this weekend as unsubstantiated rumors began to circle surrounding Tether and Bitfinex’s potential insolvency. I won’t be going into the details surrounding the allegations because, like I said, they are nothing more than unsubstantiated rumors.
2018-10-17 01:03 | |
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A popular school of thought among many people in the crypto space is that a small number of Bitcoin owners with a big enough load of bitcoin to move the market are behind the unstable markets and the price manipulation.
2018-10-11 16:30 | |
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The stock market is riddled with animal metaphors. Bearish traders tend to have a cautious approach, while bulls are much more aggressive. Ostrich traders — you guessed it — have a habit of ignoring negative signals.
2018-10-8 11:43 | |
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While Bitcoin (BTC) is the first, largest, and the most popular cryptocurrency, it is certainly not perfect. Even though the it is often seen as a standard for the crypto world, a single flaw in the right place would be enough to bring it down.
2018-9-21 16:04 | |
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Tether has announced the expansion of its USDT token to an eighth blockchain.
The FMA reports two-thirds of the investment fraud reports filed in 2020 were related to cryptocurrency and digital currency trading products.
This is the second bitcoin ETF approved to trade in Canada.
Geely will own 80% of the venture while Concordium will own the rest.
Gates has previously criticized cryptocurrencies and said he'd short bitcoin "if there was an easy way to do it."
A new tie-up with payments firm Klarna brings the exchange access to more than 5,000 banks across Europe.
Local firm Bitcoin Suisse has partnered with the canton of Zug, converting cryptocurrency tax payments into Swiss francs.