2019-12-21 19:30 |
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An analytical company Chainalysis shows that hardly anyone utilizes Bitcoin as means of payment, preferring to see it as a store of value and ‘hodl’ In spite of the recent massive price surge, Bitcoin seems.
2019-5-31 09:51 | |
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Today’s Financial Times carried an interesting morsel this morning: Bitcoin (BTC) has proven to be a better store of value than the Argentine peso over the past 12 months. As a fiat currency, the Argentine peso – a victim of populist rule and economic mismanagement – hardly holds up to global reserve currencies.
2019-5-27 21:54 | |
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Whilst the world waited for the SEC’s postponed decisions on two outstanding Bitcoin-ETF applications, somebody filed a new one. The United States Commodity Index Fund Trust filed the application yesterday for a fund based on a portfolio of both bitcoin and ether.
2019-5-10 16:00 | |
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The Bitfinex/Tether episode made headlines in the crypto community over the past week. The repercussions were felt even in the market as Bitcoin [BTC] plummeted by almost $400 after news broke out that Bitfinex used Tether reserves to cover up its undisclosed losses, speculated to amount to $850 million.
2019-5-1 19:30 | |
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Despite the growing popularity of CoinJoin, mixed Bitcoin transactions can hardly hold a candle to privacy-oriented coins
2019-4-30 19:17 | |
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Everybody’s talking about crypto currencies and block chains. In 2017, Bitcoin, the best-known of all crypto currencies, experienced an increase in value that even the biggest advocates had hardly dared to dream of two years ago.
2019-4-8 02:31 | |
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For the last couple of days, Bitcoin has hardly had any intriguing movement. Since the leader surged above $4,000 and found resistance around $4,090, the coin has remained in this range for more than a week.
2019-3-26 12:38 | |
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The narrative that Bitcoin uses as much electricity as [insert small nation’s name here] annually is almost as tired as “tulip-mania” or comparisons to the “dot-com bubble” at this point. Yes, the Bitcoin network is power-hungry but that hardly tells a full picture of its environmental impact.
2019-3-14 00:00 | |
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Paul R. Brody, the Global Blockchain Innovation Chief at Ernst and Young (EY), says he sees no practical application for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This statement comes amid a growing rate of adoption of virtual currencies in both developed and developing nations.
2019-3-12 23:00 | |
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For all his Bitcoin-bashing bluster, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett is hardly a bastion of business virtue. He continues to defend BH investment Wells Fargo bank, despite almost $15 billion in penalty fines since 2000.
2019-3-10 16:00 | |
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Stablecoins show hardly any volatility compared to Bitcoin and altcoins, many are hoping that they will be able to bridge new crypto economy and regular fiat money
2019-3-27 16:15 | |
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It’s been 10 years since Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain first emerged, but it seems consumers are still largely uninformed about the inner workings of the technology. Today, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released two pieces of research – qualitative interviews and a national survey – looking at consumer’s attitudes towards crypto-assets, and found that most people still don’t fully understand what they’re buying.
2019-3-7 17:33 | |
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Ask any Bitcoin fan – be it an investor, trader, entrepreneur, or even the dreaded “thought leader” – for their take on what Bitcoin really needs to fulfil its full potential, and they’ll undoubtedly tell you – mass adoption.
2019-2-28 14:03 | |
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A single decade can be a lot of time, or hardly any, depending on the situation. In the case of Bitcoin (BTC), the first and largest cryptocurrency currently on the market, these past ten years represent its entire existence.
2019-2-27 19:54 | |
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A survey has determined that advertisers believe the word “blockchain” to have been the most overrated of 2018. This is hardly a surprise as many companies from fields completely unrelated to cryptocurrency claimed to use or test blockchain technology last year with little to show for it.
2019-2-19 01:31 | |
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Delayed Bitcoin ETFs, subpoenas, and blockchain businesses forced to close, Bitcoin regulation in the U. S. is hardly encouraging innovation. If you’re looking for friendly pastures for your cryptocurrency company, avoid these three states at all costs.
2019-2-14 00:00 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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The National Assembly in France has recently shot down proposals to ease up the pressure on tax regulations in the crypto space. As reported by Bitcoin.
2018-12-20 22:13 | |
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R3 has unveiled a new app on their international blockchain, a global payment platform that uses Ripple’s XRP as its initial base currency. The app, dubbed Corda Settler, continues R3’s track record for pursuing ambitious blockchain projects, and it is allegedly “purpose-built to allow for payment obligations raised on the Corda blockchain platform to be made through any of the world’s payment systems, both traditional and blockchain-based.
2018-12-6 01:54 | |
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The sharp dip in price is hardly the only hurdle ahead of cryptocurrency mainstream adoption: Bitcoin usage among major merchants and payment processors has purportedly fallen 80 percent since the beginning of the year.
2018-11-21 14:41 | |
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Blockchain technology is often tightly connected to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in general. This is hardly surprising, considering that it was invented in order to serve as an underlying technology for digital currencies.
2018-11-15 23:04 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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With the volatility of the crypto market, it’s hardly surprising that people are using cryptocurrencies backed by fiat currencies, also known as stablecoins. One of the most popular among these new breeds of tokens is Tether, a stablecoin where every token is backed by one US dollar.
2018-10-12 17:19 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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The terms “bank” and “cryptocurrency” are hardly used together to talk about partnerships or positive connotations. However, Swiss bank Dukascopy is changing the cryptocurrency narrative in traditional banks and is planning the launch of its own crypto assets.
2018-10-2 20:29 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
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Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
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It looks like one of Bitcoin’s premier mining pools, AntPool, has activated AsicBoost on its mining operations. AsicBoost purportedly increases mining efficiency by up to 20 percent, making its usage very controversial.
2018-9-6 19:10 | |
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This morning, Bitcoin is finally on a path back up to $7,000. 00. No, this is not the start of a major bull run but it is a sign that some tinkering may have been going on during the recent BitMEX upgrade, which saw a number of users use access to the platform during planned downtime.
2018-8-22 13:30 | |
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Bitcoin Cash just celebrated its first birthday at the beginning of August. However, recent reports of low commercial use coupled with an 85% drop in market cap from its all-time high are putting a damper on the party.
2018-8-21 14:30 | |
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It’s hard to view the markets with any optimism at the moment. Hardly surprising after months of constant declines, either way, we can’t let pessimism get the better of us. The markets will recover from this, it’s just a matter of time.
2018-8-17 13:00 | |
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Many argue (including ourselves) that when Bitcoin volatility drops, it will become far easier to spend and thus, more adoptable. Now, Bitcoin volatility is hardly down at the moment, but we can say that volatility has decreased somewhat.
2018-8-2 23:00 | |
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With a catchy name and what the company touts as the largest-ever cryptocurrency giveaway to date, the U. K. -based social entertainment platform TaTaTu seems to be aiming for one heck of a debut.
2018-7-29 17:19 | |
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Recently the internet was abuzz with an article written by a renowned authority in cryptocurrency breaking news, CoinDesk about the SEC delaying the processing and approval of ETF license applications for Bitcoin.
2018-7-25 23:16 | |
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There is hardly any doubt that as a new system still in its infancy, EOS has its fair share of shortcomings. This was evident from the latest goof-up by a block producer whose inability to comply with an ECAF order left him threatened with a lawsuit.
2018-6-26 16:44 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) has made a 6 percent recovery from the 90-day low hit on Wednesday, neutralizing the immediate bearish outlook. Hence, the subsequent recovery to $6,500 levels currently is hardly surprising and indicates that bitcoin may have found a temporary bottom around $6,100.
2018-6-14 16:54 | |
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"The bandit needs to be wiped out before the regular army gets in," says Flex Yang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, speaking of China's uncertain crypto regulations.
"The bandit needs to be wiped out before the regular army gets in," says Flex Yang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, speaking of China's uncertain crypto regulations.
Store of value was the most viable and desirable use case across crypto in 2019 and offers a basis to increase adoption in the second decade of crypto, says Ryan Zurrer of Dialectic.
The arc of crypto bends toward regulation, so we might as well be prepared, says Gemini's risk chief and the president of the Virtual Commodities Association, Yusuf Hussain.
Libra was the seminal crypto event of 2019, says management consultant Richie Hecker. But, in its current form, it is doomed to fail.
Benjamin Noys found a link between fringe, online philosophies and digital-native currencies. Here he explains "accelerationism."
Congress isn't likely to pass crypto-favorable legislation in 2020. In the meantime, we have to hope for action from the SEC.