2022-9-16 22:38 |
Despite many real stumbles and skeptical mainstream coverage of Nayib Bukele’s Bitcoin initiative, both tourism numbers and remittance usage are already showing meaningful payoffs, says David Z. Morris. origin »
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A platform that went live last week looks to expand bitcoin usage by attracting players to win-to-earn games that run wholly on the Bitcoin blockchain.
2023-8-2 14:16 | |
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Quick Take Since introducing Ordinals and inscriptions in January 2023, Bitcoin block space, usage, and transactions have grown exponentially. The post Bitcoin Ordinals’ adoption, utilization, memory usage drop appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2023-2-21 20:04 | |
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Bitcoin’s usage is only growing, and so too will its usage in real estate transactions — so why not transact with it yourself?
2022-2-28 22:00 | |
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The continent is fast becoming a hotspot for growing usage of bitcoin for transactions on a day-to-day basis.
2021-11-3 00:30 | |
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The second-layer network now houses over 2,400 bitcoin in more than 73,000 channels, enabling BTC usage as a medium of exchange.
2021-9-14 20:14 | |
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Bitcoin recently saw its highest level of usage since the peak of the previous bull run
2020-8-8 18:56 | |
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Bitcoin scaling solutions may be getting huge publicity in 2019, but the amount of money the network processes daily could already cause headaches for competitors. Bitcoin Usage Tramples Venmo As Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano noted on social media April 17, Bitcoin’s ‘on-chain’ transaction volumes grew to $7 billion per day earlier this week.
2019-4-18 16:00 | |
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There is much to understand when discussing the current state of Bitcoin mining energy usage and how it affects our environment. Read more here. The post Bitcoin Mining Energy Usage: The Good, the Bad and the Future appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-4-18 14:48 | |
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The Bitcoin Lightning Network scaling protocol has passed a fresh landmark of 8000 nodes as a new solution launches to increase its mainstream usage. Lightning Rides Growth Highs Lightning, which continues to advance its presence as Bitcoin’s foremost scaling solution, hosted 8016 nodes at press time April 16 according to monitoring resource 1ML.
2019-4-16 20:00 | |
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Bitcoin is mostly used by humans as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. However, it is believed to be useful for machines and is expected to be used mainly by devices over humans in the long run.
2019-4-13 17:30 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Many Chinese cryptominers have migrated to places with cheap electricity and favorable policies as a result of the escalated government crackdown on cryptocurrency and its production process.
2019-4-11 23:38 | |
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Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.
2019-4-9 23:28 | |
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A CCN reader wrote in to ask us to explain why he has 13 payments pending in the Bitcoin blockchain. The answer is simple enough: at any time, the Bitcoin main chain can become congested. The only way to ensure Bitcoin payments arrive in a very timely fashion is to either pay the highest possible fee or use Lightning Network, which is still gaining traction.
2019-4-4 21:30 | |
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Today's Bitcoin Cash (BCH) News CoinBase is one of the leading and most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. It’s an on-ramp for US clients allowing investors as well as trader an unbridled access to the crypto world in a secure and through an easy to use UX. Read: Roger Ver Praises Bitcoin Cash Usage […]
2019-4-3 15:55 | |
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If you ask its official website, Bram Cohen’s Chia project is the first “enterprise” digital currency. Forget Ripple, Stellar, or the host of stablecoins launched over the past couple years. It’s Chia – the “green” crypto project developed in answer to the question of Bitcoin’s high resource usage, which is the first enterprise-grade cryptocurrency.
2019-4-3 11:30 | |
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Bitcoin. com’s founder Roger Ver restarted the BTC and BCH debates again stating that BCH was superior to its competitor BTC because BCH possessed more adoption and acceptability in Japanese stores. Japan now has more Bitcoin Cash accepting physical shops than BTC.
2019-4-3 04:57 | |
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The 15-month long bear market isn’t affecting Bitcoin adoption and usage, new data shows, as on-chain transactions have hit their highest since early January 2018. Bitcoin Usage Has Been Climbing for 15 Months Bitcoin network usage continues to rise contrary to the drop in bitcoin price since its historic run-up to nearly $20,000.
2019-3-29 19:00 | |
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Segregated Witness aka SegWit, one of the well-known protocol upgrades of Bitcoin, took the spotlight with news pertaining to its usage on March 28. According to Transactionfee. info, the percentage of SegWit-spending payments recently reached its all-time high of 48.
2019-3-29 00:30 | |
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Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.
2019-3-28 19:04 | |
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Cryptomining is the process whereby cryptocurrency transactions are verified and added as new blocks on the decentralized ledger known as the Blockchain. Mining cryptocurrencies is a costly business, in terms of energy usage.
2019-3-28 09:04 | |
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A division of finance mainstay Weiss Ratings has today put prominent altcoins EOS and Ripple (XRP) alongside Bitcoin as the top three “cryptocurrencies” on the market — and it’s sure to rustle some feathers.
2019-3-26 16:06 | |
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A Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporter recently noted that the biggest hindrance to cryptocurrency adoption is tax laws and reporting taxes on digital currency usage. After reading the commentary, Bitcoin.
2019-3-21 04:30 | |
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It is safe to say the cryptocurrency industry would not be where it is today without the usage of Bitcoin in online gambling. While this may seem like a niche use case, numerous Bitcoin casinos have become wildly successful over the years.
2019-3-17 10:00 | |
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Bitcoin has once more returned to $4,000 per coin. The warming markets could be attributed to a number of positive factors around Bitcoin usage, adoption, and awareness, However, assuming the largest driver of BTC price is speculation, a more important factor could be changing market sentiment.
2019-3-17 23:31 | |
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Bitcoin has once more returned to $4,000 per coin. The warming markets could be attributed to a number of positive factors around Bitcoin usage, adoption, and awareness, However, assuming the largest driver of BTC price is speculation, a more important factor could be changing market sentiment.
2019-3-17 23:31 | |
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Chainalysis is the latest firm to speak up about their usage of user data in a March 5, 2019 blog post, following similar response from Elliptical in the wake of Coinbase controversy. It All Started with an Interview On March 1, 2019, Christine Sandler, Coinbase’s Head of sales, sat down with Cheddar for an interviewRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-7 14:00 | |
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CipherTrace, a blockchain forensics company, makes headlines today for its role in the seizure of $1. 4 million in bitcoins that may have been destined for illicit usage. In the resulting court case, David Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace was called upon to serve as the first ever Bitcoin expert witness.
2019-3-6 19:18 | |
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Despite many stablecoins ranking among the top 20 most traded crypto assets by monthly volume, a recent report has shown that there are few onchain transactions conducted using these fiat-pegged tokens.
2019-3-6 17:40 | |
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The thought of a Bitcoin bull run arriving is always tantalizing, and investors have been waiting for quite a… The post Bitcoin (BTC) Usage Reaching All-Time High — Is a Bull Run Coming? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-3-6 15:28 | |
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LocalBitcoins users in Venezuela spent nearly 160 billion VES buying 16,642 BTC in the first two months of 2019. At today’s price, those bitcoin are worth almost $63 million, with a record 25.
2019-3-5 00:00 | |
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Since hitting $20,000 in December 2017, Bitcoin price has been on a downward shift, having dropped to the yearly low of $3,200 level in 2018. Currently, the leading cryptocurrency by market cap is down about 80 percent from its all-time high.
2019-3-4 20:04 | |
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According to a recent statement made by Ohio’s state treasurer, so far, only two businesses have filed their taxes in crypto using the state’s crypto tax payment scheme.
2019-2-22 01:23 | |
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The Bitcoin Cash price has had little negative volatility in recent times, just like Bitcoin itself and Ethereum. In times like these, the question arises: why don’t we just use Bitcoin Cash? Here are five reasons that I’m considering adopting Bitcoin Cash as my cryptocurrency of choice for everyday usage.
2019-2-18 02:00 | |
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It’s been more than ten years since the mining of the genesis block, but Bitcoin (BTC), the original cryptocurrency, remains the most popular coin, at least at the outset of 2019. Altcoins enjoy only a fraction of the usage that BTC gets every day.
2019-2-15 23:20 | |
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In the current freelancing industry, many platforms only allow independent contractors to use one bank account. In addition to restricting freelancers to the use of fiat only, this can also cause significant lag times when employees work with companies overseas.
2019-2-15 20:14 | |
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The UnionBank of the Philippines, one of the leading financial institutions in the country, has launched a two-way bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM), according to a story in local media outlet Philstar.
2019-2-12 00:10 | |
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The Freshwater Trust (TFT) a conservation non-profit focused on preserving and restoring freshwater ecosystems, IBM Research and SweetSense have allied to launch a distributed ledger technology (DLT) pilot that would accurately and transparently measure groundwater usage in real-time in the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta in California, reported enterprise times on February 11, 2019.
2019-2-12 20:00 | |
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TRX Price has increased with about 5 percent following a strong performance of the entire market, as well as the increasing number of DApps daily active users (DAU). TRX Price On The Rise TRX Price has moved up with about 5 percent at the time of this writing, according to information from CoinMarketCap.
2019-2-11 10:43 | |
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While cryptocurrency prices are a bit sluggish lately, the blockchain scene is an entirely different matter. Spurred by the increasing usage of the technology outside of cryptocurrency, the niche has seen an explosion of decentralized apps also known as dApps lately.
2019-2-7 17:59 | |
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As the economic crisis gets worse in Venezuela, the citizens of the country are starting to use more and more Bitcoin. For the first time ever now, the usage of BTC in the country has surpassed 2,000 BTC, around $7 million USD in a single day.
2019-2-6 22:58 | |
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Jack Dorsey has taken part in a ceremonial usage of Lightning Network “for the laughs. ” The idea mimics the Olympic torch. Participants pass microscopic amounts of Bitcoin around the Lightning Network, using Lightning-enabled wallets to generate and pay invoices.
2019-2-7 19:20 | |
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It happened: Bitcoin is now an Ethereum token. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an ERC-20 token with a 1-1 peg to bitcoin, went live on the Ethereum network on the final day of January, “the first token that makes Bitcoin compatible with the Ethereum chain,” its architects say.
2019-2-2 00:04 | |
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Darknet markets are going as strong as ever, if Chainalysis data is to be believed. In its latest Crypto Crime Report, published earlier this week, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reports that darknet market activity has nearly doubled throughout 2018.
2019-2-1 00:35 | |
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Cryptocurrency mobile wallet provider BRD wants to accelerate its international expansion, and it has secured $15 million to do it. The Series B funding round was raised from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings.
2019-1-26 20:04 | |
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Bitcoin ATM usage is surging, especially in Latin America, where Venezuelan refugees and others are seeking ad hoc banking solutions.
2019-1-25 13:00 | |
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Elections Canada, the official elections agency in Canada is seeking views on how to go about handling the usage of crypto donations when fundraising for political causes. Political Parties Asked To Provide Input On Cryptocurrencies According to a report published on iPolitics, the elections agency has sent out a formal invitation to political parties to […]
2019-1-11 18:39 | |
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Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has said he believes “core” cryptocurrency assets are undervalued as the Bitcoin price tumbles closer to $3500. Allaire: ‘Markets Are Oversold’ In a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ session January 10, Allaire, whose company famously decoupled itself from Bitcoin in 2016, also forecast less correlated trading in altcoin markets.
2019-1-11 14:00 | |
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According to a study conducted Manoa researchers at the University of Hawaii, the projected usage of bitcoin could produce enough CO2 (carbon dioxide) to push global warming well above 2 degrees in less than 30 years.
2019-1-9 20:15 | |
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The ongoing debate about whether or not Bitcoin can scale sufficiently on its path to mass adoption has led many people to question if it will ever reach that point at all.
2019-1-5 06:05 | |
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Base, the Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, has introduced three new features to improve its transaction speeds, increase scalability, and make it simpler to use. For speed, Base introduced flashblocks technology, which reduces block time from 2 seconds to…
Sony Group and Astar Network are launching a campaign with a 100 million ASTR reward to drive adoption and growth on the Soneium ecosystem. According to a press release sent to crypto.news, Japanese blockchain ecosystem Astar (ASTR) Network has partnered…
Base, the layer-2 blockchain network launched by Coinbase, is doing well in decentralized finance and the non-fungible token industries. According to DeFi Llama, Base has become the biggest layer-2 network in crypto.
Ethereum holds steady above $3,300, as crypto traders gear up for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Derivatives traders are bullish on Ethereum and open interest in Ether’s derivatives contracts crossed $30 billion, as of Friday.
Cross-chain bridge protocol Orbiter Finance plans to airdrop governance token OBT to users on Jan. 20, coinciding with Trump’s swearing-in.
Polymarket users expect Berachain and Linea Protocol to launch their airdrops in the first quarter of this year. A small Polymarket poll with $22,000 in assets places the odds of Berachain’s airdrop at 90% and Linear at 89%. Berachain airdrop…
Trends are everything in the blockchain world. They drive the crypto market and create narratives that shape the direction of bull and bear markets. Being on the right side of the trends in blockchain technology can be the catalyst for…