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Ripple’s blockchain game fund collaborator Forte Labs taps five new big game partners like Netmarble to streamline the industry
2020-3-25 20:19 | |
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Big Tech's business model isn't threatened by the prospect of new data privacy laws, says one VC. FAANG firms are too nimble, powerful and ingenious.
2020-3-20 18:45 | |
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Yesterday BTC jumped about 10% to cross the $8,900 level. Altcoins, however, pumped harder than Bitcoin. While former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz isn't sure what brought on this altcoin rally, if it was “new year, new money, (or) new enthusiasm,” It could just be the lack of liquidity in altcoins or “closely held BTC […]
2020-1-16 00:06 | |
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Crypto industry analysts cheered yesterday over Visa’s announcement to buy fin-tech company Plaid. And while many see this as a further legitimization of blockchain technology, in reality, we should all be concerned about our privacy.
2020-1-14 16:09 | |
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Crypto markets are in the doldrums at the moment, just as they were this time last year. A $10 billion dump on the week looks bad in the short term but things may not be that negative overall. One of the largest players in the industry has been on a shopping spree this year.
2019-12-18 11:00 | |
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New tech is always well-intentioned, but good intentions are no longer good enough. Technology is advancing at an insane rate, often faster than lawmakers and the general public can keep up. Accordingly, by the time we realize the complex ripple-effect of a new technology, it’s so deeply embedded into our culture that there isn’t much we can do about it.
2019-8-9 19:51 | |
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Before cryptocurrencies can gain mainstream traction, there need to be a lot more regular use cases. So far, choices remain limited on that front. Things seem to be picking up a bit for Litecoin although becoming the “official cryptocurrency” of the Miami Dolphins will probably not have much of an impact on the price whatsoever.
2019-7-17 17:00 | |
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There’s nothing more quintessentially American than deciding that when one job just isn’t cutting it, either financially, professionally or spiritually, there’s always room to be working another angle to feed that need.
2019-7-13 16:00 | |
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I understand why Apple doesn’t pay as much attention to its Macbooks as it used to. Its iPhone sales are strong (accounting for 53 percent of the company’s total revenue) and its services arm is on the rise.
2019-7-11 19:03 | |
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Physical mailing, old age isn’t it? Well, we’ve not come so from the time when the physical mailing was the only plausible option for big sized confidential data. Subsequent data forgery is nothing but an extension by technology to technology.
2019-7-5 21:34 | |
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President Trump and Big Tech have had a contentious relationship, and it isn’t getting any better in time for the 2020 election. In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Trump called out tech leaders including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon, saying that these companies are “fighting me hard right now.
2019-7-2 06:35 | |
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It was inspiring to read about the launch of Waitrose’s trial in Oxford offering consumers a range of products free of packaging. Their system isn’t revolutionary – smaller supermarkets have been doing the same thing for quite some time, as have many committed people.
2019-6-30 20:00 | |
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With every policy shift, every deplatforming, and every data breach, our faith in Big Tech decreases. In Washington, the drums of anti-trust beat ever louder. But what consumers truly want isn’t necessarily a break up of today’s tech companies: they […] The post Storecoin brings tokenized data to the masses, announces latest milestone-based token offering appeared first on CoinMarketCap.
2019-6-21 15:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook confirmed that its new cryptocurrency Libra isn’t designed to kill or compete with bitcoin. David Marcus, the man leading Facebook’s crypto efforts, said Libra and bitcoin can co-exist with differing use cases and that’s he a big fan of BTC.
2019-6-21 14:39 | |
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By CCN: Bits of Gold, Israel’s largest broker of bitcoin and Ethereum, can keep its bank account with the country’s biggest bank. That’s the decision from Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday.
2019-6-5 04:30 | |
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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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Bitcoin may have had a spectacular recovery in the past couple of months, but it isn’t even in the top five best performing cryptocurrencies for the year. So without further ado, let’s have a look at 2019’s ten big winners.
2019-5-28 16:00 | |
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Keeping to its promise of semiannual updates, Microsoft today announced it’s made the next big version of Windows 10 available. The simply-named Windows 10 May 2019 update isn’t as packed with features as its predecessors, but there are still a few things to note.
2019-5-22 04:11 | |
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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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By CCN: With the bitcoin price trading above $8,000 once again, the mainstream financial media has once again taken an interest in cryptocurrencies. ShapeShift CEO and Founder Erik Voorhees was featured in an interview with Bloomberg where he confronted the bitcoin bubble debate and regulation.
2019-5-16 04:30 | |
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It has been a very interesting day for all cryptocurrencies, tokens, and assets. Although the big gains are literally spread out across the board, the XRP price has noted some incredibly bullish momentum.
2019-5-15 22:00 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
2019-5-14 04:03 | |
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Margarita Khartanovic of Binary District took to the Hard Fork stage at TNW2019 this morning to talk with Charles Hamel, Opera‘s crypto product lead, and Aron Fischer, product developer for Ethereum.
2019-5-10 15:27 | |
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By CCN: Epic Games is buying Psyonix, and to say that many in the Rocket League community are unhappy is putting it woefully mildly. The Fortnite creator is desperate for exclusives to prop up its Epic Games Store against Steam.
2019-5-3 23:56 | |
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Deloitte has left Ethereum and now running on VeChainThor Blockchain, becoming the second “Big Four” to join VeChain, however, VeChain isn’t new to partnerships with big names from mainstream industries.
2019-5-1 22:54 | |
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This video is part of our series on Lille’s Maker Faire. To stay up-to-date on releases (and to find out more), check out our master post here. We all have days when we lean on a window, look at a grey, grumbling sky, and think “why isn’t my face bigger?” Thankfully – truly a kneel on the earth and worm your fingers into the dirt sort of “thankfully” – there’s a solution: the Big Face Box.
2019-5-1 18:19 | |
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Many people seem to wonder a lot about the possibility that any altcoin at all could knock Bitcoin off its position as the world’s number one cryptocurrency. As unlikely as this is, especially with the fact that the “altcoin” tag seemed to have been exclusively created for every crypto that isn’t Bitcoin, there are people […] The post Big Buyers Scooping Up XRP, Will The Price Increase When Ripple Stops Selling? appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-5-1 09:51 | |
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GDPR is complicated business; even people like me who try to keep up with all its developments struggle to understand this mammoth set of European regulations and its effects. I believe one of the main reasons for that is we’ve yet to see a proper GDPR case being brought against big tech companies like Facebook and Google — the companies GDPR should protect us from.
2019-4-30 14:06 | |
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With most of the cryptocurrency markets heading in the red once again, it is rather interesting to keep an eye on the individual markets. Whereas some people expect big things from XRP, it would appear Ripple’s native asset isn’t making too much headway.
2019-4-21 14:57 | |
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The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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If you are into torrenting, you probably know that some big and powerful forces (like the movie companies) don’t like the practice. Although it is only a type of peer-to-peer file sharing, torrenting is often used to illegally download copyrighted content belonging to those big and powerful forces.
2019-3-23 15:29 | |
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Over the past weeks, some of the world’s largest institutions, namely Facebook and JP Morgan, have announced intentions to launch blockchain ventures. While many crypto enthusiasts have welcomed this news, there’s one caveat, these projects are likely going to be centralized beyond compare.
2019-3-17 21:00 | |
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Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
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There are more than 4,000 bitcoin automated teller machines (ATMs) in the world, but only just about 10 (or 0.2 percent) of these are in Africa. In a continent widely touted as the next big growth region for cryptocurrency, could it be that the story of Africa’s growth isn’t as real as many “Africa rising” […] The post High Cost Slows Down Bitcoin ATM Growth in Africa appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-2-15 14:27 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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We’re less than a month away from Samsung‘s next big hardware event, where it’s expected to reveal – if not officially launch – its foldable phone. I believe it’ll steer the conversation about mobile device design away from notches and bezel-less displays in 2019, but I wonder if this is the best way forward for portable gadgets.
2019-1-23 11:08 | |
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We’re huge fans of Apple laptops at TNW. Not only do most of us work on MacBooks many of us also have our own Apple laptops. I’m sorry to report that I’m one of those people. So, whenever Apple releases a new computer – like the fresh-from-the-factory MacBook Air – it’s a big deal.
2019-1-15 19:21 | |
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Predicting the future market momentum of any cryptocurrency isn’t an exact science. Technical analysis is helpful, although these markets can always turn around on a dime. When it comes to looking at the future EOS price from a short-term perspective, it would appear there is a rather bearish outlook.
2019-1-7 16:45 | |
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For the better part of a month and a half, bitcoin has been fairly range-bound and unable to establish new lows or new highs. There are some bullish and bearish setups on the horizon for bitcoin, so let’s check out both sides of the argument because currently the market is sitting in the middle of Indecisionville — the most immediate sign of which is this glaringly obvious head-and-shoulders bottom reversal pattern:Figure 1: BTC-USD, Daily Candles, Head-and-Shoulders BottomThis current pattern is nothing more than a setup at the moment, but it represents one potential outcome of this sustained consolidation.
2019-1-4 02:22 | |
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While Bitmain has made forays into artificial intelligence and other budding markets, at heart, Bitmain is a Bitcoin– and crypto-centric mining startup. So, it should come as no surprise that industry participants were shell-shocked when hearsay arose that Bitmain was poised to shutter a number of its mining-related ventures.
2019-1-1 12:02 | |
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Crypto Industry In Russia Struggles To Insure Themselves, Pushing Away Potentially Big Investors Institutional investors are often most likely to invest in a venture that isn’t a significant risk for theft, as any smart investor would do.
2018-12-20 19:53 | |
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Cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz repeated his faith in the Bitcoin price December 18, forecasting no further big losses. Novogratz: ‘This Isn’t Tulips’ In an interview with Bloomberg, the investment mogul said he was “fairly convinced” a “digital store of value” would emerge for the world, and that it would be Bitcoin.
2018-12-19 13:00 | |
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A lot of cryptocurrency personnel; traders, analysts, and even investors had called it in for the big bull. Convinced that this year just isn’t the one to usher in the most profitable bull run, or even any kind of bull run at all, coupled with the fact that majority of the most highly anticipated features […] The post From $3200 to $3800, Bitcoin may be breaking Out of $5k Anytime soon appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-12-19 11:13 | |
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Minisketch is a new solution that’s trying to solve an old problem. Spearheaded by Blockstream co-founder Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core contributor and fellow Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell, and Blockstream software engineer Gleb Naumenko, the open-source initiative is designed to achieve set reconciliation between the mempools of each full node.
2018-12-18 18:48 | |
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That special time of year is coming up — the time when individuals trade in their unwanted or unusable gift cards for bitcoin. And with the price of bitcoin dropping, peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful is making it possible to use these gift cards to “buy the dip.
2018-11-22 19:12 | |
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One thing about the crypto market which makes it exciting is the option to switch lanes when the journey gets rough. It’s no secret that many investors have always relied on the big coins to make them some money, however, constant high performance from those coins isn’t guaranteed in the crypto market, and that’s when […] The post Three New Cryptocurrencies to keep tabs on appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-11-21 11:24 | |
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Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. The Lightning Network is getting so big that its capacity has recently surpassed the $1.
2018-11-19 18:39 | |
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