High Horology: How Watchmaking Helps Me Understand Bitcoin

Combining the digital and the analog, maintaining consistency and focusing on functionality, Bitcoin and timepieces have much in common.

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Unpacking the basics of Bitcoin nodes and Taproot functionality – BitTalk6

BitTalk will be moving to a weekly format from February 11 BitTalk is back with episode 6, exploring the latest developments in the Bitcoin network. The post Unpacking the basics of Bitcoin nodes and Taproot functionality – BitTalk6 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Guarda Wallet Launches Multisignature Functionality for Bitcoin

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Echo Launches Bitcoin Sidechain, a Weighted Approach to More Functionality

The DApp network Echo has launched its Bitcoin sidechain in testnet, which uses a “weighted randomness” consensus mechanism to build new functionality. The post Echo Launches Bitcoin Sidechain, a Weighted Approach to More Functionality appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Monarch crypto wallet app adds support for Litecoin (LTC) and Stellar (XLM)

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceMonarch, provider of a crypto wallet and suite of crypto services, today announced it has added support for Litecoin (LTC) and Stellar (XLM) to its Android and iOS apps.

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Crypto trading platform Caspian adds arbitrage and value tools

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceCaspian, the full-stack crypto trading, portfolio and risk management platform, today announced the launch of its pairs trading functionality.

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Crypto Pairs Trading Now Available to Caspian’s Growing Institutional Client Base

Caspian, a leading crypto asset trading and risk management platform for institutional investors, has launched its pairs trading functionality. Since its founding 19 months ago, Caspian has seen its trading volume steadily increase, with it exceeding $1 billion for the first time in June 2019.

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Crowd mentality, greed, no due diligence & FOMO responsible for 90% of blockchain projects failing after 2017

During Bitcoin’s peak performance in 2017, numerous projects cropped up to fill in various voids in the crypto-ecosystem in terms of functionality and stability. But, only a few could survive the market roller-coaster and the crypto-winter that followed.

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Bitcoin Mixer Restores Anonymity on Bitcoin Transactions

Coinspeaker Bitcoin Mixer Restores Anonymity on Bitcoin TransactionsBitcoinmix provides crypto users with the mixer functionality that protects the identities of the addresses sending and receiving Bitcoins.

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CODEX crypto exchange implements US requirement to block IP addresses

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceCODEX, a cryptocurrency exchange licensed in Estonia, announced that in order to stay compliant with the law, moving forward, users originating from the United States won’t be able to use the exchange platform, and all underlying functionality including trading, deposits, withdrawals, registrations, etc.

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Binance establishes Singapore based fiat-to-crypto gateway

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceBinance, the popular cryptocurrency exchange company, announced earlier today the launch of Binance Singapore, a fiat-to-crypto platform for buying and selling cryptocurrency with Singapore Dollars (SGD).

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Waves Brings the Heat to Ethereum and EOS with Smart Contracts

Waves (WAVES) has finally added functionality for smart contracts to its network, deployable through the RIDE programming language. This will enable global developers to harness and utilize a fully-powered decentralized ecosystem to build dApps, as per a press release, June 25, 2019.

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Atlantis upgrade beckons as Ethereum Classic prepares for major changes

Bitcoin’s popularity and brand recognition have often taken the limelight away from lesser known cryptos, most of which are slowly making major progress in terms of technology and functionality.

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Zilliqa (ZIL) Mainnet Integrates “Scilla-Powered” Smart Contracts

Since the launch of the Zilliqa mainnet in January 2019, the project’s prime focus was integrating smart contracts with the help of a native smart language contract called “Scilla. ” Smart contracts are now live on the Zilliqa mainnet bringing a wealth of new functionality and marking the start of smart contract competitiveness, June 9, 2019.

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Electron Cash Users Can Now Send Bitcoin Cash to Mobile Phones

The developers behind the Bitcoin-Cash-based Electron Cash light client have added a slew of new features to the latest 4. 0. 6 version. Now Electron Cash users can send bitcoin cash to mobile phones via the Cointext service.

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Apple Publishes Bitcoin Icons & ‘CryptoKit’; iPhone Crypto Wallet Coming?

By CCN: Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is underway, and while most of the focus is on iOS3, Apple quietly revealed a new upgrade for developers called CryptoKit. Apple also released its new icon set for designers which feature four bitcoin logos.

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Samourai’s “Dojo” Set to Boost Transaction Privacy on Bitcoin

Wallet users are generally required to rely on the wallet’s back end server for transaction functionality. The release of Samourai Dojo marks a new age of wallets where users can bypass centralized wallet servers and run one of their own, June 3, 2019.

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Community Funding and Bringing Smart Contracts to BCH in the Weekly Update From Bitcoin.com

The Bitcoin Cash community is working to raise funding for developers and a new programming language is bringing smart contract functionality to BCH. Watch these and other developments discussed in this week’s video update on Bitcoin.

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Cashscript Is Coming, Bringing Ethereum-Like Smart Contracts to Bitcoin Cash

On May 27, the analytics and data web portal Coin Dance announced the team has added the Cashscript project to the website’s development tracker. Cashscript is a high-level language that enables basic smart contract functionality on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network.

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Franck Muller Releases Luxury Watch With Bitcoin Cold Wallet Functionality

Franck Muller has released a new luxury Swiss watch that functions as a BTC cold wallet

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ABN AMRO signs on Accenture and ING Bank for its blockchain inventory platform

Despite abandoning plans to build its own Bitcoin wallet, ABN AMRO is not quite done with blockchain tech. The Dutch banking giant has announced plans to launch a decentralized trade inventory platform in collaboration with Accenture and ING Bank, according to a press release (spotted by CoinDesk).

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Coincheckup Aggregator Makes It Easier to Analyze the Crypto Market

The importance of reliable market data grows with rising cryptocurrency prices that inevitably attract more investors to the space. There is a wide choice of market cap aggregators, but some offer more rich functionality than others.

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HTC’s new $300 blockchain phone will double as a Bitcoin node

Taiwainese mobile phone manufacturer HTC is launching a more affordable blockchain phone with full Bitcoin node capabilities. Originally announced last month, the Exodus 1S will be launching in Q3 this year and will have an extra SD card to support its blockchain capabilities.

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PayPal May Be Opening Up to Digital Currency

PayPal’s ambivalent stance over the digital currency might be changing as CFO John Rainey has stated that the payment processor has created teams to study both blockchain and cryptocurrency, as reported by Forbes on May 10, 2019.

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Edge Wallet users in the EU can now sell bitcoin direct to credit card

CryptoNinjas Edge, a bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet app, has announced today that its European users can now sell bitcoin directly to their Visa credit card through its exchange partner, Simplex.

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Op Ed: 3 Reasons Why Crypto Has an Exchange Problem

While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.

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Iran’s First Ever Bitcoin ATM Unveiled in Tehran

On April 24, 2019, the first bitcoin ATM in the Islamic Republic of Iran was revealed at the 12th International Exhibition of Exchange, Bank and Insurance in Tehran.

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Cashaa Now Accepts Debit, Credit Cards for Crypto Purchases

Online banking platform Cashaa is set to allow users to purchase bitcoin, ether and Cashaa’s own token, CAS, using major credit and debit cards. This new service is a follow-up to the Business Banking Services Cashaa launched earlier in April 2019, which allows both individuals and private firms to open accounts with Cashaa and accept cryptocurrency payments.

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Crypto Startup Launches Lightning-Powered BTC Payments Functionality for E-Commerce Sites

Crypto startup Moon is launching a web browser extension that allows e-commerce shoppers to use their Lightning Network bitcoin wallets for purchases on sites like Amazon

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Blockchain-based Art Platform Artory Raises $7.3m to Improve Data Integrity

Artory, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) powered art registry that claims to track provenance of art and valuable collectibles, has raised $7. 3 million in its Series A funding round and it says the funds will be used to improve data integrity, functionality and other areas of its business, according to a report by The ArtRead MoreRead More.

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Crypto wallet and banking ecosystem Cashaa enables crypto buys with card

CryptoNinjas Cashaa, a multi-sig crypto wallet, and banking ecosystem, today announced that it has now launched credit and debit card functionality to allow users to securely buy bitcoin, ethereum, and CAS, etc.

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Microsoft Azure Now Supports RSK Smart Contracts

RIF Labs has announced the integration of its public blockchain, RSK Smart Contracts, on Microsoft's Azure Marketplace. The RSK Smart Contract Network is an open-source platform that seeks to extend the functionality of Bitcoin using smart contracts and the Azure Marketplace is an app store for Microsoft’s cloud computing service.

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How Mobile Browsers Are Driving the Next Wave of Cryptocurrency Adoption

You may not have noticed, but crypto’s first killer app is already here. It’s called the mobile browser. Until recently, mobile internet browsers were little more than a means to connect to the web on the go.

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Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Adds Anti-Cryptojacking Functionality

Firefox, a free open-source web browser developed by Mozilla, a global non-profit organization that claims to be dedicated to putting web surfers in control of their online activities, has added anti-cryptojacking and fingerprinting functionality to Firefox Nightly 68 and Beta 67 versions, according to a blog post on April 9, 2019.

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Breez Wants to Make the Lightning Network More User Friendly

New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.

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Casa Node Review: A True Plug-n-Play Lightning Network Node (Kinda)

The Casa Node is an exciting product that promises plug-n-play functionality for those wishing to operate both a full Bitcoin node and a Lightning Network Node. The company sent us over two nodes — one for review, and another for a giveaway.

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Binance Announces Singapore Expansion, Details Around DEX Launch and Wallet

The China-based crypto exchange giant Binance has announced that it will launch Binance Singapore this month, a fiat-to-crypto exchange with support for the Singaporean Dollar (SGD).

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Bitcoin at $5,000: What Has Changed Since 2017

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olusegun Ogundeji. Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 price range again (after its first reach to that level in 2017) following a sudden breakout on April 2, 2019.

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Bitcoin Dev Demos the First Lightning-Enabled Bitcoin ATM

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.

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Wanchain Integrates EOS and Adds More Stablecoin Support

Wanchain, an Ethereum fork focused on cross-chain integration, announced support for EOS recently. The short story here is that, in the near future, decentralized exchanges facilitating trades between EOS, Ethereum, and Bitcoin – which is increasing its token functionality via Blockstream’s Liquid product.

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Sats Back: How the Ebates of Bitcoin Plans to Convert Holders to Spenders

“The biggest problem I could think of was distribution. How do you share and educate both consumers and merchants on the power of bitcoin? I learned how much consumers loved earning and why merchants make decisions to adopt new technology.

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LGO Markets Launches CryptoTrading Platform for Institutional Investors 

LGO Markets has launched a new digital exchange with the explicit goal of attracting sidelined institutional investors to the crypto space.   Bring Professionalism to Traditional Exchanges According to an official blog post, the New Jersey-based LGO Markets cryptocurrency exchange officially launched on March 4, 2019, with limited functionality that will allow institutional investors to setRead MoreRead More.

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Vitalik Buterin Built ETH to Counter Bitcoin’s “Limited Functionality”

Vitalik Buterin, the visionary developer who co-founded Ethereum (ETH), was recently interviewed by Business Insider, where he stated that… The post Vitalik Buterin Built ETH to Counter Bitcoin’s “Limited Functionality” appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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No Vitalik, No One Wants a Bitcoin ‘App’ on Ethereum’s ‘Smartphone’

The Ethereum ERC20 token backed by Bitcoin has just 13 token holders and 16 transactions to its name, data reveals. Buterin: Bitcoin Functionality ‘Too Limited’ ‘Wrapped Bitcoin,’ which debuted in January from BitGo, caused confusion among cryptocurrency figures when developers announced it late last year.

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Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin: ETH Is a Solution to Bitcoin’s Limited Functionality

Ethereum is an attempt to solve Bitcoin’s limited functionality, according to Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin

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Blockstream Releases Lightning Upgrade With New ‘Plugin’ Functionality

New improvements to an existing code repository are set to make it easier for developers to build their own features into bitcoin's lightning network.

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Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners

When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.

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Cryptopia Calculates That 9.4 Percent of Assets Stolen in January Hack

The New Zealand-based crypto asset exchange Cryptopia has made their assessment of a January hack, claiming that up to 9. 4 percent of all their assets were stolen.

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Decentralized Payment Processor BTCPay Adds New Invoicing Options

Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups.

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