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Big Think Media Publication Says Bitcoin Mainstream Adoption is Closer Than Ever Before

2017 marked the year for cryptocurrencies, as Bitcoin’s price jumped from USD$970 to over USD$19,000, which is approximately a growth of 1900%. Unfortunately, similar trends were not successfully carried over to 2018, as Bitcoin dropped to a third of its all-time high, with both altcoins and the total market capitalization getting hard hits. A recent […] дальше »

2018-8-27 19:45


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Bitcoin Price Analysis: High Shorts Count Could Signal Price Hike

Once again, bitcoin finds itself precariously perched on the bottom of its macro trading range (TR). After a strong round of selling over the course of two weeks plunged the price back to the $6,000s, bitcoin began consolidating for several weeks at the bottom of the TR:Figure 1: BTC-USD, 1-Day Candles, Macro TRAs shown in the figure above, the market has interacted several times at the current price range and it has been a source of three major bullish rallies. дальше »

2018-8-25 00:42


Ethereum to fall further? High profile investors are shorting ETH

Ethereum has seen its value go down by 36% in the past year. Being the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, it is surprising that it is falling at all, but what is even more shocking is that many investors, cryptocurrency enthusiasts and market participants are betting against the fact that the cryptocurrency may see more losses The post Ethereum to fall further? High profile investors are shorting ETH appeared first on ItsBlockchain. дальше »

2018-7-26 16:29


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


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PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW”

Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining. дальше »

2018-7-14 01:04