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Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto market have once again extended their multi-week bout of sideways trading The benchmark digital asset has continued trading sideways in the lower-$9,000 region, with most altcoin’s closely tracking its price action This may not last for too much longer, however, as one trend seems to indicate that BTC is gearing up to make a large movement in the coming one or two days As for whether this movement will favor […]
2020-7-3 21:00 | |
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reportedly told Princeton University economist Alan Blinder on Friday that Main Street loans are just days away. [Forbes] The loans are designed for mid-sized businesses that are too big for previous stimuli but too small to issue their own debt.
2020-6-1 18:14 | |
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The U. S. Federal Reserve has continued its schemes of monetary easing and funding a number of private banks during the Covid-19 outbreak. On Monday evening, the Fed revealed it would be buying corporate bonds and exchange-traded funds using the entity’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF).
2020-5-13 23:01 | |
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CZ argued that the free market would punish Binance if it abused its power and prominence within the crypto sector
2020-5-1 21:57 | |
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Bitcoin’s futures market is seeing surging aggregated open interest as the crypto finds itself caught within a bout of lackluster trading This coincides with the crypto seeing a decline in money flow The confluence of these factors suggests that BTC is gearing up for a big movement Bitcoin’s price action seen in recent times hasn’t been too exciting.
2020-4-22 02:00 | |
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As the global coronavirus crisis worsens, markets around the world have been suffering. Along with Bitcoin, stock markets, gold, and just about everything else has been sinking. Figures from the US job market show that the pandemic is having a big effect on the nation’s unemployment figures too.
2020-3-21 19:15 | |
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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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Call of Duty Warzone is a great game, but with unstable networks and large file size, it's just not worth it during self-isolation. That hard drive space is better spent on single-player games which will still be usable if the networks have extended down-time.
2020-3-18 09:41 | |
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Much like the rest of the tech sector worldwide, the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries have also been predominantly led by men right since their inception. The disparity in involvement by gender is just too big not to notice.
2020-3-8 11:59 | |
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The crypto market has been in a period of consolidation over the last two weeks, with Bitcoin finally finding a footing above the $9k mark after pulling back under the price level. Ethereum, too, has been consolidating, and it seems that big holders have some admiration for the second-largest crypto by market cap. More interestingly, […]
2020-3-7 19:26 | |
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President Trump’s irrational reaction to every correction suggests big trouble may be brewing in the U.S. stock market. The post Trump Is Scared of a 1987-Like Stock Market Crash & You Should Be Too appeared first on CCN.com
2020-2-27 16:10 | |
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Bitcoin hasn’t fared too well over the past few days, tumbling as low as $9,500 on Monday as sellers have started to liquidate their stacks en-masse. This meant that at the current correction’s worst, BTC was down just around 10% from the local $10,550 high that was set last week. While this plunge seemingly marks...
2020-2-18 14:00 | |
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The world of decentralized finance has yet to be put through a big security audit. For bXZ, such an audit will come too late, as the DeFi protocol has already been hacked. Earlier today, news broke of an incident affecting bXZ.
2020-2-16 06:00 | |
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Xbox head Phil Spencer explains that Xbox is happy to watch from the sidelines until virtual reality becomes too big to ignore. The post Xbox Chief Phil Spencer Reveals His VR Strategy – And Boy, Is It Cynical appeared first on CCN.com
2020-2-10 19:57 | |
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Origin PC's BIG O hybrid gaming desktop offers the best of both PC and console, but the timing is off with the next generation looming. The post Origin’s ‘Big O’ PC-Console Hybrid Is Brilliant – But Too Late to the Party appeared first on CCN.com
2020-1-7 18:55 | |
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Armed with Ripple's high-profile advisers, XRP is the coin that is too big for jail, according to Messari
2019-12-19 19:20 | |
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In response to market’s cautious sentiment about hard fork Istanbul, ConsenSys marketer is predicting big changes in global finance thanks to Ethereum. Marketer Mason Nystrom published a longread “2019 Was The Year of DeFi (and Why 2020 Will be Too)”.
2019-12-11 12:31 | |
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The three big console makers have just pledged to put an end to the “gambling” aspect of lootboxes, meaning the gaming industry might finally put this whole shady moneymaking operation behind us — and not a moment too soon.
2019-8-9 20:24 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. It’s been less than a month since Twitter refreshed its design, promising to make the platform faster, more intuitive, and easier to personalize.
2019-8-2 16:03 | |
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The crypto market is sometimes plagued by a herd mentality. Most of the time, price movement in one asset can be used to predict movement in another and possibly the entire market. For Bitcoin, it’s a bit more controlling as it can rise and pull up the altcoins with it, and vice versa.
2019-8-2 11:20 | |
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It is slowly becoming an impossible year to keep your eyes off from. Not only has Bitcoin and its family of cryptocurrencies outperformed most traditional stocks and assets, but today everyone from a small-time trader to the President of the United States, is tweeting about the digital asset.
2019-7-13 18:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook has too much power to engage with a cryptocurrency, a United States senator has warned, days after the social media giant launched Libra. Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator from Ohio, told Bloomberg TV that the public has increasing concerns around the social network.
2019-6-22 16:38 | |
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Yesterday, Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) announced its ambitious plan to put up a space station in the next decade. The space agency’s chief, K. Sivan, said the idea is to build the space station in the next seven years, and launch it by 2030.
2019-6-14 10:16 | |
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Not every person living on this planet firmly believes cryptocurrencies are here to stay. While that should not come as too big of a surprise, there are still individuals who expect Bitcoin to hit $0 in the near future.
2019-6-10 15:30 | |
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The Feminist Internet, a non-profit working to prevent biases creeping into AI, has created F’xa — a feminist voice assistant that teaches users about AI bias and suggests how they can avoid reinforcing harmful stereotypes.
2019-6-4 17:18 | |
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The cryptocurrency community of Germany knows Handelsblatt as a local business paper, but the rest of the world is about to know it too. First noticed on Decrypt, it looks like this publication just reported an upcoming announcement, planned for tomorrow.
2019-6-1 16:12 | |
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About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
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Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.
2019-5-29 23:15 | |
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Nine years ago today, the first ever Bitcoin transaction for a consumer product took place after a Florida man spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas. Since then, cryptocurrency enthusiasts across the globe have celebrated ‘Bitcoin Pizza Day,’ not because the man in question paid 10,000 BTC, but because at the time said transaction represented a milestone for Bitcoin adoption.
2019-5-22 16:00 | |
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Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream. The Bitcoin and blockchain technology company announced on May 15, 2019, the final day of the Consensus 2019 conference, that Liquid Securities, a platform for issuing and managing security tokens on its Liquid sidechain, is ready to go live.
2019-5-16 19:14 | |
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Bitcoin has seen a lot of success in the last couple of days, pulling analysts out of the woodwork with their own comments about what makes the industry last. The founder of Adamant Capital, Tuur Demeester, suggested that the exchanges and custodians involved with Bitcoin “are too big to fail” in a post on Twitter. […]
2019-5-15 17:21 | |
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Bitcoin economist, Tuur Demeester, explains why the idea of a ‘Central Bank’ of Bitcoin would create more problems than it would solve. Bitcoin Exchanges Similar To Early US Banking System In the wake of the Binance hack and Bitfinex/Tether debacle, are crypto exchanges becoming ‘too big to bail’? And if so, should we be looking towards a ‘Central Bank Of Bitcoin’ as a solution? Bitcoin economist, Tuur Demeester, explains why he thinks that would Read More The post Why We Should Never Hope For A Central Bank Of Bitcoin appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.
2019-5-15 10:00 | |
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Tuur Demeester, Founder of Adamant Capital, recently remarked that, “Bitcoin exchanges and custodians are too big to bail,” on his official Twitter handle. Further, Tuur Demeester also stated that there was a possibility that platforms may fail the same way as “pre-1914 gold banks could.
2019-5-15 02:30 | |
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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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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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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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It seems like the world is getting more social all the time: social media boasts nearly 3. 2 billion users worldwide, representing a 13 percent increase year-over-year, with Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp leading the charge in terms of user bases.
2019-4-29 05:30 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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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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Significant layoffs at Ambisafe tell the tale of another ICO services startup that got too big in 2018.
2019-4-19 23:00 | |
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Ripple prices slide 2. 5 percent Volumes drop reflects low prices Although centralized exchanges play a role, it should be a worry if they become too big to fail because if they do, then it will pull down the market with it.
2019-4-9 22:00 | |
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Riccardo Spagni, the Co-founder of Tari and lead maintainer of Monero, recently spoke about Bitcoin [BTC] and Monero [XMR], in an interview with Monero Talk. Spagni was asked why the Bitcoin community was not a big supporter of Monero, considering the fact that they are on a mission to create digital cash.
2019-4-5 20:00 | |
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The crypto market has been very volatile this week. Some cryptos have gained and lost in the double digits. However, Digibyte hasn’t moved much. Its upswing in this week’s pump wasn’t big, and its losses in the ensuing correction has been minor too.
2019-4-5 16:27 | |
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It’s a good idea to update your computer. Updates keep you safe from ever-evolving malware and sometimes include cool new features. But updates can break things too. That’s why some users have been annoyed at Microsoft’s stringent update policies with Windows 10, especially considering how frequently the OS is updated.
2019-4-5 00:00 | |
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The following is a guest post op-ed submitted by ICOBox IPOs have long represented the pinnacle of corporate fundraising. The big payday. The make-or-break moment. Companies can raise billions overnight, giving… The post Airbnb Deserves Better: Why IPOs Are Too Dated to Do the Sharing Economy Justice appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-4-5 22:35 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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April Fools’ Day is filled with fun festivities as people participate in the entertainment of pranks and other ways to fool each other. It seems that the temptation to play these games is too big for even the crypto community and even platforms to resist. Crypto Potato was one of the many to discuss a […]
2019-4-2 20:56 | |
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Today, Europeans woke up to a big green candle on the Bitcoin (BTC) charts. Naturally, everyone wants to know why. Searching For Reasons In All The Wrong Places Everyone has their reasons for Bitcoin’s morning pump, of course.
2019-4-2 14:00 | |
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Is Dogecoin (DOGE) playing an April Fools’ prank on the cryptocurrency community? Its April 1 price chart suggests that it is. The “joke currency” today surged to $0. 002499, up more than 20 percent for the day.
2019-4-2 01:30 | |
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Nearly every transaction on Ethereum’s layer-2 networks passes through a single machine, run by a single company, called a sequencer. It orders trades, sets the pace of the chain, earns the fees, and can go dark or say no. This…
Base Azul is live on mainnet, adding TEE and ZK proofs, Base-native clients, Osaka updates and 5,000 TPS bursts for Coinbase L2 users.
Syndicate Labs has announced plans to shut down its operations after saying the market for Ethereum rollups has deteriorated to a point where the business is no longer viable. In a statement posted on X on Thursday, Syndicate Labs said…
Transak has completed its integration with MegaETH, enabling users to purchase ETH directly on the high-speed Layer 2 network using standard fiat payment methods.
Ethereum researcher ladislaus. eth published a walkthrough last week explaining how Ethereum plans to move from re-executing every transaction to verifying zero-knowledge proofs. The post frames it as a “quiet but fundamental transformation,” and the framing is accurate.
Ethereum was cheaper than expected in 2020, and rollup decentralization was slower than promised in 2021. Those two realities are forced the ecosystem to rewrite what “a layer-2” is for.
The Ethereum blockchain recorded its strongest operational year in history in 2025, processing record transaction volumes and securing the vast majority of the DeFi market. However, the crypto asset that powers the network failed to mirror that growth, posting double-digit losses for the year.