2021-6-18 00:34 |
The African country is primed to embrace bitcoin, culturally and economically.
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Everyone seems to be talking about Bitcoin right now and the reasons are pretty clear. Firstly, in these economically unstable times an alternative to the traditional currency markets is obviously going to be attractive.
2020-12-5 17:53 | |
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Bitcoin has so far survived for more than 11 years. The network continues to function as intended, in part, thanks to an assumption that miners will always act in their own best interests economically.
2020-2-21 23:00 | |
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Over the past decades, central banks like the Federal Reserve have failed to keep inflation rates stable. Bitcoin may benefit from this trend. After the cryptocurrency’s upcoming halving, after which the coin will have “economically indisputable reasons” to become a legitimately competitive store of value versus other world currencies.
2020-1-24 21:00 | |
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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says Petro — the state-issued crypto, will be a major focus of the country’s government in 2020. Despite previous attempts to promote utility for the national cryptocurrency, public tokens like Bitcoin (BTC) and Dash are seeing the most adoption within the economically troubled country.
2020-1-16 22:00 | |
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The viability of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is a topic of substantial debate. Researchers are now confirming some of those concerns, albeit it’s not all bad news either. Emin Gun Sirer recently shared academic research regarding the Lightning Network.
2019-11-27 02:00 | |
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On November 21, researchers from Hungary and Institute for Computer Science and Control published a critical examination of the Lightning Network, the protocol intended to amend BTC’s scalability issues.
2019-11-27 23:15 | |
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Established in 2012, the platform has been a popular peer-to-peer exchange has been seeing a serious drop in its trading volume since May 2019. This decline was triggered by a slump in BTC price that was registered on other exchanges as well.
2019-11-10 22:27 | |
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Nothing drives up demand for Bitcoin more than economic and political uncertainty. Well maybe a large dose of China initiated FOMO, but fundamentally BTC acts as a solid hedge against failing fiat and economic policy.
2019-11-1 09:45 | |
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Management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review and found that a majority of banks worldwide may not be economically viable. More than half of them still do not generate their cost of equity 10 years after the crisis and may not survive an economic downturn.
2019-10-25 16:05 | |
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Starting a debate by calling nearly everyone in the room “economically illiterate” doesn’t usually end well for someone attempting to persuade an audience, but that’s just what American economist Nouriel Roubini did on Tuesday, in his debate with Bitcoin.
2019-10-17 11:20 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency proponent and news presenter Max Keiser has responded to President Trump’s anti-Bitcoin outburst yesterday. The long-term Bitcoin bull believes that a United States opposed to Bitcoin is an advertisement to nations wanting to distance themselves economically from the nation to adopt the digital asset.
2019-7-13 00:00 | |
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P2P bitcoin trade is surging in Zimbabwe via mobile exchange platforms like Ecocash, despite recent government efforts to curb the use of competing currencies locally. As of June 24, the reinstated Zimbabwe dollar (formerly RTGS dollar) is now the only recognized currency in the economically embattled southern African country.
2019-7-13 20:30 | |
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Bitcoin is currently ranked top by Weiss Ratings with a grade of A–, making it the most technologically and economically advanced of all the cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin Attains Top Grade on Latest Weiss Rating for Crypto On the Weiss crypto website, bitcoin currently holds the top spot with an A– grade.
2019-7-10 02:00 | |
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Prior to the 2016 presidential election, there was a lot of speculation about what would happen economically if Donald Trump won the presidency. Many analysts, such as professor Erik Jones of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, expected to see “incredible pressure on stock prices and everyone flooding into rare metals like gold […] The post Data shows that Bitcoin was the best safe haven asset over the past 3 years appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-7-2 13:33 | |
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Money has come a long way since its origins. From cowry shells to crypto, transferable, divisible, and economically sound means of exchange have been adopted by market actors everywhere. Modern history has brought us to a dangerous place, however, a cultural climate where politics and bad economics have co-opted monetary utility in the name of […] The post The Politicization of Money: Crypto as a Safeguard Against Economic Propaganda appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-6-27 18:40 | |
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According to data released by crypto monitoring website Coin Dance for the week ending June 15, 2019, economically troubled country Venezuela witnessed all-time high bitcoin (BTC) trading activity on P2P exchange platform Localbitcoins.
2019-6-18 11:00 | |
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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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Coinbase has unveiled the expansion of its USDC on Coinbase and Coinbase Pro, which is now available across 85 countries. It also announced the addition of 50 new countries for trading cryptos on the exchange platform.
2019-5-15 11:00 | |
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They’re doing it in British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Labrador — bitcoin miners in Canadian provinces are taking advantage of the country’s cool climate and abundant supplies of hydroelectric power.
2019-4-17 20:52 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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The crypto winter has claimed yet another firm as Coinhive announced on February 26, 2019, that they would be discontinuing their services from March 8, 2019. Saying Goodbye Perhaps the most apparent after-effect of the crypto crash of 2018 was the near-immediate decline in the mining sector.
2019-3-1 10:00 | |
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In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance.
2019-3-1 03:39 | |
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Vakt, a blockchain-powered oil trading platform based out of London has enrolled onshore companies responsible for two-thirds of all deals in the economically important waters of the North Sea, Financial Times reported on February 25, 2019.
2019-2-27 22:00 | |
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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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When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary.
2019-2-5 23:06 | |
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After kicking off 2018 with a bang, cryptocurrencies tumbled like a house of cards by the end of the year. The fallout was so stark that the broader market ended losing more than $700 billion in market cap.
2019-1-27 20:49 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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After serving as finance minister of one of the most economically influential nations over the past three years, Ueli Maurer is now starting his term as President of the Swiss Confederation. Given his track record and liberal views regarding fintech regulation, Maurer’s election is considered a positive development for the Alpine nation’s expanding crypto industry.
2019-1-6 14:00 | |
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CoinSpeaker Only a Small Fraction of 460M Bitcoin Addresses Actually Hold Crypto, New Report Reveals The Chainalysis report shows that a very small fraction of the total Bitcoin addresses are actually "economically relevant".
2018-12-22 11:40 | |
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The Bitcoin infrastructure is complex, and obscures the fact that Bitcoin in its current state is not used for peer-to-peer payments.
2018-12-22 20:31 | |
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The number of unique addresses on the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network is constantly growing but only 37 percent of them are “economically relevant,” according to a recent study by Chainalysis. The vast majority of them – 86 percent – are controlled by service providers and the rest are used by private investors.
2018-12-21 19:45 | |
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The bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystem is far and wide as it’s 24/7 global economy. Literally anyone in the world… The post Out of 460 Million Bitcoin Addresses only 37% are Economically Relevant, What does that Mean? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-12-22 18:49 | |
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The Bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystem is far and wide as it’s a 24/7 global economy. Literally anyone in the… The post Out of 460 Million Bitcoin Addresses Only 37% Are Economically Relevant — What Does That Mean? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-12-27 18:49 | |
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A recent Chainanalysis report states that only 37 percent of Bitcoin addresses are “economically relevant.”
2018-12-20 05:15 | |
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Bitcoinist spoke with Bitcoin Cash advocate and owner of Bitcoin. com, Roger Ver, about the BCH ‘hash war,’ his controversial website branding of Bitcoin (BTC) as ‘Bitcoin Core,’ and why he believes Bitcoin developers are “economically illiterate.
2018-12-17 16:00 | |
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After earning significant success in China, Huawei Cloud launched its Blockchain Services (BCS) globally earlier this month. Per a press release issued by the company on November 29, 2018, the service will help create, manage, and deploy blockchain applications economically on the company-run cloud.
2018-12-3 07:00 | |
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Steemit, a decentralized social media platform has laid off 70 percent of its staff due to the prolonged bearish cryptocurrency market. According to a Youtube video posted on November 29, 2018, Ned Scott, the CEO of Steemit mentioned that the company will prioritize a restructuring and undergo further cost reduction strategies to ensure that the company remains economically sustainable.
2018-11-30 00:00 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-20 04:39 | |
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The crypto industry has scored another first, as a junior U. S. Senator from Montana, Steve Daines, has lobbied against the planned closure of a coal-fired power plant in Rosebud County, arguing that its closure could harm the growing cryptocurrency mining industry in the state.
2018-8-28 19:11 | |
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Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian has revealed his optimism about the future success of bitcoin despite the daily slump in price in an interview with Yahoo Finance.
2018-8-27 18:22 | |
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently revealed that the nation’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, will be used as a unit of account by the state oil company PDVSA.
2018-8-16 00:26 | |
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Up to two-thirds of the total bitcoin market activity in a given day is made up of spam, mixers and other non-beneficial transactions, with only a third of daily bitcoin activity being an economically useful activity such as paying for goods and services.
2018-7-31 17:00 | |
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In 2018, BitPay launched its cross-border payment solution which helps businesses pay or receive international payments faster and more economically. BitPay works with over 30 e-commerce and point of sale integrators to promote the use and acceptance of bitcoin.
2018-7-31 05:35 | |
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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.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others.
2018-7-21 20:14 | |
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DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others.
2018-7-20 20:14 | |
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Events to consider following the first day of the conference.
Leading US nonprofits are increasingly accepting crypto donations, marking a significant shift in charitable giving trends, according to a BanklessTimes report. Two out of the three top US-based charities have accumulated over $2 billion in donations since the start of the year after they began accepting crypto funds.
A case against Ordinals and Inscriptions, and why it is something people should not only not support, but speak against.
A reminder that Bitcoin was designed to give people access to financial services, and not simply enrich early adopters.
An argument for why Bitcoin and Ethereum can actually complement each other in the long term, rather than exist as competitors.
Crypto exchange Bitget unveiled its new Web3 leadership program called “Bitget COO Apprentice” in Europe, offering young talent an opportunity to work directly with the company’s executive team and gain hands-on experience in the industry.
Quick Take Farside data revealed a $203. 0 million net inflow on Apr. 5, marking the Bitcoin ETFs’ fourth consecutive net inflow day. This trend suggests a growing interest and confidence in the digital asset space among investors.