Robert Kiyosaki Explains Why He Remains Bullish On Bitcoin, Despite Believing BTC Is Possibly A Scam

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Ethereum Funding Rates Turn Deep Red, What Does It Mean?

Data shows the Ethereum funding rates have been quite negative in recent days. Here’s what this could mean for the cryptocurrency’s price. Ethereum Funding Rates Have Been Under The Zero Mark Recently As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, a short squeeze may be a possibility for the asset currently.

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Fed's Rate Hike Cycle Has Peaked, Investment Banks Say

The end of the tightening cycle does not necessarily imply a quick pivot toward zero interest rate policy, meaning animal spirits may not return to the crypto market anytime soon.

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From Zero to Hero: 5 Steps to a Versatile Crypto Portfolio

Source Are you a new crypto investor making your first steps into trading? People have likely given you tons of advice, like creating a versatile portfolio. But what does that mean? And how can you achieve it? Setting up a diverse portfolio is easier than you think.

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This Mother’s Day, Try Explaining Bitcoin To Your Mom

If your mom has a hard time getting off zero, like this author’s does, you should give it another shot on Mother’s Day.

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Libertex Provides Crypto CFD Trades With Zero Commission Fees

Libertex platform is providing access to crypto CFDs with zero commission fees and tight spreads. Cryptocurrencies are soaring in popularity day by day. As its popularity rises, so does the number of users who want to get their hands on it.

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What does UST’s depegging mean for crypto? An Expert’s view

An eventful week this was in crypto matters, with the highlight of the pain being the collapse of Terra’s LUNA and algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST). The token’s crash, which has LUNA virtually at zero and UST clinging on after depegging violently from the dollar, has the market irked, sad and in utter disbelief.

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Does Elon Musk's preference for Dogecoin over Shiba Inu make a difference

H2: Tesla CEO Musk has bought only Dogecoin, zero Shiba Inu and Floki tokens Tesla CEO, Elon Musk's tweets helped Shiba Inu and Floki prices soar previously. However, this time around, his responseThe post Does Elon Musk's preference for Dogecoin over Shiba Inu make a difference appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Steve Hanke Calls Bitcoin Highly Speculative Asset with Fundamental Value of Zero

Steve Hanke has shared his negative take on Bitcoin, detailing why he does not think of BTC as a reliable asset

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Jed McCaleb’s ‘Tacostand’ funding wallet now has zero XRP remaining. What does it mean for Ripple?

The original Ripple address used to fund former Ripple exec’s ‘Tacostand’ wallet has zero XRP remaining. The post Jed McCaleb’s ‘Tacostand’ funding wallet now has zero XRP remaining.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Now Buys 68,880 Barrels of Oil, Which Is More Volatile? CZ Binance

Despite the crude oil price falling below zero, Bitcoin is still almost 7,000 times more expensive. In comparison, now BTC does not seem so volatile

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Bitcoin Tanks After Oil’s Colossal Collapse, but the Bull Case Remains Strong

Bitcoin fell 4. 30 percent as US oil futures slipped below zero for the first time. The cryptocurrency does not correlate with the black gold, albeit it remains under the influence of equities. Its crash Monday has not deterred bulls from the market – yet.

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Could Zero Fractional Reserves Cause a Bank Run?

Central banks around the world may be in trouble as global economies struggle under increasing pressure from an inactive workforce. Fractional reserves for banks have been set to zero — so what does this mean? March 2020 will go down in history as the month that another economic and financial crisis was triggered by the […] The post Could Zero Fractional Reserves Cause a Bank Run? appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Zero Interest, Limitless Repo and QE4: The Federal Reserve’s Market Operations Explained

The Federal Reserve is dropping rates to zero and offering trillions in liquidity to the U.S. financial system. What is the Fed doing, and how does it work? The post Zero Interest, Limitless Repo and QE4: The Federal Reserve’s Market Operations Explained appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.

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Ripple CEO Has Grave Warning for Crypto Markets; Will XRP Survive a Market-Wide Purge?

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple – the FinTech company that has close ties to XRP – explained in a recent interview that he believes the vast majority of cryptocurrencies that are currently on the markets will eventually plummet to zero.

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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3

Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.

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Understanding PLONK

Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.

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Fast Fourier Transforms

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).

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On Collusion

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.

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Abra Users Can Now Buy Stocks and ETFs Using Bitcoin

“Investing in stocks can be a daunting, complex and decidedly exclusionary activity,” says Bill Barhydt, Abra's CEO. To that end, his company’s mobile cryptocurrency wallet app has announced a new feature which will allow investors to purchase traditional stocks using bitcoin.

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Pierre Rochard: “Lightning Adoption Will Basically Mirror Bitcoin Adoption”

Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.

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Faketoshi and Calvin Ayre yapping at bitcoin: “It will be worthless in 2019”

Calvin Ayre, founder of Bitcoin Cash and leading figure of the newly formed fork BTC Satoshi Vision, says the real bitcoin, the bellwether cryptocurrency will become worthless in 2019. In an interview with Express.

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Singapore Grants RMO License for CapBridge to Operate New Security Exchange

Global private capital platform CapBridge Pte. Ltd. has garnered a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate a security exchange known as 1exchange (also called 1X), which became operational on November 21, 2018.

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Coinbase Has Just Added ZRX, Its First ERC-20 Token

Making good on a promise it made back in March of this year, Coinbase has just added its first ERC-20 token. ZRX, the token of the 0x (pronounced “zero x”) protocol began trading on Coinbase Pro (formerly GDAX), the exchange’s professional trading platform, on October 11, 2018.

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Battle of the Privacycoins: What We Know About Grin and Beam’s Mimblewimble

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.

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Yes, Stablecoins Can Secure Official Audits from Major Firms

“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.

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STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds

Special thanks to Eli ben Sasson for his kind assistance, as usual. Special thanks to Chih-Cheng Liang and Justin Drake for review. Trigger warning: math and lots of python div. foo { color: white; } div.

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STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.

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The Triangle of Harm

The following is a diagram from a slide that I made in one of my presentations at Cornell this week: </img> If there was one diagram that could capture the core principle of Casper’s incentivization philosophy, this might be it.

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A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits

Looks like it’s blockchain split season again. For background of various people discussing the topic, and whether such splits are good or bad: Power laws and network effects (arguing the BTC/BCC split may destroy value due to network effect loss): https://medium.

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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff.

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Paying With ETH On Amazon? Time To Meet Zeex

Zeex promises to be the next generation for cryptocurrency adoption. This is a platform and a concept that we are very excited about. And yes, Zeex does mean we can spend Ethereum at Amazon… What is Zeex? Zeex is a crypto to product concept, with zero fees, far away from FIAT.

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How to Slow Down a Startup: Erik Voorhees’ Hard Lesson

The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network has added a new show to its lineup, “What Bitcoin Did. ” The WBD podcast is hosted by U. K. -based Peter McCormack, an “accidental Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency investor, miner, blogger and podcaster.

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