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Spacex Bitcoin Scam Features BTC Giveaway, Elon Musk, and NASA Launch
14.6.2020
A Spacex bitcoin scam has frequently appeared on Youtube, claiming to give away BTC. Its promo video features the recent Spacex launch with two NASA astronauts and an interview with Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The scammers claim that anyone sending bitcoin to them will...
Bitcoiners Ask: ‘WTF Happened In 1971?’ The Answer Might Shape The 2020s
13.6.2020
In 1971, the United States left the gold standard. Now, some people – particularly Bitcoiners – believe that the US and wider global population has largely suffered as a result. The government can print USD at will, in the process causing the kind of inflation that reduces the general population’s...
Real ETH Giveaways, Blackmaily ETH Fees, and 20 Crypto Jokes
13.6.2020
This weak, we started a very REAL ETH giveaway. Speaking of ETH, two all-time high ETH transaction fees were paid, becoming more mysterious and blackmaily with the third. Meanwhile, Steve Hanke explained why private currency boards are better than central banks for a free society. While Maker...
Not So Private: 99% of Zcash and Dash Transactions Traceable, Says Chainalysis
10.6.2020
Chainalysis says it can track 99% of transactions involving Zcash, and almost all of Dash’s – coins that both fancy themselves as private and untraceable. Now, that’s because the majority of users do not utilize the optional privacy-enhancing features available on the...
Cool Little CSS Grid Tricks for Your Blog
10.6.2020
I discovered CSS about a decade ago while trying to modify the look of a blog I had created. Pretty soon, I was able to code cool things with more mathematical and, therefore, easier-to-understand features like transforms. However, other areas of CSS, such as layout, have remained a constant source...
You Say You Want a Revolution: What Blockchain Can Learn from One Man’s Attempt to Save the World
9.6.2020
The blockchain industry’s belief in its own inevitability could become a fatal blindspot. Buckminster Fuller provides a compelling narrative, methodology, and cautionary tale for builders seeking to change the world
Optional Zcash and Dash Features Prompt Debate on Privacy & Compliance
9.6.2020
Two privacy coins, Zcash (ZEC) and Dash (DASH), are now supported by blockchain and analytics specialist Chainalysis - but it's the addition of the former that caused discussions online about privacy and responsibility.
Chainalysis launched support for Dash and Zcash in their investigation...
Bitcoin Spenders' Basket 2x the Size of Conventional One - Beliani CEO
8.6.2020
Crypto users purchase more furniture than other shoppers. This is the experience of Stephan Widmer, CEO of Beliani, a web-only international seller of furniture and home accessories, that served over 1 million customers across 16 countries in Europe.
Beliani started using services of major crypto...
Wild, Wild East: Why the ICO Boom in China Refuses to Die
8.6.2020
“Chandler Guo was a beef salesman who now lives in a 100,000 square-foot California estate he calls the “Mansion of Chives” after a slang term associated with retail investors losing money.”
Seedless Wallets Want to Make Bitcoin More User Friendly
7.6.2020
Source: Adobe/Сергей Шиманович
Bitcoin (BTC) has been around for more than 11 years, but it’s still rather difficult for the average person to use the network in a secure manner. One of the reasons for this is that Bitcoin works very differently from traditional online payment systems.
In Bitcoin...
How Blockchain Will Help Send People Into Space
6.6.2020
Astronaut Edward H. White II, Gemini IV pilot, is photographed onboard the Gemini spacecraft during the four-day Earth-orbital mission. He became the first American to step outside his spacecraft and let go, setting himself adrift in the zero gravity of space. Taken on June 5, 1964. Blockchain...
Un-10K-ed Bitcoin, Made History, and 20 Crypto Jokes
6.6.2020
This crypto-week, bitcoin surpassed USD 10K, then it didn't, and the eight largest difficulty drop happened, and as bitcoin demand is already outpacing supply, BTC got a red dot on the S2F model signalling a bull run. Decentraland’s virtual world made history by streaming the SpaceX launch...
Why the 2020s May Be the Decade of Hyperbitcoinization
5.6.2020
Bitcoin (BTC)’s monetary fairness may lead to the 2020s becoming the decade of hyperbitcoinization, which is a theorized form of Bitcoin-induced currency demonetization, according to Lucas Nuzzi, Head of Network Data at US-based crypto data provider Coin Metrics.
“Everything that we’ve experienced...
Bitcoin DeFi Startup Atomic Loans to Launch Lending This Summer
4.6.2020
Atomic Loans, a provider of non-custodial bitcoin (BTC)-backed loans, has had a “great start” with their borrowing service, while the lending side of the protocol is expected to go live on mainnet in two months, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Matthew Black told Cryptonews.com.
The...
Exoduses and Ex-Communications: Blowing Off Steemit with Andrew Levine
4.6.2020
“I think Steem is going to go down in history as the greatest blockchain you’ve never heard of.”
MIT's Narula: If Goldman Sachs Likes Bitcoin, We're Doing Something Wrong
3.6.2020
Neha Narula. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Telstra Enterprise
Bitcoin (BTC) mainstream adoption is more about people using the underlying Bitcoin network rather than a bunch of wealthy investors and institutions coming in to hold the underlying asset, according to MIT Digital Currency...
The Lizard People Invented Bitcoin: Why Crypto is a Hotbed for Conspiracy Theories
3.6.2020
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you
Payment-Centric Projects Bring Blockchain to People – Blockdaemon CEO
2.6.2020
Payment-centric projects are the ever-larger focus of Blockdaemon, a blockchain infrastructure platform for node management, as these bring blockchain to the masses, CEO and Founder Konstantin Richter told Cryptonews.com, noting that Celo and Libra have fundamental differences.
Blockdaemon...
3 Experts on 3 Ways to Compare Cryptoassets
2.6.2020
Dispersion of coins, order book data, and traditional customer growth metrics are three useful ways to compare cryptoassets, according to three crypto industry players.
On Monday, during a panel at Messari’s Mainnet event, Kaiko CEO Ambre Soubiran, Coin Metrics Co-founder Nic Carter, and Flipside...
Capitalism’s Perestroika Moment: Bitcoin Rises as Economic Centralization Falls
2.6.2020
Since crony communism and unfettered capitalism lead to the same destination, it’s time to decentralize