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Why Double Spends on BCH Are Not the Same as Replace-By-Fee Fraud
3.1.2020
When it comes to creating a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, accepting zero confirmation transactions becomes critically important. When a model’s main aim is to “just hodl” or push an isolated store of value narrative, important concerns like double spending can take a back...
ShapeShift Exchange Revolutionizes Industry With Zero Trading Fee Feature
2.1.2020
Trading fees play an important role when it comes to the selection of a cryptocurrency trading platform. At present, the market is flooded with an array of crypto exchanges which promise to offer the best facilities to their clients. While some crypto exchanges manage to earn the name from...
Cashaa Slashes Fee Rates by 50% to Promote Cryptocurrencies in India
2.1.2020
With the start of a new decade, the crypto community is aspiring to achieve new heights of success in the financial marketspace by exploring the untrodden areas. Despite being a developing country, India has been a favorite choice for businesses worldwide owing to the immense potential the country...
Getting In and Out of the Cryptocurrency Economy Can Be Costly
24.12.2019
Since bitcoin and digital currencies have become popular, fiat on and off-ramps have sprung up that allow investors to enter and exit the cryptoconomy. However, many of the entryways into cryptocurrency markets have a hefty fee between 1-4% of the overall purchase and in order to obtain fiat...
These Myth-Busting Articles Dispel Common Bitcoin Myths
22.12.2019
Recently, a few Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have been writing a series of myth-busting articles that describe Bitcoin technicals generally thought to be true but which are not. The articles posted on the read.cash blog have reviewed topics like 10-minute confirmation times, SPV wallets,...
Travelbybit to Drop Bitcoin Payments After Viral Double Spend Video
20.12.2019
On December 18, Bitcoinbch.com published a video explaining how easy it is to double spend BTC transactions in the wild. Not long after the film was released, the payment processor Travelbybit announced it would be removing both BTC and BCH payments for over 400 Australian merchants. Unfortunately...
Video Shows How Easy It Is to Double Spend BTC Using RBF
18.12.2019
On December 18, the web portal Bitcoinbch.com published an informal notice explaining that merchants accepting BTC should switch to BCH because of “dangerous flaws” found in the BTC software. The problem is tied to slow confirmation times tethered to a BTC-based protocol called...
Crypto Lender BlockFi Rolls Out Zero-Fee Trading for Bitcoin, Ether, GUSD
5.12.2019
BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending service, is expanding into trading with an unusual, zero-fee model
Maker’s Stability Fee Drops to 5.5% After Multi-Collateral Dai Announcement
3.11.2019
According to the CEO of the Maker Foundation, Rune Christensen, Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) will launch on November 18. On October 28, Maker’s stability fee was reduced by a ‘whale’ with roughly 94% of the voting power. Also Read: French Ministry of Education Publishes Bitcoin...
Not a Fee, But 'Long-Term Payment' — How Crypto Exchanges List Tokens
3.11.2019
Cryptocurrency exchanges say money isn’t the main determinant for deciding which altcoin tokens to list on their platforms… but then, why is so much money always involved?
Bitcoin Thermocap Approaches $15B as Miners Hit $1B in Fee Revenue
31.10.2019
Bitcoin pays out $15 billion to miners since 2009
As Lightning’s Economy Takes Shape, Devs Are Split on Proposed Fee Hike
21.10.2019
At the lightning network's inaugural conference in Berlin, the future economics of the bitcoin payment technology took center stage
TradeSanta and HitBTC’s Collaboration to Offer 0% Trading Fee Opportunity to Traders
12.10.2019
Serving as one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the European market, HitBTC has broadcasted the news of its strategic partnership with TradeSanta, the cloud software solution that allows us to create and manage bots efficiently. As per the announcement, the highly anticipated...
SoFi Launches Zero-Fee Crypto Trading for Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin
25.9.2019
SoFi launches zero-fee trading for Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin via a partnership with Coinbase
Seed CX Slashes Rates as Crypto Trading Fee War Looms
20.9.2019
Cryptocurrency exchange Seed CX has cut fees as competition piles into the profitable crypto trading space
Understanding Transaction Fee Mining and its Changes
15.9.2019
Since its introduction into the cryptoasset markets, transaction fee mining and the exchanges that support this model have been regarded with suspicion. However, it appears that the tide might be turning as some exchanges are reworking the model.
In this article, you will learn about the concept...
Someone Just Moved $1B in Bitcoin for $700 Fee, Overpaying 20 Times
6.9.2019
Generous Bitcoin user paid miner 20x the required fee to move a billion dollars
PR: Bitpunter Launches Transaction Mining for Online Gaming
1.8.2019
The recent advent of transaction mining as a business model has taken the cryptocurrency world by storm, with transaction fee mining exchanges such as BitMax and FCoin overtaking other long-serving exchange powerhouses in a short span of time.
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PR: CoinDeal Celebrates Premier League Sponsorship Renewal With Token Launch
2.7.2019
Coindeal’s popularity and number of new users are growing very fast. The exchange will soon be available in several states in the USA and has prepared their own CoinDeal token – CDL. This giveaway is addressed to its 300.000 current and 150.000 new users – internal exchange tokens are waiting...
New Betting Game Allows People to Wager on BTC’s Next Block Fee
23.6.2019
Bitcoin core (BTC) prices have been rising sharply over the last few weeks and people have also noticed BTC transaction fees have spiked as well. Now there’s a new gaming site called Guess Bitcoinfees allowing people to bet on the 24-hour average transaction fee for the next day and the site...