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Appetite for Bitcoin Futures Is Growing
25.9.2019
After all the fanfare, fevered anticipation, and breathless media coverage, Bakkt’s launch of bitcoin futures on Monday was a damp squib. Despite the rollout of physically delivered BTC futures going without a hitch, volumes were low, while the less said about bitcoin’s price in...
Buying Bitcoin on the Street Is Getting Easier
23.9.2019
Access to cryptocurrency, still a relatively new invention, requires some technological knowledge and computer literacy. In order to become more mainstream, however, Bitcoin will have to become more “main street” so to speak. Some crypto evangelists are finding ways to simplify...
What Google’s Quantum Breakthrough Means for Blockchain Cryptography
22.9.2019
We’ve been warned for years that a quantum computing breakthrough is just around the corner. When that day comes, we’re told, it could render existing encryption standards obsolete, threatening the security of every major blockchain. It seems that day has finally arrived, with Google...
Tiny Block Advocates Speak Up After Veriblock ‘Abuses’ Bitcoin’s Block Size
19.9.2019
The BTC community recently celebrated the fact that Segregated Witness (Segwit) transactions accounted for 50% of transactions and bech32 transactions doubled as well. However, the celebration quickly came to an end when a few Bitcoin Core developers found out where the transactions derived from...
Big Banks Won’t Touch Crypto Clients – But These Smaller Banks Will
13.9.2019
Cryptocurrencies undoubtedly bring new business opportunities. The expanding industry around digital assets and its customers need more and more services that traditional sectors can provide. Banking is often a bottleneck in the crypto space as most traditional institutions are still reluctant...
Crypto’s Forgotten Altcoins Re-Emerge: A Look at What’s Happening
12.9.2019
During the crypto bull market of 2017, everybody was happy. It wasn’t just the BTC maximalists, BCH enthusiasts, or proponents of ETH. Privacy coins like monero were doing great, and even charity-supporting “comic relief” coins like doge were riding high. Since that enchanted...
Model-Based Testing in React with State Machines
4.9.2019
Testing applications is crucially important to ensuring that the code is error-free and the logic requirements are met. However, writing tests manually is tedious and prone to human bias and error. Furthermore, maintenance can be a nightmare, especially when features are added or business logic...
Crypto Can Boost Indian Economy – How Banning Will Hurt it
29.8.2019
The Indian economy is experiencing severe economic slowdown not seen in many years, and cryptocurrency can potentially help. However, the government is considering a draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies, which could have undesirable consequences on the economy. Meanwhile, the Indian crypto community...
The Changing Face of Cryptocurrency Trading in 2019
27.8.2019
The cryptocurrency exchange landscape has evolved significantly in 2019. The number, quality and diversity of exchanges has multiplied, giving traders an unprecedented number of venues to choose from. This smorgasbord of options risks leaving traders overwhelmed, however, as exchanges jockey...
Bitcoin History Part 16: The First Mt. Gox Hack
25.8.2019
No one remembers the first Mt. Gox hack. It was a small sum, even by 2011’s standards, and the exchange reimbursed all users. The incident was to prove significant, however, for it set in motion a string of attacks on other bitcoin platforms that began the very next day. By the time the dust...
Initiative to Curtail Negative Interest Rates Gains Traction in Germany
24.8.2019
Negative interest rates, a common occurrence in Europe these days, are unpleasant for both banks and clients. And financial institutions have been increasingly transferring the bulk of the burden on to their customers. Some political factions in Germany, however, aren’t happy with the trend...
How to Bequeath Your Digital Assets to Your Descendants
20.8.2019
Depending on your belief system, death is either the endgame or the next level. Whatever lies on the other side, your bitcoins are no good there. Just as we entered this world with nothing, we are destined to leave it with nothing. All those years spent stacking sats needn’t be in vain...
Bitcoin History Part 15: Silk Road Is Born
18.8.2019
Silk Road launched in February 2011 as the darknet’s first bitcoin-based marketplace. Within four months, it would be the darknet’s most notorious site whose reputation extended all the way to the U.S. Senate. The origins of the drugs marketplace can be traced back further, however,...
More Cities and Regions Accepting Coins for Taxes, Services
6.8.2019
Cryptocurrency payments, as convenient as they can be, are still something most governments are trying to wrap their heads around and regulate. Local authorities, however, being closer to the citizens they are called upon to serve, are often quicker to adopt novelties that make their lives and...
UK Judge Strikes Out Craig Wright’s Libel Lawsuit Against Roger Ver
1.8.2019
According to documents from the U.K.’s High Court of Justice published on July 31, a judge has denied Craig Wright’s libel lawsuit against Roger Ver. Wright filed the charge against Ver when the early bitcoin investor told the public he believed Wright was a “liar and...
‘However Long It Takes’: Zuckerberg Vows to Win Over Regulators on Libra
25.7.2019
Facebook's CEO said it will spend "however long it takes" to get regulators on board before launching Libra
Privacy Is a Human Right Worth Fighting For
23.7.2019
Privacy is a basic human right. It’s there in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence.” Attaining that right in an era of dragnet surveillance, mass data breaches, state-sponsored hacks...
How Big Hydro Power Partners With Bitcoin Miners to Prevent Energy Waste
22.7.2019
We are often told that the verification of bitcoin transactions eats a lot of energy. The largely inaccurate comparison to a small country, the size of Ireland or Denmark, is evoked thanks to numerous clickbait headlines. What mainstream media fails to explain, however, is that bitcoin mining...
Why You Can’t Bet With Bitcoin at Online Casinos in the US
20.7.2019
Since the dawn of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency landscape has seen a lot of digital currency gaming websites where users can wager their coins in games like poker, dice, blackjack and slots. Because public blockchains are transparent, the protocols have made online gaming provably fair. However...
7 Unorthodox Ways to Mine Bitcoin
20.7.2019
Bitcoin isn’t crazy – in fact it might just be the soundest monetary system this generation has ever known. Some of the techniques miners have devised to extract it, however, are extremely unorthodox, ranging from the ingenious to the downright crazy. Here are seven of the strangest...