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Coinbase Moves to Cut Blockchain Load With Bitcoin Batching
13.3.2020
The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange has started grouping multiple bitcoin transactions together to benefit both users and the blockchain
Alibaba Files for a Blockchain Transaction System in Brazil
11.3.2020
Alibaba Group has registered a new patent in Brazil to establish a transaction system based on blockchain
5 Crypto Cashback Solutions That Award You Satoshis to Shop
9.3.2020
Cashback is a popular ecommerce system that administers rewards and rebates for shopping. Every time you shop online, and in some cases in-store, you’ll earn up to 1% of the transaction value back. Traditionally administered in cash or rewards points, certain cashback schemes now dispense...
Industry Execs Claim Freshly Minted ‘Virgin Bitcoins’ Fetch 20% Premium
8.3.2020
A few blockchain surveillance companies like Cyphertrace have recently published reports on criminal activities tied to bitcoin usage and the studies mentioned the topic of “virgin bitcoins.” According to industry executives, freshly minted bitcoins with no transaction history can sell...
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: 18 of the Coolest Visualizations for Exploring the Bitcoin Network
1.3.2020
Analyzing and exploring the Bitcoin blockchain is always interesting, but for the more abstract thinker, several sites provide unique looks at the network, nodes, and transaction data in easy to grok, visual fashion. Some of these even border on the psychedelic or sci-fi otherworldly, taking...
13 Crypto Debit Cards You Can Use Right Now
28.2.2020
If cryptocurrency is designed to reconstruct the financial world while introducing major improvements in transaction speed, privacy, cost and convenience, debit cards represent a useful bridge between old and new. A preponderance of crypto debit card options now exist that allow cryptocurrency...
KuCoin Unveils Instant Exchange Service to Speed Up Transaction Execution
26.2.2020
Serving the crypto community with its highly acclaimed trading exchange services, KuCoin has announced the launch of Instant Exchange service on the network for its global customer base. The service has been the result of joint efforts by the KuCoin team in association with the quantitative market...
KuCoin Unveils Instant Exchange Service to Speed Up Transaction Execution
26.2.2020
Serving the crypto community with its highly acclaimed trading exchange services, KuCoin has announced the launch of Instant Exchange service on the network for its global customer base. The service has been the result of joint efforts by the KuCoin team in association with the quantitative market...
Currency.com Accused of Exploiting KYC to Withhold Customer Funds
18.2.2020
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Transaction (KYT) are ostensibly deployed by exchanges to combat money laundering. In practice, these provisions are used as an excuse to surveil, cajole, and threaten customers, who risk losing funds if they are unable to meet the impossibly high burden...
Bitcoin Taxation Support Growing Industry – Here are 5 Useful Cryptocurrency Tax Calculators
10.2.2020
For crypto owners looking to estimate how much they owe in taxes, there are some platforms with a free crypto tax calculator. They integrate with major crypto exchanges and wallets, allowing you to import your crypto transaction data and start calculating your taxes for free. Some of them also...
Bitcoin Transaction Fees Drop Amid Rising SegWit Adoption
7.2.2020
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Bitcoin (BTC) transaction fees are returning to low levels amid an increased adoption of the Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol on the network.
“The majority of transactions now support SegWit, currently surpassing 55% on average. And while this marks a near 40% increase...
Platform Allowing Trading of Crypto in Custody Completes First $100K Transaction
7.2.2020
The platform provides a solution that allows trading of digital assets which they remain in secure custody
Bitcoin Achieves Major Milestone With Half a Billion Transactions Confirmed
5.2.2020
500 million transactions have been confirmed on the Bitcoin blockchain
Coronavirus Outbreak Forces Chinese Crypto ASIC Manufacturers to Delay Orders
3.2.2020
Bitcoin mining rig deliveries from China are delayed due to the coronavirus according to a few Chinese manufacturers. Microbt and Ebang sent notices to customers via the firm’s Wechat channels. Sources say Bitmain and Innosilicon are delaying mining device shipments as well. Also read: How...
Cashfusion Far More Practical Than Other Coinjoin Protocols, Says Data Analyst
31.1.2020
On January 29, data analyst James Waugh decided to test and see if the Cashfusion protocol was really anonymous. After testing Cashfusion, Waugh explained he sifted through a number of transaction inputs and outputs and realized that it’s “not possible to establish a concrete...
How to Obscure Bitcoin Cash Transaction Data by Leveraging Cashfusion
24.1.2020
Bitcoin Cash developers recently released the alpha software for Cashfusion, a privacy-preserving feature added to the Electron Cash wallet. During the last week, crypto proponents and developers have been testing the protocol regularly in order to find issues and provide the Cashfusion team with...
Bitcoin Cash Gets Significant Privacy Boost With Cashfusion Alpha Launch
21.1.2020
On January 17, the BCH developer known as Acidsploit announced the launch of the highly anticipated Cashfusion alpha. Interested parties can reach out to the Cashfusion developers via the team’s Telegram group to become an alpha tester. The news of the launch excited the BCH community a great...
EIDOS Transaction Volumes Skew 2019 DApp Market Report
20.1.2020
EIDOS almost triples the transaction count in two months that the rest of the dApp ecosystem managed in the whole of 2019
2019 Bitcoin Transaction Volume Moved Away From US in First Since 2013
10.1.2020
In 2019, the U.S. ceded the top spot for most USD received via Bitcoin for the first time in six years, with Singapore taking its place
Tradeshift Says It’s Slashed Cross-Border Transaction Costs Using Ethereum
18.12.2019
Supply chain fintech startup Tradeshift, which boasts two million firms on its platform, says it's slashed the cost of cross-border transactions between buyers and suppliers using the public ethereum blockchain