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A Trader’s View on the Bitcoin Halving and Coronavirus
5.5.2020
The last time the block reward for Bitcoin mining was halved was in July 2016. Since then, the crypto marketsContinue Reading
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Stablecoins Push Ethereum’s Transaction Count to Highest Since July 2019
4.5.2020
Ethereum’s transaction counts have surged by 72% since mid-February
Bitcoin Hasn’t Done This Since 2015 Before Its 10,000% Bull Run
3.5.2020
Bitcoin price experienced a huge 20% surge in value last week, but one indicator suggests BTC could still be in a downtrend
ECB in Full-On Emergency Mode as ‘Unprecedented Decline’ Hits Eurozone
2.5.2020
The euro area is facing an “unprecedented” economic decline, the worst since records began. European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde paints a picture of a central bank in full-on emergency mode after the bank kept its interest rates unchanged. Unprecedented Economic...
12 Months of Onchain Data Shows Bitcoin Whales Obtained Hundreds of BTC from Small Fish
2.5.2020
According to recent data, crypto participants known as ‘bitcoin whales’ have been steadily accumulating bitcoins, and not selling since the ‘Black Thursday’ market carnage on March 12, 2020. Onchain data and blockchain analysis firms indicate that the number of bitcoin...
Enable Gatsby Incremental Builds on Netlify
1.5.2020
The concept of an “incremental build” is that, when using some kind of generator that builds all the files that make for a website, rather than rebuilding 100% of those files every single time, it only changes the files that need to be changed since the last build. Seems like...
Bitcoin Whale Addresses Hit Highest Number Since August 2019
30.4.2020
Large crypto investors, popularly known as “whales,” seem to be accumulating bitcoin amid the ongoing price rally
Market Outlook: Crypto Market Prices Rally Ahead of Bitcoin Halving, BTC Up $1K in 24 Hours
29.4.2020
Cryptocurrency markets are bullish on April 29, as BTC prices have spiked over 11.8% in the last 24 hours touching a high of $8,740 per coin during Wednesday’s trading sessions. Bitcoin has gained 130% in value since the market rout on March 12 otherwise known as ‘Black Thursday.’...
Bitcoin Halving Theories: Whale Says Price Rise Is a ‘Nonsensical Narrative,’ Weiss Ratings Expects ‘Massive Crypto Superboom’
28.4.2020
In less than two weeks, the Bitcoin block reward halving will take place and BTC miners will receive half the reward going forward after May 12. Since ‘Black Thursday’ (March 12), bitcoin prices have gained 103% since then rising from $3,800 to $7,750 per coin. With the halving fast...
TNC IT Group’s Token to Be Listed This April
27.4.2020
TNC IT Group (TNC), an international blockchain company, will have its native currency TNC Coin listed on crypto exchanges by April 30. TNC Coin is set to progress fast in the market due to its expedited listing and user base. Since TNC revealed its merger project, interested crypto investors...
Bitcoin Hits Highest Level Since Black Thursday Amid Halving Buzz
27.4.2020
Bitcoin's upward momentum is gathering pace just two weeks ahead of halving, with prices hitting the highest level since last month's crash
Bitcoin Soars to Its Highest Level Since Crashing in March
24.4.2020
Bitcoin hit $7,600 on Thursday, its highest level yet since crashing in early March. The cryptocurrency climbed more than 10% during the last 24 hours spurred by the return of leveraged money. Bitcoin cash (BCH), ethereum (ETH), and ripple (XRP) all rose above 4% to $239, $189, and $0.19...
Liquidity Crisis: The Fed Is Sending Billions of Emergency Dollars to USD-Dependent Nations
24.4.2020
Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. Federal Reserve has created trillions of dollars in order to keep the central bank’s private partners’ liquidity strong during the economic downturn. These moves have caused a number of sound money advocates and economists to explain...
Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
23.4.2020
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We’ve also written a series of articles [1, 2, 3, 4] explaining how traditional databases built for global scalability have to adopt eventual (vs. strong) consistency, and/or make compromises on relations and indexing...
Case Study: CoinMarketCap Powers Nexo in Customer Acquisition
22.4.2020
Since its inception in 2013, CoinMarketCap has become the world’s most used price-tracking source for retail users when comparing thousandsContinue Reading
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Consensys Cuts Hundreds of Jobs This Year – About 25% of Its Staff Slashed
22.4.2020
Ethereum-based company Consensys has cut hundreds of jobs since January. In its latest action, the US-based blockchain development team confirmed it will slash more than 90 jobs – or 14% of its workforce – citing the global impact of Covid-19. The decision comes after a virtual town...
Coinmama Appoints Unicorn IronSource GM Sagi Bakshi as CEO
21.4.2020
Unicorn startup IronSource’s general manager, Sagi Bakshi, has joined cryptocurrency exchange Coinmama as CEO, saying he believes that the future of money is Bitcoin. Since 2013, Coinmama has been at the forefront of the financial revolution, working to simplify the way the world does crypto....
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Set For Biggest Jump Since Mid-September
20.4.2020
After a historic crash in March and partial recovery, Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty is set to see its biggest jump since mid-September last year, threatening to push more miners out of the market less than three weeks before the BTC mining reward halving.
Another mining difficulty adjustment...
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
20.4.2020
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the initiative to
Bitcoin Holds $7K as China Sees First GDP Drop, Oil Lowest Since 1987
17.4.2020
Bitcoin wobbles around $7,000 as global markets continue to produce historical weakness signals