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First Mover: As Bitcoiners Eye Inflation Boost, Wall Street Sees Barely Any for Five Years
8.6.2020
Wall Street doesn't think rising inflation is likely right now – does that remove one of the reasons to invest in bitcoin?
CoinMarketCap Metric Overhaul Keeps Owner Binance at the Top
8.6.2020
CoinMarketCap's new ranking system gives Binance a perfect score, even after it was criticized for favoring its new owner last month
Illegal Miners in Russia Stole $6.6M-Worth of Electricity, Power Grid Firm Says
8.6.2020
Electricity thieves built their own illicit power stations to connect hidden mining farms with the local energy grid, a state-owned provider says
Chinese Police Freezing OTC Traders’ Bank Accounts Over ‘Tainted’ Crypto Transactions
8.6.2020
Thousands of cryptocurrency over-the-counter merchants and their clients may have been affected as police in China freeze bank accounts over tainted crypto and fiat assets
Securitize Debuts On-Chain Dividend Payouts for Lottery.com Security Token
8.6.2020
Securitize, a registered transfer agent, has facilitated the payout of dividends from blockchain-based securities for the first time
Satoshi Nakamoto
8.6.2020
Satoshi Nakamoto is inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, publishing a paper outlining it via the Cryptography Mailing List on November, 1 2008. He then released the first version of the Bitcoin software client in 2009 and participated with others on the project via mailing lists until he finally began...
Crypto Long & Short: Bitcoin’s Quiet Progress Is Pointing Toward a Better Future
7.6.2020
Noelle Acheson compares the soaring rhetoric of JP Barlow’s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace with the quiet innovation of Satoshi’s bitcoin
Mastercoin
7.6.2020
Mastercoin, rebranded as Omni in 2015, is an open source protocol layer built on top of bitcoin that enables the creation of new cryptocurrencies and assets. The project was intended to remedy what it called the two biggest barriers to bitcoin adoption: Insecurity and instability. It also claimed...
Bitrefill
7.6.2020
Bitrefill, founded in 2014 by Sergej Kotliar, allows users to purchase mobile phone credit and gift cards, and send payments through layer-two scaling solution the Lightning Network. To top up their mobile phone credit, users enter their phone number on Bitrefill’s site and select the amount...
Patrick Byrne
7.6.2020
Patrick Byrne was the CEO of Overstock.com, one of the earliest online retailers to accept bitcoin as payment. Overstock.com is the parent company of blockchain investment firm Medici Ventures and capital markets platform tZERO. Byrne bought Deals.com in 1999 and rebranded the international...
Dash
7.6.2020
Dash, previously called darkcoin, is a cryptocurrency designed specifically for payments. It also has a two-tier network structure. Dash is most notably known for the first implementation of Masternodes. Dash was built in 2014 by developer and creator Evan Duffield. Duffield forked the bitcoin...
Ravencoin
7.6.2020
Launched in 2018, Ravencoin is an open source fork of bitcoin specifically designed to facilitate the transfer of assets from one party to another.  Users can create assets on the Ravencoin protocol that adhere to rules independent of those of the platform. This distinguishes ravencoin from...
Michael Terpin
7.6.2020
Michael Terpin is an American investor, entrepreneur and public relations (PR) agency manager. Terpin in 2013 co-founded BitAngels, an investment network for blockchain technology startups, and Transform Group, a PR firm for the digital currency industry, in 2014. Launched in 2013 by David...
‘Be Your Own Bank’ and the ‘Luxury of Apathy’
7.6.2020
The powerful idea and meme at the core of Bitcoin self-sovereignty is incredibly empowering but has an unspoken element that requires persistent competence and at least for some makes it more trouble than it's worth
The Revolution Will Be Retweeted: The Breakdown Weekly Recap
6.6.2020
A recap of one of the most significant weeks in recent American political history
A Digital Art Project Might Have an Answer to the Woes of Staking Centralization
6.6.2020
Drawing inspiration from Reddit's r/place, AstroCanvas is an experiment in boosting staking participation – without appealing to financial incentives
Chris Larsen
6.6.2020
Chris Larsen, born in 1960, is an American business executive, angel investor and the co-founder and former CEO of OpenCoin, which later rebranded to Ripple. Ripple Labs developed their own blockchain technology, the XRP ledger, to improve cross-border payments between various banking systems...
Charles Hoskinson
6.6.2020
Charles Hoskinson is the former CEO of computing platform Ethereum and the founder and current CEO of blockchain company Input Output (IOHK). Additionally, Hoskinson is the co-founder of blockchain projects Cardano and BitShares. Hoskinson entered the crypto space in 2013 through Invictus...
Coinbase Offers US Feds New Crypto Surveillance Tools
6.6.2020
Coinbase Analytics vaults the massive crypto exchange into a crowded field of blockchain tracing companies all vying for millions of federal dollars
Craig Wright
5.6.2020
Craig Wright is an Australian computer scientist and businessman best known for his controversial claim that he is bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Born in 1970, Wright is also the chief scientist at nChain, a blockchain startup which promotes the use of bitcoin SV (BSV), a hard fork of...