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Real Bitcoin Double Spends Are Hard, Looking Into Alleged Issue
22.12.2019
Bitcoin Cash point-of-sale payment system provider BitcoinBCH potentially misinformed the public into believing Bitcoin double spending is easy to carry out
Meet Snowglobe: An Avalanche-Based Pre-Consensus Protocol for BCH
22.12.2019
On December 20, BCHD and Openbazaar developer Tyler Smith published first draft specifications for a protocol he calls “Snowglobe.” Smith’s Github repository says that Snowglobe is a propagation protocol for nodes using Nakamoto Consensus and it uses an Avalanche-based consensus...
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...
Bitcoin Cash Double Spend Statistics Invoke 0-Confirmation Debate
29.11.2019
On November 28, the creator of doublespend.cash, a web portal that tracks and collects double spend attempts on the Bitcoin Cash network, explained that only 1 out of 1,105 double spends succeeds when they broadcast one second after the first transaction. The website’s creator highlighted...
Stellar (XLM) to Form Double Bottom Soon; Initiates a Rebound
25.11.2019
XLM coin has recently broken the bearish trendline; starts the rebound Stellar seems to have a support level near $0.053; resistance levels stand above $0.062 Technical indicators are giving mixed signs while the coin is trading under a selling pressure The crypto market is remarkably sluggish...
Doom or Double Bottom? — Bitcoin Price Support at $7.8K Is Key
20.11.2019
If Bitcoin fails to hold the 61.8% Fib retracement at $7,845, a full retrace and double bottom at $7.4k is possible
Bitcoin Price Diary: VET, XLM, TRX Double-Digit Gains — BTC Flatlines
15.11.2019
A 60% gain on VeChain an 18% gain on Tron show that altcoin trades continue to pay off as Bitcoin appears to be preparing for a big move
The Road to USD 25K is 'Easy': Double Bitcoin Users, says Tom Lee
15.11.2019
To hit USD 25,000 per bitcoin (BTC), we need to find a way to double the current number of active BTC users, according to co-founder and the Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, Tom Lee.
In an interview with CNBC today, Lee argued that BTC will hit USD 25,000 by 2022, which is the number...
Pension Funds Double Crypto Asset Exposure in Morgan Creek’s Fund to 1%
8.11.2019
The two Fairfax County, Virginia, pension funds invested only 0.5 percent in crypto and blockchain last year
XRP Forms Double-top With a Close Above $0.31; ETH Pulls-back Below $190
7.11.2019
Ripple price has returned to its price range around $0.30 XRP has formed a notable upswing above $0.31 recently, with a double top Ethereum has also traded below $190, as it approaches support level near $188 ETH’s technicals are about to enter a bit negative zone Ripple and Ethereum, the top-most...
Cred Merchant Solutions to Help Unbanked Business Sectors
3.11.2019
Cred Merchant Solutions has been unveiled in Emeryville during San Francisco Blockchain Week in an event hosting several California elected officials. The new point-of-sale system will help unbanked business sectors, such as California’s cannabis industry, accept crypto payments from...
Video: Will Bitcoin Crash or Double in Price After the Halving? Miners Have Their Say
1.11.2019
Will the price of bitcoin double or crash during the upcoming halving next year? And how will the mining industry adapt to their revenue stream being cut in half over night? See what professional miners from around the world have to say on the matter. Also Read: US, EU and UK Companies Can Now...
With Ethereum, Staking Activity Volume 'Will More Than Double'
29.10.2019
With the increase in popularity of staking, Binance Research finds that, once Ethereum (ETH) joins the game, the volume of staking activity will see more than a double-digit rise.
The market research and analysis arm of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance came out with their latest report...
The Current State of Styling Selects in 2019
28.10.2019
Best I could tell from the last time I compiled the most wished-for features of CSS, styling form controls was a major ask. Top 5, I'd say. And of the native form elements that people want to style, Greg Whitworth has some data that the <select> element is more requested than any other...
Altcoins React on BTC’s Sudden Surge, Some Major Coins Post Double-Digit Gains
25.10.2019
Following Bitcoin’s sudden jump earlier in the day, altcoin markets have also entered the green zone
The Landscape of Cross-Platform App Development
25.10.2019
I don't track this stuff very well, but I get it. If you want a native app for Android and iOS, it sure would be nice to only have to write it once rather than two very different languages. Roughly double your reach without doubling the work. More and more of these things are reaching into desktop...
The Silk Road Investigation: A ‘Pattern of Bad Behavior and Double Agents’
23.10.2019
Kathryn Haun, a general partner at U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has revealed in recent interviews how she helped take down the Silk Road when she was working for the Attorney General’s office. According to her accounts, the U.S. government agency also asked her to help...
Traditional Law and Finance Can Adapt to Bitcoin, These Examples Show
20.10.2019
Bitcoin brought about solutions to persistent problems that stood in the way of previous attempts to invent digital money, such as the risk of double spending. Some of its features, however, like the characteristic irreversibility of blockchain transactions, have created certain challenges for...
Android Tool Lets You Check Crypto Payment Apps for Double-Spends
13.10.2019
The risk of double-spending has traditionally been a major obstacle to creating and fully using digital money. A flaw of this kind would be detrimental to the credibility of any system claiming to provide universal solutions to the financial needs of our era. Whoever created Bitcoin elegantly...