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Markets Update: Bitcoin Cash Jumps Ahead as Crypto Prices See Fresh Gains
19.5.2019
Digital asset markets jumped in value over the last 24 hours as most cryptocurrencies have gained 8-13%. Since our last markets update the entire cryptoconomy has increased by $33 billion and this Sunday bitcoin cash (BCH) lead the top ten pack once again with a 12.9% gain in the last day. Also...
Cyberghost Is a VPN Service You Can Pay For With Bitcoin Cash
19.5.2019
Privacy in the online space is quite compromised these days and anyone who would like to protect their own may consider using a VPN service. There are many platforms on the market and some are catering to the crypto community. Cyberghost VPN is one of them and it takes bitcoin cash (BCH). Also...
Ripple (XRP) Price Analysis: XRP Keeps Moving Sideways Despite New Partnerships And Listings
19.5.2019
Ripple continues playing an underdog with the average price surge Ripple’s XRP is listed on Coinbase but yet to report an upward surge many weeks after the announcement Ripple’s XRP token is the blockchain based cryptocurrency which can be used by financial institutions around the world for their...
Cardano (ADA) Price Analysis: Cardano Ups Its Ante With New Partnerships And Announcements
19.5.2019
Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson has partnered with the global security platform Polymath Cardano to be used to track the adulterated drug trading in Mongolia The science-based cryptocurrencies can be promising and long lasting. Cardano is one such cryptocurrency which has made it to the top 10 ranking...
Bitcoin History Part 13: The First Mining Pool
19.5.2019
The notion that anyone could solo mine bitcoin – on a CPU no less – seems positively quaint today. But in 2010, this method wasn’t just possible – it was the norm. With an exponentially lower hashrate, less competition and a 50 bitcoin block reward, there was enough pie...
My Bank Account Was Frozen for Bitcoin – And It Only Made Me Love Crypto More
19.5.2019
The guy who coined the term "hodl" has a real bitcoin story that only made his interest in the technology stronger
Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords
19.5.2019
The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?
After Trillions Printed Under QE, Politicians Now Say Deficits Don’t Matter
19.5.2019
When quantitative easing (QE) was introduced, it was likened to a drug, with central banks making an emergency injection of money to resuscitate the global economy. Now it seems that some politicians have gotten addicted to this drug, going as far as to claim that government deficits don’t...
Anchor a Document or File to the BCH Chain With Notary.Bitcoin.com
19.5.2019
In my last article, I explained how to prove ownership of a specific address by signing a message with a public and private key pair. That’s just one way of proving ownership and verifying a valid signature, as BCH users can also anchor a document to the chain using the Bitcoin Cash...
Bitcoin Payments Are Being Bulldozed for Political Reasons
19.5.2019
Bitcoin Core wants to distance itself politically from the former project leader Gavin Andresen, the payment protocol BIP070 he was involved with, and from the BCH-friendly Bitpay payment processor company. The attempts to remove software associated with Gavin Andresen are now having real-world...
How to Prove Ownership With a Bitcoin Cash Address and Digital Signature
18.5.2019
Bitcoin is an amazing form of money and the technology Satoshi created has incredible potential. However, most people don’t realize that the blockchain not only allows for a great medium of exchange, but it also provides the means for creating notarized proofs. The following walkthrough aims...
Platform Allows Users to Send and Receive Cryptocurrency With Gadget of Their Choice
18.5.2019
A mobile-focused platform wants to enable its users to send and receive crypto using the gadget of their choice #SPONSORED
Ripple is Moving Stronger and Might Achieve the Goal of Leading Crypto-DLT Adoption
18.5.2019
Ripple is one of the fastest growing blockchain networks, and the good times are here to stay. The sustainable success of any blockchain platform depends on the level of adoption it has managed to achieve, and Ripple definitely excels in this regard. Since the beginning of 2019, the platform...
Vaulty Aggregates All Your Cryptocurrency Addresses Using a Single Link
18.5.2019
The ability to receive direct crypto payments is of great importance for numerous small businesses, individual entrepreneurs, content creators and non-governmental organizations like charities. Many of them accept different cryptocurrencies and Vaulty.io provides help with managing multiple...
What is Decentralized Finance and What’s It Good For?
18.5.2019
DeFi, or decentralized finance, is one of the biggest things in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry right now, and it does pretty much what its name suggests. That is, it uses blockchains, smart contracts and/or cryptocurrencies to deliver financial services to customers, be these loans...
To The Moon And Hopefully Not Back: 20 Crypto Jokes
18.5.2019
With Bitcoin’s price going above USD 8,000 and generating tremendous amounts of hype in the community, the internet has been a humor-generating machine lately. And then the market crashed on Friday, but jokes survived as everyone believes we're still in an uptrend. Anyway, since everyone...
Goxtrade Advertises Unaffiliated Staff and Misleading Contact Information
18.5.2019
Individuals listed as staff on Goxtrade’s website have denied involvement with the Bitcoin exchange
Cryptocurrency Project OneCoin Denies Ponzi and Pyramid Scheme Claims
18.5.2019
Controversial cryptocurrency project OneCoin has reportedly denied claims that it is a “hybrid ponzi-pyramid scheme”
Footnotes That Work in RSS Readers
17.5.2019
Feedbin is the RSS reader I'm using at the moment. I was reading one of Harry's blog posts on it the other day, and I noticed a nice little interactive touch right inside Feedbin. There was a button-looking element with the number one which, as it turned out, was a footnote. I hovered over it,...
Markets Update: Bears Claw Crypto Prices Back While Uncertainty Fills the Air
17.5.2019
Digital asset markets fell hard during the early morning trading sessions on May 17 as the price of bitcoin core (BTC) quickly tumbled from $7,900 to a low of $6,200 on Bitstamp. Many other crypto markets followed BTC’s drop in value, but over the last few hours, a good portion of coins have...