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Whale Watching: Exchange Data Contained Early Warning of Thursday’s Bitcoin Dump
13.3.2020
Data on the flow of funds into exchanges suggests big investors were preparing to dump bitcoin on the market five days before Thursday’s price rout
Altcoins See Early Optimism After Thursday Massacre, Litecoin Up 10%
13.3.2020
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Following the massacre in the broader crypto market on Thursday, major altcoins have already started to recoup some of their losses, with some cryptoassets now showing positive returns over the past 24 hours.
Despite a sea of red in the crypto market, altcoins such...
Paradigm Labs Shuts Down, Says It Was ‘Too Early’ for DeFi Boom
11.3.2020
Paradigm said it found it difficult "carve a viable niche" the rapidly evolving DeFi space
Bitcoin History: When DDoS Attacks Made BTC’s Price Drop
7.3.2020
As anyone who has read the Bitcoin History series (or lived through the period in question) will know, the Bitcointalk forum was the crucible of debate in the early days. What’s less known is that – to quote one poster – “DDoSing this forum coincided with dumps on the then...
It’s Too Early to Revise USD 20K per Bitcoin Prediction - BitPay CCO
6.3.2020
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Following warnings in January that “unforeseen incidents” may occur and potentially affect bitcoin (BTC) price, the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of major crypto payment processor BitPay, Sonny Singh, now says that the Coronavirus could be such an incident....
How to Get Free Bitcoin in 2020
28.2.2020
Many early adopters who made a fortune from cryptocurrency first got their hands on coins by receiving them for free from bitcoin faucets back in the day. Today there are still a number of ways for you to get bitcoin for free including airdrops, giveaways, bounties, tipping, referral programs...
Bitcoin History Part 24: Celebrating the First Halving in 2012
25.2.2020
As the third Bitcoin halvening approaches, a handful of OGs will wistfully recall the first such event, which occurred in November 2012. Back then, following the completion of block 210,000, the mining reward halved from 50 to 25 BTC. To commemorate the milestone, early adopters threw parties...
$100K in Early Prizes Looks to Lure the NFT-Curious to Decentraland
20.2.2020
Decentraland opened for gameplay today, delivering on promises of bringing an NFT-based "metaverse" to ethereum
Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov on What DeFi Can Learn From Early Exchange Hacks
19.2.2020
A breakdown of the role of price oracles in the recent DeFi attacks, plus what DeFi can learn from early exchange hacks
Ripple is Like Amazon In Its Early Days, Says Brad Garlinghouse
18.2.2020
Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon in 1999, or five years after the company was founded. Ripple was founded eight years ago, in 2012. Image: a video screenshot, Youtube, CNBC
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says his company wants people to think of it as a blockchain infrastructure builder – adding that...
40 Banks in Germany Declare Intent to Offer Crypto Services Under New Law
11.2.2020
More than 40 financial institutions in Germany have reportedly declared to the country’s financial regulator, BaFin, their interest to offer cryptocurrency services under the new German law. News.Bitcoin.com reached out to the regulator for some more information. The law, which went into...
Line’s Digital Currency Link to Be Available in Japan as Early as April 2020
3.2.2020
Launched in October 2018, Asian messaging giant Line’s Bitbox crypto exchange has made its link (LN) digital asset available to users worldwide, with the exception of notable locations like Japan and the U.S. Last Thursday the group announced it was preparing to launch the coin in...
Adam Back on Satoshi Emails, Privacy Concerns and Bitcoin's Early Days
20.1.2020
Adam Back discusses the origins of Bitcoin, Hashcash and emails between Satoshi Nakamoto in interview with Cointelegraph
‘The Internet Was Illegal’ and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox
12.1.2020
In this wide ranging conversation, CoinDesk Reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox discuss what crypto can learn from technology successes and failures in the 80's and 90s', and how in the future your perAI will be a lot like lawyers today
Is Bitcoin in 2020 Really Like the Early Internet?
11.1.2020
Bitcoin may be behind the internet’s timeline in terms of commercial use cases, but it has already achieved comparable social functions
Fantastic Flight API with aviationstack (Sponsored)
9.1.2020
I didn’t fly until I was 25 years of age — I was hopeless in knowing I had to be there early, the process of security, and the whole gate structure. Now that I’ve flown dozens of times for Mozilla, I feel much more comfortable with the process of flying, but feel less comfortable...
Bitcoin History Part 23: The First BTC Escrow
9.1.2020
Before the emergence of crypto exchanges and trustless multi-sig, early bitcoiners saw the need for an escrow service – a mediator to act as a go-between for strangers transacting online. Given the panoply of options now available, it is strange to think that escrow was once provided by a...
Early Cypherpunk Emails Reveal a Blueprint for Bitcoin
3.1.2020
The cypherpunks, a ragtag group of tech tinkerers, cryptographers, and privacy advocates, were obscure in their 1990s heyday. And it would have remained that way in perpetuity were it not for a certain Satoshi Nakamoto launching a digital currency in 2009 encapsulating their core beliefs....
How to Modify Nodes in an Abstract Syntax Tree
26.12.2019
One of the more powerful concepts I've stumbled across recently is the idea of abstract syntax trees, or ASTs. If you've ever studied alchemy, you may recall that the whole motivation for alchemists was to discover some way to transform not-gold into gold through scientific or arcane methods.
ASTs...
Bitcoin Pulls Back Down Into Futures Gap, But Is It Too Early for $8K?
24.12.2019
Bitcoin price is showing signs of a macro trend reversal but another dip to $6.8K shouldn’t be ruled out