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Qtum’s First-Ever Hard Fork Qtum 2.0 Is Now Active

17.10.2019
Qtum goes through its first-ever hard fork today after Qtum blockchain crosses block 466,000

104 Addresses Hold 70% of Tether, Research Reveals

17.10.2019
The ownership of tether (USDT) turns out to be quite concentrated. According to a recent report, a few addresses control the bulk of the stablecoin, which is widely used by bitcoin traders. The finding comes on top of fresh accusations of creating a bubble levied in a lawsuit against tether’s...

Bloomberg Editor: BTC ‘Is for Making Transactions The Man is Against’

17.10.2019
Bloomberg editor says that blockchains are inefficient and that ‘Bitcoin is for making transactions The Man is against’

Libra Shows Central Banks’ Failure on Cross-Border Payments: Riksbank

17.10.2019
A senior economist at Sweden's Riksbank says central banks need to "keep up" with cryptocurrency advancements like Libra and XRP

What Does Skepticism for Libra Say About Bitcoin?

17.10.2019
The potential loss of Libra could be Bitcoin’s gain

Telegram Responds to SEC: Gram Tokens Are Not Securities

17.10.2019
Telegram is pushing back against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

How to Manage — and Understand — Risk Tolerance in Crypto Investing

17.10.2019
Would you have a sleepless night if your crypto portfolio took a 1% hit? If so, we need to have a conversation about risk tolerance #Sponsored

These Six Coins in the Top 50 Up by Two Digits in the Past Quarter

17.10.2019
An interesting development can be noticed in what’s mostly a red market. Six coins among the top 50 coins by market capitalization have seen a double-digit rise in the last three months, and neither of them is from the top 10 category, or even the top 20 for that matter. The last quarter is quite...

Weekly Platform News: CSS column-span Property, ADA applies to Websites, Auto-generated Image Descriptions

17.10.2019
In this week's roundup: multi-column layouts gain wide support, the ADA means more A11y for retailers, and Google is doing something about all the empty image alt attributes in the wild. The CSS column-span property will soon be widely supported The CSS column-span property, which has been...

The 18 Millionth Bitcoin To Be Mined this Friday, Only 3 Million Left

17.10.2019
Anthony Pompliano points out that the 18-millionth Bitcoin will be mined on Friday, leaving only 3 million more

French Finance Minister Warns He ‘Cannot Countenance’ Facebook’s Libra

17.10.2019
France: government minister attacks Facebook’s Libra once again

Bitcoin ATM in Miami Airport Raises Questions About Traveling With Crypto

17.10.2019
Miami based bitcoin ATM maker Bitstop has recently installed Miami International Airport’s first crypto ATM, according to a press release issued October 15. The installation adds to the 106 machines the company has already placed across the U.S. Further, it raises important questions about...

France’s Le Maire Attacks Facebook’s ‘Political’ Ambitions With Libra

17.10.2019
The French finance minister has said Libra is an "unacceptable" challenge to state sovereignty and suggested political motives behind the project

Casa Says They Have a Solution for the Bitcoin Inheritance Problem

17.10.2019
Source: André François McKenzie on Unsplash ‘If I die, what happens to my bitcoin (BTC)?’, is the question many have asked, worrying that their assets will be forever lost. The U.S.-based private key security specialist Casa says it's got a solution. Inheritance is one of those things in...

Major Singapore Bank Completes First DLT Trade Financing Transaction

17.10.2019
A Singaporean banking branch of CIMB Group, one of the largest Asian investment banks, has completed its first blockchain-based trade financing transaction

Blockchain-Shy Bank of America Quietly Pilots Ripple Technology

17.10.2019
Bank of America, the second-largest U.S. bank, has discreetly tested out Ripple’s distributed ledger technology – and may be planning to do more with it

Smart Contract Blockchains Are Struggling to Scale

17.10.2019
Second generation blockchains were presented as being faster, cheaper, and more scalable than Bitcoin. Third generation chains (basically anything that came after Ethereum) promised even greater optimizations. In the event, these networks have run into the same difficulties as Bitcoin, with...