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Bitcoin Soars to Its Highest Level Since Crashing in March
24.4.2020
Bitcoin hit $7,600 on Thursday, its highest level yet since crashing in early March. The cryptocurrency climbed more than 10% during the last 24 hours spurred by the return of leveraged money. Bitcoin cash (BCH), ethereum (ETH), and ripple (XRP) all rose above 4% to $239, $189, and $0.19...
Join Bityard’s YouTube Recruitment Competition – Win 38888 XRP
20.4.2020
The new Bitcoin and cryptocurrency contracts exchange Bityard launched in early April 2020. To better spread the word, they are holding a contest for YouTube content creators to showcase their reach and earn some money at the same time. Up to 16,000 USDT in Prizes! As per the terms and conditions...
CSS Foldable Display Polyfill
9.4.2020
Foldable phones are starting to be a thing. Early days, for sure, but some are already shipping, and they definitely have web browsers on them. Stands to reason that, as web designers, we are going to want to know where that fold is so we can design screens that fit onto the top half and bottom...
What Will Be the Early Privacy Impact of Secure Multiparty Computation?
29.3.2020
How to provide privacy services in the age of emerging technologies, such as blockchain and crypto?
How Institutional Players Like CME, CBOE and Bakkt Influence the Bitcoin Price
23.3.2020
The introduction of institutional heavyweights like CME, CBOE and Bakkt to the bitcoin space was heralded by many as the key to solidifying bitcoin’s mainstream acceptance, and driving prices to a stabilized moon. While this hasn’t played out exactly as some predicted, it is still early...
SEC Seeks Early Judgement in Lawsuit Over Kik’s $100M ICO
21.3.2020
Claiming to have “undisputed evidence” that Kik’s ICO was an unregistered securities offering, the SEC is seeking an early judgment
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