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10,000 American Cryptocurrency Owners Will Receive Warning Letters From the IRS
27.7.2019
On July 26, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the tax agency has started sending letters to American cryptocurrency owners advising them to pay their taxes. According to the organization, three types of letters will be sent to more than 10,000 taxpayers by the end of August....
GSR Together with Block Tower Capital has Successfully Conducted the First BTC Variance Swap
26.7.2019
After Introducing Cryptocurrency Variance Swaps back in April, GSR, together with Block Tower Capital, has successfully conducted the first BTC Variance Swap. Basically, a Variance Swap is a kind of financial derivative product. The main function of a Variance Swap is to allow institutions...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Value has Escalated by More Than 150% Since the Start of 2019
26.7.2019
BTC Current Statistics: Bitcoin is currently trading at $9719.99 at 07:03 UTC as on 26th July 2019. The other essential factors in the capitalization are as below: Return of Investment: 7106.53% Total supply/ Circulating Supply: 17,838,362 BTC/ 17,838,362 BTC 24 Hour Volume: 14,848,984,169 USD...
SLP Developers Publish Specs for a Unique Type of Non-Fungible Tokens
26.7.2019
The Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) has become a popular project within the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem because it gives anyone the ability to issue and transfer tokens in a permissionless fashion. Since the project was announced last year, there’s been a myriad of tokens created on the BCH chain....
Indian Government Official Resigns After Drafting ‘Flawed’ Crypto Bill
26.7.2019
The Indian government official who headed the committee which drafted the bill to ban cryptocurrencies has resigned after releasing the report and draft bill which the crypto community calls “flawed.” Meanwhile, the government has confirmed that cryptocurrency is currently...
How Government Agencies Make Criminals of Crypto Traders
26.7.2019
A New Jersey man has been indicted this week for converting over $2 million to bitcoin and operating a private exchange business not registered with the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. According to a July 24 press release by the U.S. Attorney’s office, 46-year-old William Green could face...
Dash Has Outpaced Bitcoin On Latin American Exchange, Claims Cryptobuyer CEO
25.7.2019
Dash is one of the leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency, a genre which is expected to grow in popularity as regulators across the globe are tightening their grip on normal digital currencies. However, one can hardly imagine it beating Bitcoin in the future, near and far! However, Cryptobuyer...
How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking
25.7.2019
In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score.
It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused...
What I Like About Vue
25.7.2019
Dave Rupert digs into some of his favorite Vue features and one particular issue that he has with React:
I’ve come to realize one thing I don’t particularly like about React is jumping into a file, reading the top for the state, jumping to the bottom to find the render function, then following...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Price has Dropped by More Than 25% in the Last 30 Days
25.7.2019
BTC price is currently trading at $10090.37 at 08:10 UTC on 25th July 2019. Considering the data from past one month, the highest valuation was seen on 27th June at 18:30 UTC with a trading value of $13860.55. The value dropped by 29.59% on 2nd July at 06:00 UTC with a trading value of $9778.91....
FINRA’s Cryptocurrency Oversight Program has New Regulatory Notice 19-24
25.7.2019
Yesterday, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued a Regulatory Notice 19-24 to its member firms. The objective of this notice is to encourage the member firms to inform the Regulatory Authority about any engagement or intention of engagement with the activities related to...
OKEx has donated $4,567,888-equivalant Bitcoin to Foster Perpetual Swap Market
25.7.2019
The world-leading digital asset exchange OKEx has donated US$4,567,888-equivalant Bitcoin to Foster Perpetual Swap Market. The digital asset exchange is headquartered in Malta. With the help of blockchain technology, it offers several services that include- fiat-to-token trading, spot trading...
Le Roux Biographer: Cartel Boss Is the Most Credible Satoshi Yet
25.7.2019
Paul Le Roux is a criminal kingpin turned criminal informant whose misdeeds have filled a book. The author of that tome is investigative journalist Evan Ratliff, whose rip-roaring tale has recently received a postscript: Le Roux may also be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. This week on the Humans...
Zdog
24.7.2019
David DeSandro has loads of super cool JavaScript libraries he's created over the years. His latest is Zdog, a "round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG." It's only been about a month since he dropped it (although, like any good library, it's been simmering) and it...
Another Self-Proclaimed Satoshi Appears in the High Profile Bitcoin Lawsuit
24.7.2019
A new filing has been submitted to the ongoing Kleiman v. Wright case stemming from a man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. The man, named Debo Jurgen Etienne Guido, has sent handwritten testimony to the Southern District of Florida courthouse asserting that he is the “genuine and only...
Indian Supreme Court Sets New Date to Hear Crypto Case
24.7.2019
The Indian supreme court has set a new date to hear the crypto case that was originally scheduled to be heard on July 23. The court is expected to address the writ petitions against the RBI banking restriction as well as the government’s report and the recently released draft crypto bill....
PR: Pbet Raises Storm in Casino Space With Blockchain Solution
24.7.2019
Pbet has come up with a complete blockchain crypto-based gaming platform that will redefine the existing casino industry and lead to a fair, trusted, transparent, more secured and affordable casino ecosystem.
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Bitcoin Cash Adoption Continues to Spread in North Queensland and Japan
24.7.2019
BCH merchant acceptance has continued to grow month after month but there are a few regions in the world where bitcoin cash retail acceptance is thriving. Over the last few weeks, North Queensland and Japan have shown significant growth and continue to dominate as some of the densest territories...
Bitcoin Futures Update: Bakkt Testing, CME Breaks Records, and a $100K Call Option
23.7.2019
Over the last few months, the interest surrounding cryptocurrency derivatives products has been growing fast. For some time now, open interest in CME’s bitcoin futures has been breaking records. Bakkt’s futures platform began testing contracts on Monday and the company says there...
Zoom, CORS, and the Web
23.7.2019
It's sorta sad by funny that that big Zoom vulnerability thing was ultimately related to web technology and not really the app itself.
There is this idea of custom protocols or "URL schemes." So, like gittower:// or dropbox:// or whatever. A native app can register them, then URLs that hit them...