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Crooked police chief sentenced to 8 years for dark web shenanigans
22.9.2020
The charges are reminiscent of events that took place during the "Silk Road" saga
Execs Managing $78B in Assets Say Institutional Investors Plan to Allocate More Cryptocurrencies
22.9.2020
New research from the digital currency insurance firm, Evertas, shows that a surveyed group of investors managing roughly $78 billion in collective assets believes that during the next five years, institutional investors will “dramatically” increase their crypto asset holdings. This...
'Expect More Crypto Investment in Next 5 Years' - US, UK Fund Managers
22.9.2020
Clearer regulation and improved liquidity will drive institutional investors to cryptoassets in the years ahead, say British and American fund managers.
These were the findings of a survey conducted by crypto asset insurance company Evertas, reports Institutional Asset Manager.
The firm quizzed...
Bitcoin ATMs Surpass 10,100 Worldwide: Expert Shares Industry Outlook
22.9.2020
The bitcoin ATM industry has reached a milestone as the number of machines installed worldwide has surpassed 10,000 after seven years since the first machine was installed. There are now 10,162 bitcoin ATM locations spread across 71 countries. Number of Bitcoin ATMs Exceeds 10K The number...
Publicly Listed Energy Firm Equinor Exploits Gas Flaring in North Dakota to Mine Bitcoin
21.9.2020
Just recently, the firm Arcane Research recently revealed a number of screenshots from the publicly traded energy firm, Equinor. The pictures show the multinational company leveraging natural gas flaring to power bitcoin mining operations. In recent years, using the unorthodox gas flaring scheme...
Over 40 Bitcoin Forks Are Down More Than 98% Since 2017’s Forking Fiesta
21.9.2020
Since the summer of 2017, more than 44 forks of the Bitcoin network were created and so far many of them have lost considerable value and are near worthless. To-date only a few of the forks that stem from Satoshi’s creation have remained relevant during the last three years. There are three...
UK Mulls Over Negative Interest Rates, US to Keep Near Zero Rates for Years
18.9.2020
The Bank of England is now seriously considering implementing negative interest rates while the U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged to keep interest rates near zero for years. Some analysts say even the Fed will soon consider negative interest rates. Meanwhile, many expect a boost to the price...
4 Reasons Bitcoin May Hit USD 1-5 Trillion Market Cap in 10 Years
18.9.2020
Despite innovations in mostly Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) stealing much of the attention at the moment, New York-based investment company ARK Invest Management claims that bitcoin (BTC) is “the most compelling monetary asset since gold,” capable of reaching a market capitalization...
Huawei Cloud’s blockchain service just got its first major update in two years
17.9.2020
They’re entering the enterprise blockchain arena as part of a push towards empowering commercial applications
Bitcoin Soft Despite Fed Plan to Keep Rates at Zero For 3 More Years
17.9.2020
Despite the US Federal Reserve (Fed) is planning to keep interest rates at or near 0% for at least another three years, while also keeping the door open for inflation above its stated 2% target, bitcoin (BTC) traders did not seem moved by the somewhat expected announcement.
BTC touched a high...
Fed expects near 0% interest rates for years, potentially boosting BTC's value proposition
16.9.2020
Bitcoin keeps looking better and better each time the U.S. devalues its own currency
Miny.CC – Innovation in the Cryptocurrency Mining Sphere
16.9.2020
Aberdeen, Hong Kong, September 16, 2020. – More than 10 years after the first cryptocurrency was successfully mined, the mining space is more controversial than ever. The process was created to be democratic; to allow any PC with spare computing resources to contribute the surplus to help...
The Moss Piglet Dilemma: Paypal Bans Payments to Merchants Using the Word ‘Tardigrade’
14.9.2020
The popular payment provider Paypal has been known for cutting off a number of merchants and organizations over the years. This week, the public found out that Paypal has been censoring merchants that sell items related to the name “tardigrade” just because a Balkan arms dealer uses...
Expert Warns Japan is Lagging ‘Six Years Behind China’ in CBDC Race
12.9.2020
Japan could be as much as six years behind China in digital currency progress – and may also be lagging behind its largest East Asian rival in the tech stakes when it comes to blockchain, according to a Japanese expert.
Per a column published by Japanese media outlet Record China, former...
Using a brightness() filter to generically highlight content
12.9.2020
Rick Strahl:
I can’t tell you how many times over the years I’ve implemented a custom ‘button’ like CSS implementation. Over the years I’ve used images, backgrounds, gradients, and opacity to effectively ‘highlight’ a control. All that works of course,...
“DeFi will outperform Bitcoin in next five years”, says Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead
11.9.2020
According to Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehad, DeFi has more chances to grow 100X in the next five years than Bitcoin
The $700 Million Wallet Crack: Bitcoin’s 7th Largest Address Is Under Constant Attack
11.9.2020
During the last two years, hackers have been trying to crack the seventh-largest bitcoin wallet, an address that holds 69,370 BTC or $712 million using today’s exchange rate. According to the CTO of the cybercrime intelligence firm, Hudson Rock, the wallet is being publicized on hacking...
Buffett shunned tech for many years until now — would it buoy Bitcoin?
10.9.2020
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway invested in the pre-IPO tech firm Snowflake. Over the long term, the shifting trend to digital could buoy Bitcoin
Ethereum To Keep Its DeFi Throne For At Least 3 Years - Survey
10.9.2020
Talking to "several high-profile decentralized finance [DeFi] projects" about the future of this sector, provider of crypto market data CryptoCompare found that most said "Ethereum (ETH) won’t be replaced as the go-to blockchain network for DeFi" in the next...
Bloomberg: Correlation between Bitcoin and gold reaches its highest level in 10 years
9.9.2020
But that may not mean what you think it means