Day: November 19, 2018

Blockchain Can Stem Corruption in Construction Industry

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American software corporation Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost said that blockchain could fight corruption in the construction industry, finance and investment news outlet the Australian Financial Review reported Nov. 19. Founded in 1982, Autodesk manufactures software for the construction, architecture, media, and entertainment industries. In 2018, the company’s revenue was $2.06 billion. Speaking at the 2018 Autodesk University conference in Las Vegas, Anagnost reportedly said that blockchain technology could eliminate corruption in the construction industry, as well as deliver greater trust in the field. The Financial Review quotes Anagnost: “What is…

Huobi, Kraken Assign BCH ‘Throne’ To ABC, Yet Bitcoin Cash Hashwar Continues

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After four days of discourse, banter, and endless rivers of salt, a number of crypto exchanges have declared that Bitcoin ABC (ABC), Roger Ver and Bitmain CEO Jihan Wu’s preferred Bitcoin Cash client, will officially obtain the “BCH” crown, instead of Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre’s Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (SV). Kraken, Huobi Crown Winner in Bitcoin Cash Fork Since Bitcoin Cash’s long-awaited blockchain upgrade activated on Thursday, during the network’s 556,767th block, many industry insiders, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, have explained that Bitcoin ABC is undoubtedly the winner. However, while…

Catalan Government Considers Blockchain for Public E-Voting System

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The head of the Catalan government‘s citizen participation council states that the authority is considering blockchain for the community’s voting system, Spanish daily newspaper La Vanguardia reports Monday, Nov. 19. Earlier in October, the Generalitat of Catalonia approved a preliminary bill to establish an e-voting system for residents abroad in major elections and other voting processes in the autonomous community. Recently, Ismael Peña-López, director of Citizen Participation of the Government of Catalonia, revealed that the government hopes to introduce an external e-voting system by the year 2020, as well as…

Bitcoin drops below $5K – CoinDesk

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Bitcoin Price Dives Below $5,000 amid Choppy Market

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Twitter Facebook LinkedIn The bitcoin price kicked off this week on a depressive note, extending its current bearish bias to another low level. The BTC/USD index fell from 5502-fiat to 4886-fiat on Monday, recording more than 11 percent in losses. The price action bled through crucial support levels that had a history of reversing bearish trends. It confirmed how investors are looking to take a break from cryptos until its political scenario improves. The recent Bitcoin Cash hard fork has set the market on fire, with big mining pools jockeying…

After Yesterday’s Signs of Recovery, Crypto Markets See Drastic Losses

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Monday, Nov. 19: after showing some signs of recovery yesterday, Nov. 18, cryptocurrency markets experience another dramatic fall. Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below the $5,000 mark, with some of the top 20 coins falling by as much as 20 percent at press time, according to CoinMarketCap. Market visualization from Coin360 After a modest attempt to clamber into the green zone on Nov. 18, BTC today has slumped by over 10 percent on the day and is trading at around $4,977 as of press time. On its weekly chart BTC has lost…

How Crypto Market Fall Influences Mining Hardware Sales and Producers’ Revenues

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A year long bear crypto market appears to have had a negative impact on the profitability of cryptocurrency mining. In spite of this, Bitcoin miners still managed to generate $4.7 billion in profit in the first six months of 2018. Constantly growing competition between big mining pools and the increasing difficulty of Bitcoin’s algorithm make getting the first cryptocurrency less profitable and weight the scales against small players. Miners shut off their machines, and card manufacturers suffer losses. In particular, AMD representatives, whose last quarter fiscal report, published on Oct.…

Alaskan City of Valdez Pays off Bitcoin Ransom After Four Months

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Officials from the City of Valdez are in the final phases of recovering information from its servers after four months of it being held by cyber-criminals demanding a bitcoin ransom, KTUU reported on November 18, 2018. Cyberattack That Held City’s Info for Ransom in Final Recovery Phase A small Alaskan town of Valdez became the victim of a malicious cyber-attack back in July 2018, when a ransomware Trojan virus called Hermes infected all of city’s 27 servers and 170 computers. The unnamed attackers demanded four bitcoins for unlocking the city’s…

Mining Pool Offers ‘One of the Fastest Engines’ for 3.5 Million Miners

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On Nov. 14, MinerGate, a top-tier mining pool platform with 3.5 million users worldwide, has released the final version of their xFast Miner engine. As Claude Lecomte, the CEO and Founder of MinerGate reported to Cointelegraph, the brand new version of the engine has significantly increased the level of performance and functionality of the platform. According to the company’s website, MinerGate provides miners with a high-quality merged-mining service, with 99.97 percent uptime, withdrawal amounts starting from 0.01 coins, and convenient smart mining features. New engine, faster than ever In the…

Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Stellar, EOS, Litecoin, Cardano, Monero, TRON, IOTA: Price Analysis, Nov. 19

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The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision. Market data is provided by the HitBTC exchange. After a period of three days, the crypto markets have resumed their downtrend. Total market capitalization of the crypto universe has dipped below $170 billion, which is a new yearly low. Following the increase in volatility and the renewed downtrend, some analysts have projected…