Day: December 24, 2018

Feed 7 Different Species at the River Forest Farm’s ‘Bitcoin Cash Zoo’

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Sharing economy Back in October, members of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community discussed feeding chickens with mealworms over the internet from remote locations using BCH microtransactions. Now BCH users can provide food for horses, baby goats, roosters and more using River Forest Farm’s livestream and pay for feed using bitcoin cash. Also read: This Chicken Coop Feeder Is Powered by Bitcoin Cash Payments in Real Time The BCH Zoo: Feed 7 Different Species With Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash fans thought it was pretty cool when Spencer Lambert (Redpepper261) created a mealworm…

Wall Street Giants Postpone Entering Crypto Industry Amid Falling Prices

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Wall Street giants are postponing their plans to more actively enter the crypto industry as the value of cryptocurrencies has fallen, Bloomberg reports Sunday, Dec. 23. The article begins: “Limbo — that’s where to find Wall Street when it comes to cryptocurrencies,” and then focuses on the efforts in the crypto sphere this year made by banking giant Goldman Sachs, multinational financial services company Morgan Stanley, major banking conglomerate Citigroup Inc. and United Kingdom financial services provider Barclays PLC. According to people familiar with Goldman Sachs’ crypto business, the firm’s…

Crouching Eagle, Soaring Falcon–LXDX Launch Highlights Fading American Crypto Dream

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Crouching Eagle, Soaring Falcon–LXDX Launch Highlights Fading American Crypto Dream December 24, 2018 by Paul de Havilland The December 21st launch of Malta’s LXDX, a crypto derivatives exchange platform, highlights continued crypto drift in the U.S. If the libertarian values that sparked the advent of the crypto era are still alive, the United States is doing little to undermine the belief that governments stifle innovation and freedom either through repression, over-regulation, or incompetence. Also read: ConsenSys to Shrink With Ether Price, Lubin Remains Upbeat Subscribe to the Bitsonline YouTube channel for great videos…

Crouching Eagle, Soaring Falcon–LXDX Launch Highlights Fading American Crypto Dream

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Crouching Eagle, Soaring Falcon–LXDX Launch Highlights Fading American Crypto Dream December 24, 2018 by Paul de Havilland The December 21st launch of Malta’s LXDX, a crypto derivatives exchange platform, highlights continued crypto drift in the U.S. If the libertarian values that sparked the advent of the crypto era are still alive, the United States is doing little to undermine the belief that governments stifle innovation and freedom either through repression, over-regulation, or incompetence. Also read: ConsenSys to Shrink With Ether Price, Lubin Remains Upbeat Subscribe to the Bitsonline YouTube channel for great videos…

At Least 340 UK Crypto or Blockchain Companies Ceased Operations in 2018, Report Finds

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At least 340 cryptocurrency or blockchain companies were dissolved or liquidated this year in the United Kingdom (UK), British news outlet Sky News reported on Dec. 22. UK crypto companies in 2018. Source: SkyNews The aforementioned article also reports that last year, the number of companies in this industry that had been liquidated amounted to 139, nearly two and a half times less than this year. Moreover, 60 percent of the companies dissolved this year ceased activity between June and November. According to the reported data, more than 200 of…

Ethereum, Ripple Lead Altcoin Price Charge With More Than 15 Percent Gains

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Cryptocurrency markets continued their push back into the black on Dec. 24 as Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) took turns at giving altcoin investors a timely Christmas present. Market visualization from Coin360 Data from Cointelegraph’s price tracker and Coin360 shows a return to form across the top twenty crypto assets by market cap, ETH/USD gaining almost 17 percent in the past 24 hours and XRP/USD gaining 15 percent. Prices across major exchanges circled $149 and $0.42 for ETH and XRP respectively. Ethereum 7-day price chart. Source: Cointelegraph’s Ethereum Price Index…

Bitcoin Lightning Network Capacity Surpasses $2 Mln Despite Bear Market

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The capacity of the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network (LN) has surpassed $2 million on Sunday, Dec. 23, according to data provided by BTC statistics website bitcoinvisuals.com. Despite the year-long bear market, combined with the recent market crash dubbed the “crypto winter,” the Bitcoin Lightning network has seen strong growth throughout 2018. As of Dec. 23, node channels that support the Lighting scaling protocol were able to facilitate 496.8 BTC, almost reaching a landmark point of 500 BTC. At that time, the amount was worth about $2 million. The number of…

Japan tries to regain the bitcoin crown as the volumes move-up

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The Expansion of Bitcoin and its global adoption Cryptocurrencies have been having some major impacts in Japan, as the country is focused on new legislations. The country is paving the way for a more supportive and secure regulatory framework in order to ensure that consumers are well protected form hacks on crypto exchanges. This framework was brought forward by the Financial Service Agency of Japan (FSA), which was triggered by a response to several high-profile attacks back in early 2018. These attacks allegedly resulted in an collective loss for the…

Understanding Blockchain Basics and Use Cases

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Key Takeaways Blockchains can be either public or private, permissioned or trustless IBM Hyperledger and R3 Corda are two of the most widely used enterprise blockchains Deployment of real solutions is still limited and patchy The space is continuing to evolve and is in its early stages Enterprise adoption is still cautious Navigating the blockchain space can be very challenging.A large number of articles have been written about the subject, many of which are filled with a large amount of hot air and hype, as well as specialist technical and…

Report Finds Over $3 Million of Altcoin Bitcoin Private Covertly Premined

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During the import of Bitcoin (BTC) chain data, an additional 2.04 million units of altcoin Bitcoin Private (BTCP) have reportedly been secretly coined, crypto assets analytics website Coin Metrics reports Dec. 23. The allegedly secretly coined cryptocurrency — a fork merging Bitcoin and ZClassic — is worth $3.672 million at press time. The project’s white paper states that the initial coin supply is equivalent to the combined supply of Bitcoin and ZClassic coins, alongside a small quantity destined for the miner program, making the total supply equal to around 20.4…