Day: March 9, 2019

CEO of Crypto City Project Bitcointopia Pleads Guilty to Selling Land He Didn’t Have

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Morgan Rockcoons, also known as Morgan Rockwell, has pleaded guilty to two cryptocurrency-related charges in San Diego federal court this week. Rockcoons admitted both to selling land he didn’t have for a crypto city project dubbed “Bitcointopia” and to operating a money transmitting business without a license, daily news outlet the Los Angeles Times (LA Times) reported on March 8. Per the report, Rockcoons first attracted the attention of law enforcement in 2015 with his Bitcoin (BTC)-fiat currency exchange services, which he advertised online. The LA Times reports that under…

In the Daily: Bitcoin Begging, NEM Foundation Fights to Survive, Huobi Prime

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In the first weekend edition of The Daily, we examine the biting effects of crypto winter, which might have frozen out ETH scambots, but hasn’t prevented the penurious from panhandling for crypto by more direct means. We also look at the latest restructuring of the NEM Foundation, which has faced the full force of the crypto cooldown. Finally, we preview Huobi’s new Binance Launchpad competitor – Prime. Also read: Onecoin Leaders Indicted in the U.S. for Operating ‘Fraudulent Pyramid Scheme’ NEM Foundation Rolls Out Plan B to Stay Afloat The…

Report: Ethereum (ETH) Has Twice the Monthly Core Dev Support as Bitcoin (BTC)

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A new report confirms the industry belief that Ethereum has the largest coding development support of any cryptocurrency. Despite sitting in the number two spot by market capitalization, and trailing Bitcoin by $55 billion, a report published by crypto management firm Electric Capital on Mar. 7 found that Ethereum has the most developers working on its protocol of all cryptocurrency projects. Ethereum, helmed by co-founder and industry figurehead Vitalik Buterin, has consistently been one of the top cryptocurrency projects to attract both core and community development, particularly when evaluating its…

‘Satoshi’ Craig Wright Brags about Destroying Anonymous Coins Monero, Zcash

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Dr. Craig Wright is back. And this time, he is out to destroy the societally menacing anonymous coins. The Australian computer scientist and alleged creator of Bitcoin told CNBC Africa’s Ran Neuner that he knows how to kill Zcash and Monero. Dr. Wright said that he was going to expose these anonymous coins sometime this year, adding: “If you have a privacy coin, I will show you that it is basically as private as running through Times Square with your pants around your ankles.” If what Dr. Wright is saying…

‘Satoshi’ Craig Wright Brags about Destroying Anonymous Coins Monero, Zcash

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Dr. Craig Wright is back. And this time, he is out to destroy the societally menacing anonymous coins. The Australian computer scientist and alleged creator of Bitcoin told CNBC Africa’s Ran Neuner that he knows how to kill Zcash and Monero. Dr. Wright said that he was going to expose these anonymous coins sometime this year, adding: “If you have a privacy coin, I will show you that it is basically as private as running through Times Square with your pants around your ankles.” If what Dr. Wright is saying…

Ethereum Has More Than Twice as Many Core Devs per Month as Bitcoin: Report

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Ethereum (ETH) has the most developers working on its base protocol of all cryptocurrencies, not counting community project developers, according to a report by crypto asset management firm Electric Capital. The report was published in a Medium post on March 7. Per the post, the company fingerprinted over 20,000 code repositories and 16 million commits to obtain data, which reveals that on average 216 developers contribute code to ETH repositories every month. The company also specifies that this data “is undercounting the number of Ethereum developers since we do not…

Zilliqa joins Student Organisation at King’s College London to Launch Blockchain A-Z Workshops

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Zilliqa has partnered with KCL Blockchain, the student organisation at King’s CollegeLondon dedicated to this new technology, for the launch of a workshop called Blockchain A-Z. The series of free workshops will be held for a period of four weeks at King’s College London starting on March 26th, 2019.   The Zilliqa workshops are designed to bring students from a variety of backgrounds together, with the aim of consolidating both the business and technological aspects of Blockchain technology, as well as its potential and application. Participants will be provided with…

Zilliqa joins Student Organisation at King’s College London to Launch Blockchain A-Z Workshops

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Zilliqa has partnered with KCL Blockchain, the student organisation at King’s CollegeLondon dedicated to this new technology, for the launch of a workshop called Blockchain A-Z. The series of free workshops will be held for a period of four weeks at King’s College London starting on March 26th, 2019.   advertisement The Zilliqa workshops are designed to bring students from a variety of backgrounds together, with the aim of consolidating both the business and technological aspects of Blockchain technology, as well as its potential and application. Participants will be provided…

Cryptocurrencies Surge 30%-100%. Why Momentum Can Boost Bitcoin Price

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Bitcoin has remained relatively stable in the $3,800 to $3,900 range over the past week while crypto assets like Enjin Coin (ENJ), Litecoin (LTC), ICON (ICX), and Kyber Network (KNC) surged by 30 percent to 100 percent. 7-Day Price Chart of Kyber Network (Source: Coinmarketcap.com) Off of the reported partnership between Enjin and Samsung, the price of Kyber Network spiked by 60 percent overnight. In late January, the Enjin team revealed that it integrated Kyber, Changelly, and Bancor to convert 200 tokens from thousands of trading pairs natively on the…

Bitcoin (BTC) Millionaire Finman Likens Lightning Network To Visa & Mastercard

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Lightning Bitcoin Is Centralized Like Visa: Critic Since the Lightning Network has come to life, the scaling solution has been lauded as a way to fix many of Bitcoin’s current problems in terms of transaction speeds and fees. But, in a recent Twitter rant, Erik Finman, a Bitcoin millionaire who invested in the cryptocurrency when it was under $10 and presumably sold it in the thousands, bashed Lightning. He explains that Lightning effectively turns Bitcoin into “Visa and Mastercard” — two organizations that Satoshi seemingly wanted to circumvent. Finman adds…