In an attempt to tackle the lack of privacy Ethereum, developer Kendrick Tan developed a mixing service for the second most capitalized cryptocurrency. The basis of its development called Heiswap formed the basic specifications for such a service, described by Vitalik Buterin in May of this year. The mixer itself is available in the Ropsten test network at heiswap.exchange, and as the founder of Ethereum has already noted, this is […]
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Bitcoin (BTC) capitalization will reach $ 1 trillion until 2025, the forecast from Willy Vu 5 (100%) 1 Well-known cryptanalyst Willie Woo believes that by 2025, Bitcoin (BTC) will reach a market capitalization of $ 1 trillion. In 2013, Wu had already given such a forecast, and now he again supports it. So far, it seems, the main task of Bitcoin is to repeat its record of $ 20,000, which was in the middle of December 2017, when its capitalization amounted to one third of a trillion dollars. Bitcoin (BTC) capitalization – $ 1 trillion His latest prediction on the…
In the next few weeks, the US Tax Administration (IRS) is expected to present an updated version of its Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency guidelines. Changes to the document were made under pressure from a group of more than 20 congressmen, who in April called for clearer answers on the taxation of this class of assets, writes WSJ. Currently IRS, […]
Shares of the Scottish brewery BrewDog are now available to investors for Bitcoin and almost a dozen other cryptocurrencies, according to a company press release earlier this week. Sale of shares for cryptocurrencies started in the framework of the new investment round of the Equity for Punks campaign and will last until April of next year. In addition to Bitcoin, you can also purchase them for Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, […]
Bitcoin has established itself in the status of a safe haven, approaching importance to gold 5 (100%) 1 In the eyes of investors, bitcoin and gold have become the only risk-saving tools. Analysts agree that bitcoin has recently unambiguously “pulled itself up” in degree of significance to gold. Now there is only one step left before Nick Sabo predicted that the central banks of an increasing number of countries in the world will gradually move away from gold and buy cryptocurrencies , in particular Bitcoins. Economic columnist Die Welte Holger Scheipitz writes: “Bitcoin is increasingly on the track, where it…
The developers of the confidential cryptocurrency Beam based on the MimbleWimble protocol have implemented support for atomic swaps for Bitcoin and Litecoin in the new version of the client. It is a time of release of #AtomicSwaps $ Beam – $ BTC and $ Beam – $ LTC. We give you Bright Boson 2.2.5635 https://t.co/Aw0tMYfTbB #privacymatters #mimblewimble – @Beamprivacy […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to analyze the data of public blockchains. To this end, the agency is looking for a contractor who will act as the operator of the corresponding full nodes. So, first of all, SEC is interested in Bitcoin and Ethereum networks, however, it is ready to receive data on Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, Ripple, EOS, NEO and ZCash. In the future, the department is considering the possibility of analyzing others […]
Analyst Willy Wu believes that by 2025 the market capitalization of the BTC flagship cryptocurrency will reach $ 1 trillion. As part of the Coinist podcast, a popular analyst supported the forecast that was given to them in 2013. Even then, Willy Wu announced that Bitcoin’s market capitalization would increase to $ 1 trillion by 2025. Note that since then, the rate of cryptocurrency has managed to survive and fall to $ 200, and rise to $ 20,000. At the time of this writing, the market capitalization of BTC is about $ 200 billion. So, Wu believes that this cycle…
Cyprus will develop and implement a draft law on the regulation of cryptoindustry before the end of the year 5 (100%) 1 Cyprus Finance Minister Harris Georgiades (Harris Georgiades) said that as part of the implementation of the national strategy for the introduction of blockchain technology in this country, a draft law on the regulation of the cryptoindustry will be prepared by the end of 2019. According to the local publication, Financial Mirror , Georgiades compared the blockchain technology with the Internet in terms of revolutionism and is confident that its use will reduce costs in both the public and…
The Ethereum (ETH) mining mining award will be reduced 10 times in 2021 5 (100%) 1 Ethereum cryptocurrency emission can be reduced 10 times in 2021. This forecast was made by Justin Drake, Ethereum Foundation researcher. “January 2020: launch of beacon chain. June 2020: The production of the lightweight client eth2. November 2020: fork eth1 # 1 to ensure eth2 completion. March 2021: fork eth1 # 2 to reduce emissions 10 times, ” he said, noting that the timing is likely to change in the process. Previously it was assumed that the reduction in the mining award from 2 ETH…