Data from the analytical resource 1ML indicate an increase in the number of Lightning nodes with support for Tor onion routing technology in the main Bitcoin network. #LightningNetwork! Onion service nodes has reached the all-time high of 359! Https: //t.co/0rQ3VhWm3p#Lightning #LN #bitcoin $ BTC pic. @LNstats) April 21, 2019. So, at the moment their number is […]
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The average amount of investments of investors from South Korea in cryptocurrency is $ 6,100, which is 64% more than last year, reports Cointelegraph. According to a survey conducted by the Korean Fund for the Protection of Portfolio Investors, in addition to the investment amounts, the percentage of those interested in investing in digital assets also increased. Thus, 7.4% of the 2500 respondents have already acquired cryptocurrency (last year there were 6.4% of those). Remarkably, […]
The heads of central banks of Afghanistan and Tunisia said that their countries are considering the possibility of issuing sovereign cryptocurrency bonds. Officials reported this at the annual Spring Meetings of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Washington. Governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, Khalil Sediq, said they are seriously considering crypto bonds as a tool to attract the $ 5.8 billion private investment needed by the country's mining, energy and agricultural sectors. Since the country is limited in opportunities for concessional lending due to the ongoing internal armed conflict,…
Bitcoin (BTC) and its complexity have become a concept that many cryptocurrency users have been trying to understand since its inception. In his latest video, the famous Bitcoin enthusiast Andreas Antonopoulos and the author of the book “Mastering Bitcoin,” spoke about the life cycle of a Bitcoin transaction with a wallet from start to finish. Antonopoulos said that since the transaction was sent from the wallet for confirmation to the Bitcoin network , the wallet creates a transaction, accumulating BTC in the user's wallet and assigning addresses. Then the user's wallet transfers the transaction information to one of the many…
Chris Berniske, who previously led cryptocurrency investments in ARK Invest and is now a partner in Placeholder, a $ 150 million asset management venture fund, said that Bitcoin's market capitalization will exceed $ 1 trillion. in the next bull market: “Estimates of the top 10 cryptoactive assets at the end of each year give me the idea that only Bitcoin will reach $ 1 trillion. in the next bull market. ” It makes me think about it . pic.twitter.com/75YaGesYxR – Chris Burniske (@cburniske) April 20, 2019 Recall that during the cryptocurrency boom at the end of 2017, when the price…
What does the increase in commissions in the Bitcoin (BTC) network mean, is it a precursor of market growth or a weak digital currency? In April, the average commissions for conducting transactions in the Bitcoin network rose again – and this is after they have stayed at a level slightly above $ 0.5 over the past six full months. Currently, according to Bitcoincharts, they average from 1 to 2 dollars, that is, at least doubled. Why do commissions grow? Analysts recall that a significant increase in this indicator, up to $ 50, happened in December 2017, amid a growing market.…
Cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io launched on Sunday, April 21, trading with the internal token Gatechain Token (GT). The new coin is trading in GT / USDT and GT / BTC pairs. GT We are excited to announce that GT will be available to trade at UTC 08:00, Apr. 21 against $ USDT and $ BTC. Trade GT at: https://t.co/amQsL5Oj5e, https://t.co/0lrfAIkjpa pic.twitter.com/ZftcAXBDCn – gate.io Exchange (@gate_io) […]
During a speech at the Yalta International Economic Forum, presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev suggested introducing cryptocurrency in the Crimea. This was reported by Tass. In his opinion, this will help reduce cross-border barriers and attract investors. “What prevents to create in the Crimea such an experimental platform, which many countries of the world work with? Given the huge demand in the long term for housing and sanatorium-resort construction, you need to release a stable digital unit, say, tied to square meters. m square. Having carried out procedures for the placement of such tokens, raise money in Russia and in the…
The founder of the Ethereum smart contract platform, Vitaly Buterin, cited an interesting fact from his biography, saying that in 2013 he wanted to get an internship at the California-based company OpenCoin, which was later renamed Ripple Labs. According to him, this happened in the middle of 2013, when he lived in Canada. He, however, was denied a visa, because according to […]
According to analysts from the Adamant Capital cryptocurrency fund, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) has really gone through the bottom, and the accumulation stage is currently taking place – the first stage of the future bull market, when visionary investors start preparing for the next rally. Moreover, say the authors of the report Tuur Demeester and Michael Leskrauvet, the general mood of crypto investors has changed from despair to hope. In support of this statement, the researchers give a chart of the ups and downs of the Bitcoin price in combination with unrealized profits and unrealized losses. This criterion is…