Samscon Mou, Chief Strategic Director of Blockstream, one of the most avid public critics of the mining giant Bitmain, said that several lawsuits have already been filed against the Beijing company. At the same time, Bitmain allegedly has huge debts to suppliers and production contractors. 1 / Bitmain already facing multiple lawsuits and more being filed. Their assembly, […]
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The world-renowned expert on the history of economics, a former professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Oxford University Nial Ferguson admitted that he was wrong about Bitcoin, once calling him "an illusion." This writes the Australian Financial Review . A British scientist learned about Bitcoin five years ago from his son, but refused to follow his advice and acquire cryptocurrency. As Ferguson said then, all this is nothing more than an illusion and another eccentricity, and the technology itself has no future. However, speaking this week at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney,…
The developers of the privacy-oriented fork of the first cryptocurrency Bitcoin Private (BTCP) sent a request letter to HitBTC to the HitBTC exchange, which they consider unfair. Dear #BTCP community – please read the legal letter below that uncovers your choice of code. https://t.co/Bp4Yjqp4Ez – Bitcoin Private [BTCP] […]
The largest in terms of trading volumes of the Bitcoin exchange Binance has recently received three major transfers in different tokens. Almost immediately after that, a new trading pair appeared on the platform with this coin, and its price grew. ForkLog was told about this rather strange pattern by the Youtube-channel “Kopeechka in the wallet”. So, on February 7, 500 million HOT […] tokens arrived at the stock exchange.
According to the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Christopher Giancarlo, the fall in the value of Bitcoin as a whole can be assessed as a positive factor for the development of the crypto market. Speaking at the blockchain summit, the head of the regulator noted that the rise of the main cryptocurrency in December 2017 activated speculators, and the subsequent collapse of Bitcoin increased investor distrust of digital assets. However, in general, the fall of Bitcoin and its stabilization at the current level can be assessed as a positive phenomenon, which will allow the entire cryptocurrency industry…
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed on March 8, the Digital Tokens Act, excluding certain digital currencies from state securities legislation. Also, under certain circumstances, the new law exempts broker-dealers and cryptocurrency dealers from licensing. Rules come into force on August 2. Exciting day for #blockchain technology. @GovofCO @jaredpolis signed the #Digital Token Act today with […]
At the end of March, the Swissquote group engaged in online banking and trading launches a custodial service for secure storage of cryptocurrencies . As stated in the announcement published by a Swiss company, from March 21, retail and institutional customers will be able to transfer cryptocurrency from external wallets to Swissquote accounts for storage. The new service will be provided jointly with Zug company Crypto Storage AG, a subsidiary of Crypto Finance AG. As stated on the site, Crypto Storage AG offers proprietary solutions for managing cryptocurrency private keys using the highest level hardware security models (HSM). “Our HSMs…
As expected, soon the largest social network Facebook and Telegram messenger will launch their own (internal) cryptocurrency , with which users can make instant payments without resorting to the services of traditional players like PayPal and other financial service providers. At the same time, payment solutions are being developed, although not entirely native, in other social networks. In particular, not so long ago on Twitter, it became possible to conduct transactions using the Bitcoin micropayment protocol of the Lightning Network . We present to your attention all the important information about these projects and try to analyze their relevance. Facebook…
According to analysts from the financial company Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets, Bitcoin can reach $ 20,000, but not earlier than March 2021. Financial analysts Michael Graham and Scott Soo told their clients that the chart presented by Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets has striking similarities in the trading patterns between the periods 2011–2015 and 2015–2019, and if the trend continues, the hodlers have the opportunity to “change their fate. However, they will have to wait another two years, until March 2021. “Looking into the future, provided that Bitcoin continues to follow the same trend as in 2011–2017, implying that BTC will…
The creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, came up with a new initiative, suggesting an increase in user commissions in order to provide stable financial support to developers of various clients and wallets. On this, he wrote on Friday, March 8, on Twitter: I’m charging you a trick for you […]
