Author: BlockchainJournal

In the traditional Sunday digest – the tenth anniversary of the launch of the Bitcoin network, Ethereum is in second place by capitalization and the action Proof Of Keys. Bitcoin is already quite big On January 3, the community celebrated the tenth anniversary of the launch of the Bitcoin network and the extraction of the genesis block. On this day, the BitMEX Bitcoin Exchange posted thanks to Satoshi Nakamoto on the cover of The Times London. Happy 10th Birthday Bitcoin! pic.twitter.com/DpOPjojsOd – BitMEX Research (@BitMEXResearch) January 2, 2019 On the same day, Proof Of Keys was held, in which users…

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On January 6, the price of the first cryptocurrency again overcame the psychological mark of $ 4000. Bitstamp data At the moment, Bitcoin is trading at around $ 4,050. The market capitalization of cryptocurrency is $ 138.6 billion Subscribe to BlockchainJournal on Facebook ! << aside id = "unisender_subscribe_form-10" class = "widget unisender_form"> BlockchainJournal.news

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In accordance with the Memorandum of Supervision, published on January 2, the Texas Banking Department may consider stabcocoins as money, obliging such currencies and exchanges that deal with them to comply with several laws of the state of Texas. Supervisory Memorandum 1037, which is published by the financial regulator, involves the regulation of a new class of digital assets in accordance with the Texas Monetary Services Act. According to this law, getting a steablcoin on a platform for the exchange of cryptocurrencies under the “promise” to ensure its availability in the future can be considered as a money transfer. Therefore,…

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2017 was a great year for cryptoinvestors, 2018 turned into a real disaster. What awaits cryptocurrency in 2019, seven most likely ways of the cryptocurrency market development were presented by analysts at Weiss Ratings . Before answering the question about the future of cryptocurrency, investors should know that 2018 was a disaster only in terms of reducing the market price. In terms of the fundamentals of crypto space, this was a year of serious progress. In particular, an innovative Hashgraph was developed, which takes us beyond the blockchain . Also there was a project Holochain, not based on the blockchain,…

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The Singapore-based BitTorrent Foundation will launch the BitTorrent Token (BTT) coin based on the TRON protocol. The main functions of BTT will be a fee to users for the distribution of files. Today we ’re a bitTorrent $ BTT which features the TRC-10 features and features you can use for your cryptocurrency exchange @binance ! ? More info below https://t.co/iNx26vwOwI pic.twitter.com/hssMXAFSXp – BitTorrent Inc. (@BitTorrent) January 3, 2019 Note that at the moment users are downloading the required file due to the fact that others leave it on the network. However, the latter have no motivation to continue distribution after…

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Bitcoin works fast, knows no boundaries, and its transactions can not be undone. But, unfortunately, these qualities attract not only you and me. As cryptocurrency grows in popularity, more and more fraudsters appear around it. Therefore, it is very important to observe all precautions and to protect yourself as much as possible from intruders. Here are the most popular ways to bitcoin fraud. Forewarned is forearmed! Bitcoin pyramid In this case, you can be lured by promises of incredibly high profits with extremely low investments. The principle of the classical pyramid works here: the first investors attract new and new…

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In the financial rating agency Weiss Ratings believe that the bear market in 2018 knocked out a weak hand, allowed experts to declare Bitcoin dead, and now the first cryptocurrency will begin to move to new price highs. At the same time, analysts are convinced that bitcoin will increasingly be used as a means of accumulation. In terms of market price declines, 2018 was a disaster. What about 2019? Here are our 7th forecasts for this year: https://t.co/MQgzg6nnhm #WeissRatings #crypto #cryptocurrenrency #altcoins #bitcoin #btc #xrp #ada #holochain – Weiss Ratings (@WeissRatings) January 4, 2019 Note that, according to the agency,…

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In early January, the Proof of Keys event was organized by Bitcoin investor Trace Mayer (Trace Mayer) and aimed at returning users control over their private keys, as well as checking the integrity of services and trading cryptocurrency areas . During the campaign, participants massively withdraw their cryptocurrency from exchanges to private wallets in order to verify the fact of their possession of digital money. Several major cryptocurrency sites showed their inconsistency – Bitfinex, Poloniex and Robinhood turned out to be on the list published on the official website of the campaign after the end. HitBTC caused a lot of…

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One of the most popular online hypermarkets in the USA, Overstock.com, announced that it will be the first large company to pay part of its Bitcoin cryptocurrency taxes (BTC) . In a press release, the company announced that it intends to pay in BTC business tax (CAT) in Ohio. The state announced last year that it would allow paying taxes in the first cryptocurrency and launched a special platform for this, OhioCrypto.com . Bitcoins received by the platform are converted by the BitPay payment processor into US dollars, which are transferred to the state treasury. “We welcome the fact that…

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According to the State of the dApps service, 17.2% of the total number of decentralized applications did not show activity over the past year. They are assigned the status of "abandoned". December 2018 a good month WAS for the development of #dapps (Decentralized applications). We received 179 new DApp submissions, an all time high! https://t.co/EF9GurjFBd (1/3) pic.twitter.com/M2Mb3R5wag – State of the DApps (@StateOfTheDApps) 4 січень 2019 р. On the service site, you can see that Ethereum has much more dApps on the platform than on EOS (2254 and 122, respectively). However, the number of active users of applications on EOS…

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