Tim Draper, a well-known venture capital investor, who had previously predicted the rise of Bitcoin to $ 250,000 by 2022, is convinced that in the future the entire world economy will turn towards cryptocurrency, and that Bitcoin will be at the head of all these changes. This statement Draper made on the sidelines of the World Crypto Con in Las Vegas, writes The Forbes . As Draper says, currently the so-called “political”, that is, state currencies are around $ 86 trillion, while the total capitalization of the entire market is about $ 150 billion ($ 125 billion at the time…
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Since mid-November in terms of falling prices and declining heshreyta it has been disconnected from 600 000 to 800 000 Bitcoin-miners . Such figures were cited in an interview with CoinDesk by the founder of the F2pool mining pool, Mao Xixing. According to him, most of the miners who stopped work are likely to use outdated device models, such as Antminer T9 + from Bitmain or AvalonMiner 741 from Canaan Creative. The production capacity of these devices is about TH / s, and according to F2pool calculations, in the current situation, their work is unprofitable. According to the site blockchain.info,…
Securitize, a blockchain-start-up in the field of security tokens, announced the closure of a round of funding for Series A, during which it raised $ 12.75 million, CoinDesk reports. The round was led by Blockchain Capital, whose co-founder and managing partner Brad Stevens also joined the board of directors of Securitize. Coinbase Ventures, venture capital divisions Ripple (Xpring) and OKEx (OK Blockchain Capital), Global Brain and NXTP also took part in financing the startup. As Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said, the funds will help the company attract "competent investors" in anticipation of the launch of its proposal for security tokens.…
The hash-rate war between Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV may be nearing completion after the latter's team announced it had abandoned claims to the original Bitcoin Cash chain and intended to focus on creating its own applications. This news also had a positive effect on the price of Bitcoin SV, which over the past day has risen in price by more than 70%, exceeding at some point the mark of $ 120. Coingeek owner Kelvin Eyre was the first to offer his own vision of Bitcoin SV’s own path even last Friday. bitcoin hash war out. I’m calling on this…
Billionaire entrepreneur Calvin Ayre, along with Craig Wright, who heads the Bitcoin Cash SV team in the “ABC and BSV hashreit war,” said he no longer claims the name Bitcoin Cash (VSN) for the resulting hard forks cryptocurrency, because, in his opinion, under the name Bitcoin SV (BSV) hides the real Bitcoin. At the same time, Air recalled its position that the Bitcoin ABC team violated the basic principles on which Bitcoin is built, ignored the idea of the Nakamoto consensus and belief in PoW miners , and together with the “Segwit BTC” fork it almost brought a mature economic…
Well-known crypto investor Barry Silbert, who is the founder of the Digital Currency Group, on his Twitter reported buying several coins, namely: Ethereum Classic (ETC) Zcash (ZEC) Decentraland (MANA) Horizen (ZEN) Barry Silbert did not indicate the total amount of investment in these digital assets. It is worth noting that Ethereum Classic, Zcash and Horizen are present in the investment portfolio of Grayscale Investments, which, in turn, is a division of the Digital Currency Group. Leave your comments below!
The government of Paraguay has signed an agreement with the South Korean company Commons Foundation, under which the latter will build “the largest in the world,” according to partners, a data center for mining cryptocurrency. He writes about CCN . According to the agreement, within the framework of the project “Gold mine” the authorities will provide the Commons Foundation with five land plots with a total area of 50,000 square meters. The Itaipu hydropower plant will provide energy for the future data center. In addition, the company undertakes to create a cryptocurrency exchange. The Commons Foundation intends to attract funding…
Currently, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating the activities of 50 cryptocurrency companies. Thus, the number of such companies since May this year has doubled, writes The Telegraph . The publication received such information from FCA after it had sent a relevant request within the framework of the law on freedom of dissemination of information. As stated by the agency, it examines the activities of 50 organizations that are suspected of providing financial services without the necessary permission of the regulator. In addition, this year the regulator received seven reports of illegal activities from concerned employees of cryptocurrency companies…
have been disabled From mid-November, in the context of falling prices and declining hashrate, between 600,000 and 800,000 Bitcoin miners were cut off. Such figures were cited in an interview with CoinDesk by the founder of the F2pool mining pool, Mao Xixing. According to him, most of the miners who stopped work are likely to use outdated device models, such as Antminer T9 + from Bitmain or AvalonMiner 741 from Canaan Creative. The production capacity of these devices is about 10 TH / s, and according to F2pool calculations, in the current situation, their work is unprofitable. F2pool itself has…
Slush Pool – одно из тех имен в биткоин-индустрии, которое, как кажется, присутствовало всегда. Базирующийся в Праге майнинговый пул был запущен в далеком 2010 году и стал не только первым пулом в истории, но и фактически заложил фундамент одного из ключевых сегментов всей индустрии. Именно его основатель Марек ‘Slush’ Палатинус стал автором концепции, получившей название ‘pooled mining’ – системы, где индивидуальные майнеры объединяют мощности для более эффективной добычи криптовалюты, получая вознаграждение пропорционально своему вкладу. Со временем Марек Палатинус возглавил SatoshiLabs, еще один биткоин-стартап из Праги, известный прежде всего благодаря своим аппаратным кошелькам Trezor. Сегодня его детище — Slush Pool —…