Institutionalization, the elimination of volatility and functioning products will allow you to fully realize the potential of cryptocurrency assets. This is stated in the report of the international auditing company from the "Big Four" KPMG, prepared with the support of Coinbase, Fundstrat Global Advisors and Morgan Creek Digital. KPMG analysts have concluded that since 2017, cryptocurrency has been competing with traditional asset classes in terms of investment. In 2018, the competitiveness of digital currencies has strengthened new financial mechanisms, in particular: the platform of security tokens and steylcocoins. However, so far, cryptocurrencies are in the shadow of traditional assets with…
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Anonymous cryptocurrencies are peer-to-peer payment systems with their own internal unit of account, aimed at ensuring complete privacy of financial transactions through cryptographic protocols, which significantly complicate or make it impossible to audit network data. Among the largest market capitalization of anonymous digital currencies: Monero, Dash and ZCash. Cryptocurrency Monero Monero is a peer-to-peer payment system with the same unit of account based on the cryptographic protocol CryptoNote, which ensures anonymity of transactions through ring signatures and stealth addresses. The CryptoNote protocol was created by a person or a group of people under the pseudonym Nicholas van Saberhagen and was…
Rider sidechain developer company The company RIF Labs has acquired the Argentine blockchain-startup RSK Labs, which develops the opensource-platform of smart contracts with two-way binding to bitcoin. It will be a step up to the realization! Read our blog for more> -> https://t.co/gJW1YBbFD6 – RSK (@RSKsmart) November 19, 2018 RIF Labs is a third-party project of the founders and developers of RSK, focused on the creation of a digital infrastructure for digital identification, economic coordination and settlement called RIF OS. Together, startups will continue to develop the RSK platform, the hallmark of which is compatibility with the Ethereum decentralized applications…
A week ago, we outlined the boundaries of the flat $ 6,200- $ 6,600, after which a good movement was expected. And so it happened. Unfortunately, the process went on a negative scenario. The cryptorg.net service CEO and the regular contributor to BlockchainJournal, Andrey Podolyan , tells how bitcoin prices can behave in the near future . The price broke through the level of $ 6,200 and with a rapid impulse went to $ 5,750. The level of $ 5,750 was designated in analytics as the last stronghold of bulls, the level held for a very long time, and the…
Monero is a peer-to-peer payment system with the same unit of account based on the cryptographic protocol CryptoNote, which ensures anonymity of transactions through ring signatures and stealth addresses. The CryptoNote protocol was created by a person or a group of people under the pseudonym Nicholas van Saberhagen and was first implemented in the Bytecoin cryptocurrency, of which Monero is a fork [April 2014]. Initially, obfuscation of data in the Monero network was carried out by mixing the transaction inputs of different senders, generating one-time addresses for each transaction and hiding the amount transferred. In October 2018, Monero developers successfully…
Huobi Global, the third largest trader in cryptographic trading, regards a longer Bitcoin ABC chain as a “real” Bitcoin Cash with a BCH ticker. Bitcoin Cash ABC to Be Re-Designed BCH and Trading Announcement of Bitcoin SV (BSV) The ABC version of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will be retained for the designation of BCH. For more details, click here: https://t.co/aTV87ngEi6 pic.twitter.com/OZDZA4eTiA – Huobi Global (@HuobiGlobal) 18 leaf fall 2018 p. At the same time, the competing implementation of Bitcoin SV will be quoted under the ticker BSV. Trading in this asset together with Bitcoin will start today, November 18th. The possibility…
In the traditional Sunday review of BlockchainJournal, there is an update of the annual minimum price of Bitcoin, hardfork Bitcoin Cash, the triumph of steakbloins and the complete transition of Kik messenger to Stellar. Back to the past The price of Bitcoin has updated the annual minimum – after breaking through the long-suffering support in the region of $ 6,000, the price turned out to be at the levels of October last year. This collapse began on Wednesday , November 14th. Traditionally, the falling price of the first cryptocurrency pulled the overwhelming majority of other digital assets. As can be…
Tom Lee, an analyst at Fundstrat Global Advisors, lowered his forecast for the Bitcoin exchange rate by $ 10,000. Now he is predicting a $ 15,000 exchange rate for the main cryptocurrency by the end of 2018. According to CNBC , Lee believes that when predicting the rate of Bitcoin should be based on the “point of self-sufficiency” – the level at which the cost of mining Bitcoin corresponds to its trading rate. According to Fundstrat analysts, Bitmain’s S9 Antminer for ASIC miners dropped this level to $ 7,000, while it was previously estimated at $ 8,000. Lee's forecast is…
According to the employment service Indeed.com, the demand for blockchain specialists in the US has increased by 25% since October last year, CoinDesk reports. On the other hand, the number of search queries related to the blockchain occupations decreased by 3.06% over the same period. According to representatives of Indeed, now the situation has changed significantly – the HYIP associated with the blockchain and cryptocurrency is gradually weakening. For comparison, from October 2016 to October 2017, the number of search queries increased by 481.61%, and the number of offers from employers for this sector – by 325%. “Over the past…
Europe's fourth largest and Swiss stock exchange Six approved the launch of Amun Crypto ETP, a traded product under the Hodl ticker. Starting next week, Hodl will begin tracking several major cryptocurrencies. ETP assets will be distributed as follows: At the same time for the management of assets set an annual commission of 2.5%. According to the co-founder and head of the Swiss division of London-based Amun Technologies, Hani Rashwan (Hany Rashwan), ETP was created in accordance with the same rules that apply to other exchange products that are popular among investors. The advantage of this product is that it…