The name of the entrepreneur, developer and educator Jimmy Song is one of the most well-known in the Bitcoin community. In the past, the chief architect of the blockchain-company Paxos and the vice-president of the Bitcoin wallet provider Armory Technologies, today he heads the company Programming Blockchain, which offers training courses for developers, and is also a partner of the venture capital firm Blockchain Capital. Frequent guest of various conferences where he appears in the same wide-brimmed hat, Jimmy Song is also the author of the popular blog on Medium and has over 130,000 followers on Twitter , where he…
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The Berkshire Hathaway holding, led by bitcoin's implacable bitcoin critic Warren Buffett, has invested in fintech and blockchain startups for the first time, reports The Wall Street Journal . Previously, the famous conglomerate bought mostly "blue chips" of American companies. However, according to the publication, over the past few months, about $ 600 million have been received by two financial companies specializing in emerging markets – Brazilian payment service StoneCo Ltd. and the blockchain startup Paytm from India. Led investment rounds portfolio investors Berkshire Hathaway Todd Combs and Ted Wexler. According to David Smith Kass, a professor at the Robert…
Venture investor and Bitcoin- maximalist Tim Draper explained why he is so confident in the successful future of the first cryptocurrency. At the Crypto Invest Summit in Los Angeles, he said that Bitcoin is not political in nature, unlike fiat money controlled by states. It is reported by The Daily Hodl . According to Tim Draper, a global and decentralized currency – Bitcoin will gradually replace the existing $ 86 trillion of “political” money. The investor has once again confirmed his cryptographic that bitcoin will reach $ 250 thousand by 2022. He suggested that in the future, Bitcoin will hold…
At Bittrex International, there will be improved listing procedures for tokens and advanced options for qualified users from different countries. A new digital asset trading platform for international customers, built on @BittrexExchange 's technology, is coming soon. Be sure to follow @BittrexIntl for updates. Details: https://t.co/540XY4rM6R pic.twitter.com/xZDntbSxxB – Bittrex (@BittrexExchange) January 29, 2018 p. The international platform will be available to existing Bittrex users, with the exception of US exchange customers. Testing platform Bittrex International will last over the next few weeks. Note that earlier the management of the American Stock Exchange planned to name its division Bittrex Malta .…
New EOS21 protocol “Teleport” tokens between Ethereum and EOS A Spanish software development company has successfully created a protocol that serves as a means of communication between Ethereum and EOS blockchain. The EOS21 protocol serves as a bridge between two block chains, which allows you to "teleport" Ethereum ERC 20 tokens to EOS without loss of functionality . This company has created a protocol that allows communication between Ethereum and EOS. The team explains that they created the code to achieve real transfer of tokens, and not simple cloning of tokens. This process was called “Teletransportation” because this term is…
The planned update of the blockchain anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash was successfully activated on October 28. About this cryptocurrency developers wrote in his blog. Sapling was activated at block 419200. The update includes a new type of protected addresses, which allows you to significantly improve the performance of the entire system: the transaction creation time will be reduced by 90%, and the amount of memory used will be more than 97%. "Sapling activation, which occurred at the historical moment of the second anniversary of cryptocurrency, takes us a step closer to the widespread open, census-resistant and private payment system ," the…
On October 28, unknown persons broke into a small Canadian cryptobirth MapleChange. As reported by the site team on Twitter, all funds were withdrawn from the accounts. At the same time, a few hours after the hacking, the accounts of the exchange in social networks were turned off. Due to a bug, some people have managed to withdraw all funds from our exchange. For this. It is very much like this. Until the investigation is over, we cannot refund anything. – MapleChange (@MapleChangeEx) October 28, 2018 “Because of the bug, unknown persons were able to withdraw all funds from our…
Bitcoin remains stable, but its volume increases by 20% Over the past 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market has shown the same trend as in the last 12 days, with a Bitcoin price of $ 6,400. Bitcoin increased by almost 20 percent from 3.1 billion dollars. US up to $ 3.5 billion. US, hinting at the growth of trading activity in the market for the exchange of cryptocurrencies on the main trading platforms of digital assets. A sharp rise in bitcoin, which has been stagnant since mid-October, could lead to a potential upward positive move in the coming days. Is it…
Weekly trading volume on LocalBitcoins in Russia is about $ 15.27 million (26.5% of global indicators). In second place is Venezuela, where, according to CoinDance, more than $ 7 million (12.2%) were executed, and the top three are from the United States with $ 7 million (11.8%). It should be emphasized that in most countries, the volume of trading on LocalBitcoins showed a noticeable growth only at the end of 2016 or already during the 2017 rally, and only in the US, the figures have steadily increased since 2013. We note that annual inflation in Venezuela has almost reached 200,000%,…
A social network with rewards for communicating in the real world Kuende will implement a distributed registry based on Tendermint and will operate on the Cosmos Network. According to the developers, the project is still in beta testing. Nevertheless, the capitalization of the operator has already reached $ 50 million. [embedded content] Kuende struggles with social isolation, which is the result of a massive transition of online communication and entertainment. The platform developers created an ecosystem within which users get rewards for completing tasks (challenges) during public events, face-to-face meetings with other users, and other social activities in the real…