In October, the Robinhood mobile app launched in the US states of Rhode Island, Tennessee and Arkansas. Robinhood Crypto has anchored in Rhode Island. Trade Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies commission free. pic.twitter.com/G9WkGcYgmU – Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) October 2, 2018 Robinhood Crypto is rockin '& rollin' in Tennessee. Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies commission free. pic.twitter.com/XhuZJvnkRb – Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) October 5, 2018 Robinhood Crypto is hot-springing into Arkansas! Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are now available in the Natural State, commission free. pic.twitter.com/wqp4OhvTN6 – Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) October 5, 2018 In the previous month, residents of the states of Alaska and…
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Bitcoin continues to intrigue the community with its ability to move without a certain dynamics in recent months. Borders, which we designated earlier, – $ 6000− $ 6800 – remain relevant, because the price has not gained strength in order to break through them to one of the sides. Within the framework of the current week, one can even observe the predominance of movement near the value of $ 6,600: now down by $ 100– $ 150, then upwards by the same amount. It should be noted that from the point of view of the fundamental component of reasons for…
The value of assets managed by Pantera Capital’s Digital Asset Fund investment fund fell by 72.7% over the year. At the same time, only in August, the drawdown was 22.3%. Pantera releases his new #crypto fund. #bitcoin #ethereum pic.twitter.com/Do6D8sxHla – Collin Crypto (@CollinCrypto) October 5, 2018 Note that the cumulative average annual growth rate (CAGR) was 50.3% , and since its inception, the value of the fund’s assets has fallen by 40.8%. Recall the net profit of the Pantera Bitcoin Fund over five years amounted to more than 10,000%. Earlier, the head of the company Dan Morehead said that the…
Co-founder of Blockstream and well-known Bitcoin developer Mark Friedenbach presented a solution for scaling the first cryptocurrency Forward Blocks. According to him, to increase the block size or switch to an alternative PoW-algorithm, you no longer need to perform hard forks. #ForwardBlocks : On-chain / Settlement Capacity Increases Without the Hard-fork w / @MarkFriedenbach pic.twitter.com/MUoOEbJHCk – Scaling Bitcoin (@ScalingBitcoin) October 6, 2018 Friedenbach stressed that the new solution will enhance Bitcoin's resilience in front of censorship through sharding. At the same time, he added that he borrowed the term from the scope of databases and does not mean technology Ethereum.…
has taken place Warner Togami, Vice-President of Blockstream, presented the Reading Bitcoin bitcoin educational resource at the Scaling Bitcoin conference in Tokyo. Work In Progress: Warren Togami @wtogami announcing https://t.co/I0zEszWXwz pic.twitter.com/gRX4L5tcDx – Scaling Bitcoin (@ScalingBitcoin) October 6, 2018 The stated goal of the tool is to translate materials about Bitcoin into different languages, fight against disinformation and train new members of the community. Initially, the materials will be available in Japanese, Chinese and Korean, because, according to Togami, Bitcoin is very popular in these countries, but there is a shortage of high-quality educational content. All publications will be publicly available…
The report of the Financial Crimes Investigation Service of Lithuania (FCIS) states that in two years the clients of European banks made transactions with cryptocurrencies in the amount of € 661 million, Bitcoin.com reports . In the field of view of the Lithuanian regulator, 600 individuals and legal entities, which conducted transactions of € 80,000, were included. The report on the investigation of large-scale digital assets and fiat currency transactions includes banks: Danske Bank from Denmark, Swedbank and SEB from Sweden, Credit Suisse from Switzerland, ING Group from the Netherlands, Luminor, Pervesk and Mister Tango from Lithuania, and Citadele from…
Central banks can start issuing digital versions of their fiat currency. The vice president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, Jim Cunha, announced this at the annual Forbes Summit 30 Under 30 Summit. Given the growing popularity of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, it is not surprising that government financial institutions are interested in both topics. And, according to Cunha, the day when the central banks of different countries will start issuing their blockchain-based cryptocurrencies is not far off. Speaking to the summit participants, the vice-president of the bank predicted that this would happen by 2023. As stated Cunha : Many…
The developers of the EOS blockchain wrote off 1 billion tokens from the player’s balance of the Se7ens application, who took advantage of the vulnerability in the smart contract to charge themselves 100,000 times higher than specified in the rules of the airdrop campaign. According to the terms of the creators of the EOS-game, community members could receive 10 thousand tokens, which in total would amount to half of the 7 billion EOS emissions. The outrage of the “EOS-billionaire” was caused by the fact that after he reported a bug on Reddit, the developers, without further explanation, reduced the amount…
The price of cryptocurrency Maker (MKR) increased by 16% in the last 24 hours, at the moment it is $ 632.64. Recall that MakerDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that has two tokens: Maker (MKR) performing control function DAI is a stablecoin, i.e. the value of this token relative to the US dollar remains constant. At the end of September, it was announced that Maker had unilaterally sold 6% of the total amount of MKR to the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital fund for $ 15 million. Investments were made at about a 25% discount to the current price, and the…
While people tend to view initial Bitcoin emissions through current prices and bewildered by the disproportionate asset allocation, Interchange co-founder Dan Held argues that the structure used by Satoshi Nakamoto was the most fair of all available to him at that time. He published a paper entitled “ The distribution of Bitcoin was fair, ” in which he expressed his thoughts on this matter. Held argues that Bitcoin "continues to challenge conventional thinking" along with its growing popularity. At the same time, he acknowledges that there is still a certain set of prejudices around the protocol associated with the process…