Ever since its inception Bitcoin has never really been private. Although Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper suggests privacy was a design goal of the protocol, government agencies, analytics companies and other interested parties — let’s call them “spies” — have ways to analyze the public blockchain and peer-to-peer network, to cluster Bitcoin addresses and tie them to IP addresses or other identifying information.

The debate about the value of bitcoin has been going on since the inception of cryptocurrencies. Some think that bitcoin is the future of currency and will replace fiat currencies as a whole because of the convenience that it provides. On the other end, there are people who believe that bitcoin will never be able to reach the status of an official currency in any way and will die out soon as we proceed with time. In the middle lie the expert who believe bitcoin is definitely valuable and will persist as we move forward.

The second stage of the Dogethereum bridge was presented on September 5, 2018 at 10 am (PT) and live streamed. The bridge uses “superblocks” to move coins from Dogecoin to Ethereum and collateralization to move coins from Ethereum to Dogecoin. We are excited because this innovation can also be used to bridge other blockchain …

Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 a few minutes before press time, in a move that warrants caution as a possible bull trap. The leading cryptocurrency closed yesterday (as per UTC) above the trendline sloping downwards from the March 5 high and May 5 high, seemingly confirming a long-term bearish-to-bullish trend change. However, the follow-through has been disappointing. As of writing, BTC is changing hands at $6,965 on Bitfinex – down 3.5 percent on a 24-hour basis.

The crypto industry is booming, and it’s unlikely to slow down for a long time. For anyone outside of the community, understanding the basics can be a challenge as cryptoinsiders tend to explain things very technically. Here, I have tried to break down crypto concepts. So if you’d like to understand crypto basics, read on...

Even though members of the US House of Representatives have several times talked down on cryptocurrencies, events in the past couple of months have revealed that some congressmen are secretly investing in crypto assets. Thanks to an ethics memo issued by the House Ethics Committee in June. The mandate required that lawmakers, officers, and employees disclose all cryptocurrency investments over $1,000 in a financial disclosure report to be submitted within 45 days after the purchase of such digital assets.

Cryptocurrencies have taken the world by storm. Between January 2017 and December 2017, the price of Bitcoin rose by over 2,000%—from $953 to $20,089. Right now, the market cap of Bitcoin alone is over $120 billion. However, the most exciting part of blockchain technology isn’t Bitcoin rather, the way it can be applied to change the world we live in.

Leading Japanese mining company GMO Internet has stopped mining Bitcoin Cash (BCH) once again, reports indicate. According to company documents recently made public, the top bitcoin mining firm stopped mining bitcoin cash in July and previously in April. The documents published by Trace Mayer of the Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast show that GMO mined 0 BCH last month, down from 62 coins in June and a high of 287 in February.

No. Though blockchain is a technological breakthrough that offers us low transaction costs and transparency, it is still just a tool that has to be used properly. Even the best 16mm wrench in the world won’t help you with a 12mm nut. That is why crypto community has to implement blockchain technology where it is really needed. We need to find those “rusty 16mm nuts” – find obsolete mechanisms in the spheres of life where transparency, low transaction fees and public ledgers are needed the most.

As part of an in-depth look into the mining giant ahead of its controversial planned initial public offering (IPO), BitMEX considered the potential for the company to recapture its former success while leveling thinly-veiled criticism at its management. “Bitmain can be a legendary crypto company, generating strong shareholder returns for decades to come, but in order to achieve this (and it’s a lot harder than it sounds) the Bitmain management team may need to improve their management of company resources,” the analysis summarizes.

Bitcoin has seen a massive decline in 2018 and it looks like it may get worse before it gets better. It is leaving investors grasping for reasons why the world's top cryptocurrency is falling so hard, with some wondering - could this be it for Bitcoin?

Andreas Antonopoulos, the Bitcoin and blockchain expert, has shown its support for the ultimate scaling solution for Bitcoin known as Lightning Network (LN). During periods with high transacted volumes, the network was overloaded, which led to increase transaction fees and slow processing times.

Cryptocurrency projects have been popping up left, right and center in the past 18 months, but over 800 of those are now dead, adding to comparisons between the current digital coin market and the dotcom bubble in 2000. New digital tokens are created via a process known as an initial coin offering (ICO) where a start-up can issue a new coin which investors can buy. The investor doesn't get an equity stake in the company, but the cryptocurrency that they buy can be used on the company's product. People usually buy into an ICO because the coins are cheap and could offer big returns in the future.

Despite the risks involved with investing in the still nascent cryptocurrency market, one chief security scientist believes that cryptocurrencies are still “absolutely a good thing” — they’ve just got some work to do.

BlackRock has set up a working group to investigate ways the world’s largest asset manager can take advantage of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market despite its chief executive lambasting the bitcoin sector. The $6.3tn investment powerhouse has created a team from different parts of the business to investigate cryptocurrencies and their underlying infrastructure, blockchain, according to two people familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump's former adviser Stephen Kevin Bannon says he owns bitcoin and emphasized that he is developing his own cryptocurrency. Stephen Bannon served as White House Chief Strategist in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump during the initial seven months of Trump's term.

Bitcoin has seen a bombardment of negative publicity and volatility as it’s price plummeted from December highs of almost $20,000 per coin to where it currently sits in the mid $7,000s. However, with this extreme volatility, the trends seemed to have switched this week with many possible catalysts to blame.

Bitcoin continues to inspire bullishness as it breaks resistance levels and climbs its way towards $8,000. In fact, one senior analyst believes Bitcoin “might just be on the cusp of the largest bitcoin bull run in history.”

For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud.

Every year, 10,000 people die due to a stroke in the Netherlands alone. AI and blockchain are part of the innovative technologies being used to improve the outcome.

Bitcoin's price has climbed back above $8,000 for the first time in two months. According to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index, the price of the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization jumped by $200 in just two hours on Wednesday and is changing hands at $8,015 as of press time – that's a level not seen since May 24.

Coinbase launched the investigation in the wake of a sudden surge in the price of Bitcoin Cash hours before the company announced the addition of the asset, which is an offshoot of original cryptocurrency Bitcoin, to its exchange for the first time. The move made Bitcoin Cash accessible to millions of customers who previously had no way to purchase it, pushing up its value as has happened historically when Coinbase...

Bitcoin has recovered somewhat in the past few days, but its value is still almost $200 billion less than when it hit its record high in December 2017. The flagship cryptocurrency is trading just above $8,400 on Wednesday, according to CoinDesk, but that's still some 58 percent off the $19,783.21 record from December. Market capitalization or value is down by almost $200 billion since then.

Musicians get a lot of revenue from their live performances, but they lose income due to too many middlemen. So musician Jason Robert is creating a blockchain-based event ticketing platform to cut down on fraud, reduce price gouging, and help maintain the health of the live entertainment industry.

In towns and cities surrounding the Niagara Falls, US and Canadian authorities are grappling with a surge in bitcoin miners earning big bucks thanks to cheap hydroelectric power.

Morgan Stanley appointed Andrew Peel as head of digital asset markets. The update comes from his LinkedIn profile, where the new position is listed. He leaves Credit Suisse, after twelve years with the bank, where his latest job was vice president of sales and trading innovation, although he spent the majority of his stay in the Delta One desk. Peel will be traveling between London and Zurich for his new role, which isn’t that surprising given how a lot of financial services companies are limiting their exposure to the UK in the wake of Brexit.

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Grammy-nominated musician Akon is launching his own cryptocurrency, which is aptly called Akoin. The Senegalese-born entertainer/entrepreneur announced his new project during a panel at the Cannes Lions Festival, where he explained his motivations of using the blockchain technology towards improving the conditions in Africa.

Pantera Capital officials continue to maintain an upbeat outlook for cryptocurrency amidst the current market downturn. In an ICO and digital asset funds conference call Tuesday, CEO and chief investment officer Dan Morehead said blockchains are the next step in the evolution of equity, while cryptocurrency is a superior form of currency. He called bitcoin the biggest disruption of this generation.

A newly published Coinbase patent seeks to protect a way of making bitcoin purchases more secure for customers. In the filing, published August 14, the U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange outlined how it could develop a payment portal which would allow users to pay using bitcoin directly from their digital wallet.

Trying to have a baby? Eating fish might help. Researchers interviewed 501 couples who were trying to get pregnant without medical assistance. All kept diaries on their diet and other health and behavioral habits, including fish consumption and frequency of sexual intercourse. They followed the pairs for a year or until pregnancy.

An associate researcher at University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Katrina Kelly-Pitou in her article has stated that bitcoin is not "a bad guy". In her article, she has shed light on cryptocurrency mining. In her opinion, the electricity consumption for carrying out bitcoin mining is not a environmental crisis that hovers all over the world. Kelly- Pitou has expressed herself through a vivid research work in an article of The Conversation. It happens to be a media outlet dealing with the academic field and being non-profitable in purpose.

The recent increase in reported incidents of surveillance and security breaches compromising users’ privacy call into question the current model, in which third-parties collect and control massive amounts of personal data. Bitcoin has demonstrated in the financial space that trusted, auditable computing is possible using a decentralized network of peers accompanied by a public ledger. In this paper, we describe a decentralized personal data management system ...

We have sat here for the last 3 years seeing only infrastructure apps like wallets and exchanges emerge on top of Bitcoin. Why is that? My theory has been that the scripting language in Bitcoin — the piece of every Bitcoin transaction that lets you run a little software program along with it — is too restrictive. Enter Ethereum. Ethereum has taken what was a four function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full fledged computer.

The state of Delaware has passed amendments to state law that make explicit the right to trade stocks on a blockchain, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Crammed in at the last minute before the state House went into recess, the measures were part of a broader series of amendments that legally recognized any number of records being stored on a blockchain.