Bitcoin is a system with unique monetary attributes based on a disruptive technology called Blockchain. Without the Blockchain technology, Bitcoin could not work. However, without Bitcoin, the Blockchain is just one of many data storage technologies. It is the combination of Bitcoin and Blockchain that represents the unique invention that will revolutionize the world of the future. Bitcoin is a decentralized system that works through the Internet today. Every user on the network can become a full node and have their own version of the Bitcoin Blockchain.

The size of Bitcoin’s whole network—which full nodes need to synchronize—has reached a new milestone. The size of the full Bitcoin blockchain exceeded 300 gigabytes of data on September 19, according to Blockchain.com. This is the size of the full Bitcoin transaction history for the past 10 years. It’s also the amount of information full mining nodes need to download and keep on their hard drives after synchronizing with Bitcoin’s network.

Several factors within the cryptocurrency market are essential determinants of their outcome. Some of them are volatility, demand, regulations, media presence, listings, technological advancements, etc. One that most people do not account for is the crypto whales. Over the past couple of months, the number of crypto whales has been rising as more people get into cryptocurrency trading. Due to the availability of more cryptocurrencies, professional traders can earn more coins presenting the opportunity to become whales.

The business intelligence company told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday it "may increase" its bitcoin (BTC) holdings beyond the $250 million haul purchased in August.

Bitcoin doesn’t need “smart contracts” for the same reason your bathroom scale doesn’t need to exercise. Both are there to provide you with an objective standard. If you are having difficulty with that standard, it is you that needs to change, not the standard.

The financial space was rocked by the news that German fintech group Wirecard filed for insolvency owing €3.5bn. Not only a financial failure but also a seemingly “elaborate and sophisticated fraud,” according to EY, the company’s auditor for more than a decade.

Bitcoin can benefit the black community and help create leverage against the current financial system, author Isaiah Jackson told the Decrypt Daily podcast.

The scammers have raised $20,000 — and rising — in less than an hour.

Since the dawn of civilisation, from barter to bitcoin, the very meaning of the word ‘currency’ has never stood still. Even in the current century, the core idea of what currency “is” continues to be malleable by group behaviour and innovation. Fiat currencies fall (mostly inflation led — case in point, Zimbabwean Dollar and Venezuelan Bolivar) but exchange of value, trades and transactions continues to take place with alternative forms of exchange. As a result, money will very likely evolve to a new medium.

Although cryptocurrencies have been around for more than ten years and Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009, there is still a lot of skepticism around the crypto industry. Despite the market’s annual capitalization growth, many institutions in traditional finance do not recognize the role of digital assets in the global economy.

Bitcoin prices take flight on Monday.

The likelihood of bitcoin challenging record highs by the end of the year may have have increased with the cryptocurrency’s violation of major price resistance – but don’t raise your hopes too high just yet.

Bitcoin and Ethereum crashed by 12% and 20% respectively in about 6 minutes as more than $1 billion of positions were liquidated.

The decentralized nature of Bitcoin is what makes it stand out compared to traditional, tightly controlled fiat currencies, US Congressman Tom Emmer said yesterday, during the “Pomp Podcast” hosted by Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano.

Whether or not Bitcoin is halal has been a point of contention for many Muslims. But the answer depends mostly on its intended use.

August 5, 2020, will forever remain engraved in the history of gold. Indeed, it is the day when an ounce of gold surpassed the $2,000 price for the first time in its history. Gold began the year 2020 at an already very high level of $1,520 an ounce. Aside from the significant drop it experienced a few days during the liquidity crisis that hit the world in March 2020, the gold price has never stopped to rise this year.

One of the biggest undercurrents to Bitcoin's success today is demographics. The study of human beings may seem to have nothing to do with magical internet money, yet data begs to differ. Millennials and then the "Zoomers" of Gen Z will drive the adoption of Bitcoin like never before, with a backdrop of a great wealth transfer driving record levels of investment in the asset.

US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will soon be offering its customers a fiat currency loan facility that is backed by a portion of their own Bitcoin holdings. In one of its latest blog posts published on August 13, Coinbase confirmed that users in select states within America have been invited to sign up for a waiting list in order to borrow up to 30 percent of their Bitcoin holdings.

Given crypto #blockchain myriad memes, metaphors i.e., "hashgraph" "Ether gas"are creating new data elements syntax lexicons... DoD / NATO's structured data exchange (mapped to symbol sets for A.I - man - machine interface) took decades to achieve consensus. Why reinvent the wheel? https://executiveacademy.at/en/news/detail/new-book-blockchain-babel-by-igor-pejic/ #blockchain #consensus #simple

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