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The Importance of Account Abstraction in the Decentralized World
Account abstraction explained: Discover how AA is separating user controls from smart contracts and redefining the future of blockchain and the decentralized economy.
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Reddit mentions may help predict changes in cryptocurrency value
Traders could have earned a threefold return on their investments by analysing trends in cryptocurrency forums on Reddit
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Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data [2015] [PDF]
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 ...
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Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency
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.
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Delaware House Passes Historic Blockchain Regulation
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.
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A Gamers Journey Through The Enjin Coin Multiverse
A thought experiment about a blockchain-powered gaming multiverse — written from the viewpoint of an in-game character.
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The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—and Cheaper
In 2014, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja were bitcoin-obsessed engineers hanging out at pizza-fueled meetups in San Francisco. Their conversation often turned to the central problem of bitcoin: How to make it more useful? The bitcoin network’s design effectively limits it to handling three to seven transactions per second, compared with tens of thousands per second for Visa. Poon and Dryja recognized that for bitcoin to reach its full potential, it needed a major fix.
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Kodak’s Dubious Cryptocurrency Gamble
What’s a 130-year-old photo company doing dabbling in cryptocurrency? Either revolutionizing digital rights management or trying to make a quick buck.
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Coinfinity shows first lightning transaction on a Bitcoin ATM - Coinfinity
We have always been trying to be pioneers in the cryptocurrency space. We started the first Bitcoin ATM in Austria and launched the first Austrian web platform for bitcoin trading. Also, we developed Bitcoinbon, which is currently available at over 4.000 merchants across the country. Our newest project also goes with this spirit. In our …
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Bitcoin Fell Off a Cliff and No One Knows How Far It Is to the Bottom
All good things must come to an end—and bad things, too. Bitcoin has had a hell of a ride over the last year, but that all seems to be over as almost 60 percent of its value has vanished in the last month. Enthusiasm in the cryptocurrency market is low as Bitcoin dropped below $8,000 for the first time since November.
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Crypto Rich and Paranoid: Threats Prompt Radical Security in Bitcoin Land
"Grumpynitis," as he's known on Reddit, figured he had taken every precaution he needed to protect his crypto assets. After all, he worked as a security consultant to banks, governments and multinationals. He knew how to thwart hackers. Then he read about the armed robbery. And the kidnapping. And the swatting. And he grew, in his words, "quite paranoid," as he continued to perform his day job and realized the magnitude of the new threats the community was facing.
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Ban Complete: China Blocks Foreign Crypto Exchanges To Counter ‘Financial Risks’
China will add offshore cryptocurrency exchanges and ICO websites to its Great Firewall, the South China Morning Post reported Monday, reported Feb. 5, quoting a publication affiliated with the People’s Bank of China (PBoC). Regulators in China reportedly voiced dissatisfaction with current measures restricting trading on domestic exchange sites, coming to a decision to block foreign sites as well to counter “financial risks”.
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"Past sell-offs were followed by rallies of ~150 percent within 84 days”: Tom Lee remains Bullish on Bitcoin
Many proponents of cryptocurrencies have often been bummed out about the general lack of interest among key U.S. stock market strategists to issue bitcoin price targets. However, the only major strategist from Wall Street who does it regularly seems to have continued betting on the most valued virtual currency in the world (by market cap). In his third such report since bitcoin’s downfall from a mid-December peak, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee has reasserted his optimistic outlook about the fate of the coin. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, Lee was J.P. Morgan’s top equity strategist before he co-founded Fundstrat Global Advisors back in 2014.
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Over $60 billion wiped off value of cryptocurrencies as bitcoin drops to lowest level since Nov 18
Bitcoin fell below $8,000 for the third time in four days on Monday amid a broader sell-off in cryptocurrencies that has seen over $60 billion of valued erased from the market in 24 hours. The price of bitcoin traded as low as $7,598.20 on Monday and sat below the $8,000 mark for most of the morning's trade, according to CoinDesk. It's the lowest price for bitcoin since November 18. CoinDesk's bitcoin price index tracks prices from digital currency exchanges Bitstamp, Coinbase, itBit and Bitfinex.
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China puts the final nail in the cryptocurrency coffin
China is to block all websites related to cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings (ICOs) – including foreign platforms – in a bid to finally quash the market completely. “To prevent financial risks, China will step up measures to remove any onshore or offshore platforms related to virtual currency trading or ICOs,” said an article published on Sunday night by Financial News, a publication affiliated to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC).
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My first steps in crypto-world.
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India Will Not Ban Cryptocurrencies
India has announced that they will not “ban” cryptocurrency but regulate it. With recent circulating rumors of a nation-wide ban on all cryptocurrency trading & exchanges, traders around the world have been selling their digital assets as the market keeps pushing to a bearish volume. Bitcoin has hit a new two month low of $6,500, Ethereum $715, and NEO $89. According to the Post announcement of the Union Budget of India, Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs, reported that the government will declare frameworks to regulate cryptocurrency trading by the end of the current fiscal year – March 31st.
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Bitcoin surges by more than $2,000 in just over a day
Bitcoin rose Wednesday morning along with sharp gains in other major cryptocurrencies. The largest digital currency by market capitalization traded 9.5 percent higher above $8,400 as of 8:12 a.m., ET, according to CoinDesk, whose bitcoin price index tracks prices from four major exchanges. The jump marked a gain of more than $2,000 in just over a day.
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Novogratz Raises $250 Million for Crypto Merchant Bank
Mike Novogratz, the former Wall Street macro trader, raised about $250 million for his cryptocurrency merchant bank during one of the biggest routs yet in Bitcoin, according to a person familiar with the deal. Terry Gou, the billionaire chief executive officer of China’s Foxconn, is among the investors in the private placement, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the transaction isn’t public. Investors committed to buy shares of Novogratz’s firm, Galaxy Digital LP, through a holding company that eventually will trade on Toronto’s TSX Venture Exchange, according to the person.
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Craigslist Is Now Becoming More Crypto-Friendly: Here Are the Current Big Companies That Now Accept Crypto
Around the start of December, Craigslist introduced a new payment option in its ads: Crypto ok! This might not seem huge at first, but consider that Craigslist makes over a million dollars everyday on premium $20+ ad postings. That’s a lot of $20+ ads. It’s cumbersome to message someone asking if they can accept crypto, and it also delays the deal. It probably discourages many buyers and sellers from bringing up crypto altogether. But now that this option is available, no one needs to ask and everyone will be more open to using crypto.
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