[ANNOUNCE] hash cash postage implementation The date is March 28, 1997, when the 2,000-or-so subscribers of the Cypherpunks mailing list receive an email with the above header in their inbox. The sender is a 26-year-old British postdoc at the University of Exeter, a young cryptographer and prolific contributor to the mailing list named Dr. Adam […]
The post Bitcoin News Summary – June 4, 2018 appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. Español Русский Here’s what happened this week in Bitcoin in 99 seconds. The National Tax Agency of Japan revealed that 331 crypto traders earned more than $1 million Dollars in profit over the course of 2017. In further news […]
Who knew that the Czech Republic was so big on crypto? The country now has 46 bitcoin ATMs with 10 just being deployed in the Prague subway system. It’s probably good news then that the price of bitcoin has seemed to find a relatively stable triangle on its price volatility to encourage more real world […]
Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, has explained in a recent OmiseGO AMA session that with second-layer solutions such as Sharding and Plasma, the Ethereum network will eventually be able to process 1 million transactions per second and potentially more than 100 million transactions per second. Scalability Struggles of Leading Blockchain Networks Previously, at various […]
The late 2017 was rightly termed as the Forks season, witnessing a range of junk copies of the mainstream currencies as well as successful forks like Bitcoin Gold (BTG). The BTG fork minimizes the impact of big miners like Bitmain, on the network and in general, is called “the backup copy of Bitcoin”. And one […]
The European Union approved in 2016 a strict legislation focused on the protection of user data called GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation. While it was approved two years ago, the law provided a transition period for companies to adjust before its actual implementation which occurred on May 25. According to The Guardian, the new European […]
Despite the slowdown in overall cryptocurrency prices, investment in upcoming projects, in the form of initial coin offerings (ICOs), has not slowed down one bit. In fact, the amount of investment made into these projects has only skyrocketed. ICOs Investment on the Rise CoinSchedule reported that over $9.4 billion has been invested into ICOs in […]
Payment technology has introduced a high degree of convenience for consumers globally. When that technology does not work as advertised, a very problematic scenario ensues. Visa suffered from major outages across Europe for most of the day on Friday. This highlights the need for alternative solutions, including cash and even cryptocurrency. The Visa Outage in […]
At the True North tech conference earlier this week, Kik CEO Ted Livingston expressed his surprising opinion about blockchain: “Almost nobody should be looking at it.” Kin Founder Belittles the Blockchain What made the statement highly pessimistic is the fact that Livingston raised over $100 million via an Initial Coin Offering for his company in […]
CoinDesk gives our best guess of how the distributed launch of the much-anticipated EOS software can be expected to unfold.