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Life in Crypto Time

Trading expert Tim Enneking compares the crypto asset space with the early days of the internet, where time just seemed to fly faster. Source

Bitcoin Price Analysis: Recent Bull Run Calls for a Level Head

Over the course of three days, BTC-USD managed to climb $1,100 in value — a near 60 percent growth. Shortly after reaching a local high in the mid $2,900s, it immediately retraced down to the mid $2,700s where, at the time of this article, it is currently sitting. Is this price growth sustainable? Is there […]

Op Ed: No Governance for Old Men: Coordinating Protocol Upgrades in the Future

Make no mistake. We are witnessing a high-stakes protocol standards battle play out in real time. And it is just as important as last century’s battle for the internet’s TCP standard.  Current capacity constraints on the Bitcoin blockchain have brought us to this impasse. The Bitcoin protocol, as the dominant value transfer “network effect” leader, […]

BIP 91 Has Locked In. Here’s What That Means (and What It Does Not)

It looks as if Bitcoin is getting Segregated Witness. Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 91 (BIP 91) just locked in. Up to 90 percent of all hash power signaled support for this soft fork, which implies miners intend, in turn, to trigger Segregated Witness (SegWit) activation. By extension, this should make BIP 148 obsolete and August 1 […]

White Hats Step In to Save Funds from Vulnerable Ether Wallets

At 11:30 a.m. (CDT) on July 19, 2017, a hacker managed to steal 153,000 ETH (approximately $32 million at the time) from three Ethereum wallets by exploiting a vulnerability within the wallets’ multi-signature verification. The affected wallets include the ones using Parity client version 1.5 or later. According to a tweet by Project Lead Manuel […]

Hansa Market Taken Down in Global Law Enforcement Operation

After darknet market AlphaBay went offline on July 4, many of its users migrated to Hansa Market — and played right into the hands of an “Operation Bayonet,” a coordinated international law enforcement action. Today, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the Europol published press releases stating that Hansa Market has also been shut […]