Qtum is an up-and-coming smart contract platform set to launch in September of this year. Sometimes ambitiously referring to itself as “China’s Ethereum,” the project recently raised $15 million in three days through a successful crowdsale or “Initial Coin Offering” (ICO). On a technical level, the Qtum blockchain will resemble Bitcoin, but will integrate an […]
Spearheaded by Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group (DCG), over 50 companies signed and published on Medium a “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement” this week. The agreement intends to put an end to Bitcoin’s long-lasting scaling debate. But whether it actually will is a different question. Here’s what the agreement entails, how it compares to existing scaling proposals […]
Money continues to flood into cryptographic assets, with bitcoin, ether and zcash setting new highs today amid a broader market boom. Source
Creditbit dev team in a recent post on crypto discussion forum, Bitcoin Talk, updated the community regarding the status of the Creditbit community and also updated them about the development in markets/media. Community update The update post informed that there has been a lot going on and the dev team wishes to see an increased […]
“Whatever we build today will probably have to be changed again.” So said Eiki Hatakeyama of the Western Asset Management Company, highlighting a sense of realism that came through in a series of workshops sponsored by distributed ledger consortium R3 during CoinDesk’s Consensus 2017 conference. Discussions revolved around the rapidly changing marketplace – and the difficulty of keeping up, even within […]
Voila! What a month it has been for blockchain and crypto world. From prices of crypto currencies skyrocketing to Governments accepting it as a currency, it has put the critics in a state of bewilderment. In March last year, the Japanese cabinet recognized virtual currencies like bitcoin to have the same properties as money as […]
We are coming to the close of the European session, and the US afternoon is well underway. In this morning’s bitcoin price analysis, we noted that action over the last few days implied plenty of further upside potential, and we set up against price with a relatively wide range accordingly. Our primary target was a breakout […]
Exchange operators take the stage at Consensus 2017 to talk tokens, ICOs and building an exchange from scratch. Source
The post Bitcoin Volatility Explained appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. Bitcoin Price Volatility (measured by % of change) last 30 day estimate % last 60 day estimate % Defining Bitcoin Volatility Volatility refers to “how much price jumps up and down over time.” The VIX is the most widely-followed measure of volatility and serves as a […]
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) has announced that 86 new members have joined the initiative that aims to bolster innovation around the Ethereum blockchain. The EEA, founded by corporate giants such as Microsoft, Intel and BP, views the Ethereum blockchain as a potential treasure trove of innovative opportunity. Ethereum cryptocurrency founder Vitalik Buterin has praised […]