What Traditional Investors Think About Bitcoin

What Traditional Investors Think About Bitcoin

Earlier this week, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reiterated his bullish sentiments towards the flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin, touting it to have had “massive value creation” against the odds in the face of the current bear market.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Wozniak explained how he owned some Bitcoins as an experiment to determine its barter value around the world and not as an investor, but had to sell most of his holdings during the all-time high of December 2017, in order to reduce his worries about the market’s volatility. He said:

“I don’t want to be one of those people watching the price of Bitcoin, so I sold out.”

However, he still dabbles in Bitcoin-related devices, probably because of the fact that the coins he sold earlier are now worth more than the value he sold for. His overall take on the market dynamics of crypto as he compared it to the stocks market was that of a psychology factor relative to fear as seen in the fear of missing out (FOMO) when prices go up and that of the fear, uncertainty, and doubts (FUD) which triggers massive selling when prices begin a downtrend.

Recently, billionaire Elon Musk praised Bitcoin as having a brilliant structure, and was completely bullish on the cryptocurrency industry, suggesting that it provides a far better method to transfer value than “pieces of paper”, only that he worried that Bitcoin’s computational requirement was energy intensive.

Billionaire Bill Gates had opined back in 2017 that “Bitcoin is better than [fiat] currency” in that it’s more convenient when it comes to large transactions and considerably cheaper. However, in 2018 he told the media that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are “kind of a pure ‘greater fool theory’ type of investment” and that he would short Bitcoin if he could.

Billionaire and business tycoon Warren Buffett has always had a hostile opinion towards bitcoin and recently called it a delusion even though he thought the blockchain is ingenious. Still, it’s an upgrade from his usual accusations of it being “rat poison”.

Tech mogul John McAfee has always been one with probably the most extreme bullish expectations for the crypto industry and recently took to Twitter, setting a hard date on his USD 1 million per Bitcoin prediction.

Mainstream investors and top of the global rich list have taken sides on the future of the cryptocurrency industry, and perhaps, the rationale behind their stance stems from the level of understanding of what the blockchain, and cryptocurrency are all about.

As the industry continues to mature, one possible outcome may include a partial win-over of some of the nay-sayers as has been the case with CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon, who was also one of those who called Bitcoin a fraud. Not exactly a ‘win-over’, as he seems to still maintain his stance, however, the irony of the recent launch of its JPM Coin, possibly inspired by the technology underlying Bitcoin still is puzzling. If Bitcoin is a fraud, the technology behind it should be considered one too.

 

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Ethereum Upgrades as Hard Forks Activate on Blockchain

Two long-anticipated upgrades appear to have officially activated on the ethereum blockchain, the world’s second-largest by market value, without incident. At 19:57 (UTC), the sixth and seventh system-wide upgrades to the software, dubbed Constantinople and St. Petersburg, respectively, rolled out on the main network at block number 7,280,000. As seen on blockchain monitoring website Fork Monitor, there is […]

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Stanford Student Calls Out Crypto Professor for Inaccurate Bitcoin Lecture

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance.” According to Brown, the presentation contained “multiple misstatements” about Bitcoin and its fundamentals.After the presentation, Brown was dissatisfied with how Bitcoin was referenced by Athey during the lecture to a room comprised (mostly) of people who were unfamiliar with the fundamental concepts behind the technology. This prompted him to write an email to the Stanford Graduate School Board, expressing his concerns.Brown says that the only response he has received from the university thus far is an email stating, “We will get back to you on this.” That’s when he posted his complaint on Twitter.What She Got WrongAthey, who Brown told Bitcoin Magazine is also slated to teach an entire course at Stanford next semester called “Cryptocurrencies,” claimed that not only is Bitcoin &quot;controlled by a small group of miners in China,&quot; but that it also “wastes electricity by stealing from rivers to solve useless math problems.” Athey also mentioned that bitcoin is &quot;secured economically and not cryptographically.&quot;In her presentation degrading the first digital, decentralized currency, Athey drew comparisons to what she considered a better solution in Ripple’s technology, using XRP. Specifically, she cited exchange rate volatility, trust issues with exchanges, and long transaction times as drawbacks to using Bitcoin (stating that, subsequently, exchanges needed to buy bitcoin). Athey then, according to her presentation, explained how Ripple’s XRP, xRapid API, and overall consensus mechanism provide an alternative that is faster, cheaper, more secure, and more energy friendly than Bitcoin.In protest, Brown composed a letter addressed to the Graduate School of Business, expressing his thoughts that certain statements about Bitcoin should have been subject to “high caliber discussion and peer review.”In addressing Athey’s claims against Bitcoin, Brown properly explained where Athey missed key concepts.Addressing her claim on mining centralization by a small group in China, Brown explained that Athey was conflating mining nodes with full nodes and had used this misrepresentation to position Ripple as a better alternative to Bitcoin. He also countered by explaining that miners often compile their resources together in a mining pool, but there are many individual miners in these pools and not one entity can completely control Bitcoin.To Athey’s claim that Bitcoin is secured economically and not cryptographically, Brown pointed out that she is once again conflating two different things: Stealing funds by cracking the encryption of the wallet and using mining power to 51% attack a network.Conflict of Interest?As the matter came to light on Twitter, it was pointed out that Athey was welcomed to the Ripple Labs Board of Directors back in April 2014, where she still maintains an active role. When Nic Carter asked on Twitter if Athey had made any disclosure before her presentation, she replied directly: “Five minute verbal introduction discussing my background in the space — no way to miss it!”Whether or not Athey had any ill-intent in her presentation, Brown told Bitcoin Magazine that is not what mattered to him.“It concerns me that my classmates’ first introduction to Bitcoin contained severe factual errors along with strong anti-Bitcoin rhetoric. The academy is not a place for marketing, but rigorously testing ideas. If a professor has a potential conflict of interest, they should be held to the highest standards of scrutiny and peer review.“That being said, Bitcoin is a creature of the internet. Its properties are difficult for academics to appreciate due to its deeply interdisciplinary and evolutionary nature. This makes it difficult for developing a curriculum because of the siloed design of academic disciplines and the slow pace of the peer review process. The internet will always be the best place to pursue a Bitcoin education.”<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Thai SEC Approves ETC, LTC, BCH for ICOs, Trading

Thai SEC Approves ETC, LTC, BCH for ICOs, Trading

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expanded its list of approved cryptocurrencies for use in initial coin offerings (ICOs) and as base trading pairs, according to an official statement from the SEC today.

These latest updates to the SEC’s approved list include Ethereum Classic (ETC), Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), joining Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) as cryptocurrencies that can be used in compliance with the country’s national regulations. The SEC reiterated that it does not, however, class any of the above as legal tender, as stipulated in its statement.

The decision comes in accordance with the Royal Decree on Digital Asset Business BE 2561 but does not accord either of the currencies a guarantee of any other status.

Thailand is slowly moving its policies in a pro-cryptocurrency direction, last December announcing a public hearing to attempt to remove the obstacles associated with holding ICOs whilst keeping investors protected. The SEC hopes to allow private ICOs to take place without the registration statements and draft prospectus’ that are currently required.

A recent amendment to the Securities and Exchange Act also allows for tokenized securities such as stocks and bonds to be issued via blockchain, effective later this year.

 

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Facebook Coin Rumors Continue to Circulate: What’s the Truth?

Facebook Coin

There have been Facebook coin rumors for months in the crypto community and today, the New York Times stirred them up again. According to the New York Times report, Facebook is currently working on its own digital currency to integrate into its messaging services.

Facebook Coin Rumors

A few months ago, Bloomberg released an article about Facebook developing its own stablecoin to be used on its WhatsApp messaging app. This was the start of the rumor mill, although many have discussed in the past the potential of the advertising giant adopting a digital currency.

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Russia Crypto Adoption: President Putin Orders Crypto Regulations

Russia Crypto Adoption

According to a document published on the Russian President’s official website, Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian Government to adopt cryptocurrency regulations by July 1st this year. The move will help Russia crypto adoption.

Setting the deadline, the Russian President has ordered the body to enforce crypto-related regulation for the digital assets industry.

Russia Crypto Adoption

The transcript reads the following:

“Federal laws aimed at the development of the digital economy, including determining the procedure for conducting civil law transactions in electronic form, as well as regulating digital financial assets and attracting ...

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Blockchain Advocacy Coalition Sponsors Bill to Allow Crypto for Legal Cannabis Tax

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Activist group Blockchain Advocacy Coalition (BAC) has sponsored a bill in California’s 19th State Assembly District, set to allow legal cannabis businesses in the district to pay their state taxes using cryptocurrency. The bill was proposed by Assemblymember Phil Ting on February 20, 2019.If put into law, it would affect the district’s many cannabis businesses, particularly all of those in San Francisco.Logistical Barriers: Delivering Bags of CashOne of the most prominent driving factors behind this bill, and where the decentralized nature of financial blockchain technology really has a chance to shine, is the fact that banks lack cooperation with these businesses. Citing a conflict with federal law, many financial institutions refuse to let cannabis businesses open bank accounts, thereby cutting off this multibillion-dollar industry from using digital money transfers.“The current recommendation from the state of California to cannabis businesses is that they use armored vehicles to pay their taxes,” said Alexandra Medina of the BAC. “That’s inefficient and risky. It’s closer to how one might pay taxes during the gold rush, with a stage coach and gunman, than how you would expect California to accept taxes in 2019.”This current approach is a logistical “nightmare for cities, the state and businesses,” she claimed. It’s dangerous to money couriers, and it forces revenue agencies “to count tens of thousands of bills,” causing tax offices to “smell like weed and fabric softener.”So far, there has been little progress made to alleviate the situation. “The previous state treasurer convened a working group to solve this issue, and a year later their report did not have a solution,” said Medina. The physical cash transport is “a problem the state has tried and failed to solve.”Opportunities for Blockchain and Open FinanceMedina called the new bill “a great use case for blockchain and open finance.” To this end, the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition will help educate policymakers about the basics of digital currency and blockchain technology in the hopes of getting the bill passed.The group has already hosted roundtables for the state’s new treasurer, Fiona Ma, and Governor Gavin Newsom. “They are both very tech savvy and innovative leaders for our state,” said Medina. “Now is a really good time to introduce something like this.”In the grander scheme, Medina believes that “California has the opportunity to turn around a lack of regulatory clarity” and serve as an example for other states in the Union.Getting the Bill PassedAt present, getting the bill passed is the group’s main concern. The bill recommends using a stablecoin for these tax payments, but in its current form it will not be prescribing a specific stablecoin. For now, according to Medina, the bill’s supporters will “work to create standards for what kind of coins and wallets the state uses to make sure we have the highest degree of stability and safety for both the state and businesses.”Medina claimed that the group has already supported two bills that were signed into law in the last year. This new bill will start going through the assembly committee(s) in March and April and has until the end of May to pass the Assembly. Then it will repeat the process with the Senate; it has to get through committee and through the Senate floor by September 13, 2019. If all of these processes go smoothly, and the governor signs it into law by October 13, 2019, Medina expects the bill to be implemented by June 2020.Medina said that in the BAC’s previous campaigns, over 50 businesses signed support letters for their initiatives, and the group “would like an even stronger showing this year.”She added that the group has plans to organize “a blockchain education day, where industry advocates can meet with legislators 1:1 and answer questions about the technology and bill,” before the vote reaches the Senate.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition. But the company in question, specifically the ties it has to the unethical practices of one of its predecessors, suggests that the monolithic Coinbase may be joining the oligarchic ranks of its privacy-hostile, too-big-for-consumer-comfort counterparts in legacy tech.The Ties That DamnOn its website, Italian blockchain analysis company Neutrino proudly advertises that its proprietary software offers all-in-one “solutions for law enforcement” and “financial services.” Its two flagships, XFlow nSpect and XFlow nSight, are billed as “comprehensive solution[s] for monitoring[,] analyzing and tracking cryptocurrency flows across multiple blockchains.” nSight was built to help exchanges and financial service companies like Coinbase to stay regulatorily compliant. nSpect, on the other hand, was built for “criminal investigations and intelligence gathering” and is specifically marketed toward law enforcement.Continuing on with their work at Coinbase, the Neutrino team, a three-man show consisting of CEO Giancarlo Russo, CRO Marco Valleri and CTO Alberto Ornaghi, are no strangers to building complex computer monitoring software for law agencies.In another life, they did it as Hacking Team, the notorious Italian software services firm whose dubious business practices made them an antagonist of the wider tech and privacy community. Hacking Team got their start when Valleri and Ornaghi (under the aliases NaGa and ALoR) sold man-in-the-middle attack software to the police force of Milan, Italy, in 2003. These two founders would later be joined by Russo, who acted as COO of the company.Throughout its history, Hacking Team sold its services to oppressive regimes in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Sudan, Kazakhstan, Bahrain and Turkey, among others. These services centered around Hacking Team’s proprietary Remote Control System (RCS) software, a Trojan horse malware that gives users the ability to remotely access files, record keystrokes, take photos and read emails from any infected device.Email leaks reported by The Intercept trace the team’s cyber footprints to human rights abuses around the world. Hacking Team’s RCS technology was used by the Ethiopian government (which ranks as one of the most oppressive in Africa, with a penchant for silencing free speech) to surveil and interfere with the operations of Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio, a news outlet run by Ethiopian expats. The technology helped the Turkish government to spy on an American, and it was also sold to the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service in 2012 for a whopping €960,000 (around $1,210,000 at the time), though the team shuttered Sudan’s access to their software in 2014 when the government’s clumsy implementation of the software showed that they weren’t “enough prepared for the product usage,” Hacking Team emails reveal. It also played its part in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia and the assault and arrest of UAE activist Ahmed Mansoor.Reporters Without Borders labeled Hacking Team as one of five “Enemies of the Internet” in 2013 for its role in humanitarian abuses against journalists.During the 2012 uprisings in Morocco that were inspired by the Arab Spring movement, RCS, under the control of the Moroccan government, singled out Mamfakinch.com, an outlet that published journalists who were vocal critics of the regime. The leaked emails prove that Hacking Team had been selling its software to Morocco since 2010. This would culminate in Mamfakinch’s hardware being infected by a Trojan horse virus, which originally masqueraded as a news tip.“Mamfakinch.com came as the first citizen media portal to document protests, providing tools like mapping of protests and also articles. At the time it started, I was not a member. I was asked to join later by one of the co-founders,” Zineb, a pro-democracy activist who was involved with Mamfakinch, told Bitcoin Magazine.The outlet employed the help of the Citizen Lab to dismantle the virus and trace it back to its Hacking Team source, though most of the damage had already been done by the time they consulted this help.“Moroccan activists suffer tremendously from what government surveillance provides them with, and former ones like myself have seen what that can be like. From physical threats to family threats, and even worse threats to fellow activists who were part of the human rights and digital rights effort in Morocco,” she said.Hacking Team repeatedly refused to disclose its clients, and the internal emails betray that, more often than not, when their ties to human rights abuses and oppressive regimes were unearthed by international media, they always tried to mitigate the scrutiny and severity of the ensuing bad press.In June of 2014, a U.N. panel inquired into Hacking Team’s business with Sudan for violating sanctions regarding weapons exports to the country. The U.N. considered Hacking Team’s software a weapon of sorts, something that Russo refutes in internal emails while also emphasizing that the team wants to keep its name clear from any records regarding the investigation.“It looks like their focus is to trace every single armament,” wrote Russo. “We absolutely need to avoid being mentioned in these documents.”Why Coinbase (and We) Should CareThe U.N. investigative panel would mark the beginning of Hacking Team’s unraveling. By March 2016, the Italian government revoked Hacking Team’s export license after an Italian PhD student was murdered in Cairo, Egypt. Hacking Team’s software was allegedly involved in the crime. With the company’s revenue streams severely restricted, Hacking Team was on its last financial leg.Conveniently, Neutrino was founded the same year that Italian officials revoked Hacking Team’s export license, “very obviously around the time that they would have been desperate for money and needing to start fresh somehow,” Janine, a member of crypto podcast Block Digest who initially raised the alarm about Hacking Team and Neutrino’s ties, told Bitcoin Magazine.Bitcoin Magazine spoke to Janine to learn more about the possible ramifications of this acquisition. In addition to her work at Block Digest, Janine has been a consistent and reliable whistleblower for industry developments that could indicate privacy threats. In the past, she also helped dissect community concerns surrounding the privacy implications of Bitfury’s Peach Lightning suite.As with the Bitfury situation, Janine has covered every angle of Neutrino and Hacking Team’s shared past on Twitter, and she helped Block Digest produce a two-hour segment on the subject, as well.<br /> Hacking Team has been listed as an &quot;Enemy of the Internet&quot; by @RSF_inter because they &quot;sell products that are used by authoritarian governments to commit violations of human rights and freedom of information.&quot; https://ift.tt/2BWZV9Y; Janine (@J9Roem) February 20, 2019<br /><br /><br /><br />Since Neutrino was acquired by Coinbase, the team is more than financially secure. Furthermore, as part of the deal, it will continue to act autonomously out of Coinbase’s London office. The exchange framed the buyout as a means to outfit itself with the proper tools to remain KYC- and AML-compliant with regulators. Janine points out that the company will likely make use of XFlow nSight to this end, though she’s also worried that Neutrino’s technology will come with more serious privacy trade-offs than nSight’s base functionality.“The chain analysis stuff is not really that interesting to me; it is how much access Coinbase will give to Neutrino,” she told Bitcoin Magazine.More specifically, she expressed concern about Money Module, a Hacking Team software that allows the user to access devices and private keys. Janine is also suspicious of the backdoors that Hacking Team coded into their software: “They likely had access to whatever data these government clients were collecting from their targets.”If Coinbase forks over too much data to Neutrino for transaction analysis, and if a backdoor to the software exists in tandem with Money Module, this could spell disaster for user privacy and private key security.That this backdoor may exist alongside a vehicle for stealing user funds is disturbing — even more disturbing, Janine and other critics have suggested, is Coinbase’s ability to overlook the history of unethical business practices of Neutrino’s team.When Bitcoin Magazine reached out to Coinbase to ask about the acquisition and how it plans to use Neutrino, the exchange sent back a general statement, indicating that they are aware of and don’t condone Hacking Team’s practices. But this past behavior is not enough for Coinbase to distance themselves from a team whose expertise is in line with its vision:We are aware that Neutrino’s co-founders previously worked at Hacking Team, which we reviewed as part of our security, technical and hiring diligence. Coinbase does not condone nor will it defend the actions of Hacking Team. Increasingly, third-party blockchain analysis companies are requesting customer data from cryptocurrency companies that they serve. It was important for Coinbase to bring this function in-house to fully control and protect our customers’ data and Neutrino’s technology was the best we encountered in the space to achieve this goal.Zineb, who is also a crypto enthusiast, told us that it’s disheartening to see the same privacy-compromising and autocratic software eke its way into the cryptocurrency space. You expect this from the legacy tech industry, she expressed, but you don’t expect it in an industry whose tenets rest on privacy, freedom and censorship resistance.“To have Coinbase acquire anything run by anyone ever associated with Hacking Team is alarming,” she said. “Perhaps Coinbase is clueless as to WHY it’s important to protect [these virtues], but I’m not. When banks freeze or easily hand over private financial information of dissidents in autocratic countries, that’s when a system like [Bitcoin] is needed.“They say this is to protect user data. But how can they possibly trust that those who engaged in such appalling actions would somehow have Coinbase user data privacy’s best interest at heart? I can’t say much for others but I can only speak for myself: I won’t be using any of their tools in the future, and shame on them for allowing the Hacking Team people to continue to thrive.&quot;<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Russia Sets 1st July Deadline for Crypto Regulation

Russia Sets 1st July As New Deadline For Crypto Regulation

Cryptocurrency regulation in Russia has yet again been given a final deadline as President Vladimir Putin has given instructions to the Federal Assembly to come up with a regulatory framework for the digital asset industry.

The Presidential Address posted on the Kremlin website specifically issued orders to Volodin Vyacheslav Viktorovich and Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich to draw up a working legal framework “aimed at the development of the digital economy, including determining the procedure for conducting civil law transactions in electronic form, as well as regulating digital financial assets and attracting financial resources using digital technologies”. The deadline was set at 1 July 2019.

Up until now, a crypto regulation draft had been in the works with several edits and criticism accompany the initial draft. With as much vagueness present from the onset, there still has not been a complete working draft for the government to enforce. A lobby group had also attempted to provide an alternative cryptocurrency legislation bill which it claimed will be more efficient, addressing the contradictions in the initial draft.

In 2018, tendencies had been drawn against Bitcoin. The chairman of the financial market committee in Duma Anatoly Aksakov had said:

“Earlier we had some thoughts on Bitcoins, on their integration into our economic system. But as we decided we don’t need them, these ambiguous Bitcoins.”

Moreover, early developments had included renaming cryptocurrencies to digital rights.

More so, Putin may have been pro-blockchain, suggesting so when he claimed Russia won’t be left behind in the blockchain race, but was certainly doubleminded about crypto such that he had at some point considered a state-backed currency dubbed the cryptoruble, however, the project was later shot down.

Further, there had been rumors that the country was planning a huge investment in Bitcoin, while this was later dismissed as rumors, economist Vladislav Ginko – who originally provided the speculations – stood by his initial claims.

In many parts of the world, cryptocurrency regulations remain important subjects yet have been in the gray areas, perhaps because of the nascent nature of the emerging asset class and its evolving markets.

Recently, India’s Supreme Court had ordered the financial regulatory watchdog to come up with a framework on cryptocurrency in order to proceed with the case involving the Reserve Bank of India and players within the cryptocurrency industry in the country who sought to reverse the bank’s decision on the ban of financial services from commercial banks to crypto-related ventures. Earlier this month, the government was reportedly seeking outside help in regards to formulating a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies.

In some parts of the United States, crypto regulatory frameworks have progressed positively. The US State of Wyoming recently passed a bill that allows cryptocurrency to be treated as financial assets under existing laws.

In Europe, a bill was passed in Luxembourg to facilitate the development of the blockchain industry as well as the digital asset economy in the country.

 

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PR: 3rd Edition of Blockchain Life Even to be Held in Singapore

Bitcoin Press Release: On April 23-24 in Singapore, the global forum Blockchain Life 2019 welcomes 5000+ attendees and top companies at its 3d edition.

The global forum 2019 highlights four significant topics: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, StartUps and Mining. More than 5000 people including industry top speakers, funds and investors, blockchain startups and world companies, crypto traders, developers and miners – all are going to join Blockchain Life 2019 to discuss the latest trends and ways of earning money in the crypto market.

Find out more information and get tickets: http://blockchain-life.com

Among the participating companies: Listing.Help, CoinMarketCap, KuCoin, Cointelegraph, BitForex, Neo, Nem, BitBlock Capital, IvoryBay Capital, Gravitas Holding, InfiniVision, Jets Capital and other famous enterprises from all over the world.

The list of speakers is constantly growing, check it here: http://blockchain-life.com

The previous Blockchain Life forum in November 2018 attracted over 4500 guests and became one of the largest world events in the industry. In 2019 the famous hotel Marina Bay Sands welcomes 5000 participants from 70 countries around the globe in Singapore.

Join world blockchain and cryptocommunity now: http://blockchain-life.com

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Report Suggests Retail Investors Are Slowly Amassing Bitcoin

Retail Investors Are Slowly Amassing Bitcoin

Institutional grade crypto investments have frequented the news of late, and while upcoming crypto derivatives may have been tailored to create a demand in this market niche, there is another set of investors who have been bullish about the industry from the get-go – the retail investors.

Data from crypto analytical provider Diar revealed that Bitcoin holdings of addresses holding 1 – 10 bitcoins before the burst have shown a steady growth of 5% since the last all-time high in December 2017.

The report did note that while 2018 had slightly deterred from 2015 through 2017 year-over-year average increase of 35% in the holdings of popular addresses; registering a mere increase of 0.7%, the year 2019 has picked up pace and is seeing a steady increase of 3% in bitcoin holdings in the 1-10 bitcoin containing addresses.

More so, within the system, there may be a fairly noticeable activity of even distribution of wealth, as addresses holding larger amounts of bitcoins (10 – 1000 BTCs) have followed opposite trends to those of 1 – 10 BTCs.

While this phenomenon could have contrasting interpretations; call it a positive sentiment on the part of retail investors in preparedness for the supposedly long-awaited bull run. On the other hand, according to the source, “it may mean an exodus of larger investors.” Whichever the case, increase in retail buying against the market trends and amassing more Bitcoin could perhaps mean that the true speculative value of Bitcoin lies in the unwavering hopes that Bitcoin could someday revolutionize the barter system.

Recently, the source published a report detailing the healthy state of Bitcoin transactions, describing the fees trend as touching 2014 lows.

While it appears that institutional investors may be sitting on the sidelines, billionaire investor Mike Novogratz had advised that hedge funds should have at least 1% of their holdings in Bitcoin as a safe bet whilst profiting from its volatility.

Retail investors’ holdings are currently estimated to be worth around USD 6 billion and perhaps with such a rise in optimism for the flagship decentralized cryptocurrency, this could grow over time to become a significant stake in Bitcoin’s circulating supply. And maybe by the time institutions finally become fully vested into crypto – Bitcoin most especially – Satoshi’s dream of a decentralized peer-to-peer electronic cash system may have taken full effect.

 

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HTC Blockchain Phone Partners with Opera Browser, Adds Dapps

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HTC blockchain-centric smartphone Exodus has recently revealed its partnership with Opera Browser along with the addition of support for multiple decentralized applications (Dapps) in a series of Tweets.

This collaboration indicates the addition of support for Etheremon and Decentraland Dapps in its ZIONVault integrated cold storage, and additional capacity for a Taiwanese Dapp called Numbers in its smartphone.

Numbers helps the users track their data and allows them to sell it to interested third parties on their own terms in return for cryptocurrency. This implies that the users still retain control of the data and have complete transparency on what part of their information is being used by the companies.

All these new features are in addition to the phone’s previous blockchain-related compatibility that already supported crypto wallet and the CryptoKitties Dapp.

The partnership with Opera browser will allow the users to utilize the browser’s integrated crypto wallet and conduct transactions and micropayments on the supporting websites. According to The Verge, Exodus and Opera only support payments in Ethereum (ETH) for now, but they plan to extend it to Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC) soon.

HTC’s decentralized chief officer, Phil Chen, said in an interview:

“Now you could pay an amount like ETH 0.00002 [equivalent to about USD 0.0027]. And never in the history of micropayments did that make sense. There’d be a transaction fee, or you’d have to share revenue with the app store.”

Chen also noted that they plan to make each phone a “partial node” of a blockchain that will facilitate trading between the phone owners.

Starting in March, the Exodus smartphone can be purchased using fiat currencies, in contrast with how they only accepted crypto in the past.

 

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Ethereum 2.0: Everything You Need to Know

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ETHEREUM 2.0: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Ethereum 2.0 is the potential update to Ethereum to make it faster and better. Potential updates deal with the current scaling issues, issues with mining, to make transactions faster and create a better environment for smart contracts and more. Ethereum’s launch was initially planned to be in four stages back when it launched in 2015. They are:

  • Frontier
  • Homestead
  • Metropolis
  • Serenity

Now we are on the third stage of Ethereum “Metropolis”. Metropolis consists of two phases, Byzantium and Constantinople. The next system wide upgrade for the Ethereum network called as Constantinople is nearing. The activation of Constantinople is expected to take place at block number #7280000. This upgrade is also known as New Ethereum software version 3.5. The next stage is Serenity also known as Ethereum 2.0.

Need for Updates and Solutions

There are some problems in the current version of Ethereum which is to be solved. Some of the fundamental and current problems with Ethereum are scalability, security, slow mining process and high energy consumption. Ethereum 2.0 “Serenity” plans to overcome these problems through its solutions. Some of them are

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Vitalik Buterin, inventor and co-founder of Ethereum admits that Ethereum mining now roughly consumes as much energy as Iceland consumes. Thus, to sustain its competitive advantage, Ethereum is aiming to reduce its energy consumption by scraping its blockchain based on proof-of-work (PoW) and build an entirely new blockchain based on the proof-of-stake (PoS) algorithm. Vitalik also says that Ethereum 2.0 should complete transaction using 1% of energy consumed today when PoW is replaced with PoS.

Sharding

Ethereum 2.0 will move towards Beacon Chain. One main thing the Beacon Chain was designed is to manage the new feature for Ethereum scaling called “sharding”. Sharding will split the network into independent groups of nodes called shards. As the nodes are split into shards, the nodes only need to handle the fraction of the total system load. This will split the network load so that the main network will not have to bear the load of all transactions. Sharding gives the ability to process thousands of transactions per second rather than the current 15 or so transactions per second. This reduces the transaction time and will speed up the process.

Security

Ethereum 2.0 is also focusing on the security, which means that it will be harder for the attackers to make the network behave in unexpected ways. Ethereum 2.0 will have large number of available validators and this has the following advantages in it. First, a large validation pool allows more opportunity for decentralisation and this makes attack less likely to happen and more difficult. Second, if something that violates the protocol occurs, it means that many validators must have disobeyed the rules. This behaviour is detectable, and the misbehaving group will be penalised by having all their stakes wiped out. And there are some more security aspects too. All these will make Serenity more secure than Ethereum 1.0.

The Road Ahead

The next system wide upgrade is Ethereum version 3.5 also known as Constantinople. It is expected on the end of February 2019. After this there are two more updates which will happen before Serenity. One is Casper Proof of Stake and Hybrid PoW / PoS. Then comes the Beacon chain and sharding. If the Ethereum project successfully implements these upgrades, then Serenity comes next. Serenity is an upcoming major upgrade that creates a Proof-of-Stake chain that combines many of the above ideas (PoS, sharding, etc) into a new chain that would be fully compatible with the existing Proof-of-Work chain. Serenity will run on a pure Proof of Stake consensus protocol. This scaling and mining solution would not only partly change the way Ethereum is mined but also will make way to allow the network to do faster transactions and thus would create a better environment for smart contracts and Decentralised applications. In theory, Serenity could increase scalability by as much as 1000 times than Ethereum 1.0.

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Constantinople Incoming: Tomorrow’s Two Ethereum Hard Forks Explained

Tomorrow is the big day for ethereum's sixth (and seventh) backwards-incompatible upgrade since mainnet launch back in 2015. Having faced a number of setbacks already, the highly-anticipated activation of Constantinople may or may not go as planned.

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Apple’s Steve Wozniak Says Bitcoin has “Massive Value Creation”

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has spoken out about Bitcoin in a revelation that many would consider bullish in sentiment. Wozniak, in an interview with Bloomberg, has said of the coin that “we’ve seen massive value creation.”

He also puts most of the market volatility down to fear-mongering and psychology.

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The co-founder of Apple has always spoken highly of the coin and once said it would become the world’s single currency.

The interviewer challenged him on this view asking him if he still had the same opinion considering “we’ve seen ...

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Crypto Startups in Argentina Booming Despite Recent Price Tank

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While all recent focus in the world of cryptocurrency was on Venezuela and their cryptocurrency Petro, a country to the south has been silently making huge headways and growth. With a bad history of banks offering only limited customer access and their inflation rates booming to 47% in 2018, Argentina’s cryptocurrency market shows no signs of any problems as it has grown from strength to strength at an unprecedented pace.

For instance, in December 2018, usage of the peer-to-peer exchange LocalBitcoins in Argentina registered an all-time high of ARS 9.4 million (Argentine pesos approximately USD 240,000) in weekly volume. And even during the crypto crisis across the globe, the growth of Bitcoin exchange has been consistently increasing since the 2017 token boom, when the peak was a “mere” ARS 5.7 million (USD 150,000). Now, this figure would only represent a slow week in Argentina’s P2P market in 2019.

Although Argentinian companies have also borne the brunt of the recent crypto volatility, surprisingly the local demand has been consistently increasing. This has been bolstered by the recent influx of Venezuelan immigrants which means there are suddenly a massive number of people who require banking services, financial tools, and remittance services.

Santiago Siri, who is the founder of the blockchain startup Democracy Earth Foundation and investor in several Argentinian crypto startups commented on this growth in an interview,

“The sector is growing, it’s growing very well. It’s providing a lot of jobs. People are using these technologies for real survival needs and finding themselves in a better world than if they had to trust the government.”

To illustrate the point of how Argentinian markets have remained largely unaffected by the global dip in cryptocurrency, Bitcoin exchange Bitex’s CMO Manuel Beaudroit revealed how his company has seen an ever-increasing demand for Bitcoin services from Argentinian banks and brokerage firms in 2019. Beaudroit said:

“They are interested in offering their clients the ability to do cross-border payments and remittances with Bitex’s services.”

This surge exhibits Argentina’s unique role in the Latin American economy and commercial landscape, where investors all around the world now recognize the country as a hub for bitcoin-savvy startups with limitless potential for growth.

 

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Could Consumers Use the JPM Coin One Day? Maybe

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JPMorgan Chase held their annual investor day yesterday. The company’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, was involved in a question-and-answer session and answered a few questions about the bank’s latest venture, the JPM Coin. The world’s first bank coin was originally meant for cross-border remittances, but it seems the bank may have other ideas for it down the road.

JPM Coin for Consumer Use?

During his Q&A session, Dimon explained that he believes the coin could be used in various sectors of the financial industry. “JP Morgan Coin could be internal, could be commercial, it could one day ...

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Cryptopia Calculates That 9.4 Percent of Assets Stolen in January Hack

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> The New Zealand-based crypto asset exchange Cryptopia has made their assessment of a January hack, claiming that up to 9.4 percent of all their assets were stolen.In January 2019, the exchange went offline after publicly reporting a “major security breach,” which likely resulted in a theft of at least $3 million USD. Promising to involve several of the nation’s law enforcement agencies, Cryptopia’s announcement also stated that all of the exchange’s functionality and trading services would be suspended until further notice.The exchange, as well as Cryptopia’s website, are still down in late February. Users have been left largely in the dark as to any updates on the site’s functionality or Cryptopia’s plans to deal with the fallout of this hack.On February 26, 2019, the exchange’s Twitter account began posting several updates to the situation. First, they claimed to have calculated a worst-case scenario for January’s hack: up to 9.4 percent of all holdings in the exchange. Later that same day, tweets on the account suggested that the exchange is making preparations to reopen trading by securing individual accounts, though a later tweet instructs users to not deposit any further funds into their old wallet addresses. Cryptopia’s Twitter account is promising future updates to come regarding the site’s reopening.According to a Chainalysis report issued at the beginning of February 2019, it is likely that this hack and several others were perpetrated by two groups, dubbed “Alpha” and “Beta.” These hackers displayed a sophisticated method of funneling stolen crypto assets into a variety of wallets and exchanging said assets into fiat without leaving a trail that investigators could follow.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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London Stock Exchange Leads $20 Million Investment Round for UK Crypto Startup Nivaura

London Stock Exchange Leads $20 Million Investment Round for UK Crypto Startup Nivaura

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) revealed today that it had invested in London-based cryptocurrency startup Nivaura, leading a GBP 15 million (USD 20 million) funding round.

The investment was revealed in a joint statement from the two companies which acknowledged LSEG had paid an undisclosed amount for a minority stake.

Nivaura was the company responsible for the world’s first cryptocurrency-denominated bond issuance back in November 2017, offering clients a platform to manage corporate bonds, loans, and equity, whilst giving the option to settle transactions via digital tokens.

Through the use of tokens, Nivaura says it can provide a solution up to 80% faster than traditional options while proponents have argued the tokenization of debts is far more economical and can give smaller companies greater access to capital markets.

LSEG’s investment indicates the continually growing interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies from mainstream finance, despite much negative rhetoric that emerges from the very same sector.

Earlier this month JP Morgan announced the launch of its own digital token pegged to USD, targetting institutional clients that are looking to reduce the typical settlement time of transactions. Despite being USD-pegged, the multinational investment bank says it is not a stablecoin, nor should it be considered legal tender.

JP Morgan’s apparent U-turn regarding its attitudes towards cryptocurrencies has been controversial for many in the community, with Jerry Brito – executive director at Coin Center telling Market Watch ”it’s not public, and it’s not permissionless, so it’s not a cryptocurrency”.

 

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Citing Executive Embezzlement, Korean Crypto Exchange Declares Bankruptcy

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Coinbin, a South Korean crypto exchange, declared bankruptcy on February 22, 2019, citing foul play from inside the company.Business Korea reported on Coinbin’s recent failure, claiming that the company had lost $26 million as a result of theft and the subsequent bankruptcy declaration. Coinbin’s CEO Park Chan-kyu claimed that the move was “due to a rise in debt following an employee’s embezzlement.”After the exchange Youbit was hacked to the tune of several million dollars last year, Coinbin acquired it, and now Coinbin’s CEO claims that Youbit’s former CEO used his new position at Coinbin to carry out this theft.Several exchanges in South Korea have been targets of similar fraudulent activities in recent months, both from scammers targeting legitimate businesses and from various exchanges turning out to be fraudulent in some way.In January 2019, for example, exchanges Komid and UpBit both saw top-level executives face prison terms for various acts of defrauding users. Additionally, in November 2018, PureBit posted an apology notice on its website after stealing $2.8 million in a fairly straightforward exit scam.Even when exchanges attempt to conduct operations in good faith, they still are often victimized by hacker attacks. In June 2018 alone, for example, exchanges Bithumb and Coinrail lost $30 million and $40 million dollars respectively due to hackers.These staggering figures still pale in comparison, however, to the exploits of North Korea. The Lazarus Group, a hacker organization directly sponsored by the North Korean government, stole more than $571 million from various exchanges over a period of less than two years. A significant portion of their targets, naturally, were in South Korea.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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BitcoinNews.com Bitcoin Market Analysis 26th February 2019

BitcoinNews.com Bitcoin Market Analysis 26th February 2019

After a sharp fall of the price from 24 February, buyers no longer have the enthusiasm that they displayed earlier about the growth of this coin. Now, their growth attempts are more like a correction. The price stopped in the price zone of $3,840-3,930 and we do not see a strong chance of turnaround from this zone. If we analyze two red candles with the largest volumes, it becomes clear that the current price zone is important:

The second candle has a much smaller size but a fairly large volume. In our opinion, this means that in this price zone, sellers have met with limit orders of buyers who have suspended the fall. It was a good sign for buyers to carry out a counterattack. However, buyers have decided not to use this chance and now we have a non-initiative weak growth, which is more like a correction before continuation of the fall.

If you look at the global timeframe, now the price is in the middle of the consolidation, which began in December 2018:

On a larger timeframe, there is also no hint of growth continuation.

The marginal buyer positions stopped change actively. It confirms the decrease in the activity of buyers and explains the non-initiative growth at the moment:

Globally, sellers are reducing their positions because they do not believe in the continuation of the fall. However, if we look globally on the chart of margin positions of sellers, then we see that they are now at a critical point from which the turnaround has always started (beginning from May 2018):

According to the wave analysis, if buyers continue such a movement without volumes, then the maximum target of such growth in the range of $4,000-4,050:

Also, there is good liquidity, as this price zone has been consolidating throughout the week. After testing this price zone, we expect a continuation of the fall to $3,500-3,550 and at this point, we will analyze the strength of market participants and the probability of a price rebound.

Therefore, while the price continues to drift between two important price zones, it is $3,500-3,550 at the bottom and $4,200-4,300 at the top. And in this 20% range, the price will move until we see confident volumes and the mood of market participants do not have too much effect on the market. Meanwhile, the situation may change in one day. A few days ago, the fear/greed rate was 69:

Today, it moves from 40. During such a rapid change of the mood lies good opportunities for short-term trade. But it is too early to talk about global targets.

 

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Decentralized Payment Processor BTCPay Adds New Invoicing Options

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups.BTCPay Server has been in the space since late 2017, serving as a decentralized payment processor that allows peer-to-peer transactions without any fees or third-party wallets. Using the updated functionality of Payment Requests, users will be able to generate URLs that allow people to request payments and produce documentation of the transactions, eliminating many of the inconveniences of most peer-to-peer bitcoin interactions.Payment processors have become integral to the crypto sphere, with several different models available. Tippin.me, for instance, relies on the Lightning network to let users receive tips via a QR code, or even, still in development, over other apps. Bitwage also opened a marketplace this February, allowing freelancers to create bank accounts that will accept crypto assets as payment from a variety of sources. BitPay, another payment processor, has set record revenue numbers for the past two years, as well.All of these processors, however, are centralized for convenience. BTCPay Server, a decentralized option which was forked from BitPay’s software, wants to make crypto payment processing decentralized, and its new service, the initiative claims, will make this even easier.Payment Requests will allow users to directly request amounts of money from the wallets of other users, keeping with BTCPay’s existing standard of refusing to involve third-party custodians or additional fees. Usually, third parties are typically involved in these transactions because of a large variety of inconveniences associated with peer-to-peer transactions: e.g., having to update addresses for privacy reasons, staying on top of fluctuating exchange rates and the lack of any formal invoice used for record keeping.Ideally, BTCPay’s new form of payment will make using a decentralized service as easy as following a URL created for each transaction, providing many of the features of a third-party payment processor but without either taking a cut or mandating that funds be stored in a wallet owned by the processor in question.The news is the latest in a steady period of growth for the BTCPay. In December of 2018, the processor announced that it had integrated support for c-lightning, an implementation of the Lightning network.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Samsung Galaxy S10 Supports COSMEE and Other Crypto Projects

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It says a lot for cryptocurrency everywhere that one of the biggest phone brands in the world has added support for digital assets in its latest release. Samsung’s new Galaxy S10 series has done just that, with a built-in wallet function for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and two other altcoins.

Samsung Galaxy S10 Supports Crypto

A Samsung official unveiled the phone’s new features at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain yesterday.

The phone has been created with “various crypto and blockchain related projects” as standard on the device. It presented COSMEE, a blockchain-based beauty social ...

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Bolivars to Bitcoin: Activists Take Down Venezuela’s Maduro in Crypto Art Exhibit

As the situation in Venezuela continues to escalate, artist cryptograffiti, crypto exchange AirTM and merchant services provider Cripto Conserje have teamed up for an all-day fundraiser to tear down – in whatever way they can – Maduro's regime.

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