Ethereum Upgrades as Hard Forks Activate on Blockchain

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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...

Stanford Student Calls Out Crypto Professor for Inaccurate Bitcoin Lecture

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<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...

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

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<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...

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

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<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...

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

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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...

Report Suggests Retail Investors Are Slowly Amassing Bitcoin

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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...

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...

Constantinople Incoming: Tomorrow’s Two Ethereum Hard Forks Explained

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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. from Bitcoin news | Published News | Bitcoin news via TOday bitcoin ne...

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...

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...

Cryptopia Calculates That 9.4 Percent of Assets Stolen in January Hack

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<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...

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

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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...

Citing Executive Embezzlement, Korean Crypto Exchange Declares Bankruptcy

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<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...

Decentralized Payment Processor BTCPay Adds New Invoicing Options

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<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...

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

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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. from Bitcoin news | Published News | Bitcoin news via TOday bitcoin ne...
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