June 2019 | Page 27 of 132 | Last Cryptocurrency News Feed

Bitcoin Doubters ‘Having a Hard Time’ Continuing Doubting, Says Nexo Exec

Co-founder and managing partner of cryptocurrency lending startup Nexo Antoni Trenchev said that bitcoin (BTC) naysayers are having a hard time in an interview with CNBC published on June 25.During the interview, Trenchev pointed out that bitcoin has been defined dead over 300 times (90 only last year) and “has risen from the ashes yet…

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Ethereum-Based Synthetic Asset Platform Misplaces Over 37M Tokens in Oracle Attack

[Editor’s note: The article has been corrected to state that the funds in questions were not ‘lost’ but inflated by an incorrect price feed] The Ethereum-based synthetic asset issuance platform Synthetix has reportedly misplaced over 37 million synthetic ETH (sETH) in an oracle attack, according to a report by The Block on June 24.However, Garth Travers…

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VeChain Partners Up With Walmart For Blockchain Food Tracking: VET Price Surges 32%

The Senior Director of Emerging Technology Labs at Big Four accounting and auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has announced that Walmart will be partnering up with the popular blockchain project VeChain (VET). Following the announcement, VET surged more than 32 percent in an instant. Big News For VeChain Tom Foth, the Senior Directo at the Emerging…

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Samourai Wallet’s Privacy-Enhancing Whirlpool Now in Public Beta

The developers of Samourai Wallet have published the public beta version of Whirlpool, a Chaumian CoinJoin implementation that consists of a framework supported by various privacy-enhancing software tools. What Is Chaumian CoinJoin? CoinJoin is an anonymization technique first proposed by Gregory Maxwell in 2013. A “Chaumian CoinJoin” integrates chaum blind signatures — a scheme that…

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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: “It’s Not Secure”

Security is of the utmost importance when it comes to money, but how does one define security in Bitcoin? Traditionally, securing one’s savings has meant handing it over to a bank, but Bitcoin security requires quite a bit more personal responsibility — at least on an optional basis. Different people have wide-ranging responses to the…

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Op Ed: This Might Be Facebook’s Real Plan for Libra

Facebook released the white paper for its Libra “cryptocurrency” on Tuesday, and it received mixed reactions from individuals involved in the tech and finance industries. For the most part, Bitcoiners view the upcoming launch of Libra as a nonevent — basically just PayPal with the “blockchain” buzzword tacked on to it. I tend to agree…

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Op Ed: Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Crypto Mining Energy Consumption

We’ve all heard the surprising statistics about the world’s cryptocurrency mining demands on our energy: It’s on par with the amount of electricity Ireland uses in a year. I pay special attention to this as the founder of one of the largest crypto mining companies in the world. We’re now 10 years into the crypto…

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New $35 Raspberry Pi is the Most Powerful Yet for Running a Full Bitcoin Node

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new, more powerful model of its miniscule single-board computer on June 24, which costs $35 a pop and has the capacity to run full nodes cheaply on the bitcoin (BTC) network.Earlier versions of the Raspberry Pi have been popular with bitcoin enthusiasts and decentralization advocates as it offers low-cost…

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The 2018 Crypto Bear Market Was Perfect For Us: ETHLend’s Founder Stani Kulechov (Special Interview)

With the prevalence of lending in the traditional financial world, it makes sense that lending activities and services would surface in the cryptocurrency space as well. CryptoPotato recently caught up with Aave’s CEO Stani Kulechov, and the interview took place in the middle of the Mediterranean on board a Royal Caribbean cruise during Coinsbank’s recent Blockchain…

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JPMorgan to Start Customer Trials of Its ‘JPM Coin’ Crypto

news JPMorgan Chase is to start trials of its “JPM Coin” cryptocurrency in conjunction with corporate clients. According to a report from Bloomberg Japan on Tuesday, Umar Farooq, the investment bank’s head of digital treasury services and blockchain, said that customers would trial the technology with the ultimate aim of speeding up transactions, such as payments…