September 2019 | Page 45 of 145 | Last Cryptocurrency News Feed

Discovering Bitcoin Part 7: The Missing Pieces

This is the seventh and final installment of bitcoiner Giacomo Zucco’s series “Discovering Bitcoin: A Brief Overview From Cavemen to the Lightning Network.” Read the Introduction to his series, Discovering Bitcoin Part 1: About Time, Discovering Bitcoin Part 2: About People, Discovering Bitcoin Part 3: Introducing Money, Discovering Bitcoin Part 4: A Wrong Turn (New…

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Top-5 Crypto Performers: XLM, MIOTA, ETH,TRX, XRP

Bakkt Daily and Monthly Bitcoin Futures will launch on Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. EDT. This is likely to increase volatility in Bitcoin, which has been stuck in a tight range for the past few weeks. Expectations are that Bitcoin-settled contracts and the backing of the New York Stock Exchange will attract institutional players, who…

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Bitcoin Historical Data Shows We Might Be in the Early Stages of a Large Bull Market

It’s debatable whether we should take history as an indicator of future events. However, it’s definitely worth considering. A prominent analyst specializing in Bitcoin’s on-chain metrics recently argued that we might actually be in the early stages of a large bull market. Large Bull Market Ahead? Willy Woo is a well-known Bitcoin on-chain analyst with…

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WATCH: Chainlink CEO Talks Data Oracles

news Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov spoke at CoinDesk’s Invest: Asia 2019 conference in Singapore on current products and future developments for the Chainlink platform. A smart contract and API bridging service, Chainlink connects smart contract platforms–like decentralized finance products–to oracles containing real market data and event information. At Invest: Asia, Nazarov said the platform is…

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How Tokenization Is Transforming Film Financing, Wesley Snipes’ Fund

As the world of finance continues adapting to contemporary innovations, it almost cannot help but drag other industries along for the ride — willingly or otherwise. Film is one such sector currently undergoing a quiet revolt, concocting a radical subversion to traditional models of financing. This is partly due to the emergence of distributed technologies…

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The Specs Behind Bitcoin’s Lightning Pass Their First ‘Formal’ Security Test

news A pair of researchers have released the results of a formal verification of bitcoin’s lightning network. Lightning is new(ish), experimental, and bugs that could lead to loss of user funds are still being discovered. But even so, the paper – released last month by researchers Aggelos Kiayias and Orfeas Litos from The University of Edinburgh.…

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TRON (TRX) Up 2% As Justin Sun Reveals Plans For New PoS Mechanism

Tron (TRX) is the only cryptocurrency that is trading in the green among all the top-tier 20 projects. It has managed to gain around 2 percent in the past 24 hours. This recent slight spike comes after Justin Sun, Tron’s founder, announced new partners and an incentive plan. TRX Lonely In Green TRX is the…

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Retailers Around the World That Accept Crypto, From Pizza to Travel

Earlier on, when Bitcoin (BTC) arrived on the scene, most cryptocurrency enthusiasts held on to their coins, as there were only so many places they could be spent. Nowadays, the list of marketplaces and retailers accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is significantly larger, providing crypto enthusiasts with more options for making real-world purchases.After all, with…

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Armenian IT Company Accused of Illegal Electricity Use to Mine Crypto

An IT company in Armenia has been accused of illegally accessing electricity and using it to mine cryptocurrencies.$150,000 in powerOn Sept. 21, in an announcement from the Armenian National Security Service, the organization accused an IT company of illegally mining cryptocurrencies from inside a hydropower plant.The state agency reported that the IT company had installed…

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Swiss University Fights Fake Diplomas With Blockchain Technology

The University of St. Gallen in Switzerland is setting its sights on blockchain technology to fight fake diplomas, a type of fraud that has been on the rise globally in recent years.Degree certificationAccording to a CNN Money Switzerland interview from Sept. 19, the University of St. Gallen has announced that it is introducing a blockchain-based…