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Australia Central Bank Admires Bitcoin But Says It Has ‘Flaws’

June 27, 2018 0 0

“Even if one is quite skeptical of whether bitcoin will have a significant role in the economy in the future, I think it is hard to avoid some admiration for its design,” Reserve Bank of Australia official Tony Richards thus addressed bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general in a speech to the Australian Business Economists in […]

Cryptocurrency Ownership in Europe and the US Expected to Double: ING Study

June 27, 2018 0 0

Despite bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies currently hovering near their lows for the year, interest in the nascent technology is expected to more than double in the future in the United States and Europe. This is according to a study conducted by ING Bank N.V. in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, […]

Bitcoin Price Leads Monday Recovery as Market Fights Off Weekend Firesale

June 26, 2018 0 0

The cryptocurrency markets experienced a labored recovery on Monday after the deep bitcoin price sell-off that occurred over the weekend. Monero Price Headlines Monday Recovery Monero (XMR) has seen a huge rebound in the past 24 hours, up nearly 15% to $128.86. Monero saw a steep sell-off with the news out of the United States that […]

‘Independence Day’: Tron Activates Mainnet After Month-Long Migration

June 26, 2018 0 0

Tron (TRX), the tenth-largest cryptocurrency with a circulating market cap of $2.8 billion, has formally activated its mainnet following a month-long migration to its independent blockchain. Tron Celebrates Independence Day Previously, TRX had been built as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum network, where it had resided since Tron’s initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017. The migration began on May […]

AI Reads 100 ICO Papers, Publishes a Crypto Whitepaper: Here’s How it Sounds

June 26, 2018 0 0

Clay Space, a blockchain researcher and the founder of Blockspace Media, recently ran a study by feeding an artificial intelligence (AI) system 100 initial coin offering (ICO) whitepapers and having it produce its own. Essentially, through the utilization of AI and machine learning, Space had an AI system, which previously had no knowledge of cryptocurrency […]

Op-Ed: Crypto-Doomsday or Self-Preservation? Takeaways From BIS Central Bank Report

June 25, 2018 0 0

The “Central Bank of Central Banks” recently released a 24-page report taking a hard stance against the cryptocurrency movement and the mainstream application of the technology. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) “fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks,” and presumably the recent crypto-doomsday report was carried out by well-informed […]

Bitcoin Price Rises 5% Avoiding Lower End of $5,000, Theta and Ontology Rise 21%

June 25, 2018 0 0

The bitcoin price has risen by over 5 percent in the past 24 hours, as the cryptocurrency market recorded a slight recovery. Theta and Ontology recorded a rise of over 21%, becoming the best performers of the market as of June 25. Potential BTC Scenarios After dipping to a monthly low at $235 billion, the […]

Coinbase Should Add XRP [And It’s Not a Security]: Ripple CEO

June 25, 2018 0 0

Brad Garlinghouse, the billionaire CEO at Ripple Labs, the company that oversees the development of XRP, the $18 billion blockchain network, has said for the first time in public that Coinbase should integrate XRP, the native cryptocurrency of the Ripple network. CEO Says Ripple is Clearly Not a Security In an interview with Jeff John […]

Cornell Professor and Nick Szabo Criticize EOS for Bugs and Centralization

June 24, 2018 0 0

Tthe launch of the mainnet of EOS was delayed due to a critical bug found by China-based cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360. Emin Gün Sirer, a professor at the prestigious Cornell University, criticised EOS developers for not seeking assistance from consensus protocol experts. Even after the mainnet launch, Sirer and other cryptocurrency experts including smart contracts […]

Class in Session! Stanford University Establishes Blockchain Research Center

June 24, 2018 0 0

Stanford University’s computer science department has established a center for blockchain research to promote the study of and develop best practices for this nascent technological field. Unveiled on Wednesday, the Center for Blockchain Research is a five-year research program that has been underwritten by a variety of cryptocurrency organizations, including the Ethereum Foundation, Protocol Labs, OmiseGo, DFINITY […]


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