CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin price is progressively creeping lower into compounding reverse divergence. Market sellers have been attempting to pull price below $221 and 1375 CNY all day without success. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the […] The post Bitcoin Price Bears Battling For A New Low appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST An automated shopping bot designed to make purchases on dark web marketplaces using bitcoin has been released after being confiscated. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST This week, bitcoin was once again associated with nefarious transactions, though this may have interestingly deflected more usual criticisms. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin's take on the investment app Acorns, Lawnmower rounds bank purchases up to the nearest dollar and invests the change in bitcoin. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Stanford professor David Mazières thinks he has a faster, more flexible and more secure alternative to Bitcoin, MIT Technology Review reports. Two independent reviewers, from Stanford and Cornell universities, agree that the new technology could make digital payments and other transactions cheaper, safer and easier. Alternative blockchains are often dismissed as worthless “me-too” copycats or scamcoins, which, unfortunately, has some element of truth. But Mazières’ approach deserves a place among the serious alternatives to Bitcoin that have been proposed, alongside Ethereum and Ripple. Public digital currency ledgers rely on distributed consensus protocols to propagate valid transactions. In the Bitcoin network, independent nodes (miners) work together without preferential trust relations. In other words, each node implicitly trusts every other node. In […] The post The New Stellar Consensus Protocol Could Permit Faster and Cheaper Transactions appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Stanford professor David Mazières thinks he has a faster, more flexible and more secure alternative to Bitcoin, MIT Technology Review reports. Two independent reviewers, from Stanford and Cornell universities, agree that the new technology could make digital payments and other transactions cheaper, safer and easier. Alternative blockchains are often dismissed as worthless “me-too” copycats or scamcoins, which, unfortunately, has some element of truth. But Mazières’ approach deserves a place among the serious alternatives to Bitcoin that have been proposed, alongside Ethereum and Ripple. Public digital currency ledgers rely on distributed consensus protocols to propagate valid transactions. In the Bitcoin network, independent nodes (miners) work together without preferential trust relations. In other words, each node implicitly trusts every other node. In […] The post The New Stellar Consensus Protocol Could Permit Faster and Cheaper Transactions appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST A group of two dozen people (and growing) represented by Advokatfirman Rise & Co AB (Stockholm) is bringing a class action lawsuit against Swedish Bitcoin firm KnCMiner, the one-time premier manufacturer of Bitcoin mining hardware. There are a range of issues for the court to consider, but the one CCN is most intimately familiar with […] The post Bitcoin Company KnCMiner Facing Three Class-Action Lawsuits appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Now, I am not a techy, but probably can be considered tech savvy. But I attended the DevCore London and took the opportunity to interview Patrick and Gavin in London during DevCore, what some people consider as the capital of global finance. Also read: Bitcoin Foundation to Host Upcoming DevCore London The overall atmosphere was […] The post DevCore London – What Was it Like? appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST It is always interesting to learn about the Bitcoin community with a good ‘ole survey every few months, and this Spring is no different. Bitcoin in Ireland is producing this global survey and intends to get feedback from over one thousand Bitcoin owners over the next couple of months. We have the preliminary results of […] The post Bitcoin Survey: 1 in 4 Bitcoin Users Defrauded by Exchanges appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. |
Fox News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The high-profile cyberattack that crippled Sony Pictures Entertainment last year has taken yet another twist with WikiLeaks putting hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from the hack into a searchable online archive Thursday. |