San Francisco-based Coinbase has announced plans to reveal an announcement a day for the 12 days leading up to the holidays. According to the 12 Days of Coinbase page, each day at noon (PST), Coinbase will announce new features, support for new cryptocurrencies and more. Coinbase customers in the US can now spend crypto balances on @WeGift e-gift cards—just in time […]
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South Korea Is Trialing Blockchain Voting — Here’s What That Means
South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.
South Korean officials believe a blockchain voting system will increase both security and transparency, thereby improving people’s trust in digital voting. The NEC initially ran an online voting system dubbed “K-voting” back in 2013, but, despite 5.64 million users, trust remained low due to fraud and hacking concerns.
Here’s How You Can Get Amazon to Kick Some Cash to a Bitcoin Charity
Are you planning to do some shopping on Amazon this holiday season? If so, you can also support BitGive, the first registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity that uses the power of bitcoin to support some great philanthropic projects around the world.
This year, BitGive is celebrating its fifth anniversary of charitable work in the Bitcoin space. And while shoppers can support its philanthropic efforts year round through the AmazonSmile program, now is the time of year when you might be spending a bit more time (and money) on the Amazon website.
After the Fork: Here’s How Exchanges Are Dealing With Bitcoin Cash
The smoke is still clearing from Bitcoin Cash’s hard fork, but exchanges have already moved in to add support for the products of the skirmish.
On November 16, 2018, what was intended to be a routine hard fork upgrade of the Bitcoin Cash blockchain became a struggle for hashing power and chain dominance as Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (SV), led by Craig S. Wright, attempted to wrestle control over the Bitcoin Cash blockchain from its original client, Bitcoin ABC.
Here’s How We Expect Bitcoin Adoption Should Impact Market Growth
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When we think of Bitcoin adoption, we tend to focus on the price rally that will no doubt come with it. When people in the mainstream start using Bitcoin to buy normal products, the price of Bitcoin will fly as more people start to buy and spend it. Of course, one drawback of adoption is that eventually, this rally will come to an end and many believe that once Bitcoin does hit the mainstream, it’s price will finally become more stable, otherwise, why would anyone bother using it to make everyday purchases?
Here’s How TRON And BitTorrent Are Changing The Way Crypto Advertises
Crypto is a huge industry, with a market cap in excess of $ 2 billion, and it’s developing and growing all the time. As it becomes more mainstream and widely acknowledged, the advertising wing of this industry is bound to find itself with a lot to do.
Spreading the word, raising awareness, and promoting new products is vital for the success of any industry, but for crypto, it’s especially important. That’s because it’s so new, and has struggled with plenty of (often completely undeserved) bad press in the past.
Here’s How Ethereum Grants Work
The Ethereum Foundation, the team behind Ethereum, led by the famous Vitalik Buterin, have recently published a blog post that discusses the methods behind the Ethereum Foundation grants programme, a system that has been established to offer grants to people who require funding to complete certain blockchain based projects.
According to the post:
“Our goal on the grants team is to be faithful stewards of Ethereum community resources. As part of the Ethereum Foundation’s ongoing effort to diffuse power throughout our community, we give grants that we believe will return the highest impact on the Ethereum ecosystem over the long-term.”
Here’s How Much Bitcoin You’d Have If You Invested Before The Boom
In December last year, the crypto market boomed with Bitcoin almost hitting $ 20,000. Less than a year later, the value of the leading cryptocurrency has dropped to around $ 6,500 (currently priced at $ 6,474 at time of writing).
Even though Bitcoin has dropped from its all-time high of nearly $ 20,000, if you invested a thousand dollars in the crypto five years ago you would have made a massive profit, obviously.
Here’s Why Tesla Should Work With Bitcoin
Ever since Bitcoin and the crypto space was made mainstream through the media mid last year, many investors and enthusiasts of the industry have been splashing their cash on items of luxury such as Lamborghinis, Rolex watches and so on. During this time, the words on everyone’s lips were ‘When Lambo?’ The phrase was used to indicate the need for a digital currency to make massive gains so that the owner of the assets would sell them to buy a Lambo.
But what about Tesla?
Not Everyone Wants to Fix Bitcoin’s ‘Time Warp Attack’ – Here’s Why
A bit of a debate has revved up about bitcoin’s “time warp attack” and whether it’s an exploit or an unintended advantage.
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Here’s How Binance Have Achieved Crypto World Domination
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When you think of cryptocurrency exchanges, a few names and brands may spring to mind, none of which however will have quite the same impact as the name ‘Binance’, the cryptocurrency exchange that is quickly becoming the world’s biggest.
Like every cryptocurrency exchange, Binance started out with the goal to give it’s users better and faster access to more cryptocurrencies. They wanted to create an easy to use platform that would allow as many people as possible to buy every cryptocurrency.
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Here’s What Went Down At The 2018 Cloudflare Internet Summit
Over ten years ago in the now foreign world that was 2004, Lee Holloway and Matthew Prince set out to answer one question, “where does email spam come from?” Together, the pair built a system which allowed people to track how their emails were being taken by spammers. With this, Project Honey Pot began.
The Cloudflare website states:
“Project Honey Pot quietly grew over the years. Lee’s flexible architecture adapted to track more of the threats that web administrators faced.
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Here’s Why Paranoia Fuels Bitcoin
The only sort of financial system which works at scale is one which has been decided by courts and enforced by a threat of violence.
Widespread belief in the threat reduces the need for active enforcement.
“The IRS relies on a system of voluntary compliance which means that individuals are responsible for reporting and calculating their own tax obligations.”
Less than 1% of tax returns are actually audited due to the lack of man hours for the IRS to check everyone’s work.
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Crypto Daily Official YouTube Ethereum Giveaway – Here’s What You Need To Know
To celebrate the growth of our new YouTube channel, Crypto Daily are running an Ethereum giveaway, giving one lucky subscriber a chance to win some free crypto (there’s nothing better than free crypto, right?)
How to take part
In order to take part in our Ethereum giveaway, you simply just need to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Once you have subscribed, there’s nothing more you need to do, for now at least…
Once we reach 1,000 subscribers, we will be releasing the full details of the competition, therefore you simply just need to keep an eye on our videos and updates.
Here’s Why Siacoin Is Flying High Today
After the excitement of last week, which saw XRP up almost 100% at one stage, the markets are starting to settle down and normal service has resumed. What we saw last week was the result of a community based excitement, off the back of the announcement of a pending xRapid release from Ripple. With the markets now back to normal, a number of altcoins are standing out, Siacoin is one such cryptocurrency that looks to be making great progression today.
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Despite Inflation Crisis, Most Filipinos Reject Bitcoin. Here’s Why
The Philippines is experiencing an inflation crisis. Yet virtually its entire population of 106 million people are unaware of and reject the notion that Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies give them a payment solution and store of value. The archipelago is the 13th most populous country and it’s a case study that shows why crypto adoption is difficult where education is lacking and the local culture resists change.
The government claims inflation is 6.4% year-over-year but bureaucrats are eager to protect President Rodrigo Duterte by padding official stats.
Here’s Why Mid-Cap Altcoins May Outperform the Market This Week
The latest run-up in the cryptocurrency market was primarily driven by gains in major, top-15 altcoins including XRP (XRP), Stellar (XLM), TRON (TRX) and Cardano (ADA). However, despite the change in investor sentiment, many mid-cap altcoins, which we are describing as coins with market capitalizations between $ 100 million and $ 500 million, have lagged behind the […]
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Binance Launch Info 2.0 – Here’s What You Need To Know
This week, Binance have made the huge new announcement of Binance Info 2.0, a database that aims to be the most comprehensive crypto rating database in the world.
Crypto ratings are becoming more and more common, both on a business level (ratings from finance institutions) and even from government led research labs. People want to know what the ‘experts’ think about cryptocurrencies, therefore, Binance believe that now is the time for them to tap into this new area, by providing a ratings database for all cryptocurrencies that can be accessed by anyone.
Here’s What Happened To TRON TRX – Crypto’s Latest Superstar
TRON, the project owned and managed by Justin Sun, backed by the TRX cryptocurrency, and led by a community managed by the TRON Foundation. 2018 has been a very important year for one of cryptocurrencies newest additions. Though young, the TRON project has grown from strength to strength, reaching new heights and pleasing investors in the process.
2018 has seen some landmark achievements, from reaching Coinmarketcap’s top ten to the full launch and roll out of the TRON mainnet, things did look super promising for this project.
Here’s What’s Caused XRP To Skyrocket This Week
XRP has flown upwards this week, after various news reports and positive announcements. For the first time in quite a long time, XRP seems to have embarked on an upswing. Of course, the climb was limited by the overarching negative trend of the markets, but this didn’t stop XRP moving from a low of $ 0.255, up to a weekly high of $ 0.333.
By all accounts, this week’s high is the highest figure recorded for XRP since the very start of September.
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