Justin Sun’s upcoming lunch with Warren Buffett is a genius marketing play that can only help the cryptocurrency sector, writes Noelle Acheson.
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KuCoin Shares (KCS) May Benefit From Binance Coin’s Recent Surge
Binance Coin (BNB) has undoubtedly been one of the best performing altcoins over the past month, now up 53.7% after rallying to an all-time high in Bitcoin (BTC) value. BNB’s performance has ultimately helped boost the AltDex Exchange Index (ALTEXC), a benchmark index for the industry’s leading exchange tokens, more than 32% in the past month, significantly outperforming […]
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Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot.” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so. Even the most complex smart contracts would, on the blockchain, typically be indistinguishable from regular transactions.
While a big undertaking, this is not just theory. Several of the most prolific Bitcoin Core contributors — including Pieter Wuille, Anthony Towns, Johnson Lau, Jonas Nick, Andrew Poelstra, Tim Ruffing, Rusty Russell and, indeed, Gregory Maxwell — are working on a Schnorr signature proposal that would include Taproot, all in one protocol upgrade.
BitMax.io Launches Innovative Mining to Benefit Crypto Trading and Exchange Community
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Why Bitcoin (BTC) Might Benefit From Extended US China Trade War
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Bitcoin (BTC) might be the single biggest winner of the US China trade war that has left investors completely perplexed. The stock market is completely clueless as to what Trump might to next to escalate the trade war. This has created a serious trust deficit as far as stock marketing investing is concerned. Prospects for interest rate hikes at this point look promising so investors did not mind pulling capital out of the stock market to put it back in their bank accounts.
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Behlendorf: Google Can Benefit From “High-Velocity Development on Fabric”
Google is the latest tech giant to offer blockchain technology to its customers. The company announced that it would be introducing open-source integrations for applications built with both Ethereum and Hyperledger later this year through its Google Cloud Product marketplace.
Speaking with Bitcoin Magazine, executive director of Hyperledger Brian Behlendorf explains, “This decision follows a similar path taken by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and cloud-hosting services offered by Oracle, Huawei and IBM to offer ready-made templates for their ‘blockchain as a service’ offerings. There is growing interest in blockchain enterprise development options. This is one of the kinds of services offered by more than 60 companies participating in the Hyperledger Vendor Directory.”
Blockchain Securities Benefit From New Strategic Partnership
New Alchemy and Entoro Capital have announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to offer an integrated solution for blockchain securities. Entoro’s technology-enabled investment bank and broker-dealer, combined with New Alchemy’s blockchain technology and advisory services, will offer a step change in issuing tokens in a regulated securities environment. The partnership will leverage the capabilities of both Entoro and New Alchemy, to provide an integrated offering for Issuers with Security Token Offerings (STOs).
How Various Countries Benefit & Suffer from Regulation Arbitrage Today
Initially dismissed as a fleeting, fringe trend by banks and regulating bodies, cryptocurrency was left largely untouched for a long time. For years, the crypto market was like the wild west. But as the cryptocurrency market and the hype around it continue to boom, financial players and governments are beginning to wake up, all scrambling to figure out just how they’ll conquer this new frontier while creating some serious arbitrage opportunities.
[Editor’s note: This is a guest article submitted by Gregory Klumov, CEO of Stasis.net]
Telegram Could See Its Token Benefit from Russian Ban
Telegram, one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, has been shut down by the Russian government.
“Privacy Is Not for Sale”
A recent Forbes article has reported that the Russian government has moved on shutting down Telegram, the major messaging platform, in Russia. The FSB, Russia’s main intelligence agency, requested the encryption keys for the app multiple times, but the messaging platform refused to hand them over.
The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, is now living in self-imposed exile. About this volatile situation, he said:
Privacy is not for sale. Human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.