Noelle Acheson argues that Libra is not a cryptocurrency, it’s a security. That in itself is a huge innovation, and perhaps a glimpse of what is yet to come.
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Uber Expands Helicopter Rides. Here’s Why It’s a Bullish Sign
In a move that will surely raise a few eyebrows, rideshare behemoth Uber is bolstering its helicopter service. This month, those with the means will be able to hail an Uber helicopter to go from Manhattan to JFK in under 10 minutes. Starting this month, Uber is offering helicopter rides in New York City pic.twitter.com/lju3K3WxqC […]
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Apple’s Design Chief is Leaving. Here’s Why It’s Fabulously Good News
Jony Ive is reportedly leaving Apple, and this is a big deal for everyone. Smartphone Revolutionary Founds His Own Firm We’re talking about the man who essentially kicked off the smartphone revolution, creating a wealth of opportunities for developers and businesspeople alike. He also invented that slick metal MacBook so many are fond of – […]
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Bitcoin’s Parabolic Move Shows Why It’s a Sucker’s Bet
Bitcoin has been on a tear lately, exploding from $ 3,000 to over $ 13,850.While pundits try and ascribe reasons for the move, bitcoin traders who have managed to ride the wave are cheering. For now. If anything, this wacky move only serves to support the long-term bearish argument on bitcoin. What Goes Up… One of my […]
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Australia’s Central Bank: It’s ‘Difficult’ to Imagine Mass Adoption of Bitcoin
By CCN Markets: After ten years, the Reserve Bank of Australia has decided that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies don’t pose a threat to Aussie dollars or other forms of fiat payment. The RBA concludes, after reviewing everything it knows about cryptocurrency, that it’s “difficult to envisage” an outbreak of Bitcoin users in the down under. Bitcoin Carries The Burden of Disruption It’s on cryptocurrency to be more attractive and useful than traditional payment methods. People will prefer the easier, more familiar world of debt-based currency until this is the case. To maintain the status quo, RBA says, rulers need only
Facebook Contractor: “It’s Like a Sweatshop in America” – One Contractor has Died & Many Fear for Their Lives
By CCN Markets: An exposé published at TheVerge.com revealed at least one Facebook moderation center is akin to a third world sweatshop. This should come as no surprise given what we already know about Facebook’s company culture. Facebook Whistleblowers Step Forward Facebook outsources moderation services to Cognizant, a publicly-held $ 35 billion firm that apparently does not care about its work conditions. Three anonymous Facebook contractors breached their non-disclose agreements to inform TheVerge about the conditions. They include death of one worker via heart attack, filthy conditions at workstations and bathrooms, bedbug infestation, sexual harassment, verbal and physical altercations, frequent marijuana
Tesla Could Miss Model 3 Delivery Targets. Here’s Why It’s Not Shocking
By CCN Markets: After Elon Musk announced that he was cracking the whip on Tesla employees to hit unrealistic quarterly delivery targets, a document leak suggests that target will not be met, according to Business Insider. This comes as a surprise to nobody. Overpromising and Under-Delivering, as Usual After boasting that Tesla would deliver 90,000 cars in the quarter, Elon Musk has backed himself into a corner. The master of overpromising and under-delivering can’t shut up. Business Insider reports that, according to documents it has viewed, things are looking bad: “According to documents that describe the daily output rate for
Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: ‘It’s a Ponzi Scheme’
The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
Debunking Bitcoin Myths: “It’s Only for Criminals”
A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s core value proposition is that it is an uncontrolled, apolitical money. To some people, this means Bitcoin is only useful to people who want to get around various regulations imposed on the world’s financial systems and society more generally.
And in a way, these Bitcoin critics have a point. Bitcoin can be quite useful for criminals, much like physical cash. However, the permissionless nature of Bitcoin also enables other valuable use cases of this new technology.
The Upside of Bitcoin’s Upside (It’s Not What You Think)
While price appreciation is always good for an asset class, in the case of cryptocurrencies the benefits go way beyond profit.
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“It’s A Lion’s Den” – P2P Traders Discuss Challenges of Operating on Localbitcoins
Despite many cryptocurrency users having made their first purchases using Localbitcoins, little attention is paid to the experiences of the traders who operate on the platform. News.Bitcoin.com reached out to several Localbitcoins traders to find out about the challenges facing peer-to-peer crypto brokers.
Also Read: Darknet Buyers Flock to Wall Street as Dream Winds Down
“It’s A Lion’s Den”
News.Bitcoin.com spoke to an Australian Localbitcoins trader who has been operating on the platform for just “a few months.”
Crypto Week in Review: It’s Beginning to Look Like Altcoin Season
Each Sunday, we breakdown the most important crypto market news the past week for SludgeFeed Premium members, including key events and stories you might’ve missed from a variety of news outlets. Top Headlines This Week: Coinbase Custody launches staking support for Tezos, MakerDAO governance to follow Coinbase announced Tezos (XTZ) baking for Coinbase Custody clients. This was […]
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It’s 2019 and IBM Is Still Trying to Find a Use Case for Blockchain
IBM claims that six banks will issue stablecoins using its World Wire protocol which is based on the Stellar network. According to the tech giant, three banks have publicly committed to the initiative, and the remainder will reveal themselves soon. The announcement joins the resurgence of blockchain razzmatazz this year that feels eerily similar to the last time distributed ledger technology (DLT) was the cat’s meow back in 2016.
Also Read: Bitcoin’s Social Contract Must Be Resilient to the Whims of Future Generations
Op Ed: Why It’s Unsafe to Store Private Crypto Keys in the Cloud
There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data. For example, in August 2018, a fourth man was jailed in the U.S. for hacking into private Apple iCloud accounts and leaking nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and others. So it does happen. And it will probably happen again in the future.
Security Tokens vs. Tokenized Securities: It’s More Than Semantics
Security tokens and tokenized securities are not the same thing – it’s important that we recognize the difference, argues Noelle Acheson.
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Did Bitcoin’s Q4 2018 Price Performance Prove It’s Not Digital Gold? Think Again
Writing for Market Watch Tuesday, Aaron Hankin asserts that Bitcoin’s price plunge along with the NASDAQ and other equities benchmarks in Q4 2018 proves Bitcoin is more like a tech stock than digital gold as some Bitcoin proponents have characterized it. Typically when soft assets like stocks and bonds are in free fall, investors’ money flees into hard assets like precious metals for shelter from the market turbulence. That’s exactly what happened with gold in Q4 2018. As Wall Street crashed and burned, the spot price of gold was buoyed by investors looking for relief from the hemorrhaging. If Bitcoin
Nvidia’s Q4 Earnings Will Suck, But it’s Not Crypto Winter’s Fault
Nvidia investors got a nasty surprise this morning when the chipmaker announced its Q4 fiscal 2019 earnings could come in $ 500 million short of original estimates. While Nvidia has repeatedly blamed its financial woes on a decline in cryptocurrency mining-related demand in the past, it’s acknowledging that it’s baby — the gaming industry — remains a significant problem. The chipmaker dropped its guidance to $ 2.2 billion from $ 2.7 billion, and the news sent its share price into a tailspin. Nvidia’s Bread-and-Butter Customer-base is Cooling Nvidia blames weaker-than-forecasted sales of its gaming and data center platforms for the guidance cut. Deteriorating
Living on Bitcoin Day 5: An In-Store Buy At Last (Spoiler: It’s Pot-Related)
This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 and on Day 4.
I woke up in a millionaire’s bed today, something I never thought I’d say because I ain’t gonna make a million bucks, and I always doubted I could’ve finagled my way into the bed of someone who had.
It’s Time We Began Pricing Things in Satoshis
What can you buy with a virtual pocketful of satoshis? Why, anything and everything. Whatever goods or services you can purchase with BTC or BCH you can purchase with their smaller units of account – the satoshi, or ‘sat’ for short. With 100 million of them to every bitcoin, satoshis are as divisible as they are versatile. But for satoshis to thrive, the Bitcoin community needs to start using them to price products. Only then can the simple sat start to shine.
Also read: Eight Historic Bitcoin Transactions
It’s ‘Ripple’: Kraken Wades into XRP Cryptocurency Naming Debate
As Kraken adds XRP margin trading, it appears to have been drawn into a Ripple versus XRP naming debate that first emerged earlier this year. How the debate began with Kraken is unclear, but Kraken tweeted in an obvious response to a reference to its adding “Ripple XRP” to the platform and a recent blog
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