The ongoing battle between the co-founders at Bitmain has now essentially hard forked the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer into two different operations and supply chains for making its flagship AntMiner equipment.Wu Jihan, the co-founder who ousted his rival co-founder Micree Zhan Ketuan last year, registered a new entity on July 16 in Shenzhen, China.The…
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Bitcoin And Modern Soft Fork Activation – Bitcoin Magazine
Taproot, a proposed protocol upgrade that would improve Bitcoin’s privacy and flexibility, is in its late stages of development.Bitcoin Core contributors agree that the upgrade would benefit Bitcoin, and so far it generally appears to be welcomed by the wider Bitcoin ecosystem as well.It’s therefore likely that Taproot will make its way into a Bitcoin…
Grant Gulovsen: Masternodes Are in Legal Limbo
Grant Gulovsen is an Illinois-licensed attorney in private practice.The views expressed are his and are not intended to be legal advice.Last November, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Heath Tarbert stated that both his agency and the Securities and Exchange Commission were “thinking carefully” about Ethereum 2.0’s new proof-of-stake (PoS) transaction validation model.Nine months later, the…
application security for Dummies
August 13, 2020 | Leave a comment | Home application security for Dummies Even after all of your web applications are assessed, examined and purged of one of the most problematic vulnerabilities, you are not in the obvious.Each and every World wide web application has unique privileges on both equally regional and remote pcs.These privileges…
Crypto Tidbits: MicroStrategy’s $250m Bitcoin Purchase, Ethereum DeFi Boom, BitMEX KYC
NewsBTC August 15, 2020 Share Crypto Tidbits: MicroStrategy’s $250m Bitcoin Purchase, Ethereum DeFi Boom, BitMEX KYC Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits . It’s been another volatile week for the Bitcoin market.In the past seven days, the leading cryptocurrency has traded at both $11,100 and $12,000, whipsawing between the levels as the price enters…
Ripple confirms ODL strategies for India, requires regulatory clarity | 9vest
Share 0 Ripple’s Navin Gupta has confirmed the company’s plans to introduce an On-Demand from customers Liquidity payment corridor for India.Ripple has proposed a general public consultation to determine its policy on cryptocurrencies. Ripple ‘s Managing Director for South Asia and MENA, Navin Gupta , has disclosed more aspects about the company’s ideas for India.In…
Law Firm Sees Crypto Investors Flocking to St. Kitts & Nevis for Dual Citizenship
This week news.Bitcoin.com spoke with Jennifer Harding Marlin from the St.Kitts & Nevis islands law firm JH Marlin.The business specializes in all types of law practice and citizenship by Investment (immigration) is very popular.Marlin explained that recently, the company is getting “a lot of clients in the crypto space that are looking to obtain second…
Enterprises Would Use DeFi, if It Weren’t so Public
Paul Brody is a Principal and Global Blockchain Leader at EY.Decentralized finance (DeFi) services are booming, but there’s indication it’s recycling the same money around and around.To grow this market, enterprises need to get involved – and that won’t happen until users have privacy and security.In the old-school world of CeFi (centralized finance) it’s common…
The Opportunities and Dangers of Modern Monetary Theory
The Opportunities and Dangers of Modern Monetary Theory August 14, 2020 The Cato Institute’s George Selgin recently quipped that economists who are neither gold bugs nor advocates of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) are distinguished on Twitter by their relatively low follower numbers (himself included).The joke, for which I owe a hat tip to Nathaniel Whittemore’s…
Market Update: BTC Inches Toward $12K, ETH Jumps 12%, Report Says LINK May See ‘Rough Waters’
Digital currency markets have increased significantly in value during the last 24 hours as the market capitalization of all 5,700+ coins is up over 2.4% on Friday.Bitcoin has been inching toward the $12k region again and ethereum touched a high over $442 a coin during the afternoon trading sessions.Crypto Market Cap Crosses $365 Billion The…