Testnet serves a variety of vital functions that include: 1) Constant Development Blockchain technology is still in the infancy stages and a tremendous amount of testing and development is needed to enable mainstream adoption and usage. For instance, one of the main issues that are being addressed in the blockchain community is scalability . Rigorous…
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Waves Trading 13.8% Higher This Week (WAVES)
Tweet Waves (CURRENCY:WAVES) traded 9.3% higher against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 8:00 AM ET on January 29th. Waves has a total market capitalization of $291.41 million and $37.72 million worth of Waves was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last seven days, Waves has traded up…
Banking Professionals Still Warn of the Dangers of Cryptocurrency
Banking Professionals Still Warn of the Dangers of Cryptocurrency Nick Marinoff on January 29, 2019 / 0 Comments Post Views: 1,245 Facebook At press time, the father of cryptocurrency – bitcoin – is trading for about $3,400 . This is lower than where it stood during the bitcoin cash hard fork of November 2018, which…
Decred Price Tops $15.99 on Major Exchanges (DCR)
Posted by Cynthia Vaughn Decred (CURRENCY:DCR) traded 0.3% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 10:00 AM ET on January 29th. One Decred coin can now be purchased for $15.99 or 0.00463647 BTC on popular exchanges including OOOBTC, Tux Exchange, Nanex and Cryptopia. Decred has a total market capitalization of…
Litecoin Could Become A Privacy Coin This Year | Crypto Briefing
Litecoin Could Become A Privacy Coin This Year Shutterstock Litecoin Could Become A Privacy Coin This Year Charlie Lee wants to make LTC more relevant. But can he pull it off? 677 Share Litecoin must be getting tired of standing in Bitcoin’s shadow. After many years as Bitcoin’s second fiddle, Litecoin core developers are getting…
BitGrail Owner Found Personally Liable For Losses In Exchange Hack
Click here to view original web page at www.ethnews.com Francesco Firano, the owner of Italian crypto exchange BitGrail, has been sentenced by a bankruptcy court in Florence, Italy, to repay losses incurred by investors during a hack that saw $170 million worth of Nano tokens (XRB) stolen. The BitGrail Victims Group (BGVG) posted unverified scans…
Bitcoin 2019: A Peer-to-Peer Conference for the Whole Bitcoin Community
Shutterstock photo The first major Bitcoin conference, Bitcoin 2013, was held in San Jose, California. Organized by the Bitcoin Foundation, it was centered on Bitcoin specifically and the more pragmatic issues that Bitcoin was trying to solve, particularly in the areas of Bitcoin technology, Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin business and regulatory issues. Writing for Bitcoin Magazine…
Genesis Capital Processed $1.1B of Cryptocurrency Loans in 2018
Original article Cryptocurrency lender Genesis Capital provided $500 million worth of digital asset loans in the fourth quarter of 2018 alone, soaring almost 100 percent from six months earlier, when the company started its lending business. Altogether, loans reached $1.11 billion for the whole of last year. Also read: Iran in Talks With 8 Countries…
Litecoin (LTC) to Become Fungible in 2019 With Confidential Transactions
1 min ago By Jeremy Wall 0 Comments Charlie Lee, the founder of Litecoin (LTC) officially announced on January 28, 2019 that confidential transactions (CT) will be added to Litecoin. Though Lee didn’t specify when CT will be added to Litecoin, he did mention that confidential transaction features will be implemented in a future release…
Genesis Capital Processed $1.1B of Cryptocurrency Loans in 2018
Original article Cryptocurrency lender Genesis Capital provided $500 million worth of digital asset loans in the fourth quarter of 2018 alone, soaring almost 100 percent from six months earlier, when the company started its lending business. Altogether, loans reached $1.11 billion for the whole of last year. Also read: Iran in Talks With 8 Countries…