Regulation and consumer awareness of digital currency on a global scale is now an urgent necessity. We have all seen the Wild West mentality and its results in crashing the market with rampant speculation, outright fraud, and scams: almost destroying the industry. But there are solutions when a serious and properly thought out project is…
Crypto Hard Forks
#Blockchain Openswap Makes In-Wallet BCH and BTC Atomic Swaps Possible
#Blockchain Openswap Makes In-Wallet BCH and BTC Atomic Swaps Possible Posted on by Startup365 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developer Mark Lundeberg has revealed his new project, a fork of the Electron Cash wallet that performs trustless atomic swaps between BCH and BTC. On Dec. 18, Lundeberg officially launched the first iteration of his Openswap platform with…
Bitcoin Gold: The price is low but the spirit is high
Source: Pixabay The world of Bitcoin is becoming more interesting for investors by the day. Bitcoin Gold is the latest fork that is all set to capture the imagination of crypto enthusiasts in 2019. Bitcoin Gold is a hard fork that splintered off the original blockchain on October 2017. Innovation is the watchword in the…
Bitcoin SV’s Nightmare Could Be Coming True
Bitcoin SV, which last month split from bitcoin cash after a so-called hash war as two developer camps fought for control of the bitcoin fork , is in danger of falling out of the top ten biggest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization as rivals including tron, cardano, IOTA, and monero make gains. Bitcoin cash, which many…
End of year crypto roundup: How did Litecoin perform in 2018?
End of year crypto roundup: How did Litecoin perform in 2018? And what to expect in 2019? Story by 96 Shares Litecoin LTC (LTC) was created in 2011 as one of the earliest spin-offs of Bitcoin. Google employee Charlie Lee, its creator, promised — what many others who followed him also do — to improve…
Bitcoin to be Worth Zero Dollar in 2019 – Calvin Ayre
0 Former Bitcoin Cash advocate Calvin Ayre predicts that the flagship cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, will plunge to zero in 2019 because it’s worthless. But never fear, he said, because Bitcoin Cash Satoshi Vision (BSV) will be there to save the day. Interestingly, Ayre insists that the Bitcoin price is being deliberately deflated right now in order…
UK Tax Agency Publishes Detailed Guidance for Crypto Holders
Dec 19, 2018 at 09:30 UTC Updated Dec 19, 2018 at 09:42 UTC news The United Kingdom’s tax agency has just released a comprehensive explanation of how it sees crypto assets and how individuals may be taxed on their holdings. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the government agency responsible for collecting taxes and overseeing…
Opacity Introduction – Community Speaks – Altcoin Buzz
0 The Community Speaks segment is written by select members of cryptocurrency coin or token project communities who want to update the Altcoin Buzz Army about news surrounding the project they represent. The goal of the Community Speaks Segment is to bring these community members in to introduce the Altcoin Buzz Army to their opinions…
Substrate, Parity Technologies’ Highly-anticipated Blockchain-Building Framework, Has Arrived
BERLIN , Dec. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Substrate 1.0 Beta is out now , opening the door to a new wave of innovation in blockchain and decentralised application development. Substrate is an open-source tech stack that makes it simple to create a blockchain customised for your application. “Substrate takes all of our lessons learned in…
The year crypto went crazy: what’s next for bitcoin, ethereum, ripple and stable coins in 2019?
This was the year the world woke up to cryptocurrencies. When the Bitcoin price bubble burst in December last year, having hit almost $20,000 (£15,886) per coin in value, governments, banks and tech giants alike began to sit up and take notice. The City was faced with a decision: is Bitcoin a vehicle for fraud…