May 12, 2016

Developers Introduce Bloom Filters to Improve Bitcoin Wallet Security

Bitcoin developers are always looking to add new features and improvements to the many available wallet solutions. The introduction of committed bloom filters will be a significant milestone for privacy as the BIP37 SPV solution needs to be reworked. Committed Bloom Filters Versus BIP37 SPV…

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World’s Largest Cloud Mining Provider Genesis Mining Announces Significant Decrease in the Ethereum Mining Price

Press Release: Mining Ether just got a whole lot cheaper as cloud mining giant Genesis Mining release pictures of the largest Ether cloud mining farm in the world, Enigma. Ethereum is one of the fastest growing cryptocurrencies next to Bitcoin. Just a few months ago,…

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ASX Listing Changes Might Affect Bitcoin Startups’ Growth

With the changes being made to the way Bitcoin is taxed in Australia, it appears as of the Australian Securities Exchange will be undergoing changes as well. If this would occur, the new guidelines will have an impact on Bitcoin companies listed on ASX in…

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Bitcoin Price Watch; Tonight’s Trades in Focus

In this morning’s bitcoin price watch article, the framework we placed over the market involved two primary elements. The first, an upward sloping triangle. This offered us an opportunity to enter short, if price broke through it. The second was a more traditional range, with…

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Cryptocurrency Company DNotes Launches Kickstarter Campaign for the New Book “The Four Pillars of Business Success” In the Spirit of ‘Small Business Week’

Press Release: DNotes co-founder, highly regarded visionary and early Cryptocurrency adopter Alan Yong shares his experiences and lessons from over 4 decades of entrepreneurship in his new book “The Four Pillars of Business Success” . DNotes is now launching a Kickstarter campaign as they continue…

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Blockchain Platform Fluent Raises $1.65m in Seed Fund

Plenty of startups around the world are trying to leverage blockchain technology and bring it to different industries all over the world. Fluent, a US-based company, announced their successful US$1.62m round of seed funding. Blockchain Startup Fluent Raises Capital Not too many people had heard…

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Antonopoulos: There Are No Spam Transactions in Bitcoin

As Bitcoin blocks get closer to full capacity, some members of the community are claiming many of the transactions on the network are nothing more than spam.Defining a spam transaction on the Bitcoin network is somewhat difficult. In fact, Mastering Bitcoin author Andreas Antonopoulos believes…

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Bitcoin Price Holds Rising Channel

Bitcoin price has returned to $450 after retesting this week’s low. Local support is holding and the market has, so far, avoided additional lows. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here . Not a member? Join now…

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These Two Doctors Wrote a Paper on How to Sign Medical Documents With Bitcoin

Two doctors published a proof of concept paper on how to use blockchain-timestamped protocols to improve the trustworthiness of medical science, the article was published on F1000Research an open science publishing platform. The doctors Greg Irving from the institute of public health in the University…

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Bitcoin Video Platform PopChest Enables Chromecast Integration

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Palantir Denies Ownership of ‘Quantum’ Bitcoin Mining Service

Earlier this week, a press release for a Hong Kong-based company called CoinFac began circulating a plan to "introduce the next generation quantum computing technology into cryptocurrency mining". The pitch promised big processing speed increases thanks to the claimed technology advances, and visitors to the…

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Antonopoulos: There Are No Spam Transactions in Bitcoin

As Bitcoin blocks get closer to full capacity, some members of the community are claiming many of the transactions on the network are nothing more than spam.Defining a spam transaction on the Bitcoin network is somewhat difficult. In fact, Mastering Bitcoin author Andreas Antonopoulos believes…

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Here’s What Bitcoin Offers That Private Wall Street Blockchains Won’t

A panel at a recent cryptocurrency event hosted by the Cato Institute discussed the differences between public blockchains (such as Bitcoin) and the distributed ledger technology currently being researched by various Wall Street firms and consortiums. Although many people view consortium blockchains as competition for…

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Fully understand the Fintech Ecosystem with this report

We’ve entered the most profound era of change for financial services companies since the 1970s brought us index mutual funds, discount brokers and ATMs.No firm is immune from the coming disruption and every company must have a strategy to harness the powerful advantages of the…

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Tax Software Provider Avalara Embraces Bitcoin And Blockchain Technology

Avalara, a Seattle, Wash.-based provider of tax compliance automation for businesses that has already embraced bitcoin in its tax compliance engine, announced plans to explore blockchain technology during its conference in New Orleans Wednesday, according to Accounting Today . Peter Horadan, executive vice president of…

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Trump’s Recipe to Avoid US Default Doesn’t Mention Bitcoin

Presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed that the US is incapable of defaulting on its debt because of the Federal Reserve’s ability to “print money.”The Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee attempted to clarify previous statements that he could persuade America’s creditors to accept less than full…

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Here’s What Bitcoin Offers That Private Wall Street Blockchains Won’t

A panel at a recent cryptocurrency event hosted by the Cato Institute discussed the differences between public blockchains (such as Bitcoin) and the distributed ledger technology currently being researched by various Wall Street firms and consortiums. Although many people view consortium blockchains as competition for…

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Swiss City to Pilot Bitcoin Payments for Public Services

In an international first, the Swiss town of Zug in central Switzerland will begin accepting Bitcoin payments for government services on a trial basis, the international service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SwissInfo reports .Zug residents will be able to make payments of up to…

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Bitcoin Foundation Receives $65,000 from Mystery Mining Pool

Half of the proceeds from an apparently errant bitcoin transaction, in which 291 BTC (then $136,000) was sent as a fee, has been given away by the recipient mining pool.The Bitcoin Foundation said today that it received 146 BTC ($65,000) from BitClub, which on 27th…

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Bitcoin Industry in Japan Awaits Regulation

The National Diet in Japan (the legislature consisting of the Lower House and the Upper House) is currently deliberating over bills to regulate bitcoin and other virtual currencies and a keenly contested bitcoin industry in Japan is watching closely. Following the debacle of the now-defunct…

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Kraken Launches Ether Dark Pool Trading

Kraken has introduced Ether (ETH) Dark Pool trading in its platform, chalking a milestone as the first ever digital currency exchange to do so with the currency powering Ethereum. In a nod to ether’s rapid rise, both in popularity and value, Kraken has become the…

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In Search of Bitcoin’s Mysterious Creator: Can David Kleiman Be Satoshi Nakamoto?

Was the inventor of Bitcoin a man found dead in horribly tragic circumstances? A few days ago Cointelegraph carried an article by my colleague Cyril Gilson, which asked the question God is Dead? Craig Wright Is a Very Bad Satoshi Anyway .Cyril proposed that David…

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Bitcoin Exchange Trends 2016: Cheap Deposits, Instant Withdrawals and Margin Trading

CEX.io , one of the earliest and largest Bitcoin cloud mining and exchange companies, has reported passing a milestone of $40M worth of deposits from bank credit cards, also announcing the plans to add margin trading. Bitcoin - from means of payment to widespread currency…

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BTCUSD Price Technical Analysis – Downside Breakout Looming?

BTCUSD is still inside its ascending channel pattern but is making another attempt at breaking below support. Price broke below the bearish flag continuation formation from its previous selloff, indicating that stronger bearish pressure is kicking in. Stochastic is pointing down so BTCUSD price could…

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Dwolla submits faster payments proposal

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence " Payments Briefing " subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here . U.S. alternative payments provider Dwolla submitted a proposal to the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force, a group tasked with addressing and improving U.S. payment…

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