We are happy to announce that the BTC.com wallet started to roll out Segwit! SegWit or Segregated Witness, is the name of a soft fork that was implemented on the Bitcoin network in August, 2017. The goal of the upgrade is to improve the scalability of Bitcoin and the transaction speed. This is achieved by moving the signature to a new structure in the transaction which costs less space. This improvement allows to include more transactions in a block. SegWit in Read more …
Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Nasdaq is reportedly looking to get in on the action of Wall Street’s frenzied rush to trade bitcoin. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nasdaq, the world’s second largest stock exchange by market capitalization, is aiming to launch bitcoin futures contracts in the first half of 2018. An excerpt from the report reads: Nasdaq’s bitcoin contract would debut on Nasdaq Futures, or NFX, a marketplace that the Read more …
Having set fresh record price highs today, ethereum’s native token is looking to push higher. As per CoinDesk’s price index, ether (ETH) moved above $500 at 12:35 UTC and hit an all-time high of $522 soon after. Data from CoinMarketCap shows ETH has appreciated 8.74 percent in the last 24 hours. Stepping back a bit, this is a sharp reversal from mid-September when prices had fallen almost 50 percent to near $200 levels. However, they soon regained the bid tone – supposedly on the Read more …
Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Major bitcoin exchange Coinbase is currently seeing a service outage due to ‘maintenance’ at a time when bitcoin prices are soaring to new all-time highs. The soaring interest and demand for bitcoin has seemingly crippled prominent bitcoin exchange Coinbase yet again (and again). San Francisco-based Coinbase, one of the world’s largest and most prominent bitcoin trading platforms with operations in over 30 countries, is presumably feeling the Read more …
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin continues to rise after our previous price report yesterday afternoon. At the time bitcoin’s price smashed through the $10,000 region across global exchanges. The BTC rocket ship’s engines kept on going reaching an all-time high of $11,395 during the early morning hours of November 29. See also: How to Buy Bitcoin When You’re Underage Bitcoin Reaches $11,395 Across Global Exchanges Bitcoin’s price upwards has been an intense ride as the currency Read more …
The last thing anyone wants is to see Tether cause another Mt. Gox fiasco. Although there are legitimate concerns over this company, nothing has been proven yet. Litecoin’s Charlie Lee is concerned about this company as well. In fact, he has told the world he will “look into this matter” more closely. An interesting statement, although it remains to be seen whether or not anything is uncovered. It is unclear what the deal is with Tether these days. Their rapid Read more …
Featured “There are cases in which young Koreans including students are jumping in to make quick money and virtual currencies are used in illegal activities like drug dealing or multi-level marketing for frauds,” South Korea’s Prime Minister, Lee Nak-yeon, worries. South Korea is a giant within the bitcoin ecosystem even though its government has an uneasy relationship with cryptos. However, regulators as far away as Mexico, and to a lesser degree Kazakhstan, seem to be embracing parts Read more …
Two technologies designed for bitcoin and ethereum appear to be converging. A new video demo released this week, presented by ETH Zurich researcher Arthur Gervais, shows how ethereum wallets might function with a mechanism like Lightning Network – a payments protocol originally designed to enhance bitcoin. It’s a notable step, as off-chain payments networks have long been touted as scaling solutions for blockchains such as bitcoin and ethereum. And although the wallets are not yet ready for use, the demo, from Read more …
Where Bitcoin goes, do altcoins follow? It would seem so for Litecoin, whose price rose yesterday in tandem with Bitcoin, reaching an all-time high of $102.21. With Bitcoin’s history-making move yesterday as it passed the $10,000 mark, it is easy to get caught up in the excitement and celebration and forget about the achievements of other cryptocurrencies. Litecoin – often thought of as silver to Bitcoin’s gold – is a prime example. As Bitcoin climbed its way into $10k territory, Read more …
Yesterday IOTA announced a major platform release allowing data monetization using micropayments through their distributed ledger technology. The data solution has already garnered huge partnerships from Microsoft, Fujitsu, Bosch, Deutsche Bank Telekom, and others. IOTA has already issued its tokens of the same name under their token sale earlier this fall. The company has created what it considers a better option in Blockchain technology evolution called ‘tangle.’ Through this system, the company is creating a way for connected devices to Read more …
Great Britain’s upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords, has recommended the exploration of the possible various applications of Blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) across government services. The House added that the government should study the possibility of using the technology in such sectors as national security and public safety, healthcare, cybersecurity and customs and immigration. In its report, the Upper Chamber stressed that there are a lot of opportunities for DLT across government services. It also claimed Read more …
Bitcoin.com owner and Bitcoin Cash proponent Roger Ver has called Bitcoin ‘cripple coin’ despite prices rising over $11,000. In comments on the r/BTC subreddit celebrating 50,000 transactions on cryptocurrency gambling site SatoshiDice, Ver defied optimism about Bitcoin’s 1,500% annual growth. “As cripple coin is passing $10,000 SatoshiDice is about to surpass 50,000 on chain transactions with Bitcoin Cash!” he announced. Ver has become increasingly outspoken on Bitcoin’s flaws since Bitcoin Cash (BCH) came into being in August. Despite erratic price Read more …