Cryptocurrency

Blockchain will vastly improve the efficiency of the financial system and other industries

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Blockchain can provide vastly improved efficiency to all financial systems and other industries. Blockchain can make transactions instantaneous, in-Sync, and transparent. Currently stock, bonds, options and futures trading have several days for settlement of transactions. The current system can have contradictory transactions, confusion, complexity which can result in complicated legal proceedings. Investors may have thought …

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Survey of Blockchain investors expects Ethereum and Bitcoin to triple by end of 2018

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The website Finder surveyed nine blockchain industry participants on the price trend for the world’s top 12 cryptocurrencies found that Ethereum will see the biggest increase in market cap, at 212 percent, followed by Bitcoin at 194 percent, and Bitcoin cash at 123 percent. The yearend averaged price predictions are: Ethereum US$2,550 Bitcoin US$29,533 bitcoin …

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Blockchain 3.0 with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) for ten of thousands of transactions per second

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Bitcoin was Blockchain 1.0 and the decentralized Ethereum is Blockchain 2.0 and Blockchain 3.0 could be Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG). In mathematics and computer science, a directed acyclic graph, is a finite directed graph with no directed cycles. It consists of finitely many vertices and edges, with each edge directed from one vertex to another, …

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SENS Antiaging Research foundation received large cryptocurrency donations

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SENS Research Foundation (SRF), a leading Silicon Valley nonprofit focused on diseases of aging, announced the receipt of a $2.4 million Ethereum donation from Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum and the co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. “I’ve been a fan of Aubrey’s work since I first read Ending Aging when I was a teenager, and …

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Blockchain Technology Concepts Explained

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the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a straightforward introduction to blockchain, which underpins Bitcoin and other digital currencies. (59 pages) A blockchain is essentially a decentralized ledger that maintains transaction records on many computers simultaneously. Once a group, or block, of records is entered into the ledger, the block’s information is …

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Robinhood will allow Bitcoin and Ethereum to be traded without transaction fees starting February

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Robinhood, stock trading app, will let you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without any added transaction fees starting in February, compared to Coinbase’s 1.5 to 4 percent fees in the US. You can now monitor and invest in cryptocurrencies, options, stocks, and ETFs, all on the same Robin Hood platform. Instant Deposits Bank transfers …

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Google Trends searches for Cryptocurrency and other terms

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Google Trends shows the how searches for cryptocurrency, bitcoin, ethereum and bitcoin bubble have gone up over the past few months. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and …

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Jibrel encodes compliance with financial regulations into tokenized currencies -US dollars and Korean Won

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Nextbigfuture interview with Talal Tabbaa who is the Jibrel BizDev Lead and co-founder. JCash is launching tokenized US dollar and Korean Won. Working with three to four banks (tier1 and tier 2 banks). They are trying to go through roughly 10 week pilots. Announcements for each bank will be made after the pilots are successful …

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Over 1400 alternatives to Bitcoin

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Coinmarketcap lists over 1400 alternatives to Bitcoin. There are 42 cryptocurrencies with market capitalization over $1 billion as of Jan 13, 2018. Bitcoin’s block size is 1 Megabyte. This limits the number of transactions each block can hold. Bitcoin has a maximum of 7 transactions per second. Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Classic, and Bitcoin XT were …

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