Ripple briefly passes Ethereum for second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization

Another Cryptocurrency doubles in one week. This time it was Ripple. Ripple is used for transactions on Ripple’s open-source RippleNet cryptocurrency network, reached $1.82. The price rally arrived after a long period of inactivity in the market, which had held steady at $0.20 over the past six months. As a result, the market capitalization of …

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Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple added to Bloomberg Financial Terminals

Bloomberg added price quotes for three other crypto-currences—Ripple, Ethereum and Litecoin—to its terminal service, which is used by major banks and investment houses worldwide. Bitcoin price quotes were added previously. Come one, come all — @TheTerminal has officially added ether, litecoin and ripple pricing pic.twitter.com/RDGchH5QEP — Lily Katz (@LilyKatz) December 14, 2017 Ethereum relies on …

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Litecoin nearly quadruples since last week as it could be the coin for eCommerce

Litecoin has doubled today and has nearly quadrupled from last week. Litcoin is up over 100 times this year. Litecoin is considered the leader of the altcoins. An influx of new money from both retail investors and institutional entities means that these alternative cryptocurrencies, or “altcoins”, are under new scrutiny as traders look to diversify …

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Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent could make ultimate cryptocurrencies

Many believe that Bitcoin with a price over $10,000 and a market valuation of $176 billion are unstoppable and will remain the dominant cryptocurrency. In the past there were other products and companies who were commonly believed to be insurmountable in their dominance. Netscape for browsers. Internet Explorer for browsers. Yahoo in search. IBM in …

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Trading your time and attention for cryptocurrency

mytime is a decentralized blockchain platform with its own cryptocurrency — mytimecoin (MYTC). The number of services that require a human’s attention to operate is growing daily. However, our time is finite and will never be enough for all the activities which genuinely interest us. Our time is the most valuable thing we have. So …

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Russia issuing crytocurrency version of the Ruble

President Vladimir Putin has officially stated that Russia will issue its own ‘CryptoRuble’ at a closed door meeting in Moscow, according to local russian news sources (via Cointelegraph). The news broke through Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov. The state issued cryptocurrency cannot be mined and will be issued and controlled and maintained only by the …

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Quantum bitcoin – qBitcoin – online quantum cash

A decentralized online quantum cash system, called qBitcoin, is given. Researchers designed a system which has great benefits of quantization in the following sense.A Firstly, quantum teleportation technology is used for coin transaction, which prevents an owner of a coin from keeping the original coin data after sending the coin to another. This was a …

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Future Cryptocurrency will need massive developer community

Microsofts Coco framework for enterprise blockchain that is 100 times faster for transactions shows that Microsoft will likely create a new Cryptocurrency. Although Microsoft is a backer of Ethereum, Microsoft will likely release new iterations of Cryptocurrency that are able to handle national scale transactions. National adoptions of cryptocurrency need to have tens of thousands …

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Legal automation can lead to more justice and fewer lawyers

A lawyerbot called Do Not Pay helps people contest parking tickets. In London and New York, it helped people overturn 160,000 tickets in its first 21 months. Its creator, 19-year-old London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder observed: “I think the people getting parking tickets are the most vulnerable in society. These people aren’t looking to break …

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John Hurt died. He was famous for having chest burst by Alien and as Doctor Who during Dalek Time War

John Hurt, who died on Friday, was a brilliant and versatile actor who made memorable film appearances over five decades. As the subject of the celebrated ‘chestburster’ scene, Hurt is on the receiving end of one of the most played clips ever. The extra dose of chicken giblets and offal that director Ridley Scott used …

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