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Now the SegWit2x Hard Fork Has Really Failed to Activate

In case there were any remaining doubts, it now seems clear that the SegWit2x hard fork will not happen.The SegWit2x project, a product of the New York Agreement signed onto by a long list of companies and miners in May, had scheduled a hard fork to double Bitcoins block weight limit today. And while the controversial effort was suspended by leaders of the project last week, this would not have stopped anyone else from proceeding with it. Companies like Coinbase were indeed taking into accoun
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Blockchain Coalition Seeks to Make Bitcoin Welcome in Wyoming

A group of people are on a mission to bring Bitcoin back to the state of Wyoming after unfriendly laws made it impossible to transact with cryptocurrencies there more than two years ago.The Wyoming Blockchain Coalition announced its formation this week. Its volunteer members aim to create a legal and regulatory environment in the state that welcomes cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology companies with open arms.Among the groups advisors are Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock Byrne lives in
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Crypto Trading and Traditional Assets New Options for Investors

While trading of crypto-assets is booming, some investors are looking for options to trade traditional assets like stocks via cryptocurrencies. Three new operators are among those developing trading platforms to meet this need, with blockchain-based tokens pegged to the underlying assets.AnkorusAnkorus is establishing a platform that will permit trading traditional assets, including stocks, bonds, futures, options, gold, silver, commodities, ETFs, FX and bitcoin futures with cryptocurrency. A
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Dispelling the Doomsayers The Future of China's Blockchain Development is Still Bright

The post Dispelling the Doomsayers The Future of China&39s Blockchain Development is Still Bright appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
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A Beginners Guide to Claiming Your Bitcoin Gold and Selling It

This is a re-write of A Beginners Guide to Claiming Your Bitcoin Cash and Selling It. Please note Everything in this article is just advice based on our best understanding of the current situation.Bitcoin Gold also referred to as Bgold, and trading under the ticker BTG launched November 12, 2017. Since the Bitcoin blockchain technically forked on Bitcoin block 491407, anyone who held bitcoin BTC on October 24, 2017 should have an equivalent amount of BTG attributed to their Bitcoin private ke
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The Lightning Network Now Supports Transactions Across Blockchains

Although still in testing phase,thelightning network can now be used to send transactions across different blockchains. The Lightning Labs development team successfully swapped testnet bitcoin for testnet litecoin through a lightning channel this week ownership of the coins changed hands, while no transaction was recorded on either blockchain.Previous atomic swaps that I have done were on-chain, and had the on-chain limitations of slow transactions and high transaction fees, Litecoin creator
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Bitcoin Price Analysis BTC Pushes All-time Highs and Tests Historic Resistance

Throughout the life of bitcoins two-year bull run, it has been confined within two macro trends one parabolic and one linear both on a logarithmic scaleFigure 1 BTC-USD, 1-Day Candles, Macro TrendThe parabolic envelope black curves has confined the entire bull run throughout the last two years. Over the weekend, we saw a test of the lower curve that proved to be proper support and propelled the market into a bounce that now has the market testing the upper linear trendline purple lines at th
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Russian cybercrime mastermind accused of $4bn bitcoin fraud

Greece's Supreme Court on Wednesday 15 November postponed until December an extradition hearing for Russian cybercrime suspect Alexander Vinnik.
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Zen Protocol Advances Smart Contracts for Financial Services

Shunry Suzuki, the St Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, once remarked that, In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.In many ways, this aphorism captures the entrepreneurial tenor of todays emerging world of blockchain technology, as startup companies seek to address critical issues facing the distributed ledger space.Many would agree that todays financial systems are fraught with centralizatio
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New Semi-Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange Navigates Murky Compliance Waters

Tetra, a new entrant in the cryptocurrency exchange sector, describes itself as a semi-decentralized, peer-to-peer exchange with an emphasis on security and usability Tetra will help create the next wave of cryptocoin adoption which will benefit all cryptocurrency users from investors to traders to businesses.The term peer-to-peer exchange tends to suggest the idea of a strong emphasis on privacy and anonymity, as well as a certain level of disdain for Know-Your-Customer KYC rules, meddling r
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MadHives Mission to Restore Transparency and Fairness to Advertising

Digital technology should make the advertising business more efficient. But it has not at least not from the perspective of companies that place ads or the content publishers who sell ad space to them. Laden with middlemen and clouded by convoluted, proprietary ad placement platforms, the modern digital advertising industry faces serious challenges.New Yorkbased MadHive is on a mission to solve them. Using blockchain technology and smart contracts, MadHive is constructing an ad tech platform
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Cybersecurity legend John McAfee partners with Hacken to chase new cryptocurrency

Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has signed a partnership with Hacken, an Eastern European cybersecurity start-up built upon a new form of cryptocurrency, IBTimes UK can reveal.
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Kaspersky Lab and Parity Technologies Launch Blockchain-Based Voting System

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab unveiled Polys, a secure online voting system based on blockchain technology and backed with transparent crypto algorithms, at the companys annual Cybersecurity Weekend event in Dublin.Online voting imposes extremely stringent requirements on the security of every aspect of voting, notes the Polys website. We believe that the blockchain technology is the missing link in the architecture of a viable online voting system.In our Kaspersky Lab Business Incubato
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Bitcoin Gold Launches on November 12

After weeks of preparation,Bitcoin Gold Bgold BTG is finally launching tomorrow, November 12, 2017.Bitcoin Gold is the second project to fork away from the Bitcoin blockchain to create a new coin this year on August 1, Bitcoin Cash Bcash was the first. Where Bcash attempted to offer an on-chain scaling solution by increasing Bitcoins block size limit while removing the Segregated Witness code, Bgold is an attempt to counter Bitcoins mining centralization.The most important difference between
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Bitcoin Gold Launches Tomorrow

After weeks of preparation,Bitcoin Gold Bgold BTG is finally launching tomorrow, November 12, 2017.Bitcoin Gold is the second project to fork away from the Bitcoin blockchain to create a new coin this year on August 1, Bitcoin Cash Bcash was the first. Where Bcash attempted to offer an on-chain scaling solution by increasing Bitcoins block size limit while removing the Segregated Witness code, Bgold is an attempt to counter Bitcoins mining centralization.The most important difference between
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NO2X Hard Fork Suspended Due to Lack of Consensus

The post NO2X Hard Fork Suspended Due to Lack of Consensus appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
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Bitcoin Price Analysis Market Correction Could See Lows of $5,800

In our last discussion of the bitcoin market, an emphasis was placed on the $7,000 support level because it represented a historic point of interest and it showed strong signs of support a break of which would ultimately prove to have a strong downward move following afterward.Bitcoin has since broken the $7,000 support level. It then took an immediate $500$600 move downward and has, thus far, shown little interest in bouncing upward. Taking the whole move into view, we can see quite clearly
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De-briefing Ethereums Parity Predicament Whats Next

After an unidentified actor accidentally triggered a series of bugs that destroyed approximately $150 million worth of digital currency, the world waits for a substantive answer is this vulnerability an anomaly An I told you so Or a humbling opportunity to secure the Ethereum networkWhat HappenedOn November 6, Devops199, an alleged amateur programmer, set off a chain of bugs on Parity, a popular digital wallet for Ethereum. These bugs affected multisignature, or multisig, accounts wallets t
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Giga Watt Partnership Boosts Crowd-Gaming Ecosystem

Located in the State of Washington northeast of Grand Coulee Dam, the nations largest producer of hydroelectric power, Giga Watt is continuing its steady ascent into one of the top crypto mining operations in the world.Recently, Giga Watt announced a partnership with the decentralized cloud gaming platform, Playkey. The partnership will employ Giga Watts powerful computing infrastructure to expand Playkeys cloud gaming ecosystem.The Playkey model uses both individual miners, including gamers
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Guest Post Understanding the Limits and Potential of Blockchain Technology

The promise of blockchain technology is coming to the forefront and capturing the imaginations of investors, entrepreneurs and innovators alike. But what many people do not know is how perilous the blockchain journey ahead still is. We live in a world of smoke and mirrors enterprise investors must do their due diligence in navigating these choppy waters making the right investments in the right blockchain technologies to unlock that promised potential. To make the correct investments, we nee
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