I think coinmarket should be more clear about what they display. Bitconnect was never a coin and showing on coinmarket as a top5 for so long have been more toxic to the community them the people that make videos on youtube. We should start asking for the automatic removal of projects that are scams

  I would never invest in any of the coins that you have bought. You should divide your investment into segments. And you should have at least a major project. Put at least 30% in BTC, ETH, XMR or ADA.

  I was still thinking that Lightning Network would be used primarily by exchanges. I have never thought about that as an escrow account.
But it makes sense see that way.
  So it created the possibility of some institutions starts to work for profit providing large hubs. This is interesting.

Four Bitcoin developers have released a paper outlining how Schnorr multi-signatures (‘multisig’) can help scale the Bitcoin Blockchain.

In the paper, published Jan. 15, Greg Maxwell, Andrew Poelstra, Yannick Seurin and Pieter Wuille discuss and illustrate how the technology, which ‘bunches’ multisig data together to reduce its size in a transaction, “could improve both performance and user privacy in Bitcoin.”

Multisig has seen wide use in various applications for Bitcoin over the past several years. Its trademark security benefits are a principal feature of some consumer wallet applications, and this week’s paper pays attention to how Schnorr multisig also offers enhanced transaction privacy.

Bitcoin scaling solutions continue to be in urgent demand as a variety of improvements move ever closer to mainstream acceptance.

Chief among those in January is the Lightning Network, a so-called layer 2 protocol that facilitates near-zero-fee transactions for Bitcoin, processed almost instantly.

Mainnet Lightning transactions are still in the “testing phase”, as Blockstream engineers put it in a post Jan. 16, and are happening on a small scale, with only around 50 nodes and 80 channels in operation.

Schnorr signatures have long been a favorite for technical commentators, receiving praise   from Blockchain consultant Sam Wouters for security benefits last July. Wouters explained the significance of the technology in a post, saying:

“At the end of the day, if it is just one person sending that transaction from multiple sources, there should be some way to do so with just one signature, right? This is what Schnorr signatures allow us to do.”

As 20 seriam apenas no Portugues? Gostei da iniciativa, parabéns.


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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-laundering-study-where-do-criminals-turn-mask-illicit-cryptoassets/

A recent study (PDF) from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance and blockchain analytics company Elliptic explored the “bitcoin laundering” ecosystem. In the study, Elliptic’s forensic analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain and other publicly available data were used to track the flows of illicit funds from 2013 to 2016.

“This study aimed to identify where individuals turn in order to cash out or transmit bitcoins (BTC) acquired from illicit entities and to discover typologies for criminals ‘laundering’ bitcoins,” the report says.

The study describes bitcoin laundering as a special type of money laundering that exists within the Bitcoin network where a user moves some bitcoins to a new address in a manner that obscures the original source of funds. The conversion of bitcoins into fiat currency on exchanges that lack adequate anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) policies can also fall under the category of bitcoin laundering.

In addition to describing the common mechanisms for bitcoin laundering and explaining that this sort of activity is a small percentage of all transactions sent to exchanges and other conversion services, the study also offers some recommendations for law enforcement in terms of preventing the masking of illicit funds on the Bitcoin network.

It should go without saying that any study related to the dark web or illicit use of the Bitcoin network needs to be taken with a grain of salt because avoiding detection is the whole reason for a criminal to use these sorts of platforms in the first place.

The Bitcoin Laundering Ecosystem
Much of the study, which is titled “Bitcoin Laundering: An Analysis of Illicit Flows Into Digital Currency Services,” revolves around the use of “conversion services.” Conversion services are basically platforms where users convert bitcoins to fiat currency (a Bitcoin exchange) or another cryptocurrency (a cryptoexchange), or move the bitcoins to another Bitcoin address accessible to the user. This results in a flow of funds that cannot be viewed or traced directly on the public blockchain.

According to the study, darknet markets are the main source of funds that are sent to conversion services in bitcoin laundering attempts.

Additionally, the number of illicit services that could be the source of “dirty bitcoins” sent to a conversion service increased fivefold from 2013 to 2016. Having said that, the study finds that the sources of illicit funds entering conversion services are quite centralized.

“Only a small number of entities account for the majority of illicit activity in our sample,” the study says. “Nine of the 102 illicit entities were the source of more than 95 percent of all laundered bitcoins in our study. All nine were darknet marketplaces.”

  ANyone know if is true that Peter Todd advice to this coin? I have never looked at this project so I am not so sure. I liked the idea, but I need to research more about. It seems to risk. And all in to exaggerated.

 So, Bitcoin could already do everything that alts are trying to accomplished? If Bitcoin was perfect, everything would be BTC layers and not a competitor. I believe most of alts would disappear in a few months, but if we believe in a new crypto economic that could be used for everyone n the world, it is impossible to only have Bitcoin.

Just seen this and came here for more information. It is just to risk to install something like this. It would be great if there was more news and people testing. No open sourced is another red flag

The best part is that using the same address to receive multiple times does nothing, and even if it could be optimised, won't be, because you're not supposed to ever do that.

 Memes and Lambo dreams are fun and all, but I know many of you are investing thousands of dollars into crypto, so its worth it to put some organized thought into it  well. I can't stress enough how important it is to try and logically construct your investment decisions. If you follow a set methodology, a checklist and template you will be able to do relative comparisons between cryptocurrencies, to force yourself to consider the negatives and alternative scenarios and also sleep comfortably knowing you have a sound basis for your investment decisions (even if they turn out to be wrong).

 I do not think they are the only ones. There is more people that maybe could have more then 1bi. But prefer to stay more quiet about.
And this twins owned Gemini too. So they could have made another Billion dollars. The worst part is that people that have make some scams, in the beginning, could be Billionare too. There was tons of Ponzi schemes when Bitcoin was worth less them 1k

  I like Monero. It is one of the top coins that truly has a great code and community. They are unique as it is, by design, the only untraceable coin. But the thing is that they have a lot of work to do. They do not have great wallets with simple UX. They need to be able to use easily on Smartphones. And the fee could be higher.

 If they work this out. It will be a top5 coin.

  This is just temporary. Stable or backup coins could sometimes display the price incorrectly on sites like coinmarket. I do not like Tether and I think the big risk on Cryptomarket is that one day they will be destroyed. But showing the price a little up, or a little down is nothing.

  I think some people could have made big money in this crash. Unfortaly, I am not one of them. What is great is that some people that do not understand the market and have bet on scam coins have probably lost a lot. And Bitcconect will disappear. Let us hope other scam coins that are still on top100 could just die.

  Eventually, Japan will become so rich that they will start to demand that other countries start to accept Bitcoin more easily. Even if they have prohibited before. Money talks, money is power and Bitcoin is money in the hands of people.

  The contract is really simple.

Each contract is composed of five bitcoin.

Each tick (the minimum fluctuation) will be $5 per bitcoin, amounting to $25 per contract. This means that every time the contract moves by the smallest increment a trader will gain or lose $25 per contract they hold.

Bitcoin futures will trade on CME Globex and CME ClearPort from 5 p.m. to 4 p.m. CT Sunday to Friday. The long trading hours are typical of futures contracts that are traded electronically.

There is a spot position limit of 1,000 contracts. Futures contracts always have limits on the number of contracts one person or entity owns. This prevents someone from being able to "corner the market."

Bitcoin futures will have a price limit of 20% above or below the prior settlement price.

Price settlement will be based on the Bitcoin Reference Rate, or a daily reference rate of the US dollar price of one bitcoin as of 4:00 p.m. London tim

BITMEX negociate futures for a long time know. I do not think the reason for this crash is related to CME

https://www.coindesk.com/the-first-blockchain-etfs-have-launched-on-the-nasdaq-exchange/?utm_content=bufferd2cc3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Reality Shares Advisors and Amplify Trust ETF launched the first blockchain-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Nasdaq today.

Both funds went live on Nasdaq's exchange at 9:30 a.m. EST. Reality Shares' Nasdaq NextGen Economy ETF (BLCN) opened at $24.20, while Amplify's Transformational Data Sharing ETF (BLOK) started closer to $20.

Both ETFs will exclusively invest in blockchain-based companies, according to a previous CoinDesk article. When the prospectuses were first filed in November 2017, the companies noted that investing in blockchain startups could be risky, as there are few regulations on the technology and companies may not necessarily turn a profit.

However, the prospectuses also noted that the funds would only invest in companies with a market capitalization of greater than $200 million and which had a six-month daily trading average of at least $1 million.

Reality Shares has developed an index with Nasdaq to track blockchain startups which the ETF will utilize, said Kian Salehizadeh, an analyst with Reality Shares. Nasdaq's blockchain research team forms part of the index's contributors. The index is further supported by an algorithm developed by Reality Shares.

Salehizadeh continued:

"We wanted to do a blockchain technology-related ETF, so not another bitcoin fund but something that takes advantage of the underlying ecosystem. So we developed a methodology in-house which measures seven quantitative factors and we run those factors on a universe of publicly traded [data]."

He further told CoinDesk that the company's ETF originally contained the word "blockchain" in its name, but the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had his company remove the term.

While the SEC has not formally issued an approval of the ETFs, the lack of a formal disapproval means the ETFs were automatically approved under current law, Salehizadeh explained. At present, the SEC has 75 days to issue a disapproval or objection to an ETF filing. If no such disapproval or objection is stated, the funds can be listed.

Companies have previously filed for blockchain-based ETFs, but none had made it as far as listing prior to Reality Shares and Amplify Trust. Most recently, Horizons ETFs Management filed for a blockchain ETF in November.

Amplify Trust ETF had not responded to a request for comment at press time.

Why? Everyone that could ready would know that is a Ponzi scheme. People that put money on there has spent money knowing that eventually, it would crash. It is great that scam projects just fail and disappears so the legit ones could be bigger and stronger.

OMG. I have seen this topic and just missed the best opportunity. It is hard to believe in something like that. You were right all the time. And the best part is that we will soon see ATH again. Time to buy more.