Mr. Ver is running out of tricks and money with his new invention of BCash. He wants to create another stream of income since the BCash is failing slowly. Mr. Ver saw crypto exchange as a better to go than working 24/7 promoting BCash yet failing still. My question on that exchange is, which coin is going to be the major trading pair? I know crypto exchanges are using BTC as the major trading pair followed by ETH. Perhaps, we shall see BCH for the first time.  

The banks always see bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a threat, a competition. therefore, they will do everything possible in their own power to destroy the image of cryptocurrencies. Thankfully, the people are learning more about cryptocurrencies day by day because of that, I don't think what banks are doing against cryptocurrencies will last forever. 

Well, there are so many types of bitcoin wallet. it may depend on which one you need.

Online Bitcoin Wallets
Xapo.com
Blockchain.com

Desktop Bitcoin Wallets
Exodus wallet
Electrum wallet

Android Bitcoin Wallets
Coinomi
Jaxx

Hardware Bitcoin Wallets
Ledger wallet
Trezor wallet

For all these bitcoin wallets I prefer the "hardware wallet" because it is the most secure wallet out there. it's completely off-the-grid no one can access it but you.

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Binance Co-Founder on Launching Fiat Exchange, Confident in Crypto Market Trend [INTERVIEW]

Yi He, the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Binance, spoke to CryptoSlate in an exclusive interview on how the exchange decided to launch a fiat-enabled trading platform in Singapore, discussed the country’s regulatory frameworks around crypto, and the state of the cryptocurrency market.


Since its debut in mid-2017, Binance has experienced exponential growth in terms of daily trading volume and user base, evolving into the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the global market. In the past nine months, Binance has released a blockchain startup accelerator called Binance Labs, Binance Charity, and a prototype for a decentralized exchange.

Earlier this month, Binance officially announced the launch a fiat cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore, equipped with seamless user experience and fiat (Singaporean dollar) integration. On Binance Singapore, users are able to deposit and withdraw the Singaporean dollar to trade cryptocurrencies with the national currency.

Yi said:

    “Our mission at Binance is to contribute to the development of the blockchain industry by building the infrastructure for the ecosystem. Fiat currencies are a very important part of blockchain transactions. By launching a fiat exchange, we hope to provide users with a more complete user experience, and enable not only the exchange and transaction of fiat currency but also future investments in blockchain projects, media, education and other blockchain fields.”


Source: https://cryptoslate.com/binance-co-founder-on-launching-fiat-exchange-confident-in-crypto-market-trend-interview/

Dude, I think you should go and read the two following articles, both are less than a week old...

Research Finds Investors Remain Bullish on Bitcoin Despite Bear Market
https://cryptoslate.com/research-finds-investors-remain-bullish-on-bitcoin-despite-bear-market/

Majority of Investors Want to Buy More Digital Currency in 2018, Survey Shows
https://cointelegraph.com/news/majority-of-investors-want-to-buy-more-digital-currency-in-2018-survey-shows

I know after reading these two articles you might change how you perceived bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general because the investors still want to invest.

With this very stat on the head of Mr. Armstrong, the coinbase is trying to cook something for the future no one knows whether good or bad only time will tell.

For Ethereum maybe, but I believe there is still chance for some coins to thrive in the future the cryptocurrency ecosystem is still small and there is an opportunity for new ideas/projects to grow in the future. Sometimes, people just make conclusions when their project is failing and it is not like that in real life. one life ends another one begins.

According to Vitalik Buterin, the co-creator of Ethereum, the days of 1000x growth as seen in 2017 in the cryptocurrency sector is gone.

Speaking to Bloomberg, Buterin emphasized that the awareness of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology has already achieved its high point in Dec. 2017, when the price of major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Bitcoin Cash demonstrated 10 to 300-fold returns.

“The blockchain space is getting to the point where there’s a ceiling in sight. If you talk to the average educated person at this point, they probably have heard of blockchain at least once. There isn’t an opportunity for yet another 1,000-times growth in anything in the space anymore,” he said.

Moving From Promotion to Real Adoption
The speculative bubble of last year has led the vast majority to take interest in cryptocurrencies as an emerging asset class. In the upcoming years, Buterin stated that the industry will focus on improving the usability and accessibility of decentralized systems rather than promotion and gathering interest.

Buterin explained that the strategy of promoting blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies to the broader consumer base is hitting a dead end and that it is time to improve the infrastructure of decentralized systems, applications (dApps), and protocols to encourage consumers to commit to blockchain-based platforms.

“Go from just people being interested to real applications of real economic activity,” he stated, adding “that strategy [promoting the blockchain to the broader consumer base]is getting close to hitting a dead end.”

In the upcoming months and years, to reach true mainstream adoption, developers of dApps will have to ensure that the utilization of decentralized systems is as seamless and efficient as centralized platforms.

For instance, apps like Peepeth, a decentralized alternative to Twitter, which was recently discussed on the Joe Rogan Podcast, require users to send Ether or gas every time a piece of information has to be broadcasted to the Ethereum mainnet.

The simple shift from cash to cryptocurrencies can already be difficult and technically challenging for the majority of people. Then requiring users to utilize MetaMask to process gas on a dApp through the Ethereum mainnet could be highly complicated for most.

As decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Kyber Network CEO Loi Luu previously said, in the near future, dApps will have to improve their user interface to refine and simplify the process of utilizing blockchain-based systems.

“I think it’s because the UI isn’t good enough. The users aren’t familiar with the Decentralized Exchanges; they’re more familiar with Binance or Bittrex. So that’s why we wanted to make it really easy for the user to use. So we don’t focus on the decentralized aspect of it. We focus more on the usability aspect of it,” Luu said, recognizing that the current UI of decentralized exchanges and dApps is not efficient enough.

Improvements on Protocol and dApps
On the protocol side, the open-source developer community of Ethereum is working on the implementation of Sharding and Plasma, two solutions that are expected to massively increase the scalability of the Ethereum network.

Other projects like Cardano and Zilliqa are working on proof-of-stake (PoS) and Sharding-related solutions as alternatives to Plasma and Ethereum-based solutions.

Still, the front-end and UI side of dApps and decentralized systems in general need significant improvement, especially if dApps intend to target the consumer base of widely utilized centralized platforms.


Source: https://www.ccn.com/why-ethereum-co-creator-believes-days-of-1000x-crypto-growth-is-gone/

A Billion People Will Be Using Cryptocurrency in 5 Years: Brian Armstrong



The world of money is revolutionizing in front of our eyes. Cryptocurrency is creating new paradigms for alternative payment systems and decentralized banking. There is no doubt that the user adoption of various cryptocurrencies is rapidly increasing. The cryptocurrency industry has become more fluid as the borders between it and mainstream finance continue to blur. At the same time, regulators are spending long hours at work to regulate the booming circle of crypto-enthusiasts.

It could be one of the prime reasons why Brian Armstrong believes crypto-adoption will increase at an astronomical pace in the next half-decade.

The Coinbase chief executive was responding to a question about cryptocurrency’s international outreach at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, to which he predicted that 1 billion people would eventually be using cryptocurrencies in the next five years.

Armstrong believes a growing number of cryptocurrency companies will contribute to the overall crypto ecosystem growth. These companies, under a regulated environment, will issue their tokens backed by their respective market caps. In a way, these institutionalized digital assets will prove to be an alternative investment system in addition to equities.

“It makes sense that any company out there who has a cap table should have their token,” Armstrong said. “Every open source project, every charity, potentially every fund or these new types of decentralized organizations [and] apps, they’re all going to have their tokens.”

Coinbase, the U.S. company Armstrong heads, is one of the world’s largest bitcoin and altcoin exchanges by trading volume. They have only recently entered the U.K. markets to tap the growing crypto-user base in the country. Previously, it had been working actively in the U.S. and Europe, and it has amassed over 13 million users to date. That makes it 32.5 percent of the overall crypto-users — arguably, anyway.

Armstrong plans to expand Coinbase to more global territories. They have recently announced their plans to open new offices in Africa.

In the long run, Armstrong believes they will function like the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), with “probably” millions of tokens in their portfolio.

“We do feel a substantial subset of these tokens will be securities,” he said. “Our approach has always been to be the most trusted [cryptocurrency exchange] and the easiest to use. So we want to be the legal compliant place where you can start to trade these tokens that are classified as securities.”


Source: https://www.ccn.com/a-billion-people-will-be-using-cryptocurrency-in-5-years-brian-armstrong/

Thank God that I'm not from Ukraine 19.5% of my CRYPTO earnings? what a joke
The way I see it, it is not fair to pay ~20% of my crypto earnings as a tax.
Anything below 12% is okay, but paying above that is a JOKE, trust me.
No disrespect, Ukraine is one of the corrupt nations in the world.
Therefore, the majority of the taxed money goes to the politicians' pockets.
Why pay your hard earned profits up to 20% to a country where politicians loot    
 

The EOS blockchain project is hoping to boost the onboarding of new users by reducing the cost of opening accounts.

EOS New York, one of the network's 21 block producers (the entities elected to verify transactions on the network), announced Thursday that 15 block producers had approved a new protocol update which reduces cost of a new account from 4 kibibytes (KiB) to 3 KiB (roughly $1.84 as of September 6). KiB are used to measure amounts of data.

The change also grants new accounts 1,400 bytes of RAM for free, though existing accounts can buy, delegate or undelegate RAM to also receive 1,400 bytes for free.

Accounts on the EOS blockchain are necessary for transferring tokens or otherwise launching a transaction on the network.

The post further stressed the importance of making account creation easier to bring more decentralized app (dApp) developers on board in the early adoption phase, explaining:

    "EOS account creation cost is an extremely important aspect of the health of the platform. Many users of EOS decentralized applications are early adopters, people who are eager and willing to spend the time to understand the EOS blockchain. But in the future, users will not be as eager."

Because dapp developers will therefore either have to create users' accounts or otherwise force users to pay to create accounts, lowering the cost "dramatically reduces the barriers to development," the post said.


Source: https://www.coindesk.com/eos-block-producers-move-to-cut-costs-for-users/

On Friday, Sept. 7, the Ripple price (XRP) is recovering, although the intraday outlook is still mixed. Ripple is trading around 0.2905.
Fundamentals

XRP news are mostly neutral. This week, TransferGo launched a payment channel to India based on XRP technology, which will enable real time transactions.

The channel is going to be available across Europe and, going forward, will enable avoiding most current payment methods where transactions take around two or three days. It is yet unknown which XRP product TransferGo is using, but the reason for basing the transactions on XRP is quite clear: this token is very widespread in India and opens the door to unlimited opportunities there.

Another payment service being launched by TransferGo is also based on XRP. Although it is a bit slower, it is going to be completely free of charge.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said this week that there was no point in replacing fiat currencies with cryptos. Regular money does its job quite alright, he added. In order to contest this point the speed and usability digital money must get much more effective, and while cryptocurrency can function well for overseas transactions, it is still not that useful for everyday payments.


Continue reading: https://www.ccn.com/ripple-price-xrp-faces-tough-battle-against-selloff/

Fool’s Gold? Bitcoin Fork Faces Cryptocurrency Exchange Delisting after 51% Attack



Three months after Bitcoin Gold fell prey to a high-profile 51 percent attack, one of the cryptocurrency exchanges affected by that exploit is threatening to delist BTG unless the coin’s developers help cover its losses.

Last week, the Bitcoin Gold organization announced on its official website that Bittrex, a top-30 cryptocurrency exchange by volume and one of the few to offer USD trading pairs, has informed the project that it will delist BTG since the former has refused to reimburse the 12,372 BTG that the hackers stole from the company’s hot wallet.

As CCN reported at the time, the attackers managed to steal an estimated $18 million worth of BTG from multiple cryptocurrency exchanges by using rented mining rigs to accumulate a majority of the Bitcoin Gold network’s hashpower. This allowed them to execute a double spend attack, through which they rewrote recent blockchain data to reverse payments and steal funds from exchanges.

Bitcoin Gold, which has since upgraded the BTG protocol to a new hashing algorithm in response to the incident, claims that it is not responsible for the losses incurred by Bittrex.

The organization wrote:

    “Despite all of our efforts, Bittrex was the victim of the last and largest BTG double-spend the attackers performed. The attackers deposited 12,371 BTG from the wallet we previously identified. Several hours later, Bittrex allowed them to trade that BTG and withdraw some amount of other coins, and then the attackers used the 51% attack to double-spend those BTG, invalidating their original deposit. (We do not know the net value of Bittrex’s loss since they have not disclosed the value of the coins they allowed to be withdrawn.)”

Continue reading: https://www.ccn.com/fools-gold-bitcoin-fork-faces-cryptocurrency-exchange-delisting-after-51-attack/

Cryptocurrency exchange startup Quione has launched a new trading platform that it says will bring much needed liquidity to the crypto markets.

Called Liquid, the new service is a cryptocurrency trading "portal" that provides users with access to what it claims in a press release is "a worldwide network of cryptocurrency exchanges."

With a lack of liquidity having "hampered the development of the cryptocurrency markets," Liquid argued that its new product could help usher in greater stability.

From launch, Liquid will allow users to match trades across "multiple transactions and cryptocurrencies" – that is, make cross cryptocurrency conversions, as well as convert from the Singapore dollar (SGD). The firm says, as an example, orders of BTC/SGD, ETH/SGD and BTC/ETH could be matched together.

Later on, the firm plans to expand that offering with what it is calling a "World Book" technology. This aggregates orders and prices on different exchanges into a single order book and allows orders to be placed in the currency of choice, Quoine said.

According to an example of the system in the Liquid white paper, a German trader who wants to sell bitcoin can opt to view the World Book for bitcoin (BTC) in euros (EUR). When an order is placed, they will see their order enter the BTC/EUR market, with the order's price also being reflected in their orderbook in EUR.

If the trader's order to, say, sell BTC/EUR is matched with an order to buy BTC/SGD, "an FX conversion happens behind the scenes." After the trade, both parties receive their funds in their chosen order currencies.

Mike Kayamori, co-founder and CEO of Quoine, said in the release:

    "Cryptocurrency markets need stability. This year, the 30 day BTC/USD volatility [2] index has been above 3 percent for almost the entire year, with highs topping 8 percent at the start of the year. Liquid is paving the way to a less volatile future by improving liquidity within the cryptocurrency ecosystem."

Quoine operates cryptocurrency exchange businesses, and was licensed by Japan's financial watchdog, the Financial Service Authority, for its operations in the country back in September 2017.

Two months later, Quoine raised $105 million in a sale of its QASH token that it said would fund Liquid's development. The utility token will now be used to power the platform, allowing users to access to services.

In the press release, the firm further listed a number of features that it plans to add in the future including verification that allows withdrawals "under certain limits" to be made without having to undergo a know-your-customer process.

A credit card funding option and mobile apps for iOS and Android are also in the works.


Source: https://www.coindesk.com/quione-looks-to-boost-crypto-liquidity-with-new-trading-platform/

For bitcoin, the path of least resistance is to the downside.

At press time, the leading cryptocurrency is trading at $6,340 on Bifinex – down 3 percent from the high of $6,550 hit earlier today. The bulk of that loss came amid a dramatic drop over almost $100 in an hour soon before press time.

The minor recovery from the previous day's low of $6,300 was likely a product of oversold conditions reported by the short duration relative strength index (RSI) yesterday.

More importantly, the fact that the gains were erased so quickly indicates that bearish sentiment is still quite strong and the minor pop has likely recharged engines for further sell-off.

After a period of strengthening bull indicators over the last three weeks, the technical charts have now shifted toward the bears. As a result, a drop to $6,000 (February low) cannot be ruled out


Source: https://www.coindesk.com/6k-ahead-bitcoin-price-drops-after-brief-recovery/

Mobile investment app Robinhood, which launched a zero-commission cryptocurrency trading service early this year, is now searching for a chief financial officer as it prepares for an initial public offering (IPO).

Speaking at a TechCrunch event on Thursday, Robinhood CEO Baiju Bhatt revealed that the firm is "actively looking for a CFO right now" as he confirmed going public is "definitely" in the company's plan in the medium- to long-term.

He added:

    "Being a public company I think aligns very closely with our mission as well. And it's definitely on the horizon, not in the immediate term, but that's something we are thinking about."

Further, Bhatt said as a financial service company, its security measures and financial performances are being audited by financial regulators in the U.S. such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

The news follows Robinhood's announcement in May that it raised $363 million in a Series D round funding led by DST Global and Sequoia Capital, which valued the firm at $5.6 billion.

Bhatt said at the time that with the new capital, the firm aimed to "become either the largest or one of the largest crypto platforms out there" by end of 2018.

As CoinDesk previously reported, the zero-fee stock trading startup launched Robinhood Crypto in February aimed to allow users in the U.S. to buy and sell cryptocurrencies at lower costs.

Currently, it offers trading options for bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash, ethereum classic, litecoin, and dogecoin in 17 states in the U.S. and claims to have over 5 million users on the platform.


Source: https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-and-stock-trading-startup-robinhood-is-eyeing-an-ipo/

I was wondering too who is stupid enough to code a malware that can steal people money/bitcoin and send it back to him. These days, the bitcoin transaction is no longer anonymous, the transaction can be traced easily. unless the attacker can use certain [BTC Tx Mixer Service] to cover his tracks, if possible.

Bitcoin is not a "get rich quick scheme" is digital currency suitable for making a long-term investment.
The way I see bitcoin investment is just like property investment but way better in a more fashionable way.

I think the world is ready for cryptocurrency because there are over two billion people connected to the internet today out of eight billion. two billion people out of eight is 25% of the world population which I believe they can start with cryptocurrency and then the rest of the world will follow later. there is no tech that will get massive adoption in a small period of time, it normally takes time before reaching massive adoption, because of that I believe the cryptocurrency is on the right path.