Those views aren't real.
Huh? Blanket statement with nothing to back it up. Nice argument. it makes that board looks really spammy with same series of threads posted by a single user
There is a format specified for threads in the press board. Read it here. In any case, I don't think there is any point discussing this, if the mods don't say whether it is acceptable to post press articles without a signature. You didn't even bother to check the Indian board before bumping this thread again. |
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Well obviously, you haven't checked. There are no further threads.
I did try and check with hilariousandco / Benson (through the Indian forum) if such threads are acceptable if a user posts without a signature.
What is the point of posting them when no one gives a shit ? I mean if they would,there would be at least be some discussions on the subject but simultaneoulsy posting them in the same format makes it look like a spam with a bot behavior especially when the user posting anywhere else on the forum. The articles are not ignored. There are sufficient views on the articles. You have just assumed that nobody gives a shit. There is a specified format for posting news articles. I stick to that. Why should that bother you? If I do have to quote an example of a post just to ensure that somebody gets paid for the signature campaign, here is one. I don't really have any relevant posts to reply for this weekend's posting quota in this thread but just want to take time out to thank BitDice team for running everything smoothly since day 1 of this thread.Well managed campaign and the Casino!Keep up the great work!
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Any updates on this ? The threads are still floating in the section.The user hasn't stopped posting their crap.
@hilariousandco : You were suppose to get a reply from the said user,did he ?
Well obviously, you haven't checked. There are no further threads. I did try and check with hilariousandco / Benson (through the Indian forum) if such threads are acceptable if a user posts without a signature. I haven't received a response. Until I receive a clarification otherwise, I assume that such threads are unacceptable and won't post. If you look at the early posts in the Press Board here, you will find that they have been made by the moderator - Benson Samuel. You are welcome to post in the India board to see if the community finds news articles helpful / acceptable / spammy. |
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Just a check on what the Indian community thinks.
Are news articles from Indian publications welcome here? I was under the impression that the press board could serve as a summary of bitcoin articles published by Indian media houses over time and would be helpful.
Just to ensure that this conversation does not digress, let us say the articles are posted by a user who is not wearing a paid signature.
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Why blockchain is like a kitty partyhttp://www.livemint.com/Opinion/8JiOVnHjnYoQ8QEGiBkJGM/Why-blockchain-is-like-a-kitty-party.html
The concept of blockchain is tough to understand—unless you perfectly understand a kitty party.
Let us step back. Blockchain technology was the second most hyped technology in 2016, just a smidgen behind machine learning. In banks and tech companies across the world, you can hear people speaking about blockchain in hushed, reverential tones, as if people were speaking about the more arcane aspects of Kabbalah. Also, much like this ancient esoteric strain of Judaism, blockchain is very difficult to understand, despite how many times you read or listen about it.
Most times, blockchain is explained as the “technology or protocol behind bitcoin”. And bitcoin is a bit easier to understand—at first. A digital currency with an equivalent dollar value, bitcoin can be bought, sold and used to buy stuff. But the moment you tell people there is no bank involved, no issuing authority, no government, no gold-backing, the glazed blockchain-like look starts coming back in people’s eyes.
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First blockchain project ‘Clear-Chain’ is underway
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/first-blockchain-project-clear-chain-is-underway/articleshow/58901149.cms
BankChain, the consortium of banking majors including SBI, ICICI Bank and DCB Bank has completed work on its first blockchain project. A blockchain is a decentralised and distributed digital ledger that records transactions across many computers in such a way that the registered transactions cannot be altered retroactively.
Titled Clear-Chain (c2), it is a permissioned blockchain for integrated and shared KYC, AML and CFT (Know Your Customer, Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism). While Clear-Chain is being tested across member banks, 4 others are expected to be completed in the next 4 months.
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Europe’s biggest utilities join blockchain energy trading trialhttp://www.livemint.com/Technology/azmOJmxeAFzDP41NLm5OxK/Europes-biggest-utilities-join-blockchain-energy-trading-tr.html
Some of Europe’s biggest utilities joined a project to test blockchain-based trades in wholesale power and natural gas markets.
Utilities from Enel SpA to RWE AG will start live trading based on blockchain in the fourth quarter, after tests that start in August, said Michael Merz, managing director at Ponton GmbH, the developer of the project. The software, called Enerchain, allows anonymous peer-to-peer trading without using a third party.
Blockchain, the technology at the heart of bitcoin, may help the energy business to adapt to a more decentralized world with intermittent solar and wind power output. The technology is being tested by utilities from Vattenfall AB to grid companies such as Tennet Holding BV in areas from consumer electricity platforms to managing the network.
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Japan’s BITPoint to add Bitcoin payments to retail outletshttp://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/japans-bitpoint-to-add-bitcoin-payments-to-retail-outlets-4678754/
BITPoint Japan Co., the company behind Peach Aviation Ltd.’s move to let travelers use bitcoin to pay for tickets, is planning to give hundreds of thousands of Japanese retail outlets the ability to accept the digital currency.
“We’re holding discussions with a retail-related company,” Genki Oda, BITPoint’s president, said in a recent interview. “By going through a company providing payment terminal services to shops, we have the possibility of increasing its use at one stroke. It’s easier than talking to lots of individual retailers.”
BITPoint is joining a flurry of companies embracing regulations, enacted in Japan last month, that recognize digital currencies as a form of payment. That has helped to make yen trades one of the world’s largest transaction pools, exceeding China’s pole position at the end of 2016, according to Oda. Bic Camera Inc., one of the country’s biggest electronics retailers, began accepting bitcoin at two stores in Tokyo last month.
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Rs 10,000 invested in this 'currency' in 2010 would have got you Rs 66 crore todayhttp://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/markets-business/if-you-had-put-rs-10000-in-this-investment-7-years-ago-you-would-have-had-rs-66-crore-now-2289911.html
A small Rs 10,000 investment made in the digital currency bitcoin in 2010 would have increased 66,00,000%, netting the investor a cool Rs 66 crore.
In 2010, bitcoin—the cryptocurrency that had then come into being only a year back—was valued at the average of USD 0.06 or Rs. 2.85.
Bitcoin hit a record-high of USD 2,779 yesterday, stunning investors and observers around the world. It has appreciated 150 percent year to date.
The cryptocurrency got a shot in the arm following the bitcoin community recently reaching a consensus on the scaling issue that earlier capped the total production at the projected amount of 21 million.
A pact signed by more than 50 companies for increasing the block size and activating Segregated Witness -- a new way of verifying transactions -- was posted by Digital Currency Group on its blog.
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A wild ride for a would-be bitcoin ETPhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/a-wild-ride-for-a-would-be-bitcoin-etp/articleshow/58863824.cms
** Bitcoin Investment Trust is charting a wild correction after a 154 pct run-up from May 12 to May 25
** GBTC down 14 pct, while bitcoin down just 1 pct
** Sharp move comes after bitcoin run sparked by Asian buying and endorsement on Tuesday from Fidelity Investments' CEO Abby Johnson
** GBTC investor Mike Venuto says premium collapsing Friday in part because of speculation that Fidelity would offer a brokerage product for accessing bitcoin that could replace GBTC
** NYSE Arca applying to let GBTC trade on its exchange, while product sponsor Grayscale Investments LLC plans to convert it to a more traditional commodity-tracking ETP that would rise and fall with the value of bitcoin it holds; an approval would be historic
** Currently GBTC trades over the counter at a significant premium to its value: mkt price of $477 yesterday is more than double the $234 value of its bitcoin
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Bitcoin can be misused for cycling black money and financing terror, warn House panel MPshttp://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bitcoin-can-be-misused-for-cycling-black-money-and-financing-terror-warn-house-panel-mps/articleshow/58862782.cmsA meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Finance on Thursday saw many members across the political divide razing questions about the Bitcoin mode of financial transactions. Members feared that it could become a parallel instrument for cycling black money and dodgy transactions and also a source for terror financing, sources said. MPs also cautioned the finance ministry officials present at the meeting against any move to legalise Bitcoin and wanted the government to look into the vulnerability of this instrument.
Sources said BJP member Kirit Somaiya raised a series of questions about Bitcoin and asked the officials why the government was being ambivalent about this instrument, neither clarifying whether it was a legally permissible instrument or not. He is also learnt to have demanded to know whether officials are properly briefing the prime minister about the flipside of this instrument. While expressing similar concerns Trinamool Congress member Dinesh Trivedi, according to sources, said “today data is the new oil and Bitcoin is the ransom finance platform.”
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Bitcoin boom: Here's what the cryptocurrency is all abouthttp://www.dnaindia.com/technology/report-bitcoin-boom-here-s-what-the-cryptocurrency-is-all-about-2451466
The value of the Bitcoin, the internet's most widely used virtual currency, has more than doubled since the beginning of 2017, recently passing the symbolic $2,000 mark and setting a new record. While the currency is becoming more widely used and accepted, it is still often associated with the darker side of the internet.
Bitcoin is a portmanteau compounding "bit" (the basic unit of information in computing, itself a portmanteau of "binary digit") and "coin." It is a virtual cryptocurrency created in 2009 and released as open-source software. For a long time, the currency was only really used by serious computer geeks, but it has progressively gained ground among the wider public. In fact, a growing number of products and services can now be paid for using the currency. The coinmap.org website shows nearby places that accept the bitcoin.
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Coinbase suffers outages amid bitcoin surgehttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/coinbase-suffers-outages-amid-bitcoin-surge/articleshow/58847995.cms
Coinbase said on Thursday it suffered outages this week as the bitcoin exchange saw "unprecedented traffic and trading," with the digital currency hitting record levels.
Bitcoin fell as much as 6.5 percent to $2,263.72 at around 1730 GMT on Thursday, but rebounded shortly after to hit a fresh all-time high of $2,760.10.
Bitcoin hit a record on the BitStamp platform on Wednesday, driven by an uptick in demand for crypto-assets, with the creation of new tokens to raise funding for start-ups using blockchain, the underlying technology behind bitcoin.
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Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency nearly triples in value in 12 months, price could hit $3,000 soonhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bitcoin-value-cryptocurrency-demonetisation/1/963293.html
The burgeoning bitcoin has blown away the stock market bull run and the shinning bullion.
The cryptocurrency made global buzz after international hackers demanded it as ransom to disinfect computers. But growing demand has made it a top investment choice for many even in India, leaving behind the traditional gold rush.
Bitcoin has almost tripled in value in the last twelve months as it traded at over Rs 2 lakh on Thursday. Analysts had earlier projected the price of the cryptocurrency to reach $3,000 (Rs 1.93 lakh) by the end of this year, but the recent rally suggests that this target could be hit within a couple of days.
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Bank of Canada says won't use blockchain for interbank payment systemhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/bank-of-canada-says-wont-use-blockchain-for-interbank-payment-system/articleshow/58844602.cms
The Bank of Canada said on Thursday that its experiment with blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, showed it is currently not compatible with operating the country's centralized interbank payment systems.
The Bank's conclusion, published in a column in The Globe and Mail newspaper, comes after a year-long experiment in partnership with Payments Canada, which is responsible for the country's clearing and settlement infrastructure, and Canada's largest banks.
"The bottom line is that a stand-alone DLT wholesale system is unlikely to match the efficiency and net benefits of a centralized system," wrote Carolyn Wilkins, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, and Gerry Gaetz, Payments Canada president.
"At its heart, there exists a fundamental inconsistency or tension between a centralized wholesale interbank payment system, as we have now, and the decentralization inherent in DLT."
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Bitcoin trading at over Rs 2 lakh in India as global prices cross $2,500
http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/bitcoin-trading-at-over-rs-2-lakh-in-india-as-global-prices-cross-2-500-117052500182_1.html
A surge in demand has seen a price rally in crypto-currencies worldwide, with buying led by investors in the US, China, Japan, Korea and even India.
The average bitcoin price is around $2,670, about 155 per cent more than at the beginning of the year. In India, it went up to trade at Rs 2.26 lakh at the time of writing this report.
With supply lagging, the India price is at a 20 per cent premium to the global one; the South Korean market is at a 35 per cent premium, at $3,800. The US Bitstamp index is quoting at a $100 premium to the Chinese market.
In India, one exchange has had to issue a cautionary note to investors; another is facing a system slowdown.
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31 May is the deadline for suggesting policy on virtual currencies, including Bitcoin, to the Indian Governmenthttp://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/31-may-is-the-deadline-for-suggesting-policy-on-virtual-currencies-including-bitcoin-to-the-indian-government-378230.html
The Government and the RBI has repeatedly cautioned the citizens of the country against the use of virtual currencies such as bitcoin, dogecoin and litecoin. The problems identified include a lack of mechanisms to settle disputes, the potential to be unknowingly involved in criminal activities, and the possibility of theft or loss.
Bitcoin is treated differently around the world. In the United States and Australia, it is considered property, and Bitcoin transactions attract taxes. In China, the cryptocurrency is considered a virtual commondity. Banks and financial institutions are prohibited from making bitcoin transactions. In the United Kingdom, it is a private currency with reduced taxes. Brazil has no regulation, while Bangladesh has passed laws where bitcoin transactions can attract a jail term of up to twelve years. In India, those who profit from Bitcoin transactions may have to pay capital gains tax.
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Ethereum explained: An emerging blockchain based application platform used by tech giantshttp://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/ethereum-explained-an-emerging-blockchain-based-application-platform-used-by-tech-giants-378246.html
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that allows for international, anonymous transactions without a central authority. The verification of the transactions is enforced through the Blockchain, which is a immutable public record of all the transactions. Blockchain has become synonymous with distributed ledger technologies, and not just the specific implementation that supports bitcoin transactions.
Blockchain is a disruptive technology, and considered the biggest technological innovation since the internet itself. Wipro, Infosys, Microsoft and IBM all offer blockchain based solutions for a wide variety of purposes. Ethereum is a publicly deployed blockchain based platform with support for smart contracts. Instead of a blockchain being used for just cryptocurrency transactions, think of it as a blockchain for running any kind of application.
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is a blockchain based application platform, that allows the applications to run from decentralised nodes instead of a central server. Anyone can set up a node, and be compensated for the computational power they provide to the blockchain. The decentralised architecture means that the applications running on the blockchain can not be tampered with, cannot be blocked, and there is no possibility of a downtime.
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