Bitcoin Now $15 Bln Market, Going to $1000 Mark
The total USD value of Bitcoin supply in circulation as calculated by the daily average market price across major exchanges has just crossed a new all-time high $15 bln record today December 27, 2016, as its unit price continues to climb closer to the $1000 mark.. .... https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-now-15-bln-market-going-to-1000-mark
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And 2016’s best-performing commodity is ... bitcoin?Bitcoin has had a banner 2016. After two years of lackluster returns, the price of a single coin soared more than 100% this year — putting bitcoin on track for its best annual performance since 2013. A wave of exuberance carried bitcoin from around $90 in January of that year to an all-time high of $1,242. Bitcoin’s market capitalization sailed past $14.5 billion as the price of a single coin traded as high as $913 a coin on Friday, according to Coin Market Cap, as its market capitalization to sail past the $14 billion mark, eclipsing the market value of, say, Twitter Inc. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/and-2016s-best-performing-commodity-is-bitcoin-2016-12-22
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How bitcoin protects against geopolitical riskToday’s election is anything but ordinary. People from every corner of the globe have been watching, not only for its theatrical elements but because the impact will be felt around the world in very real ways. And nowhere will the impact be more immediate and certain than on the economy. In August, the Wall Street Journal published a piece noting that economists were already seeing election-induced uncertainty harming the US economy. When the British people voted to leave the European Union, the value of currency literally plummeted overnight. If Trump wins today, the USD is likely to take a tumble just as the GBP did following the Brexit vote........... https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/08/how-bitcoin-protects-against-geopolitical-risk/ |
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[Little up-date: the rasied figure now stand as 7,933,858.95 | Still 21 hours left to get in ] ICONOMI 'Uberizing' Blockchain Platform Eclipses $6m In Fintech CrowdsaleTantalisingly dubbed a Blockchain ‘Uber for Fund Management’, ICONOMI, has of today raised over on $6m to become the third largest financial tech crowdfunded investment sale ever. And, the initiative’s founders are on a mission to prove that the concept of ‘uberization’ is suitable for far more than ‘consumer-level’ services and aim to start an “inevitable disruption” of finance.... http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2016/09/27/iconomi-uberizing-blockchain-platform-eclipses-6m-in-fintech-crowdsale/#636889ca638e |
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Continued Funding and Transparency
Our mission is to create open financial technology with zero-knowledge privacy, for everyone in the world to use. The first application of that technology is Zcash, a cryptocurrency and blockchain with privacy built in.... https://z.cash/blog/continued-funding-and-transparency.html
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Bitcoin and the Brave Future of BrowsersThe first question I typically ask a founder or co-founders is a simple one: “Why did you name your company X?” I want to know the story behind the name. In my experience, the best stories, the deepest stories, tend to convey the mission, the ambition, the scope and the culture of the founding team. For example, I remember walking down Michigan Avenue in Chicago with Andrew Mason while he was explaining this new company concept called The Point. My first question was; “Andy, if you tell 100 people to visit ThePoint.com, how many are going to type in Point.com, a domain that somebody else owns?" http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-brave-future-browsers/
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Are CoinBase, Kraken, and Poloniex Doomed to Fail?
If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware that over the summer an exchange called BitFinex was hacked and lost about a third of the value stored on the exchange. You may have your cryptocurrency and tokens on one of the large exchanges, like CoinBase, Kraken, Poloniex, etc. That means you have a password to the exchange, and the exchange holds your private keys. This short essay is my attempt to explain why any successful exchange that aggregates customer keys is simply one that hasn’t been hacked yet... https://medium.com/@pullnews/are-coinbase-kraken-and-poloniex-doomed-to-fail-2739153d033a
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How Ethereum's Wallets Are Evolving
Wallets are one of most basic applications on any blockchain platform. They provide the interface for users to interact with the blockchain. Some wallets, such as the one offered by Bitcoin Core, connect to the blockchain directly via a full node, while others depend on web services to provide access.... http://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-wallets-evolving/
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Can Bitcoin Hard-Fork?Following the hard fork in the Ethereum blockchain earlier this year, developers involved in the Bitcoin Core project are coming up with a plan to deal with the possibility of a hard fork in Bitcoin. But with the Bitcoin network much larger and more disparate than Ethereum, could such an event happen with Bitcoin anyway? http://www.investopedia.com/news/can-bitcoin-hardfork/
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Ethereum & BitcoinThe first time we heard about blockchain technology (the mathematically-secure method for managing a distributed ledger of information) was after the seminal work introducing the Bitcoin (BTC) crypto-currency was published by ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ in November 2008. The software to access the blockchain and participate in the exchange and trade of BTC was released on the 3rd January the following year. The name of the attributed author is in inverted commas because we don’t actually know who it is!............ https://medium.com/@tonywillenberg/ethereum-bitcoin-cd0b86c88fa#.cd4y4m9lh
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