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It is evident that the cryptocurrency market has recorded considerable growth so far just as some experts predicted. This article will review the status of some of these predictions and how they stand in the 1st quarter of the year. Co-Founder of Union Square Venture’s Prediction Out of the many predictions that were announced at the dawn of 2019, the one forecasted by the CEO of Union Square Ventures, Fred Wilson appears to be among the few predictions that are coming to life. Wilson predicted that there would be bullish run in 2019, but selling pressure would possibly drive the price a bit low. “I think this bottoming out process will end sometime in 2019 and we will slowly enter a new bullish phase in crypto,” he said. According to him, the reason for this market growth would be due to the fulfillment of promises made in 2017. Wilson explained that the emergence of different smart contract platforms would challenge Ethereum which would do a lot of good to the cryptocurrency market. As it stands, the prediction is coming to pass as the cryptocurrency market has recorded significant growth since the beginning of the year. reference: https://zycrypto.com/review-of-top-three-cryptocurrency-predictions-in-2019-and-how-they-stand-so-far-in-the-1st-quarter/ |
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By CCN: According to Alex Krüger, an economist and a global markets analyst, the breakeven cost for efficient bitcoin mining operations currently hovers at around $3,550. Across major cryptocurrency markets, the bitcoin price is at $5,265, which for miners presents a substantial profit per every block mined considering the breakeven price of $3,550 and the potential appreciation of bitcoin. Does it Mean the Start of a Bitcoin Bull Market? While the analysis Krüger uses the rate of electricity at $0.055 per kWh, depending on the region miners are based, the rate could vary. For instance, Krüger said that CoinGeek reported a rate of electricity at $0.073 per kWh to mine proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies like bitcoin in last December, which would raise the breakeven cost of bitcoin mining. reference: https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-mining-finally-profitable-does-that-prove-were-in-a-bull-market |
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some games i own and i don't want to play:
EWarriors of Vilvatika: ZMHXK-E98F6-A2KNV
Heaven Forest VR MMO : 3YXGX-DTM5I-FBG05
Endorlight : PZ2B6-FTE24-MRYM2
Minion Masters : NJNC5-0I227-TCAKQ
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Since its birth, Bitcoin (BTC) has been lauded as an alternative to traditional assets day in and day out. Most notably, the cryptocurrency is. in the eyes of some pundits, a replacement to gold, specifically the metal’s store of value capabilities. But if Bitcoin takes over gold’s hegemony, what would happen to the value of BTC? Related Reading: Bitcoin (BTC) Best Performing Major Asset in 2019, Surges 43% Year-to-Date The Case For A Six-Figure Bitcoin According to HodlWhale, a Seattle-based cryptocurrency investor, a world where Bitcoin has absorbed all the value of the gold in circulation would see BTC valued at $350,000. This figure isn’t exactly baseless. As reported by NewsBTC on an earlier date, all gold in circulation is currently valued at approximately $7.83 trillion, while all BTC has a mere $94 billion valuation. If the latter was to fully displace the value of the first, Crypto Voices, an industry analytics and research group, estimated that BTC would swell to a value of $450,000 — slightly above HodlWhale’s estimate. reference: https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/04/20/bitcoin-displacing-gold-entirely-value-btc-350000/ |
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As the regulatory debate continues mainly between government agencies and cryptocurrency protagonists, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), through its Governor, Patrick Njoroge joins in the campaign towards slowing down the propagation of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. A Recurrent WarningNjoroge told legislators on Thursday that he had sent a circular to all banks warning them on the dangers of dealing in virtual currencies. According to him while addressing the National Assembly Committee on Finance at Parliament Buildings, the circular cautioned the banks against dealing in virtual currencies or transacting with entities that are engaged in virtual currencies. This is not the first time that the CBK is getting involved in moves to discourage the country’s citizens from getting involved in what has been popularly described as a risky venture by most regulators. It can be recalled that in December 2015, the consumer protection concerns led CBK to issue a notice warning the public against virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. These warnings are not peculiar to the CBK alone or to Kenya. In a previous article on CCN, it was reported how the Manager at Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) warned citizens of the lack of insurance on any investment in virtual currencies, qualifying them as very risky ventures that are not backed by any physical commodity, such as gold or other precious stones. In the same trend, just last Wednesday, World Bank Group Senior Vice President Mahmoud Mohieldin said that Blockchain technology may have many good uses in the world, but Bitcoin “could be the biggest bubble in history.” This statement reinforces the recurring question that seeks to address if blockchain technology can be isolated from cryptocurrencies, and how possible it is to adopt the technology without implementing its underlying tokens – cryptocurrencies. https://www.ccn.com/kenyan-apex-bank-warns-citizens-against-the-use-of-cryptocurrencies/ |
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Since the beginning of 2018, the price of Bitcoin has been one of the most popularly discussed topics within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The reason for this is not far-fetched as there has been a huge slump in price and a downward pressure that defeats the expectations of many. An Influx of Speculators Besides the underlying technology and the various ICOs that erupted towards the end of 2017, the steady rise in the price of Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies attracted a significant amount of new money. Majority of the new money was from speculative investors who got in primarily for the promise of cashing in at higher prices in the short term. Unfortunately for these class of investors, the slump in price of over 60% from Bitcoin’s all time high means that they have either recouped their investments at a loss, or are “HODLING” in the hope of a rise in price. No matter the individual perceptions, the obtainable situation is indeed having a significant effect on the ecosystem. While most of the newbies remain confused and wallow in panic as to what may become of the cryptocurrency market, the more experienced players seem unperturbed. https://www.ccn.com/we-are-at-the-end-of-another-cryptocurrencies-downward-trend-opinion/ |
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Dutchman Martijn Wismeijer is very cautious when it comes to storing Bitcoin – so much so that in 2014, he had two NFC (near field communication) chips surgically implanted into each hand to store his encrypted Bitcoin keys. Wismeijer stated a number of reasons for the drastic method of storing crypto, saying he had lost the majority of his Bitcoin over the years to exchange failure, hacking, and theft. “I can safely say most of the bitcoin, more than 80 percent, I have lost due to hacks, thefts, exchanges gone bad and other problems. If I would’ve had the chip in 2010, I’d probably be a rich man by now.” However, Wismeijer was also simply curious about the idea of storing his digital currency in his skin, telling IBTimes “I did it because I wanted to experiment with strong bitcoins using subdermal implants because that’s what I thought would be the Holy Grail of contactless payments.” He had the procedure done at a body piercing studio, which he recommends to anyone wishing to have the procedure done. The chips are manufactured from glass and measure 2mm x 12mm end to end, the size of a small grain of rice. Wismeijer said the process was less painful than an IV drip injection, and pointed out that the procedure is commonly carried out on household pets with no issues. https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-under-the-skin-why-people-are-using-subdermal-microchip-wallets/ |
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The price of the No. 1 digital currency extended a brutal slide on Wednesday, adding to its recent losses amid another wave of negative news. A single bitcoin BTCUSD, +2.21% last traded at $8,248.16 late-Wednesday in New York, down 9.9%, after hitting an intraday low of $8,219.73, a 40% decline from the beginning of the year. Google updates financial services After beginning the day on the back foot the losses for bitcoin intensified after Google GOOG, +0.04% announced it was updating its financial-services policy, saying ads will no longer be allowed to service “cryptocurrencies and related content.” Google said the related content includes those for initial coin offerings, or ICOs, cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets. While the news isn’t ideal for crypto investors. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-tumbles-further-as-google-clamps-down-on-crypto-advertising-2018-03-14 |
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ETH/USD Turned Temporarily Bearish There was no recovery in ETH/USD above $725.00 and the pair declined sharply below the $685.00 and $675.00 support levels. The market was under pressure after Google confirmed it would ban cryptocurrency-related ads starting in June. ETH/BTC extended consolidation near the 0.0750BTC level. The pair may continue to trade in a range before it attempts an upside break above 0.0780BTC and 0.0800BTC. Ether Price Analysis Chart The 30-minute chart of ETH/USD suggests that the pair broke a major support near $680.00 to start the current decline. It also surpassed a connecting support trendline at $670.00 to move into a bearish zone. The pair is clearly in a short-term bearish trend and it remains at a risk of more declines with resistances at $670.00 and $680.00. Above $680.00, there is a bearish trendline on the same chart with resistance at $683.00. Ether sellers are back in control after ETH/USD broke a major bullish trendline with support at $702.00 on the 2-hour chart. The pair is likely heading lower still toward the $650.00 support and $642.35 low. https://www.ethnews.com/analysis/03-14-2018-ethereum-price-forecast-ether-reaches-crucial-support |
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A House Financial Services subcommittee met Wednesday in what was supposed to be an overview of the cryptocurrency landscape. The two-hour hearing raised more questions than answers, and shined a light on some Congress members' deep skepticism around digital currency. "Cryptocurrencies are a crock," Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) said to kick off his opening remarks. "They allow a few dozen men in my district to sit in their pajamas all day and tell their wives they're going to be millionaires." Sherman had a litany of concerns. Bitcoin has the ability to help terrorists, criminals, tax evaders and start-up companies looking to commit fraud, he said, adding that bitcoin undercuts the U.S. dollar as a source of the Fed's $50 billion revenue. The committee was called to discuss initial coin offerings, or ICOs, which are used by companies to raise capital for businesses and products. There have been $2.6 billion ICOs so far this year, according to the latest research from Autonomous Next. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/congressional-hearing-devolves-into-bitcoin-bash-fest.html |
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It’s a seller’s market for domains suggestive of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains. The domain name Tokens.com sold for $500,000 in February. Cryptoworld.com sold for $195,000 in January. Eth.com sold for $2 million at the end of 2017. Blockchain.us wants $3.45 million, and Ethereum.com is asking for $10 million. In this climate, a domain like Crypto.com is likely worth millions of dollars. But Matt Blaze, who has owned it since 1993, isn’t selling. “No, my domain name isn’t for sale. Yes, I mean it. Yes, I’ve probably already muted you,” he tweeted in September. Blaze is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a well-regarded cryptography researcher who is credited with the phrase and concept of “trust management,” an important framework for modeling the authenticity and reliability of parties in information security. More recently, he has been heavily involved in cybersecurity research around voting machines, and he testified in front of Congress in November. He did not respond to a request for comment, but he apparently registered the domain fairly easily. “People my age could just register names like that when we were your age,” he told security researcher Melissa Elliott on Twitter. https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/13/17114962/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-crypto-domain-ico |
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What do private blockchain builders really want? According to JP Morgan blockchain lead Amber Baldet, they're faced with the same concerns as anyone building public blockchains today. "These problems really aren't so far apart, it's just that people are trying to solve the problems in different ways," Baldet told the audience at EthCC, an ethereum conference in Paris on Friday. In a tightly packed lecture hall, Baldet laid out the mechanics of her company's private blockchain network, Quorum, while seeking to put forth a broader message about how her bank, one of the largest globally, is looking to foster collaboration across blockchains. And Baldet is in perhaps a unique position to advance the dialogue: not only is Quorum the first project that JP Morgan developed in its Blockchain Centre of Excellence (BCoE), it's based on a fork of ethereum's software. As such, Baldet spoke at length about how her time is spent engaging with cryptocurrency communities in an effort to find common ground. "I spend a lot of time talking about ethereum and cryptocurrency and open blockchains to enterprises, businesses, central banks and corporates," Baldet said, "I don't spend a lot of time going the other direction." Yet, according to Baldet, these conversations are crucial to mutually educate and improve both sectors of the industry. While public and private blockchains are often pitched against each other, Baldet told CoinDesk in an interview, "I don't think those two things need to be so different or are necessarily mutually exclusive." And while there are trade-offs with public blockchains that enterprises simply cannot afford, what businesses want from ethereum, and what ethereum wants in return, she said, is the ability to interoperate. In this way, enterprises can inhabit their own private universes away from the public network, but publish data to gain the security and auditability of a public blockchain. "It doesn't necessarily have to be all enterprise disaster recovery systems over here, and all anti-fragile public blockchain anonymous transaction things over here," she said. Rather, Baldet continued: "Pragmatically, it's probably more likely that we're going to end up with some kind of hybrid network of networks that can hopefully talk to each other." https://www.coindesk.com/jp-morgans-amber-baldet-enterprise-wants-ethereum/ |
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ETHEREUM prices rallied on Wednesday to a record high, just days after ethereum’s co-founder teased the cryptocurrency could triple in value in 2018. But why is ethereum rising? Overshadowed by the turbulent performance of Ripple, ethereum’s ETH token peaked at £1,048.39 ($1,417.38) just after 5am on Wednesday. The surprise rally came off the back of ethereum co-founder Steven Nerayoff predicting increased exposure and usage could triple the platform’s value in 2018. The crypto entrepreneur credited ethereum’s rise to wider adoption and even foresaw a potential “flippening” in which ethereum could overtake bitcoin. Mr Nerayoff said: "What you're seeing with ethereum is exponential increase in the number of projects — there are billions of dollars being poured into the ecosystem right now — maybe 10 times more projects this year than last year, which could easily lead to a doubling, probably a tripling in price by the end of the year.” Ethereum prices have already soared more than 89 percent since the start of January, topping off the more than 8,000 percent growth it witnessed through 2017. CoinMarketCap data suggests that the platform is now the second most valuable digital asset on the market with a market capitalisation of more than £96billion ($130billion) – second only to bitcoin’s £181billion ($245billion) as of 6.12pm on Wednesday. Ethereum is now attracting strong corporate interest, and Mr Nerayoff said ethereum’s open-source implementation has made it an attractive option to businesses. He added: "People are actually using it for currency, as well. source : https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/902952/ethereum-price-why-is-eth-rising-crypto-exchange |
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Microsoft is welcoming Bitcoin back to its Windows and Xbox online stores. The move comes after the technology giant stopped letting customers use Bitcoin as payment for online games and apps earlier this week because of its volatility, tech website Bleeping Computereport said on Monday, citing unnamed sources. Microsoft (MSFT, -0.53%) has since reversed course and is now once again letting people add Bitcoin to their Microsoft-sanctioned digital wallets that they can then redeem as dollars, the company told Australian news website news.com.au on Wednesday. “We’ve restored bitcoin as a payment option in our store after working with our provider to ensure lower bitcoin amounts would be redeemable by customers,” the spokesperson told the publication. Microsoft first started accepting bitcoin as a payment method in 2014. Bitcoin has had a wild ride over the past 12 months, surging to record highs one day and then tumbling the next. In mid-December, the cryptocurrency almost hit $20,000, but just a few days later it dropped over 22% to $15,262. On Wednesday, bitcoin was trading as high as $14,694, according to Coindesk. Microsoft’s temporary pause on Bitcoin in its online stores follows a similar decision by video gaming service Steam. In December, Steam said it would stop accepting Bitcoin due to its “high fees and volatility.” However, Steam said it’s possible that it would accept Bitcoin at a later date. Update: 3:39 PM PST. Microsoft confirmed that it has indeed restored bitcoin to its online stores. source: http://fortune.com/2018/01/10/microsoft-bitcoin-temporary-halt/ |
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get these four games digital keys for 4.5$ (0.0017 BTC). i accept bitcoin and skrill, and i will go first.
1- Lord of the Rings: War in the North
2- Pilot Brothers 3: Back Side of the Earth
3- Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade
4- Elliot Quest
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Selling Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition Steam CD KEY, link to the game on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/501590/starting bid : 10$ buy it now: 20$ end time: 24 hours after the first bid is posted accepted payment methods: bitcoin or skrill i will see if i go first or we will use an escrow, depending on your account. |
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1- Abyss The Wraiths of Eden
2- Last Survivor
3- Minion Masters
4- Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded
Get'em all With 0.0008 BTC + a bonus game for free.
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