I find a very interesting and somewhat a simply explanation from the point of sending transaction from our wallet to getting confirmed in the blockchain. I know that majority has somewhat an idea already specially if you have been in the crypto for long. But for beginners I think this is a good explanation. And for those experts, maybe you can confirmed or up something to what has Andreas says here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpnTb6NWih0 - Bitcoin Q&A: The lifecycle of a transaction |
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Yesterday, there was a post from Kraken's official twitter account asking the opinion of crypto enthusiast if they wanted to delist BSV on their exchange. The response was overwhelming:  https://twitter.com/krakenfx/status/1117828361269571586?s=2070% says so. And Kraken did the best thing: https://blog.kraken.com/post/2274/kraken-is-delisting-bsv/This aggression will not stand. Alongside other upstanding members of the community, and in consultation with more than 70,000 Kraken users, we have decided to delist Bitcoin SV. Deposits will be disabled April 22. Trading will cease on all trading pairs April 29. Withdrawals will continue until May 31. And I'm sure more exchanges will follow, so if you have BSV in your portfolio, dump that s**t, now. |
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I don't know if UFC fans around the community have heard this breaking news: T.J. Dillashaw has accepted a two-year suspension from the United States Anti-Doping Agency after failing a test for a prohibited substance, the organization announced Tuesday.
This news comes two weeks after Dillashaw himself declared that the USADA had discovered an “adverse finding” and that he would be vacating the UFC bantamweight championship. ESPN was first to report the suspension. https://www.mmafighting.com/2019/4/9/18303418/t-j-dillashaw-accepts-2-year-suspension-for-usada-violationOh well, that's probably the reason why he can truly stay and has a high intensity and seems not to get tired by all the movements and feints we have seen in him in years. I'm sure that Cody is now ripping his heads off, now that he is caught as a 'cheater', Lol. |
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https://news.8btc.com/bitmain-and-canaan-said-chinas-proposed-mining-ban-wont-impact-their-operationAccording to Security Times, both spokesmen from Bitmain and Canaan stated that the draft list has a rare impact on their operation for the time being, but it still remains unknown if they will arrange their business strategy later on. Perhaps they are trying to do some damage control here. Obviously, it will have no impact since the Chinese government has not yet finalized it's decision. However, I'm sure Bitmain and Canaan are looking for options now because we all know that Chinese government doesn't work in the middle, it's either you are out or in. The main source of the news is in the article, you just have to translate it though.
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Terrence Crawford vs Amir Khan on April 20 Venue: Madison Square Garden (MSG) Crawford will defend this WBO 147 lbs title against Khan. It's a good match up but Crawford has the tools to beat Amir though. Amir Khan is a great fighter, but I think he is no longer in his prime and Terrence is riding high and considered to be the pound for pound best fighter right now. So I will go on Crawford here, maybe 10 rounds or less.  Photo courtesy of https://www.boxingscene.com/photos-terence-crawford-amir-khan-face-face-london--135404 |
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I was doing a follow up investigation on merit abusers I caught Merit Abuse?. So I just copy a address from one of those suspected abusers and search on Google.  Weird, I was quite surprised to see the result, so I click on that link and Lo and Behold:  It was a exact copy of this forum. So I headed to Google's report page and submit this one as a bitcointalk phishing site. So again, just another warning to check everything before you login. Or added it in your /etc/hosts so that your computer won't access that site as a safe measure. Edit: Those Accounts have been tagged by Lauda already. |
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Bithumb reported that they've been hacked, https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-bithumb-hacked-for-13-million-in-suspected-insider-jobSouth Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has had around $13 million in the EOS cryptocurrency stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job.
The company confirmed in statement on Saturday that it first spotted an “abnormal withdrawal” of the cryptocurrency through its monitoring system at 22:00 Korean time (13:00 UTC) on Friday, March 29.
The exchange suspended asset withdrawals and deposits on the platform after noticing the breach. Ok here we go again, when we are about to take off, another bad incident came in. Although EOS is stolen and not Bitcoin. It says it's a inside job, so let's see how big the extend of this damage is to the whole crypto sphere. What are your thoughts? |
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Anyone seen this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SlhCQtG4tcI was amazed and maybe this could be the next generation of cold storage. It was strange that the video was uploaded in 2017, maybe I was just late seeing it. Anyways, just wanted to share it to everyone in the community and maybe they can have an idea (maybe engraving our seed or private key). |
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I don't know if there are a lot of bitcoin enthusiast who are also into collecting bank notes all over the globe. If there is one then I'm happy to say that https://www.banknoteworld.com/ just started accepting bitcoin as well.  They ditch Paypal, and then replace it with Bitcoin. It will go to the usual payment processor Bitpay upon checking out.  |
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‘Bitcoin Is Not Money’ Because We Cannot Print It – Banks “Bitcoin is not money”, the European Central Bank published a statement regarding bitcoin as not being a monetary asset. These words from the bank are immensely harsh for the crypto community. The crypto analyst and investor, Joseph Young suggests that the bank has released the statement as per the crypto assets being unprintable. Though this is an absurd manner to qualify a monetary asset as ‘money’, the bank does praise the technology in the working behind bitcoin. The technology, being the entire crypto protocols, most specifically, decentralization is breakthrough and can make up for some decent projects in the future. https://blockpublisher.com/bitcoin-is-not-money-because-we-cannot-print-it-banks/And yet another other attack, but seriously flaw argument coming from banks. But that's fine, hearing this kind of arguments make me think that they are really threaten by crypto and afraid that one day all of them will become obsolete, or least majority of people will go to crypto, specially bitcoin. |
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I really don't understand, it's already 2019 and people are still believing that cloud mining is still one way to earn and the best way to invest your money??? *face-palm*.. |
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Did you know that during the early days of bitcoin, a serious bug was discovered? The "value out" in this block #74638 is quite strange: {
"hash" : "0000000000790ab3f22ec756ad43b6ab569abf0bddeb97c67a6f7b1470a7ec1c",
"ver" : 1,
"prev_block" : "0000000000606865e679308edf079991764d88e8122ca9250aef5386962b6e84",
"mrkl_root" : "618eba14419e13c8d08d38c346da7cd1c7c66fd8831421056ae56d8d80b6ec5e",
"time" : 1281891957,
"bits" : 469794830,
"nonce" : 28192719,
"n_tx" : 2,
"tx" : [
{
"hash" : "012cd8f8910355da9dd214627a31acfeb61ac66e13560255bfd87d3e9c50e1ca",
"ver" : 1,
"vin_sz" : 1,
"vout_sz" : 1,
"lock_time" : 0,
"in" : [
{
"prev_out" : {
"hash" : "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"n" : 4294967295
},
"coinbase" : "040e80001c028f00"
}
],
"out" : [
{
"value" : 50.51000000,
"scriptPubKey" : "0x4F4BA55D1580F8C3A8A2C78E8B7963837C7EA2BD8654B9D96C51994E6FCF6E65E1CF9A844B044EEA125F26C26DBB1B207E4C3F2A098989DA9BA5BA455E830F7504 OP_CHECKSIG"
}
]
},
{
"hash" : "1d5e512a9723cbef373b970eb52f1e9598ad67e7408077a82fdac194b65333c9",
"ver" : 1,
"vin_sz" : 1,
"vout_sz" : 2,
"lock_time" : 0,
"in" : [
{
"prev_out" : {
"hash" : "237fe8348fc77ace11049931058abb034c99698c7fe99b1cc022b1365a705d39",
"n" : 0
},
"scriptSig" : "0xA87C02384E1F184B79C6ACF070BEA45D5B6A4739DBFF776A5D8CE11B23532DD05A20029387F6E4E77360692BB624EEC1664A21A42AA8FC16AEB9BD807A4698D0CA8CDB0021024530 0x965D33950A28B84C9C19AB64BAE9410875C537F0EB29D1D21A60DA7BAD2706FBADA7DF5E84F645063715B7D0472ABB9EBFDE5CE7D9A74C7F207929EDAE975D6B04"
}
],
"out" : [
{
"value" : 92233720368.54277039,
"scriptPubKey" : "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 0xB7A73EB128D7EA3D388DB12418302A1CBAD5E890 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG"
},
{
"value" : 92233720368.54277039,
"scriptPubKey" : "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 0x151275508C66F89DEC2C5F43B6F9CBE0B5C4722C OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG"
}
]
}
],
"mrkl_tree" : [
"012cd8f8910355da9dd214627a31acfeb61ac66e13560255bfd87d3e9c50e1ca",
"1d5e512a9723cbef373b970eb52f1e9598ad67e7408077a82fdac194b65333c9",
"618eba14419e13c8d08d38c346da7cd1c7c66fd8831421056ae56d8d80b6ec5e"
]
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92233720368.54277039 BTC? Is that UINT64_MAX, I wonder? . It causes a out Value:92233720368.54(7ffffffffff85ee0). But the good thing about the bug is, in just a matter of hours, Satoshi is already up to the challenge and fixed it with a new release. Proving that in it's early years, bitcoin was not flawless but everyone was really somewhat very active and every flaw was reported and fixed right away by Satoshi himself. I really love to read earlier post when this community was very close knit and of course spammers are non-existent. |
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Anyone joined the hype? https://coingape.com/enjin-enj-coin-rise/
Enjin [ENJ] Coin Gains 400% in a Fortnight as Samsung Creates Euphoria in the Cryptocurrency Market
The South Korean multinational conglomerate, Samsung has created mass hysteria in the cryptocurrency market. Samsung released its Galaxy S10 flagship smartphone with an inbuilt cryptocurrency wallet for cold and hot storage of cryptocurrencies.
The details of the inbuilt wallet were not specified at the time of the release. However, the cryptocurrencies excepted to be supported on the platform were Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ejin (ENJ) and Comee, a blockchain based social media platform.
There's a lot of rumors surrounding Samsung built-in crypto market and it seems it has started as ENJ reported a huge gains after the news. Last 7 days: |
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Last year, Plattsburgh has become the first city in the US to ban cryptocurrency mining, Plattsburgh, New York, has become the first city in the US to ban cryptocurrency mining in the city for the next 18 months. The city council unanimously voted to impose the ban at a council meeting last night, and the mayor’s office states that the purpose of the law is to consider “regulations before commercial cryptocurrency mining operations results in irreversible change to the character and direction of the city.” https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/16/17128678/plattsburgh-new-york-ban-cryptocurrency-miningHowever, the city council voted 5-1, lifting the ban. Plattsburgh, NY, the first city in the US to ban cryptocurrency mining, has finally lifted its one-year-long block on crypto mining operations. https://www.btcwires.com/c-buzz/good-news-entrepreneurs-plattsburgh-finally-lifts-its-ban-on-crypto-mining/So let's see if this will bring a influx on miners on that city, do you think miners will take advantage of this situation and go full mining on that city again? |
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Very interesting: Rumors are circulating that California-based cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, supposedly violated its very own listing policies in order to include XRP in its trading portfolio.
On February 25, Chepicap reported that according to the Coinbase blog, XRP will soon be available for trading on Coinbase Pro.
Read more: It is official! XRP is launching on Coinbase Pro
However, rumors are now circulating that claim that Coinbase Pro has breached its very own listing policies in order to include XRP in its trading portfolio.
According to Diar.co, before Coinbase takes the step to listing a new cryptocurrency asset, it takes in consideration the level of team ownership. https://www.chepicap.com/en/news/7765/did-ripple-pay-coinbase-to-get-xrp-listed-.htmlI'm not aware that XRP is not listed on their Coinbase Pro that's why I was surprised to read this news. It did pumped XRP around 10% though after the news. The argument is that Coinbase Pro takes into account the level of team ownership, which is very questionable since XRP holds around 60% of the supply. Coinbase as per "The ownership stake retained by the team is a minority stake.". What's your take on this? Did they violated their own policy here or did they accept a paid listing here? Share your thoughts. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVndN2kbCAHere is a video of a guy who bought Toyota Prius back in 2013 with 1000 BTC. If you could have waited for a bit, specially in 2017, we could have been a Lambo. Although in the video you will see the Prius side by side with his Lambo so I think this guy really did make a lot of money in bitcoin in 2017 as well. He also talk about the lessons he learn from investing in bitcoin.
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