Beam : a formal approach for privacy coins
The above references an opinion and is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice. Summary Market Capitalization: USD 56'970 Mio. Coin Market Cap Ranking: #116 Validation: Proof of Work Algorithm: Equihash (modified, forked every 6 months to counter ASICs) Risk: Crowded field (Zcash, Monero, Grin,
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Ethereum: Googled More Than X 110 Million
Given the impact of Ethereum on the evolution of blockchain since its creation in 2015, it is difficult to imagine today what it would look like this and most cryptocurrency without the invention of Buterin. Ethereum X Google The term "Ethereum" has appeared in more than 110 million Google searches over the last two years, according to ConsenSys, a US company...
South Korea: Bitcoin classified as a financial asset
After Russia last summer and Ukraine last October, it is now the turn for South Korea to qualify Bitcoin as a financial asset. South Korea and Bitcoin, a tumultuous love story. At the beginning of the year, a wave of panic had blown not only on the crypto community but more especially cryptocurrencies' price. Also called 'The Bitcoin Country', South Korea...
The Hidden Value In Crypto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtqs2-kRVQ8 The Hidden Value In Crypto (with Ari Paul) Ari Paul, CIO and managing partner of BlockTower Capital, joins Real Vision's Ash Bennington for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Paul unpacks his views on the risks and opportunities in crypto-assets now, and discusses the ways in which he draws on his background as a traditional asset...
Bitcoin: The new digital Black Hole of the Century
The above references an opinion and is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice. The following article is an update on the recent run-up over 16’700$ (17th November) and the investor sentiment in which Bitcoin currently is. The article will elaborate on Plan B’s Stock-to-Flow model (S2F) for...
Libra – or how Facebook plans to empower billions of people
Libra is in the spotlight. Everyone is talking and speculating about it. Do we even know what it entails? Are we ready for such financial and societal change? Ca-Libra Financial exclusion is still significantly high worldwide. The World Bank highlights in Financial Inclusion on the Rise, But Gaps Remain, Global Findex Database Shows a research paper from 2018, that approximately...
Binance hacked in a coordinated attack: $40 million stolen
Binance has been hacked in a coordinated attack. It resulted in $40 million worth of Bitcoin stolen. The famous crypto-exchange suffered a major security breach for the first time making a lot of noise and lifting quite an important controversy. It recently confirmed that it suffered a large scale hack in which 7,000 BTC ( ̴ $40 million and...
United States: 80% decrease in criminal activity via Bitcoin
The United States Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) says criminal activity via cryptocurrencies has fallen sharply in the last five years. While bitcoin transactions are rising sharply, the currency of Nakamoto used by some criminals now only accounts for one-tenth of these transactions. Volume going up and ratio going down
We remember the statement of a former US federal prosecutor. This...
KYC: 68% of exchanges do not meet standards
Previously cited in the article LexisNexis & Blockbid Partnership, KYC and AML formalities are in the line of sight of international regulators. However, it appears that only 32% of cryptos exchanges meet the guidelines. This is a study of the company P.A.I.D in partnership with Mitek, a technology provider for identity verification, which advances this low ratio. The obligatory KYC...
What You Need to Know About The DeFi Landscape?
DEXs could be a potential threat to Centralize Exchange having already eclipsed 5% of total crypto volume. Some of their main limitations still remain their intimidating and confusing interfaces, the lack of customer support and recent record gas fees among other aspects.