Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, is against the execution of the Bitcoin SegWit2x hard fork in November due to three major areas he feels are lacking: urgent need, replay protection, and consensus. Over the past two weeks, several experts including ShapeShift founder and CEO Erik Voorhees expressed their optimism regarding the November fork. Segwit2x is the scalability proposal introduced by a consortium of 58 companies led by Digital Currency Group to increase the Bitcoin block size to 2MB in return for activating the Bitcoin Core development team’s Bitcoin scaling and transaction malleability solution Segregated Witness (SegWit). The idea behind SegWit2x when it
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EROSCOIN Introduces a Next Generation Global Payment Solution
The EROSCOIN payments solution utilizes self-executing smart contracts to enable rapid, economic transactions in under…nThe post EROSCOIN Introduces a Next Generation Global Payment Solution appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.n
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Global marketplace for in-game content DMarket may bring billions of dollars to entertainment industry
The world’s video game industry is gaining momentum; only last year the market’s annual turnover reached 0 billion. A huge economic sector, it touches the lives of the nearly 2.3 billion people who play video games every day. It seems that the figures will only grow, as industry players expect revenues to increase to 8 … Continue reading Global marketplace for in-game content DMarket may bring billions of dollars to entertainment industry
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Privatix Allows Users to Make Money on Unused Connection While Asleep
VPN has different uses. Some people use it to watch content that’s unavailable or restricted in their home countries. Others use it to gain more security over their Internet connection. Still others use it to be able to download torrents or magnet links. Dima Rusakov, CEO of VPN provider Privatix Limited, says that there are crucial issues for the VPN market, such as affordability, services which don’t sell user data, and services which provide actual anonymity. Privatix has 750,000 users, and their temp email service, Temp-Mail, has 250,000 visitors every day. Privatix wants to build a decentralized P2P VPN on Blockchain, and
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New malware can mine cryptocurrency on your PC
A new kind of malicious malware has been discovered. This new malware is unique in…nThe post New malware can mine cryptocurrency on your PC appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.n
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Increased Hashrate Forces Premature Monero Hard Fork
The date of a planned hard fork of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency monero has been brought forward by an increase in its hashrate.
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Bitcoin Price Watch; Hedging The Decline
So that’s another day of trading complete in our bitcoin price trading efforts and – in line with the completion of the day – it’s also the end of the week. And what a week it has been. Price started the week in what looked like it might be a pretty substantial and then, relatively … Continue reading Bitcoin Price Watch; Hedging The Decline
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Binance (BNB/BTC) Technical Analysis for 09/08/2017 – Bearish Pullback Completed
Binance recently broke to the upside of a previous consolidation pattern only to complete a pullback to a longer-term downtrend […]
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Chinas ICO Clampdown Possibly Only Temporary Says China Expert
The deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a top think tank based…nThe post China&8217s ICO Clampdown Possibly Only Temporary Says China Expert appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.n
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The US Government Needs an IT Reboot – And It Wants the Blockchain’s Help
U.S. government agencies are reaching out to the blockchain community for help drafting an action plan for bringing its IT systems up to speed.
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