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Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, divided the problems into three major categories. The first one is the cryptography related stuff that hasn’t been solved. Despite the industry’s rush to achieve new levels of privacy and scalability, the most important goals are still in progress. The second one is consensus theory, which makes it easy to change and upgrade mining (Proof of Work) and staking (Proof of Stake) algorithms. And finally, Vitalik explains how incentives are essential in...

One of the biggest datacenters in Russia, Bit River, is open for business, and is already making a name for itself within the cryptocurrency mining community.Bit River Is About to Hit the TopBitcoin mining is one of the most controversial maneuvers in the world. On the one hand, if you find yourself getting into it, there’s a lot of money to be made. At the same time, there are a lot of arguments that the effects of bitcoin mining could be hazardous to the environment.One such country that...

As far as the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector is concerned, China has recently shot to the forefront and has been making headlines for a few consecutive weeks. The most recent, however, is an official publication that outlines related projects in the country, with a specific focus on the more illicit ones. Written by a joint team of financial and technology bodies in the country, the “Bluebook of Blockchain” was released.The agencies – the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the Chinese...

XRP saw a steep price decline of around 5.15% over the past 24 hours and it currently trades at $0.22. During the day, the cryptocurrency dropped to as low as $0.19 creating a fresh low that hasn’t been seen for almost 2 years.Despite this, there are still some positive developments within the Ripple ecosystem. For example, Mercury FX, a global currency exchange provider, has recently announced its plans to expand the use of On-Demand Liquidity (formerly xRapid) – an XRP-based payment...

Money is easily the world’s most common universal language even when all of the various currency denominations are considered. This is the major reason pretty much everyone strives to earn and continues to do so consistently. Because it’s not the easiest thing to do, people who seem to have gotten the hang of it usually make headlines because they have basically cracked something only a few people have been able to. We look at one of such people who have not only found impressive channels of...

Transaction volume is an important metric often considered to determine the growth and popularity of a blockchain ecosystem. This is a go-to metric that often determines user activity and interest for a particular blockchain system. Well, XRP is the show stealer at this moment as it has surpassed both Bitcoin and Ethereum in daily transaction volumes.Last Saturday, November 23, the XRP ledger daily transaction volume hit a massive figure of 4 million. This is the highest recorded volume for...

Multibillion-dollar luxury brands owner LVMH has reached a deal to acquire Tiffany & Co for $16.5 billion. Sources indicate that the luxury brand owner has finally gained the acceptance of this present deal for acquisition after both boards have approved it.LVMH is known globally for ownership of some of the world’s most luxurious brands which include Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, and Moët & Chandon among 75 others commonly referred to as the “Maisons” or houses. LVMH has further...

Social media influencers made people believe that quantitative easing is bullish for bitcoin. The recent selloff obliterated this narrative. HODLers now rely on the halving and the stock to flow ratio to ignite a bull market. Over the last few months, social media influencers on Twitter peddled that quantitative easing (QE) is bitcoin’s rocket fuel. The rationale is simple. If governments can print billions of dollars, some of it will eventually find its way to bitcoin. Additionally, QE may...

It seems like everyone wants to know a bit more about Bitcoin after prices of the cryptocurrency token have dropped significantly to new six-month lows. According to Google Trends, the recent spike in Bitcoin searches seems to have been originating from African countries with Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa taking the lead while Austria and Switzerland are the other two countries that make up the top five sources of Bitcoin searches.The search terms have gone beyond just Bitcoin prices as...

India’s digital payments company Paytm said it got new funding from its shareholders but also some new investors. SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, Ant Financial and Discovery Capital will, therefore, together with new investors advised by T. Rowe Price Group Inc. fund Paytm to get it in front of its competitors as the country’s finance sector is slightly beginning to grill.From Ant Financial they said they have been searching for investment opportunities in Southeast Asia in order to...