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Facebook’s Libra is getting some criticism from an unlikely source: Ripple’s Marcus Treacher.Treacher: Libra’s Got to Open Up a BitTreacher is the company’s senior vice president of customer success. According to an interview he did with CNBC his primary complain is that Libra will be a “closed system” or a “walled garden” as he calls it.This basically means that Libra will be largely controlled by a team of executives. The power will not be in the hands of the people who use it, but in those...

Hut 8 is a company that claims to be a new kind of mining firm. As bitcoin’s price crashes this week, some have taken notice of the increased hash rate in the bitcoin mining arena, and some are very curious how new companies are looking to extract new coins.Hut 8: New Ways to Access CoinsAccording to Andrew Kiguel, the CEO of Hut 8, the company’s name is taken from a project led by Alan Turing, a British mathematician who broke the Nazis’ enigma code during WWII. In a recent interview, he...

At press time, the number one cryptocurrency by market cap – bitcoin – has fallen below the $8,000 mark yet again and is currently trading at approximately $7,950.Bitcoin: It’s Ugliest Week in a Long TimeThe currency has had a rather ugly week, falling by more than 22 percent in just a matter of days. The trouble started last Wednesday when the currency dropped from the mid-$9,000 range to about $8,100 in just a matter of minutes. From there, the currency struggled to pick itself back up,...

EOS has struggled this week after dropping by a total of 27%. The cryptocurrency saw a further 3% price fall over the past 24 hours and it sets its sights to re-test the support around $2.64. EOS has lost a significant 50% over the past 3 months and has a long road ahead to recovery.EOS remains the seventh-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $2.61 billion.Since our previous EOS analysis, EOS has suffered heavily amid the Bitcoin bloodbath, which caused it to fall beneath the support...

Some say that Silicon Valley is the new Wall Street, but could there be deeper reasons why tech companies like Facebook compete with banks like Goldman Sachs for engineers? It used to be banks that attracted the brightest. Before the financial crisis of 2008, Wall Street loved to hire mathematicians, physicists, and even rocket scientists to create innovative – and often very complex – financial products. They would design new derivatives and investment strategies and run quantitative risk...

Binance Coin saw a 3.20% price decline over the past 24 hours and it currently trades at around $15.08. BNB suffered heavily over the past month after falling below $22 and losing a total of 31%. Furthermore, over the past 3 months, Binance Coin has lost a precipitous 55%. If BNB breaks beneath the support at $14.50, we could see the coin head toward $12.BNB is the eighth-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $2.36 billion.Since our previous BNB analysis, BNB rebounded from the support...

Even though it’s world known fact that Apple products are “made in USA” but assembled in China – it didn’t stop US President Donald Trump to impose sanctions to Chinese companies (every and each one of them) including the 34% year-on-year growth and 14% of market share company – Huawei.The year 2019 has not been a good one for Huawei. Everything started with the US accusations of Huawei spying on US corporations. Trump administration then decided to launch a “one-two punch” combo in its fight...

« Retrouvons-nous chaque premier mercredi du mois pour discuter de l’actualité récente de Bitcoin de manière conviviale et informelle. Pas de présentations, ni de structure pour ce meetup, mais des échanges et du réseautage. » Où ? – Au Sof’s Bar, 43 rue Saint Sauveur à Paris Quand ? – Mercredi 2 octobre 2019 de 19h00 à 21h00 En savoir plus : meetup.com ...

Les CryptoPintes, rencontres autour des cryptomonnaies à Strasbourg, se déroulent tous les 1er mercredi du mois au Blue Moon qui accepte les paiements en cryptos et notamment les paiements Lightning. Où ? – Bar le Blue Moon – 24 rue des poules à Strasbourg Quand ? – Mercredi 2 octobre à 18h00 En savoir plus : facebook.com ...

Dans un message publié vendredi sur la liste de diffusion Lightning-dev, le développeur Rusty Russell * est revenu en détail sur le problème de sécurité qu’il avait révélé le mois dernier. Le bug affecte les anciennes versions de C-lightning, Lnd et Eclair : « Un attaquant peut prétendre ouvrir un canal mais ne pas payer à son homologue, ou ne pas payer le montant intégral ». Sans les contrôles...