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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has mandated that the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, must be used to fund the ‘Great Housing Mission Venezuela’ social housing program. Ildemaro Villarroel, the minister of popular power for habitat and housing - the department overseeing the housing project - confirmed that the program will be funded using the Petro. In an announcement posted on the department’s website, the minister described the financing mechanism as offering greater...

YouHodler: Bitcoin behalten und trotzdem Bargeld bekommen. Gutschein weiter unten im Artikel. Die FinTech-Plattform YouHodler, Anbieter von Crypto-Fiat-Lösungen, wie etwa Crypto-unterstützten Kreditvergaben, Umrechnungen und mehr, gibt heute die Gründung ihres Rechtsträgers, der YouHodler SA, in Lausanne, Schweiz, bekannt. Dieser Schritt spiegelt wider, wie sehr YouHodler die überlegene Blockchain-Community, die nationale Infrastruktur und...

MIT Media Lab: Cryptocurrency online short course Cryptocurrencies, first launched with Bitcoin, have brought us private sector, peer-to-peer, digital currencies. You’ve likely heard lively debates on the actual functionality of cryptocurrencies, their long-term viability, and potential impact. The MIT Media Lab Cryptocurrency online short course brings you critical reasoning skills and crypto literacy to demystify the real-world...

Bakkt: Diese Handelsplattform wird Bitcoin grossen Investoren zugänglich machen. Gestartet wird am 23. September 2019. Am 23. September soll der Bitcoin-Kurs durch die Decke gehen. Das behauptet der Krypto-Experte Tom Lee und zieht als Grund den Start der Handelsplattform Bakkt heran. Zum Start wird es die ersten Bitcoin-Futures mit physischer Erfüllung geben – laut Lee ein wichtiger Push für Investoren. I am very positive on @Bakkt and...

Digital Currencies: The Rise of Stablecoins Der Internationale Währungsfonds hat die Stablecoins für sich entdeckt Coins, die beispielsweise an Gold oder den Dollar gebunden sind und deren Wert somit nicht wie eine Achterbahn rauf und runter geht. In seinem Blogeintrag „Digital Currencies: The Rise of Stablecoins“ erkennt der IWF nun die Vorteile der Stablecoins an: Durch...

Mehr als "nur" Bitcoin: Coinbase möchte seinen Kunden den Zugang zu mindestens 90% aller im Umlauf befindlichen digitalen Assets, nach gesamter Marktkapitalisierung, ermöglichen. Es wird immer viel spekuliert, welche Coins ins Sortiment kommen. Coinbase ist einer der grössten Wallet-Anbieter und die Coins die Coinbase hinzufügt, deren Kurse springen zumindest kurzfristig in die Höhe....

Only a few days remain before the launch of the long-awaited and much anticipated Bakkt trading platform, which will bring large institutional investors to the Bitcoin market. It may sound unfeasible, but Bitcoin price is expected to reach $100,000 in the coming years, and much of the next bull run will be driven by Bakkt.What is Bakkt?The Bakkt cryptocurrency platform was created by ICE, a transcontinental operator of the largest futures exchanges and clearing houses for financial and...

Decentralized hosting seems like a logical idea on the surface. It would allow simple users like you and me host sites and apps and earn money. It would end the domination of Amazon Web Services – which now controls 40% of the cloud market. It corresponds with the Web 3.0 principles – and we all want Web 3.0 to come sooner, right?But just because an idea seems great doesn’t mean that it is.How It’s Supposed to WorkThe main idea behind distributed web hosting is that people have lots of...

Three days ago, on our previous Bitcoin price analysis, we had identified the “short-term” triangle on the 4-hour chart. We had also stated that Bitcoin is likely to reach the low of the “bigger” triangle (marked on the daily chart) in case of a breakout to the downside.As could be seen, Bitcoin had reached a low of $9,500 (BitMEX) following the breakdown of the 4-hour’s triangle formation around $10,160. An immediate plunge of more than $500.Was this the end? The significant “bigger”...

Today, users of Portal from Facebook have more options available to them to connect with their loved ones and friends, no matter how wide the distance between them is. With the following three new additions, Portal, Portal Mini, and Portal TV, users can expect more when it comes to video-calling.Availability and CostFollowing the addition of the Portal TV, the Portal family is set to be accessible to more countries, aside from the US and Canada, such as France, New Zealand, Australia, Spain,...