Mining

In what seems to be a continuing series of woes for Telegram and its TON blockchain, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has decided to postpone the hearing that will determine if the Grams token is a security or not to the 18th and 19th of February 2020.Though the company was doing its best to make its token publicly available, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a couple of moves by dragging the messaging app to court on...

Layer1, San Francisco-based startup involved in Bitcoin mining, has raised $50 million in an effort to live up its plan to establish farms for mining. The money has been received from such a row of prominent investors including Peter Thiel, an American billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund, and Shasta Ventures, an early-stage venture capital investment firm that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups.According to Alexander Liegl, CEO of...

For many people, i.e. Warren Buffett, bitcoin and cryptocurrency are two things that should be avoided at all costs. For others however, like billionaire Peter Thiel, bitcoin’s success is just getting started, and the coin represents a whole new wave of financial innovation that the world hasn’t seen yet.Peter Thiel: The BTC Champion?Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal. His love of crypto is ironic considering he lost former executive David Marcus to Facebook’s blockchain division. Marcus later...

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that bitcoin and the crypto industry probably need to up the ante on their privacy protocols. While blockchain is typically more secure than other forms of digital finance technology, we are often hearing stories about exchange hacks and malicious actors that seek to get their fingers on digital funds that just don’t belong to them.Bitcoin Privacy Needs to Be UppedKevin Pan, the CEO of Poolin (one of the top three bitcoin mining pools in the...

Today, on Friday, the 18 millionth bitcoin is set to be mined. That means there are only three million BTC units left to extract after this.Bitcoin Will Become Harder to GetThe mining process behind bitcoin has been a rather controversial activity. For one thing, China says that it is damaging to the Earth’s environment. The country has long been considering a ban on bitcoin and crypto mining in the future.Second, there have been huge concerns regarding a bitcoin 51 percent attack from...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 731. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: Mehrheit der Deutschen lehnt Libra von Facebook ab, 18 Millionen BTC gemined & Dash PowerBank Verlosung Gewinner. 1.) Mehrheit der Deutschen lehnt Libra von Facebook abhttps://de.cointelegraph.com/news/mehrheit-der-deutschen-lehnt-libra-von-facebook-ab 2.) The 18 Millionth Bitcoin To Be Mined this Friday, Only 3 Million...

Bitcoin has grown exponentially over the past year or so, and this has made many hackers and malicious actors want to target cryptocurrency owners. Now, a new strain of bitcoin-based malware entitled “Save Yourself” is making the rounds, and while analysts have been warning enthusiasts about it for the past week, it seems to be much worse than originally thought.How to “Save Yourself” from MalwareSave Yourself has been here for some time. Originally, it was a form of malware designed to...

Bitcoin-Kurs laut „Analyse“ bald bei 300.000 US-Dollar Der Bitcoin-Kurs soll bald auf 300’000 US-Dollar steigen. Dies prognostiziert eine „neue Metrik“ des Trades „PlanB“, die sich auf Daten aus der Vergangenheit sowie Mining Difficulty bezieht. Trader Plan B prognostiziert einen Anstieg des BTC-Kurses In einer Analyse stellt der Trader „PlanB“ fest, dass ein Anstieg des Bitcoin-Kurses und eine Kapitulation der Bitcoin-Miner in der...

Google‘s latest attempt of attaining supremacy in quantum computing is giving jitters to crypto enthusiasts across the globe. Experts from the tech world say that quantum computing could likely make cryptography redundant which comes as a huge threat to the crypto industry.After Google’s recent talks on attaining quantum supremacy, Bitcoin enthusiasts are concerned whether it can pose a direct threat to the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Blockchain expert and author, Andreas Antonopoulos,...

FeaturedThe latest plunge in the price of Bitcoin inevitably led to a similar drop across most of the major altcoins. However, to say that this is indicative of a general slump in the value of crypto would be an oversimplification of what is happening in the markets. If you look only at US pairings, then the downward trend is understandable for all to see, but when you start examining crypto pairs, a new story begins to emerge.Ethereum on the riseSince bottoming out in early September, Ripple...