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Infamous “Gym Friend” meme contains lessons for the bitcoin community in 2020. Campaign of frantic censorship and deflection highlights a lack of reasoned leadership at Blockstream. The cryptocurrency space needs more masculinity. The biggest lesson the bitcoin community can carry over from 2019 wasn’t learned on the blockchain, but in the gym.In early December when a meme-maker released the image below onto Twitter, everyone laughed for a minute then moved on.On the left, Samson Mow, CSO...

The Ethereum team will activate Muir Glacial hard fork on January 1 or 2. An update is important to defer the purported difficulty bomb by another 4 million blocks, and this will occur in block 9,200,000.Ethereum (ETH), the second-biggest computerized asset with a continuous market estimation of $14.5 billion, totally changed its benefit toward the end of the week and added up to $130.50 at the hour of composing. ETH/USD has lost over 2.5% over the most recent 24 hours and has stayed...

The outsiders may believe fancy Telegram graphs showing Bitcoin‘s decentralization levels and metrics. However, many of that stats supply data from a parallel reality. Because you cannot claim full decentralization when the majority of the industry is maintained by the same three to five companies. The will of the investors, not the cyberpunk spirit, changes the price of coins or destroys companies.There are at least seven influential people in the crypto space, including investors and...

European Central Bank’s head (and former International Monetary Fund’s head) Christine Lagarde said that the stablecoins market is gaining momentum and the officials need to keep up with changes:“My personal conviction is that giving the developments we are seeing, not so much in the bitcoin segment, but in the stablecoins projects. And we only know of one at the moment but there are others, being explored and underway at the moment. We’d better be ahead of the curve if that happens. Because...

In what seems like a plus for the cryptocurrency community, Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange BTSE has decided to raise $50 million of its token come March 2020. Sources also further indicated that the exchange plans to issue a total supply of 200 million tokens in the due course of time at $1 each and then to buy them back and burn 100 million. The pitch deck for the offering reads:“Funds raised will be allocated toward user acquisition to increase overall platform revenue, platform...

Blocksteam CEO Adam Black an der Korea Blockchain Week 2019 Foto: Zur Verfügung gestellt von D.Fine Weiterhin ist Bitcoin die mit Abstand beliebteste Kryptowährung. Laut einem führenden Krptoexperten könnten die Sidechains von Bitcoin jetzt auch andere Altcoins überflüssig machen. Adam Black, der bereits 1997 mit seiner Erfindung HashCash den Grundstein für die heutigen...

The first three quarters of 2019 have been remarkably exciting and the industry continues to grow in numerous ways.  One commendable progress is the open-mindedness received from banking institutions, government regulators as well as lawmakers. Commercial and investment banks such as JPMorgan are developing their private digital assets. New products like physically settled Bitcoin futures contracts are exposing the crypto market to a wider audience, and advancements in blockchain technology...