Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The famous author of the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, has warned that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury are destroying the U.S. dollar. Noting that they are sending billions of dollar savers and uninformed investors to &am...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Several U.S. lawmakers have introduced the Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act to strengthen “the legitimacy of cryptocurrency in our digital economy.” The bill also aims to expand the use of cryptocurrencies for payments.
Virtua...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
One of the primary arguments in favor of using Merkle Trees as the mechanism of encoding transactions is the value it provides in Partial Verifications or Simplified Payment Verification.
The argument goes that one may validate that...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
Reading your question, I suspect the cause for your confusion is around the setting in which Merkle trees are used. I think you are right that in the Bitcoin world, the setting is taken for granted and is not usually explained clearly.
Here's my two...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
It’s been less than a month since we first covered online sneakerhead and hypebeast cultural hub StockX and their first formal foray into NFTs, with the ‘StockX Vault.’ In an effort to seemingly tokenize their physical assets, Stock...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Venezuelan Government has approved a new tax that would affect transactions made in foreign currency and cryptocurrency transactions. Approved by the National Assembly of the country, the tax, called the “large financial transactions&a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Go Fund Yourself using Bitcoin, this slogan has been at the core of a recently launched campaign on Tallycoin. A crowdfunding platform powered by BTC and the second layer payment solution lightning network, which offers its users 0% fees, its own web...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Tether became an official currency in Myanmar’s shadow government in the middle of December of last year. The country’s ruling junta proposed a cryptocurrency ban as a way to combat this. Even though crypto payments are difficult to track...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has jumped back above the $200 billion range, hovering around $216.49 billion on Saturday morning (EST). The TVL in defi has increased 13.60% since tapping a low of $190.57 billion 13 days...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
java - Bitcoinj - Creating child public keys from a base 58 parent public key - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Bitcoin crypto-cur...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
During the weekend, when bitcoin rose to a two-week high, it was Gala that stole the show after climbing 37%. Bulls returned to action on Saturday, as the global crypto market capitalization was around 8% higher.
Biggest gainers
Following...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
I try to get a Dogecoin solo mining setup to run (mainly for learning purposes) on an old PC with Windows 10. I chose bfgminer over cgminer because I don't want to utilize the GPU feature.
The whole thing seems to be more compli...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
India’s economic affairs secretary, Ajay Seth, has provided an update on what the Indian government is doing in terms of finalizing cryptocurrency legislation. He expects crypto regulation to be discussed at the upcoming G20 meeting for financ...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The Japanese Virtual Currency Asset and Exchange Association (JVCEA) is considering loosening restrictions on coin listing. With a $1 trillion cryptocurrency trading industry, Japan is changing its perspective and innovating by making it easier to li...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Following a week of consolidation, bitcoin and ethereum prices both rallied past key resistance levels to start the weekend. Bitcoin moved beyond $40,000, with ethereum climbing over the $3,000 mark.
Bitcoin
Cryptocurrencies were higher t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
When r/Bitcoin moderators began censoring content and banning users they disagreed with, r/btc became a community for free and open crypto discussion. This happened long before the creation of Bitcoin Cash. Today, r/btc users can discuss any Bitcoin-...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
An African startup, Nestcoin, said it raised $6.45 million in a pre-seed funding round in which tennis’ star, Serena Williams’ Serena Ventures took part. The startup, which was launched in November 2021, plans to use the capital raised...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
(This is the second part of a three-part deep dive into the current state of the worldβs music NFT industry and how it is making an impact on society)
NFT scam site HitPiece.com and its founders were sent a demand letter on Friday by the Recording In...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The industry organization of Russian energy suppliers has come up with ideas on how to combat cryptocurrency mining in homes, basements and garages. The association believes the phenomenon is the main issue with mining in Russia as authorities prepar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Konami, one of the leading Japan-based game developers, elaborated on its future policy regarding NFTs. In its latest financial results meeting, Konami touched briefly on the subject of NFTs, and explained it would go on with its activities involving...