Cryptocurrency Highlights, News, Use Cases And Other Reckonings : #157 (2018-12-02)

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Craig Wright Claims Bitcoin SV Will Process 1TB Blocks in Two Years: P. H. Madore


Dr. Craig S. Wright has a mission in mind for Bitcoin SV (BSV) to process terabyte-sized blocks. It’s a “2 year target” according to a tweet he published yesterday. 2 year target. 2-4 Million TPS peak 500k sustained Terranode Bitcoin — Dr Craig S Wright (@Pro…

This Week in Crypto: Ohio Embraces Bitcoin, Judge Hassles SEC, and DJ Khaled Fined for ICO Promotion: P. H. Madore


The last week of November was all about taxes, regulation, and SEC enforcement for Bitcoin and the wider crypto ecosystem. Major Headlines Sirin Labs Launches the FINNEY: The world’s first blockchain phone on the market, the FINNEY, launched at an event in Ba…

Hands-on with the Sirin Labs FINNEY, the World’s First Crypto-Native Smartphone: Josiah Wilmoth


Sirin Labs, the blockchain startup funded by nearly $158 million in initial coin offering (ICO) proceeds, has released its much-anticipated “blockchain smartphone,” the FINNEY. The firm unveiled the device on Thursday at a release party in Barcelona, which fe…

Bitcoin Opinion: Why Context is Important When Talking about the ‘Crypto Bubble’: Pedro Febrero


The fact that the bitcoin price has been crashing for the past month has led some people to have some hilarious reactions. From rage-quitting crypto-trading and investing to astonishing doomsday predictions, it’s really fun to sit back and watch all madness. …

Asus Wants to Let Gamers to Mine Crypto with Idle GPU Power: Jimmy Aki


Tech giant Asus is now making it possible for gamers to use the excess processing power of their graphics cards to earn some profit from crypto mining. In an announcement made on Thursday, the Taiwan-based tech company stated that it has entered into a partne…

German Firm Xolaris Launches Two Bitcoin Mining Investment Funds: Samantha Chang


German investment firm Xolaris has launched a European private-equity fund focused on bitcoin mining. Xolaris expects to raise $34 million to $57 million for the four-year project, the company announced in a press release. “Professional investors kept asking …

Laugh Your Stockings Off with the FIRST Crypto Christmas Album, Out Now: Press Release


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Chain Open Research (COR Index) Opens Access to a Full Suite of Cryptocurrency Market Analytics: Press Release


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Op-Ed: Ohio’s Crypto Play Proves Bitcoin is Becoming a Currency: P. H. Madore


Well, here’s something we didn’t expect this early in the century. Ohio’s state government is now accepting Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash via its payment portal, serviced by BitPay. As CCN reported: “Ohio will become the first state in the US to officially accept …

Crypto Market Adds $7 Billion as Bitcoin and Ethereum Rebound by 5%: Joseph Young


In the past 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market added $7 billion to its valuation as Bitcoin and Ethereum rebounded by around five percent. Bitcoin (BTC) successfully defended a relatively weak support level at $4,000 with strength and Ethereum (ETH) prevente…

Vitalik Buterin: Blockchain Utilities To Be More “Purely Digital”: P. H. Madore


Vitalik Buterin was at Devcon4 recently and gave an interview to Quartz in which he said a few things about Ethereum in general. For one, he feels that a “world computer” is still a valid way to describe the Ethereum project – “a shared computing environment …

YGGDRASH Announces the Establishment of YGGDRASH Incubation Center and Sharing Cryptocurrency Exchange, DEXRADE: Press Release


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Crypto Giant OKEx Deslists Several Trading Pairs: Benjamin Pirus


Today brought news of OKEx exchange delisting several additional trading pairs. This is the third time OKEx has delisted a group of assets. OKEx Delisting In an announcement today on their website support page, OKEx stated the delisting of thirty-eight differ…

Korean Firm Aims to Make Blockchain Faster: Jimmy Aki


According to local news outlet Joongnag Daily, a blockchain company based in Korea believes that it has found what it takes to revolutionize blockchain technology and bring even quicker pace to the way that transactions are being carried out. SymVerse, a bloc…

No Bitcoin ETF Before Important Changes to BTC Markets: SEC Chairman: P. H. Madore


SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has claimed that bitcoin exchanges lack sufficient transparency and monitoring for the market to see approved Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). According to CNBC, at the Consensus Invest Conference in New York City recently, Clayt…

HBUS Launches Crypto Billboard Campaign Mocking Coinbase And Wall Street: P. H. Madore


The newer HBUS cryptocurrency exchange has taken its message to the streets with a new billboard campaign. According to a blog post by the exchange themselves, they are the first in the nation to do this, and we find nothing to the contrary. However, there ha…

500-Year Old Swiss University Makes Vitalik Buterin an Honorary Doctor: Mark Emem


The co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Switzerland’s oldest institution of higher learning, the University of Basel. According to the university’s Faculty of Business and Economics, which awarded Buterin the hon…

Bitcoin Price Nearing ‘Capitulation Moment’: IG Market Analyst: David Hundeyin


Bitcoin is not far from a critical loss of investor confidence that will lead to the market hemorrhaging vast amounts of value as nervous investors dump their holdings. This is the opinion of Chris Beauchamp, an analyst at the online trading platform IG. Spea…

eToro and Mumsnet Research Reveals over Half of Mums (55%) Want to Take Control of Their Finances: Sponsored


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