Created by Google, Microsoft, and Intel engineers, Dfinity Foundation is set to be the crypto sector’s biggest private token sale of 2018 valued at $2 billion. Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) made its largest investment in the crypto sector to date th…
Today, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee has reaffirmed his $30,000 Bitcoin price target by December. But, other permabulls are not as optimistic as Lee about the short-term trend of Bitcoin. In May, BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes stated that he would like to see the BTC p…
In the past 24 hours, the Bitcoin price has increased from $6,400 to $6,700, recording a decent increase in its daily volume. The valuation of the crypto market has increased from $210 billion to $215 billion within a two-day period, fueled by the shor…
Swiss-based trading platform ShapeShift AG has announced the acquisition of Bitfract, a software firm that allows users to swap bitcoin into dozens of digital assets in one transaction. According to the company’s post, the Bitfract tool is poised as a …
Avi Salzman, a senior editor for Barron’s magazine, released a report this week featuring big money investors and executives from the rapidly growing cryptocurrency sector who generally believe, despite the recent bitcoin price drop, cryptocurrency wil…
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Bitwala, a crypto-to-SEPA service that allows fiat currency transfers towards settlements from users who pay in cryptocurrency, has been less than impressed by the public’s response to altcoins after embracing altcoins. While it plans to continue to support altcoins, Bitwala is planning to focus more on bitcoin, according to a recent blog posted on its website. The […]
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In a bid to tackle the issue of how users can separate their Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC) coins, ShapeShift has unveiled a new digital currency feature designed to do the job. The Ethereum Splitter tool is a new feature unveiled by the digital exchange platform, created to split ETH and ETC coins automatically. […]
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Two websites, both very fundamental to the functioning of the “alt-coin” market, have been unreliable in the last week for various reasons. First, the website Shapeshift.io believed its infrastructure had been compromised. CEO Erik Vorhees shared this message: Hello everyone, We wanted to provide a quick update on our status. Yesterday afternoon, we noticed several […]
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7 months ago, CCN first covered the launch of Xotika.TV as one of the newest and best live cam sites where users enjoy a friendly atmosphere and beautiful performers without giving up their privacy. In the coming weeks, Xotika.TV will exit their beta and bringing a variety of fresh new features to their users. Currently, Xotika.TV […]
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BlockCypher provides Bitcoin wallet services to larger organizations such as exchanges and payment providers. During the recent fracas of “dust” transactions crowding the Bitcoin network, one of their larger clients, Erik Voorhees’ ShapeShift.io, suffered a double-spend attack amounting to 2.6 BTC. The biggest offering of BlockCypher is what they call a “Confidence Factor” which basically means what it sounds like – if the processor is reasonably sure (as in more than 99%) that a double-spend will not be attempted, the transaction is processed with zero confirmations. BlockCypher describes their method like so: In simpler terms, if an unconfirmed transaction returns […]
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