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Bitcoin Core – Security Vulnerabilities in Network Protocols
This is the third in a series of articles providing security advice for developers writing software that transmits cryptocurrency and payment information across a network. These articles focus on the security vulnerabilities in various network protocols, and their remedies. This article focuses on the Bitcoin Core (BTC) protocol. This protocol was created to connect Bitcoin…
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The End of Venture Capital Funding – The End of Venture Capital Funding
“Software firms are often forced into this position by the absence of a viable business case. As a result of the so-called Digital Currency Act (DCA), the first significant U. regulation of the technology industry, many smaller firms are beginning to lose access to the capital markets through the “blended capital structure. ” The result…
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South African Cryptocurrency Market: A Geopolitical Perspective
Note: US based News outlet The Verge broke this story based on independent sources, although this is a bit old news and based on the recent reports of CoinGeek from 2014, which is also sourced by The Verge. The headline may make it sound like there may be some kind of crypto coin, but that…
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Is It Possible to Talk About Bitcoin With Just the Internet and Electricity?
One of the most important lessons I learnt on a summer job in Silicon Valley was that the world is now powered by the combination of the Internet and electricity. It’s no longer possible to talk about Bitcoin—or any other cryptocurrency—without the context of Internet and electricity. As a result, for decades, people have talked…
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The Future of Cryptocurrency
In a matter of a few years, crypto became one of the most prominent forms of digital currencies to come out of the ICO. It has become so popular, that now, more and more people have started to buy into it and use it. But there are also those that are still against it. So,…
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The Largest Cryptocurrency Values Trend
The best way to summarize all the news is to show you the trend. The biggest rise in value for any single cryptocurrency was from the BCH / BTC pair – up 23. 48% to $4,895 on December 17, 2017. This is followed by the ETH / ETH pair, up a little over 12%. USD…
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The Future of Banking Technology Is Here – MetaMask
The future of banking technology is here, and it’s about the blockchain-based solutions. There are a lot of blockchain alternatives and their developers, but among these options, there’s only one to which I subscribe, and that’s MetaMask. “MetaMask” is a simple, fast, efficient and convenient way to encrypt all that which you’ll send to your…
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Bitcoin Market News
There have been a lot of stories about Bitcoin lately, which have been a bit scattered and focused on a limited number of news sources to the exclusion of others. Many were simply written by folks who didn’t follow the market’s activities, and they didn’t cover the overall industry, but instead simply focussed on an…
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Binance Coin – A Blockchain Based Cryptocurrency Exchange
The cryptocurrency market has become increasingly volatile in recent years. As a result, mainstream investors have been reluctant to get involved in the digital currencies. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is not exception to this trend. Binance has been widely popular for its stable and reliable services. But it’s not just that. Binance is…
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How to Use Square to Make Bitcoin Transfers
If Bitcoin has a future, and Bitcoin is going to become, in the future it cannot stand out from the vast majority of cryptocurrency for it’s usefulness in the digital economy. Although Bitcoin isn’t as popular as its cousin, there will still be a large demand for this cryptocurrency in the future and it will…
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