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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Op-ed: Vitalik Buterin – Blockchain’s Person of the Year
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Opinion: Nigeria Needs Bitcoin Regulation
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Friday, December 30, 2016
Bitcoin Price Poised to Go Higher
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The Hyperledger Blockchain Project adds 8 New Members
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
The Biggest Influencers of Bitcoin Price in 2016
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Startup Uses Blockchain to Crackdown on Wine Fraud
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Blockchain Forex Consortium adds Japan-based Fukui Bank
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Bitcoin Price Pushes Toward $1000
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Evangelist Roger Ver Wants a Bitcoin ‘Lovefest’
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Bitcoin Crosses $15 Billion Market Cap
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Bitcoin Price Correction May Not Be over Yet
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Indian News Outlet Tries to Smear Bitcoin
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Here’s a Sneak Peak Inside IBM’s Blockchain System
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Monday, December 26, 2016
BitConnect Coin’s Wallet Launch is Here for 2017 and Beyond
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Blockchainers Who Deserve the MIT Lab Disobedience Award
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Bitcoin Price Surge Drives Phishing Attacks On Wallets
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Sunday, December 25, 2016
Merry Christmas Bitcoiners!
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Bitcoin’s Biggest Headlines in 2016
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Saturday, December 24, 2016
Without Segwit There is No Lightning Network
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Bitcoin Price Rally Still Has Legs
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The Anatomy of a Bitcoin Pyramid Scheme – The BTCSolar Story
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New Faster NiceHash EQM 1.0.4a Zcash Nvidia Optimized Miner Available
Just in time for Christmas a new NiceHash EQM 1.0.4a miner is available with about 10-15% speed boost for owners of Nvidia GPUs mining Zcash (ZEC). Like previous versions of the EQM miner it will only work for selling your hashrate on NiceHash, so not able to mine on another pool with it. The latest speed bump is intended for SM52 and SM61 capable Nvidia GPUs (that means only 9xx and 10xx cards), so no speedups for owners for first gen Maxwell GTX 750 (Ti) unfortunately. Currently only a Windows version is available. We are seeing a nice bump from about 320 H/s with the previous version to a little over 360 H/s on a stock GTX 1070 GPU with the 1.0.4a, overclocking brings even more hashrate.
– For more information and to download the NiceHash EQM Zcash Nvidia Optimized Miner…
Friday, December 23, 2016
iPayYou Enables Bitcoin Payments to Starbucks’ Official App
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Bitcoin Keeps Soaring, Breaks Beyond $900
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Report: FinTech Slow to Take Off in Japan
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Thursday, December 22, 2016
Richmond Berks – Investing Bitcoins into Real Estate
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Bitcoin Tore through Resistance
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Bitcoin Internet Searches Are Trending Worldwide
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Australian Wheat Farmers Trial Blockchain to Sell Grain
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South Korean Fintech Firms Look to Enter China
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Bitcoin Price Reaching New Highs, Moving Past $850 USD
The Bitcoin exchange rate is on the bull run at the moment reaching new high moving past the $850 USD mark and maybe even trying to test $900 USD in the next couple of days. Of course as it usually happens when BTC is on the rise pretty much all other altcoins are going down, so no surprises there either. We are still not as high as the price from a few years ago during the MtGox crisis that has artificially increased the exchange rate of Bitcoin, but still things are looking very positive. At the moment predictions for a price of $1000 USD or more during early 2017 do not seem too pessimistic, even $2000 USD by the end of the next year is not so far fetched anymore.
– To keep a track of the up tod ate exchange rates of Bitcoin and other altcoins on Bitcoinwisdom…
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
What Do the Tech CEOs from Trump’s Sitdown Think of Bitcoin?
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CEX.IO Reaches $80 Million in Card Transactions
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Bitcoin at Pivotal Resistance Area
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Jersey Announces First Regulated Bitcoin Fund Listing
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Bitcoin Price Rings the $800 Bell
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Unocoin Partners Bitwage for Bitcoin-Based Payroll in India
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Alex Tapscott: Thailand Should Embrace Blockchain
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Monday, December 19, 2016
NASA Petitioned to Send Bitcoins to Mars
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Bitcoin Price at an Ominous Point
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Bitcoin’s Strong Year Continues in Push to $800
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Can Bitcoin Help Venezuela’s Crumbling Economy?
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Here’s Why a Hard Fork Can’t Work
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Who is Blockchain’s Person of the Year?
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Saturday, December 17, 2016
Bitcoin Fee Estimates Have Increased By 1,013% in USD Terms
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Chinese Police Shut down Illegal Bitcoin Mining Farm
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Citi Invests In Blockchain FX Trading Firm Cobalt DL
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Friday, December 16, 2016
Overstock Issues Shares Using the Bitcoin Blockchain
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How Classic is Ethereum’s Austrian Kin
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Bitcoin Commerce Increases by 1,800% at BitPay
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IBM Looks to Put Kenya’s Public Records on a Blockchain
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
Blockchain to Help Insurtech Soar to $235 Billion Industry
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An Exciting Time for Bitcoin Traders Looms
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Korean Digital Currency ‘BOScoin’ to Launch in Feb 2017
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Checking Out Brave Browser’s Brave Payments Feature Powered by Bitcoin
The Brave browser is an interesting relatively new project for an open-source web-browser being developed with user’s privacy, security and performance in mind as well as with some interesting ideas to actually award users of the browser as well as allowing users to support their favorite websites without having to watch annoying ads on them. We like the idea, especially considering that the rewards part is also based on Bitcoin for the payments, so Brave is also supporting crypto currencies. A couple of months ago we have tried the browser in an earlier stage and there were still a lot of things that needed work, so we gave it another try with the most recent version. We already tried the ad and tracking blocking functionality and it has worked well even before, but this time the focus was a more recent feature that is still in beta – the Brave Payments feature. If enabled (off by default) it allows users to donate Bitcoins to their favorite websites where they do spend a lot of time and enjoy the content they find. As already mentioned this is powered by BTC transactions, so you need to actually have some Bitcoins and be willing to donate them…
If you want to try the Brave Payments beta feature you need to open up the Brave browser’s settings and go to the Payments tab, where you will find an off-on switch that would allow you to enable the feature. The basic control panel here allows you to select a monthly budget from a dropdown menu (5 USD to 20 USD) and see what amount in USD you currently have (deposited in Bitcoin). Once you enable the feature you will get a Bitcoin wallet address generated for you where you can deposit BTC that will be used to support your favorite websites.
There are multiple ways to obtain Bitcoins available, but after you have a hold of some you need to send them to the BTC wallet address you get shown when you click on the Add funds button in the Brave Payments window. Bitcoin transactions do require 1 confirmation on the network before the USD balance becomes available in your account.
When you start using the Brave browser you will see a list of websites ranked by the time you spent on them, in this list you can choose which sites you want to support using the Include switch (it is ON by default, though it should probably be OFF for new ones). The monthly budget you set, provided that you have available balance in your Brave BTC wallet is going to be distributed each month to all of the websites you decide to support, getting split according to a percentages based on a combination of how many pages you visit and how much time you spend on each site. Payments from users to website publishers are being made once a month.
Site owners that want to be able to receive funds from users supporting them through the Brave browser will need to verify themselves. According to the information available that will happen once there are at least $10 USD in BTC available for them from users with confirmation/registration emails being sent to the domain owners and the webmaster of the website. We are yet to go through that procedure to see how it goes, but the rest we have tried does seem to work pretty well already.
The Advanced Settings menu allows you to do some important things such as the minimum page time before logging a visit as well as the minimum visits fro publisher relevancy. You will most likely want to increase these values from their default lows in order to filter out random websites that you visit just once for example. The other very important functionality in this menu is the ability for backing up and recovering your Brave BTC wallet, this is something that you would want to make sure you backup just in case as you will be holding some amount of BTC in it if you will be using the Brave Payments feature.
For the moment the only way to take advantage of the Brave Payments beta feature is if you deposit some coins in your Brave wallet, but in the future the Brave browser will allow you to also earn while suing the browser if you want to. The standard functionality of the Brave browser is to block ads, but it can also replace them with Brave ads and for seeing these both website publishers and users might also have an additional stream of income. Above is the table with the percentage share for profit that will be coming from replaced ads, 55% go to the publishers and 15% go to the people that actually see the ads using the Brave browser. For the moment however there are still no replacement ads available apparently, but in the near future we may actually see that functionality becoming available in beta as well, just like the Brave Payments feature now.
– For more information and to try out the Brave browser and the Brave Payments feature…
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Bitcoin Breakout Looks Very Likely
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Report: An AI Hedge Fund Paid for By Bitcoin
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Blockchain Rewards Platform to Pilot in Dubai
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New Faster NiceHash EQM Zcash Nvidia Optimized Miner
Currently the NiceHash EQM Zcash miner is the fastest ZEC miner out there for Nvidia GPUs with the latest release bringing up to almost 50% increase in performance for most Nvidia GPUs. Everything would have been perfect if you could use the miner for other Zcash pools, but the EQM miner is still only supporting the NiceHash service,s o you cannot mine ZEC with it, just sell your Zcash hashrate and get paid for it in Bitcoin. The recently released EWBF CUDA Zcash Miner is probably the fastest ZEC miner for Nvidia GPUs that is available for Windows that you can use on other pools for mining Zcash directly, though it is slower than the latest EQM miner release and that one also comes with 2% dev fee (no fee on the NiceHash miner, but only locked to their service).
The latest NiceHash EQM Zcash 1.0.3a is available for both Windows and Linux and promises up to 320 Sol/s on a stock GTX 1070, and up to 370 Sol/s on overclocked GTX 1070 (you need to use two instances per GPU for maximum performance). We can confirms hashrates that are very close to the ones claimed on the GTX 1070 and of course the miner also does well on other NVidia GPUs. Do note however that it does require SM 5.0 GPU, meaning Maxwell or Pascal as it will not work on older Nvidia architectures…
– For more information and to download the NiceHash EQM Zcash Nvidia Optimized Miner…
Monday, December 12, 2016
Blockchain Social Platform Steemit Completes Hardfork
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Bobby Lee: Bitcoin’s Low Volatility is a Sign of Maturity
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
Female CEOs, Founders & Leads in the Blockchain Industry
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Saturday, December 10, 2016
Smart Contracts: 12 Use Cases For Business And Beyond
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India Gold Tax & Confiscation; Bitcoin as Wealth Protection
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Friday, December 9, 2016
Bitcoin Consolidation Almost Complete
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Sex Consent Smart Contracts: Would You Issue the Coin?
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Microsoft Launches Azure Blockchain Service in India
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Demonetization Brings Surge in Bitcoin Adopters in India
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
Bitcoin Price Finds its Climbing Boots Again
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Tangle: A Cryptocurrency for the Internet of Things
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Did €160,000 in Bitcoin Help Bust Counterfeit Euro Darknet Vendor?
Bitcoin transactions may have helped track and put an end to a counterfeit currency ring.
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Japanese MegaBank Mizuho Tests its Own Digital Currency
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South Korea Sees its First Blockchain Consortium
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
“Intense Demand” sees 11 New Bitcoin ATMs Added in Texas
Texas is now third in the highest number of bitcoin ATMs per state, after California and New York.
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Bitcoin Price Could Leap over $2000 in 2017, Thanks to Trump
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New Faster EWBF CUDA Zcash Miner for Nvidia GPUs
There is a new miner for Nvidia CUDA GPUs available for mining Zcash (ZEC) promising a slightly faster hashrate than the currently fastest implementation of the NiceHash EQM Zcash NVIDIA miner. The most important thing about this new miner is that it is not limited to only mining on NiceHash, so even with the same speed it is still a nice thing to have as it supports Stratum mining on other mining pools besides NiceHash (it does seem to support NiceHash’s Extranonce Subscribe as well). According to the author of the miner it is designed for Nvidia Pascal GPUs, but should work on older Compute 3.0 or higher Nvidia GPUs with at least 1 GB of video memory. Do note that the miner is not open source and there is only a Windows 64-bit binary release available at the moment, it does not seem to be based on other popular codebase and is not being reported as malicious software by antivirus products. You might still want to have something in mind as the user that posted it on Bitcointalk is a new account and not an established miner developer, even though it seems that the miner does work pretty well.
The EWBF CUDA Zcash Miner has a built-in developer fee that is set at 2%, meaning that every 10 minutes the software will switch to a different pool and mine for the developer some shares and then get back to mining for you. The author of the software claims speeds of about 250 H/s for Nvidia GTX 1070 while the NiceHash EQM miner does currently about 220 H/s on the same GPU. Our quick tests showed a hashrate of about 235-240 H/s average (up to 250 H/s) on stock GTX 1070, so still slightly faster, but not as much as you may want it to… then there is the dev fee as well and it seems that we are seeing somewhat more rejects than, especially when switching to mine for the dev fee. So while this may be an interesting alternative for users willing to mine outside of NiceHash, the actual performance that you may get poolside may not be much different than with what is currently the fastest implementation from NiceHash (taking into account the dev fee and the rejected shares)…
– For more information about the new faster EWBF CUDA Zcash Miner for Nvidia GPUs…
Bitcoin Consolidation Likely to Continue
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Will Bitcoin Save Australia’s Devalued Democracy?
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Eth and Augur Investor Hacked, Ethereum Price Dives Further
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ESMT Berlin is the First German University to Accept Bitcoin
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Finland’s Central Bank Hosts a Blockchain Seminar
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Spain Limits Cash Payments; Should Startups Turn to Bitcoin?
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Monday, December 5, 2016
Coinbase Files for Patent to Secure Bitcoin Private Keys
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Bitcoin Experiences Its Busiest Week Ever
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Japan’s Central Bank Staff are Running Blockchain Trials
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Moving toward Regulation, Vietnam Could Legalize Bitcoin
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
Tech Coalition Urges Trump to Promote FinTech Development
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Bitcoin Hit Resistance at Recent Swing High
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Saturday, December 3, 2016
ENIGMA – the New Name for Cloakcoins POSA3
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Friday, December 2, 2016
EtherCamp Hackathon Enters Voting Phase
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Bitcoin Price Surges, Hits a Year-High $774
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Apple Primed to Win Against the Australian Banking Cartel in Apple Pay Standoff
Apple isn't budging and the banks want to form a cartel.
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Thursday, December 1, 2016
This Man is Pushing for Bitcoin Adoption in India
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Bitcoin Miner HaoBTC Launches a Hashrate Exchange
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Less Than 100 Blocks Remain Until the End of the ZEC Slow Start Mining
In a couple of hours the initial slow start of mining for Zcash will finally be over after a bit over a month since the official launch of ZEC. There are already less than 100 blocks remaining until we reach the 20000 block where the block reward gets to the full 12.5 ZEC. So if you were mining and selling up until now in order to get the maximum out of the slow start phase of mining, now you may also consider the option about mining and holding some coins long term as well. That of course is not a sure strategy for making profit, but sounds like a reasonable idea considering the fact that there is still a lot of interest in Zcash and after some time it may start going up in terms of an exchange rate. At the moment the exchange rate of a single Zcash coin is at about $63.6 USD and it has been pretty stable lately even with the slowly increasing block reward until it reaches the full 12.5 coins per block. Some people consider that this is still a pretty high valuation for ZEC at this point in time, but then again it is also up to the market to decide what is the actual value of the ZEC coins. There is the chance that the value may drop or rise up, so be careful what are you deciding to do after the finish of the slow start of mining phase…
– To keep a track of how things are moving with the Zcash using the Zchain explorer…