December 2018 | Page 3 of 95 | Last Cryptocurrency News Feed

Bakkt Completes a Successful $182.5 Million First Funding Round (Launch Date Updates)

As we get closer to the end of 2018, we can definitely say that 2018 wasn’t the best year for crypto, as Bitcoin and most major altcoins lost 80 – 90% of their initial value. Looking for the new coming year of 2019, some of the topics that could change the negative sentiment might come…

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Blockchain Analysis Is About to Get Harder as P2EP Enters Testing Phase

Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder. An early version of it,…

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Security Researchers Reveal Wallet Vulnerabilities On Stage at 35C3

In a demonstration titled “Wallet.fail,” a team of security researchers hacked into the Trezor One, Ledger Blue and Ledger Nano S. Unfortunately, it appears as if their findings were first put on display at the 35th Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) in Leipzig, Germany, rather than through accepted Responsible Disclosure practices, which would have allowed the…

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Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Sees 20% 2018 Growth, Driven by Africa

feature Regardless of bitcoin’s price volatility, 2018 saw an explosion of activity among African users. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange Paxful increased its transaction volume by 130 percent since January 2018 with an average of $21 million a week, compared to $8.5 million in 2017. The growth was driven in part by…

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2018 Sees Bitcoin’s Lowest Average Daily Price Change: Report

This year Bitcoin’s (BTC) average daily price change was the lowest value reported in the past nine years, self-proclaimed professional cypherpunk Jameson Lopp tweeted Dec. 30.This year, the average daily value change for Bitcoin was -0.33 percent, according to Lopp’s tweet. In second place for lowest average daily price change was 2014 at -0.25 percent.The…

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Bitcoin’s Next Halving Rally: Coming Soon in 2019

opinion Pascal Thellman is CMO at Bounty0x, a simple service for earning crypto, and an advisor at PolyGrowth, a crypto PR firm. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. 2012 and 2016: What do they both have in common? Bitcoin underwent what is referred to as the “halving,” where the yearly…

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Blockchain Project’s Big Ideas Include Bike That Can Mine Crypto as You Cycle

A blockchain-based platform says it is the first that puts all users and ecosystem participants on an equal level, and has set out its vision for how its platform will develop in the coming months and years.Transcendence describes its blockchain as open source and decentralized, and says it offers full compatibility with existing systems such…

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End Of The Year Bitcoin & Crypto Summary For 2018

2018 was the year when crypto didn’t get much love. Not just Bitcoin but several other cryptocurrencies have seen an acute downfall in their values in this year. Some currencies fell as low as 90%, and the crypto experts are now looking forward to 2019 to see how accurate their predictions will be. The year…

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Ethereum Price Analysis Dec.31: ETH is Ending a Terrible Year With Hopes For a Better 2019

The inverse head and shoulders pattern in the Bitcoin chart is still active. However, For this formation to play out, Bitcoin has to break above the formation’s neckline around the $4380 resistance level, which is the prior high. In case of a breakout, the target could be found at the mid $5000 area. Those formations…

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UK Regulators Still Probing 18 Businesses Over Cryptocurrency Dealings: Report

The United Kingdom’s finance watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed that it is investigating 18 companies over cryptocurrency use, local daily news outlet the Telegraph reported Dec. 29.Responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request from the publication, the FCA said it had closed the vast majority of its investigations into cryptocurrency-related…