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Starkware Wants to Bring Security and Scalability to Crypto Exchanges

An Israeli startup Starkware believes it can solve two of the most pressing issues in crypto trading — the inherent vulnerability of centralized exchanges and the low transactional capacity of decentralized ones. The venture was co-founded by professor Eli Ben Sasson, who was a founding scientist for Zcash (ZEC). Besides raising almost $40 million from prominent…

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Polkadot to Use Chainlink Oracles for Interoperability Network

Feb 25, 2020 at 14:00 UTCUpdated Feb 25, 2020 at 14:25 UTCChainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov image via CoinDesk archivesPolkadot will be the first non-ethereum blockchain to integrate Chainlink."Chainlink is set to become the first and primary oracle provider for all Substrate-based chains and eventually the entire Polkadot network," Polkadot announced Tuesday. Chainlink provides price feeds…

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Can The Outdated Model of Advertising Actually Change?

[Featured] According to Statista, online advertising is now so pervasive that 25% of people now use some kind of ad-blocking software. While ads cause some people concerns about privacy or security, research suggests that most people just think there are too many ads, or that they’re annoying and irrelevant. Naturally, this trend is a growing…

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Chainlink Price Analysis: LINK Drops Below Important $3.8 Support But Will The Bleeding Stop?

The bearish scenario is likely to end shortly at 7-weeks rising trend line on the 4-hours chart After facing rejection at the 7-month high, LINK/USD fell and started downward correction Link loses momentum after witnessing a low trading volume LINK/USD: Chainlink Flaunted Short-Term Reversal With Double-Top Pattern, Nearing Key Rebound Level Key Resistance Levels: $3.8…

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Beanie Babies and Black Markets: Where Mainstream Media Gets Bitcoin Wrong

Bitcoin has a media problem. Or, perhaps, the media has a Bitcoin problem. Mainstream media has often framed Bitcoin with the same scandalous curiosity that may publicize a troubled former child star or a controversial tech startup. Most journalists have viewed it as a sideshow, a distraction that warrants only so much attention lest it…

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Despite Utility, Bitcoin Cannot Fix Venezuela

There are some misconceptions about how frequently Bitcoin is being used in Venezuela and the problems it can solve there. In issue number 18 of Bitcoin Magazine, published in January 2014, Cathy Reisenwitz wrote one of, if not the, first accounts arguing why Venezuelans could benefit from Bitcoin — an article titled “Grounded Venezuelans May…

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How the Latest German Regulations Target Bitcoin Exchanges and Custodians

A new German law requires every entity that holds private keys for others (e.g., bitcoin exchanges and/or bitcoin custodians) and that actively addresses the German market must become licensed as early as January 1, 2020. And to address the most common misconception right at the beginning: No, it absolutely not matter where your company is…

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What We Can Learn About Lightning From #LNTrustChain2: Part 1

The first Lightning Network “torch relay” debuted on January 19, 2019, to spread adoption of second-layer Bitcoin payment protocol. When it concluded in April 2019, it boasted 278 participants and 56 countries visited. One year later, Hodlonaut, the person behind the torch inception started the relay again, on January 19, 2020. After a few days,…

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Binance-Backed FTX Exchange Seeks Billion-Dollar Valuation in Equity Token Sale

Feb 25, 2020 at 13:36 UTCDerivatives exchange FTX is hosting a public sale for tokenized equity in the hopes it can attain a billion-dollar valuation. The Binance-backed platform, famed for creating the Shitcoin Index of low-market coins, announced Tuesday its FTX_Equity token sale would welcome investors willing to allocate a minimum $250,000 each. Each FTX_Equity…

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New Zealand Plans to Drop ‘Unfavorable’ Sales Tax Treatment of Cryptocurrencies

Feb 25, 2020 at 12:41 UTCUpdated Feb 25, 2020 at 12:48 UTCWellington, New Zealand. Credit: ShutterstockNew Zealand Plans to Drop ‘Unfavorable’ Sales Tax Treatment of CryptocurrenciesNew Zealand's tax authority is considering changes to its treatment of cryptocurrencies that would drop the current and controversial application of goods and services tax (GST).The current regime sees bitcoin…