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Bluestein
11,081karma·5,744submissions·June 10, 2020
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So, after decades of lurking, I decided to join. Please be gentle :)
PS. Lions. MD116.-recent activity (5,744 total)
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"From refusing to bank crypto trading desks to closing accounts held by platforms, the mainstream financial sector appears to be putting up roadblocks to seamless cryptocurrency commerce. Without…
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"The Bitcoin network has seen its first stale block event since October 2019 resulting in a $3 double spend. With mining difficulty at an all-time high (ATH) and hash rate distributed among major…
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"While cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, in particular—are not known for their environmental friendliness, blockchain payment solution Ripple is striving to ditch the stigma by creating an open-source to…
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"95% of the reported bitcoin volume is fake. Below is the real volume. It’s smaller, but more orderly and regulated than is widely understood."
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"A recent report by blockchain tracking and analytics provider, Whale Alert, revealed that the miner known as Patoshi mined over $10.9 billion or 1,125,150 BTC during Bitcoin’s infancy in order t…
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"The question is being put forth by bitcoiners in an attempt to put people’s minds at ease about Tether. The thesis is that if tethers were to vanish—something that could happen if the U.S. Depar…
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"A privately held exchange has launched on the Binance Cloud platform for the first time. Mandala says its goal is to deliver enhanced trading depth, security and transaction speeds to users — en…
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"iFinex Inc — the parent company of crypto exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT) — has written to the New York Supreme Court requesting that its upcoming trial date be pushed back…
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"After the weekend's shorter-than-hoped-for test firing of the core stage of NASA's monstrous Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, engineers have confirmed the hardware remains in 'ex…
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"The central bank of France is excited to contribute to the Eurozone’s 'global reflection on the benefits of CBDCs.'"
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"Theft from cryptocurrency exchanges due to cyberattacks or internal fraud is a major problem. Exchanges can partially alleviate customer concerns by providing periodic proofs of solvency. We des…
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"Grin Coin is a privacy-focused, secure (PoW) and scalable cryptocurrency that supports electronic transactions without censorship and restrictions. Grin proposes a private and lightweight blockc…
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"It's Bluetiful. That's the name of Crayola's new blue crayon inspired by OSU's YInMn blue, the pigment discovered by OSU chemist Mas Subramanian. The announcement came after …
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"In a nutshell, the problem for users of centralized digital asset exchanges — as well as custodians, loan platforms and other 'service providers' that custody digital assets on behalf …
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"Almost a month on from the initial attack, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency's (SEPA) systems remain offline - and data stolen from the organisation has been published by hackers.&…