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Strike, a payments company led by entrepreneur Jack Mallers, is making the technology behind Twitter’s new bitcoin tipping feature open to the world.On Thursday, the startup said its “Strike API” – a payments plugin that processes bitcoin transactions over the Lightning Network – will roll out across a series of
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This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations. It was a tumultuous week in China outside the financial world with severe flooding hitting Zhengzhou and typhoon In-Fa
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Long-time cryptocurrency critic and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said in a string of tweets on Wednesday that Bitcoin (BTC) could very well survive indefinitely, but only as a fundamentally useless cult. Krugman’s harsh words were prompted in response to Wednesday’s market plunge which saw numerous coins lose close to
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Litecoin is cleared for takeoff after a brutal downtrend against Bitcoin and the dollar. Could the cryptocurrency known as digital silver be the next altcoin to pop like Ethereum, Dogecoin, and the rest of the pack? Here’s a closer look at the technical signals suggesting a change in the tides is
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In a bid to save the Ethereum mining community, a group known as the Ethereum Genesys Foundation (EGF) successfully hard forked the chain to continue Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining. With the ETH 2.0 upgrade well underway, the switch to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) would render miners redundant. What’s more, miners claim they are slowly
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The eye-watering strike option supplants the company's previous $300,000 maximum offering listed on Jan. 9. Source
Read MoreJuan Benet, the creator of blockchain-based data storage platform Filecoin, has called allegations that miners of its token have been on strike since last week “nonsense.”According to a report by 8btc.com, five of the largest Filecoin miners turned off thousands of rigs to protest the platform's economic model. Under this system,
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Top shelfToken protestFive of the largest Filecoin miners, which secure that data storage network, have gone on strike, bringing attention to the project’s “unfair” economic model. According to a report by 8btc.com, miners are required to stake a significant amount of FIL tokens to start mining operations. But there’s a
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Filecoin, a decentralized storage network launched by Protocol Labs, is off to a rocky start after a strike by miners just one day after its highly anticipated miannet launch on Oct. 15. Five of its largest miners turned off their machines to protest the project’s “unfair” economic model that requires a
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While it was just eight weeks ago that Bitcoin was trading at $3,700 in the depths of a bear market, key signals are already showing BTC is just entering a bull market.One such signal, an indicator that purportedly has an 8/8 or 100% strike rate, just appeared on Bitcoin’s chart,
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