Everything You Need to Know (+ How to Use Loom’s Plasma CLI) Loom Network is building a fundamental infrastructure platform to help Ethereum scale for real world use cases, and it’s the first Ethereum scaling solution to be live in production. Loom allows developers to run large-scale applications by deploying to high-throughput Ethereum sidechains, while
Falling Crypto Prices Aren’t Stopping Real Blockchain Progress Paul Brody is EY’s global innovation leader for blockchain. The views expressed are his own. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. Plunging cryptocurrency values in 2018 and the collapse of the money-for-nothing white paper market in initial coin offerings (ICOs) took much
Brenna Sparks Blasts The Concept of “Technical Analysis” for Cryptocurrencies Analyzing financial markets can often be done in many different ways. Most market speculators and investors rely on technical analysis to discover recurring patterns and signals. Not everyone is a fan of this approach, as the recent comment by Brenna Sparks clearly illustrates. The Technical
Inside Ethereum’s Plan To Reduce Energy Consumption by 99% Ethereum intends to move to proof-of-stake in the future. Making a move to POS will supposedly cut the energy consumed by a hundredfold, or around 99%. There have been repeated claims that cryptocurrency uses too much energy and is therefore inefficient and environmentally unfriendly. Some reports
Crypto Adoption: Pro-Blockchain Overstock Pays Taxes In [BTC] (BTC) Overstock Pays Business Taxes In [BTC] According to a press release from Overstock.com’s Investor portal, the Salt Lake City-headquartered online retailer and blockchain technology startup will begin to pay its business taxes with Bitcoin (BTC). You might be thinking — the U.S. seems to avoid crypto
The Map Is Not the Territory: Rethinking Crypto as an Asset Class Sid Kalla, CFA and Bradley Miles are co-founders of Roll, an open standard for social money on the ethereum blockchain. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. Over long time periods, bitcoin’s returns have been uncorrelated to the stock,
Leading the Way into the Light At Paxos, we believe in the power of crypto and blockchain to transform the way value and assets move around the world. We also understand that operating within the world of finance means that in order to enable that transformation, we must adhere to regulation. We’ve seen a lot
San Francisco’s “Bitcoin Mafia”: How Bitcoin Started in the City on the Bay The early Bitcoin community in San Francisco was originally comprised of revolutionaries: Individuals who believed in the freedom and opportunity that a permissionless distributed system would bring the world. We were widely regarded as unsavory and unpopular. Most people associated bitcoin with
Bitcoin Investors Still Bullish: Data Indicates Almost 80% Remain Long on BTC According to data from DailyFX, almost four out of five Bitcoin (BTC) investors remain long on the number one digital asset by market capitalisation. This analysis runs contrary to the price performance of Bitcoin over the last twelve months. The ratio of those
Zaif Exchange Hack and How We Called It Two Months Ago and the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) Zaif Exchange Hack and How We Called It Two Months Ago and the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) ⋆ Crypto New Media Home 2019 January 3 Bitcoin Zaif Exchange Hack and How We Called It Two Months Ago and
