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Crypto Market Wrap: More Pain as Markets March Downwards

Crypto market wrap: more pain as markets march downwards

Crypto Market Wrap: More Pain as Markets March Downwards

More pain for crypto markets today, Ethereum and BCH in trouble, Stellar sliding, only Waves making moves.

Following yesterday’s $7 billion crypto market dump things stabilized for a while but have just started to head south again accelerating losses. Total market capitalization has shrunk again in the past couple of hours as another $3 billion goes out of the digital door.

The likelihood of ₿itcoin breaking its new resistance level at $3,500 was slim at best. It formed a new channel at $3,460 for a few hours before dropping below that in another slide which has taken 2% off the value of BTC as it heads towards $3,400. Volume has increased to $6.5 billion has the outflow accelerates.

Ethereum has dumped another 4% taking it below $105 as double digit ETH looms closer. Ethereum is currently at its lowest price this year and does not look like recovering much soon. XRP having only lost 3% has extended its lead in second place to over $1 billion in market cap.

Tether has surged up the top ten to take fourth place with a $2 billion cap in a twisted testament to how much the rest of the altcoins are bleeding out. EOS and ₿itcoin Cash have both dumped another 4%, and Stellar has slid way down with a further 7% lost on the day. Litecoin and Tron are only 3% down at the time of writing.

Binance Coin and Nem are the biggest losers in the top twenty during the Asian trading session dumping 7 to 8 percent. Waves is on a flyer with a 10% pump taking it into the top twenty as it flips Maker and Zcash. A Vostok token airdrop to Waves holders appears to be driving momentum, the rest are sliding back.

MobileGo is getting some fomo also with a 20% pump on the day, and Waves is second best performer in the top one hundred. Double digit dumps are going on with Factom and Mixin right now as both lose 10% in 24 hours.

Crypto market wrap: more pain as markets march downwards

Total market capitalization has slide back below $112 billion. A further $3 billion has left the space resulting in a market contraction of 2.6%. Since the weekend over $8 billion has been dumped as another big downswing has initiated. All indicators are pointing to further losses for ₿itcoin over the coming months which results in double the pain for the rest of the crypto assets.

Market Wrap is a section that takes a daily look at the top 20 cryptocurrencies during the current trading session and analyses the best-performing ones, looking for trends and possible fundamentals.

Published at Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:00:04 +0000

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Adam Back: Blockstream ‘Has No Patents Related To SegWit’

Blockstream CEO Adam Back has refuted claims by Swedish Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge that the company “has patents in SegWit.”


 Pirate Party’s Falkvinge: Blockstream SegWit Support Driven By Patents

In a Twitter response Monday, Back stated Blockstream “does not have any patents, patent applications, provisional patent applications, or anything similar, related to segwit.”

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Falkvinge, who is a staunch supporter of bigger blocks proposed by rival scaling solution campaigners bitcoin Unlimited, had earlier Monday released a dedicated post on his website arguing Blockstream’s SegWit support was for its own interests.

“Based on Blockstream’s behavior in the bitcoin community, I have become absolutely certain that Segwit contains patents that Blockstream and/or their owners have planned to use offensively,” he wrote.

Falkvinge Accuses Blockstream Of ‘Goalpost Moving’

The post accuses Blockstream of “classic goalpost moving” and employing behavior that “only makes sense” under a patent battle.

Falkvinge continues:

…Based on Blockstream’s behavior, I can say with dead certainty that I’ve seen this exact behavior many times in the past, and it’s always when somebody has a dual set of reasons – one for presentation and palate and another that drives the actual course of action.

Back’s Twitter retort appears to be lifted from previous comments on Reddit left by core developer Greg Maxwell.Maxwell

“As is the case for other major protocol features, the bitcoin developers worked carefully to not create patent complications. Segwit was a large-scale collaboration across the community, which included people who work for Blockstream among its many contributors,” he continued.

Moreover, because the public disclosure of segwit was more than a year ago, we could not apply for patents now.

Maxwell reiterated that Falkvinge had previously made similar allegations, which he had addressed separately.

“In short, Rick Falkvinge’s allegations are entirely without merit and are supported by nothing more than pure speculation which had already been debunked,” he concluded.

A Clash Of Ideals?

Falkvinge meanwhile has remained bullish on bitcoin publicly, telling RT in February he expected bitcoin could take over up to 10% of the foreign exchange market.

In his post, however, a clear distinction is drawn between the classic bitcoin ethos and that of Blockstream.

The owners of Blockstream are the classic financial institutions […] that have everything to lose from cryptocurrency gaining ground,” he wrote.

The conclusion is unescapable (sic) here: Blockstream’s constant goalpost shifting has had the underlying goal to have Blockstream’s owners effectively own bitcoin through patent encumbrance.

What do you think about Rick Falkvinge’s claims about Blockstream? Let us know in the comments below!


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