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VeChain Price Resumes Bullish Trend as Community Tries to Educate Elon Musk

Vechain price resumes bullish trend as community tries to educate elon musk

VeChain Price Resumes Bullish Trend as Community Tries to Educate Elon Musk

Vechain price resumes bullish trend as community tries to educate elon musk


When bitcoin goes in the red again, a sudden sea of bearish pressure emerges upon all alternative markets. Today is once again one of those days where no project seems to note real gains. One interesting exception is the VeChain price. Despite some hourly bearish pressure, its overall price trend remains intact.

VeChain Price Trend Trucks Along Nicely

It is always interesting to see how the different alternative markets handle bitcoin’s bearish momentum. As can be seen on the market cap tracking sites, most of them are not doing too well right now. In the top 15, VeChain is the only notable exception in this regard. Its uptrend is still intact, primarily because the altcoin continues to gain in BTC value.

Over the past 24 hours, the VeChain price has risen by 5% in USD value and nearly 6% in BTC value. Because of these gains, the VET price sits at $0.004547, or 115 Satoshi. That in itself is pretty remarkable for many different reasons, primarily because the overall industry trend is anything but positive or stable right now.

On social media, there is no shortage of people trying to explain the benefits of VeChain, Pablo Wilco goes as far as directly addressing Elon Musk in terms of using VeChain for Tesla-oriented ventures. A bit of a bold move first and foremost, although those who dare take some risks often achieve success. For now, musk has not responded to this “challenge” as of yet.


Scott has seemingly missed all of the recent crypto winter, for some unknown reason. While it is true VET hit an ATH that was much higher at one point, those days are long gone. The current value of below $0.005 is not instilling much confidence in that regard. However, it seems the ATH of $10 is not entirely accurate either. That figure only comes to surface where long-term price speculation is concerned.

Br1ght Eyes seemingly has no shortage of positive thoughts where the VET price is concerned. Although this token has yet to reach $0.005 again, this user expects the momentum to top out near $0.0053. A bold prediction, given the overall market momentum. Even so, if VeChain bucks the overall trend, that price point may not be ludicrous either.

For the time being, no one should dump everything into VeChain in search of quick profits. While the altcoin is still going strong, it seems unlikely it will buck the bearish pressure for a long time. Additionally, VET has rather bleak trading volume, which may prove insufficient to sustain the uptrend. Reaching $0.005 will seemingly not occur today.


Disclaimer: This is not trading or investment advice. The above article is for entertainment and education purposes only. Please do your own research before purchasing or investing into any cryptocurrency.

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Published at Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:18:54 +0000

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Bitcoin Lightning Network Is Coming: Test a Transaction Now

Although bitcoin has managed to gain credibility and legitimacy in the financial world, skyrocketing transaction fees and long transaction times are becoming an increasingly severe handicap. The good news is that developers are making progress towards the bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) implementation. LN promises to reduce bitcoin’s transaction fees dramatically, and achieve near-instant transactions. You can test a bitcoin LN transaction right now.


Lightning Network Promises to Reduce Transaction Costs and Confirmation Delays

bitcoin users are unhappy about the high costs of transaction fees. bitcoin average transaction fees have spectacularly surged from about $0.69 USD in January 2017, to over $28 USD on December 18, as shown in the chart below. BitInfoCharts provide this chart.

Lightning Network Promises to Reduce Transaction Costs and Confirmation Delays

Moreover, the bitcoin network traffic has become clogged due to the rising demand for transactions per block. As a result, confirming bitcoin transactions is taking an extremely long time. Bitpay explains:

Block sizes are limited, so this means that transactions which exceed the capacity for a block get stuck in a queue for confirmation by bitcoin miners. This queue of unconfirmed transactions is called the bitcoin mempool.

Now, bitcoin enthusiasts and cryptocurrency experts are centering their hopes on the LN approach to reduce transactions fees and long time-delays.

Solving bitcoin Scalability Problem

Solving Bitcoin Scalability Problem

The bitcoin Lightning Network is essentially a decentralized system where users can set up trustless micropayment channels to conduct one or multiple payment transactions off-blockchain.

These channels reside outside the bitcoin blockchain. However, once the payment channel is closed, the transactions that occurred between the channels are then broadcast, as a single transaction, to the main blockchain network. Thus, no matter the number of micro-transactions conducted, the blockchain is accessed only twice, when the channel is opened and when the channel is closed. Obviously, this approach would significantly reduce the load on the blockchain.

Presently, three teams are independently working on the LN implementation: ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs. In early December 2017, they announced that their respective systems had completed payment tests on the main bitcoin network. Moreover, these tests achieved interoperability across all three implantations.

Right now, to educate potential LN users, the website https://htlc.me/ allows you try a testnet bitcoin LN transaction. Reddit user Nabugu provides the details of the test here.

As demand for bitcoin continues to grow, transaction costs and time delays are bound to get worse. However, many bitcoin enthusiasts and experts are excited about LN. For example, Ryan Radloff, co-founder, and principal at CoinShares, explicitly told CNBC that LN was the solution, adding:

[LN] is a technological implementation that, later this year, is going to solve this [problem], and we’re very excited about that.

What do you think would be the impact on the cryptocurrency ecosystem when bitcoin Lightning Network starts allowing users to make cheap micropayments at near-instant speed? Let us know in the comments below.


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