Bitcoin Price Slowly Pushes Higher as the Scaling Bitcoin Conference Wraps Up
While the Bitcoin price has been creeping to the upside recently, volatility has remained extremely low which means that trading opportunities has been limited. We are hoping for a return to a more exploratory price action soon, however, we may have to wait another week or two before conditions are conducive. Over this past weekend Bitcoin developers gathered in Milan, Italy for the Scaling Bitcoin Conference, a two-day event focused on solutions to Bitcoin’s supposed scaling issues. This was the second of such meeting, out of a total of four scheduled so far. The main points of discussion....
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The organizers of Scaling Bitcoin Conference, which is supported by the Bitcoin industry’s leading companies including Blockstream, BTCC, Kraken, and BitFury, were criticized by the Reddit BTC community for rejecting all four proposed presentations from the Bitcoin Unlimited team. Scaling Bitcoin Conference workshops and conferences are designed to discuss the implementations of various innovative technologies in scaling the Bitcoin network efficiently and securely. The industry’s top wallet service providers, exchanges, trading platforms, and mining companies sponsor and host the....
During the course of the week digital currency markets have seen colossal gains and one crypto asset, in particular, XRP, has jumped significantly in value over the last seven days. The distributed ledger token XRP climbed 25% upwards on Tuesday alone, and seven-day price stats show the coin has gained 123% as well. At the time of publication, XRP is currently swapping for $0.677 per coin as it gained more than 25% during the early morning (ET) trading sessions on Tuesday. The coin holds the third-largest market valuation today with a current liquid market cap at around $22.55 billion. The....
There is no shortage of ideas about how to meet the bitcoin scaling challenge. More importantly, however, is the willingness of the community to share its ideas and work on ways to bring them to fruition. This much was obvious from this weekend’s Scaling Bitcoin “Retarget” conference held at the Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, Italy. This year’s two-day conference, designed to present solutions to the scalability challenge, featured a host of speakers and drew an enthusiastic attendance. The conference provided a venue where developers, miners and researchers can....
Will bitcoin, the much-hyped $10bn distributed digital currency network, scale? The open question is set to be addressed at the latest in a series of developer conferences aimed at the issue this week. Scaling Bitcoin, scheduled to run from 9th to 10th October, is the third conference of its kind since divisions in the digital currency's community began following debate on how to accommodate more transactions, and some argue, more users. While the conference has lost some of its former intrigue, what's at stake is still the development roadmap for bitcoin, a project that critics argue is....
Bitcoin.com is now an official sponsor of the Scaling Bitcoin conference in Hong Kong occurring December 6-7th, 2015 This is Phase II of the conference series; Phase I took place in Montreal in September. The conference is “no frills,” designed for the engineering and academic community. No exhibit booths –- or other distractions — are allowed.....