10 Bitcoin Resolutions for 2015
A lot can happen in 365 days. A year ago, 1 BTC was worth $770, governments around the world were either terrified of bitcoin or laughed it off as a passing fad and it was a lot harder to find a place to spend your bitcoins. Today, you can buy a bitcoin for $316, governments and financial institutions are starting to understand the disruptive potential of the bitcoin protocol and digital currencies, and bitcoin shopping options are no longer limited to alpaca socks. In the spirit of making resolutions for the new year, members of the bitcoin community should look at 2015 with a fresh....
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The new year is just over a week away, so folks all across the crypto world are thinking ahead to what 2022 will bring to the crypto industry and the world. As the new year rapidly approaches, people are thinking about what they can do to make 2022 even better than 2021. With so much anticipation for cryptocurrency in the coming year from government policymakers and market action, it’s no wonder that some in the crypto industry have ambitious resolutions for the new year with how they will help to shape the industry for the better.National governments have taken steps to increase the....
An often misunderstood topic is that of chain splits and how they are potentially resolved. With the recent proposal from Shaolinfry discussing User Activated Soft Forks (UASF) getting much attention, these misunderstandings must be clarified to fully understand the implications of chain splits and their potential resolutions. Types of Forks. Miners can create chain splits through the deliberate orphaning of blocks that appear to be valid to some clients. Users maintain a set of consensus rules that they require of all blocks. When users disagree about the sets of consensus rules to....
This year’s Brexit vote caused turbulent economic times for European residents, as many sovereign currencies and stocks plunged. During this period, the British exit from the EU caused Bitcoin’s value to spike as many turned to the decentralized currency as an economic safe haven. On December 4, the cryptocurrency’s price may rise again as the Italian....
Bitcoin made a big impression this week at the International Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. 2015 has not been particularly kind to bitcoin, thus far. Trouble began when the digital currency's price dropped below $300, the lowest it has been for quite some time. Further negativity spread just last week when Bitstamp, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges operating today was the victim of a malicious hacking that saw to nearly $5 million, or 12 percent of its bitcoins disappear. ... If one didn't know any better, they'd probably think everyone's new years' resolutions involved....