Is 2015 the Year of the Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange?
Will 2015 be the year of the Decentralized Bitcoin exchange? 2014 and the very beginning of 2015 has seen major problems for two mighty Bitcoin exchanges: Bitstamp and Mt. Gox. Untold numbers of holders lost in excess of $500 million between the two failures, both of which appear to have been initiated by internal enemies to the exchange with nothing but greed for a motive. Also read: Mt. Gox As a Lesson in a New Kind of Inflation. Removing the Element of Trust from Bitcoin Exchanges. Daniel Larimer, one of the founders of BitShares, believes that decentralized exchanges using the....
Related News
2015 was a banner year for bitcoin. It brought some key developments for the digital currency’s acceptance, particularly by the financial sector. But like every year since its 2008 debut, bitcoin’s progress came with challenges. Bitcoin has not been embraced by enough consumers, businesses and government to be called a mainstream currency or commodity. 2015 brought more signs that it is on the right path, and its naysayers have never been more discredited. There is no question that 2015 has brought a change in tone of the conversation surrounding bitcoin.
The year 2015 has ended and investors can now calculate the result of their investment activities. What has Bitcoin brought to us last year? On the first day on the year 2015, January 01, 2015, the price of Bitcoin moved to the level of $313, which is 59.35% less than a year before that, on January 01, 2014, when the price was $770. During the first two weeks of 2015 the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply to $177. The price then rose gradually to $250 in September and had moved to another top of $300 by the end of October. The maximum price in 2015 we saw in December 2015, when the Bitcoin....
It's been another formative year in the world of bitcoin and the blockchain, and while the price has been subdued over much of the year, other developments in the space have arguably been more intriguing than in any 12-month period previously. We've seen companies come and go, record-setting funding rounds, increased interest in the technology and, sadly, occasional bad actors still stirring negativity into the mix. In this year-end special, we look back at the news stories that made the most impact during 2015. The year got off to a shocking start on 5th January when bitcoin exchange....
The goal of this article is to review the growth of Bitcoin as a whole over 2015 compared with 2014. This article will be broken down into months, covering January-December. Bitcoin’s price over the months will be explained simply rather than in-depth for the sake of brevity. I hope you enjoy a review of 2015! Before jumping into 2015, we will establish some key facts that will be revisited at the conclusion of the article. These statistics will be very important for calculating Bitcoin’s growth over 2015 and will allow us to make predictions about how Bitcoin might progress over 2016.....
In the final week of the year 2015 major financial players publish their results and summaries of the year. So did VISA. On December 26, Visa Europe has published a summary of “Why 2015 was the year for payments” saying that this year many innovations in the financial technology sector were focused on Blockchains and Bitcoin. Now these technologies are more real than ever and companies can escape using them no longer. Quote: According to Visa Europe, next year we should be ready to see even more challenges: “If we think back to how it was perceived a year ago and then how it is understood....