Localbitcoins’ Growth 85% 2016, Signaling Further Use of Bitcoin
For those interested in tracking the progress of bitcoin as a true form of money, an interesting data point to watch is the global Localbitcoins volume. There are a variety of different metrics people use to track the adoption of Bitcoin. Some simply track the bitcoin price in terms of US dollars, while others prefer to watch the number of on-blockchain....
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Localbitcoins saw a roughly 85 percent increase in global volume over the course of 2016, and the growth seen by this bitcoin trading platform was seen equally in both the developed and developing world—albeit for different reasons. While the need for increased privacy and the avoidance of Know Your Customer regulations is known to be the driving force....
Will Bitcoin growth slow in 2016? BargainFox and Georgi Georgiev do not think so. In fact, they have even put together an infographic presenting 33 indicators that bitcoin growth is not slowing down this year. However, as we looked closer, only some can be considered indications of growth in 2016 - more than half are merely FYI facts, others are open to interpretation. We contacted the author to clarify his intention, but received no comment. What follows is our brief overview of the infographic. We divided the indicators into those that are likely to mean continued growth of bitcoin,....
All things considered, it appears China's crackdown on capital outflows is working. China has released their official economic growth numbers for 2016. As was to be expected, things are not looking great, although the sky is not falling either. With a 6.7% growth throughout 2016, the country falls short of expectations. Moreover, there are questions regarding the growth number, as it seems to reek of tampering. A previous report hinted at how 6.7% growth has been “achieved” for every quarter in 2016, which is an impossibly even number. The world’s largest economy continues to cause a lot....
The Roskomnador, Russia’s federal administrator of telecommunications and the internet has blocked access to prominent peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange platform LocalBitcoins. In a move that won’t come as a surprise to the cryptocurrency community, Russia’s telecom regulator has blocked access to popular over-the-counter and P2P bitcoin exchange platform LocalBitcoins. Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) has effectively blacklisted LocalBitcoins’ domain, rendering it inaccessible via Russian ISPs. A quick....
Due to its unprecedented growth, the economic importance of the solar energy industry is surpassing that of the fuel energy industry. The solar industry’s exponential growth has boosted solar jobs by 25 percent since 2015, the Solar Foundation reported. Concurrently, Bitcoin and the Internet of Things are becoming an even more integral element of the....