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Monero Testing $10, Releases Official GUI Wallet

December 26, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, Commentary, News, Price Analysis, Price pages

The official GUI wallet release for Monero (XMR) announced December 22, provides an impetus for bullish momentum with XMR-USD breaking the psychological $10.00 handle. While the long-awaited XMR release for Jaxx’s blockchain wallet is imminent, there has only been an official CLI wallet for the cryptocurrency, with others relying on...

New OpenBazaar Release Provides Altcoin Integration

December 23, 2016 by Joseph Young at Altcoins, Business, News

OB1, the commercial company behind OpenBazaar, announced on December 20 the release of version 1.1.10, featuring a partnership with instantaneous altcoin exchange ShapeShift. The deal immediately provides users the opportunity to purchase items on OpenBazaar with altcoins like Monero and ZCash that provide increased privacy to users. For an excellent...

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Weekly Cryptocurrency Market Outlook Dec. 20

December 20, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at Cryptocurrency Market Outlook, Price pages

Every week, BTCManager provides a cryptocurrency market outlook, highlighting the best opportunities in the largest cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, ether, and others. BTC-USD (Bitstamp) Bitcoin broke a key fractal resistance last week, moving above the $778.85 level, and now looks to establish fresh highs above $800. The chart below shows...

Lisk Rockets Forward With Roadmap Enhancements

December 17, 2016 by Michael Scott at Altcoins, News

Lisk, the Berlin-based blockchain application platform that enables its users to build applications in JavaScript, has announced that it’s mainchain has been stabilized and governance model bolstered. This news marks a significant milestone in the company’s quest toward widespread adoption. With this development, delegates are now able to generate/forge blocks...

Byteball’s Christmas Day Giveaway to Bitcoin Holders

December 15, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at Altcoins, Bitcoin, News, Tech

Bitcoiners will receive a gift in the form a new cryptocurrency on Christmas Day, proportional to their holdings. The name of this cryptocurrency; ByteBall, which utilizes a DAG, or a Directed Acyclic Graph, instead of a blockchain, to circumvent the block size issue, issues with throughput or any future scalability...

Nomura Identifies Loss of Faith in Fiat as Grey Swan Catapulting Cryptocurrency

December 13, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, News

In a recent article published by Dagens Næringsliv discussing the financial market ‘Grey Swans’ for 2017 compiled by Nomura Holdings, a prominent Japanese investment bank, “a breakthrough for digital currencies” made the list, based on a scenario of a widespread loss of faith in fiat currency. With the market being...

Crypto Hedge Fund PolyChain Capital Recieves $10 Million

December 11, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Finance, News

Polychain Capital, a hedge fund looking to maintain a portfolio of various cryptocurrencies and blockchain tokens, is reported to have received an investment of $10 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Squares Ventures, signalling the belief that the future of cryptocurrency will see numerous major players alongside Bitcoin. Spearheading Polychain...

Weekly Cryptocurrency Market Outlook Dec. 8

December 8, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at Cryptocurrency Market Outlook, Price pages

Every week BTCManager provides an outlook of the best opportunities in cryptocurrency markets. This week, we focus on the biggest cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ether, and Monero while also highlighting some opportunities for up and coming altcoins that have attracted some attention. BTC-USD (BitStamp) Following a breach of the...

How Cryptocurrencies can Offer Universal Basic Income; a Response to the ‘AI Threat’

November 30, 2016 by Farzana Begum at Altcoins, Commentary, Ethereum, News

Artificial intelligence (AI) is destined to be more efficient than ever reachable for humans in most instances. The growing emergence of AI across many industries means that people’s jobs are under threat. Across the working spectrum, it will impact those in the blue-collar occupations such as taxi drivers factory employees...

Ethereum-powered BlockCDN to Disrupt Content Delivery Networks

November 29, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at Altcoins, Ethereum, News, Tech

BlockCDN, a blockchain company stationed in China, aims to provide a solution for CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) by utilizing a peer to peer approach, leveraging existing idle resources to reduce the costs of bandwidth, energy consumption, and hardware maintenance compared to a traditional CDN setting. As more information migrates online,...

SegWit Gaining Ground, Ethereum in State Clearing: BTCManager’s Week in Review Nov. 28

November 28, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at News, News Digest

Bitcoin Core’s scaling solution is making headway, with the percentage of blocks signalling SegWit support reaching for 20 percent, as shown below, with pools such as Slush, BitFury and YourBTCC supporting the protocol change. Bitcoin users may have noticed that fees are higher than usual, attributed to the ongoing conflict...

‘Ethical Hackers’ Hijack Zcash with the Creation of Ebitz

November 22, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, News, Tech

A group of European ‘ethical hackers’ have taken steps to launch a newer, improved version of Zcash that addresses many of the hotly-debated drawbacks of the privacy-centric cryptocurrency. Two significant changes to the Zcash protocol have been made and the launch of the improved version, named Ebitz, is due November...

Factom Awarded Grant From Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Interview with Peter Kirby

November 18, 2016 by James Ryan Moreau at Altcoins, Finance, Interviews, News

Texas-based blockchain startup Factom, a company that provides businesses and governments with blockchain solutions to manage and store their data, has announced on November 18 that it will receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help them complete work on a blockchain-based medical records initiative. With a...

Vcash Offers Near Instant, Off-Chain Transactions

November 17, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at Altcoins, News, Tech

Based on the Peercoin codebase, Vcash or Vanillacoin (denoted XVC), looks to solve problems of both Bitcoin and Peercoin and their derivatives. Bitcoin and its derivatives all have inefficient network implementations as packets set on the blockchain as plain text. Peercoin and its derivatives, while relying on the Proof of...

Op-Ed: Litecoin, the Best Crypto For Storage Of Value

November 16, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at Altcoins, Commentary, News

Litecoin, known to some as the digital silver and for being the first altcoin, is different due to its ASIC-resistant algorithm, the increased money supply, and shorter block times. However, it may also be the best cryptocurrency to utilize as a storage of value. While many cryptocurrency holders would love...

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