2017 will likely go down in history as Bitcoin’s first real ‘hair-on-fire’ year — and there will likely be many more to come. As the wild ride winds down though, we thought a review of some of 2017’s most well-read stories might assist in putting some perspective around the events of the year — and…
Blockchain technology was invented back in 2008. But it’s just now taking the internet, technology, and even banking by storm. Already, 24% of people around the globe are familiar with blockchain technology. That number is 41% if you only count people in North America. In 2015, 13 different blockchain companies secured $365 million in funding.…
Cardano (ADA) has benefited from a market filled with bullish exuberance, exploding in price from under US$0.03 to US$0.41 in less than three months, a gain of over 1500%. The market cap currently stands at US$13.11 billion with US$96.56 million traded over the past 24 hours. ADA seeks to incorporate the best of every possible…
India has the seventh largest economy in the world and its population is particularly fond of gold. Not surprisingly, therefore, the popularity of the “digital gold” bitcoin is on the rise as Indians are increasingly starting to see the value of this new digital asset class. Bitcoin adoption took a little longer to reach India…
Litecoin (LTC) made a new all time high in mid-December, and has cooled off slightly since. The market cap currently is holding at a steady US$16.88 billion with US$1.52 billion in trading volume over the past 24 hours. LTC has also seen increasing transactions per day throughout December, as the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks have…
For anyone trading crypto and wanting to improve privacy and enhance security a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a tool worth considering. Contrary to the common misconception that cryptocurrencies are anonymous, the reality is that the address required to send and receive Bitcoin can be easily linked back to your IP address. This is bad…
I’ll be expanding these ideas in a forthcoming article and book but with prices skyrocketing, and so many new people owning tokens for the first time, I want to provide a quick reference guide that you can complete in less than 10 minutes to help protect your new assets. How to use this guide: The fastest,…
Recent talking points include a blog post by Preethi Kasireddy, “fundamental challenges with public blockchains.” The post outlines several problems faced by blockchain platforms at the moment; limited scalability, limited privacy, lack of formal contract verification, storage constraints, and unsustainable consensus mechanisms – to name a few. Scaling issues on Ethereum became apparent in a post-CryptoKitties world.…
CryptoKitties is a new blockchain-powered online game where users can buy and sell collectable virtual cats on a marketplace as well as breed new kittens. While a virtual cat collecting game may seem insignificant and somewhat silly, CryptoKitties is actually the first large-scale decentralized application (DApp) on the Ethereum network and thus carries substantial significance…
Bitcoin’s rise from there is similar to any FANG-y stock story. Global adoption of new technologies led to Facebook’s dominance in social, Google’s in search, and Apple’s in hardware/software. What is different with bitcoin is that it has no CEO, no board, and no proprietary physical assets. But that has proven to be a feature,…
