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,…
Bitcoin (BTC) has continued to ratchet higher, rising 94% since December 1st, on continued institutional and retail interest. The market cap now stands at US$316 billion on US$6.1 billion in trading volume over the last 24 hours. Hash rate and difficulty continue to make new highs, with hash rate nearing 15 exahashs per second. This far exceeds the estimated…
Since the announcement by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to launch bitcoin futures contracts, the price of bitcoin has rallied by over 215 percent from $6,200 to over $19,800 in only six weeks. This rally was further fuelled when the U.S. CFTC approved the bitcoin futures contracts and the CBOE announced that it would follow…
The momentum behind the autonomous vehicle movement has been growing rapidly as the major technology vendors, and new players, seek to define the future of road transport. RethinkX has estimated that by 2030, within 10 years of regulatory approval, 95% of all US passenger miles will be served by autonomous transport-as-a-service providers. Jeff Klei,…
