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Friday, May 31, 2019

Kenco Announces Blockchain Warehouse Test Facility

Blockchain developer Kenco has announced plans to open a dedicated physical warehouse space to test advanced logistics technologies in a real ...

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"Gold Is A Rock, Bitcoin Has Real Value" - James Altucher

Cryptocurrencies, solve in general, many of the problems of paper currencies and fiat money; the fact that there are so many banks and fees and ...

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Far-right groups bolstered by cryptocurrency donations, report finds

A study by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has described how far-right organisations have sidestepped mainstream payment services in ...

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Little-Known Cryptocurrency Surges 80% While Bitcoin Flounders

By CCN: Monacoin bills itself as Japan's first cryptocurrency, and it's gained significantly during the recent bull market activity. The cat meme ...

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Friday Night Crypto - Defining Crypto Investors - Bosses vs. Boot Lickers
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Proactive checks on cryptocurrency risks needed: Report

LONDON - Regulators need to step up risk assessments of the cryptocurrency sector as current rules are patchy, and quick technological change may ...

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Paxos Standard Stablecoin Introduced to Blockchain.com's Wallet

Xen Baynham-Herd, who heads Blockchain's wallet department and strategy, told CoinDesk that the company plans to offer PAX to USD redemptions ...

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Buy Failing Deutsche Bank With Bitcoin, Suggests Fund Manager

Popular cryptocurrency fund manager Anthony Pompliano says that it would be interesting if people put their bitcoin together and bought it out.

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"Gold Is A Rock, Bitcoin Has Real Value" - James Altucher

(Kitco News) - Any way you look at it, bitcoin is more valuable than precious metals as a form of money and is expected to one day become the ...

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Analyst Suggest that Bitcoin [BTC] Might be Heading into a Turbulent Weekend

On the other hand, Bitcoin [BTC] and cryptocurrency markets run 24/7 and the price fluctuations can happen anytime. This discrepancy has created ...

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Little-Known Cryptocurrency Surges 80% While Bitcoin Flounders

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BitcoinTV by Decentralized TV on YouTube

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Proactive checks on cryptocurrency risks needed: Report

LONDON - Regulators need to step up risk assessments of the cryptocurrency sector as current rules are patchy, and quick technological change may ...

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Paxos Standard Stablecoin Introduced to Blockchain.com's Wallet

Xen Baynham-Herd, who heads Blockchain's wallet department and strategy, told CoinDesk that the company plans to offer PAX to USD redemptions ...

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Buy Failing Deutsche Bank With Bitcoin, Suggests Fund Manager

Popular cryptocurrency fund manager Anthony Pompliano says that it would be interesting if people put their bitcoin together and bought it out.

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"Gold Is A Rock, Bitcoin Has Real Value" - James Altucher

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Analyst Suggest that Bitcoin [BTC] Might be Heading into a Turbulent Weekend

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Proactive checks on cryptocurrency risks needed: Report

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Paxos Standard Stablecoin Introduced to Blockchain.com's Wallet

Xen Baynham-Herd, who heads Blockchain's wallet department and strategy, told CoinDesk that the company plans to offer PAX to USD redemptions ...

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Buy Failing Deutsche Bank With Bitcoin, Suggests Fund Manager

Popular cryptocurrency fund manager Anthony Pompliano says that it would be interesting if people put their bitcoin together and bought it out.

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"Gold Is A Rock, Bitcoin Has Real Value" - James Altucher

(Kitco News) - Any way you look at it, bitcoin is more valuable than precious metals as a form of money and is expected to one day become the ...

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Analyst Suggest that Bitcoin [BTC] Might be Heading into a Turbulent Weekend

On the other hand, Bitcoin [BTC] and cryptocurrency markets run 24/7 and the price fluctuations can happen anytime. This discrepancy has created ...

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Paxos Standard Stablecoin Introduced to Blockchain.com's Wallet

Xen Baynham-Herd, who heads Blockchain's wallet department and strategy, told CoinDesk that the company plans to offer PAX to USD redemptions ...

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Bitcoin Breaks Through $9000 To Hit Highest In A Year

Bitcoin climbed past $9,000 today, reaching its loftiest level in more than a year as the cryptocurrency benefited from strong momentum. The first digital ...

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Bitcoin Screams Past $9000 Before Incurring Massive Selling Pressure, But This Drop Could be ...

After facing an extended bout of sideways trading, Bitcoin incurred a sudden influx of buying pressure earlier today that allowed it to surge past $9,000 ...

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Bitcoin emerges as the big winner this month in the financial markets, soaring nearly 70%

The world's first and largest cryptocurrency was one of the biggest winners this month. Bitcoin rallied more than 68% in May, hitting a high of $9,084 on ...

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Crypto Giant Coinbase Hints at First-Ever US Bitcoin Margin Trading

By CCN: For years, the global bitcoin margin trading market has been dominated by BitMEX, which at one point reached a daily volume of $10 billion ...

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7 Majors Signs Confirming The Bitcoin Bull-Market Is Back

Analysts like Tone Vays may be calling for a pullback but here are seven major indicators that the Bitcoin bull market is officially back.

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BitcoinTV: by BitcoinMeister on YouTube

The 1 Bitcoin Show- OTC hype? BTC over $9k for only 2.95% of its life! Q&A
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How to Check Bitcoin Cash Transactions With a Block Explorer

A block explorer is a tool that enables cryptocurrency users to search addresses, balances, blocks, and transactions so they can verify all activities on the network. Bitcoin.com offers a BCH explorer, helping you to keep track of your coins.

Also Read: Wallet and Card App Crypto.com Adds Bitcoin Cash Support

Learn to Use Bitcoin.com’s Block Explorer

The bitcoin cash explorer homepage displays the latest mined BCH blocks and transactions that have been broadcast to the network, and it also lets you investigate any address, block hash or transaction. To check up on a transaction, just insert its ID into the search bar and you can immediately access all the details pertaining to it. You will learn when a transaction was initiated and how many confirmations it has, if any, as well as other important details such as inputs, outputs, fees, byte size, scripts, and OPcodes.

How to Check Bitcoin Cash Transactions With a Block Explorer

The BCH block explorer can be viewed in eight languages including Russian, Spanish, Japanese, English, Chinese, Swedish, Indian, and Korean. The platform can also display monetary values in a number of fiat currencies such as the USD, EUR, AUD, RUB, INR, JPY, and CNY.

To learn more about using Bitcoin.com’s block explorer you can consult this helpful guide. And if you want to check out an alternative, the popular cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com has recently launched its own Bitcoin Cash explorer.

What do you think about using a block explorer for checking transactions? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.


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Bitcoin emerges as the big winner this month in the financial markets, soaring more than 60%

The world's first and largest cryptocurrency was one of the biggest winners this month. Bitcoin rallied more than 60% in May, hitting a high of $9,084 on ...

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Brenna Sparks on cryptocurrencies, criticism, and her future

After rising to prominence in the cryptocurrency scene in 2017 and 2018, Brenna Sparks is now one of the most influential people in the industry.

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Brenna Sparks on cryptocurrencies, criticism, and her future

Coin Rivet recently spoke to Brenna Sparks about her wild ride in cryptocurrencies, how she has dealt with criticism, and what crypto can provide ...

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Bitcoin Breaks $9000 In Latest Landmark Price Point

Among the top ten cryptocurrencies at press time, seven are in the green. The three outliers — eos (EOS), litecoin (LTC) and native exchange token ...

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Analysis: Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland top list in relative cryptocurrency popularity

Given the pseudo-anonymous nature of cryptocurrencies, it's nearly impossible to accurately estimate how many people use them and where they are ...

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Study Suggests Ticker Readability Positively Impacts a Cryptocurrency's Returns

The founder of Cryptodatum.io — a cryptocurrency data API for machine learning — has conducted a study that ostensibly indicates that the readability ...

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Bitcoin Just Flashed Over $9000 As Ethereum Powers Higher--Here's Why

Bitcoin, despite being the most widely traded cryptocurrency with trading volume into the billions of dollars every day, still struggles with wild price ...

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FBI: North Korea commits cyber crimes with cryptocurrencies in response to sanctions

North Korea is suspected of being behind several thefts and extortion attempts where cryptocurrencies have been involved. This according to a ...

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Russian state-owned bank stops cryptocurrency work in light of unfavorable regulatory environment

Russia's Sberbank has decided to suspend its plans for doing business with cryptocurrencies. Andrey Shemetov, a vice president of the bank, ...

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

What Do People Misunderstand About Blockchain Technology?

What are some common misconceptions people have about blockchain? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

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Army eyes blockchain for trusted communications

For its Information Trust program, S&TCD envisions technologies that leverages machine learning and blockchain for user authentication and sharing ...

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Maersk adds two big shipping firms to its blockchain ledger

The three largest overseas shipping companies in the world are now using the same blockchain-based digital tracking system, which enables an ...

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'Mario of the Blockchain' CryptoKitties Has Yet to Gain Wide-Scale Usage

By CCN: CryptoKitties, a smart contract-fueled decentralized app (dApp) built on the Ethereum blockchain, was supposed to be the one to jumpstart ...

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JP Morgan has been developing on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain

The U.S. investment bank, JP Morgan has been developing some new security features on the Ethereum blockchain. JP Morgan is currently ...

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Bitcoin Bagholders Will Limit This Rally

Bitcoin and crypto rebound in 2019 has been impressive but further upside limited given current market psychology. The crash of 2018 structurally ...

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Japan Advances New Crypto Bill, Regulator Explains

New Cryptocurrency Bill Advances in Japan, Regulator Explains

Japan’s House of Representatives has passed a new cryptocurrency bill with additional requests for the government to incorporate into law. News.Bitcoin.com talked to Japan’s top financial regulator to find out the implications of this bill and the proposed resolution.

Also read: Indian Supreme Court Postpones Crypto Case at Government’s Request

Japan’s New Crypto Bill Passes House

A new cryptocurrency bill officially passed Japan’s House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet, on May 21. It was subsequently accepted by the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Diet, the following day. According to the Japanese government’s website, there were many opinions on the bill.

A spokesperson for Japan’s top financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), told news.Bitcoin.com:

The passing of the bill depends on the deliberation process in the Diet.

New Cryptocurrency Bill Advances in Japan, Regulator Explains

The bill, officially entitled “A draft bill to amend some of the fund settlement laws, etc., in response to the diversification of financial transactions accompanying the advancement of information and communication technology,” was prepared by the FSA. It was submitted by the cabinet and accepted by the House of Representatives on March 15.

The bill seeks to amend two key laws that apply to crypto assets: the Act on Fund Settlement and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. The FSA revealed to reporters at a briefing session in March that the bill is expected to be enacted and finalized in the Diet by June 2020.

Lawmakers’ Requests

The revised bill passed by the House of Representatives was accompanied by a resolution of 15 requests which “require the government to clarify regulatory targets, deploy appropriate personnel, implement appropriate regulations in line with the international standards, consider appropriate taxation methods, etc.,” Impress publication reported.

The FSA clarified to news.Bitcoin.com:

The additional resolution (15 proposed items) is items which we should take into consideration before introducing the bill, and we should take appropriate responses to it at the time when the bill comes into effect.

New Cryptocurrency Bill Advances in Japan, Regulator Explains

Among the items the House of Representatives asked the FSA to consider is to “Establish an effective inspection and supervision system from the viewpoint of user protection, etc. based on the current situation of crypto assets and [initial coin offering] ICO transactions in recent years.”

Several other items require the regulator to examine actual situations and take measures based on results including constructing a system that is feasible and consistent with the regulatory trends of the G20 and international standards such as anti-money laundering measures. In addition to making efforts to fully cooperate with self-regulatory organizations, one of the 15 items requests the FSA to:

Review the transfer of crypto assets and the right to transfer electronic records, taxation of income tax, etc. on income related to transactions using crypto assets, and take necessary measures based on the results.

New Cryptocurrency Bill Advances in Japan, Regulator Explains

Moreover, the FSA was asked to “Take care not to unduly limit … the development and application of these technologies” when developing and deploying regulations including carrying out inspections and imposing measures. Crypto assets and their underlying technologies “may contribute to the advancement of Japan’s industry,” the resolution details.

Policies regarding ICOs were also discussed, particularly the need for the government to formulate guidelines and take appropriate measures while considering international discussions. Given the diversity of ICO participants and types of issues, the agency was asked to avoid “excessive regulation, and respond appropriately as necessary.”

Effects on Crypto Exchanges

The FSA also explained how the amendments will affect crypto exchange operators. Currently, there are 19 approved crypto exchanges in Japan, and over 140 companies have expressed interest in entering the country’s crypto space.

The regulator shared with news.Bitcoin.com:

The registered crypto-assets broker dealers need neither re-register nor be requalified. Needless to say, however, they are required to develop the system to comply with the obligation newly introduced by this revised Act. We are going to keep on monitoring the situation for maintaining their system on a continual basis.

New Cryptocurrency Bill Advances in Japan, Regulator Explains

Key Areas Addressed by the Bill

The bill incorporates many suggestions from the study group meetings conducted by the FSA. Impress publication summarized, “In addition to changing the name virtual currency to ‘crypto assets,’ the amendments also require that crypto assets be managed using a cold wallet, etc.” Further, the bill grants ICOs “the right to receive revenue distribution.”

Since there have been some major cases in Japan where hot wallets were hacked and cryptocurrencies held in them stolen, the bill requires customers’ crypto assets to be stored in reliable cold wallets. For crypto assets held in hot wallets, equivalent amounts must be stored separately, backed by other payment sources.

New Cryptocurrency Bill Advances in Japan, Regulator Explains

In response to excessive advertising and solicitation by several crypto exchanges, the regulator will “establish advertising and solicitation restrictions such as the prohibition of false labeling and hype, and the prohibition of advertisements and solicitations that encourage speculation,” the publication described. It further notes:

Regarding crypto assets with high anonymity … change of crypto assets handled by virtual currency exchange operators shall be notified [to the FSA] in advance and checked for problems.

In an exclusive interview with news.Bitcoin.com, the FSA emphasized that all approved crypto exchanges have to declare what cryptocurrencies they will handle at the time of their application. “When a crypto-asset broker-dealer wants to add more crypto-assets or to change old ones into new ones to be traded on its platform, it is required to notify that in advance,” the agency confirmed.

The bill also stresses the importance of collaboration with self-regulatory organizations. So far, only one has been approved. Margin trading, which accounts for about 80% of domestic crypto asset trades in Japan, will be regulated under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. Sales and solicitation restrictions will be in line with foreign exchange margin transactions. Furthermore, the law prohibits unfair acts, including price manipulation, and stipulates that a provision will be put in place to give priority to the return of customers’ crypto assets held by exchanges.

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Study: Publicly Listed Chinese Firms Quietly Participate in Bitcoin Mining

Cashscript Is Coming, Bringing Ethereum-Like Smart Contracts to Bitcoin Cash

Share Bitcoin Cash Related Shortlinks Using BCH.gg

Share Shortened Bitcoin Cash Related Links Using the BCH.gg Tool

Projects and members of the Bitcoin Cash community often need to share important information with other BCH enthusiasts. If you are involved with the cryptocurrency, there’s a website called BCH.gg you can use to shorten URLs, with each shortlink featuring the BCH name.

Also read: How to Easily Convert Funds From BTC to BCH

BCH.gg Provides Stats About Shortened Links

BCH.gg is an easy to use online tool developed by the crypto market stats and charting data website Coinsalad.com for the Bitcoin Cash community. Its main purpose is to address the need for a URL shortener, generating links that can be shared for example on Memo and Blockpress, two social media platforms using the Bitcoin Cash network.

By incorporating BCH in the new URLs, the website promotes the cryptocurrency which has seen rapid development of applications and services in the past two years. To shorten a link you need to first paste the original one into the “Enter URL” box. Then you have to click “I’m not a robot” and the “Shorten URL” button.

Share Bitcoin Cash Related Shortlinks Using BCH.gg

The website will generate your new link which starts with https://bch.gg/ followed by a unique ID that can be a short number or a combination of letters and digits. Saving your custom link ID will allow you to later look it up and pull statistical data such as the number of clicks, the country they originate from and the date when it was created.

The platform will also give you a “Quick Share” text containing the BCH.gg link and a brief description or the title of the article you are linking. You can share it directly on Facebook and Twitter using the dedicated buttons or copy it to post it elsewhere. The website displays a list of the recently shortened ULRs and the most popular BCH.gg links.

Bitcoin.com is a major source of information about all things Bitcoin Cash. On our news page, News.Bitcoin.com, you’ll find many posts you may want to share with other BCH fans, including articles covering the latest developments related to Bitcoin Cash including new apps and services facilitating the use of BCH.

Do you know or use any other crypto-related platforms to shorten links? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Wallet and Card App Crypto.com Adds Bitcoin Cash Support

Wallet and Card App Crypto.com Adds Bitcoin Cash Support

Prepaid, debit and credit cards backed by digital assets are a great way to spend your coins, given that it will take time for retailers to transition to accepting direct cryptocurrency payments. One such card, offered by Crypto.com, has just opened up to bitcoin cash users.

Also Read: How to Easily Convert Funds From BTC to BCH

Crypto.com Adds Bitcoin Cash Support

Hong Kong headquartered payments and cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com announced on Wednesday May 29 that it has added support for bitcoin cash (BCH) to its wallet and card app. This means that users can now buy BCH from the service with credit card and bank transfer both available for funding.

The company explained that, as it also offers the MCO Visa card, this move adds additional utility to BCH as users can now easily convert digital funds into fiat currencies and spend them at over 40 million merchants supporting the network around the world.

Wallet and Card App Crypto.com Adds Bitcoin Cash Support

Bitcoin cash is the 21st digital asset to be added to the platform, joining other popular cryptocurrencies and stablecoins such as BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP, TUSD, and PAX, as well as the company’s own MCO and CRO tokens. Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com said: “We’re committed to providing complete selection of all major digital assets and empowering our customers to purchase it at true cost without fees or markups.”

Accelerating the World’s Transition to Cryptocurrency

Crypto.com was founded in 2016 and launched an initial coin offering (ICO) in May 2017 after a year working on its offering in stealth development mode. The payments and card provider, formerly known as Monaco, today reports that it employs more than 120 people.

Wallet and Card App Crypto.com Adds Bitcoin Cash Support

The company has announced it started shipping the MCO Visa card to customers in Singapore in October 2018. The following month it was also revealed that the cards will be issued in the U.S. through a partnership between its Florida-based affiliate Foris Inc. and Metropolitan Commercial Bank, New York. The cards, which have no annual, monthly or ATM withdrawal fees, can be ordered from the app.

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PR: True Flip’s Pioneering Crypto Lottery Will Acquire a Cross-Platform Jackpot

True Flip’s Pioneering Crypto Lottery Will Acquire a Cross-Platform Jackpot

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Massively updated, and keeping its remarkable fairness check feature, Flip’s Star will open up to True Flip’s partner network later this year. Meanwhile the game bolsters the evolving loyalty system at Trueflip.io, the company’s playground.

The next incarnation of Flip’s Star is built around its progressive Jackpot, worth 50 BTC on launch, and going cross-platform in late 2019. Given its friendly interface, the game appeals with its simplicity, uncommon for blockchain apps.

Draws take place every Sunday around 18:00 UTC, when a genuine algorithm by True Flip extracts a winning sequence from a newly-generated, thus unpredictable, Bitcoin block hash. The concept enables a one-click fairness check on the site.

With bulk discounts of up to 75%, tickets are now in stock for registered players at https://star.trueflip.io/. Flip’s Star will also grant tickets for points earned while playing on Trueflip.io.

“Flip’s Star has ensured our successful business launch, and passed 590 daily draws, bringing lots of joy to numerous lucky players. After months of refactoring, the game is back in service, massively updated in core, with more features and a whole new role in our ecosystem.” – said Konstantin Katsev, CMO of True Flip.

True Flip has also withdrawn another blockchain-utilizing lottery, Rapid to the Moon, to face similar updates. The instant drawing game will return to the company’s b2b and b2c portfolios before the end of the year.

About True Flip

True Flip is an iGaming provider that has released multiple games, with more in development. The games combine unique storylines with authentic visuals and offer varied gameplay and risk levels. The products are designed for easy business-to-business integrations and a follow-on service.

Trueflip.io is a casino brand based on deep gamification and hosting hundreds titles from top-tier providers. Targeting a wide range of players, Trueflip.io is an online amusement park backed with a growing fantasy universe to host tournaments, bonuses and promotions. Trueflip.io was also among the pioneers in bringing Blockchain technology to the mass iGaming market.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: Bitcoin Could See Continued Growth if Support Holds

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Summary:

  1. Bitcoin is currently perched between a well-defined band of prices outlined on both the weekly and monthly timeframes.
  2. As we float between the weekly/monthly horizontals, volume is beginning to diminish on both the supply and the demand sides. However, what little supply has surfaced has appeared to be absorbed. If we can maintain support on our weekly $8,200 level, we can expect to see the market push to test the upper boundaries of the resistance in the $9,200 to $9,500 range.
  3. However, if support does not hold and we manage to fall through, we can expect to see a much deeper test and potentially revisit the $6,400 to $6,800 range.

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BlockFi Adds Gemini Dollar Stablecoin Support

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Crypto lender BlockFi is rolling out support for the gemini dollar (GUSD) stablecoin, claiming an expected initial annual percentage yield (APY) of 6.2 percent for non-U.S. customers.

Founded in late 2017, BlockFi is a U.S.-based startup company that issues loans backed by various cryptocurrencies to its users. This practice allows users to generate cash flow without having to permanently sell off particular cryptocurrencies. With the service, investors collateralize the loans with their cryptocurrency holdings and earn interest on these loans.

BlockFi’s recent integration of GUSD is an extension of its already working relationship with Gemini’s services.

“We’ve been working with Gemini as a partner for their custody solution for close to two years,” BlockFi’s founder and CEO Mark Prince told Bitcoin Magazine. “When they launched Gemini Dollar we were immediately interested in bringing it onto the BlockFi platform. The integration process was relatively easy to set up into our dashboard flow.”

Starting with bitcoin and ether, BlockFi has been working to expand its repertoire of available crypto assets for quite some time. Declaring support for litecoin in April 2018, the company also announced its intention to add GUSD to the lineup at the time.

Prince added that this expansion accomplishes two major goals for the future of BlockFi itself.

“The first is as a diversifier of our lending capital which could reduce USD borrowing rates for our clients,” he explained. “The second is that it creates an opportunity for us to work with clients who don’t own crypto yet, but are interested in earning dollar denominated interest from a U.S.-based fintech company.”

Prince suggested that customers “might see bitcoin or other crypto assets being used as ramps into a digital dollar financial ecosystem” if a strong enough demand for the practice materializes.

He also noted that the biggest challenge BlockFi faced with this integration was related to regulation and where GUSD or other stablecoins fit into existing U.S. regulatory frameworks.

“As a result,” he said, “we are not making GUSD in the interest account available in the U.S. market at launch, but expect to have it available in the U.S. before the end of the year.”

In the future, Prince said that the company plans to rollout support for other stablecoins and expects “a variety of financial and payment applications to leverage them.” BlockFi is “very bullish on stablecoins in general and especially reputable, dollar-backed stablecoins like GUSD,” Prince concluded.

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Chinese Listed Companies and Bitcoin Mining: Partner or Predator?

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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng.

Some Chinese listed companies have jumped on the bandwagon of bitcoin mining following the bitcoin bull run throughout 2017, either under the guise of cloud computing or providing mining hosting services, in an effort to bypass regulations considering the country’s tough stance on bitcoin.

A recent report indicating that Huatie HengAn, a subsidiary of Chinese publicly listed company Huatie, lost over $23 million for its secret bitcoin mining business has caused quite a stir among investors and triggered investigations from regulators.

In this follow-up report, it’s apparent that more listed companies in China have been involved in cryptocurrency mining, though the country is considering a ban on this “wasteful” activity.

Per a prospectus from leading bitcoin mining machine manufacturer Ebang, its second largest customer, an anonymous Xinjiang-based company, is very likely to be the aforementioned Huatie HengAn, as it fits all the description shown in the prospectus. It is worth noting that its largest client, Beijing Xincailiang Tech, is a subsidiary of Shenzhen-listed technical company Wholeasy. The firm contributed 17.7 percent of Ebang’s miner sales for the first half of 2018.

Chinese Listed Companies in Bitcoin Mining Overseas: Partner or Predator?

Varied from Huatie HengAn, who apparently secretly mined bitcoin in 2018 under the guise of cloud computing, Xincailiang has built crypto mining farms overseas and offers miner host services. But public information shows Xincailiang is mainly engaged in case planning and big data traffic distribution in the field of mobile games in China.

Partner?

In August 2018, Wholeasy released an announcement that Mobcolor Technologies USA LLC, a subsidiary of Xincailiang, had reached a cooperation with California power supplier 3G Venture LLC and Singapore-based enterprise Vast Day Industry Trade Company PTE.Limited (VDIT) to “construct [a] mining center for digital cloud computing.”

According to the agreement, 3G Venture could offer 100,000 square feet for Mobcolor with a rental cost of $18 million per year and 90 MW of power capacity at $0.055/kWh, and Mobcolor’s Chinese parent company bought 65,000 mining rigs from Ebang and then resold them to VDIT who entrusted the mining operation to Mobcolor. The Chinese company’s U.S. subsidiary charged VDIT $0.075/kWh and a $24 million rental fee per year.

Having jumped on the bitcoin mining bandwagon amid the sluggish market in 2018, the company seems quite confident about the prospect of cryptomining.

Predator?

Indeed, Wholeasy is not the only Chinese listed company looking to build mines overseas.

“A plurality of bitcoin mining farms in Iran and the Middle East are run by a company named RHY, which is a NEEQ-listed Chinese company,” a miner named Ma Jingguo said.

According to its official website, RHY is a “large-scale blockchain mine.” It claims to be the largest mining company in the world, having a power supply capacity of 450 MW which could power up to 300,000 miners at the same time.

Chinese Listed Companies in Bitcoin Mining Overseas: Partner or Predator?

“In 2016, the company has invested in the construction of large-scale substations and natural gas power stations in energy-rich countries dominated by the Middle East,” Ma said. “It has become the core blockchain data center with the most competitive electricity rates in the industry. As the majority of its mines are located in Iran, #MininginIran was first hyped by the company.”

It is tough for Chinese companies to conduct bitcoin mining operations both at home and abroad, but they have advantages in capital, talent and other resources over bitcoin mining startups. Their only concern is to be compliant. In such a context, going overseas is a possible solution for them.

Considering the country is tightening its grip on cryptocurrency, these ambitious companies are making big investments overseas in bitcoin mining, a process they believe could secure better returns than crypto pump-and-dump ploys. Will they become big players in the crypto industry in the following years?

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Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems

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About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees. The service, developed by Lightning Labs developers Alex Bosworth and Bryan Vu, was created to help users manage their liquidity.

The Loop service, says Bosworth, is helpful for managing liquidity because “it sidesteps the liquidity problem for Lightning, which is that you can’t do flow rebalancing. If you run out of channel capacity in one direction, there’s no possibility that you can get more in a totally self contained, only-Lightning world. You need to go outside in order to rebalance.”

So, the natural step for users to mitigate this problem today is to perform a swap, which occurs on-chain and thus requires a transaction fee — and transaction fees on the Bitcoin blockchain can be quite substantial. With the alpha version of Loop available to the public, Bosworth and Lightning Labs had to think about how to make managing liquidity as efficient as possible.

Making Liquidity More Efficient

To address this issue, Bosworth developed a concept called “Hyperloop” as a next step toward solving this problem. Hyperloop is a concept that aggregates swaps so that individual transactions don’t occur on-chain with individualized signatures and outputs. Hyperloop batches inputs together using a method called signature aggregation.

“With signature aggregation, if you can manage to get a bunch of people all together to sign cooperatively, you can take the normal signature cost of moving funds on-chain from however many parties there are on-chain to one signature. I don’t think there’s any limitation to that.”

While this saves costs, one of the requirements is cooperation between many parties over a short period of time, which can be more challenging than it sounds.

Coordinating a Hyperloop Transaction

The Hyperloop concept mediates coordination between so many parties by essentially creating a limited-time, multiparty channel for all parties to join. So, in practice, if there were a lot of users who needed inbound liquidity, a “Loop Out” event would be created using Lightning Loop.

Lightning Loop also acts as a coordinator for these multiparty events, which solves the problem of dealing with malicious actors who might join these events with the intent to mess them up. And it does all of this in a noncustodial fashion.

While Hyperloop offers significant savings for batching the input side of multiple transactions, another big advantage of Hyperloop is savings on output scripts. “The output script, at a minimal level, is only 30 bytes,” says Bosworth. “A normal, on-chain swap is around 300 bytes. So, Hyperloop offers at least 10 times’ savings here.”

Hyperloop also allows for aggregation off-chain as well. For example, if a user has two channels, both 0.1 BTC, and wants to change the balance so that both 0.1 BTC are on the same side, they could ] accomplished this today with two swaps, resulting in two on-chain transactions. This issue of funds sitting on two separate channels can be solved through a proposal called Atomic Multipath Payments (AMPs). Without getting too technical, AMPs essentially allow a user to receive multiple transactions as if they were one, reducing the on-chain cost of sending multiple transactions to the same party.

According to Bosworth, there are two ways to approach AMPs. “Ideally it will be something that we allow with improved signatures like Schnorr, but we also have another way we can do it in the short term called ‘base AMPs,’ and this works really well with Loop.”

As such, base AMPs will be used in Hyperloop as well.

How AMPs Will Benefit Hyperloop

AMPs will benefit individual users who have many open channels. For example, if a user has 100 channels, Hyperloop can be split up between all those channels and wait for all those payments to come through before the swap is executed.

This offers a significant cost savings to another concept called “splicing,” which allows for an on-chain payment (resulting in an on-chain fee) out of a channel without requiring that the channel itself be closed. In this specific use case, a base AMP makes a lot more sense.

Upcoming developments in Bitcoin are a big consideration for all of this tech. Specifically, MuSig, a new multisignature standard that serves as a building block for technologies like Taproot, is the key to achieving these huge savings. Once Schnorr and Taproot are implemented into Bitcoin, MuSig, according to Bosworth, will be helpful in providing a protocol for safe signature aggregation.

As well, it is worth noting that Lighting Labs has also been working on signature aggregation for ECDSA, in case MuSig takes longer to implement than expected.

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Bullish on Bitcoin, Bearish on Trade Relations With Jeffrey Tucker

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Dave and Grahm are back with news and price narratives around 2019’s top-performing financial asset. This week’s stories include mainstream media’s Bitcoin FOMO, the real story of Laszlo Hanyecz (the guy behind Bitcoin Pizza Day), Dutch authorities taking down Bestmixer, Tether being partially backed by bitcoin and what Libertarian politician Ron Paul thinks about the U.S. dollar.

Also in this episode, the hosts interview Jeffery Tucker, editorial director of the American Institute of Economic Research, about how the U.S./China trade conflict might be affecting the bitcoin price.

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