Author: Kai Sedgwick

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The Bitcoin Price Equivalence Shows What “Cheap” Cryptocurrencies Are Really Worth

The Bitcoin Price Equivalence Shows What “Cheap” Cryptocurrencies Are Really WorthThere’s been a lot of talk lately about market capitalization and circulating supply. As sub-$1 altcoins have shot up in price, some new investors have been making noises about their anointed coin being worth more than bitcoin one day. What these new entrants fail to take into account is digital scarcity: the notion that assets […]

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January 9, 2018 0

Crypto Card Issuers Seek Solutions in the Wake of a European Ban

Crypto Card Issuers Seek Solutions in the Wake of a European BanIntervention by Visa spelled an end to European crypto debit cards for the majority of customers on Thursday. Around a dozen crypto companies were affected by the shutdown, which instantly wiped out their services across Europe. Issuers such as Bitwala, Tenx, Bitpay, and Xapo were left high and dry after a Visa subsidiary stopped processing […]

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January 8, 2018 0

Visa Veto Leaves Several European Cryptocurrency Cards Locked Out

Visa Veto Leaves Several European Cryptocurrency Cards Locked OutEuropean cryptocurrency card holders are awakening to discover that their plastic is now worthless. A Visa-led crackdown has seen several crypto card issuers forced to call an end to their services across Europe. Visa subsidiary Wavecrest is being blamed for the withdrawal of service, which affects scores of crypto card issuers including Bitwala, Tenx, Bitpay, […]

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January 5, 2018 0

Ripple Gateways Can Freeze Users’ Funds at Any Time

Ripple Gateways Can Freeze Users’ Funds at Any TimeRipple has been the talk of the town lately thanks to its rocketing value and growing market capitalization that’s making eyes at bitcoin. $1,000 of XRP bought a year ago would be worth half a million dollars today. But away from the price action, there’s an issue bugging ripple that just won’t go away. It’s […]

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January 4, 2018 1

Statistical Analysis Reveals Ties That Bind the Cryptocurrency Markets

Statistical Analysis Reveals the Ties That Bind Cryptocurrency MarketsPredicting the price movements of cryptocurrencies is a dark art that combines technical and fundamental analysis with an understanding of human psychology. A recent analysis dispels a little of that darkness by revealing the interdependence of altcoins. Its findings? When altcoins fall, they often fall in unison. Also read: Peter Thiel, Bitcoin Astronaut, Moves Markets with […]

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January 4, 2018 0

Bitcoin Fees Are Falling Amidst Greater Segwit Adoption

Bitcoin Fees Are Falling Amidst Greater Segwit AdoptionTransaction fees, a bugbear for many in the bitcoin community, are on their way down. Spiraling fees were a contentious issue that reached fever pitch in the twilight of 2017. But with the dawn of a new year, bitcoin has been blessed with reduced fees, set against a backdrop of increased Segwit adoption. Also read: […]

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January 3, 2018 0

Community-Focused Exchanges with Proprietary Tokens Are Prospering

Community-Focused Exchanges with Proprietary Tokens Are Prospering“Community” is a word that is synonymous with cryptocurrency projects, but aside expressing a desire to develop a strong user base, what does it actually mean? For exchanges, having a community-oriented model means consulting customers on new tokens, incentivizing participation, and creating a revenue-sharing system. Binance and Kucoin are two platforms that have tried this […]

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January 3, 2018 0

New Code Release Means Bitcoin Cash Addresses Are Just Around the Corner

New Code Release Means Bitcoin Cash Addresses Are Just Around the CornerThe bitcoin cash community moved one step closer to having their own address format today with the release of Bitcoin ABC 0.16.2. The full node implementation of BCH includes a switch to a proprietary address format to distinguish it from bitcoin core. It is hoped that this will eliminate issues of BCH being sent to […]

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January 3, 2018 0

The Greatest Bitcoin Memes of 2017

The Greatest Bitcoin Memes of 20172017 will go down as the year that everyone in bitcoin got rich, not on cryptocurrencies, but on the rich memes that were in such plentiful supply. If there was one upside to all the in-fighting, name-calling, and mud-slinging, it was the dank memes that were spawned. News.Bitcoin.com’s resident memologists have rounded up a few […]

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December 29, 2017 0

Seven Deadly Trading Mistakes Every Rookie Makes

Seven Deadly Trading Mistakes That Every Rookie MakesSo you’ve created a Coinbase account, bought your first fraction of a bitcoin and followed up with half a litecoin. You’re now ready to become a cryptocurrency trader. You fire the lot over to an exchange where the first coin you purchase shoots up by 10% before you sell, smug in the knowledge that you’ve […]

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December 28, 2017 0