One of the biggest and main markets that have benefited from the emergence of Bitcoin gambling has been online casinos. While these have existed for the better part of a decade and progressed along with many other online gambling and…
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Bitcoin Starts of 2019 with Sharp Rise in Price
Article by Billy Bambrough Bitcoin, which many investors and traders are hoping is going to begin 2019 with a bang, has leaped sharply over the last 24 hours, adding some 6% and climbing above the psychological $4,000 mark for the first time this year.…
2019 Outlook: Top 5 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash & EOS
Article by Valdrin Tahiri Blokt Top 5 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap 2018 for many, was marked by the almost year-long decline in cryptocurrency prices. However, those who work actively in the crypto industry were mostly upbeat and believe that real progress…
How to Last the Crypto Winter? Seek Simplicity, Manage Complexity
Jake Yocom-Piatt is the Project Lead for Decred, a hyper-secure, adaptable and self-funding digital currency. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. In 2018, we have seen the cryptocurrency market cap go from all-time highs in…
Resisting the Threat of Blockchain Recentralization
Chelsea Palmer is an open source educator and free agent in the cryptocurrency ecosystem who tweets (too much) at @IMmsGNU. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. I think most can agree that it’s been…
Coinbase Adds Crypto-to-Crypto Trading for Retail Customers
Coinbase users can begin trading cryptocurrencies directly with other cryptocurrencies, the exchange startup said Monday. The company is adding support for crypto-to-crypto trading for its retail customers, adding a feature that has long been available to professional cryptocurrency trading services,…
US Lawmaker Suggests ‘WallCoin’ Crypto to Fund Trump’s Mexico Border Wall
Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson thinks crowdfunding may provide a solution to the controversial proposal of building a wall on the Mexican border. And, perhaps more notably, he suggested using a cryptocurrency to do so. During an interview with NPR’s Steve…
Report: Venezuela Is Forcibly Converting Pension Balances to the Petro
Venezuela has reportedly begun converting pensioners’ monthly payments into its controversial cryptocurrency, the petro. According to the Caracas Chronicles, an English-language politics and economics blog based in the country, the government has recently been taking the bolivares (the country’s current…
2019 Will Be a Big Year for Stablecoins
Philippe Bekhazi is the CEO of XBTO Group, a cryptocurrency trading firm. — The current wave of stablecoin issuances is a result of the current bear market in underlying crypto assets, leading to upwards of 50 stablecoins on offer today.…
Why You Shouldn’t Fear the Blockchain Regulators
Kevin Werbach is a Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of “The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust,” from which this article is adapted. _______ In 2015,…