Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash
This has been one of the most controversial issues in cryptocurrency. The Bitcoin Cash Hardfork emanates from this issue of what amounts to basically a setting in a config file. The issue was real...
Monthly Archive: April 2018
Nasdaq Plans To Become Cryptocurrency Exchange
This is huge news with the CEO of Nasdaq saying they would consider becoming a cryptocurrency exchange. One caveat is that Adena Friedman said she is waiting for the market to mature. I anticipate...
BitPay Accepts Bitcoin Cash
Although we have used Bitpay I didn’t realize it was available for brick and mortar physical transactions since we’ve never done any. On that end it puzzles me how on earth anyone would ever...
Federal Reserve Says Bitcoin Cannot Replace the US Dollar
The new chief of the San Francisco branch, of the privately held, Federal Reserve Bank has stated that Bitcoin cannot, and will not ever replace the US Dollar. First of all, they are doing...
Study Shows Bitcoin Is More Centralized Than Ethereum
Here is the paradox, the study from this article claims that “Ethereum is more decentralized than Bitcoin” at the London, Genesis Conference. Then another study quoted by Coindesk from a Caribbean conference says that...
Wikileaks Shutdown by Coinbase
Apparently Julian Assange’s Wikileaks merchant account on Coinbase was shutdown. This is not at all surprising since PayPal, VISA, Mastercard and the banks did the same thing to him/them in the past. In all...
Why Hardforks In Cryptocurrency Are Bad
I’ve always felt this but hardforks are simply bad, even if in the rare case they intend to fix a problem with the original currency. Most currencies which have issues like Bitcoin are simply...
Bitcoin Private and Cloak Cryptocurrencies
There is a huge emphasis on privacy with a lot of new coins but I do feel that a lot of coins focus on a single issue and leave the overall business and usability...
Verge Coin Asks For More Money – Shady Things Coins Do
Verge Coin has faced a lot of issues lately such as a hack of their blockchain via an exploit in how it is mined. Then, recently they announced a big mystery partner but they...
Ripple Wants Government Regulation of Cryptocurrency
I have always believed regulation was inevitable and this is actually one of the reasons I invested in Ripple. It’s no surprise that they are calling for regulation as they benefit the most. As...
