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The Human Rights Foundation Awards Grants to Three More Bitcoin Projects

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is issuing grants to three more Bitcoin developers. JoinInbox creator Openoms, Zeus creator Evan Kaloudis and Fully Noded creator Fontaine will be gifted 1 bitcoin each, worth over $11,000 at the time of writing, making for a total of over $33,000. This marks the second round of grants from the Bitcoin Development Fund, HRF’s new fund to support Bitcoin projects. “HRF decided to acknowledge and support these three developers and their projects because they are all focusing on making Bitcoin technology more accessible. Usability is

2021-ben hat új bankkal bővül a Google Pay tábora

Noha a legtöbb bankszámla tulajdonos valószínűleg már nagyon kevés papíralapú csekket ír, azonban a bankszámlák kezelésének továbbra is ez a kulcsa. Ugyanis ezekhez a bankszámlákhoz általában hitelkártyák vannak rendelve. Ma már számos bankkártyát össze lehet kapcsolni egy okostelefonnal vagy okosórával a digitális fizetéshez, a Google azonban felismert egy újabb lehetőséget a terület kiaknázására. Kihagyja a közvetítőt és a felhasználó közvetlenül a Google Pay alkalmazás szolgáltatásán keresztül nyithat bankszámlát és kezelheti megtakarításait. Tavaly novemberben tette lehetővé a Google az FDIC által támogatott bankokkal együtt, hogy az ügyfelek közvetlenül a platformon keresztül

UBS Expects Gold to Hit $2,000; What Does It Mean for Bitcoin?

UBS Global predicts that gold would climb to $2,000, at least by September, just as the metal’s correlation with Bitcoin reaches a new high. Wayne Gordan, executive director of Commodities and Forex at UBS, projected negative US real yields as the core reason behind the increasing bids for gold. The other key point, Mr. Gordon stated, is the ongoing plunge in the US dollar. Bitcoin traders should brace for a decent upside momentum led by the gold market. It is because of the increasing realized correlation between the two assets.

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are

Ledger Client Details Leaked | Bitcoin News Summary Aug 3, 2020

 Some alarming news for Ledger hardware wallet users was announced. The company’s internal records were breached, revealing customer details which include up to a million email addresses. A further 9,500 customers had their full names, numbers, and addresses leaked. While funds secured by Ledger devices are still safe, any users who got an email from the company saying they were affected should be on guard against phishing or even real-world attacks. The perpetrators of last week’s high profile Twitter hack, in which accounts of various celebrities and leaders were

Crypto As Payment Means Outlawed In Russia After Putin Law Signing

Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, has recently signed a new law. This law will officially prohibit the usage of cryptocurrencies in order to facilitate payment within the country, and will be in effect by 2021. At the same time as this, Russia’s government has recently begun to utilize blockchain technology in order to facilitate its constitutional amendment Crypto Payments Illegal For Russia Come 2021 RIA, a local news outlet, went into detail on Friday about the matter. RIA explained that President Putin’s bill he just signed will see to

Putin Outlaws Crypto as a Payment Means in Russia

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has signed a new law that will prohibit the use of cryptocurrency as a payment means in the country by 2021. Meanwhile, the Russian government recently deployed blockchain technology for its constitutional amendment.Crypto as Payment to Become Illegal in 2021According to a report by local news outlet RIA on Friday (July 31, 2020), the bill signed by President Putin will prevent citizens from using crypto to pay for goods and services in Russia. The bill will, however, enable transactions via digital financial assets (DFA).Also, government

Will Video Game Crypto Be the Catalyst for Adoption?

-More than one-third of humanity will play video games by the end of 2021. -A number of platforms provide blockchain opportunities not found in traditional gaming. -After several years of failures, blockchain adoption may finally be here. The video game industry may be the natural catalyst to bring blockchain technology into the mainstream. Most experiments have failed so far, but is that about to change? After years of trial and error with Bitcoin, some video game platforms are finding a way to exploit distributed ledger technology. Is humanity witnessing the

3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Transactions Are Slow

Aug 01, 2020 at 08:27 // News Despite Bitcoin offering unprecedented decentralization and security, its network has one significant flow, namely, the transaction speed. A single transaction processing can take up to 10 minutes. But why is this happening? To understand why bitcoin transactions sometimes take so much time to confirm, it is essential to first understand how they are verified. Delving into the essence Once a transaction is created, a transaction message is sent to the Bitcoin blockchain and passed around all the nodes available on the network. This