20 Blockchain Surveillance Firms Monitor Crypto Networks, But Some Apps Show Inaccuracies
During the last few years, blockchain surveillance has increased a great deal and in the early days around 2013-14, there were only a handful of firms. Now there are more than 20 blockchain analysis companies that monitor addresses, transactions, and making sure addresses are AML/CFT compliant as well. The Rise of Blockchain Analysis Ventures In the early days before 2013-14, bitcoiners and cryptocurrency users didn’t really...
How Investors Are Presented With Bitcoin: ‘A New Decentralized Monetary Asset, Akin to Gold’
Bitcoin (BTC) is a compelling investment case “for patient, long-term investors” willing to spend the time to understand the top cryptocurrency, a new paper by Paradigm co-founder managing partner Matt Huang notes. The crypto entrepreneur places BTC besides gold, as a go-to store of value, amid unprecedented stimulus spending by governments during the Covid-19 crisis. “Bitcoin is likely to earn a place alongside gold...
Crypto Derivatives Exchange FTX Launches Bitcoin Hashrate Futures
On Friday, cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX launched a hashrate futures tool that allows Bitcoin (BTC) miners to hedge against mining difficulty risk. Hashrate, the amount of processing power dedicated to a Bitcoin network at a given time, determines the strength and security of the network. FTX leverages mining difficulty, that is, the complexity of solving equations that validate bitcoin transactions. According to the...
Bitcoin Cash Upgrade Complete: 3 New Features Added to Consensus Rules
Today, at precisely 9 a.m. ET on May 15, 2020, the Bitcoin Cash network completed another upgrade adding a few new features to the blockchain. The latest upgrade comes with new opcode support, a chain limit extension, and the improved counting of signature operations using the new “Sigchecks” implementation. A Number of Blocks Have Been Mined Under New Consensus Rules Every six months, the Bitcoin Cash network upgrades,...
DISH Sues Pirate IPTV Suppliers Who Sold Through Amazon and Walmart
Given the huge number of pirate IPTV providers, sellers and resellers operating all around the world today, shutting them all down must seem like an impossible dream for copyright holders. Nevertheless, the MPA, anti-piracy coalition ACE, plus companies like DISH Network persist in their quest, targeting operators large and small in the hope that a combination of lawsuits and threats will eventually prove a suitable deterrent. This...
