Bitcoin’s Origins & The Genesis Blockade

In this talk, Andreas Antonopoulos recounts the origins of Bitcoin and the meaning of the message embedded forever in its genesis block. He also speaks about what happens when money stops working and why censorship resistance was one of Bitcoin’s most valuable characteristics from the start.

https://youtu.be/cagoyF3WePo

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They Are Not Visible, but They Are There: What Will Masked Smart Contracts Look like on the Bitcoin Blockchain?

At the last Scaling Bitcoin conference in Stanford, which took place in November 2017, the head of Blockstream research, Andrew Poelstra, described the concept of “noscriptless noscripts” that will relieve the Bitcoin blockchain, removing smart contracts from it and executing them on the principle of (almost) normal transactions. This article will delve into how it will all work.

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Past Week in Crypto: What Was It Like?

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🇭🇰 According to a source familiar with the matter, Bitfinex has moved its business to a Hong Kong-based bank.
via The Block

🇰🇷 Cryptocurrency exchange BTCC that previously operated in China is set to launch trading services in South Korea soon.
via Cointelegraph

🇲🇹 Zebpay has set up operations in Malta after suspending activity in India.
via Bitcoin.com

🇮🇳 It may soon be deemed illegal to hold crypto assets that are not approved by the government in India.
via ccn

✅ Coinbase has enabled full trading in 0x Protocol token (ZRX) for its retail investors.
via CoinDesk

Below is that very report prepared by the Wall Street Journal—alleging that $88.6 million in fraudulently obtained funds had been funnelled through 46 crypto exchanges—that we mentioned earlier.

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Binance is working with Chainalysis to implement a new global compliance solution. Binance’s chief financial officer said that he hopes the move will “inspire” the crypto industry to take AML and ATF measures seriously.

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Public Keys vs. Addresses

What is the difference between public keys and addresses? How are new addresses generated? How are change addresses generated? Why have two outputs? Do you still pay fees if you are sending Bitcoin to new addresses in your own wallet?

https://youtu.be/8es3qQWkEiU

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Will Ripple Become the Official Cryptocurrency of the Olympic Games in Tokyo?

We talk a lot about blockchain and how the distributed ledger technology can change the world, make society more comfortable, and promote fairness. But cryptocurrencies (although thanks to the most popular of them everybody learned about blockchain) are associated even by crypto enthusiasts primarily with the ambiguous attitude of governments, vulnerabilities, hacker attacks, and the prospects of losing savings. Investors in cryptocurrencies appear to be such risky players of an incomprehensible and semi-legal market. No one dared to expand the narrow scope of digital money to bring it to a new global level. Too early? Not really.

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One After the Other: How Binance Invests in Blockchain Projects

On October 8, Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, stated on its blog that the listing fee for new coins would be called “donation” and transferred to charity, which is associated with financial assistance in developing blockchain startups. This is not the only case when the Chinese crypto platform allocated its assets to technology development. What are the goals that Binance pursues by doing so?

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📈 The average daily trading volume (ADV) of Bitcoin futures has increased by 41 percent in Q3 over Q2 on the CME.
via The Block

💵 Winkelvoss’s Gemini stablecoin (GUSD) trading volume doubled on one of the top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges as Tether (USDT) faced trouble.
via CoinDesk

🔍 Cryptocurrency exchange Binance and blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis have joined forces to implement a compliance solution for trading operations.
via Bitcoin.com

🤝 TRON and China’s Internet search giant Baidu will cooperate on cloud computing resources.
via ccn

📄 According to the World Payments Report 2018, distributed ledger technology (DLT) is currently failing to meet financial market demands.
via Cointelegraph

Here’s who some of the biggest crypto firms are banking with. Source

Sidechains and Federated Consensus

What are sidechains? What is Liquid and what are the use cases of sidechains? What are the differences to the Lightning Network? What is Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance? What are issues with these federated models? Find out below.

https://youtu.be/mHLgpX4VYBQ

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In pursuit of easy and fast profits, some miners try to minimize their costs by all means available, thereby obtaining the greatest profit. One of these methods has long been known as the theft of electricity. Is the game worth it if for a dubious benefit you will have to pay a fine several times higher than the income from mining? How can one end up on the prosecution stand for illegal mining of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies?

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After three years of development, the Liquid technology is ready for commercial use. Now, 23 famous cryptocurrency companies will be able to launch and test it, as their total transaction volume accounts for more than 50 percent of all completed transactions.

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🤝 Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for cryptocurrency companies has more than doubled in the past year.
via The Block

💵 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is seeking to list more stablecoins.
via CoinDesk

🌍 According to a recent report by French banking group BNB Paribas and IT company Capgemini, cryptocurrencies “are experiencing a boom, driven by developing markets,” including Africa.
via Bitcoin.com

🖊 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with Ripple and Coil to implement the Interledger Protocol and explore ways Mojaloop can support pro-poor payment systems.
via ccn

🦅 A New York federal court has ruled to charge a denominated Bitcoin hedge fund GBI and its CEO with fraud.
via Cointelegraph

Goldman Sachs and Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Ventures invested USD 15 million into the cryptocurrency custody service provider BitGo.

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The crypto investors map. Source

Mixing Services

How do mixing services work? What are CoinJoin transactions? How much could they improve privacy or anonymity in Bitcoin?

https://youtu.be/rKoMvOH4zoY

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There are few analogies between the hearings in the U.S. Senate and no rule fighting, but what happened on October 11, 2018, in the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development, was very much like a spectacular sporting event.

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In recent years, many crypto enthusiasts, economists, and opinion leaders have been making rather skeptical, and sometimes even mocking statements about cryptocurrencies. On the other hand, a whole sect was born among the supporters of Bitcoin, whose members blindly believe in their own made-up ideals. How to maintain balance?

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New bonuses have arrived!

We held a negotiation round with funds and selected a short list of those with whom we will work. As of today, funds have applied for requesting almost 1 000 BTC worth of BIP.

We will allow them to buy in starting October 25, with no bonuses or any other special conditions, which means 100 000 BIP at 1 BTC.

To provide our faithful friends—members of our network—with an additional opportunity, we decided to introduce a 20-percent bonus on all balance replenishments made starting October 19, 21:00 up until October 31, 18:10 (UTC).

We believe that real people are more important than large funds as they create a network effect by exchanging coins with one another.

What bonuses can you receive before the Campaign ends?
• 10% on all BIPs your friends request using your invite link
• 100 BIP for each of your friends signing up and passing the KYC check
• Bonuses offered by pools (if you are a member of one of them)
• 50% on all BIPs you request, provided you have contributed significantly to the Minter project promotion

Once the Campaign has finished, MBank will start operating right away (https://news.1rj.ru/str/MinterTeam/39)!