Infographic: Bitcoin Popularity Worldwide
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Infographic: Comparing Altcoins
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Infographic: What gives Bitcoin value?
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Infographic: Why are Bitcoin transactions irreversible?
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HolyTransaction adds Ethereum
HolyTransaction is excited to announce support for a new cryptocurrency, as well as a renewed focus on our international customers. The last cryptocurrency that we added was Gridcoin, and now we have added Ethereum’s crypto fuel – Ether.
Ethereum is one of the most interesting decentralized projects that have been released in Bitcoin’s wake and we support its goals. Smart contracts can’t come soon enough!
Now, with HolyTransaction, you have:
– Send and receive Ether
– Ethereum server side wallet creation and transaction signing
– Set OTP for additional protection
About Ethereum
Ethereum is a decentralized platform that users can use to run smart contracts. Smart contracts are applications that run exactly as programmed (with a Turing complete language) without the possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or 3rd party meddling. The Ethereum platform uses Ether as its “crypto-fuel.”
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Infographic: Why are transaction fees necessary when sending Bitcoin?
Why are transaction fees necessary when sending Bitcoin?
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Australia investigating banks for anti-competitive behavior when closing Bitcoin company accounts
Australian authorities are looking into the bank account closures of several Bitcoin companies over the last few years. Specifically, the investigation is looking at anti-competitive behavior. Over the last year, bank actions have increasingly embraced blockchain technology instead of shunning it in the form of bank account closures. Though this type of account closure, for simply being associated with Bitcoin, is a common occurence in the United States, China, and some European countries as well, the Australian authorities are the first to look into at scale – a harrowing victory for those using blockchain technology. The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman, Rod Sims, told the Australian Financial Review:”We are asking the banks why they acted as they did and what contact there was between them.“If ground reports from major Bitcoin companies such as BTC-e and OKCoin, that lost their accounts at the National Australia Bank, are to be believed, the contact was sparse and uninformative. Sims confirmed that the investigation had been ongoing for some time. Australian Senator Matthew Canavan also commented on the investigation:
“We have strong laws against one business obstructing another business competing against it. These laws are even tougher for those companies that have the privileged position of a significant market share. Our banks wield great influence in the market and they have a great responsibility under our laws to not misuse that position. I am not sure if that has happened in this instance but there is no doubt that digital currencies do pose a threat to business of banks.”
Australian Senate that Might Actually Understand Bitcoin and its Promise
A Labor Party Senator, Sam Dastyari, was not surprised to hear about the ACCC investigation. He had previously chaired the Senate investigation into digital currencies. At this time, banks such as the National Australia Bank and other similarly sized institutions around the world are delving into blockchain technology. If anything, this is a clear indication that the swift actions of last year, where both domestic and international Bitcoin companies lost their accounts at Australian banks, were anti-competitive in spirit. Even without the emerging facts regarding bank’s research, investment, and involvement with blockchain projects, the majority of domestic companies brought down by Australian bank action were providing services that were in essence competing with banks.Australia has a large immigrant population from South East Asia that sends remittances back home. Some of the largest Bitcoin remittance companies are based in South East Asia in countries like the Phillipines or India. In Indonesia, Bitcoin is buyable at any of ten thousand plus IndoMaret stores. Australia now seems aptly prepared to benefit from the coming Bitcoin technology boom (bubble as called by some). Once the investigation is over, and banks are 100% clear on what not to do to Bitcoin companies, expect to see more Bitcoin companies return to Australia.
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Infographic: Why Is Decentralized Currency Better?
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Microsoft to Sponsor the Ethereum DΞVCON1 Conference
“DΞVCON1 is very excited to work with Microsoft and we look forward to having them in London.”Microsoft’s head of US Technology Financial Services, Marley Gray, explained more specifically why Microsoft had taken an interest in this international and decentralized technology event:“Microsoft is excited to sponsor and attend Ethereum’s DevCon1. We find the Ethereum blockchain incredibly powerful and look forward to collaborating within the Ethereum Community. We see a future where the combination of Microsoft Azure and Ethereum can enable new innovative platforms like Blockchain-as-a-Service. This will serve as an inflection point to bring blockchain technology to enterprise clientele”.
Ethereum DevCon1 Is Bringing Interesting Companies and People Together… For a Better FutureAlready, it has been confirmed that not only will Microsoft be in attendance, but so will Nick Szabo. That is actually no surprise given that Szabo coined the term “smart contract” many many years ago and has become increasingly vocal on the internet as his pet idea has started to come to fruition. Smart contracts are a large part of Ethereum’s mainstream appeal, though the concept is still in the process of gaining momentum. The future prospects of robots and computers replacing humans for certain types of jobs has always been on the fringe of human imagination. The more you think about smart contracts, the more you realize that such a futuristic world couldn’t exist in a stable state without something like smart contracts. As panelists at the Money20/20 conference stated:
“Cryptocurrency is the most natural way for machines to pay machines.”
Bitcoin-inspired blockchain technology, of which Ethereum definitely is, has seen a lot of validation lately. Other Bitcoin-inspired blockchain technology like BitShares is also gaining traction, though not in the form of Microsoft sponsorships. Besides the fundraising and actual release of Ethereum’s Frontier alpha and a shaky first few days, the formation of a conference is a milestone that most “altchains” never achieve – not that there was any doubt that Ethereum would make it this far, anyways. After all, even Imogen Heap has even started using Ethereum, why wouldn’t Microsoft be next?
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BitShares 2.0 – Will Users and Banks Be Using Graphene in the Future?
Graphene, the super material that our computer chips might be made of soon, still isn’t very well known. However, with BitShares 2.0 being called Graphene, the word might become a stable part of your lexicon soon. The BitShares 2.0 has been long anticipated by both the BitShares and cryptocurrency communities. Since its announcement earlier this summer, BitShares has started to restructure themselves in preparation for BitShares 2.0. Though they are adding a lot of functionality, the core stake distribution is not changing at all. In testing, they have been able to sustain 3000+ tx per 3sec block, compared to the 7 transactions per second that the Bitcoin network is theoretically limited to. To reach even larger network sizes, Graphene is tapping into the same future expectations that Bitcoin users expect to keep their network viable: Moore’s Law. The pace of technology is such that eventually just one rented VPS will be able to handle all of the world’s financial transactions.BitShares Style Decentralization Is What Banks Need
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