The Curious Conundrum of Cooking Mama and her (Supposed) Cryptocurrency
The enjoyable little cooking game, Cooking Mama, was supposedly released and then quickly removed off…
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Altcoin season 2.0: why bitcoin has been outgunned by crypto rivals since new year
These four altcoins are the largest cryptocurrencies on the market after bitcoin, representing an aggregate US$51 billion market capitalisation (the value of each coin multiplied by the number of coins on the market). This is still fairly small compared with bitcoin’s US$178 billion market cap, but clearly the gap has been narrowing.
Blockchain’s first revolutionary product could be online ID
In an interview, PayPal’s chief executive, Dan Schulman, recently discussed the prospects for blockchain – the encrypted, decentralised…
Buyer beware: How Libra differs from Bitcoin
Facebook, the largest social network in the world, stunned the world earlier this year with the announcement of its own cryptocurrency, Libra. The launch has raised questions about the difference between Libra and existing cryptocurrencies, as well as the implications of private companies competing with sovereign countries in issuing currencies.
The answer to forecasting Bitcoin may lie in artificial intelligence
As a cryptocurrency, there is no physical form that gives Bitcoin value, so it is impossible to perform traditional fundamental analysis of the currency. Consequently, many investors track the so-called technical trading indicators (geometric patterns constructed from historical prices and trading volumes) in order to understand and predict Bitcoin’s future movement.
How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues
Nearly 170 years before the invention of Bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way…
Light Start – Mars landing today, crewed Dragon, falling Bitcoin, and The Lion King
Catch the live-stream of the latest Mars lander landing (we hope) tonight at 21:00 The latest Mars landing is going to be taking place tonight, and then starting a new series of experiments shortly after -- assuming all goes well. NASA's InSight lander is going to be touching down (hopefully in one piece) this evening,
Bitcoin at 10: Ponzi scheme or herald of a new world order? We may need another 10 years
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? It’s a decade-old question that has gotten more and more attention…
Bitcoin’s high energy consumption is a concern – but it may be a price worth paying
Bitcoin recently turned ten years old. In that time, it has proved revolutionary because it ignores…