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firemonkey
coronavirus
6y
Bat derived material for traditional chinese medicine may have caused the coronavirus pandemic
Researchers have proposed horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) as the most likely source for SARS-CoV-2 as it shares 96% of its genetic material with a known coronavirus harboured in these bats.
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climate
8y
Climategate, a critical manifesto on proposed CO2 reductions
At www.climategate.nl you can read a manifesto that is very critical about the climate agreement as agreed by Dutch politics. I broadly agree with this climate manifesto. I do think however that global
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cryptocurrencies
8y
Why is Metaverse doing so well?
About 10 months ago I discovered the cryptocurrency Metaverse(ETP). I published a post on Steemit and I bought a few ETP on Bitfinex. Like most cryptocurrencies this appeared to be a bad investment. In
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bitcoin
8y
Seven reasons why I think that David Kleiman was Satoshi Nakamoto
Who was Satoshi Nakamoto? On you can read the following introduction: “While we may not know who he was, we know what he did. He was the inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, publishing a paper via the
firemonkey
bitcoin
9y
The mastodons of the financial world appear to be bitcoin illiterates
Governments, banks and other financial institutions have long ignored the bitcoin. Because in 2017 the bitcoin gained 1500% in value they are suddenly realising that bitcoin may become a serious threat
firemonkey
bitcoin
9y
How to determine the correct bitcoin transaction fee
With the current volume of unconfirmed transactions and the increasing transaction fees it is sometimes difficult to determine the required transaction fee. If you use the default value of your wallet
firemonkey
bitcoin
9y
All Visa bitcoin debitcards from XAPO, BitPay, Bitwala, Cryptopay, Wirex, and TenX have been deactivated today
Today my XAPO bitcoin debitcard has been deactivated without any prior warning. XAPO was using the services of Gibraltar based company WaveCrest. This morning I received below email from WaveCrest: Dear
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bitcoin
9y
Warning: New Segwit2x fork is possible scam
In order to solve the bitcoin scaling problems on May 23 2017 the so called New York Agreement was published: . A large group of stakeholders decided to accept Segwit in August and to double the block
firemonkey
bitcoin
9y
Why bitcoin is not a bubble
I see that some people now compare the growth in value of the bitcoin with the dot.com bubble on the stock markets and the tulip mania of a little longer ago. These are comparisons that, in my view, do
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bitcoin
9y
Dramatic drop of the BTC hashrate
The total hashrate for BTC has dropped with more than 50%. Mining BCH has become more profitable. I see that major miners have reduced their mining effort and some like BTC.TOP have stopped completely
firemonkey
cryptocurrency
9y
What is currently happening with Metaverse?
Metaverse (ETP) is a cryptocurrency that is created by ViewFin. ViewFin (www.viewfin.com) is one of the leading blockchain companies in China. I didn't know about Metaverse until yesterday. Yesterday the
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bitcoin
9y
The impact of the September 4 official Chinese ICO statement on bitcoin
On September 4, 2017 the People's Bank of China together with six other Chinese departments released a public statement on regulation policies for ICO projects. The initial conclusion was that China had
firemonkey
bitcoin
9y
China is closing down all cryptocurrency exchanges
The last couple of days there have been rumours that China was going to close down all cryptocurrency exchanges. The rumours where called unconfirmed and some considered it to be market manipulation. From
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bitcoin
9y
Wrong information on Blockchain.info
Yesterday I noticed some strange behaviour in the Blockchain.info charts with information on the bitcoin transactions waiting to be comfirmed: The drop around 11:30 cannot be explained because there were
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bitcoin
9y
Bitcoin still has a problem
In my previous post ( I signaled a problem with bitcoin. Some major miners had switched from mining BTC to mining BCC leaving the BTC blockchain with insufficient hashing power to process all transactions.
firemonkey
bitcoin
9y
Bitcoin has a problem
Miners rapidly shift from BTC blockchain to BCC/BCH blockchain. Currently every minute about two new blocks are added to the BitcoinCash blockchain. The anonymous miner is still mining but in the past
firemonkey
bitcoin
9y
Bitcoin Cash market manipulation
What is currently happening with Bitcoin Cash? To me it is clear that the Bitcoin Cash market is being manipulated by a big player. Until now the mining of Bitcoin Cash has been done by a big miner who
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bitcoin
9y
Antpool seems to do some mining with a max blocksize of 10kB
The number of transactions waiting to be processed currently is more than 50000. I see that Antpool has created several 9kB blocks in the past few days. Why is Antpool mining blocks with only a few
firemonkey
cryptocurrency
9y
IOTA, a very interesting new cryptocurrency
IOTA is currently the rising star among the cryptocurrencies. I have been looking into the interesting technology behind IOTA. Although I am not an expert on cryptology it seems to me that the tangle could
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cryptocurrency
9y
Inefficiencies in the Bitcoincash market
Bitcoincash is currently traded for well above USD 300 on the Kraken exchange. On other exchanges the exchange rate is around USD 250. Why do people buy BCC/BCH at such a high price at the Kraken exchange?
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