Top five most interesting cryptocurrency articles for Monday, Aug. 21
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I put together a list of the five most interesting Crypto related articles going into your work week. Feel free to take a look, and don't worry - I included a TLDR for each.
Researchers from several American universities are using artificial intelligence to examine the Bitcoin blockchain to identify victims of sexual exploitation. The initiative plans to develop a freely available suite of tools that can assist authorities in tracking and identifying individuals working in the underground sex industry.
The price of monero, the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency created in 2014, shot up by over 80 percent this morning, shattering its previous record by around $35.
According to data from CoinMarketCap, the cryptocurrency has been largely trading in the $40–$55 range since May, yet at 07:00 UTC today, a spike in trading volume saw the price suddenly spike to an all-time high of just over $95.
Zerolink has claimed to develop a method for facilitating fully anonymous Bitcoin payments. Zerolink comprises a collaboration between developers from privacy-centric wallet services Samouraiwallet and Hiddenwallet.
In this opinion piece, Etsebeth outlines why he believes central banks won't be able to adapt to innovations in cryptocurrency, arguing they simply aren't setup to compete with sea changes in technology.
The game theory for miners begins to get more interesting as the BCH network has become 115 percent more profitable to mine than the Bitcoin blockchain.
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