Sentences with phrase «bitcoin adherents»
And, just as some Bitcoin adherents see a digital currency as a desirable alternative to traditional fiat currencies, some of those opposing a change are simply opposed to change period, at least to changing anything specifically designed by Satoshi.
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Last week, a new variant of bitcoin emerged via a «fork» in its underlying code, threatening to confuse and divide the still - small world of bitcoin adherents.
While Bitcoin adherents cite low fees as an advantage of the cryptocurrency over traditional finance networks, the median fee for a transaction reached $ 34 in late December.
It wasn't exactly a superheist, but it does nothing to assuage forfeiture critics or Bitcoin adherents, many of whom embrace the currency precisely because they lack faith in the integrity of governments.
While Bitcoin adherents cite low fees as an advantage of the cryptocurrency over traditional finance networks, the median fee for a transaction reached $ 34 in late December.
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Both Bitcoin and its blockchain are gaining imitators as well as adherents, along with plenty of critics, including Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co..
Ark Investment Management organizer and CEO Catherine Wood is a major adherent to bitcoin, which has seen an ascent of more than 1,300 percent in 2017.
Bitcoin isn't turning out to be the anti-state free - for - all that some of its adherents wanted to see, but — for now — it's entrenching itself in more and more countries.
nChain also supports the formation of a neutral organization to ensure community consensus on the future direction of Bitcoin protocol and technical standards, i.e. ensuring that Bitcoin Core adherents such as Greg Maxwell, Adam Back and their established banking industry backers can't hijack the technology for their personal enrichment.
Bitcoin is clearly not at all the direct democracy that many of its early adherents imagined, and, some worry, if a centralized core of the Bitcoin community is powerful enough to successfully undertake these emergency measures to set right the Bitcoin blockchain, what else is it powerful enough to do?