Sentences with phrase «while for bitcoin»

But, based on the current scenario, it looks like it will take a while for Bitcoin Cash to achieve steady growth and actually compete with its counterparts such as Ethereum, Litecoin, and others.

Bitcoin debit card providers have announced that they will now find new issuers so that they can continue their service, it will likely take a while for the bitcoin debit card providers to get their services up and running again with new issuers.

Similarly, the average transaction time for XRP is 2 - 3 seconds while for bitcoin, it can take up to one hour.

While for Bitcoin it takes a few minutes to arrive at a consensus of the ledger (while the full nodes validate the ledger), Ripple guarantees consensus in just a few seconds.

Not exact matches

While many cryptocurrencies have been in bear market territory since a correction that began in late December, this week has been especially bloody for investors, with the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices down nearly 40 % in the past two days, and Ripple shedding nearly half its value over the same period.

While today there may be a lot of buzz about Bitcoin and most businesses are well versed in accepting electronic and mobile payments, customers over the course of history have used a lot of different methods to pay for goods and services.

He says that figure has remained fairly constant for some time — suggesting there is a small hard core base of people who use bitcoin as everyday money, while the vast majority are using it to speculate and invest.

If you've followed bitcoin for a while, you know the currency is prone to spectacular crashes.

While that brings back the risk, it's worth noting that if the Newport Beach car dealer had kept the bitcoin, he would have sold that Tesla for around $ 1.5 million in today's money.

While Bitcoin is often criticized because it's not backed by a physical commodity, that's not an issue for Michael Lee, an economist in the New York Fed's Research and Statistics Group, who says that neither is the dollar and most modern currencies.

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.

While the vast majority of investors are buying Bitcoin via exchanges, it's still possible to get the cryptocurrency for dramatically less than the current exchange rate.

While the fund is largely intended for three leading Bitcoin Core developers who joined the Media Lab last April, it could also support other cryptocurrency experts if there is a demonstrated need.

Lots of things exist for a while unbothered by the law until someone cracks down, whether it's a certain drug, or, for example, people using bitcoin for illegal purposes.

Bitcoin, for example, can only handle seven transactions for second, while Ethereum can handle around 13.

But while Bitcoin is a currency, Ripple is an internet protocol that allows for financial transactions in any currency.

The Japanese Yen had the largest share, accounting for about 37 percent, while the U.S. dollar had about 33 percent of bitcoin trading volume, the website showed.

While this would make bitcoin faster and cheaper for users, critics say it would also make it more expensive to run a server.

While innovation should always be encouraged, Bitcoin isn't yet fit as a place for orphans and widows to shelter their nest eggs — although there are admittedly plenty of gold bugs who would say the same about fiat currencies.

But for Connie Gallippi, the lightning bolt of creativity struck while she was washing her hands in the bathroom at a Bitcoin conference in San Jose, California in 2013.

While Colored Coins will likely be important for the future of Bitcoin, the process of creating, storing, and using them needs to be further simplified for mainstream adoption.

Bevand estimated that data centers account for 1 percent of power demand around the world, while Bitcoin mining uses 0.15 percent of global power.

NiceHash said it will stop operating for 24 hours while it verifies how many bitcoins were taken.

Once the largest global market for trading, China now accounts for 1.5 percent of bitcoin transactions, while Japan — where regulators have been more open to digital currencies — accounts for more than 60 percent, according to CryptoCompare.com.

This is mostly due to the fact that these services deal with chargebacks while Bitcoin by its very nature doesn't allow for chargebacks.

While Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are widely regarded as being difficult to regulate, these representatives would be likely candidates for enforcement of future such regulation.

Some analysts think bitcoin will retain a premium as a security, like gold, in the digital world, while other cryptocurrencies are used for commerce.

TRON, Stellar, Cardano, and NEO bounced higher similarly to EOS after the recent pullback, while Monero, Dash, Litecoin, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash are weaker from a short - term technical perspective, but for now, the recovery is not in danger even regarding the weakest majors.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has called for regulating digital money as securities, while central bank officials vowed to work with prosecutors to block websites that allow retail investors access to bitcoin exchanges.

While only 6 % of respondents were willing to consider using cryptocurrencies in their retirement plans, another 14 % were interested in the concept but not certain that Bitcoin or similar vehicles were right for them.

While we have seen remarkable improvements in the rate of successful bitcoin payments since we launched this requirement on our invoices, we also know that Payment Protocol can be difficult for wallets and exchanges to implement.

While the use of Bitcoin is quite different to other payment solutions, it's still easy to use, even for newcomers.

While we explore new use cases for bitcoin payments, we've continued to see growth in bitcoin spending with BitPay's merchants, from electronics sales to precious metals purchases.

For a while now our focus has been on relative value and there is very little argument that, after the first quarter price collapse, a whole lot of risk has been taken out of bitcoin, ether, Ripple and thousands of others.

While this was all going on, Blockstream and it's employees started lobbying the community by paying for conferences about scaling bitcoin, but with the very very strange rule that no decisions could be made and no complete solutions could be proposed.

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As transparency issues are ripe within the crypto - sphere, anonymity may be seen as a downside of Bitcoin and another currencies, while having (several) faces to the Ethereum project's name gives investors and users some assurance of accountability — for example, users can rest easy knowing Vitalik isn't overtly manipulating the market and Ethereum prices.

While Bitcoin represents a great currency for trading, there aren't too many platforms that accept the digital currency as market trading collateral.

While Ethereum is positioned to fully move towards PoS «sometime in 2018,» currently sitting in limbo as a hybrid between PoW a and PoS, Bitcoin adheres to PoW as their consensus mechanism, where service requesters are required to perform work (computational resources and verification) in exchange for reward.

The analyst claims that while such a path has yet to be confirmed, Ethereum is likely to outperform bitcoin for at least a short time towards the end of the year.

Sell bitcoin to machines is not popular (usually ~ 10 % of volume), while transaction size is higher than for buy orders.

Jesse commented on the new technology, saying, «given this new level of fraud protection, we are able to safeguard the transactions conducted on the Bitcoin platform, while increasing ease of use for end user customers at the same time.»

While the stock market is up about 10 percent for the year — which is a nice gain for stocks in just eight months — the money people have made in stocks is puny compared with what's been made in bitcoin.

While we will continue to support BIP - 70 for Bitcoin payments, we are also working on an easier to implement JSON based API so more wallets can become compatible with BitPay invoices.

While the spotlight has shone on the dramatic highs and lows of the various cryptocurrency markets like bitcoin, the existing big banks have been making great strides with their ideas for the underlying blockchain technology.

Gold and Bitcoin have slight bids early, while Ore finally retreats, losing ~ 2 %, shrugging off better Chinese Services PMI, weighing on Industrial metals with Copper getting hit for ~ 2 % to 2 month lows and southside 100dma.

While numerous countries have shown their support for Bitcoin, and begun measures such as eliminating taxation, or giving incentives to blockchain - based businesses, there are still regions which take the currency with a grain of salt.

While bitcoin donations are more cost efficient for the charitable institutions as they receive almost the entire amount without any deductions in the form of transaction or processing fees.

Bluepan has previously tried using Bitcoin for making fast and cheap cross-border payments, but Bitcoin seems to have failed while being tested for cross-border payments.

While Drake believes in a bright future for Bitcoin, it seems that there is another approach to this, compared with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsi eat, who said that Bitcoin will be the only «common currency» of the Internet.