Sentences with phrase «on bitcoin as»

For now, however, Tango Card VP of partnerships Nat Salvione suggested his company will focus on bitcoin as a means to improve its rewards platform.

One significant weakness that the cryptocurrency world has is its dependence on bitcoin as an underlying asset.

It's difficult to put a price on bitcoin as it fluctuates quite frequently.

He added that naysayers would similarly U-turn on Bitcoin as they did with Amazon when it began turning its vast profits.

After a long struggle, the Segregated Witness soft fork finally activated in the summer of 2017, paving the way for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin as well.

The company's vice president of business development explained that the exchange has been focused on bitcoin as the most popular digital currency, but while other cryptocurrencies are emerging, the company seeks to take them into account, too.

The past two sessions were bullish on bitcoin as the cryptocurrency started a fresh upside move after correcting lower towards the USD 7,500 support.

Another guest stated that «Prashant and Niti did not decide on bitcoin as a gift in the last couple of weeks.

The fork had other adverse impacts on bitcoin as well.

CBOE, Chicago's largest futures exchange started offering Bitcoin futures last week and CME, another big futures exchange based out of Chicago is set to begin futures trading on Bitcoin as well.

Smart contract functionality is not as programmable and extensible on Bitcoin as it is on Ethereum.

Bitcoin «A Hedge Against the Whole World Falling Apart» Facebook investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has reiterated why he is still very much «long» on Bitcoin as he spoke at the Economic Club of New York on Thursday.

Its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, later tweeted that he was undecided on bitcoin as a currency, deftly skirting the issue.

SA: I wouldn't dignify it enough to call it an attack on Bitcoin as it hardly did anything other than slow down payment processing for a few weeks as it took some hashrate away.

This has created a state of optimisim in the Bitcoin community towards SegWit activation on Bitcoin as well.

And — as the «silver to bitcoin's gold» — succesful SegWit activation on Litecoin may even help convince Bitcoin miners to activate it on Bitcoin as well, Lee hopes.

But Segregated Witness has not activated yet, and whether it ever will depends on miners — both on Bitcoin as well as on altcoins.

Bill Gross, Janus portfolio manager, discusses his view on bitcoin as the cryptocurrency's rally heats up.

Was it an «attack» on Bitcoin as many claim?

More than just the technical and software changes, our games were designed on Bitcoin as the native currency, and so the payouts and mechanics would have to be reconsidered depending on the cryptocurrency that might be chosen instead.

Tim Draper has every reason to be bullish on Bitcoin as he has seen his $ 20 mln investment in the digital currency grow by over 1,000 percent in just three years.

Download a white paper on Bitcoin as a new Asset Class.

Vavilov suggested that BitFury will be keen to monitor public sentiment on bitcoin as it looks to go public, implying there are some forms of value that he sees as being even more in - demand than bitcoin.

SA: I wouldn't dignify it enough to call it an attack on Bitcoin as it hardly did anything other than slow down payment processing for a few weeks as it took some hashrate away.

Was it an «attack» on Bitcoin as many claim?

All eyes are now on Bitcoin as the price of the currency has entered a major bull - run over the past few days - helping the entire markets flourish and grow.

If one were to believe that Bitcoin's performance is linked to the situation in Greece, then yesterday's proposal «should» diminish the uncertainty and exert downward pressure on Bitcoin as the deal between Greece and its creditors seems closer now than it was a couple of days ago.

The CFTC's grant of temporary registration will be followed by a CFTC review of the LedgerX submission for listing options on Bitcoin as a product for trading on the SEF, which also requires CFTC approval.

This focus on Bitcoin as a volatile and even renegade currency may be distracting governments and businesses from its potential long - term significance as a disruptive new money technology.

Issue guidance and regulations on Bitcoin as a currency and as a technology, signaling that both aspects can be taken seriously

Anthony: We talk a lot of the questions focus on bitcoin as a payment.

Its origin is actually linked to a critique made by Vitalik Buterin on bitcoin as a very limited smart contract platform.

«Tax Day» in the U.S. is today, April 17, and a number of analysts are bullish on Bitcoin as the much - anticipated tax deadline should trigger the next upward momentum.

So rather than focusing on Bitcoin as a speculative currency, the true focus should be on the underlying technology, known as the blockchain, and related «sidechains» that result in speedier payment methods, reduced financial friction, and anonymity, as well as accountability and transparency.

Interactive Brokers Chairman Thomas Peterffy appears to be cooling his skepticism on bitcoin as a financial asset.

Various speculators were betting on Bitcoins as their was 70 % chances that US SEC would approve the Bitcoin ETF's, which could lead to significant price rises and thus booking profits.

Not exact matches

In an August 2010 thread on a forum discussing ways to improve the privacy of Bitcoin, one commenter under the alias «Insti» proposed zero knowledge proofs as one potential approach, though the author worried that they might be «theoretically impossible.»

Thomas added that Ripple's own digital currency, known as XRP, is less vulnerable to forks or unpredictable changes because, unlike bitcoin, it relies on voting measures that favor users more than miners.

On August 1, the miners will implement a software update that will create a so - called «fork» and result in two versions of the bitcoin blockchain — and two forms of the currency as well.

Cboe has been a notable crypto advocate on Wall Street, teasing additional futures markets for other cryptocurrencies and calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve bitcoin - linked ETFs, as Business Insider first reported.

Nasdaq plans to launch bitcoin futures as early as the second quarter of 2018, exchange officials told CNBC on Thursday.

Bitcoin, the largest crypto, is down more than 70 % from its all - time highs set at the end of 2017, as regulators look to clamp down on exchanges and tech companies shun advertisements related to the nascent digital coin market.

If you need evidence of this fact, consider China's massive state mining operations and stake in Bitcoin, undeniably viewed as a tool for leverage on a global scale.

The price of bitcoin, the world's biggest and best known cryptocurrency, fell to as low as $ 10,0000 on the Luxembourg - based Bitstamp exchange, the lowest since Dec. 1.

Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap, traded as low as $ 7,676.52 on Thursday, the lowest since February 8, according to CoinDesk data.

On its website, Verge is described as a cryptocurrency which «improves upon the Bitcoin blockchain» and uses open - source software like Tor and I2P — both of which have been used in connection to the former trading site for illicit goods, the Silk Road.

On Monday, the stock briefly fell 3.8 % after a prominent short - seller belittled the strategy as «Wall Street drunk on Bitcoin nonsense.&raquOn Monday, the stock briefly fell 3.8 % after a prominent short - seller belittled the strategy as «Wall Street drunk on Bitcoin nonsense.&raquon Bitcoin nonsense.»

Mt. Gox subsequently shot from obscurity to dominate global trade in bitcoin, but as early as 2012 employees at the Tokyo - based exchange challenged Karpeles on issues such as whether client money was being used to cover costs.

Curiously, that would bar firms such as the largest U.S. - based exchange Coinbase from advertising on the platform, while presumably still allowing Twitter's sister company, Square, to advertise its young Bitcoin buying and selling function on its Cash app.

As clues emerge and Bitcoin's price surges, Mark Karpelès is on the hunt for answers.