Sentences with phrase «pointed at the bitcoin»

One of our public messaging points at the Bitcoin Foundation was the story that bitcoin was a currency with a heart of gold, now freed from unjust association with dark markets.

The key point to take away from this excerpt of Antonopoulos's presentation is that all of the hashing power pointed at the Bitcoin network is not useless.

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«The popular narrative around using Bitcoin to buy coffee or pizza is a pipe dream at this point.»

At this point, unregulated Bitcoin users don't enjoy the same benefit.

Sure, the demand for Bitcoin is colossal at this point in time.

On the Luxembourg - based Bitstamp exchange, bitcoin rose as much as 17 percent at one point in mid-morning European trading.

«Bitcoin is an expensive product to trade, custody, store and service at this point.

MarketWatch reports that interactions on niche Reddit forums (known as «subreddits») devoted to cryptocurrency have soared by a massive 930 % this year, and that at one point users were joining one of the main bitcoin forums at the rate of 1,300 a day.

Bitcoin surged Thursday more than 17 percent in a sudden move to above $ 8,000 at one point, according to trading on Coinbase.

In 2017, bitcoin climbed over a 1000 %, but it also dropped by 30 %, 40 % at various points.

However, the Bitcoin network is not a systemically important network — from the standpoint of consumer protection, it's less important that Bitcoin face the same regulations as other larger networks at this point.

It is unclear at this point when Gox management became aware of their progressive loss of bitcoin.

Because Bitcoin and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic are two technologies that meaningfully represent our focus at Winklevoss Capital — the reduction of pain - points and friction in an effort to build a better world.»

Earlier this week in a private dining room at the upscale Manhattan restaurant A Voce, Bitcoin enthusiasts held a roundtable conversation about the cryptocurrency's fine points, its possibilities, and its future.

Bobby Cho, head trader at major bitcoin trading company Cumberland, a subsidiary of DRW, pointed out that the CME futures were trading closer to the actual price of bitcoin than the Cboe contract had at launch last Sunday.

At some point, when his customers start leaving JPMorgan and move to more bitcoin - focused options, Jamie will be forced to capitulate, or get replaced,» Keiser added.

The way it works is if a customer has Bitcoin but wants to buy an item from a merchant that accepts USD, at the point of transaction, through a process, Bitcoin is exchanged for USD at the going rate and the merchant receives USD.

Bitcoin exchanges are essentially the point at which traditional financial systems and cryptocurrencies collide.

That was on full display the weekend of March 17, as Bitcoin shed about a fifth of its value (dropping below $ 950 at one point, before bouncing back to about $ 1,050 on Monday) as an increasingly bitter split in the developer community behind Bitcoin threatened to split it into two competing currencies.

If I'd put this $ 150 directly into Bitcoin then I'd have made about $ 215 at this point.

For the longest time, media outlets and governments have pointed the finger of blame at Bitcoin for its alleged role in terrorist funding.

«The real story of this memo is that despite our legal restrictions on issuing a blanket ban for all employees, our chairman has made the point that anyone at the agency involved in oversight of bitcoin futures products should not own the underlying asset, bitcoin.»

For a brief time, China dominated bitcoin trading, at one point reportedly accounting for as much as 90 percent of volume.

Bitcoin can play an important role in the evolution of money remittance as we know it, and BitSpark feels it is the best direction for the company at this point.

So at this point, if you want to invest in bitcoins, the simplest way is to outright buy them,» said Andy Brantner, a certified financial planner and investment blogger at Start Investing Online.

With so little time left in the year, many wonder whether bitcoin can still break $ 800, a feat that still looks at least marginally possible at one point.

The legacy chain reached $ 48 + fees at one point and many people were unable to use Bitcoin as a currency because the cost of using it sometimes exceeded what they wanted to spend it on.

A $ 40 drop is nothing to be proud of, and many are pointing the finger at Chinese lawmakers, who may be initiating plans to limit bitcoin trading.

China has taken the lead on regulation at this point, but Bauerle believes this might leave a door open to crypto - focused entrepreneurs in other parts of the world if the effects are similar to the events that occurred after China regulated local bitcoin exchanges.

At this point, the creator's identity is no longer important to Bitcoin's future.

So at this point you've heard of Bitcoin, maybe you've visited weusecoins.com or read up on Bitcoin here on cryptojunky, yet still haven't taken the dive and tried Bitcoin out.

At one point last night BTCChina.com, China's largest Bitcoin exchange, was trading at well over 6000 CNY and over the equivalent of $ 1000 USAt one point last night BTCChina.com, China's largest Bitcoin exchange, was trading at well over 6000 CNY and over the equivalent of $ 1000 USat well over 6000 CNY and over the equivalent of $ 1000 USD.

If Bitcoin fails at some point and turns out to be worthless, then this strategy will disappoint.

At that point some miners may decide to ignore that block and continue mining on a 1 MB block max - sized chain and that may create another fork in the Bitcoin Network.

I delved deeper into bitcoin at that point.»

Overstock.com is processing more payments in Bitcoin than PayPal at this point, Uber prompted European taxi drivers to strike in June, and Spanish officials are ham - fistedly wrestling with Airbnb.

«It's pretty easy to do with bitcoin as at this point we are converting bitcoin into dollars immediately,» he told Reuters.

The currency's performance over the seven - day period was really impressive as Bitcoin Cash went from $ 650 to $ 757, with the lowest point of the week coming in at $ 628 and the highest point of the week coming in at $ 781.

Bitcoin hit an all - time high of nearly $ 20,000 earlier this week before falling at one point on Friday to below $ 11,000.

BMO Nesbitt Burns Investment Advisors posted an introduction to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies but warn that «as a team, we do not believe in the investment merits of cryptocurrencies at this point in time».

XRP is currently at a point where it has the potential to make one of the fastest gains against Bitcoin compared to other cryptocurrencies.

At some point in time none other than Satoshi (of Bitcoin fame) talked to Larimer in very clear terms «If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.»

This is not a discussion of whether Bitcoin is fraudulent or not, this comes down to a discussion of whether collectively as individuals at this point in history we want to put our faith in a currency backed by a centralized system or decentralized system.

I think they're actually between a rock and a hard place and at some point they're going to have to implement replay protection and then it's going to be clear that it's a contentious hard floor and we're actually talking about an alt coin rather than an upgrade to bitcoin.

Bitcoin's share of the total crypto market is at 45 %, which is about 12 percentage points higher than January's all - time low.

At the end of the day most blockchain solutions will, at the very least, have some tangent point with BitcoiAt the end of the day most blockchain solutions will, at the very least, have some tangent point with Bitcoiat the very least, have some tangent point with Bitcoin.

A whole discussion can be had about the effect of the Bitcoin network and value on the interest and price of alternative cryptocurrencies, but the point is that for the purpose of privacy it can be relatively easy and cheap to move into Monero and back out in Bitcoin, or at some exchanges, directly into cash.

It is worth pointing out that the move to make bitcoin illegal can also put Colombia's economy at risk, considering the fact that the digital currency is growing in both value and popularity, thus creating a strong market that Colombia will have no access to unless they give up on their decisions.

This time around he was a little more subdued than he has been in the past on the topic of bitcoin, for instance, but seized the opportunity to point out that the US tax rate had historically stayed at 40 % while it had fallen to 20 % elsewhere, driving «brains and capital» overseas.

The bitcoin - funded card lets users pay at any point - of - sale terminal where Visa is accepted in the U.S., and withdraw cash at any ATM with a Visa logo.