Sentences with phrase «than bitcoin in»

At its early stages, the Ethereum network performed significantly better than bitcoin in what concerns scalability and functionality.

This has the effect that Ripple is not vulnerable to a 51 % attack, and is, therefore, a lot safer than Bitcoin in that aspect.

Litecoin is temporarily better than bitcoin in terms of its technical upgrades as well medium of microtransaction.

Since it is four times faster than Bitcoin in terms of processing time, it is expected that it will start to make gains in the near future.

People invest in altcoins hoping that someday, one of these coins will turn out bigger than Bitcoin in the future.

Still, the venture's whitepaper describes itself as better than Bitcoin in almost every way, and the website claims it will support «10x lower transaction costs» and «2x - 3x times (sic) more» mining revenue — without providing any technical details to support these claims.

Digibyte has been said to be far better than Bitcoin in many ways.

Altcoins like Litecoin, Dogecoin, Darkcoin, and Namecoin are just some of the widely used digital currencies other than Bitcoin in the iGaming industry.

In an earlier interview with CoinDesk, Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas went as far as to contend XRP will be «more decentralized» than bitcoin in the future as they add more validators and flesh out the technology.

Second, because of its slightly better scalability than bitcoin in terms of block size and block times.

Others implement a different mining protocol than Bitcoin in an attempt to consume less energy and prevent mining centralization.

A recent report claims that Bitcoin mining consumes as much power in a year as 159 countries, which is clearly far too much, and Buterin admitted that today's Ethereum isn't any better than Bitcoin in that respect.

slightly better scalability than bitcoin in short term (block size and block times); 3.

It also proved itself to have a greater ceiling (at least for now) than bitcoin in terms of handling transactions.

This currency provided the investor with more than 40 times better returns than Bitcoin in 2017.

slightly better scalability than bitcoin in short term (block size and block times); 3.

Not exact matches

The Mt. Gox collapse precipitated a Bitcoin price crash of more than 70 %, shaking investors» confidence in the cryptocurrency for so long that it took Bitcoin more than two years to recover.

If you're a Bitcoin investor: You'd be wise to build in these risks into your investment decisions sooner rather than later.

Bitcoin as a commodity has been more stable this year than in the past, though it certainly fluctuates more than the average corporate stock.

A rival cryptocurrency to Bitcoin, Ethereum rose as high as about $ 425 Thursday, a gain of more than 16 % in a 24 - hour period.

Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts of investors so far this year through so - called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.

The policy was not met with much delight by bitcoin companies, and in August, more than 10 of them went so far as to leave the state of New York, either cutting off service to the state or packing up and relocating if they were headquartered there.

Still, there's an ironic punch line to the case: Because the stolen Bitcoins were sold right away, allegedly by Vinnik and long before Mt. Gox disclosed the hack, victims lost much more, in dollar value, than the hackers ever made — which, according to Chainalysis, was only about $ 20 million.

Bitcoin prices in the country are persistently higher than those in the U.S.

In contrast, bitcoin, less than 10 years old, is still relatively new.

Bitcoin's price soared in 2017 — reaching a record high of more than $ 19,000 in December — but saw sharp declines at the start of this new year due to fears of regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies.

Dimon joked that even his daughter bought some bitcoin, looking to cash in on a trend that has seen it soar more than 300 percent this year.

I tell the full story of how Karpelès found the Bitcoins (details he revealed for the first time in our conversations) and the stranger - than - fiction implications of Bitcoin's price surge in my new feature in Fortune, «Mt. Gox and the Surprising Redemption of Bitcoin's Biggest Villain.»

Although the price of Bitcoin has lost more than half of its value since peaking in December at nearly $ 20,000, the cryptocurrency has still made many investors wealthy.

That's because, even though Mt. Gox only recovered less than a quarter of its lost Bitcoins (the rest were stolen in a hack), the Bitcoin price has risen more than 17x between the time Mt. Gox entered liquidation and today.

Early internet investor Tim Draper says bitcoin will be bigger than his early investments in Tesla, Hotmail and Skype combined.

Bitcoin rose to its highest level in more than a month as the broader financial markets sold off Tuesday.

MetaStable's portfolio more than doubled in value in May alone, according to a source close to the fund; on June 23, after a Bitcoin and Ethereum price crash, the hedge fund reported total assets of $ 69 million in a regulatory filing.

Still, Demirors thinks the survey data underestimates the actual number of women who invest in Bitcoin; after all, the blockchain technology behind Bitcoin keeps users pseudonymous, meaning the names and genders of investors are hidden (other than to the operators of certain digital currency exchanges).

Bitcoin is having a pretty good week — rising more than 11 % and breaking above $ 9,000 for the first time in more than a month.

Over the course of 2017, bitcoin saw more than a 1,000 % gain in price, creating some pretty significant capital gains for some investors.

Gold and silver lasted a century or so (so far) and Bitcoin's in trouble in less than a decade.

Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan said in September that he sees bitcoin as more of an investment than a currency.

At a bail hearing in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, a federal prosecutor revealed that Ross William Ulbricht allegedly ordered the murders of six people, and that more than 450,000 bitcoins of his...

«We do make that distinction, there's institutional clients and if they want to invest in (bitcoin)-- they are grown - ups, I mean they know what they are doing, they have the capability of judging this risk — and if they ask us to help them access, to enter these markets, we need to look at that differently than retail clients,» Weber told CNBC.

South Korea's new management - minded approach is a dramatic turnaround from its energetic regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges this past year, alarmed at a heated market that saw local prices of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in South Korea trade for higher than international levels.

In December, talking up her belief in bitcoin, Wood floated another provocative idea, saying the world's biggest cryptocurrency is «so much bigger an idea than even Apple, which is a pretty big idea.&raquIn December, talking up her belief in bitcoin, Wood floated another provocative idea, saying the world's biggest cryptocurrency is «so much bigger an idea than even Apple, which is a pretty big idea.&raquin bitcoin, Wood floated another provocative idea, saying the world's biggest cryptocurrency is «so much bigger an idea than even Apple, which is a pretty big idea.»

Bitcoin has slumped more than 20 % this week amid increased regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Japan, an attempted theft at one of the biggest trading venues, and news that the bankruptcy trustee for Mt. Gox has started selling the now - defunct exchange's holdings to repay creditors.

This digital currency promised to be better than bitcoin, and raised nearly $ 15 million from eager investors in August.

Bitcoin has soared more than 1,600 percent this year as people rush to buy the digital currency in the hope it will become a legitimate alternative to gold or traditional money.

The news came as bitcoin has more than halved in value from an all - time high above $ 19,000 hit in mid-December.

According to the bulls, the influx of smart money could eclipse all the wealth currently invested in Bitcoin — theoretically more than doubling the market value in one fell swoop.

The Ethereum foundation raised more than 31,000 bitcoin in July 2014, worth about $ 18.3 million at the time, when it first sold the first 60 million ether.

Novogratz, who left Fortress Investment Group in 2015 after the fund lost money, told CNBC in November that bitcoin could multiply more than four times by the end of this year.

In previous media interviews, Gates has been quoted saying that Bitcoin is «better than currency,» and that it «is exciting because it shows how cheap (transactions) can be.»