Despite years of hype and chatter, enterprise blockchain deployments actually in production are few and far between.But according to Oracle, the list just got a little bigger.Announced Tuesday, the software giant now has up to a dozen enterprise customers using live applications that have sped into production since its cloud-based blockchain platform went live last […]

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Such are the words of wisdom that have been taken to heart by ethereum core developers ever since a vulnerability in the network’s code was discovered just 48 hours before the code was set to be deployed.The network upgrade dubbed Constantinople would have introduced a series of backward-incompatible changes – also known as a hard […]

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One of the biggest rhetorical challenges blockchain advocates confront is something I’ll call “stasism:” their critics’ false assumption that the technology is in stasis, that it will never reach its potential because, in its current state, it’s too cumbersome, expensive or inefficient.This, I believe, is one of two flaws in a widely circulated anti-blockchain screed by Bruce […]

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A form of malware that replaces victims’ cryptocurrency wallet addresses has been discovered for the first time in an app on Google Play Store. Security firm ESET published a blog post on Friday, saying that the malware, known as a “clipper,” intercepts the content of the clipboard and, if it finds the addresses of online cryptocurrency […]

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to clarify when securities laws might apply to crypto token sales, an official said Friday. In a speech at the University of Missouri School of Law, Hester Peirce, one of the SEC’s commissioners, said that the agency’s staff are working on “supplemental guidance” to help projects determine “whether […]

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ViewBitcoin gained 7.8 percent on Friday, confirming a falling wedge breakout on the daily chart. The bearish-to-bullish trend change was backed by a jump in trading volumes to levels last seen in mid-November.Prices could soon cross the 50-day moving average resistance at $3,642 and test resistance levels lined up at $3,800 and $4,000 in the […]

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Bithumb Global has launched an over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk for digital assets.Announcing the news on Thursday, the firm said that the new Hong Kong-based venture – Ortus – is a “block deal, matchmaking service” for institutional clients. In an OTC deal, two parties trade directly with each other, unlike on an exchange where orders are […]

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The latest code version for the lightning network – often trumpeted as the future of bitcoin payments – includes a “block size increase.”One of the most active lightning implementations, LND, pushed out its newest “minor” release, version 0.5.2, of its beta code on Wednesday. Though it includes several changes from many contributors, mostly with the […]

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ViewThe immediate outlook for bitcoin will remain bearish while prices are held below the 6-hour chart 50-candle moving average, currently at $3,417.Litecoin’s BTC-denominated exchange rate (LTC/BTC) clocked seven-month highs earlier today. A close above 0.010182 BTC would confirm an inverse head-and-shoulders breakout and open up upside toward 0.013 BTC. The rally, however, may not happen […]

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A commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) will ultimately be approved.Robert J. Jackson Jr., in an interview published by government-focused news source Roll Call on Wednesday, said:“Eventually, do I think someone will satisfy the standards that we’ve laid out there? I hope so, yes, and I […]

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