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Bitcoin Price Forecast: BTC Bulls Keep Pushing To $48,000

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Time Stamp: September 27, 2021 12:06 AM - Modified On: September 27, 2021 - Published By:
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By John Isige Published 9 hours ago Updated 9 hours ago Bitcoin price rises above $44,000 after bulls defended support at $40,000 all weekend long. Bulls have eyes glued on the supply zone at $48,000, but first, the 200-day and the 50-day barriers must come down. Bitcoin remained stable above $40,000 throughout the weekend. Buyers managed to lift the largest cryptocurrency above $42,000 and closed the gap to $44,000. At writing, the bellwether cryptocurrency is dancing slightly above $44,000 while bulls put a fight to ensure that BTC closes the

Bitcoin: How much influence can these investors hold

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2021 8:00 AM - Modified On: August 8, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin is speculated to have a major bull run this year. But the question remains – who really is heading this rally? When compared to the previous bull market some interesting observations can be seen.  Bitcoin follows who? Back in 2017, it was whales. Whales led the bull market of 2017, which placed BTC from $990 to $13,400. This year that leader needs to change as the entity which should be leading the bull market needs to be you and me – the retail investors. In the last 7 months,

Why Chinese Miners Won’t Stage a 51% Attack on Bitcoin

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 7:32 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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China accounts for more than half of the world’s Bitcoin mining capacity but Jameson Lopp, the co-founder and CTO of Casa, has hosed down fears that Chinese miners are a threat to Bitcoin in a blog post on Aug. 9.Although many people have raised concerns over the concentration of such much hashpower being located in China, Loop pointed out that even in the event of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, attackers are limited in what they can actually do. He explained that attackers can't steal people's Bitcoin arbitrarily, nor change the consensus

Africa Using Blockchain to Drive Change, Part Two: Southern Solutions

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Time Stamp: April 5, 2020 12:46 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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With pundits like Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey predicting that Africa “will define” the future of Bitcoin (BTC), cryptocurrency and blockchain technology continue to attract interest from both public and private establishments across the continent. Many of these adoption cases have been moving beyond finance, developing solutions targeted at issues like unemployment, identity management, health care and supply chain, among others.Amid the growing enthusiasm for crypto and blockchain technology in Africa, industry stakeholders interviewed by Cointelegraph identify a lack of education as one of the major hurdles standing in the way of more

Staking, Consensus and the Pursuit of Decentralization

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Time Stamp: April 4, 2020 3:02 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Oh, the wonders of decentralized consensus — that dream of permissionless blockchains to be censorship-resistant, trustless, collaborative and egalitarian for a potentially global community of users. While lofty in ideals, consensus is foundational for each crypto network, which must agree upon that most basic question of who decides what on the network.Decentralized consensus in the form of a proof-of-work mechanism was at the core of Satoshi Nakamoto’s innovation when creating Bitcoin — all additional protocol elements stem from PoW’s ability to reach consensus regarding the digital ledger through the computational work

Is Decentralized ASIC Production Possible?

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 7:07 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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The news about ASICs for Nervos CKB came out recently, as the time of writing, there are four ASICs announced, the Toddminer C1, Toddminer C1 Pro, Bitmain K5 and PA miner — the first batch of C1 was delivered on March 9, K5 and PA Miner are expected to be delivered in April and C1 Pro in May.Since mainnet launch, the total hashrate on CKB mainnet has been around 200TH/S on average, it is now gradually picking up (at the time of writing at ~500TH/S) with ASICs. Toddminer says C1+C1