The Art of Not Being Governed

Several New Hardware Wallet Features Introduced As Demand Increases Over the past few months, the leading hardware wallet manufacturers have improved their services. Demand for these devices has also been skyrocketing over the course of bitcoin’s recent price rise. These days, cryptocurrency enthusiasts who want to secure their funds by utilizing cold storage hardware have more options than ever before. https://news.bitcoin.com/several-new-hardware-wallet-features-introduced-as-demand-increases/

Bitcoin’s Rocket Boosters on Full Throttle as Price Skyrockets to New ATH The price of #bitcoin has once again crossed another all-time high reaching an average of US$1240 across global exchanges, before climbing to new heights above $1250. Bitcoin’s value had already met parity with the price of one ounce of gold and had also beaten the December 4th, 2013 Mt. Gox ATH price of $1242. https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoins-rocket-boosters-on-full-throttle-as-price-skyrockets-to-new-ath/

A Regulatory Storm Is Forming in China: Video Verifications Required, Futures Forbidden Some new revelations have been coming from China concerning the recent #bitcoin exchange policies within the region. The leading exchange BTCC has revealed it will be offering zero fees for USD/BTC trades for one month. Meanwhile, Chinese exchanges are beginning to lift withdrawal suspensions but are asking for further customer identification. https://news.bitcoin.com/a-regulatory-storm-is-forming-in-china-video-verifications-required-futures-forbidden/

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Cypherpunk Steve Schear: ‘Bitcoin Is a Viable Alternative to National Money’ It has been said many times: the decentralized cryptocurrency bitcoin was born from the libertarian ideals of the cypherpunk movement. Just recently Bitcoin.com chatted with cypherpunk Steve Schear, interim Chief Operating Officer at Stash Crypto, to discuss the history of this movement and the emerging technologies pushing it forward. https://news.bitcoin.com/cypherpunk-steve-schear-bitcoin/

Gold Bug Peter Schiff Calls Bitcoin ‘Digital Fool’s Gold’ This week CNBC broadcast a debate between financial markets commentator Brian Kelly, and gold proponent and economist Peter Schiff on the show “Fast Money.” The two finance experts discussed which was a better investment — #Bitcoin or gold? https://news.bitcoin.com/peter-schiff-bitcoin-digital-fools-gold/

Antonopoulos Details Bitcoin’s Two Layers of Protection Against Quantum Computing Andreas Antonopoulos is a well-known visionary and speaker within the Bitcoin community. Lately, there’s been a lot of conversations and media headlines discussing the development of quantum computers breaking elliptic curve cryptography. Antonopoulos believes Bitcoin will be okay if the system upgrades, as research in quantum computing develops further. The technical expert also details that Satoshi’s genius back in the day had preconceived plans on how to handle the issue of quantum computing. https://news.bitcoin.com/antonopoulos-bitcoins-protection-against-quantum-computing/

Markets Update: The Top Ten Altcoins Then and Now While bitcoin’s price cracked a new all-time high of US$1,220, the top ten alternative cryptocurrencies also got a lift from the spike. The rise in bitcoin’s price has brought back a lot of memories from 2013’s upswing, but there are considerable differences in altcoin markets between #bitcoin’s two massive bull runs. https://news.bitcoin.com/markets-update-the-top-ten-altcoins-then-and-now/

Vays vs Ver: Two Very Different Bitcoin Visions Clash at Anarchapulco This week many bitcoiners attended the voluntaryism-based Anarchapulco conference in Acapulco, Mexico to discuss liberty and topics such as Bitcoin. During the weekend The Crypto Show broadcasted a debate between #Bitcoin proponent Tone Vays and Bitcoin.com’s CEO Roger Ver concerning the future of Bitcoin scaling. These prominent members of the Bitcoin community had entirely different views on subjects such as fees, hard or soft forks, and scaling solutions in general. https://news.bitcoin.com/tone-vays-roger-vers-different-bitcoin-visions-anarchapulco/

Stegoseed: Hiding Bitcoin Keys In Plain Sight James Stanley, a Bristol-based software developer, has developed a tool that steganographically encodes #Bitcoin wallet seeds. Stegoseed essentially gives Bitcoin users the ability to hide funds in plain sight. https://news.bitcoin.com/stegoseed-hiding-bitcoin-seed-keys-in-plain-sight/

Tech Startup IOHK Initiates Cryptocurrency and Blockchain University Network The blockchain research and development startup, IOHK, is building a network of university partnerships. So far, IOHK has partnered with the Scotland-based University of Edinburgh, as well as the Tokyo Institute of Technology, to bring together academics and students for cryptocurrency and distributed ledger studies. https://news.bitcoin.com/iohk-initiates-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-university-network/

How One of the Original Cypherpunks Recalls Bitcoin’s Inception In the early nineties, a group of cryptography experts called ‘cypherpunks’ gave life to ideas like digital currency and promoting freedom through the use of technology. Timothy C. May was one of these visionaries, and he predicted the rise of encrypted messaging, cryptocurrencies, and electronic contracts. https://news.bitcoin.com/original-cypherpunks-recalls-bitcoins-inception/

The Butterfly Effect of Chinese Bitcoin Regulations Over the past few weeks, China has implemented regulations across all #bitcoin exchange operations within the country. This, in turn, has caused a significant drop in trading volumes within the region. Some people speculate that Chinese bitcoin traders are now going abroad finding friendlier overseas entrances to bitcoin exchanges. https://news.bitcoin.com/butterfly-effect-chinese-bitcoin-regulations/

The Practice of Predicting the Price of Bitcoin The hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me,” the infamous ‘super forecaster,’ Nostradamus, said in the year 1555. Indeed, there have been many investors and economists who tried to predict bitcoin’s price value over the years. Some of them have been significantly on point with their predictions, while others have been way off target. For instance, Yves Lamoureux, president and chief behavioral strategist of macroeconomic research firm Lamoureux & Co., recently predicted that #bitcoin will “eventually catapult” to at least US$25,000 or more. https://news.bitcoin.com/practice-predicting-price-bitcoin/

The Recently Discovered Cloudflare Bug Could Affect Bitcoin Users On February 17 an individual had discovered a bug with the Cloudflare infrastructure, a company that many bitcoin companies use for DoS protection and other services. The severity of the bug is considered very bad, and security credentials for many #bitcoin accounts should be changed. https://news.bitcoin.com/cloudflare-bug-could-affect-bitcoin-users/

Bitcoin Price Surpasses 2013 All Time High According to recent charts, the price per #bitcoin has surpassed it’s 2013 all time high (ATH) on February 23, 2017, reaching $1168 per BTC. https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-price-surpasses-2013-time-high/

Bitcoin’s Transaction Queue Sets a New Record On February 22 the transaction queue for the #Bitcoin network, otherwise known as the mempool, reached its all-time-high. During peak hours of the day, over 100,000 transactions were unconfirmed, and many people were once again experiencing significant delays. https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoins-transaction-queue-sets-a-new-record/