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Bitcoin Core developers have announced they release the new version of Bitcoin network client numbered 0.12.1. The release features a new mechanism of soft-fork deployment BIP9, which in turn activates proposals BIP68, BIP112, and BIP113. More About the BIPs BIP68 allows miners to prohibit a transaction until a specified moment in time or until the transaction […]

Bitcoin enthusiast Alexei Bragin, earlier engaged in ReactOS and tutoring at Moscow State Technical University, decided to enter Russian parliament to defend “the interests of science and small businesses”.

There are lots of researches concerning the way blockchain may cut operational expenses, accelerate transactions and settle issues with KYC and AML regulations. However, the very issue of KYC is problematic both for crypto-industry itself and global finance. Expenses for customer identification, anti-fraud efforts, and follow-up of such operations are truly colossal. The very procedure […]

Individualist societies lack solidarity relations insuring from ambiguity. An individual’s life in this kind of society mostly depends on his or her ability to purchase necessary items on markets. For that reasons, individuals look for a thing, or a commodity, that would enable them to purchase any commodity in future. Any individual looks for a […]

Our weekly overview highlights the most interesting tidings of this week. Bitcoin Price Bitcoin has been stable for the better part of the week, with its price fluctuating between $418 and $423. However, Friday night it abruptly dropped to $414. Later on, it returned to $417. Some experts believe that price stability is caused by […]

These days the Finnish bitcoin scene mostly remains in the shadows, with only occasional news and a few startups being known to community. However, thanks to favourable bitcoin regulation and early bitcoin adoption, the homeland of Nokia can be also a great starting point for cryptobusinesses. We tried to figure out what’s happening in this […]

North Korean authorities have claimed cryptocurrency invention. During Wednesday’s evening broadcast of The Voice of Korea, the country’s foreign broadcasting service, the DPRK authorities claimed that Bitcoin had been invented by Kim Il Sung personally to grant prosperity to the people of Korea. “The greatest and most ingenious Kim Il Sung was not only the […]

Part One covered general features and peculiarities of bitcoin in comparison to national currencies of a cashless economy. Part Two covers bitcoin’s perspectives under conditions of negative percent rate policy (NIRP).