SegWit To Soft Fork Bitcoin In November

Crypto Links

The Segregated Witness augmentation to the Bitcoin core should help in the desired scaling solution for BTC. Along the same theme - why are BTC confirmations taking so long?

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Do you want three good reasons to invest in Cryptocurrencies? How about Japan - Litecoin - Diminshing Fiat Values! Seems a Japan utility is accepting BTC and giving a discount for its use; the Chinese are going for the silver coin LTC; and the Pound and other fiats decline in relation to the dollar.

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With Trump calling the vote rigged - the blockchain could once again come to the rescue - For Security.

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Will Japan Dropping The BTC Sales Tax Be A Boom To BTC?

Once again....might be a good time to get in.

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Need more? How about a Netflix executive saying he'd like to see BTC become the world currency....sees efficiency and cost effectiveness. 

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Or..how about an online platform of Doctors... that takes Bitcoin in payments for extra privacy.

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And finally

Are some BTC miners trying to force the Blocksize Issue? - No wonder SWitness is about to happen too.

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Some Folks Spend An Hour On This Website Or More

Joe Rogan Aids In Bitcoin Awareness

Hey hey readers - more Bitcoin links below.
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REVOLUTION OR BARFSTEW?

The Joe Rogan Show

Andreas Antonopoulos makes his fourth appearance

Could Bitcoin's Rise Above 600 Be Because Of A Looming Recession?

Or, is it just a pump by the China miners?

I Phone 7 Dumps Dash - Hopefuls Push Ethereum Classic

Certainly could boost the image of ETC

Advertiser Friendly YouTube - May Drive Vloggers And More To Decentralized Platforms

PopChest Is One Of These Platforms

DAO Hacker Donates Measly 1,500.00 Fiat Value To ETC

Is the hacker converting his stash of ETH to Monero?

Will Synereo Bring A New Blockchain?

Devs claim it would have stopped DAO attack

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SOME VANISH INTO THE ARCHIVE FOR HOURS

YOU CAN TOO

Monero Becomes The Big Cheese

Hey Crypto fans - got some links for you today to enjoy. As noted by our headline, on Sept 1st Monero became a new currency accepted on the so-called dark web - and consequently has seen real volume and action...even becoming at times the most valuable Crypto except for BTC. Who'da thought privacy would still matter?
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Revolution Or Barfstew?

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Bitcoin Investors Turn To Physical Bitcoin For Long Term Security

no, not coins, an excellent 'physical' wallet, read all about it

Reasons For Monero's Growth

certainly worth the read

An Institute Studies If BTC Could Topple Fiat Currencies

here's a quote

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research shows that fiat currencies crowd out Bitcoin, not the reverse and that the design and size of the Bitcoin market deprive the currency of its intended use as a medium of exchange. What is also evident is that Bitcoin poses minimal risk to financial or monetary stability. Despite this, if the acceptance of Bitcoin or other virtual currencies increases significantly on a global scale, it could have significant consequences on the relevance of monetary policy, as its decentralized and independent nature makes regulatory oversight difficult.”

no shit sherlock

Is Arcade City - The Next Uber ... that runs on Ethereum?

podcast worth your ear perhaps

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You Could Get Lost In The Archive For Hours

Go Ahead

The DAO Hack Changes Crypto

Have you had a good summer? I want to thank visitors to this site to continue to visit the archive at the 1000 pageviews a day level ALL SUMMER despite no updates... that is about to change bigtime as we move back into blogging season.

As you can see from today's headline - the 100 million dollar plus `hacking' or `executing the code' of the DAO is obviously the summer lead story; and represents the tarnishing of one of ETH's biggest promises..the smart contract to fund the autonomous development of an idea....the hard fork and the creation of ETC... only highlighted the problems to many.

The video below is worth the watch:

26,000 Views and about a 40/1 positive to negative reaction

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NEWS - Perhaps

Why Ripple And BTC Will Be There When The US Dollar Gig Gives Up

very dire view....probably overstated

Blocksafe --- Chooses LISK For Gun Safety `Lock' Innovations

the LISK sidechain scores big

Is Synereo Facebook Competition?

the blockchain comes to social media in September?

rival to Steemit?

Is First BTC For OIL Market Emerging?

as more countries seek to replace US Petro Dollars

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The Archive Is Where It Is At BTW

The BTC Halving Speculation Heats Up

Of course the fear in trading Crypto's is that any large rise in BTC will mean AT LEAST a corresponding drop by other Alts.... (maintaining Fiat value hopefully). Are lower volumes to be expected? And what about the increase from 220 last year to the 430 of today - isn't that the large rise? Read up below on other news stories in the world of the blockchain.
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Winners

Disney..... To Use The Blockchain

here comes the mainstream

Did You Know That YOU Can Be Paid In BTC?

brave new world?

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Stew

Will People Become Their Own Banks?

disruptive ideas.... you bet

Is The Bank Of England - Discussing Crypto?

last of the paper money?

Did Presidential Candidate McAfee Suggest That CryptoCurrencies Could End The Fed?

dangerous free speech?

BIG Ideas About BTC Changing Things - Or Not

banking cartels may have their own ideas?

Are Micropayments A Real Business Model?

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Barf

Craig Wright..... NOT Satoshi?

where's the miracle?

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when you find Barfstew... you make the blog find of a lifetime... dig into the archive for a very interesting blog.... and thanks for your Bitcoin clicks above.

The Hearn Bitcoin Analysis Shakes Market

It has already been an eventful 2016 in nearly all financial markets as you know... most markets have taken significant hits to marketcap, While BTC Soared In The First Days Of 16...and that includes Cryptocurrencies in general too. But, now, already,  there are significant new patterns too - such as the surge in certain fiat values despite BTC's volatility - and yes... we are speaking about the Ethereum fiat value spike (to 2.22 as of this post) as folks search anew for a new `Bitcoin' - to replace a flawed product as it now stands - perhaps...... I'll let Hearn explain it all via this link and the excerpt below: Hearn Leaves BTC - Selling All His Coins - Trashing The Coin While Exiting (Jan14th)

"From the start, I’ve always said the same thing: Bitcoin is an experiment and like all experiments, it can fail. So don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose. I’ve said this in interviews, on stage at conferences, and over email. So have other well known developers like Gavin Andresen and Jeff Garzik.
But despite knowing that Bitcoin could fail all along, the now inescapable conclusion that it has failed still saddens me greatly. The fundamentals are broken and whatever happens to the price in the short term, the long term trend should probably be downwards. I will no longer be taking part in Bitcoin development and have sold all my coins.

Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community has failed. What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked “systemically important institutions” and “too big to fail” has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people." 
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Immediately... the price tanked from 430ish to 360ish - and every follow up MSM article made the coin value even more reactive - both ways... as many articles pointed out it was the 90th declaration of BTC being dead..Bitcoin Isn't Dead.... YET... and many point out that now the `community' will have some fire under its ass to make the needed changes.... we will see.
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Since the Hearn analysis, the coin generating the most trading interest and that seems to have the most development potential and everyone's favorite... Ethereum... here's some recent ETH links to get you up to speed:

Will The Number Of Ethereum Coins Be Capped?

and

Here's The Numbers
and another of the crowd favorites of late is
Factom

Oh, on the same day as Hearn made his announcement.... Cryptsy officially offered up an explanation by Big Vern indicating the loss of 10,000 BTC and 300,000LTC in a wallet theft in 2014.... at times now the website seems dead.... over 10K BTC loss by investors.... including about .09BTC by yours truly.

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MORE Crypto News

The On-Going Rumor Of Crackdowns On BTC Coming - This One Because Of The Paris Attacks

And for those who say ... who controls the info controls the news and flow will note the Sale Of CoinDesk - a major source of BTC info and analysis.

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Buckle Your Seatbelts, 2016 Looks Wild