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New Delhi: Prices of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin and Ether have surged to new highs in Asia trade, according to a Reuters report. The more and more acceptance of cryptocurrency and apprehensions about inflation have bolstered the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices in the trading market, the Reuters report said.Also Read - Bitcoin vs Britcoin: Bank of England Reveals Launch Timeline of UK's Own Cryptocurrency
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China makes all crypto currency transactions illegal after ordering shut down of Bitcoin mining in Sichuan province
Bitcoin’s bullish price rise to near $70,000 in value comes as investors hope to see the $1 trillion market cap remain firmly in place ahead of a volatile trading period.
— “It has also notched some tangible, if fleeting, policy victories for Mr. Orban, including the withdrawal during the Trump administration of a State Department grant to nurture independent news media in Hungary and the securing of a long-coveted Oval Office meeting for Mr. Orban in 2019 with President Donald J. Trump.”
A number of figures have significantly impacted the cryptocurrency industry throughout its time. Satoshi Nakamoto kickstarted the sector with the creation of Bitcoin (BTC). Known for building Ethereum (ETH), Vitalik Buterin has also notably impacted the cryptocurrency movement. With Ethereum came a whole world of extra tokens built on its network called ERC-20 tokens.
China announced in September that all cryptocurrency transactions in the country are illegal, effectively putting the brakes on any crypto-related activities within Chinese borders. In the U.S., things are less clear. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said recently that he has “no intention” of banning cryptocurrency in the U.S while Security and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has consistently commented on both his own agency’s and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s role in policing the industry.
However, after three months in the role, Brooks resigned amid an alleged battle over independence from Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. Brooks himself did not give his reason for leaving.
FACEBOOK WHISTLEBLOWER GOES PUBLIC: “The former Facebook Inc. employee who gathered documents that formed the foundation of The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series said she acted to help prompt change at the social-media giant, not to stir anger toward it,” the Journal’s Jeff Horwitz wrote in a profile of Frances Haugen, a former product manager hired to help protect against election interference on the platform. She “said she had grown frustrated by what she saw as the company’s lack of openness about its platforms’ potential for harm and unwillingness to address its flaws. She is scheduled to testify before Congress on Tuesday. She has also sought federal whistleblower protection with the Securities and Exchange Commission.”
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It seems all too fitting that Facebook’s plans to launch a digital coin were leaked in the second-to-last week of a year that saw the tech giant’s reputation pummeled and cryptocurrencies crash and burn. It’s like grilling a shit sandwich over a dumpster fire.
Cryptocurrencies’ finite supply makes them inherently deflationary, more akin to gold and other precious metals — of which there are finite supplies — than fiat currencies that central banks can, in theory, produce unlimited supplies of.
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Decentralized platforms that require a coin can be enabled via blockchains. The blockchain is the distributed ledger technology that allows a network to maintain consensus. The network can track transactions and transfer value and information due to distributed consensus.
Mining computers compile valid transactions into a new block and attempt to generate the cryptographic link to the previous block by finding a solution to a complex algorithm. When a computer succeeds in generating the link, it adds the block to its version of the blockchain file and broadcasts the update across the network.
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