Although “smart contracts” represent an important move toward addressing the lack of chargebacks and refunds in cryptocurrencies, it remains to be seen whether they’re enough to solve the problem completely. Still, they’re at least partly responsible for Ethereum’s success.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s biggest banks promised Monday to refuse to help customers trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies after the central bank said executives were told to step up enforcement of a government ban.
One investor who wasn’t deterred was Barstool Sports Inc. founder Dave Portnoy. In May, he announced to his 2.6 million followers on Twitter that he’d bought $40,000 worth, despite saying that SafeMoon could be a Ponzi scheme, a scam in which early investors’ returns are paid with funds coming from later buyers that collapses when new deposits dry up or too many people try to cash out.
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In recent days, the company has stopped those in Singapore from making trades on their platform, reacting to a tightening in regulations locally. While Binance remains the most preferable of the two platforms currently, it is important to remember that changes such as these have an effect on which may come out on top.
Notes: This figure plots weekly averages of log price and log computing power (log hashrate) of Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period from August 2015 to January 2019. We normalise both time series by subtracting their mean and dividing by the standard deviation.
It was a wild ride for SafeMoon, with its prices exploding in the first few weeks before crashing down.
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HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -Didi Global is preparing to relaunch its ride-hailing and other apps in China by the end of the year in anticipation that Beijing's cybersecurity investigation into the company will be wrapped up by then, three people directly involved in the relaunch said. The people, who declined to be identified as the information was private, said they expected China's cyberspace regulator to finalise any penalties on the company in December. In July, the powerful Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) ordered app stores to remove 25 mobile apps operated by Didi - just days after the ride-hailing giant listed in New York.
Ripple also put heavy investments into non-fungible token projects using the XRP ledger – a public blockchain. Many experts claim that this investment puts Ripple in the position to be an “Ethereum killer.”
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Polkadot has increased more than 9 percent in the last week. It is trading at $52.87.
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