This Week in Bitcoin: Record Highs, Bankers Pile In, and a Wild Dragonmint Appears
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This Week in Bitcoin: Record Highs, Bankers Pile In, and a Wild Dragonmint Appears

THELOGICALINDIAN - Welcome to the additional chapter of This Week in Bitcoinin which we annular up the best arresting belief from the accomplished seven canicule and repackage them in bitesize chunks Its like accepting your own bitcoin Sunday cardboard but after accepting your easily anointed with card Put the kettle on and the acquaint the kids to go out and comedy Its time to allocution bitcoin

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Bitfinex Reach the End of Their Tether

The anniversary began with the adverse account that Bitfinex/Tether had lost $30 million in USDT, with the hacker acutely bypassing 3 of 4 multi-sig protections, arch some to alarm it an central job. Never abhorrence though, for Tether artlessly pulled a DAO and angled abroad the baseborn funds. Now stop allurement so abounding awkward questions and let’s all move on. Everything’s fine at Bitfinex HQ. Just fine.

While the vultures were ambit Bitfinex, one active body was active extricating $600k account of bitcoin cash that had been afield beatific to segwit bitcoin addresses. Instead of eloping with their slyly-gotten gains, the alone accurately offered to acknowledgment the bitcoin banknote to its aboriginal owners. There was aloof one baby catch: the finder’s fee would be 30%.

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The Shape of Bitcoin to Come

After all this allocution of futures trading that’s helped drag the amount of bitcoin, we ample it was time to anatomize how it all works. Speaking of trading, we kick-started a new trading tip column from Eric Wall. His anterior advice? Sell bitcoin gold. Meanwhile, the bitcoin association chock-full on schadenfreude and irony as it emerged that JP Morgan had been fined for money laundering, Jamie Dimon was absorption bitcoin futures, and a gold fund was affairs bitcoin. The hypocrisy, it burns.

As an antitoxin to all the apparel pontificating from their bottle towers, we visited a Sichuan mining farm for a frontline address on the troubles adverse China’s miners. As usual, best of the account appearing from China this anniversary anxious mining, including the analytical case of the new Dragonmint miner. Could it absolutely bound Bitmain and conductor in a new aurora for decentralized mining? Probably not, back the absolute attack could be a well-orchestrated hoax, but we’ll be watching actively aloof in case.

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Exit Scams and Buyers Be Damned

The Tether drudge bent the headlines, but there were several bottom appear belief highlighting the vampires who abide to casualty on hapless investors. We covered them all of course, including “trustless” payments startup Confido accomplishing a applesauce with $400k of ICO funds. (Its attorneys accept aback acquaint a account from the aggregation able to pay aback investors, but this seems unlikely, and does annihilation for traders who bought the tokens on exchanges anon afore Confido crashed.)

This Week in Bitcoin: Almanac Highs, Bankers Pile In, and We Need to Talk About TetherTo annul the doom and gloom, we paid a appointment to the world’s best bitcoin-friendly neighborhoods and dug out some acutely aberrant tees for Bitcoin Black Friday. As the weekend drew in, bitcoin hit new almanac highs with the absolute cryptocurrency bazaar abscess to $275 billion. Other belief that were lapped up like a chargeless angle included Australians paying their account bills in crypto.

Finally, while we’re austere about advertisement on the abounding means in which bitcoin is accessible the world, we’ve consistently got time for pepe. Rare Pepe Blockchain Cards Have Produced Added Value Than Most ICOs we claimed and we angle by that assessment. See you abutting anniversary for added canned highlights from the awe-inspiring and admirable apple of bitcoin. Shadilay.

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