While Bitcoin is only ten years old, the origins of the technologies behind it go back much further, and its future implications are still not clear.
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The Modern Consensus 2018 Crypto Twitter Power List
Here it is for everyone to make sure they're following the accounts that are leading the conversation: the first-ever Modern Consensus Crypto Twitter Power List for 2018!
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Bitfinex’s new tactic: Attack journalists
Tether’s sister company goes after reporter who published something they didn’t like
Bitfinex, the embattled exchange with a reputation for opaqueness, has taken on a combative approach against journalists—specifically, targeting one from a big name in crypto reporting. About a week ago, CoinDesk’s David Floyd began focusing on the crypto soap opera that is Bitfinex and Tether. On October 19, he wrote a piece about how traders were moving their Tether tokens on to Kraken. It appears those traders were then selling their tether for U.S. dollars because the exchange rate touched a low of 85 cents. “With users apparently unable to convert their USDT into dollars in the way envisioned by Tether’s white paper, they seem to be trying to accomplish…
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Why Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin is boycotting CoinDesk’s Consensus 2018
No hero is perfect
Many of the biggest players in cryptocurrency and blockchain are set to descend on New York in a couple of weeks for CoinDesk’s Consensus 2018. But there’s one top figure calling on everyone to boycott the event—Ethereum’s wunderkind founder, Vitalik Buterin. Buterin, who was a panelist at the same event two years ago, took to Twitter to unleash his fury at CoinDesk, which sponsors the annual equivalent of a crypto Lollapalooza. First, he ripped into them for a technical analysis piece about OmiseGo’s OMG token (which, by the way, was built on the Ethereum platform). Specifically, the CoinDesk piece included links to a scam that claims to be giving away…
