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Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Mike Novogratz was unfazed by the firm’s $175.8-million loss as he emphasized the importance of digital asset adoption.
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Counterparty News
Counterparty definition is a project that aims to expand Bitcoin functionality by including new operations on top of regular Bitcoin transactions. Counterparty protocol is open-sourced and allows users to create new digital tokens and establish smart contract that are performed within the Bitcoin blockchain. Counterparty provides users with built-in scripting language to write their own protocols and programs. Counterparty has its own coin (XCP) that is used to pay for the performance of smart contracts and is implemented in the voting system of the counterparty community. Counterparty tries to eliminate the risks of using cryptocurrency with their own crypto wallet, which never stores private keys on servers, encrypts all information sent to them and erases every session’s information after the users log out.
The popular meme known as Pepe the Frog is becoming a tradeable CounterParty asset through the Bitcoin Blockchain.
3836Counterparty enters the non-Bitcoin world by teaming up with the physical card game Force of Will as it prepares to launch its first digital game assets.
1730Cointelegraph spoke to Trevor Altpeter and Matt Young, directors of the Counterparty Foundation, about the partnership with Storj, micropayments, and the Lightning Network.
1024Counterparty is to launch Ethereum’s Virtual Machine on testnet in two weeks, bringing Ethereum’s smart contract functionality to Bitcoin.
2261Is this the beginning of the end of Ethereum? How valuable will the EVM be to the network?
1769Decentralized exchanges have paralleled projects such as Colored Coins that allow for individual claims of ownership via the blockchain.
858Counterparty and Dogeparty are similar protocols built on top of Bitcoin and Dogecoin blockchains, the function of which is to allow any individual user to issue his own store of value or token.
803A protocol built upon the inherent security that characterizes the Bitcoin’s Blockchain
465Bitcoins are widely called “digital gold,” so it's fitting that many crypto fans like their physical gold, too. Several companies have sprung up in the last two years to serve this bitcoins-to-gold market.
2622According to mathematician Meni Rosenfeld, Israel is a Bitcoin “forerunner.” With large numbers of users in the country, the number of startups and merchants continues to grow.
1899EverDreamSoft has committed to building a new game they view as “transforming the free-to-play genre.” And they're planning to use Counterparty assets to fund development.
727Symbiont.io has bridged the gap between Bitcoin and Ripple by introducing a Ripple gateway for Counterparty.
1709Cointelegraph is partnering with not one but two blockchain services by revered crypto 2.0 startup CoinDaddy. Together, these tools bring enhanced opportunities to both readers and advertisers alike courtesy of the Cointelegraph Media Group.
671Counterparty, one of the first Bitcoin 2.0 platforms in existence, has come a long way since its flaming entrance into the market in 2014. To create Counterparty on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, 2,100 bitcoins were “burned.” Since then, Counterparty has established itself as a go-to platform for p2p digital asset exchange. In fact, almost two-thirds of Bitcoin 2.0 startup crowdsales have been completed on the Counterparty platform in a never-before-seen, decentralized manner.
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