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The cryptocurrency ecosystem is agog with Bitcoin price so much that events happening around the underlying technology are forced to take a back seat from the eyes of the public.
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Michael Vogel is a co-founder of Netcoins, a software solution that can make a Bitcoin ATM from any device. He founded the company in 2014 with his brother, Dominic Vogel, which is how they got the nickname ‘Bitcoin Brothers.’ Both brothers were born and currently live in Vancouver, Canada. Before creating his own project, Michael Vogel had been working for many years as an engineer, developing and launching hardware. Michael Vogel believes Bitcoin is a great innovation that will improve the quality of the world of money. So, before founding Netcoins, he just wanted to find an easy way to buy cryptocurrency. According to Michael Vogel, by creating virtual Bitcoin ATMs, Michael and his brother have solved the problem of buying Bitcoin for new customers.
Goldman Sachs has predicted that Bitcoin is headed for $3,700, and it seems we're well on the way there.
60474Only hours remain before the widely-expected Bitcoin network’s SegWit activation, but there seems to be reasonable calmness within the Bitcoin ecosystem.
27380With the community approaching a significant decision date on the issue of scaling, the outcome of the consensus is looking more like an open secret as SegWit2x and SegWit Support has officially surpassed Emergent Consensus.
37542Any given technology can only be said to have achieved mainstream adoption when it becomes employable by the regular public without any specialized skill or expertise.
20853Bitcoin politics plays too big a role in its scalability dispute, meanwhile unconfirmed transactions queue, increasing fees scare investors away.
8641Yves Lamoureux, a strategist with the macroeconomic research firm Lamoureux & Co. is sure that Bitcoin will reach a target of $25,000 or more.
10104OkCoin and Huobi announced an immediate suspension of withdrawals for one month after receiving a directive from the PBoC to improve on their AML systems.
1291Bitcoin has been beating gold by a big margin so far this year. The digital currency has more than doubled in value, while the yellow metal has gained 8.73 percent.
2117The relative stability of Bitcoin during periods of geopolitical uncertainties has made the digital currency to be considered by investors as a safe haven.
1585Trying to retrieve Bitcoins from a deceased may be challenging or even impossible. But the solutions of this problem are being developed.
1906The repetitive phenomenon of the fall in price of Bitcoin, coinciding with the meetings between the miners and core developers, has attracted concern within the industry.
521Would Bitcoin enhance taxing and provide more effective ways for governments to make citizens accountable, or would it create a hole for users of the currency to evade tax?
995Bitcoin and the Blockchain have looked interwoven at times, and at other times they have appeared to be mutually exclusive entities. Whether Bitcoin can be absolutely separated from the Blockchain is yet to be seen.
892Cointelegraph asked experts what they think the real identity of Bitcoin is, a commodity, a currency or something else.
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