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The speculation is rising, but it’s just about impossible to prove.
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Nick Szabo News
Nick Szabo is an American cryptographer and computer scientist who has largely contributed to digital money and cryptocurrency as well as to digital contracts. Nick is a graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in computer science. Nick Szabo’s concept of smart contracts is now one of the major features of cryptocurrencies and one of the most prominent fields of study. Some people suggest that Nick Szabo is the Bitcoin developer hidden with Satoshi Nakamoto’s pseudonym and Nick is in fact a major indirect contributor to Bitcoin technology. Nick Szabo’s Bitgold concept of decentralized digital currency is a precursor of the Bitcoin architecture. However, Nick himself repeatedly denied his connection to Nakamoto. Today, the opinion of Nick Szabo on Bitcoin issues is one of the most trusted and professional in the field.
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Only Binance Coin has provided meaningful gains against Bitcoin since 2018, while attention remains on BTC performance.
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Cryptocurrency pioneer Nick Szabo has argued that amidst rising geopolitical uncertainty, central banks could soon turn to cryptocurrency reserves.
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A Bitcoin-based exchange traded note (ETN) listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange is now being quoted in dollars, targeting U.S. investors.
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The concept of an ETF for Bitcoin is becoming less of a “magic pill” for many industry figures as prices circle $6,000.
28878 The debate on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto promises to be a never-ending one, but Elon Musk says it isn’t him.
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Developers have canceled the Bitcoin SegWit2x hard fork due to it failing to achieve consensus.
73764 TREZOR users will need to split SegWit2x coins off manually to get access to new balances, the wallet has confirmed.
2175184% of 4,500 survey respondents think Bitcoin Core’s chain will still be ‘Bitcoin’ after SegWit2x.
16525The third Global Blockchain Summit Shanghai will get underway next month despite the unforeseen circumstances of a similar event in August.
10655Fred Ehrsam, former Goldman Sachs trader and co-founder of the bln dollar Bitcoin startup Coinbase, laid out several scaling issues of Ethereum.
30909After four days of learning about the underlying technology of Ethereum, the tools and strategies to build decentralized applications, and a showcase of what people have built already
718Nick Szabo will be the keynote speaker at DEVCON1, Ethereum’s yearly developer conference this 2015.
703Instant cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has completed its fund-raising of US$1.6 million; Nick Szabo says banks must go permissionless to get all of blockchain’s benefits, and more top stories for September 9.
538Cryptographer and digital currency researcher Nick Szabo, who many believe to be the real identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto, has stated that a rapid block size increase is “a huge security risk”
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