Author: dfmines

Cryptocurrency News and Public Mining Pools

Lost all of my RVN on raven-qt on linux

I had a few hundred RVN in my wallet as well as having the mnemonic key I made backed up. I have not used the wallet in about a week and when I opened it today it made me renter my key and password and redownload the whole block chain. I just got another 50…
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Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit launches bitcoin volatility index

CryptoNinjas » Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit launches bitcoin volatility index Deribit, a crypto derivatives exchange company, has announced the launch of its Bitcoin Volatility Index, DVOL. The next goal for the Deribit team is to launch futures on this index; which will enable traders to take a position based on the market view on near-term…
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Go Phish: How This Bitcoin Investor Lost 17 BTC To An iPhone App

Bitcoin is once again making headlines everywhere, mostly for all the right reasons this time around. However, where there’s money to be made, there’s also scammers waiting in the shadows to steal funds whenever they can. The latest situation involves a highly sophisticated replica of a popular Apple iPhone app, a malicious application from Apple’s […]

Earned £280 worth of Crypto currency in cashback when I bought my car.

Pretty cool Crypto Story from my life today 😊 So I use Crypto.Com to purchase my Crypto, and I have one of their Debit Cards. Myself and my fiancé are expecting our first child in May, so we needed to get rid of our small 3 Door, and get a more family suitable car. I…
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Cryptocurrency and the Psychology of Uncertainty

Ok so before I entered into Crypto I played poker at a fairly high level. Poker, like crypto is easy to the untrained eye and every man and their dog thinks they are one hop away from winning the World Series or in our case being the DeepFuckingValue of the crypto space. To outsiders it…
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ASIC miners + 1559 + quick PoS… Potential problem?

Disclaimer: I'm just a guy who mines with my 3080 on my computer that I bought for gaming/school. Using the cash to help me pay off my college tuition. I don't really care about mining profits reducing because once it isn't profitable anymore I'll just continue to use my computer as I always have. So…
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“Patsy attacks”, a possible IRL exploit against blockchain tech

Hypothetically: would it be possible for malicious actors to enter data into the ethereum blockchain (or another blockchain) with the intention inciting hostile action against the blockchain by government actors? Let’s say that a bad actor input data into the blockchain that, when unzipped by a highly popular and available compression software, was converted into…
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Hi, I’ve got an NFT podcast and I’m looking for people to interview about ethereum.

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Was Visa’s USDC transactions settled on the Ethereum Blockchain?

Many news reports today [example] about Visa's first USDC transaction. Lots of quotes like … "Instead, the transaction is now settled on the Ethereum blockchain via stablecoin conversion" Are transactions really settled on the Eth blockchain? Wouldn't gas fees be prohibitive? How does it work? submitted by /u/Axlemax [link] [comments]