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Salesforce Integration Sends VeChain Surging 58% to $0.14

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Binance Coin (BNB) market cap passes Santander and UBS — What’s next?

To date, Binance Coin has rallied 900%, which makes the token’s $64 billion market cap larger than Santander, the Bank of Montreal and UBS.

What will be the transaction speed on ETH 2.0

I understand that the scalability problem will essentially go away with ETH 2.0 for some time. However, how long will transactions take to hit finality? Will it ever be fast enough to compete with xrp, hashgraph etc. because its blockchain vs their form of distributed ledger? Right now, it take multiple minutes for transactions to…
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Did I just loose 2.4k?

Hello… I might have made a huge mistake… I wanted to use the BSC bridge to remove 1.14 eth to Ethereum Mainnet. However, my windows ctrl+C didn't work correctly and sadly, the bridge address had the same ending letter as the BETH contract… I just had added the ETH token so had that one in…
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Fun history: The faucet that used to give you 5 BTC per day.

It may sound shocking now, but in 2010 it was reality. The creator of website “freebitcoins.appspot.com” where user could collect free Bitcoins is Gavin Andersen. The website is not working anymore. Each of users received 5 Bitcoins per day just by solving captcha. The purpose of this game was to promote cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin itself.…
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Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness

… but buys a lot of coke, hookers and fast cars. But does that make you happy? A lot of people suffer from regret from not investing earlier. I got into crypto in 2012, when I bought 27 bitcoins for around 300 dollars (or something like that, can't quite remember it), and if only I'd…
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If you had to recommend ONE book about blockchain to help someone really understand it, what book would that be?

Specifically for someone who has a decent understanding about technology. submitted by /u/apartment_267 [link] [comments]

(USA) Gross income taxation on mined / validated ETH

Was reading over this from the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf Specifically this: Q-8: Does a taxpayer who “mines” virtual currency (for example, uses computer resources to validate Bitcoin transactions and maintain the public Bitcoin transaction ledger) realize gross income upon receipt of the virtual currency resulting from those activities? A-8: Yes, when a taxpayer successfully “mines” virtual…
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Is anyone else not holding ANY Bitcoin?

I am fairly new to crypto, early January of this year, and my original portfolio had a big chunk of BTC. But after watching basically everything else in my portfolio outperform it, I have slowly migrated out of Bitcoin for now, at least during this bull run. The odd thing is, I can't see any…
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Report Claims the FBI Uses Bitcoin Mixers During BTC Forfeiture Processing

Over the last eight years, U.S. law enforcement has seized a great number of bitcoins and at one time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held one of the largest bitcoin wallets after the Silk Road takedown. A recently published report shows the FBI has started using cryptocurrency mixing applications in recent times in order […]