What’s Being Built – and What’s Not – on 2019’s Smart Contract Blockchains

Has anyone checked in with EOS lately, to see how it’s doing? How about Tezos – any signs of life there? In mid 2017, two of the largest token sales in history birthed two smart contracting platforms that promised to topple Ethereum and usher in an era of fast and low-cost value transfer with dApps for everyone. Two years on, news.Bitcoin.com decided it ought to perform a welfare check on the leading smart contracting platforms to look for signs of life. Also read: How Market Makers Inject Liquidity Into the…

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Op Ed: Portugal Clarified Its Bitcoin Tax Code; Other Nations Should Take Note

Portugal is a standout in the EU for its less conventional, more progressive approaches to certain areas of public policy. It was the first (and still the only) country in the EU to decriminalize all drugs — a radical solution that has had the salutary effect of combating addiction and drug overdoses.  The Iberian country also employs perhaps the most lax bitcoin tax policy of any country in Europe. Portugal’s tax authority recently clarified that bitcoin payments and realized gains are exempt from capital gains tax. Yes, that means, no…

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Research Paper: Bitcoin Disrupts International Monetary Policy

Can cryptocurrencies like bitcoin wreck central banking? “The short answer is yes,” wrote Pierpaolo Benigno, a professor of economics at Rome’s Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS), in an article published on April 26, 2019.  On August 19, 2019, Benigno and two other economists, Linda M. Schilling and Harald Uhlig, published a paper expanding on this short answer, “Cryptocurrencies, Currency Competition and the Impossible Trinity,” attempting to mathematically prove it to be true. Citing a range of economic thought — from the authors’ previous work; to Fredrick Hayek, the…

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Check Out the New Featured Tokens on Bitcoin.com’s Markets Page

Markets.Bitcoin.com has just launched a Featured Tokens page, allowing coin creators with unique tokens to apply for a listing through a simple review process. Each token listed on Bitcoin.com’s upcoming exchange, launching Sep. 2, will also be listed at markets.Bitcoin.com, providing great exposure and detailed data for projects making a splash in the BCH community and elsewhere. Also Read: PR: Australian Bitcoin Cash Conference Brings Cryptocurrency Leaders to Townsville Featured Tokens Galore Featured Tokens is a new section of markets.Bitcoin.com, displaying BCH-friendly tokens with unique selling points and offerings, vibrant…

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Agorism and Bitcoin: Free People Don’t Ask Maxine Waters for Permission

Anti-agorism Congressional Representative Maxine Waters still has misgivings about Facebook’s proposed Libra digital currency, even after meeting with Swiss government officials to discuss the tech last week. The sustained reservations echo the message of July’s open letter from the House of Representatives to Facebook, calling for a halt on Libra’s ongoing development. While many view regulation and careful legislative feet-dragging a troublesome necessity for crypto mainstreaming, agorists, anarchists, and other free marketeers see a critical problem: the tech is already here, and how we use it in non-violence is nobody…

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