Veteran exchange Huobi announced today that it would be listing three pairs for Dogecoin: DOGE/BTC, DOGE/ETH, and DOGE/USDT. When Moon? Dogecoin recently experienced a significant pump but has corrected on its BTC peg in the interim. The limitless supply cryptocurrency created by Jackson Palmer in 2014 has historically ranged between 50 and 100 Satoshis per coin, sometimes reaching as high as 2...
Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer doesn’t think the blockchain’s progression is anything like that of the Internet, in a tweet from Wednesday. Palmer said it’s “dishonest” to compare the two, citing the “user demand” and “market fit” of the Internet after 10 years of development. Jackson Palmer Says Bitcoin Adoption Nothing Like the Internet Of course, web historians might disagree with Jackson’s...
A reporter receives a scam tip, reviews the e-mail, checks an address on the blockchain, and figures the balance shown is the take from the scam in progress. Probably the author and most of his peers are guilty of the assumption -- the pseudonymous nature of the blockchain makes it difficult to know right off the top what the real source of some funds are. A recent example involves scams...
Jackson Palmer, a product developer at Adobe and the creator of Dogecoin, has said that developers in the crypto community will now have to find a way to encourage users of centralized systems to convert to decentralized applications (dApps). Decentralized systems and applications are significantly less efficient in processing information than centralized platforms. As such, incentivizing users...
Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer has moved onto a new project -- a Twitter bot that mixes dialogue from the infamous erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey with blockchain whitepaper jargon. There are shackles attached at each bonus period. — Fifty Shades of Blockchain (@blockshade) July 6, 2018 Fifty Shades of Grey reached global recognition after a 2011 publication, selling 125 million...
Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer weighed in on the cryptocurrency bubble debate, stating that he believes the markets are in a bubble and that the eventual pop will make people less likely to embrace the underlying cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Palmer told the New York Times that he sees parallels between the crypto finance industry--initial coin offerings in particular--and the dot...
A bitcoin address containing ~18,866 bitcoins may hold the stolen bitcoins from the Bitstamp hack on January 4th. Bitstamp confirmed last night that "we have reason to believe that one of Bitstamp’s operational wallets was compromised on January 4th, 2015." According to data maintained by Bitstamp users keeping an eye on the public Bitcoin blockchain, Bitstamp may have been "hacked" for 12% of...
At 8 a.m. EST today, various Dogecoin and Litecoin members plan to announce a brand new initiative to both raise Christmas money for orphans in the Philippines and unite the crypto communities over a special cause. The charity, deemed “Liteshibes4Christmas,” will launch on both the Litecoin subreddit and the Dogecoin subreddit, along with litecointalk.org. The hope is that this charity event will...