January 2018 – The Value 🏆 Digital World

Venezuela Announces Petro Coin Presale

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Venezuela Says Crypto Mining Now ‘Perfectly Legal,’ Announces Petro Presale Venezuela’s government has said cryptocurrency mining is now “completely legal”as it plans the presale of its Petro coin for next month. In comments during a TV address quoted by local news outlet TeleSur, the country’s newly-dubbed ‘cryptocurrency superintendent’ Carlos Vargas confirmed that citizens mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were not breaking the law. Last year, Venezuela made headlines on several occasions after reports emerged that police were cracking down on mining operations, accusing those involved of sapping power from the…

Facebook is banning all ads for bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs

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Facebook is banning all ads for bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs – Facebook is banning all ads related to cryptocurrencies, from ICOs to bitcoin. – The social network says the ban, which includes both Facebook and Instagram, is to crack down on scams. – Cryptocurrencies are “frequently associated with misleading or deceptive practices,” it said. Cryptocurrencies are a Wild West of sorts — and Facebook has had enough. The social network is banning all ads related to bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs, it announced on Tuesday, as it attempts to crack down…

50 Cent becomes accidental Bitcoin millionaire

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50 Cent becomes accidental Bitcoin millionaire 50 Cent took a chance on bitcoin years before anyone knew what cryptocurrency even was … and it’s paid off more than 7 million times over. Rewind to 2014 and 50’s album, “Animal Ambition,” when the rapper became the first to accept bitcoin — which was then valued at around $662/bitcoin — as payment for his work. We’re told customers could get a copy of the album for just a fraction of a whole bitcoin. Our sources say “Animal Ambition” pulled in about 700…

What is a crypto airdrop?

22/01/201807/02/2022 admin

What is a crypto airdrop? A crypto airdrop is when a blockchain project distributes free tokens or coins to the crypto community. To be a recipient of an crypto airdrop often the only requirement is that you have coins from the relevant blockchain stored in your wallet. Examples of this format of airdrops are Byteball, Stellar lumens and OmiseGo. These airdrops required you to proof you were the owner of Bitcoins or Ethereums at a certain time ( snapshot) of the blockchain. The format of these crypto giveaways is usually…

Why do we value gold?

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Why do we value gold? Mankind’s attitude to gold is bizarre. Chemically, it is uninteresting – it barely reacts with any other element. Yet, of all the 118 elements in the periodic table, gold is the one we humans have always tended to choose to use as currency. Why? Why not osmium or chromium, or helium, say – or maybe seaborgium? I’m not the first to ask the question, but I like to think I’m asking it in one of the most compelling locations possible – the extraordinary exhibition of…

Cryptocoin Mining

06/01/201807/02/2022 admin

What is mining? Mining is the process of adding transaction records to Bitcoin’s public ledger of past transactions (and a “mining rig” is a colloquial metaphor for a single computer system that performs the necessary computations for “mining”). This ledger of past transactions is called the block chain as it is a chain of blocks. The block chain serves to confirm transactions to the rest of the network as having taken place. Bitcoin nodes use the block chain to distinguish legitimate Bitcoin transactions from attempts to re-spend coins that have…

Pearl Gemstone Information

05/01/201807/02/2022 admin

About Pearls – History and Introduction Pearls are organic gemstones that are formed by shelled molluscs; mainly bivalved oysters and mussels. Pearls are made up of nacre (mother-of-pearl) which is mostly aragonite (calcium carbonate) and conchiolin (complex proteins that form mollusc shells). The aragonite microcrystals build up around an irritant. The name “pearl” is said to have originated from the Middle English word “perle”, which in turn came from the Latin word “perna”, meaning “leg”, thought to be due to the ham-leg shape of the bivalve mollusc. Natural pearls are…

Bitcoin could be come to Facebook

04/01/201807/02/2022 admin

Bitcoin could be come to Facebook The technology powering bitcoin could help improve Facebook in the future, Mark Zuckerberg has said. As part of a commitment to help fix the site over 2018, its founder said that he would look into the use of new technology to stop it being quite so centralised. One of those technologies is bitcoin, he said, in an ambitious post that suggested Mr Zuckerberg is taking to heart the claims that Facebook is broken In a long post on his own site, the Facebook founder…

Ripple passes Ethereum

01/01/201807/02/2022 admin

Ripple passes Ethereum to become the second-most valuable cryptocurrency The cryptocurrency Ripple surged on the final Friday of 2017, reaching a market cap of more than $86 billion, CNBC reports. Ripple, which is officially known as XRP, saw its value rise by 55.9 percent. At its peak, the currency was valued at $2.23 a coin. Since then, it has fallen to $2.17, but it is still the second most valuable cryptocurrency in terms of market cap, according to Coinmarketcap.com. Ethereum is currently the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market…

The World’s Billionaires 2017

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The World’s Billionaires The World’s Billionaires is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the world’s wealthiest billionaires compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated and is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets and accounting for debt. Royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions are excluded from these lists. This ranking is an index of the wealthiest documented…