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Coingather Exchange Has Been Offline for Days and No One Knows Why

Coingather, a tiny cryptocurrency exchange, has disappeared from the web, alarming customers who fear their funds are gone. The Coingather.com domain has been offline since Wednesday November 22, and with no word on Twitter from customer support, there are fears the site's operators have pulled an exit scam. What's the Matter With Coingather? Coingather Exchange Has Been Offline for Days and No One Knows WhyFew cryptocurrency traders will have heard of Coingather; it's an obscure exchange even by the standard of obscure exchanges. It's not so small as to be able to disappear from the web unnoticed however, and the site's disgruntled users have wasted no time in voicing their concerns. Coingather might be one of the world's smallest exchanges, but it's nevertheless listed on Coinmarketcap complete with 92 trading pairs that are matched with BTC, LTC, DOGE, and HTML5. The site's admin, who goes by the name of Rapta on the Bitcointalk forum, has been offlin

The intelligent investors guide to Particl (PART): Part 1 - What is Particl and what is the purpose of the PART token?

Particl is a PoS chain using the native PART token. The purpose of a dedicated chain is for the privacy centric and optional anonymity aspects of it. The PART token can either be transferred as a public token or as a private token via use of CT and RingCT to obscure sender and amount. The PART token also confers voting rights proportional to stake of network owned for the onchain governance and voting mechanisms. There is also a MAD escrow service they are building in; a trustless escrow system which requires no third party. Using only the native PART token simplifies this mechanic.   It is for these reasons and the simple economics of incentivisation that all currencies fed into particl will be converted to native PART token via integrated shapeshift function prior to use on the particl network. Particl is a modular framework and yes smart contracts mechanisms are involved  on the bitcoin core codebase it uses. Their use of ringCT and focus on truly trustless privacy and anonymity is

Bitcoin Cash Price Rally Continues as Value Soars Past $1,250

It would appear the Bitcoin Cash price rally is still in full effect as we speak. More specifically, we have seen a Bitcoin Cash price increase for two days in a  row now, which is pretty interesting, to say the least. Whether or not this will be another temporary trend or a sign of things to come in the future, remains to be seen, though. For now, the momentum clearly favors BCH, but that trend may change any given moment these days. It is pretty impressive to see how the Bitcoin Cash price has evolved over the past two weeks. Although the initial spike to $2,500 and beyond has been considered to be a pump-and-dump, the value of BCH has not collapsed entirely just yet. In fact, the Bitcoin Cash price has successfully remained above $1,000 for quite some time now, despite the price dip to $885 not too long ago. This seems to indicate the BCH value will remain around this level for quite some to come, although nothing has been set in stone. The past 24 hours have been pretty solid for

Bitcoin Cash Network Completes a Successful Hard Fork

At approximately 4 pm EDT at block height 504031, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network successfully hard forked. The fork is a change to the decentralized currency's consensus rules and aims to upgrade the network's Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm (DAA). The Bitcoin Cash Network Has Successfully Hard Forked Bitcoin Cash Network Completes a Successful Hard ForkNovember 13 is a memorable day for bitcoin cash supporters, as the network is forking in order to fix the BCH blockchain's DAA. The primary development teams who have been working on the bitcoin cash protocol consensus change include Bitcoin ABC, Unlimited, Nchain, and XT developers. The original DAA applied to the BCH network allowed the currency to thrive but also produced wild hashrate fluctuations. After several DAA proposals were researched and tested by the above-mentioned development teams, the community chose to implement a DAA proposal from Bitcoin ABC's lead developer Amaury Sechet. Bitcoin Cash Network Complet

BrickBlock - Trade tokenized ETFs, real estate, and coin funds in a secure marketplace.

Brickblock founders believe the majority of people in the world are undeserved by current financial system, the traditional investment system is expensive, complex, and can be restrictive based on income and location. Brickblock has a blockchain solution to revolutionise the industry, by creating a new crypto currency in investment, it is safe, simple and fast.  This article will provide a comprehensive understanding on Brickblock plans to revolutionise the way people invest by making the future of investment easier, cheaper and more secure using blockchain based investment platform for Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) and Real Estate Fund (REF).  ETF tracks index of multiple underlying assets, like stocks, bonds, commodities such as gold or silver, foreign currencies at cetera. Hence, one ETF share equivalent to own multiple assets. For example, one of the most widely known and traded ETFs tracks the S&P 500 Index, and is called the Spider (SPDR), and trades under the ticker SPY. In j

Bitclave - The next generation of search data privacy

With using Bitclave (The next generation of search data privacy) your data is safe, if a company wants your data they need to pay for it, and you get also paid. If you search something on the bigger companies you will not get paid and your data will be sold to companies who want it. BASE offers prospects a possibility to document their very own explicit inquiry motion, person data, and so forth. It stated it is going to kind out a workshop to elucidate how the tokens serve as and to allow understudies to make their wallets. BitClave is a work of some other inflow of latest firms that imply to disappointed the automatic publicizing marketplace through the use of blockchain innovation. The group has promised to disperse loose CAT tokens to the understudies who pass to this system q4, after Draper College declared some other ICO/blockchain module as a big facet of its program. At the off probability that an Web consumer chooses to select into using BitClave's BASE, she or he

Bitcoin.org Owner Wants to Revise Satoshi’s White Paper

Following the Segwit2x working group's announcement to cancel the hard fork scheduled for next week, many shocked bitcoin proponents revealed their opinions on the web. Additionally, one of the administrators of Bitcoin.org, Theymos, wants the web portal's recommended businesses such as wallet services and exchanges to pledge that "Bitcoin is not ruled by miners" or otherwise be removed from the site's link page. Bitcoin.org Wants Cryptocurrency Businesses to Make a Pledge or Take a "Bitcoin Basics" Course Bitcoin.org Owner Wants to Revise Satoshi's White PaperThe Segwit2x hard fork has been canceled, but the drama is still not over. On November 8, the same day the Segwit2x working group made their announcement, Theymos, one of the administrators of Bitcoin.org declared a desire for bitcoin businesses to make a pledge. Theymos details that during the Segwit2x waiting period several companies declared that miners control bitcoin, and the Bitcoin.org a

CC Founder Bobby Lee: “The Segwit2x Feature Is an Upgrade”

This week Bobby Lee, the chief executive officer of the Chinese cryptocurrency exchange BTCC, held an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) with bitcoin traders on the Reddit forum /r/bitcoinmarkets. During the AMA the conversation participants focused in on the Segwit2x hard fork set to activate on or around November 16. BTCC Will Follow the Most Accumulated Hashing Power Which Produces the Longest Valid Blockchain BTCC Founder Bobby Lee: "Segwit2x Feature Is an Upgrade"According to Bobby Lee's most recent AMA, the Chinese exchange founder says that the pending Segwit2x fork is an "upgrade" and the Bitcoin network's consensus rules will change this time around. Lee details that if more than one chain survives, and the minority chain has demand, BTCC will support the forked protocol just as it has done with altcoins earlier this year. Recently BTCC just started altcoin mining and started with litecoin, and the pool will soon mine bitcoin cash as well, Lee reveals. "In