Blockchain-based big data startup Constellation Networks has signed a working contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to apply blockchain technology to unlock siloed and non-accessible data. The partnership will enable the merging of legacy systems data with existing cloud infrastructure data.Announcing the partnership, USAF stated that the partnership will help it streamline the Small Business Innovation Research process in an attempt to speed up the experience, broaden the pool of potential applicants and decrease bureaucratic overhead. The Small Business Research Innovation Research is a program that encourages small local businesses to engage in research and development of technology that has the potential for commercialization.The partnership is a match at the right time, the VP of Business Development at Constellation stated. This is because USAF has a multitude of data sources like drones, planes, and satellites that need to be secured. Clean and consolidated data that can be queried instantly is a big need within the defense apparatus.The collection, storage and analysis of data have continued to be a tedious and costly process for many companies, USAF included. The process becomes even costlier when its across domain and sectors. Now, using Constellations blockchain platform, USAFs data channels will be securely encrypted, with audit trails and a live overview of the status of any data source.Big data has become one of the hottest industries in the new era where data is the new oil. However, securing this data has been one of the biggest challenges. Blockchain technology has been hailed as the most secure network, leading many big data companies and users to turn to the technology. Governments have also commissioned the use of blockchain to secure big data, such as China which did so last year.The San Francisco-based Constellation will bring the benefits of blockchain technology to not only USAF, but other companies as well. The companys CEO Benjamin Jorgensen commented, Every organization has big data needs and challenges. This is just the first of a series of in-depth partnerships with commercial and government entities to deliver fully integrated and productized blockchain solutions.The U.S. Air Force also recently announced another blockchain partnership with Simba Chain to manage the logistics of deployed forces in a secure on-chain environment. Powered by Microsoft Azure, Simba Chain will enable the USAF to maintain the integrity and security of highly-sensitive data.Note: Tokens on the Bitcoin Core (SegWit) chain are referenced as SegWitCoin BTC coins. Altcoins, which value privacy, anonymity, and distance from government intervention, are referenced as dark coins. Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) is today the only Bitcoin project that follows the original Satoshi Nakamoto whitepaper, and that follows the original Satoshi protocol and design. BSV is the only public blockchain that maintains the original vision for Bitcoin and will massively scale to become the worlds new money and enterprise blockchain. tags blockchainConstellationUSAFCOMMENT Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

When one thinks of large-cap cryptocurrencies, their minds likely go to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, and…Cardano?

If Cardano keeps rising like this, they just might.

ADA, the token of the Cardano blockchain is the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, according to data from Nomics. After a 31% increase in the last week, the price of a single ADA token is now slightly higher than $0.88. The market cap for Cardano was $28.2 billion as of 6:30 p.m. Pacific time on Monday, a smidge higher than Polkadot’s $27.6 billion and Ripple’s $25.8 billion.

Cardano’s market cap is up 137% in the last month, with much of that movement coming since February 3, when the price was just under $0.44. And although it actually went above $0.90 a few days ago before dipping slightly, it’s managed to hold most of its value.

Like Polkadot, Cardano is a blockchain project from an Ethereum co-founder. Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK, is the main visionary behind Cardano, a proof-of-stake network with a heavy emphasis on smart contracts. Those who old ADA tokens can take part in governance votes over the future of the platform.

The price rise extends out longer than just a week. A month ago, ADA was worth in the neighborhood of $0.35. Then, came the announcement that Cardano would start allowing “Native Tokens” issued by users on the blockchain by the end of February. 

“While ada will remain Cardano’s principal currency, Cardano will transform into a multi-asset (MA) blockchain, opening up a constellation of possibilities,” wrote IOHK Marketing & Communications Director Tim Harrison in early February.

Cardano is within striking distance of the perennial third-place token, the Tether stablecoin, which has a market capitalization of $32.1 billion.

Blockchain-based big data startup Constellation Networks has signed a working contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to apply blockchain technology to unlock siloed and non-accessible data. The partnership will enable the merging of legacy systems data with existing cloud infrastructure data.Announcing the partnership, USAF stated that the partnership will help it streamline the Small Business Innovation Research process in an attempt to speed up the experience, broaden the pool of potential applicants and decrease bureaucratic overhead. The Small Business Research Innovation Research is a program that encourages small local businesses to engage in research and development of technology that has the potential for commercialization.The partnership is a match at the right time, the VP of Business Development at Constellation stated. This is because USAF has a multitude of data sources like drones, planes, and satellites that need to be secured. Clean and consolidated data that can be queried instantly is a big need within the defense apparatus.The collection, storage and analysis of data have continued to be a tedious and costly process for many companies, USAF included. The process becomes even costlier when its across domain and sectors. Now, using Constellations blockchain platform, USAFs data channels will be securely encrypted, with audit trails and a live overview of the status of any data source.Big data has become one of the hottest industries in the new era where data is the new oil. However, securing this data has been one of the biggest challenges. Blockchain technology has been hailed as the most secure network, leading many big data companies and users to turn to the technology. Governments have also commissioned the use of blockchain to secure big data, such as China which did so last year.The San Francisco-based Constellation will bring the benefits of blockchain technology to not only USAF, but other companies as well. The companys CEO Benjamin Jorgensen commented, Every organization has big data needs and challenges. This is just the first of a series of in-depth partnerships with commercial and government entities to deliver fully integrated and productized blockchain solutions.The U.S. Air Force also recently announced another blockchain partnership with Simba Chain to manage the logistics of deployed forces in a secure on-chain environment. Powered by Microsoft Azure, Simba Chain will enable the USAF to maintain the integrity and security of highly-sensitive data.Note: Tokens on the Bitcoin Core (SegWit) chain are referenced as SegWitCoin BTC coins. Altcoins, which value privacy, anonymity, and distance from government intervention, are referenced as dark coins. Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) is today the only Bitcoin project that follows the original Satoshi Nakamoto whitepaper, and that follows the original Satoshi protocol and design. BSV is the only public blockchain that maintains the original vision for Bitcoin and will massively scale to become the worlds new money and enterprise blockchain. tags blockchainConstellationUSAFCOMMENT Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Feb 19 Feb 19 Constellation Labs: Exclusive Video Interview By Erick Pinos Julian Jung Happy Monday Everyone!Today we have a very special edition of the blockchain brief where we interview Brendan Playford (CEO) and Ben Jorgenson (COO) of Constellation Labs.Constellation Labs is building a horizontally scalable distributed operating system with smart contracts as microservices.So what does that mean and why are we so excited about their project?We have our Game Theory Group technologist in residence,Erick Pinos (President @MITBitcoinClub & Director of Operations @BlockchainEDU) break it down for you and ask a few technical questions in this weeks video interview. For those of you on the go, we've included an audio version of the interview at the bottom of this newsletter. This is one you do not want to miss.- Julian------------Using Stars & Memes To Build A Better DAGBy Erick PinosWe all know blockchains have a scaling problem. Every block has to be propagated throughout the entire network, and every full node in the network needs to keep a copy of every recorded transaction. Most blockchains have throughput requirements, like a capped 1MB block size. Without such throughput requirements, the blockchain would grow too fast, cutting off the ability for average users to run full nodes and thus leading to a centralization of validators that can control the state of the network.Because of these throughput requirements, however, consumer grade distributed applications (dApps) are severely bottlenecked. Ethereum can only handle up to 15 transactions per second. Even the simple CryptoKitties game clogged up 11% of the Ethereum network.Enter Constellation Labs, a horizontally scalable distributed operating system. This means that you can run intensive dApps on their platform with much higher throughput than traditional blockchains. According to their whitepaper, 1200 nodes in the network would yield 4000-4800 transactions per second. As the number of nodes increase, you also get more computing power while maintaining a trustless, distributing computing system. There are three main components which together allow Constellation Labs to do this. Theres a lot of new terminology in this one, so bare with me as i break it down.1. Proof-of-Meme Consensus ModelProof of Meme is a new reputation-based consensus mechanism coined by Constellation Labs. A meme is a unit representing an imitable idea or behavior that be spread. In this case, it represents behavior that affects the likelihood that a specific node is selected to participate in consensus. Meme reputation is calculated by looking at logs of previous consensus performance. The reputation scoring takes into account whether the node has been notably faulty in the past, how much memory it can commit to consensus, etc. Reputable memes will be given preference, but new memes will have the opportunity to participate and build their reputation on the network.With Proof-of-Meme, Constellation will have no network transaction fees. Instead, new tokens are minted every block and are rewarded to each node based on their memes reputation.2. Asynchronous Peer-to-Peer ArchitectureThe Constellation protocol implements a blockchain architecture known as ExtendedTrustChain. In ExtendedTrustChain, there are multiple node types: Stars.A star is the basic node that can send transactions and stores a local blockchain composed of its history on the network. Transactions are signed by the initiator and counterparty then broadcasted to the network via the gossip protocol.In the gossip protocol, each member of the network keeps track of its neighbors and propagates messages received to all of its neighbors. This allows a large pool of connected devices to share the state of the network and achieve consensus without every node needing to store the entire blockchain.Star Clusters are a collection of stars that participate in consensus on transactions and hash them into blocks. If a star wishes to participate in consensus, it joins a star cluster.Galaxiesare the validators. Galaxies calculate memes based on past consensus performance, and then update the meme reputation scores. They run validation process and host the current chain state. Metadata about Galaxy performance is stored in black holes. When a Star reaches enough positive reputation, they may earn the right to function as a Galaxy node.Black Holes Black holes are blocks like the blockchain. Galaxies store the full history of every block, or black hole in the blockchain.3. Smart Contracts as MicroservicesIn Constellation, smart contracts are microservices running on a JVM. Microservices are like smart contracts, but can run more complex logic because they use the Java virtual machine rather than the Ethereum virtual machine. They can send transactions, sign as a counterparty, and perform consensus. The goal is for microservices to act as a Star with their own meme/reputation, providing services for agreed upon amounts. Each microservice is a star, collections of microservices form an application, or a constellation.ConclusionThats my breakdown of the project!In the near future I will be doing an exclusive interview with their CTO (Wyatt Meldman-Foch) for an even more technical deep dive. In the mean time watch or listen to our video interview with Constellation Labs (CEO+COO)to learn more about the team and their project.Audio Interview old>constellation-labs- Erick Pinos Julian Jung Facebook0 Twitter Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes Julian Jung Julian Jung Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet. Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum.

Emerging Markets Jan 2, 2017 | By Jamie Redman - | 10900 The Bitcoin Constellation Is Bigger Than Most Realize When most people think of bitcoin, they look at the price and its billion dollar market capitalization. However, bitcoins ecosystem is bigger than most people can imagine with its constellation of significantly growing micro-economies. Since bitcoins inception over the years, the cryptocurrency has created a massive economy of people who work directly with this protocol every day. This includes miners, software developers, startups, artists and writers, and many more groups and individuals who help build this infrastructure every day. Also read:Meet Tumblebit: The Unlinkable Payment Hub Four Smaller Economies Tethered to the Bitcoin Ecosystem Miners Bitcoin has created a growing industry within its mining sector. This includes individuals and organizations who are mining the currency daily and securing the network at the same time. Moreover, there have been companies created that manufacture mining devices, ASIC chips, and more, creating a very competitive industry. Mining has grown exponentially over the years as technology has progressed. New improvements in ASIC hardware and the creation of mining pools have built a robust economy within the bitcoin community. Due to its technical aspects mining is still a niche market, but is expected to grow significantly in the future. Software Developers Even beyond the bitcoin space, the need for software developers is in high demand. Yet as the cryptocurrency grows more popular, the network is creating lots of jobs for programmers dedicated to blockchain and digital currency technology. Many companies and promising startups are looking for software developers to help build code that is focused on the bitcoin protocol. While searching job sites like Monster and Indeed, the most prominent jobs needed in this space are blockchain programmers who understand bitcoin. The economy of developers bitcoin has created will likely increase vastly over time as this type of work will constantly be needed. Digital Currency and Blockchain-Based Startups As bitcoin has grown, many new companies have appeared aimed at harnessing this technology. Over the past few years alone there have been a plethora of startups building businesses with all kinds of unique ideas. Companies focused on bitcoin-based remittances, payment processors, bill payment solutions, atm manufacturers, hardware production, and many more types of businesses. Many of these startups are creating businesses modern society has never really experienced before until bitcoin came along. Exchanges, marketplaces, distributed autonomous organizations, prediction markets, and more that are truly peer-to-peer and decentralized. Cryptocurrency and blockchain focused startups are sure to continue with quite a few of them failing and some becoming very successful. Art, Network Marketing and Writing Bitcoins economy has also given life to graphic artists, marketers, and writers. The industry surrounding the bitcoin environment needs people to create written descriptions, advertisements, and graphic visuals to help spread adoption. Since bitcoin was created, it has seen an abundance of occupations in these fields. Graphic artists have created visuals that help portray this technology in a different manner. Meanwhile, freelance writers have found employment from cryptocurrency news outlets and blogs. These types of marketing jobs are a part of a commercial trade that is mainly focused on the bitcoin protocol, community, and the technologys branched solutions. A Multitude of Occupations and an Emphasis on Security Other occupations that fill the bitcoin economy include consultants, accountants, human resources, risk managers and more. Moreover, people often turn to advisors for help to grasp these emerging technologies. This brings the need for consultants teaching people about the industry, software, and the risks and benefits of these protocols. Another significant market growing within the bitcoin environment is the security sector. Cyber security and creating new methods to secure digital assets will always be needed. Improvements in technology and malicious hacks like ransomware continue to prime the online security sector. This bolsters more individuals and groups working on improving multi-factor authentication, biometrics, threshhold signatures and many more concepts of heightened security. The bitcoin protocol has created a robust system of transferring wealth without a third party but security solutions will constantly need improvement. Bitcoins Evolutionary Constellation Will Change Things Faster Than We Think There are important micro-economies tethered to the bitcoin environment. As bitcoin continues to gain mainstream adoption and reaches critical mass, these smaller economies will swell indefinitely. Additionally, the bitcoin constellation of economies should continue to branch out with more participatory opportunities for individuals and groups. Watching bitcoin grow in its earliest phases is very reminiscent to the birth of the internet era. As time gradually continues, bitcoins changes to society may become more subtle but watching these micro-economies multiply has shown things are changing fast. What do you think about the micro-economies that surround the bitcoin environment? Let us know in the comments below. Images courtesy of Shutterstock, and Pixabay. The bitcoin rabbit hole is deep. Explore the first tunnels over at bitcoin.coms Price Index and Statistics data pages. Its all the data you need to sound like you know what youre talking about learn all about hashrate, block sizes, transaction fees paid, mining difficulty and transactions per day. 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In what appears to be a revolution not only for gaming and finance, blockchain technology could be on course to change the very future of work itself. As part of the emergence of independent digital ownership, or in other words, online property rights and what has become known as a “play-to-earn” business model, blockchain has arrived to “trigger a wave of new economic opportunities”. That’s the verdict from Animoca Brands co-founder and chairman Yat Siu, who is leading the blockchain gaming company as it breaks new ground. In a founder’s letter addressed to shareholders, celebrating a successful year for the company that has seen multiple game releases, strong financial performance and the launch of a new digital currency, Mr Siu declared Animoca Brands is now scaling up these trends for the mass market. He explained that the current opaque dynamics of the video games industry prevent players from owning any of the content they purchase and this inefficiency is fostering the kind of monumental change that creates new markets and new opportunities, similarly to the internet and the smartphone. Performance-wise, Animoca Brands’ two primary areas of focus are its SAND and REVV token projects (utility tokens used in The Sandbox and F1 Delta Time games), which are growing with October’s turnover reported as totalling US$245 million (A$336 million), consisting of US$24.55 million (A$33.7 million) for REVV and US$219.69 million (A$301.78 million) for SAND. Born and raised in Vienna, Austria and a formidable entrepreneur and angel investor, Mr Siu formerly worked at Atari and is now leveraging the market fusion of gaming, blockchain and fintech to lead Animoca Brands into what he described as “elevating the accepted standards of video gaming”. The company intends to take advantage of the multifaceted growth of digital technology and fintech by focusing on two specific areas: digital ownership and play-to-earn. “We are of the view that any projections of the value of the video games industry are necessarily too low if they do not factor in true digital ownership and play-to-earn,” he said. “Property rights also enable significant and previously unavailable value-added services. Already, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are being accepted as collateral for crypto loans – for example, NFTfi – and there are even services that provide fractionalisation of NFTs such as NFTX, breaking up a single NFT into multiple pieces, or fractions, so that they can be owned and traded by multiple owners,” Mr Siu added. True digital ownership is a rather novel concept and made possible only since the advent of blockchain technology. Traditionally, the gaming industry has interacted with its customers directly with players purchasing in-game digital content and allowing the company to retain all licensing rights. Players can use game assets licensed to them inside the game but cannot transfer those “assets” or monetise them. As both an evolution and a revolution to the status quo, blockchain technology has arrived to enable what has become known as “true digital ownership” for in-game assets, conferring to gamers genuine property rights – including the right to use their assets outside their native games with the added ability to trade them independently via exchanges or direct transactions. Intending to commercialise this convergence of fintech and gaming, Animoca Brands said it has developed a “constellation of products and companies” that can monetise its overarching forward-thinking approach. Earlier this year, the gaming company unveiled its WWE Undefeated game, partnered with Formula E to expand its REVV token ecosystem and launched SAND, a digital currency attached to its Sandbox gaming metaverse. Animoca Brands is also progressing an ongoing phased launch of F1 Delta Time, another blockchain-enabled game that includes various NFT collectables. Interestingly, and as a clear sign that blockchain will have a huge part to play in the future of gaming, Animoca Brands reported several F1 Delta Time players generating “significant sums” by playing the game, with one player cited as generating “over US$1,600” in one month. Moreover, players are choosing to open virtual shops to sell F1 Delta Time NFTs on marketplaces like OpenSea of their own accord, with premium collectable items generating “thousands of dollars”, according to the gaming company. “Many players, motivated by the opportunity for play-to-earn, have organised themselves into racing teams, sharing resources to increase their chances to win and then splitting any winnings,” Mr Siu said. “Joining a team as a driver usually means that you will receive some level of support from the team management – such as tyres, car components, or even a car.” Elsewhere, the play-to-earn phenomenon is being utilised by underprivileged communities to boost incomes remotely, in amidst COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. In the Philippines, blockchain game Axie Infinity – a game in which Animoca is itself invested in – is enabling families to boost their incomes during the economic hardships brought on by the government’s response to the pandemic. Created by Vietnamese start-up Sky Mavis, Axie Infinity is a decentralised application (dapp) on the Ethereum blockchain where players breed, raise, battle and trade digital characters called Axies. Despite being a video game, the app has proved to be a priceless tool for several people simply seeking to generate alternative sources of income. “There is incredible potential in the play-to-earn space as it grows into a powerful trend that will change lives and the very future of work itself,” Mr Siu said.

Home » Tech » NASA explores blockchain for autonomous satellite communication The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is exploring the use of blockchain technology for inter-satellite communication. The use of blockchain will allow satellites to store shared data relevant to its constellation, enabling autonomous communications between them. Known as the Space Communication Reconstruction and Mapping with Blockchain Ledgering (SCRAMBL), the project falls under NASA’s Small Business Technology Transfer Scheme. NASA revealed in its proposal summary this week that it had awarded the $124,000 project to Orbit Logic and the Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering. SCRAMBL will enable satellites that are in the same constellation to store and distribute a ledger containing data that’s relevant to that constellation. This will allow autonomous cooperation for the satellites while still contributing to “system-level needs and objectives.” SCRAMBL will be combined with Orbit Logic’s existing autonomous planning system, “allowing the constellation as a whole to achieve greater overall system utility through agent-supported asset teaming strategies.” The solution’s blockchain algorithm will allow any NASA spacecraft to autonomously determine the most effective method of communicating with any other node. It will also allow the spacecraft to overcome any communications disruptions or disconnections. The summary noted: “The space-specific algorithms to be developed under this research topic will be lightweight and tailored toward efficient execution on the resource constrained computing elements used on satellites. The network path routing optimizations performed will scale well as the constellation is grown, dynamically adapting to the future addition of assets.” NASA has been exploring blockchain technology for a few years now. Two years ago, it released a blockchain prototype for transmitting air traffic data that preserves privacy. With the switch to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast as of January this year in the U.S, where every aircraft broadcasts its location openly, there were concerns regarding privacy, especially from the military. NASA believed it could solve this by integrating blockchain technology which could limit data access to permitted parties. NASA also hired a data scientist in 2019, with part of the qualifications sought being blockchain and digital currencies experience. While it didn’t reveal what projects the new hire would work on, speculation was rife that it was looking at launching its own blockchain projects. New to Bitcoin? Check out CoinGeek’s Bitcoin for Beginners section, the ultimate resource guide to learn more about Bitcoin—as originally envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto—and blockchain.

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has near-infinite applications. It is towards this end that Orbit Logic and the Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering are building a blockchain-based inter-satellite aerospace application for NASA after winning a $124,800 funding.  In a  generated on June 29, the solution dubbed “Space Communication Reconstruction and Mapping with Blockchain Ledgering” or, simply, SCRAMBL, could be adopted by the agency’s quad-copter swarms. Even though the solution is far from launching, eventually, it will use the “to store and distribute a ledger containing satellite constellation-relevant shared data to enable satellite onboard autonomy cooperative attendance of individual assets to system-level needs and objectives” as per the proposal summary. SCRAMBL aims to help the constellation as a whole to improve and achieve higher system utility when coupled with NASA’s supported asset teaming strategies. Of paramount importance is the agency’s insistence on communication, and a robust, high performance, and nibble system that overly improves environment awareness. To achieve this level of efficacy, the two U.S. firms will now research and find means of evaluation and recomposing the system networking graph enabling efficient routing of messages between NASA drones.  At the same time, the final solution ought to be lightweight and tailored for maximum efficiency in execution considering how harsh the deployment environment is which nonetheless should relegate the importance of smooth communication. NASA’s interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency continues to grow. Last year, in a  NASA was looking for a Data Scientist with a wide range of skills but goes on to note that experience in blockchain and cryptocurrency was a plus.  Tasks with conceptualizing and developing special innovative applications, the successful candidate would be part of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Innovation Experience Center (IEC) in California. Before that, they were looking for means of securing space flight data using blockchain. The  by Ronald Reisman, an aero-computer engineer, outlines NASA’s plan plans of having to looker deeper look into the viability of the blockchain and how smart contracting can help overcome security and privacy issues. In September 2019, BTCManager  of SpaceChain’s acceptance into the ESAs kick start program.

A crypto strategist who made the counterintuitive and correct call of a major Bitcoin pullback earlier this year is back with a new set of provocative predictions.

The pseudonymous analyst Capo tells his crew of 17,000 on Twitter that he expects Bitcoin’s explosive volatility to continue, with BTC sinking back down to the $11,000 range in the short term. After that, he expects altcoins to have room for another big move to the upside.

One altcoin on the trader’s list is Ethereum.

He expects the second-largest cryptocurrency to nosedive to around $360 before resuming its ascent and climbing above $470.

The analyst is also looking at XRP.

He sees the third-largest cryptocurrency surging above $0.70, representing an increase of over 130% from its current price of $0.30.

As for low-cap coins, the strategist is keeping an eye on Constellation (DAG).

He expects its BTC base pair to follow the footsteps of VeChain (VET/BTC) and possibly pull off a massive rally of over 900%.

Capo is also bullish on the small-cap crypto Telcoin (TEL). He says that the recent price action of TEL/BTC indicates upside potential.

“Reclaim of a key level and test as support. Bullish.” 

In January, when Bitcoin was bullish and threatening to take out key resistance of $10,000, the analyst made a daring call and said he expected BTC to carve a bottom at $4,500.

His target was hit in March, as the leading cryptocurrency plunged to $3,850 at the height of the coronavirus-induced sell-off.

After Bitcoin rose from $8,800 to $9,400 on May 27th, the Bitcoin price has been caught in a price range between $9,400 and $9,600. There is strong resistance along the $9,700 mark, which Bitcoin has not been able to overcome for several days. At the time of writing, Bitcoin has fallen by 0.35% in the last 24 hours, to a price of $9,536.74. The market capitalization remains at just under $175 billion. Popular trader Josh Rager describes on Twitter that Bitcoin experienced a strong month in which the price broke through several strong resistances. According to Rager, a similar development could be observed in January of this year, when a 2-month downtrend followed, which ended in March with a price crash to $3,700. Rager argues that Bitcoin must close above the $10,173 level on the weekly chart in order for the current trend to be bullish and continue. Bitcoin would thus draw a new local higher high. “Big Chonis Trading” states that the Bitcoin CME Futures are currently trading $100 above the spot price of Bitcoin, thus sending a bullish signal. According to the trader, the larger this spread is, the more bullish the Bitcoin market will be until this constellation turns around. The CME Bitcoin Futures price is currently trading at $9,640. Another anonymous trader “Byzantine General” shared a chart with his community that shows that Bitcoin could initially fall to the $9,200 level, and then start a new uptrend towards the $10,000 mark. This is a possible scenario, but the trader emphasizes that Bitcoin must first confirm a clear trend in the next step before one can speak of a new rally or uptrend. Bitcoin Trader “Cold Blooded Schiller” describes that Bitcoin has not shown a monthly closing above the $ 9,360 mark in the last 12 months, until a few hours ago. Bitcoin was able to close the month’s chart with a closing price of just under $9,550. According to him and numerous other analysts, Bitcoin thus laid the foundation for a further upward trend. The trader says: The Altcoin market around Ethereum currently shows a strong correlation with the price development of Bitcoin. Within the last 24 hours, Ethereum shows a plus of 0.12% to a price of $238.22. XRP shows a price increase of 0.96 % to a price of $0.20. Tether (USDT) continues to rank third among the largest cryptocurrencies by market capital. A new report from the Federal Reserve of Kansas City describes that Bitcoin has never met the factors that make the digital asset a “stable anchor”, like gold, in the last 10 years. According to the report, Bitcoin behaves like a risky asset and less like a “safe haven”: Our top recommendation: Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Cardano from eToroBrokerddtrgegr✔️ Buy 15 cryptocurrencies✔️ Bitcoin CFD with leverage✔️ Insurance up to €20.000✔️ PayPal, SEPA, credit card

Reading: Horizontally Scalable Blockchain Lists Token and Launches...The Constellation Labs DAG protocol (directed-acyclic-graph) passes listing on KuCoin Exchange, beginning trade on July 3. The project has raised $35.2 million in January during its pre-sale. It pursues a goal to build a network with a high capacity of transactions, suitable for creating “consumer grade” applications. Recently, Constellation also launched Orion a developer community portal which will also feature information and access to Constellations testnet.The company aims to bring a solution for the issue of restricted scalability of “classic” blockchains, scaling network system horizontally. Constellations’ network capacity is proportional to user adoption, increasing with each new node. Its blockchain uses ExtendedTrustChain (ETC) consensus, leveraging multiple node types, each having its own role. It allows to asynchronously govern different aspects of the protocol.The Constellation blockchain has a throughput of 4000 to 4800 transactions per second (tps) for every 1200 node cluster, while Bitcoin only has only 2 to 4 tps on average, and Ethereum’s rate is about 15 tps. As the project’s team states on its official website, Constellation’s throughput scales with its users so 1 million users can perform more than 4.5 million tps, that enables “consumer grade” distributed applications to be built on the system.Another feature is the Proof-of-Meme (PoM) protocol, designed to contribute directly to the improvement and monitoring of the blockchain by utilizing computing power from users’ laptops, tablets, phones, and other smart devices. PoM rewards behavior that improves a node’s overall reputation in the system.As Constellation CTO Wyatt Meldman-Floch points out:The Constellation protocol aims to solve the primary challenge of scalability in blockchain, providing a solution that is highly resource-efficient and exponentially scalable.As an extension of PoM approach, Constellation launched Orion on June 18th, a platform for developers community to help improve Constellation net.It allows community members to earn DAG tokens, used for transactions within Constellation, in exchange for contributing to the network across a range of activities, from bug reporting to correcting White Paper mistranslations and supporting the community. A point-based system, awarded on productive activity, is affirmed “to create an organic hierarchy and encourage positive community behavior.” The application to run Constellation testnet node is currently available.Constellation raised  $35.2 million in its private pre-sale of DAG tokens in January 2018. Around 14 percent of 730 million tokens sold in total will be liquid at the Constellation DAG token distribution on June 18. The first airdrop will open on July 7, five more will be held until the end of the year.Another bit of good news for DAG tokens is they got listed by KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange. This will increase the availability of DAG tokens to users of the Constellation network. Trade of DAG tokens begins on July 3rd.What do you think about the launch of the Constellation protocol? Let us know in the comments below. For updates and exclusive offers enter your email below. I consent to my submitted data being collected and storedOne of Europe’s largest airlines, Lufthansa AG will...Bitcoin prices may be trailing around $6000, but...Facebook may have made a significant blockchain hire...After announcing in early May that it would begin...Follow Bitcoinist on social media to keep up-to-date with the latest news!We use cookies to give you the best online experience. By agreeing you accept the use of cookies in accordance with our cookie policy.

As we move into Q2, a number of projects are moving ahead with continued development, and this week’s choices are set to benefit from significant updates and announcements that should strengthen their market positions and benefit their communities. The news should also result in increased amounts of attention to each respective currency over the coming weeks.    TRON is a blockchain based decentralized protocol that aims to construct a worldwide content entertainment system while utilizing blockchain and distributed storage technology. The protocol allows users to publish, store, and own data, while the decentralized system manages subscriptions, distribution and the push of content.  The BitTorrent team have announced that the 16th BitTorrent Token airdrop for TRX holders will take place after a snapshot has been taken on May 11. The 15th BTT airdrop took place after a snapshot height was recorded on April 11 at 12:00:00 AM UTC at block number 18766656. The airdrop ratio of TRX/BTT was calculated at approximately 93.392 and TRX holders can look forward to a similar payout in May and will receive BTT tokens for continuing to hold onto their TRX tokens.  TomoChain is based on the Ethereum codebase and supports all EVM-compatible smart-contracts, protocols, and atomic cross-chain token transfers. The team also aim to incorporate sharding, EVM parallelisation, and private-chain generation. TomoChain also includes a 150-Masternode architecture with a Proof of Stake Voting (POSV) consensus for almost zero fee, instant transactions.  The project will undergo its Excalibur Hardfork on May 12, and the network upgrade will enable the TomoX protocol on TomoChain Mainnet. The hard fork is scheduled to activate at block 20,581,700 which will align with the TomoX Mainnet launch. Excalibur will sync with TomoChain version 2.2.1. and all full/master nodes are required to upgrade before May 12. The upgrade will allow the TomoChain network to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, store order books, and match orders for spot trading. These features will greatly improve the functionality of the TomoX DEX and you can read about the upgrade in detail here. OneLedger is a universal blockchain protocol that enables cross-ledger access through business modularization. The project is also a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) company and provides enterprises with a fully interoperable blockchain solution. The team have recently announced the launch of the OneLedger Mainnet (Kainos), and the OneWallet release will take place on May 11. OneWallet can be used to interact between Ethereum and OneLedger and store digital assets, and the project will also be undergoing a token swap as a result of the transition from the Ethereum to the OneLedger network. The swap will convert ERC-20 OLT tokens to native OLT tokens and will be supported by Kucoin, BitMax, and CoinEx. An official announcement regarding the swap process will be made shortly and you can find out more here.  The seven-day period generally led to positive results across the market, and the previous week's top coins to watch benefited from the bullish action as well. Digitex Futures made a gain of around 7%, FTX Token's value increased by 12%, while Constellation was the best performer from the group thanks to a 18% improvement. Over the course of the week, the total cryptocurrency market cap moved from $222B to $256B (13.3%).    Tags:TRXTRON$ 0.015994-0.39%BuyKeep track of your holdings and explore over 5,000 cryptocurrencies

After Bitcoin rose from $8,800 to $9,400 on May 27th, the Bitcoin price has been caught in a price range between $9,400 and $9,600. There is strong resistance along the $9,700 mark, which Bitcoin has not been able to overcome for several days. At the time of writing, Bitcoin has fallen by 0.35% in the last 24 hours, to a price of $9,536.74. The market capitalization remains at just under $175 billion. Popular trader Josh Rager describes on Twitter that Bitcoin experienced a strong month in which the price broke through several strong resistances. According to Rager, a similar development could be observed in January of this year, when a 2-month downtrend followed, which ended in March with a price crash to $3,700. Rager argues that Bitcoin must close above the $10,173 level on the weekly chart in order for the current trend to be bullish and continue. Bitcoin would thus draw a new local higher high. “Big Chonis Trading” states that the Bitcoin CME Futures are currently trading $100 above the spot price of Bitcoin, thus sending a bullish signal. According to the trader, the larger this spread is, the more bullish the Bitcoin market will be until this constellation turns around. The CME Bitcoin Futures price is currently trading at $9,640. Another anonymous trader “Byzantine General” shared a chart with his community that shows that Bitcoin could initially fall to the $9,200 level, and then start a new uptrend towards the $10,000 mark. This is a possible scenario, but the trader emphasizes that Bitcoin must first confirm a clear trend in the next step before one can speak of a new rally or uptrend. Bitcoin Trader “Cold Blooded Schiller” describes that Bitcoin has not shown a monthly closing above the $ 9,360 mark in the last 12 months, until a few hours ago. Bitcoin was able to close the month’s chart with a closing price of just under $9,550. According to him and numerous other analysts, Bitcoin thus laid the foundation for a further upward trend. The trader says: The Altcoin market around Ethereum currently shows a strong correlation with the price development of Bitcoin. Within the last 24 hours, Ethereum shows a plus of 0.12% to a price of $238.22. XRP shows a price increase of 0.96 % to a price of $0.20. Tether (USDT) continues to rank third among the largest cryptocurrencies by market capital. A new report from the Federal Reserve of Kansas City describes that Bitcoin has never met the factors that make the digital asset a “stable anchor”, like gold, in the last 10 years. According to the report, Bitcoin behaves like a risky asset and less like a “safe haven”: Last updated on June 1, 2020 Categories: Coins Update Tags: BitcoincaughtPricesidewaysTrend Bitcoin price continues to fail to breach above $10,000 and hold. The last time the cryptocurrency held for consecutive daily closes above the key level, was in February 2020 before the Black Thursday collapse. During Kraken Intelligence has released a new report on Bitcoin price and warned investors against a possible downturn in the market. Bitcoin price, which fell below $ 10,000 in February, remained below $ 10,000 for more This picture taken on January 2, 2019 shows the skyline of the financial business district in … [+] Singapore. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP

New blockchain project Constellation Labs for “consumer grade” applications development announced the listing of its DAG token on KuCoin exchange, following the recent launch of their developer community Orion. Orion has an award system for participants and will be used for the testnet at the beginning of August.The main feature of Constellation is that its network is proportional to user adoption. That is to say, its throughput is about 4000 to 4800 transactions per second (tps) with a 1200 node cluster. In comparison, the Bitcoin network has an average capacity of fewer than 4 tps, and Ethereum is about 15 tps.This is achieved through harnessing dynamically partitioned consensus that allows the network to scale the number of tps. Reputation-based incentives eliminate transaction fees between users. Constellation uses Proof-of-Meme (PoM) protocol, letting individuals directly contribute to the improvement and monitoring of the chain by utilizing computing power from their own smart devices. PoM rewards those who improve a node’s overall reputation within the system. “The Constellation protocol aims to solve the primary challenge of scalability in the blockchain, providing a solution that is highly resource-efficient and exponentially scalable”, said Constellation CTO Wyatt Meldman-Floch. Constellation deploys smart contracts as “microservices” so that services can be chained and composed into distributed applications. “Microservices” is an approach to application development in which a large application is built as a suite of modular services. Each module supports a specific business goal and uses a simple, well-defined interface to communicate with other sets of services. Microservices are concurrent processes, unlike smart contracts which must be in every node.Constellation launched their portal Orion on June 18th, calling it a “flagship” product. The purpose of Orion is to induce the developer community around the project federating all of Constellations information and content in one central hub. Orion will allow the community to earn tokens for contributing across a range of activities, from bug reporting to correcting White Paper mistakes and providing support to other members.Constellation token holders will be able to stake DAG tokens to gain membership in the Orion, with a free tier available to view the portal’s channels and message boards. Another option to get DAG tokens is to participate in the Constellation testnet launch, scheduled for August 1. Token holders will need to stake DAG tokens to run a testnet node and validate test transactions. Nodes will earn validator rewards based on their transaction throughput and reputation score. Application for running a testnet is currently open. Once tokens are staked, they will be locked for the duration of the six-month membership period.   Constellation CEO Brendan Playford commented on the Orion launch: “We want to empower our community to help shape, build, and grow the ecosystem efficiently, while encouraging our developers and community members to stake their tokens. At Constellation, we are eager to create a way to digitally capture and quantify trust that exists between people in the world, and use it to secure the network. It’s our hope that by opening up this incentivized portal and encouraging the staking of our token, we will mobilize the Constellation community at large to address the obstacles to scaling the network”.“Constellation testnet will ultimately be launched through Orion, providing a safe testing environment for core and future development on the network”, Meldman-Floch added. KuCoin crypto-assets exchange announced the listing of Constellation’s DAG token, increasing its availability to users and their participation in the Constellation network.Constellation has raised  $35.2 million in a private pre-sale, ending in January 2018 and described as “successful”. 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