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This is my blog in the areas of Blockchain, digital currencies and Bitcoin. I report on important developments in the digital currency markets and provide readers with a critical and independent assessment of the news situation.


Digital US dollar to enable government payments

25 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

The members of the US House of Representatives want to support citizens with direct state payments. A "digital US dollar" is to help with this. The Democratic Party's plans for legislation bring this into play. To what extent the Blockchain technolog...

Fed money floods the market

25 Mar 2020 5 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

The Bitcoin price (BTC) is climbing, while governments and central banks are putting together unprecedented aid packages for the economy. Whether the measures will have an effect will only be seen when the corona pandemic flattens out. But even now,...

The Cryptoversum and his illustrious last week topics

23 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

While the Russian central bank is thinking aloud about a Bitcoin ban, Zimbabwe is adopting a more crypto-friendly tone. Meanwhile, Trump is showering the US population with helicopter money and a self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor has to dig deep into...

WirvsVirus: 42,000 hackers fight against Corona

23 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

From 20th to 22nd March, seven tech organisations organised a hackathon under the patronage of the German government. Under the motto #WirvsVirus hackers were looking for software solutions against the corona virus. The more the coronavirus tears soc...

Proof of Stake and Ethereum 2.0

23 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

The Ethereum Blockchain is facing big changes. Vitalik Buterin has now bundled the step-by-step development of Ethereum 2.0 into a roadmap. In a recently published roadmap, Vitalik Buterin has taken a look at the development of Ethereum 2.0. The Ethe...

"The ultimate pump is coming" will Bitcoin making us rich now?

23 Mar 2020 3 minute read 1 comment SylarHeisenberg

Will the Bitcoin share price manage to decouple itself from DAX, Dow Jones & Co. And has the former Bakkt boss used her position as senator to profit from the Corona crisis? Zhu: Bitcoin price of 50,000 US dollars "relatively quickly possible" Market...

Data is the resource of the future

23 Mar 2020 2 minute read 1 comment SylarHeisenberg

The crypto-ecosystem is growing and is constantly opening up new economic sectors that depend on reliable data. In a recent study, DIA drew attention to data providers, who account for an ever-increasing share of the market. The crypto-ecosystem is c...

Do you already know these 5 Bitcoin Updates?

22 Mar 2020 3 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

Resourceful developers are working flat out on the further development of Bitcoin. Here are five Bitcoin Core Updates that every Bitcoiner must know. Updating Bitcoin Core is like trying to teach a cow to jump rope. It is considered almost impossible...

Ethereum: Ever heard of flash loans?

22 Mar 2020 4 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

After the two exploits of the DeFi project bZx, everyone is talking about Flash Loans. But what are flash loans? What do they mean to Ethereum, what damage can they do and how do they work? Two attacks on bZx and Fulcrum, whose strategy had been know...

5 Ethereum dApps you should know

22 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

Even if the crypto world is turning its eyes to Bitcoin these days, you must not forget that there are other coins. For Ethereum (ETH) is still one of the most important projects in space - and rightly in second place in terms of market capitalizatio...