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Segwit is actief! Maar wat is het eigenlijk en wat maakt het mogelijk?

Segwit is actief! maar wat is het eigenlijk en wat maakt het mogelijk? Vandaag 24 augustus 2017 was het dan eindelijk zover. Na vele jaren van discussie en strijd werd segregated WITNESS (we zullen het voor het gemak segwit noemen) eindelijk actief op het Bitcoin netwerk. De eerste segwit Bitcoin-transacties zijn inmiddels gedaan en heuse segwit-feestjes werden gehouden door blije Bitcoin enthousiastelingen. Maar nu rijst misschien de vraag: wat is segwit eigenlijk en wat maakt het mogelijk voor Bitcoin?

Bitcoin Will Hit $5,000 This Month

If you haven’t been paying attention, Bitcoin has been on a rocket ship ever since its August 1st hard fork. It has hit its own all-time high nearly every day this month and its market cap sits right near PayPal (PYPL), Adobe (ADBE), and Netflix (NFLX) right now (near $70 billion).

If you haven’t been paying attention, Bitcoin has been on a rocket ship ever since its August 1st hard fork. It has hit its own all-time high nearly every day this month and its market cap sits right near PayPal (PYPL), Adobe (ADBE), and Netflix (NFLX) right now (near $70 billion).

At the time of writing, one Bitcoin has eclipsed $4,000 in value, up from the $2,200 point it sat at in July as the world awaited to see how miners would decide its future on August 1st. Here’s a timeline of the August 1st hard fork; which created the new Bitcoin Cash (itself the 4th most valued cryptocurrency now) and also produced “segwit” for Bitcoin; an additional layer of functionality for the currency. Segwit stands for segregated WITNESS and has finished phase one of its implementation with phase two happening August 18th. All signs are positive on this front.

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Alles wat u moet weten over UASF & SegWit2X

We krijgen ontzettend veel vragen de laatste tijd over wat er gaat gebeuren met Bitcoin in de komende weken. Hieronder in ieder geval een duidelijke SegWit timeline via BitcoinMagazine.

We krijgen ontzettend veel vragen de laatste tijd over wat er gaat gebeuren met Bitcoin in de komende weken. Hieronder in ieder geval een duidelijke SegWit timeline via BitcoinMagazine.

Bekijk hier de lijst van bedrijven, exchanges en wallets die klaar zijn voor Segregated WITNESS. Via Tweaksblogs tevens de meest duidelijke beschrijving over de eventuele aankomende User Activated Soft Fork (UASF), Segwit2X en wat er mogelijk allemaal nog meer staat te gebeuren in de bitcoinwereld. Een zeer goede uiteenzetting! Voorzichtigheid is geboden, informeer jezelf!! Onderstaande stuk is geschreven door Gideon Wormeester:

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EU: nieuwe plan om alle bankrekening in Europa boven 100.000 te bevriezen

Did you actually believe that they were not going to use the precedent that they set in Cyprus?  On Thursday, EU finance ministers agreed to a shocking new plan that will make every bank account in Europe vulnerable to Cyprus-style bail-ins.  In other words, the wealth confiscation that we just WITNESSed in Cyprus will now be used as a template for future bank failures all over Europe.  That means that if you have a bank account in Europe, you could wake up some morning and every penny in that account over 100,000 euros could be gone.  That is exactly what happened in Cyprus, and now EU officials plan to do the same thing all over Europe.  For quite a while EU officials insisted that Cyprus was a "special case", but now we see that was a lie.  International outrage over what happened in Cyprus has died down, and now they are pushing forward with what they probably had planned all along.  But why have they chosen this specific moment to implement such a plan?  Are they anticipating that we will see a wave of bank failures soon?  Do they know something that they aren't telling us?

China: retailvraag naar goud knalt de stratosfeer in

The recent drop in gold has created a huge surge in Asian gold demand.

The recent drop in gold has created a huge surge in Asian gold demand.

Asia is WITNESSing one of the strongest waves of physical gold buying in 30 years, with bargain hunters using the drop in prices to secure jewelry and gold bars.