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XinFin, Black Tier Solutions and Blockchain at Michigan Announce Joint Partnership
Black Tier Solutions announced a partnership with Blockchain at Michigan. Black Tier Solutions will be responsible for assisting the...
SEC Commissioner Speaks Positively About Digital Assets Despite Recent Enforcement Flurry
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regularly draws the ire of crypto proponents who are frustrated at its failure to...
Traders Bemoan New Localbitcoins Identity Requirements
Recent data shows that countries with corrupt governments have a strong correlation with Localbitcoins trade volumes. However, even though...
Bitcoin Smart Contract Platform RSK Acquires Latin America’s Fourth Largest Social Network
IOV Labs, the parent company of Bitcoin smart contract platform RSK, has announced the acquisition of Taringa. As a result, the Hispanic...
Venezuela’s Central Bank Indicates Plans to Stockpile Bitcoin
Various reports reveal Venezuela’s central bank is allegedly contemplating hoarding a variety of cryptocurrencies like BTC within...
Bitmain to Launch the World Digital Mining Map This October
SINGAPORE, 27 September, 2019 – During the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) – which will take place in Frankfurt on 8-10...
Decentralized Finance Projects Are Starting to Ship
Defi, defi, defi. You can’t go anywhere in crypto these days without having that contraction thrown at you. 2017 was all about the...
Without Disobedience, Bitcoin Is No Better Than Gold
With the launch of Bakkt’s bitcoin futures market and Binance’s revamped U.S. exchange, there’s been a lot of talk in...
Bitcoin Cash City Conference Success Wrap-Up
So many firsts from the Bitcoin Cash City Conference – what a huge success and a proud feather in the cap of North Queensland. As...
Software Engineer Reveals Oracle Creation Platform for Bitcoin Cash
On September 23, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developer Gabriel Cardona revealed a project called Oracles.cash, a platform he constructed at the...
Protests Led RBI to Raise PMC Bank’s Withdrawal Limit
The Reserve Bank of India has relaxed the withdrawal limit of 1,000 rupees (approximately $14) it placed on a cooperative bank a couple of...
Bitflyer Adds Bitcoin Cash Trading Across Europe and the US
Bitflyer has added a selected number of new cryptocurrencies for its European and American clients to trade. Bitcoin cash (BCH) is among...
Latin American Payment App Mercado Pago Can Be Topped-Up With Crypto
The Atlanta-based blockchain payment provider Bitpay has announced the firm has partnered with Mercado Livre, one of the largest ecommerce...
The Number of Cryptocurrency Wallets Is Growing Exponentially
Wallets are a necessity for cryptocurrency users and their creation is a strong indication of how fast the popularity of decentralized...
Monex Offers Crypto Rewards to Shareholders Furthering Japanese Adoption
Owner of popular Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck, Monex Group, has now announced it will reward shareholders in the company with...
Despite Lower Prices, Bitcoin’s Hashrate Remains Strong
People watching cryptocurrency markets have been patiently waiting for prices to rise and the overall sentiment to change. However, one...
NASA to Launch Bitcoin to the Moon? Space Agency Seeks Crypto Experience
Could experience with cryptocurrency help you become a better space scientist? NASA seems to think so. The U.S. aeronautics agency is...
Appetite for Bitcoin Futures Is Growing
After all the fanfare, fevered anticipation, and breathless media coverage, Bakkt’s launch of bitcoin futures on Monday was a damp...
Market Outlook: Traders Play New Positions After Massive Drop in Crypto Prices
On September 24, digital currency markets saw significant losses as the entire cryptoconomy lost $35 billion in a short period of time....
McAfee Hints Institutional Money Won’t Bring Bitcoin Revolution
In a tweet posted Monday, September 23, Libertarian presidential candidate and crypto rebel John McAfee wrote: “BAKKT goes live...
Swiss Banks Team With Fintechs to Enter the Crypto Space
Multiple joint projects between banks and crypto companies based in Switzerland now offer customers the opportunity to invest in digital...
Panic at 137 Bank Branches as RBI Limits Withdrawals to ₹1,000
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed regulatory restrictions on a cooperative bank with 137 branches across India, including limiting...
Bitcoin Cash-Accepting Mayoral Candidate ‘Nobody’ Hosts Keene’s 420 Rally
There’s an individual called ‘Nobody’ competing to be the next mayor of Keene, the libertarian enclave and crypto mecca...
Ellipal’s Titan Hardware Wallet Is Airgapped and Easy to Use
There’s a lot of hardware wallets out there vying for your hard-earned satoshis. Minimalist USB sticks; credit card-shaped devices...
Market Update: Low Volumes and Uncertainty Shake Crypto Traders
The majority of digital currency markets have lost a few percentages over the last few days as cryptocurrency trade volume has been...
Messaging App Kik’s Legal Battle Shines Light on Past ICO Scams
Popular messaging app Kik is shutting down due to a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit regarding ICO activity for the...
Major German Stock Exchange Group Launches Crypto Trading
Boerse Stuttgart Group, which operates Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, has launched a regulated crypto trading platform, in...
Bitcoin Cash Acceptance and Community Growth Ramp Up
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) adoption continues this week as there’s been a slew of announcements associated with BCH acceptance and activism....
HaasOnline – Create Crypto Algorithms Without Coding
HaasOnline Software, the creators of advanced crypto trading products, has announced the release of a Visual Editor, which leverages their...
Buying Bitcoin on the Street Is Getting Easier
Access to cryptocurrency, still a relatively new invention, requires some technological knowledge and computer literacy. In order to...
Devs Remove BIP70 Payment Protocol From Bitcoin Core’s Default Settings
Cryptocurrency advocates have recently discovered that Bitcoin Core (BTC) developers are planning to disable the payment protocol BIP70...
Washington Elite Announces Summit in Vienna
Washington, DC, September 10, 2019 – The Austrian capital hosts some of the world’s brightest minds in smart city, crypto,...
Bakkt Regulated Bitcoin Futures Now Live on Major Exchange
Trading is now live for Bakkt’s regulated, physically-delivered daily and monthly bitcoin futures, with the first trade executed at...
What Google’s Quantum Breakthrough Means for Blockchain Cryptography
We’ve been warned for years that a quantum computing breakthrough is just around the corner. When that day comes, we’re told,...
Iran Is Being Targeted for Economic Independence, Not Terrorism
New, unprecedented economic sanctions have been imposed on Iran’s central bank after blame for a September 14 oil field attack was...
6 Noncustodial Crypto Payment Solutions for Merchants
You don’t have to be a bitcoin purist or tech tinkerer to want to accept cryptocurrency without using a third party. With lower...
How Merge Mining and Anchored Blockchain Projects Capitalize on Bitcoin’s Security Model
Since 2011, just after Satoshi Nakamoto left the Bitcoin project for good, networks have emerged that leverage the BTC chain in some way....
Bankera Launches a Global Crypto Backed Lending Solution
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Bitcoin History Part 17: That Time Mt. Gox Destroyed 2,609 BTC
Technically speaking, it’s impossible to destroy bitcoins. But it is possible to send coins to an unspendable address, rendering...
How Cryptocurrencies Can Mitigate Some of Brexit’s Negative Effects
Brexit, the European divorce saga that has been going on for years, has created a lot of headaches for politicians and ordinary people on...
Esports, Cannabis and BCH: First AMA With Bitcoin.com CEO Stefan Rust
Stefan Rust, the new CEO of Bitcoin.com, sat down to answer all your questions about his work and how furthering Bitcoin Cash adoption...
SLP Token Environment Built on Bitcoin Cash Continues to Expand
According to public data, a number of individuals are creating tokens using the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH)...
How Did You Get Into Bitcoin? Crypto Twitter Responds
Everybody loves a story. When it comes to how people first got into cryptocurrency, there’s no exception. Crypto Twitter (CT) is...
CC Forum – Blockchain and AI Investment Forum
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London, UK www.cc-forum.com 14-16 October 2019 will see one of the world’s major industry...
Popular Smartphone Apps Are Adding Crypto Capabilities
News of Japan messaging giant Line’s September 17 launch of an app-connected crypto exchange is captivating lots of attention in the...
VERDAD is the Most Dangerous Crypto Bill to Face Congress Yet
The U.S. Congress is considering more than 20 bills on cryptocurrency. One deserves special attention: S.1025, the Venezuela Emergency...
North Korea Plans to Launch Cryptocurrency to Bypass Economic Sanctions
A North Korean official claims that a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) cryptocurrency is on the horizon. According to a...
Changes Afoot for Philippine Crypto-Friendly Economic Zone
The special economic zone in the Philippines known for its crypto friendliness is undergoing some changes. Government-owned Cagayan...
The Changing Shape of Crypto Funding in 2019
2019 was meant to be the year of the IEO. Or was it the STO? Whatever the case, it’s had its share of both, with mixed results....
Tiny Block Advocates Speak Up After Veriblock ‘Abuses’ Bitcoin’s Block Size
The BTC community recently celebrated the fact that Segregated Witness (Segwit) transactions accounted for 50% of transactions and bech32...
Taxation Isn’t Just Theft – It’s Bad for Crypto Adoption
Crypto awareness is reaching levels almost unimaginable just years ago, with telecommunications giants, big banks, mainstream media, and...
Bitcoin Cash Futures Expected to Open up US Market by Q1 2020
Futures contracts on bitcoin cash can be available at a CFTC-regulated exchange by the end of this year or the first quarter of 2020. This...
Snowden: US Seizing My Book Revenue is ‘Good for Bitcoin’
Former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor Edward Snowden is being sued by the Department of Justice (DoJ) for his latest...
10 Tax Tools to Help Crypto Owners
While tax laws on cryptocurrency vary by jurisdiction, there are many useful tools to help you calculate crypto taxes, lower your tax...
Meet Nimbus, a Concept for Enhancing BCH Smart Contracts
On Monday, software developer Tobias Ruck introduced a new transaction version for the BCH chain called Nimbus in a demonstration video....
18,000 Traders and Growing – Bitcoin.com’s Crypto Exchange Shines Brightly
Since exchange.Bitcoin.com launched, our premier trading platform has seen a significant influx of users from Asia and Europe. So far, the...
Indian Parliament Member Helping Crypto Community Influence Regulation
The Indian crypto community has made progress towards influencing the government’s crypto policies. Some industry leaders have met...
FATF-Driven Delistings Capture the Criminalization of Privacy
The delisting of privacy coins like monero, zcash, and dash is becoming something of a trend in Asia, and could soon expand elsewhere. In...
Here’s How Europeans Can Deal With Negative Interest Rates
Low and negative interest rates have been a burden for account holders across Europe for some time. And it’s only getting worse, as...
BCH Microblog ‘Member’ Shows the Future of Reddit-Like Forums
Since the Bitcoin Cash upgrade in May 2018, software developers have unleashed a slew of microblogging protocols that utilize OP_return...
PR: Liven Announces Strategic Partnership with Bitcoin.com
Liven, the lifestyle rewards app that lets users spend and earn cryptocurrency rewards in over 1,000 restaurants across Australia, is...
How Crypto Became a Gambler’s Paradise
Comparing cryptocurrency trading to gambling is like comparing crypto tribalism to religion: the analogy is correct, but it’s also...
European Countries Step Up Response to Facebook’s Libra
The European Central Bank (ECB) and a number of countries in the region have stepped up their efforts in response to Facebook’s...
PR: Bitcoin.com Announces Partnership With Telecommunications Manufacturer HTC
World’s leading telecom manufacturer strikes a partnership to support wallets and Bitcoin Cash on flagship products to be sold...
HTC Adds Native Bitcoin Cash Support to Its Flagship Smartphone
The bitcoin cash community now has a new way to secure and transact its digital money, as HTC adds native BCH support to its Exodus 1...
At Least 19 Central Banks Give Way to Monetary Easing As Economy Slows
In a coordinated fashion, more than 18 central banks worldwide have or plan to cut interest rates, sparking a domino effect of monetary...
A Short History of the World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pools
Mining pools grow and shrink, and rise and fall altogether. Today there are more extinct mining pools than there are active ones. The...
Distrust of the Bolivar Prompts Venezuelans to Seek Sound Money
There’s a small team of committed researchers and activists called the Ryver Bitcoin Cash group surveying Venezuelans, and giving...
How Prime Brokerage Will Affect Crypto Markets
Prime brokerage firms are coming for crypto in what’s likely to be a race of winner-takes-almost-all. Goldman Sachs is synonymous...
Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Why Trump’s Proposed Negative Rates Bode Well for Bitcoin
In a recent tweet, U.S. president Donald Trump delved into an explosive, all-caps-loaded mini-rant about the necessity of getting...
Crypto Facilitates Money Transfer for Restricted China
Crypto is not illegal in China, but it is illegal for banks and financial institutions to deal in crypto. It’s also illegal to send...
Local.Bitcoin.com Gathers 56K Accounts and $200M Worth of Trades Initiated
Three months ago, Bitcoin.com launched its over-the-counter BCH marketplace on June 4. Since then, Local.Bitcoin.com has aggregated more...
Big Banks Won’t Touch Crypto Clients – But These Smaller Banks Will
Cryptocurrencies undoubtedly bring new business opportunities. The expanding industry around digital assets and its customers need more...
Review: Coinfinity’s Card Wallet Provides Tamper-Proof Cold Storage
Outside of exchanges, few cryptocurrency industries are as prosperous as custody. At this stage in Bitcoin’s lifespan, trading...
Developer Reveals Token Reward Platform Fueled by Bitcoin Cash
There’s a new crypto platform called Honeypoints that just released for beta testing on Apple’s Testflight. The digital...
PR: Sportsbet.io and Watford FC Drive Bitcoin Awareness
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Crypto’s Forgotten Altcoins Re-Emerge: A Look at What’s Happening
During the crypto bull market of 2017, everybody was happy. It wasn’t just the BTC maximalists, BCH enthusiasts, or proponents of...
Greta Thunberg Joins Satoshi in Questioning Bank Bailouts
Saving planet Earth is a noble goal with many different dimensions. Climate change needs to be addressed vigorously as our world warms up...
PR: Bitmain’s Announces Highly Anticipated World Digital Mining Summit
Cryptocurrency mining leaders to speak include: Jihan Wu (Bitmain Co-Founder), John Ge (Matrixport CEO), Marco Streng (Genesis Mining...
Indian Lawmaker Raises Hope of Positive Crypto Regulation
A member of the upper house of the Indian parliament has given the crypto community some advice on what can be done to influence the...
The Hype Has Faded But Demand Remains for Enterprise Blockchains
The days when blockchain was portrayed as a cure-all for businesses of all kinds have gone. Now that the hype has faded, enterprise...
California City Official Uses Bitcoin Cash to Purchase Cannabis
In California, cryptocurrency payments are making headway in the cannabis industry as Berkeley City Councilmember Ben Bartlett became the...
Market Outlook: Uncertainty Builds With Thin Trade Volumes and Bitcoin Futures Launch
Digital currency markets have dropped in value over the last three weeks, losing $25 billion since mid-August. Market prices have been...
Connecting Cash to the Internet Using Stablecoins
Most often overlooked in the fintech space is the world’s most scalable and private payment system: cash. It is used in every...
Privacy Network Elixxir Invites Smartphone Users to Test Private Messaging
In an age where Google, Facebook and the NSA are known to be harvesting as much as our communications as they can, many people are...
Bitmain Launches Next Gen Miner as Bitcoin Hashrate Touches 100 Exahash
Last Thursday the China-based mining rig manufacturer Bitmain announced the launch of two new Antminers that offer hashrates between 53 to...
Plans to Build $50M Bitcoin Cash Tech Park Revealed
At the Bitcoin Cash City conference in North Queensland, the CEO of Code Valley, Noel Lovisa, announced plans to build a $50 million...
Government Hates Crypto Because It Empowers the People, Not Because It’s Used for Crime
A recent article from MIT Technology Review has leveraged a somewhat sensationalist headline to stir up fear about bitcoin and crypto. The...
Total Surveillance Coin Will Be a Dystopia if Controlled by Facebook or Government
Digital currency provides unprecedented abilities to spy on and control what people do, and having that power in the hands of a few people...
India’s Popular ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ Show Gives Crypto a Boost
One of the most popular reality TV shows in India called Kaun Banega Crorepati, based on the show ‘Who Wants to Be a...