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Indian Supreme Court Orders RBI to Answer Crypto Exchanges, New Date Set
After hearing the arguments against the banking restriction by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in detail, the Indian supreme court...
PR: Kinesis Partners With Hardware Wallet Provider CoolbitX
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High-Powered Mining Rigs Drive Bitcoin’s Accelerating Hashrate
On August 19, the combined SHA-256 hashrate between the BCH and BTC networks touched a massive high of over 91 exahash per second (EH/s)....
RBI Defends Its Power Over Crypto in Indian Supreme Court
The Indian supreme court heard the case against the crypto banking restriction by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in detail Tuesday. After...
PR: Plan Flash – Decentralized Data Processing
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‘Amazon of Japan’ Rakuten Launches Crypto Exchange Service
Rakuten, the “Amazon of Japan,” announced the launch of its new crypto exchange platform Monday, August 19, offering spot...
How to Bequeath Your Digital Assets to Your Descendants
Depending on your belief system, death is either the endgame or the next level. Whatever lies on the other side, your bitcoins are no good...
As US Expands Subprime Mortgage Program, Is a New Crisis Looming?
The Federal Housing Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has recently adopted new...
Win BCH with Bitcoin.com’s Cash Games Stars Leaderboard
There’s a new promotion happening for Bitcoin.com Cash Games, with new winners each week, and first place taking home $200 in...
Another Self-Proclaimed Satoshi Fails to Sway Crypto Community
Another person has attempted to claim the title of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. According to a blog post published on August...
Fiat Lite vs. Freedom Maximalist: The Two Types of Bitcoiner
As regulation continues growing exponentially for cryptocurrencies worldwide, a chasm is yawning ever deeper between supporters. On the...
The Most Important Aspect of Bitcoin Is the Separation of Money and State
Many cryptocurrency supporters believe the technology allows for the separation of money and state in a manner that’s never been...
Bitcoin History Part 15: Silk Road Is Born
Silk Road launched in February 2011 as the darknet’s first bitcoin-based marketplace. Within four months, it would be the...
Philippines Increasingly Crypto Friendly – A Look at Driving Forces
There are many reasons why the Philippines is becoming increasingly crypto-friendly. Not only has its central bank registered more crypto...
IRS Revoking Passports Shows How Government Erodes Everything We Hold Dear
If you have outstanding tax debt, the IRS may now want to take your passport. For U.S. crypto holders still waiting on promised IRS...
Bitcoiners Brace for More Performance Art and Another ‘Satoshi Reveal’
On Friday, a variety of paid press releases were published stemming from a company called Satoshi Nakamoto Renaissance Holdings, a firm...
Passing the Burden of Negative Rates to Bank Clients Opens Door for Cryptocurrencies
Record low and negative interest rates have put commercial banks in a difficult spot. Across Europe, they have been passing the burden to...
How Coinbase Quietly Became the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Bank
On August 15, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that it had acquired the cryptocurrency custody service...
Hong Kong Protest Leader Hopes to Incite Run on Chinese Banks
The 11th week of protesting in Hong Kong has passed as the world has witnessed massive sit-ins at the national airport and demonstrations...
These Portfolio Tracking Tools Will Also Prepare Your Crypto Taxes
Tax season is months away, which is why you need to start preparing for it now. Leave everything to the last minute and you’ll only...
Samsung Adds Bitcoin Support to Its Blockchain Keystore
On August 13, Samsung, the South Korean multinational conglomerate, published the company’s new Blockchain Keystore SDK for...
Ron Paul Slams Fednow Payment System and Encourages Crypto Competition
Ron Paul, the muckraking former congressman from Texas, is stirring things up once again, this time taking aim at the new real-time...
PR: Australian Bitcoin Cash Conference Brings Cryptocurrency Leaders to Townsville
Global leaders from the Bitcoin Cash community will gather at the first Bitcoin Cash City Conference in Australia, being held in...
Central Banks Worldwide Testing Their Own Digital Currencies
Central banks worldwide are examining the possibility of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), with some already testing theirs...
Alcor Life Extension Foundation Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations
Alcor Life Extension Foundation has revealed the company is accepting bitcoin cash (BCH) donations. Alcor was convinced by...
Argentina’s Peso Collapse Shows Governments Shouldn’t Control Money
Whenever bitcoin experiences a sharp drop or volatility, mainstream media analysts jump to declare that cryptocurrency isn’t stable...
Social Network Memo Adds Decentralized SLP Token Exchange
The Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), a token creation system built on top of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network continues to mature as developers...
Anti-Corruption Group Proves Crypto’s True Power: You Can’t Confiscate Math
Last week in Russia, state agents tore apart the offices of FBK, a privately funded anti-corruption foundation, freezing group assets and...
RBI’s Power Over Crypto Challenged at Length in Indian Supreme Court Today
The Indian supreme court resumed hearing the writ petitions against the banking restriction by the central bank, the Reserve Bank of India...
Elon Musk Supports Yang – But Does Andrew Yang Really Support Bitcoin?
There’s much talk about multi-billionaire innovator Elon Musk’s newly announced support for Democratic presidential candidate...
EU Members Adopt Tougher Crypto Rules Than AML Directive Requires
Europe is gradually tightening the rules for the crypto space. A wave of new regulations are introducing stricter requirements for...
Market Outlook: Bitcoin Cash Spikes While Economic Fears Spread Worldwide
On Tuesday, August 13, most digital currency prices have dropped in value between 2-5% while crypto trade volumes globally have fallen to...
PR: Decentralized Recurring Crypto Payments System Launched by Monarch Blockchain
Online service providers like Netflix and Hulu can now accept crypto for memberships and subscription services through an...
Big Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Crimes
Unlike the unfounded narrative that cryptocurrency enables crime, big banks are more than happy to serve unsavory clients if it is...
Twitter Crypto Scammers Continue to Fly Under the Company’s Radar
Over the last two years, cryptocurrency scamming on social media has been prevalent. In January 2019, it was reported that crypto...
How Bridging Blockchains Unlocks Value and Unites Crypto Tribes
Interoperability is a multisyllabic word for a multi-faceted problem. How do you get blockchains to communicate with one another? Until...
Normalizing Negative Interest: It’s Flabbergasting How Closely Media Parrots the Government
Negative interest rates have been making big headlines lately, as several countries and big banks are now experimenting with the...
PR: Remco – Powerful Distributed Token Generating Platform
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Crypto Regulations Are Changing Worldwide to Comply With FATF Standards
Governments worldwide are changing the way they regulate crypto assets to comply with the global cryptocurrency standards set by the...
Bitcoin Mining Industry’s Exponential Growth Just Won’t Stop
A decade ago when Satoshi Nakamoto unleashed the Bitcoin network, the security behind the protocol was guarded by only a few miners. These...
BCH News Roundup: Transactions Spike, Cashaddr Support and Developer Congress
The last seven days have been busy within the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem with a slew of announcements and developments. Kraken exchange...
India Plans to Introduce Crypto Bill Next Parliament Session – A Look at Community Responses
The Indian government has submitted a draft crypto bill to the supreme court and expressed its intention to introduce the bill in the next...
Tokens Built on Bitcoin Cash Are Cheaper to Send Than Those of Rival Networks
Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin technology has inspired a lot of innovation spawning a myriad of tokens representing digitized assets....
Can the Fed Kill Bitcoin? Navigating the Chokepoints of Tax Law and KYC
Taxes. The one word that can kill any buzz in seconds flat. Whether you’re a libertarian ranting about how taxation is theft or one...
Bitcoin History Part 14: The 1,000 BTC Poker Game
Bitcoin and poker have a history that stretches back to the very start. Perhaps, even, to before the start of Bitcoin as we know it, for...
US Exchanges Race to Launch Regulated Physically-Delivered Bitcoin Futures
The race to launch regulated physically-delivered bitcoin futures is back on for three US-regulated trading platforms after one of them...
Big Banks, Big Troubles: HSBC, Deutsche, Societe, and Citi Lay Off Thousands Worldwide
Banking giants are in trouble and it’s starting to show. Key players in the industry have already announced massive job cuts and...
Developers Reveal Sandbox Video Game Powered by Bitcoin Cash
On August 7, developers from the team Block Hop announced a new sandbox game powered by the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain. The gaming...
Indian Supreme Court Heard Crypto Case in Depth Today
The Indian supreme court finally heard the crypto case today after postponing it several times. The court addressed the government’s...
Owning Fiat Just Got More Expensive – NIRP Strikes Again
With the recent Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) announcement that even more customers will be charged to hold money in their banks, people...
PR: Bitkan and Bitcoin.com Announce Strategic Partnership
Tokyo, Japan – August 8th, 2019 – BitKan and Bitcoin.com have officially signed a Strategic Collaboration agreement together....
Cryptophyl.com Launches Dedicated Exchange for SLP Tokens and BCH
The team behind the former cryptocurrency exchange Voltaire recently announced the launch of a new trading platform specifically designed...
New Liberty Dollar Founder Subpoenaed in the Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Lawsuit
The ongoing Kleiman v. Wright case saw expert testimony on Monday from the plaintiff’s cryptography specialist, alongside the...
From Spartacus to Satoshi: A Brief History of Economic Rebellion
Government dominance of human beings via slavery and violent economic oppression is as old as government itself. For thousands and...
PR: Roger Ver Joins OmniSparx as Investor and Advisor With Goal to Boost BCH Community
Bitcoin.com to use OmniSparx’s Community Engagement platform Chicago, Illinois–– August 7, 2019 — OmniSparx.io,...
Indian Tax Authority Sends Probing Questions to Crypto Owners – Experts Weigh In
As the Indian government deliberates on the country’s crypto policy, the tax authority continues to send out letters with lengthy,...
How to Become a Blockchain Developer
Skilled blockchain developers are a scarce commodity, as precious as the bitcoins that reside on the distributed ledgers they maintain....
How to Shuffle BCH and Keep Your Transactions Private With Cashshuffle
As blockchain surveillance becomes more prevalent, cryptocurrency advocates have created ways to make digital currency transactions more...
From Booze to Bitcoin Mining – Why Violent Prohibition Is Always Harmful
Stories continue to emerge about newly discovered illegal mining operations being busted by state and corporate authorities. Just last...
More Cities and Regions Accepting Coins for Taxes, Services
Cryptocurrency payments, as convenient as they can be, are still something most governments are trying to wrap their heads around and...
Currency War Erupts as US and China Bring Out the Big Guns
What started out as a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies is now a full-blown currency war as the U.S. and China...
How Governments Steal Your Money and Conceal It Through Inflation
Dozens of countries all over the world have used the same trick called redenomination to hide how they have stolen their own...
PR: Pbet Announces IEO Launch on LATOKEN
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Market Outlook: Trade Wars and Filthy Fiat Battles Fuel Crypto Prices
A slew of digital currencies have gathered decent gains over the last 48 hours and the entire market capitalization now stands at around...
PR: Evercoin Announces $1M Pre-Seed Financing With gumi Cryptos and Prominent Blockchain and Open Source Pioneers
Investors include Founder/Executive Chairman of Bitcoin.com (Roger Ver), Founder/CEO’s MuleSoft, and JBoss. San Francisco, CA...
SEC Commissioner: US Could Draw Crypto Policy From These Countries
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could learn from other countries when finalizing its own crypto regulation, Commissioner...
Youtube Censorship Drives Uptake of Crypto-Powered Video Platforms
If the prospect of greater privacy and financial sovereignty doesn’t lure the masses to crypto networks, perhaps the ability to...
Tax Expert: IRS Letters Confirm That Trading Cryptos Is a Taxable Event
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on July 26 that 10,000 American cryptocurrency users will receive a letter reminding...
Goldman-Backed Apple Card Restricts Cryptocurrency Purchases
Cryptocurrencies cannot be purchased with the new Apple credit card according to the American multinational technology company’s...
Crypto Social Media is Breaking Free: How 10+ Blockchain Platforms Pay You to Post
Social media has become so embedded in most people’s everyday lives that it’s hard to imagine life — or even a span of a...
Research Reports Show Positive Crypto Industry Growth in H1 2019
More than half the year is behind us and the cryptocurrency ecosystem continues to move forward, showing relentless growth over the last...
P2P Crypto Lending Is on the Rise
As peer-to-peer cash, it only seems logical that cryptocurrency should be deployed for P2P lending. While that application has taken time...
More Signs the Next Big Financial Crisis May Begin in Germany
Germany, the locomotive of Europe’s huge economy, is entering a difficult period, various indicators suggest. And when the Federal...
Banks Stopped Walmart Bank – Now the Retail Giant Hits Back With Crypto
On August 1, it was discovered that the giant retail corporation Walmart has patented plans for a stablecoin that’s backed by U.S....
Stefan Rust Appointed New Chief Executive Officer of Bitcoin.com
Stefan Rust has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of Bitcoin.com. As CEO he will work alongside Roger Ver as the company...
PR: Uruguayan President Meets With the Founder of SCRY
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US Regulator Plans to Outsource Running Cryptocurrency Nodes
A recently published document reveals that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has plans to hire contractors to run specific...
UK Judge Strikes Out Craig Wright’s Libel Lawsuit Against Roger Ver
According to documents from the U.K.’s High Court of Justice published on July 31, a judge has denied Craig Wright’s libel...
Indian Government Updates Parliament on Crypto Plans
The Indian parliament has repeatedly asked the finance minister about the government’s plans for cryptocurrency. In July alone, the...
Liquidity Difficulties in China: Second Bank Bail-Out Now Reality
Although it has its peculiarities, the Chinese banking sector now faces similar challenges to the west’s financial system. Dozens of...
PR: Bitpunter Launches Transaction Mining for Online Gaming
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Pre-Register for Bitcoin.com’s New Crypto Exchange to Win Bitcoin Cash Prizes
Over the last few years, Bitcoin.com has striven to make digital assets more accessible to everyone in the world. In June we launched our...
Bitcoin Cash 2-Year Anniversary: Celebrating Protocol Development and Achievements
Today Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fans from all around the world will be celebrating the 2-year anniversary of the BCH network. The day is a great...
New Bitcoin Cash Specs Propose Heightened Privacy and Double-Spend Proofs
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) development continues as software engineers have revealed two distinct concepts that aim to boost the BCH network....
PR: EO Coin Volume Surges on July Listings
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PR: CheapAir.com and Bitcoin.com Partner to Serve Bitcoin Cash Travelers
CALABASAS, CA (July 31, 2019) – Online travel agency CheapAir.com and Bitcoin.com today announced a partnership to serve crypto...
Indian Finance Minister Addresses Crypto Proposal – Industry Responds
India’s finance minister has broken silence and talked about the crypto draft bill and report her department is examining which...
China Publishes New Rankings of 37 Crypto Projects
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development has published its latest crypto rankings. Thirty-seven projects have been...
Testing Haven, OB1’s New Social Media and Crypto Marketplace App
On Monday, OB1, the development team who created the crypto-infused marketplace Openbazaar, launched a new platform called Haven. The...
When Cash Is Banned, Centralized Cryptos Are Not Going to Save You
Australia is now moving forward with its proposed legislation to ban cash purchases over 10,000 AUD ($6,900) for business purposes....