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Economics Professor on Ripple Board Misrepresents Bitcoin During Stanford Lecture
A Stanford student has submitted a letter of complaint to the Graduate School Board stating that a resident economics professor grossly...
Business Owner’s Seething Critique of the Lightning Network Goes Viral
A business owner who runs a media company in Australia and pays employees remotely in the Philippines has given his honest opinion on what...
P2P Markets Report: Iranian Localbitcoins Volume Gains 190% in a Week
The peer-to-peer (P2P) markets have seen a dramatic increase in Iranian and Indonesian trade activity, with both markets posting...
Tencent’s WeBank Collaborates with Macao Over Smart City-Focused Blockchain, AI Initiatives
WeBank, the digital bank of China’s Internet giant Tencent, has signed a collaboration agreement with the Macao Science and Technology...
Mark Karpeles Still Faces Class Allegations in the U.S. After Japan Verdict
Mark Karpeles, the chief executive of the now defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has been denied a motion to stay in a class action lawsuit...
Researcher Claims to Have Sleuthed $90M of Quadrigacx Funds
A new research report links a trail of 12 wallets holding Quadrigacx funds worth $90M of ethereum to Kraken, Bitfinex, and Poloniex...
Auction of Seized Bitcoin Draws Interest From 110 Countries
Wilsons Auctions on Feb. 28 successfully sold off 315 bitcoin seized by the Belgian police from dark web drug dealers. The 24-hour online...
In the Daily: Coinhive Closedown, Eos Heist, Crypto Entrepreneur Arrested
In this edition of The Daily, the creator of the in-browser crypto mining software Coinhive is closing down due to the low prices of...
Finally: Ethereum’s Network Upgrade Constantinople Is Here
Constantinople, an upgrade to Ethereum’s network has gone live. The upgrade marks the end of a month-long wait due to the discovery...
Indian Crypto Community Rallies to Influence Government’s Decision on Cryptocurrency Regulation
In March 2019, cryptocurrency enthusiasts and experts across India will make their voices heard at a nationwide roadshow. They intend to...
Thailand Now Has 4 Approved Cryptocurrencies
The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a list of four approved cryptocurrencies for use as base trading pairs in...
Kraken Offers $100K Reward for Help Finding Quadrigacx Funds
The San Francisco crypto exchange Kraken has announced the company is offering a $100,000 reward in exchange for a solid lead toward...
Bitcoin History Part 10: The 184 Billion BTC Bug
There was something unusual about Bitcoin block 74638. It was Core developer Jeff Garzik who first spotted it, commenting on the “quite...
P2P Exchange Hodl Hodl Announces New Prediction Market
On Feb. 27, KYC-free cryptocurrency exchange Hodl Hodl announced a new service called Predictions, which will soon be added to the...
New Freelancing Platform Supports 12 Different Cryptocurrencies
There’s a new freelancing platform called Freelance for Coins that provides users with the ability to publish offers and bids for...
Cryptocurrency Accounts for Less Than 2% of All Japanese Money Laundering Cases
Money laundering cases related to cryptocurrencies in Japan have increased significantly in 2018. Nevertheless, their number remains a...
The Crypto Frenzy Is Creating A New Generation Of Investors In Asia
The cryptocurrency frenzy of these past years has created a new generation of investors in Asia, according to new data released by...
Europe’s Regulatory Head Seeks Further Control of Crypto Assets
Steven Maijoor, who chairs the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), has shown support for further regulation of crypto...
35 Countries Urged to Regulate Cryptocurrency Exchanges Like Commercial Banks
The Financial Action Task Force has finalized its requirements for the supervision and monitoring of cryptocurrency service providers. The...
Institutional Digital Asset Wallet Startup Curv Emerges from Stealth; Raises US$6.5M
Curv, a digital asset wallet startup, has emerged from stealth and announced a US$6.5 million seed funding round led by Team8 and Digital...
In the Daily: Fidelity Investments, London Stock Exchange Group, Sofi
In this edition of The Daily we feature a number of traditional financial companies that are stepping into the crypto assets world....
Putin’s Order: Russia to Adopt Cryptocurrency Regulation by July This Year
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has instructed his country’s government to adopt federal laws relating to cryptocurrency by...
Honest Cash Publishing App Sees Organic Growth and New Features
Last November, a new Bitcoin Cash-powered publishing platform was launched called Honest Cash after the blogging site Yours.org opted to...
New Pwc Report on Crypto Insolvency Captures the ICO Chaos
Accounting firm Pwc’s Hong Kong branch recently released a crypto insolvency report guiding crypto business owners on what to do...
Cryptopia Lost Almost a Tenth of Its Assets in January Hack
New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has published a series of tweets detailing the extent of the losses it suffered during an...
Platform for Crypto Payments to Bank Accounts Launching in the UK
A company based in London has announced it’s launching a payment service that can help increase the mainstream adoption of...
Crypto Exchange Circle Partners With Financial Surveillance Provider Nice Actimize
On Feb. 27, Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle announced a partnership with Nice Actimize financial crime detection and...
Cybercriminals Ditch Ransomware and Malware-Based Attacks for Cryptojacking: IBM Study
Increased security measures and awareness are driving cybercriminals to change their techniques in search of a better return on...
Wirex Introduces Global Crypto Accounts for Businesses
With the beta launch of crypto and fiat-enabled business accounts, crypto payments platform Wirex has taken a major step toward mainstream...
Top Business School in India to Offer Advanced Blockchain Program for Professionals
A top business school in India is set to offer an advanced blockchain program for professionals. It marks the latest case of global...
In the Daily: Blockchain Phones, Crypto Cash Out Gets Easier, Banks vs Exchanges
Wednesday’s edition of The Daily charts the rise of blockchain phones and the effects they’re exerting on the tokenized assets supported...
Cryptocurrency Jobs Peak in These Indian Cities
Demand for skilled professionals in the crypto space has been steadily rising, according to new data that ranks cities in India based on...
China’s New Crypto Ranking: Bitcoin Upgraded, Tron Debuts Near Top
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development has released its latest ranking of crypto projects. A total of 35 projects were...
These Bitcoin Easter Eggs Are Hidden in Plain Sight
Easter eggs are everywhere if you know where to look. Spanning all seasons and all forms of multimedia, these inside jokes, hidden puzzles...
125-Year-Old Swiss Bank Julius Baer Enters Cryptocurrency Market
Julius Baer, the 125 year-old Swiss private bank, has announced a partnership with cryptocurrency banking startup Seba Crypto AG. The bank...
Cashshuffle Participants Mix $20K of Bitcoin Cash in One Transaction
Over the last few days, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) enthusiasts have been meeting online to mix BCH using the Cashshuffle mixing software for the...
Lightning Network: Cool Enough for Twitter Jack and Fidelity But Not Iran
On Feb. 22, bitcoiners rejoiced when the financial banking giant Fidelity was handed the ‘Lightning torch’ as the Lightning Network’s...
Warren Buffett Calls Bitcoin a Delusion – But an Ingenious One
Warren Buffett’s opinion of bitcoin has evolved. In a recent interview, he described the cryptocurrency as ingenious but also called it a...
Nasdaq’s New BTC and ETH Indices Launch With Real-Time Price Data
The Nasdaq stock exchange has officially listed bitcoin core and ethereum indices on its platform of 4,000 global indices starting Monday,...
Markets Update: Support Turns Into Resistance for Leading Cryptocurrencies
Following Sunday’s sudden rally and retracement, most leading crypto assets have produced sideways consolidation just below the support...
Tech Business Leaders Name IoT Processes As Blockchain’s Greatest Disruptor: KPMG Study
Technology executives expect the Internet-of-Things (IoT) processes (27%) to be one of the greatest blockchain disruptors over the next...
In the Daily: Bitcoin Cash on Amazon Show, Bitwarden, Coinbin, Huobi Australia
In this edition of The Daily we cover an Amazon Prime show that features Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the open source password manager Bitwarden...
Maduro’s Petro Becomes More Accessible, but Scrutinized by Venezuelans
For a while now people were skeptical about the Petro network and questioned whether or not it even existed. Many Venezuelan citizens...
Bitcoin Whales Have Accumulated Thousands of Coins in the Last 2 Months
Cryptocurrency markets experienced a long bearish cycle last year which has continued into 2019. With some of the top cryptocurrencies...
‘Bitcoin to the Moon’ Signs Appear on Ukrainian Tram
LED signs flashing the text “Bitcoin to the Moon” have been spotted on a tramcar in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. Pictures of the signs...
PR: LendaBit.com Launches Excellent P2P Service for Unverified Borrowers
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Bitfinex Recovers $106,000 of Stolen BTC With US Government Help
Bitfinex has recovered 27.7 bitcoin stolen by hackers in August 2016, the company said on Monday. The coins, worth around $106,000 at the...
Hong Kong Crypto Exchange Coinsuper Shifts Focus to Institutional Investors
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinsuper is reportedly shifting its focus from retail traders to institutional investors. This is...
One Man’s Quest to Make Buenos Aires a Bitcoin City
A 19-year-old information engineering student in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has started a grassroots campaign to educate local businesses...
PR: Roger Ver Joins Livenpay Advisory Board
“The future of cryptocurrencies depends on practical applications for real people,” states Roger Ver as he joins the meteoric Australian...
Indian Supreme Court Gives Government 4 Weeks to Produce Crypto Regulation
The Supreme Court of India has reportedly given the Indian government four weeks to come up with cryptocurrency regulations before making...
In the Daily: Huobi AML Measures, New OTC Desk, Bank Card Deposits
In The Daily this Monday, we feature several developments cryptocurrency traders may want to know more about. The Korean subsidiary of...
Venezuelan Explains How Bitcoin Saves His Family
As the situation in Venezuela intensifies, a local bitcoin user details how he and his family use the cryptocurrency to survive the...
Unusual Goods You Can Purchase on the Darknet With Cryptocurrency
Darknet marketplaces (DNMs) are a repository for the weird and the wonderful. Whatever your vice, your potion, or your whimsy, odds are...
Token Development Using the Bitcoin Cash Network Kicks Into High Gear
Ever since various token implementations were introduced to the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network, the infrastructure has been significantly...
Japan Recruit Holdings Unveils US$25M Blockchain Fund
Recruit Holdings, the Japanese Internet and human resources firm that owns Glassdoor and Indeed, has launched a US$25 million blockchain...
Mt. Gox CEO Claims the Coinlab and Brock Pierce Deals Never Materialized
On Feb. 19, the former CEO of Mt. Gox, Mark Karpeles, gave an interview on the Youtube show “What Bitcoin Did”. In episode 76,...
Pantera Predicts Institutions to Invest in Crypto After Next Bull Trend is Established
Dan Morehead, the chief executive officer of Pantera Capital, recently discussed the cryptocurrency bear trend on an episode of the...
Markets Update: Leading Cryptocurrencies Briefly Break Local Resistance
The cryptocurrency markets have seen significant volatility over the last 24 hours, with BTC rallying by 7% to test resistance at $4,200,...
German Derivatives Exchange Rumored to Be Launching Crypto Futures
Eurex, a derivatives exchange that is operated by German exchange organization Deutsche Börse, has announced its intention to launch...
In the Daily: BCH on C2C Market, Binance in Indonesia, 400,000 Planned Mining Rigs
In this edition of The Daily, we cover the addition of bitcoin cash (BCH) trading support to a fiat-to-cryptocurrency platform, an...
Kenyan Crypto Adoption and Trading Grows Despite Warnings from Regulators
Over the last two years, the Kenyan government and central bank have been discussing how to regulate bitcoin and other digital currencies....
US ETF Ruling to Inform South Korean Cryptocurrency Market
Local media has reported that a South Korean exchange is waiting for regulators in the United States to make a ruling regarding the highly...
John McAfee On Bitcoin Price Predictions
The media and others have it all wrong when it comes to predicting Bitcoin’s price movements. This according to John McAfee who believes...
The Infamous Bet: John McAfee’s 2020 Price Target Shows BTC Undervalued by $37K
John McAfee is once again discussing the notorious wager he made back in November 2017 when he predicted that bitcoin will reach a million...
Markets Update: Altcoins Gain on BTC
The recent bounce in the value of many leading cryptocurrencies relative to fiat currency has comprised the first bullish action in...
In the Daily: Token Delistings, Paybear Is Savvy, Revolut and Hackers
In this edition of The Daily, crypto exchange Upbit is preparing to delist four tokens, while several projects have accused Kucoin of...
Thailand Greenlights Japanese Exchange to Operate 4 Crypto Businesses
The Thai government has issued four licenses to a new crypto exchange. Prior to this, only existing exchanges that were in business before...
Digital Currency Donors and Crypto-Backed Endowments Fuel Higher Learning
Digital asset holders and organizations have been donating funds to a number of well-known universities. These days a slew of popular...
State Treasurer: Ohio Companies Now Paying Tax in BTC
Treasurer in the U.S. state of Ohio Robert Sprague has revealed that at least two companies have paid their taxes using bitcoin since the...
BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik Terminates His Hunger Strike
The alleged operator of the infamous BTC-e exchange, Alexander Vinnik, has terminated his hunger strike more than 80 days after he started...
Report: ‘The State of Stablecoins’ Maps the Growth of Fiat-Pegged Cryptocurrency
A new report published this week shines a light on the stablecoin ecosystem. Authored by George Samman and Andrew Masanto in conjunction...
Coinbase Reveals Its Procedure for Handling Contentious Forks
On Feb. 20, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase gave the public an inside look at how the company deals with...
Indian Trade Association Calls for Fast Crypto Regulation to Drive Growth
The Indian National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has released a report that calls for regulatory certainty,...
In the Daily: Quadrigacx Transfer, Tokenized Bonds, Beam Investment, Rakuten Pay
In this edition of The Daily, Canadian exchange Quadrigacx has transferred its remaining crypto funds to the court appointed monitor Ernst...
Crypto Exchange BitMart Integrates Paxful to Enter P2P Trading
Crypto trading platform BitMart has announced the integration of peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful onto its exchange as the...
Company Evades SEC Penalty Despite Illegally Issuing Security Tokens
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided not to impose a penalty on a company that had issued security tokens without...
Liechtenstein Bank Creates Cryptocurrency Trading Platform for Institutional Investors
A private bank in Liechtenstein has established a cryptocurrency trading platform for institutional investors. Balzers-based Bank Frick...
University of Michigan Endowment Backs Crypto Venture Capital Fund
The financial endowment fund of the University of Michigan, one of the oldest and most established academic institutions in the U.S., is...
How Crypto Compliance Requests Strip User Privacy
Money transmitting services that enable users to switch from crypto to fiat are a valuable resource. There’s still a shortage of...
‘Bitcoin Killer’ Onecoin Is Ashes But Investigations Continue to This Day
Back in 2014, a group led by a woman named Ruja Ignatova created a Ponzi scheme called Onecoin which, together with the organization...
CME Group’s Bitcoin Futures See a Surge of Institutional Interest
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) has seen a big spike in bitcoin futures volumes according to an internal investors email sent...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Exmo Opens Branch in Turkey
Digital asset exchange Exmo, a leading crypto trading platform in Eastern Europe, has recently registered a subsidiary in Turkey. The...
Big Banks Money Laundering: UBS Fined $4.2 Billion, Danske Shuts Down in 4 Countries
Money laundering scandals involving some of the world’s largest banks have grown this week. Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS, has been...
How to Use Cryptocurrency to Send Money Abroad
The global remittance industry is huge. World Bank data shows that over $148 billion was sent abroad from the U.S. alone in 2017. As...
In the Daily: Sirin Labs Smartphone, Middle East Cbx Exchange, IPC’s Connexus Cloud
In this edition of The Daily we cover a number of cryptocurrency-related business collaborations from around the world. These include...
PR: KuCoin Launches Platform 2.0 With Advanced API and Various Order Types
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Samsung Launches Galaxy Series Preloaded With Cryptocurrency Wallet
On Wednesday, Feb. 20, the mobile phone manufacturing giant Samsung Electronics released its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S10. Crypto...
Irish Auctioneer to Sell off 315 BTC Seized by Belgian Police
Irish auctioneer Wilsons Auctions is to sell off 315 bitcoins seized by the Belgian government in a drug trafficking case that involved...
Aboveboard Founder Claims ‘Nobody Is Buying’ STOs
Andy Singleton, the founder of securities exchanges Aboveboard, has published an article asserting that the security token offering (STO)...