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Mt Gox Bankruptcy Trustee Sells Approximately 25,000 BCH and BTC
Mt Gox has published an announcement that its civil rehabilitation and bankruptcy trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi, has liquidated 25,331 BCH...
UK Startup Gospel Technology Raises £5 million for Enterprise Data Blockchain Platform
Gospel Technology, the developer of an enterprise database built on blockchain technology, has announced a £5 million Series A funding...
Vague Laws Leave Crypto Users Confused in Almost Half of the US
Justin Wales and Arnaldo Rego, lawyers at Carlton Fields, have surveyed all 50 states in the US, looking for clarity on money transmitting...
Bitcoin Enters the Scrabble Lexicon
To its holders, bitcoin is immensely valuable. Except, that is, for holders of the seven tiles required to spell ‘bitcoin’ on the Scrabble...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies Dip Again Forming Consolidated Support
Just when cryptocurrency prices were starting to look better, digital asset markets shaved around $19 billion USD off the entire...
Pushing the Boundaries of Economic Change: Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange in Africa
Bitcoin is pushing the boundaries of economic change in Africa. In East Africa, a new deal between digital currency exchange Bitpesa and a...
CasinoFair Launches on the FunFair Blockchain Casino Platform
FunFair, the decentralized blockchain casino platform has launched CasinoFair as the first brand to go live on its platform. FunFair...
Concert Producer Hyperglow Teams Up with Blockparty to Offer Safer Ticketing Process on the Blockchain
They are a scourge on the ticketing event industry: lengthy check-in protocols, ticket fraud and secondary resellers. Yet, despite...
Zaif Hit With Third Improvement Order, Revises Hack Estimate
Japan’s top financial regulator has issued hacked crypto exchange Zaif a third business improvement order. The exchange has revised its...
The Daily: Speculators and Investors Hodl, Venezuelans Send Crypto With SMS
A study has detected stability in the amounts of bitcoin held for both speculation and investment during the last several months through...
Securing a Major Exchange Listing Is No Guarantee of Success
It is widely assumed that securing listing on a major cryptocurrency exchange will ensure an altcoin’s long-term success. Many ICO buyers...
Ebang Announces 44 Terahash E-11 Miners With 10nm Chips
The China-based Ebang Communication, one of the largest ASIC mining chip makers in the region has announced a new series of mining rigs...
Bitcoins For Secured Loans – Indian Industry Still Doubtful
Secured loans in the digital lending space are witnessing a lot of innovations. But thinking of cryptocurrencies as collateral forms for...
Here We Go Again — Crypto-Community to Deal With Another Foundation
This weekend a new organization was announced at Baltic Honey Badger bitcoin conference called the ‘B Foundation.’ At the event, Satoshi...
National University of Singapore Launches Academic Blockchain Research Center
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has announced the launch of the Cryptocurrency Strategy, Techniques and Algorithms (CRYSTAL)...
Introducing Top eToro Popular Investor Jay Smith
Jay Smith is one of eToro’s most recognisable traders, and he wants everyone to achieve success on the leading global investment and...
Six.network is Aiming to Reinvent the Digital and Creative Economies
In 2016, the entire digital economy contributed 15.5 per cent of total global GDP, or $11.5 trillion. This was mainly driven by the...
Voltaire.cash Exchange Launches – Supporting BCH as the Base Exchange Pair
A new cryptocurrency exchange has launched today called Voltaire.cash, a trading platform that aims to utilize bitcoin cash (BCH) as the...
The World’s Biggest Ethereum Hackathon is Hitting San Francisco Next Month
ETHGlobal is set to host, what is expected to be, its biggest Ethereum hackathon in the Golden Gate Bridge state next month. Over the past...
US Dollar Losing Dominance as a Means for Settling Transactions in Africa
The dominance of the United States dollar as a settlement currency in Africa is being challenged by emerging payment methods in financial...
PR: IX Launches Exchange with BTC as Platform Token
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Coinnest Executives Indicted for Accepting Bribe for Coin Listing
The Seoul Southern District Public Prosecutors’ Office has reportedly indicted two executives of South Korean crypto exchange...
Caspian Brings New Crypto Trading Tools to Coinbase Institutional Traders
Caspian, a startup that has built an institutional grade full stack cryptocurrency trading platform, has partnered with Coinbase to...
Trezor Users Can Now Exchange Cryptocurrencies Directly In-Wallet
This week the hardware wallet Trezor added the ability to buy and trade cryptocurrencies within its beta wallet’s interface. Now users can...
PR: Last Chance to Contribute to Modex Tech ICO
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Tether Has No Significant Impact On Bitcoin Price, Study Reveals
Speculations surrounding the supposed influence of Tether in inflating the price of Bitcoin might have been put to rest by a recent...
The Daily: Rethinking Bitcoin’s Market Cap, ICOs Printing Money
Welcome to a new week crammed with new ways of thinking about Bitcoin and its fellow cryptocurrencies. To kick things off, today’s edition...
Longhash Launches Bitcoin Tracker to Find ‘Dirty Money’
Longhash, a crypto and blockchain media and analysis site, recently launched its own Bitcoin Tracker. In an effort to “offer more peace of...
RBI Argues Supreme Court Should Not Interfere With Its Crypto Decision
The Reserve Bank of India has filed an affidavit with the country’s supreme court in response to one of the petitions against its...
The Bitcoin Files Protocol Provides a BCH Secured File Storage System
This weekend the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) developers have announced another new feature to the Bitcoin Cash network called the Bitcoin...
Swiss Bankers Association Acts to Prevent Crypto Firm Exodus
The Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) has released a set of guidelines intended to bolster the availability of financial services to...
Study Finds “No Evidence” of USDT Price Manipulation
A study examining the widely suspected correlation between Tether issuance and BTC price movement, undertaken by Wang Chun Wei and...
Markets Update: Despite Negative Headlines – Crypto-Prices Continue to Rise
A few days ago digital asset markets saw some good gains pushing the entire crypto-economy up past $229 billion. Both bitcoin cash (BCH)...
A Snapshot of Cryptocurrency Forks Shows the Biggest Winners and Losers
Forking cryptocurrencies, usually Bitcoin or one of its offshoots, was all the rage 12 months ago. Today, the spate of new forks has...
The Daily: New Crypto Bills on Capitol Hill, Russian Banks Face Demand for Cryptocurrencies
From Washington to Moscow, cryptocurrencies have entered the agenda of those who share a vocation to rule and regulate. Following the...
China During Crypto Ban: One Woman Tries to Live on Bitcoin
Close to being yet another annoyingly false media piece on how ‘hard’ it is to live on cryptocurrency, the Netflix of China, Iqiyi,...
UNICEF France Accepts Donations in 9 Cryptocurrencies
The French office of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has started accepting donations in 9 of the most popular...
Chechnya to Create Mining Pool for Eurasian Economic Union Countries
Chechnya will create a Eurasian crypto mining pool, the press secretary of the head of the Chechen Republic has reportedly confirmed. The...
Six New and Improved Cryptocurrency Analysis Tools
Blockchain explorers and cryptocurrency analysis sites just keep getting better. While Coinmarketcap (CMC) still dominates, these days...
Bitcoin Glyphs Added to Apple’s Shortcuts Application
Apple recently introduced a new lineup of iPhones and its new operating system iOS 12. Moreover, four days ago the company also updated...
Exchanges Round-Up: Circle Invest Adds Four Alts, Stockholm IT Announces Crypto Fund
In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, Circle Invest has added Eos, 0x, Stellar, and Qtum to its platform, Stockholm IT, a...
SEC Orders Proceedings to Rule on ETF, Seeks Further Feedback
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published an “order instituting proceedings to determine whether to approve...
Programmable Money: Bitcoin Cash Community Debates Oracle Driven Upgrade
Lately, there’s been a lot of conversation directed at adding a canonical transaction ordering (CTOR) process to the Bitcoin Cash...
Wendy McElroy: Crypto-Idealism Is the Future That Crypto-Statists Need to Defame
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 10, Part 5 Crypto-Idealism is the...
The Daily: Binance Expands, Putin Advisor Visits Huobi, Brazilian Brokerage Goes Crypto
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is making good on its promises to expand globally – focusing on emerging markets and fiat-to-crypto...
Financial Blockades Are Bad for Humanity But Great for Bitcoin
Vloggers. Sex workers. Conservatives. Iranians. People from every strata of society, with nothing in common, save for a shared grievance....
PR: Crypto Exchange Bleutrade Confirms Its Presence In Malta
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Turkey Finance Minister Embraces ICO Hype for Already Troubled Economy
If regional Turkish media is to be believed, no less than the country’s Minister of Finance (Finmin), Berat Albayrak, has proposed looking...
Taiwanese Candidate Accepts Crypto Donations, California Bans Them
Using cryptocurrency for political donations has been a hot topic in many societies. Two recent developments demonstrate different views...
Steve Hanke: Central Banks Fuel Wealth Loss and Inflation – The World Needs Less of Them
Respected economist Professor Steve Hanke has chanted down central banks. While Hanke doesn’t tout cryptocurrency as an alternative,...
Of Moonshots and Mushrooms: Let’s Get Beyond Technocratic Thinking
The following opinion piece on Moonshots and Mushrooms was written by Max Borders, director of Social Evolution and author of The Social...
Crypto-Community Debates Bitcoin Core Bug and a ‘Forced Upgrade’
This week the cryptocurrency community has been discussing and dealing with the critical vulnerability that was found in the Bitcoin Core...
Markets Update: XRP Briefly Dethrones ETH as Second Largest Crypto
The cryptocurrency markets have produced a significant rally today – with just three of the top fifty crypto markets by...
China Updates Crypto Rankings, Downgrades Bitcoin
The China Center for Information Industry Development has updated its crypto rankings. The list contains 33 crypto projects, ranked...
PR: iCoinbay Rolls Out Trading Premium Gain Plan
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Experts Weight in on Stablecoins
Stablecoins have been all the rage this year with currently dozens in circulation bearing names like Tether, Basis, Sagacoin, TrueUSD, Dai...
Cybercriminals’ Still Prefer Bitcoin But Privacy Alt-Coins Will Rise, Europol Report
A Europol report has warned that while bitcoin remains top dog in the world of crypto-focused cybercriminal activity, so-called privacy...
Buying PC Games With Bitcoin: Site Reviews
Back in 2015, I wrote what I thought would be an evergreen article on buying PC Games with Bitcoin. Since that time, a lot has changed....
Bitmain Announces Next-Generation Antminer Equipped With 7nm Chip
At the World Digital Mining Summit in Tbilisi, Georgia the blockchain firm and mining manufacturer, Bitmain Technologies, announced a new...
The Daily: Poloniex Drops 8 Coins, New Exchange Licensed in Estonia
Cryptocurrency trading platform Poloniex has delisted eight coins with low liquidity, while another US-based exchange, Gemini, is adding...
Stellar’s Wallet Lobstr Announces Launch of Custody Service Aimed at Being Consumer-Friendly
Stellar’s wallet, Lobstr, has announced that it has launched a new custody platform aimed at being consumer-friendly for retailer...
Review: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Decentralized Exchanges
Decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges are getting better. They’ve still some way to go before they match the UX of the best centralized...
PR: Coinsbit Launches Reliable and Safe Trading Platform
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Japanese Regulators Urgently Respond to Zaif’s Hack
Following the hack of Zaif, one of Japan’s regulated crypto exchanges, the country’s financial regulator immediately responded, launching...
Robinhood Responds to Accusations of Favoring Wall Street over Its Users
Seeking Alpha has published an exposé by Logan Kane regarding free stock and crypto trading smartphone application Robinhood. Mr. Kane...
US Representatives ‘Urge’ the IRS to Clarify Cryptocurrency Tax Guidance
On Wednesday September 19, a committee of US bureaucrats sent an open letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in regard to the way...
A Censorship-Free Version of Bitcointalk? Developer Launches Bitcoincashtalk.org
Over the past few years, there’s been a big problem with cryptocurrency related forums and censorship. This week an independent and...
Ex-Liberia Central Bank Chief Under Probe for Missing $104M, State Seeks FBI Help
More than a dozen government officials, including former central bank governor and his deputy, have come under investigation in Liberia...
Mining Round-Up: New Bitfury Chip, Anti-Cryptojacking Botnet Discovered
In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency mining, Bitfury has announced a “suite” of products powered by the company’s new mining chip,...
Regulations Round-Up: MAS Official Says Tokens Aren’t Securities, SEC on Bookkeeping Obligations
In recent regulatory news, an official representing the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has stated that no existing crypto tokens...
Ant Financial Launches B2B Fintech Suite with Blockchain, AI Solutions
Ant Financial Services Group, the payments and financial services arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has launched a new suite of...
Treasury Committee Criticizes UK Regulators’ “Unsustainable” Crypto Stance
The parliamentary report published by the UK Treasury Committee has advocated for regulation of the “wild west” crypto-assets sector. The...
Weiss Ratings Backtracks After Tipping Ethereum to Beat Bitcoin
Weiss, the financial ratings agency that recently took a shine to cryptocurrency, has caught flak over its latest claim. After Weiss...
Crypto Exchange Poloniex Announces Delisting for Eight Coins Under New Rules
Crypto exchange Poloniex announced on September 18, 2018, that it had started the process of delisting eight assets from its trading...
The Daily: Coinbase Denies Self-Trading, Kraken Gets Feisty
The dust had barely settled on New York’s Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative when the exchanges profiled came out swinging. Kraken and...
Danske Bank’s Alleged Money Laundering Now Totals $234 Billion, CEO Quits
The investigation into Danske Bank’s alleged money laundering has uncovered new funds. The amount of “questionable money”...
Japanese Regulated Exchange Zaif Hacked – Nearly 6000 BTC Stolen
Japanese government-approved cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has confirmed that it has been hacked. After a preliminary investigation, the...
Russian Law Won’t Mention ‘Cryptocurrency’, Russians Won’t Stop Trading
Russia is preparing for the long-awaited legislation tailored to regulate its crypto space. According to the latest reports from Moscow,...
Credit Card Cartels Landed With $6.2 Billion Bill
Visa and Mastercard have run up the mother of all credit card bills. The monopolistic payment providers had been embroiled in a...
Brazil’s Biggest Banks Under Investigation For Monopoly In Cryptocurrency Trade
Some of Brazil’s biggest banks have come under investigation for alleged monopolistic tendencies in the trade of bitcoin and other...
New App Allows Users to Create a Custodian-Free Bitcoin Trust
On Wednesday, September 19, a team of developers launched a platform called the Open Savings Initiative. The application allows any...
Major Korean Crypto Exchange Upbit Opens in Singapore Next Month
Major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit will reportedly begin operations in Singapore next month. The new exchange will offer...
Raising the Dead: Is Bitcoin Cash Fiat Currency?
Since the inception of cryptocurrency, some critics have dubbed it “just another fiat money.” This has been the wail of...
Critical Bug Found in Bitcoin Core Invokes the Multiple Client Argument
Over the last 24 hours, the cryptocurrency community has been discussing a critical vulnerability that was found in the Bitcoin Core (BTC)...
Art Exhibition in France to Celebrate Bitcoin’s Tenth Birthday
A group of artists hailing from across the globe will congregate in France to showcase an exhibition celebrating the upcoming tenth...
Treasury Select Committee: Regulation Needed in Crypto Industry’s “Wild West”
MPs on the U.K.’s Treasury Select Committee have said that the crypto industry is the “wild west” and that investors are...
S Korea’s Dunamu Expands Crypto Exchange Upbit to Singapore
South Korean fintech company Dunamu Inc. is expanding its crypto-asset exchange business to Singapore. The company said it chose Singapore...
8 Surprising Findings from New York’s Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative
A lot of cryptocurrency traders are sick of hearing about “manipulation”. They just want to buy and sell bitcoin in peace, without Twitter...
PBOC Provides Update on Its Crypto Prevention Efforts
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has issued a statement detailing its efforts to stop and prevent crypto and initial coin offering...
The Daily: Iran to Allow Mining Hardware Imports, Cyprus Creates Fintech Hub
Following a decision to recognize mining as an industry, the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to legalize the import of mining equipment....