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Stress Test & Big Blocks: BCH Network Confirms 2M Transactions in 24-Hours
On September 1, 2018, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network was put to the test as BCH proponents flooded the mempool with millions of...
Russian Police Seize 22 Cryptocurrency ATMs in 9 Cities
Law enforcement officials in Russia have seized 22 BATMs installed at stores and restaurants in 9 different cities. The confiscation has...
Japan’s Largest Bank Experiments Using Own Crypto at Convenience Store
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, one of the world’s largest financial groups, has been experimenting with using its own cryptocurrency, the...
As Zimbabweans Struggle For Cash, Even The Country’s Only Bitcoin ATM Has Run Dry
The Golix bitcoin ATM took on obvious importance when it was first introduced in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, early April. In a country...
August Markets Report: Heavy Selling Across Leading Crypto Markets
Looking at the monthly charts, the leading cryptocurrency markets experienced heavy selling during August – with the top five crypto...
New Information Heightens Satoshi Nakamoto Mystery
For close to ten years many people have been on the hunt for the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of the decentralized technology called...
Exchanges Round-Up: Price Spread and Institutions, Brazil Surveys Exchanges
In recent news pertaining to exchanges, Sfox has attributed a reducing spread in the price of BTC across exchanges to the increased...
Wendy McElroy: The Crypto Revolution Will Not Be Centralized
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 10, Part 2 The Crypto Revolution Will...
Transaction Fee Mining Exchanges: Highly Popular, Highly Controversial
You might not have traded on Fcoin or Bitforex, but you’ve probably heard their names mentioned in crypto trading circles. These exchanges...
The Daily: Mycrypto Raises $4 million, Islamic Crypto Exchange Sets Foot in Malta
Wallet solution Mycrypto has raised $4 million to build a platform allowing users to create new wallets, the full details of which are in...
Japan’s National Police Installing Crypto Transaction Tracking System
The Japanese National Police Agency is reportedly installing a system to track the flow of crypto transactions in order to aid...
Rakuten Acquires Crypto Exchange to Fast-Track Into the Japanese Market
Japanese mega e-commerce and internet company Rakuten Inc. is entering the crypto space. Instead of submitting a new application to the...
Viabtc CEO Proposes BCH Organization to Establish Standards
On August 31 the CEO of the firm Viabtc, Haipo Yang, published a blog post proposing the establishment of a standardization organization...
Kiev’s Bessarabsky Market Accepts Cryptocurrencies for Groceries
Bessarabsky market, a landmark of Ukraine’s capital, is introducing crypto payments. Fruits and vegetables are already sold for a number...
August 2018 Volume Rankings Report: ETC and Dash Top Ten
During August, the monthly volume posted by the majority of leading cryptocurrency markets continued to decline. Despite such, the ETC and...
A Complete A-Z of Stablecoins
Stablecoins have proliferated this year, so much so that it’s been hard to keep track of them all. In a bid to remedy that,...
Wormhole Developers Address Rumors Concerning Protocol Security
On August 1 news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Wormhole project and the BCH burned to create Wormhole Cash (WHC) tokens. Since then there’s...
Why Andreessen Horowitz Made its Biggest Investment in Crypto to Date
Created by Google, Microsoft, and Intel engineers, Dfinity Foundation is set to be the crypto sector’s biggest private token sale of 2018...
The Daily: Cboe Close to Ether Futures, Brave Boasts Millions of Downloads
Cboe is getting closer to launching ether futures and we’ve covered the report in The Daily. Also, Brave has reported 10 million downloads...
1,000 Cryptocurrency POS Terminals to be Distributed in Brazil
Indonesian point-of-sale (POS) terminal maker Pundi X Labs (Pundi X) has struck a distribution deal with Brazilian company BitCapital to...
A Former Mine in Norway is Providing a Sustainable Alternative for Bitcoin
Where miners once stood to mine olivine, computer equipment has now taken centre stage. Located in the fjords of Norway is a former...
160 Crypto Exchanges Seek to Enter Japanese Market, Regulator Reveals
Japan’s top financial regulator has revealed exclusively to news.Bitcoin.com the number of crypto exchanges seeking to enter the...
Meet the New Sentiment Analysis Tools Empowering Smarter Trading
The field of sentiment analysis (SA) is evolving rapidly. Since news.Bitcoin.com last covered the subject in May, two new platforms have...
Yahoo! Finance Rolls Out Bitcoin Core, Ethereum, Litecoin Trading
“The virus is spreading,” tweeted Morgan Creek Digital’s Founder & Partner Anthony Pompliano at the news Yahoo! Finance (YF) had...
Korean Province to Replace Local Currencies With Crypto
An eastern South Korean province plans to issue its own cryptocurrency to replace the local currencies of its nine cities, according to...
How to Monitor the BCH Stress Test and Get Involved
It’s getting close to the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network stress test and many BCH proponents are preparing for the occasion. BCH supporters...
Square’s Big Week: Crypto Patent, Shares Leap and Lightning Plug
Smartphone app payments company Square has had a pretty big week. It was revealed the company is further dipping its toes in the...
Report Finds Crypto Mining Incidents Have Risen 1000% in 2018
Cybersecurity company Trend Micro has revealed that between January and July 2018, its researchers detected unauthorized crypto mining...
Storing a Lot of Bitcoins in One Wallet Is a Bad Idea
Interest has piqued in a bitcoin wallet that’s lain dormant for four years. This week’s movement of the funds it contains, worth close to...
MyCrypto Raises $4 Million Led By PolyChain Capital to Build a Crypto-Friendly Interface for Users
MyCrypto has announced it has raised $4 million in a Series A funding round led by crypto hedge fund Polychain Capital. The funds are...
Blockchain For Enterprise Enabler Unibright Announces Beta Release
A little more than three months after reaching its soft cap, the blockchain for enterprise enabler Unibright has made progress by signing...
Report: Miner Spends Only $1567 per Bitcoin
Electricity is the number one cost for cryptocurrency mining, giving an edge to whoever can secure it for the lowest price. Bitfarms,...
Payment Platform Bitpay Adds Bitcoin Cash Settlement Services
On Wednesday, August 29 the Atlanta-based firm Bitpay announced that its merchants can now receive settlement in bitcoin cash (BCH). Not...
The Daily: Huobi Nears Backdoor Listing, Musk Still Loves Scambots
In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover stories that show how Houbi is nearing a possible backdoor listing on the Hong Kong Stock...
Elastos Unveils Merged Mining Partnership With Bitmain
Elastos, a blockchain-powered Internet infrastructure, has announced a merged mining partnership with Bitmain Technologies, a...
Markets Update: BTC Consolidates Around $7K After Breaking Trendline
The cryptocurrency markets are consolidating today, following BTC’s recent break above the major descending trendline dating back to...
Bitcoin Cold Storage in DNA
Savvy Bitcoiners know: whoever controls keys and passphrases, controls the coins. As cryptocurrency becomes part of everyday life and...
PR: Access Sold out ICO’s Through Vertex Aftermarket
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Reserve Bank of India Anticipates Shift to P2P Crypto Trading
India’s central bank has released its latest annual report which includes a section dedicated to cryptocurrency. The Reserve Bank of...
Nchain Publishes Bitcoin SV Alpha Release
Over the course of the last two weeks, many Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents were waiting for the firm Nchain to publish its Bitcoin SV...
Hong Kong Seeks Fintech Talent, DLT Experts
Authorities in Hong Kong have taken steps to attract fintech specialists who can support its economic development. The government of the...
Japanese Actress Helps Tokyo Police Raise Crypto Cybersecurity Awareness
A Japanese actress and singer has helped the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department raise awareness on cybersecurity issues, including...
Tippr Bot Distributes Over $100K in Bitcoin Cash Across Reddit Forums
During the first month of 2018, news.Bitcoin.com reported on a bitcoin cash (BCH) tip bot called Tippr, which distributes thousands of BCH...
Binance, Okex, Huobi and Upbit Among Investors in New Stablecoin, Terra
Yet another stablecoin is joining the arguably already crowded ecosystem. Terra, as the new fiat-pegged crypto is called, counts four of...
This Tech Company is Aiming to Reshape the Travel Hospitality Sector with the Blockchain
When it comes to booking a flight to an exotic location or paying for a week’s stay at a hotel, the use of the internet is becoming...
Israeli Blockchain Startup Orbs Opens South Korea Office; Partners with Kakao Subsidiary Ground X
Blockchain startup Orbs is expanding into South Korea with the opening of its Seoul headquarters, the company’s first office outside of...
Free Keene Activists Launch Tip-Card Creator Called Cryptotip.org
New Hampshire is well known for its large amounts of libertarian residents and many people consider it the ‘free state’ among all the...
Operation Cryptosweep: 200+ Crypto Cases in North America, 46 Enforcement Actions
North American regulators have revealed that more than 200 cryptocurrency-related cases are being actively investigated, with 46...
Temasek Was Never in Contact With Bitmain, Is Not Invested
Multiple media sites have reported on suspected problems between Bitmain and the supposed lead investor in their IPO. The story goes that...
25% of All Smart Contracts Contain Critical Bugs
For every problem that smart contracts solve, they seem to introduce another. In a week in which EOS has made news for all the wrong...
UK Government Pilots Storage of Digital Evidence on a Blockchain
Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), an agency under the UK Government’s Ministry of Justice has announced...
CAPVERTO Exchange is Offering Crypto Insurance to the Unbanked
Digital currencies have remained a popular investment tool since Bitcoin first came on the scene 10 years ago. For many, they are...
EOS Price Jumps on Referendum System Proposal, Gains 55% in 7 Days
The EOS value today surged by more than 21 percent as a result of its decision to launch a voting system, totaling the token’s 7-day gains...
Where, What and How: Everything You Should Know About Buying Your First Cryptocurrency
If you already own bitcoin, this article’s not for you – though you’d probably have appreciated it when you were first starting out. This...
The Daily: India to Become Blockchain Leader, Coinfloor Granted Gibraltar License
A recent study indicates that the blockchain craze isn’t dying out yet. Buoyed by its findings, media and experts in India have...
Venezuela Loves Dash: Altcoin Surges 30% on Adoption Push
News dominating the current cycle is all about bitcoin core (BTC) skipping above the psychological $7,000 price point. However, quietly,...
Coinbase: 42% of World’s Best Universities Offer Crypto Courses
The ecosystem’s largest bank and quasi-exchange, Coinbase, commissioned a survey about higher education (students and faculty) attitudes...
Researchers Find Discrepancies With Top Exchange Volumes
This month the Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) published a research report that claims quite a few of the top cryptocurrency...
Colorado Investigating Three Cryptocurrency Firms
The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies is investigating three cryptocurrency firms for promoting unregistered initial coin...
Lloyd’s of London Insures Cryptocurrency Custody Service Kingdom Trust
According to the institutional cryptocurrency storage platform Kingdom Trust, the company is now insured by the world’s largest insurance...
A Brief History Of Cryptocurrency and Sports Partnerships
eToro has announced an advertising partnership with seven Premier League Football clubs. The deal was settled with Bitcoin and represents...
New Bill Clarifies Crypto Taxation in Poland
A new draft introducing amendments regarding the taxation of crypto incomes has been published in Poland. The bill differentiates between...
China to Overtake US as Leading Blockchain Developer: PwC Survey
While the US currently stands as the world leader in blockchain technology, China could very soon overshadow America in terms of...
Pangolin Miner Claims 16nm ASIC Miner Will Compete With 7nm Machines
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been reporting on the wide variety of new cryptocurrency miners entering the digital asset economy. Some of...
Decentralizing the Web: Handshake, Akash and the Quest for Censorship-Resistance
Censorship-resistance is a hot topic right now. On an internet where prominent voices are being silenced and deplatformed, and free speech...
Morgan Creek Launches Digital Asset Index Fund for Institutional Investors
Morgan Creek Digital, an asset management firm backed by multi-billion dollar investment advisor Morgan Creek Capital Management, has...
Bitcoin is Cool: St. Louis Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has published another research paper validating bitcoin’s legitimacy as a currency, even when used...
Details of Iran’s National Cryptocurrency Unveiled
Iran has been developing a national cryptocurrency, a move that could allow them to evade US economic sanctions. Informatics Services...
Blockchain Platform Streamr is Creating a Network of Tradeable Data in Real-Time
In today’s digital age we give away our personal data without too much thought in exchange for services. Yet since the Facebook...
Indian Exchange Resumes Fiat Deposits and Withdrawals Using New Method
An Indian cryptocurrency exchange has come up with a new method to allow its users to deposit and withdraw rupees despite the crypto...
PR: SPIN Protocol – a New Blockchain Solution for Fast Growing but Easy to Manipulate Influencer Marketing
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The Daily: Chinese Crackdown Continues, ICO Head Faces 15 Years in Prison
In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover stories about the latest development in the ongoing Chinese government crackdown on online...
Report Finds Mining Activity and Bitcoin Exchange Development in North Korea
A report by South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) suggests that North Korea has been mining cryptocurrencies, according to...
Nicehash Returns 60% of Coins Stolen in the Hack
Nicehash, the cloud mining service that got hacked in December, has returned 60 percent of the stolen bitcoins, according to local media....
Synthetic Bitcoin Is 100x More Lethal Than the Real Thing
Derivatives trading isn’t new, but it’s been enjoying a renaissance of late. As the cryptocurrency market has traded sideways, traders...
Crypto-Backed Lending Platform Blockfi Approved to Operate in California
Back in July, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the cryptocurrency-backed USD lending platform, Blockfi, which raised $52.5m from investors in...
Investor Information Portal Launches Jobs Board for Cryptocurrency Industry
If you are looking for new avenues to increase your cryptfolio, one of the more direct ways to do so is to get involved with a project so...
DOJ Special Agent Empathizes With Bitcoin Adoption in Venezuela
In an interview conducted earlier this month at the Chainxchange blockchain convention, Lilia Infante, a special agent with the U.S....
EXCLUSIVE: 3D Gun Proponent Cody Wilson Defiant, Offers Firearm Blueprints for Sale
In an exclusive interview with Matt Aaron of the Bitcoin.com Podcast Network, Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed explains how he planned...
Bitcoin Cash Upgrade Debate: One CPU Equals One Vote
If you are a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponent you’ve definitely been hearing a lot about the upcoming hard fork scheduled for November 15....
Iran Expected to Lift Cryptocurrency Ban in September
The deputy for innovative technologies at the Central Bank of Iran, Nasser Hakimi, has stated that Iran’s financial regulator will be...
Reserve Bank of India Forms Unit on Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, AI
The central bank of India has reportedly formed a special unit tasked to track emerging technologies such as those related to...
Hydroelectric Dam in New York Repurposed as Crypto Mining Farm
A hydroelectric dam in eastern New York State is being converted into a dedicated crypto mining farm, taking advantage of low-cost,...
The Daily: Binance Launches Incubator, Coinbase Adds Info on Top 50 Cryptos
In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover stories about Binance exchange launching an incubator program meant to help the...
Investments, Offshores, Foreign Trade – Russia Planning for Crypto
With regulations on the horizon, high-ranking officials in Russia have come up with ideas on how to harness cryptocurrencies when,...
PR: The World Blockchain Forum Returns to London Bigger and Better Than Ever
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Bitcoin Mining is Big Business in Montana: US Senator Works to Protect Industry
Bonner and Butte, Montana are home to two of the largest bitcoin mining facilities in North America. They’re also subject to a major...
Thailand Updates ICO Licensing Progress, Warns Firm Issuing Token Without License
The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed the number of applications it has received from businesses wanting to operate...
Blockchain Survival Show Blockbattle to Premiere on Asia Economy TV
Asia Economy TV plans to broadcast a new blockchain survival television show called ‘Blockbattle — Who’s the Next Satoshi’ on October 19,...
Venezuela Bolivar Re-Denomination Gets Smartphone App
Hyperinflation has taken off to cartoon proportions in Venezuela, leaving the government to take rather drastic steps in trying to restore...