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NSFW: After The Corporate Hype, Porn Gets Into Blockchain
Porn star Brenna Sparks is not the only one warming up to the Blockchain. Startups such as Spankchain as well as Vice Industries are...
SBI Plans Derivatives Platform, Huobi Eyes 30% Korean Market, Thai Four-Crypto ATM Unveiled
Japan’s SBI Group is reportedly planning to create a crypto derivatives platform. In South Korea, Huobi is taking an aggressive approach...
The Bitcoin Cash Network Processed 687,000 Transactions on August 1st
Over the last day, BCH proponents have been celebrating the ‘Bitcoin Cash Independence Day’ which marks the anniversary of the August 1...
Philippine SEC Approves Draft Rules for ICOs and Crypto
The Philippine SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) approved draft rules for initial coin offerings (ICOs), ABS CBN News reported. This...
$37 Million of Bitcoin Revenue Helps Square Accelerate Growth in Q2
Square has reported its Q2 2018 financial results, revealing that $37 million of Bitcoin-related revenue helped the company accelerate its...
Japanese Firms Jointly Launch Corporate Crypto Accounting Tool
Cryptolinc Co. Ltd, which develops and provides cryptocurrency management and calculation systems, and Miroku Information Service Co. Ltd,...
The Daily: Coinbase Introduces GBP Pairs, Hitbtc Adds EURS, Bitpanda Offers EOS
In today’s Bitcoin in Brief, we cover several decisions made by leading cryptocurrency exchanges regarding new trading options offered to...
Coinmarketcap Launches Professional API and Adds Derivatives Markets
Coinmarketcap (CMC), the popular cryptocurrency markets tracker portal, has launched a professional-grade API for aggregated market data...
Japanese Bank Mizuho is Being Sued by Mt Gox Customer
According to regional reports the Japanese financial institution, Mizuho Bank, is being accused of creating issues for Mt Gox customers...
Bitcoin Exchange Sponsoring Premier Soccer Club
English Premier League soccer club Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves) are playing their season with a first-of-its-kind left sleeve:...
Korean Crypto Exchange Bithumb Suspends Opening New Virtual Accounts
Bithumb has suspended issuing new virtual accounts to crypto traders starting on August 1 after failing to renew the contract with its...
Denver-Based Healthcare ICO Issued Cease and Desist for Offering Securities
Colorado Securities Commissioner, Gerald Rome, has issued a cease and desist order to Florida based Linda Healthcare Corporation and its...
Bitpay COO Believes Bitcoin is “Working” as Means of Payment
Bitpay’s chief operating officer, Sonny Singh, recently attested to the efficacy of bitcoin as a means of payment, stating that “bitcoin...
BTC/BCH Payment Service Bitpay Reports Growing Usage Processing $1.2 billion USD
Bitpay’s chief operating officer, Sonny Singh, recently attested to the efficacy of bitcoin as a means of payment, stating that “bitcoin...
Russia Reports 15% Increase in Number of Crypto Mining Companies
The Russian crypto sector is expanding. The number of businesses operating mining facilities has increased this year, more Russians own...
Japanese Public Company Offering Loans Secured by BTC, BCH, ETH
A Japanese company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is offering loans secured by three cryptocurrencies: BTC, BCH, and ETH. Clients can...
Markets Report: July Posts Second Strongest Monthly BTC Performance of 2018
Looking at the monthly charts, July saw BTC produce its second best performing month of price action during 2018 after gaining in value by...
Wormhole Project Launches — $1.2M Worth of BCH Burned So Far
Last week, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Wormhole announcement of a tokenization and smart contract platform project for the Bitcoin...
Dubai Looks to Disrupt its Entire Legal System with ‘Court of the Blockchain’
The Dubai court system tasked to oversee all civil and commercial disputes involving financial transactions both domestically and...
90% of Corporate “Blockchain” Pilots Will Never Materialize, Researchers Say
If you have been following the mainstream financial press, and even some cryptocurrency news sources, you could not have missed the hype...
SEC-Approved Bitcoin ETF Possible in 18 months: Crescent Crypto CEO
The interview concluded with Hassan being asked about the future of Bitcoin markets. “To the moon,” he replied. The US Securities and...
Swissquote Reports 44% Increase in Profit After Adding Cryptocurrency Services
Swiss online banking group, Swissquote, has benefited greatly from the addition of cryptocurrency investing to the set of services it...
Billionaire Backed Bitcoin Bank Galaxy Digital Now Trading on Toronto Stock Exchange
Coming off fresh first quarter losses undeterred, giant cryptocurrency merchant bank, Galaxy Digital, began trading on the Toronto Stock...
PR: XcelTrip Accepts Major Crypto Currencies on Its Revolutionary Online Travel Portal
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The Daily: NFL Players to Earn Crypto, McDonald’s Unveils Maccoin, Bill Clinton at Swell
In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover the stories about how NFL players can start to earn some extra cryptocurrency, McDonald’s...
South Korea Plans to End Major Tax Benefits for Bitcoin Exchanges
The South Korean government has announced a new set of tax law amendments. Under this proposal, bitcoin exchanges will no longer be...
Check Which Coins You Can Spend With Debit Cards and Why Upcoming Fuzex Chooses BCH
Recently, we covered some of the most popular debit cards used for crypto payments and we’d like to tell you more about the...
Archaeologists Argue Micronesian Stone Money Comprises Bitcoin Predecessor
Archaeologists are arguing that a pre-modern stone money used by Micronesian islanders resembles a precursor to bitcoin and distributed...
Largest Movie Theater Chain in Thailand Going Crypto
Thailand’s largest movie theater chain, Major Cineplex, is reportedly integrating crypto payments to allow customers to pay for its...
Mining Round-Up: Sky Mining CEO Flees with $35 Million, Texas Attracts Miners
In recent mining news, it has been alleged that the CEO of Vietnam-based Sky Mining has fled the country with $35 million USD in investor...
Largest Cannabis Community Market in Israel to Accept Bitcoin Payments
Before it was turned into an investment asset, the invention of Bitcoin promised to usher in a world where anyone can pay for anything...
Arrington XRP Capital Owns More BTC Than Ripple
During a recent interview with CNBC Crypto Trader’s Ran Neu-Ner, Michael Arrington of Arrington XRP Capital revealed that his fund owns...
Flow and Cryptomkt Enable Crypto Payments at 5000+ Stores
Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptomkt has partnered with Chilean payment platform Flow to allow customers to pay with three cryptocurrencies...
Binance Labs Announces Partnership With Libra Credit
Binance Labs, the investment wing of the leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has announced that it has invested in Libra Credit – “a...
Market Caps for Privacy-Centric Currencies Have Dropped Significantly
Over the past few years, a few privacy-centric cryptocurrencies have gained both in popularity and value. Many of these coins like monero,...
Huobi Informs Users on Decision to Launch P2P Trading in India
Following several announcements of plans for global expansion, this week crypto exchange Huobi has reportedly informed Indian users of its...
The Weekly: Musk Bots Blocked, US Crypto Candidate, a Herd of Institutional Investors
In this week’s daily editions of Bitcoin in Brief, we reported about Twitter blocking ETH scambots mimicking Elon Musk, a US presidential...
Russian Shipwreck and ‘Treasure’ Linked to Crypto Exchange
A South Korean firm claimed to have found the wreck of a Russian warship sunk in 1905 with $130 billion worth of gold on board. The...
Rare: Bitcoin Mining Company Cleared of Wrongdoing by Regulator
The Securities Commissioner of South Carolina dismissed its previous order of nearly half a year ago against Genesis Mining. It’s rare,...
Bitflyer Cracks Down on Market Manipulation – Coincheck Eyes August Relaunch
Japan’s largest crypto exchange, Bitflyer, may freeze accounts caught manipulating prices. Meanwhile, GMO Internet has released quarterly...
Libertarian Hotspot the Free Keene Project Bolsters More Crypto-Adoption
The Free Keene Project, a growing community of libertarians and cryptocurrency proponents, has announced the region now has a dentist,...
The Story of How Bitcoin Was Compromised
Cryptocurrency is to money what the internet is to information. It is a powerful and potent technology, with the power to transform the...
Deep Web Roundup: BCH Adoption Increases and Dread Rises
The specter of the deep web looms large over everything bitcoin does. You won’t hear it mentioned by VCs funding blockchain startups, or...
Report: 3 Million Brits Invested in Crypto via Exchanges, Few Sought Advice
According to a new study, about 3 million British investors have put money into crypto through online trading platforms and only 5 percent...
Pantera Capital Reports Lifetime Return of More Than 10,000%
Major cryptocurrency investment firm, Pantera Capital, has reported a lifetime return of more than 10,000% on its fund. The company has...
Remittance Firm Transfergo Launches Cryptocurrency Trading
In a recent interview, Daumantas Dvilinskas, the founder and chief executive officer of Transfergo, a U.K.-based remittance firm that...
Telegram Launches Passport Service for ICO Verification
Messaging service Telegram launched a new crypto-oriented feature on Thursday. Telegram Passport is a “unified authorization method for...
Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From Play Store
In the Google’s latest move against virtual currencies, cryptocurrency mining apps have been banned from the Google Play Store. Despite...
PR: Bringing the Blockchain Conference and Luxury Cruising Together – Coinsbank’s 3rd Blockchain Cruise
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BCH PLS: Lil Windex Earns 1 Million Views for “Bitcoin Ca$h” Video
Canadian rap artist Lil Windex has scored a legitimate, platinum hit with his track “Bitcoin Ca$h”. In only four months since its drop,...
Indian Government-Appointed Commission Recognizes Crypto as Means of Payment
The law commission established by the order of the Indian government has issued a report recognizing cryptocurrency as a means of payment....
The Daily: Twitter Blocks Bots Mimicking Musk, Coinvault Hackers Sentenced
In Friday’s edition of The Daily, Twitter has taken measures against crypto scammers imitating the profile of Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk and a...
Bitcoin Cash Fund to Help Promote Future r/MillionaireMakers Drawings
Back in early 2015 a Reddit forum was created called r/millionairemakers which is a subreddit that tries to create a millionaire by...
FINMA Launches Proceedings Against $100 Million ICO
Switzerland’s financial regulator, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), has announced that it has launched...
Japanese Class Action Against Gambling Coin Claims $12m Damages
Withcoin, a virtual currency reportedly designed for casinos, and listed on the Hitbtc exchange around May, is accused of selling coins...
More Than 6% of Securities Lawsuits Filed in 2018 Have Related to ICOs
Cornerstone Research, an economic and financial consulting company, has published a report finding that more than 6% of the securities...
Exchanges Round-Up: CME Volume Doubles Q2, Lawyer Predicts SEC Delays ETF Until March
In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has revealed that trading volume on its bitcoin...
Major Bitcoin ETF Rejected by SEC: One Commissioner Disagrees Publicly
Thursday, July 26 might go down as a severe setback for the prospect of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). For the second time, the...
The Iranian Government Is Preparing to Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency
The government of Iran is preparing to launch its own cryptocurrency, according to state-controlled media reports. The intended purpose of...
Mining Round-Up: AMD GPU Sales Decline, Hut 8 Claims to be Largest Miner in Canada
In recent mining news, AMD has reported declining sales of mining hardware during the second quarter of 2018, Hut 8 has claimed to now...
Dispute Erupts Over the Ownership of Bitcoin.org
Bitcoin.org, the first bitcoin website ever created, is at the center of a new dispute. Since being established by Satoshi Nakamoto and...
Financial Professionals Bet On Rising Cryptos, UK Report
New survey among financial professionals in Britain shows that more than half of those who have invested in cryptocurrencies, plan to buy...
Florida State Citrus Employee Arrested for Mining Cryptocurrencies
This week a government employee working for Florida’s Department of Citrus (FDoC) was arrested for purported cryptocurrency mining using...
Privacy Coin Verge Has Its Twitter Hacked and Developer Doxed
Verge, a cryptocurrency that advocates “advanced privacy as a choice”, had its Twitter account hacked on Tuesday and its developer’s...
Playboy Plans to Integrate Multi-Cryptocurrency Wallet
On March 14, the adult industry leader Playboy Enterprises announced the integration of cryptocurrency payments starting with its Playboy...
PetroDollars, Digital Tokens Backed By Oil And Gas Reserves, Promises New Financial Ecosystem
PetroDollars marks the first regulated currency supported by oil and gas reserves. As digital assets linked to existing, verified real...
Coinbase Granted E-Money License by UK’s Financial Conduct Authority
Coinbase appears poised to increase its global market share for licensed cryptocurrency exchanges. It recently hired a mergers and...
PR: Blockchain Nation Miami – Conference That Matters
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Nvidia Mining GPU to Be Launched Sooner Than Expected, Reports
New Reports suggest that Nvidia is going to launch a mining GPU sooner than previously expected. The graphics unit comes with features...
Cryptocurrencies are heading back to Capitol Hill on Wednesday
On March 14, a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled "Examining...
Big Sister Watching: IMF’s Lagarde Warns of Crypto’s Dark Side
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde released a blog post Tuesday, March 13, Addressing the Dark Side of...
Bitcoin Futures Predictions Volumes Grow
Over the past few months, the Chicago Board of Exchange (Cboe) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) have been selling...
Following Facebook – Google Bans Crypto Ads: No Currencies, ICOs, Exchanges, Wallets, Advice
The largest search engine on the planet, Google, announced formally it will restrict advertisement of “Cryptocurrencies and related...
PR: Viola.AI Announces New Joint Venture Partnership with MegaX to Build AI-Driven Worldwide Shopping Experience for the Future
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This April the World Blockchain Forum Returns to Dubai
This year the World Blockchain Forum, a two-day conference held in Dubai, will host an abundance of innovation that gives a glimpse...
Japan to Call for Crypto Rules at the G20 Summit
Japanese representatives will push for the adoption of global rules on cryptocurrencies at the upcoming G20 meeting in Argentina. Next...
Binance Is Launching Its Own Blockchain
In an era in which there’s a blockchain for everything and everyone is launching a blockchain, it’s not surprising that a cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin Classes Are All the Rage for University Students in Chicago
Hosting the CME, the Cboe and many investment funds, Chicago is an American and global financial trading powerhouse. As such it should...
India Can’t Regulate Bitcoin Says Official
Indian authorities have been struggling to grasp the crypto phenomenon for quite some time now – years, to be more precise. The inability...
Coinbase Launches Cryptocurrency Trading Tax Calculator
Having recently had to report over 13,000 of its clients to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), making it easier to handle tax...
Openbazaar Raises $5M from Investors Including Bitmain
On Tuesday, March 13, OB1, the company building the cryptocurrency-centric marketplace Openbazaar, has announced it has raised $5 million...
Meet the Bitcoin Cash Hyper Mini-Sprint Car
Just recently news.Bitcoin.com spoke with Corsair Hancock, a mini-sprint driver who decided to rebuild his 2007 Hyper Chassis into a...
Spooked By SEC, Video Streaming ICO Halts Airdrop
Entrepreneurs are starting to doubt that crypto tokens can be used at all in the U.S. In fact, according to Simar Managt, the co-founder...
World’s Central Bank: Crypto Could Risk Bank Runs
How many central banks are actually considering their own version of cryptocurrency is unclear, Russia and Venezuela being the most...
IMF Chief Lagarde Calls for Blockchain-Powered Bitcoin Regulation
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants to start a blockchain arms race. Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director,...
EOS, Cardano and Tezos: Sleeping Giants Starting to Stir
EOS, Cardano and Tezos are cryptocurrency’s big sleepers. The latter project has lain dormant since last summer while its legal troubles...
PR: Credits.Energy – New Revolutionary Cryptocurrency with Mobile Mining App Aims to Support GREEN Energy
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Survey Finds South Korean Youth the Most Active Crypto-Investors
A survey released this week reveals that many South Koreans in their 20s are actively investing in digital assets. The region has become a...
South Carolina Declares Cloud Mining Contracts to Be Securities
The Attorney General of South Carolina has served a cease and desist order on Genesis Mining. In documents filed before its Securities...
PR: Multiversum Delivering 4th Generation Blockchain – a Crypto Relational Database Pre ICO Raises $2.9million in Just 6 Days
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