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Large Mining Farm Discovered in Abandoned Russian Factory
A large illegal facility for mining bitcoin was discovered by police in the Russian city of Orenburg. The farm has been set up on the...
Nasdaq-Listed Marathon Begins Bitcoin Mining Operations, Stock Up 32%
Traditional stock investors have just gotten another avenue for indirect exposure to the bitcoin market. A Nasdaq exchange listed former...
South African Google Searches for Bitcoin Spike Amid Economic Uncertainty
Economic uncertainty appears to have spurred a significant spike in the number of South African citizens engaging with bitcoin and...
80% of Companies Are Interested in Bitcoin Transactions, Survey Finds
Another survey has revealed that the business world is eager to start using bitcoin to save on transactions costs and reduce dependence on...
Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Making Millions from Just Listing Coins
Running a major cryptocurrency exchange is a lucrative business. Coinbase is reported to have made over $1 billion last year, and Binance...
Former Thai Finance Minister Supports Proposals for SEC-Regulated Cryptocurrency Sector
The Chairman of the Thai Fintech Association (TFA) and Thailand’s Former Finance Minister, Korn Chatikavanij, has offered his support for...
John Oliver Tackles Cryptocurrency on Last Week Tonight
On Sunday evening, John Oliver devoted 25 minutes to cryptocurrency on his eponymous HBO Show. The comedian and political commentator...
Thomson Reuters and Marketpsych Launch Bitcoin Sentiment Index
Thomson Reuters Corp has announced the launch of a gauge tracking the sentiment of cryptocurrency traders. The metric will track and...
Dutch Finance Minister Advocates Changes to European Crypto Laws
Wopke Hoekstra, the Dutch finance minister, has issued a letter to Holland’s parliament describing the current regulatory framework...
PR: Globatalent Announces Sports ICO
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Markets Update: Crypto Assets Spike But Traders Are Skeptical
Most of the top crypto assets are seeing gains today as many cryptocurrencies suffered losses over the past week. BTC/USD markets reached...
PwC Reveals Blockchain Analytics Tool For Tracking ICO Tokens
Major accounting firm, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), has announced that it is currently trialing a blockchain analytics tool designed to...
Blockchain Technology Talk is Largely Nonsense
Every so often, corporate business blushes its latest fad speak. Disruptive. Paradigm shift. 2.0, 3.0. Game changer. For about half a...
‘Cryptomatoes’ Using Excess Mining Heat to Grow Produce
Over the past couple of years, there’s been a lot of discussions concerning the energy consumed by cryptocurrency mining. However, more...
This Week in Bitcoin: Black Swans
It would be an unusual week in bitcoin where there weren’t glum tidings to report, be it an exchange hack, regulatory clampdown, or edict...
PR: DIWtoken.com Proposes the Creation of a Global, Blockchain-Based Network to End Online Fraud and Data Breaches
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Study Finds $3B Worth of Faked Cryptocurrency Volumes and Wash Trades
On March 10 a cryptocurrency trader and researcher published a report on how he believes $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency trade volumes,...
China’s PBOC Governor Speaks Against Speculative Cryptocurrencies
This week the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, spoke about both public and privately issued cryptocurrencies. Zhou...
Silicon Valley VCs Help Crypto Hedge Fund Reach Quarter Billion Target
With bitcoin hovering at around only $9,000 and the entire cryptocurrency market at similar low levels, short term speculators are acting...
South Korea Internet Giant Moves Deeper Into Crypto
What a week for the peninsular nation, 대한민국 Republic of Korea. Moon Jae-in’s administration appears to have brokered a potential meeting...
Bitmain Opens Repair Center in Russia
Leading manufacturer of crypto mining equipment Bitmain has opened a service center in Russia. Miners in the country will be able to...
Binance Offers $10 Million Hacker Bounty
In the wake of Wednesday’s market manipulation incident which caused all kinds of mischief, Binance has issued a hacker bounty. A total of...
What If the SEC Is Going After the SAFT?
Rumors seem to be feeding rumors as it relates to a spate of subpoenas sent out recently to initial coin offering (ICO) issuers by the...
Adding Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Is Main Goal of 2018 for Gemini Exchange
Bitcoin cash and litecoin futures might be coming to Cboe as soon as this year. The Gemini exchange, which supplies the data feed for the...
PR: Introducing Emotiq – a Next-Generation Blockchain with Powerful Scalability and Privacy
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Bitcoin – A China Perspective
Bitcoin latest: prices, policies and politics News, analysis and opinion on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, from prices and primers to...
Excessive Crypto Regulation Not Optimal, EU Banking Authority Says
The Chairman of the European Banking Authority has spoken against excessive regulation of the crypto sector, warning it might constrain...
Finnish Crypto Services Provider Prasos Loses 4 of 5 Banking Partners
Finnish bitcoin services provider, Prasos, has lost all but one of its banking partners. Prasos’ chief executive officer recently revealed...
Anecdotal Reports Suggest Google is Cracking Down on ICO Advertising
According to the anecdotal reports of several companies operating in the initial coin offering (ICO) industry, Google is taking steps to...
PR: Zero Edge – How Blockchain Can Solve Problems for Online Gambling Sites?
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Tennessee Lawmakers Aim to Obstruct Retirement Funds from Cryptos
Last Tuesday Tennessee bureaucrats pushed forth a bill through the Tennessee Senate Ways and Means Committee that aims to obstruct...
Thailand Dodges Extreme Cryptocurrency Regulations
The Thai Deputy Prime Minister has mandated that the law on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings be finalized within a month. The...
Bitcoin Sports Betting Site Under Investigation in Australia
Australian authorities have announced that Bitcoin-based sports betting website, Justbet, is currently the subject of an investigation....
Venezuelan President Claims Petro Pre-Sale Raked in $5 Billion
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed the pre-sale of the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro (PTR), has raised $5...
Belgium Warns of 19 Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms Showing Signs of Fraud
The Belgian financial authority has published a list of 19 cryptocurrency trading platforms that it had received complaints about. The...
A Look at This Week’s Bitcoin Cash Markets and Merchant Support
Bitcoin cash (BCH) markets have been declining in value following suit with BTC and a vast majority of cryptocurrency prices suffering...
PR: Verifier – the Idea of Using Blockchain to Verify Elections Is Not New
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75% of $20M Bitcoin Auction from Drug Busts
Nabbed in conjunction with various administrative, civil, and federal prosecutions, the United States Marshals are preparing to auction...
Report Shows Egypt is Covertly Mining Cryptocurrency on Citizens’ Computers
The Egyptian government has been called out in a new report that suggests they are not only spying on and censoring their citizens’...
PR: Bitcoin.com’s CEO Roger Ver and COO Mate Tokay Join XinFin.io Advisory Board
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The Bitcoin Misery Index: Finding An Entry Way With Sadness
This week the Wall Street analyst and Fundstrat executive, Tom Lee, has revealed a new index that helps cryptocurrency investors know the...
Hackers Target 400,000 Computers with Mining Malware
More than 400,000 personal computers have been attacked in a large-scale attempt to distribute cryptocurrency mining malware. The hackers...
Credit Card Aims to Pay Users 1% Crypto Back Rewards
A new type of credit card aims to pay users cryptocurrency rewards rather than the typical ‘cash back’ incentives offered by traditional...
Ant Creek: Is Bitmain Quietly Developing a Mining Facility in the US?
According to public documents the mining giant based out of Beijing, Bitmain Technologies, is allegedly building a data facility near Port...
Lil Windex Might Have 99 Problems, BCH Ain’t One
Cryptocurrency continues its worming into broader culture, and now it’s the turn of Bitcoin Cash (BCH). This week, rapper Lil Windex...
The ‘Crypto-Heater’ Mines Digital Currency While Heating Your Home
A French company named Qarnot has released a new home heater called the “Crypto-Heater or QC-1” that heats a room in your home while...
Mt. Gox Trustee Sell Off Bitcoin – Big Mkt Drop
Today March 9, CCN reported that the sell off of hundreds of millions of dollars, and the plan of the trustee to dump the remaining $1.7...
Most Forked Coins Are Proving More Hassle Than They’re Worth
The last month has seen a spate of high profile forks, as zclassic (ZCL), eth classic, and litecoin have all split to create new coins....
Singlepoint Launches Bitcoin Payment Solution for Cannabis Industry
Singlepoint has launched a bitcoin payment solution for the cannabis industry. The company also plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange...
PR: Let There Be Sex! Road Map of VR Technology Company (OKOIN Project) for March 2018
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Coincheck to Start Compensating Hack Victims and Resume Operations Next Week
Hacked Japanese exchange Coincheck is getting ready to start compensating its customers next week as it plans to resume operations. The...
Bears? Bitcoin Eyes $8K Defense
Bitcoin's 28 percent drop this week has turned the tide in favor of the bears, but a sustained break below $8,000 looks unlikely in the...
Wirex Launching Bitcoin Debit Cards in Europe
New crypto debit cards, with multiple currency accounts in GBP, EUR, USD, and BTC are offered by Wirex in Europe. The first plastic Visa...
ICOs Brush Off Regulatory Concerns, Raising $1 Billion for the Third Month in a Row
Despite all the talk of increased regulation and looming lawsuits, ICOs seem immune. Many new tokens are struggling to trade above their...
PR: New Cryptocurrency Exchange Market – CoinDeal.com
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Cryptocurrency Interest Wanes — Online Searches for “Bitcoin” Drop 80%
Over the course of the past few weeks, cryptocurrency prices have been dropping in value. However, online interest is another trend...
Russians Think Bitcoin Makes a Great Present
Cryptocurrency is gaining popularity in Russia as a good idea for a gift. According to a new survey, more and more Russians believe...
Europe’s Clocks Are Running Slow and Crypto Mining Is Being Blamed
From wrecking the environment to making it harder to search for alien life, cryptocurrency mining has been blamed for a multitude of sins....
Plattsburgh Officials Want Bitcoin Miners to Vacate the Small Town
Last week officials from the small town of Plattsburgh New York filed a moratorium request against bitcoin mining operations that...
Poll Suggests Young Romanians Want to Pay with Crypto
More than half of Romanians living in cities know about cryptos, and 60 percent of people under 40 believe they are the future of...
Regulatory Loophole Helps Startups in India Accept Bitcoin Without Breaking the Law
Some businesses in India believe that they have found a loophole in the finance minister’s speech that sought to clamp down on the use of...
Bithumb Launching Kiosks at Restaurants for Food Orders and Crypto Payments in Korea
Korean crypto exchange Bithumb is entering the retail kiosk business to accelerate crypto adoption in the country. These order-taking and...
Ex-Trump Chief Strategist Bannon: Cryptocurrencies Make Central Banks Redundant
Bitcoin has always been considered by its staunch supporters a tool to bring about personal financial freedom from government control and...
Japan Punishes Seven Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Suspending Two
The Japanese financial regulator has punished seven cryptocurrency exchanges in the country, suspending the operation of two of them. “The...
New Player Asrock Said to Enter the GPU Mining Market
Another major hardware producer may venture into the GPU market very soon. Motherboard manufacturer Asrock is reportedly going to offer...
PR: It’s Time to Give Back! New Nauticus ICO Program to Help Protect Children and the Oceans
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Markets Update: Crypto Values Drop to Lower Vantage Points
The price of cryptocurrencies across all markets has been dropping in value quite a bit over the past 48 hours. BTC/USD markets started...
Japanese Conglomerate GMO Mined Over 200 Bitcoins In 2018 So Far
GMO Internet has released a monthly report on its mining business for February 2018, revealing that the company has mined over 200...
Chinese Internet Regulators Block Cryptocurrency Exchanges on Social Media
Despite all its previous efforts to prevent the people it rules from engaging in the online trading of cryptocurrencies, the Chinese...
SEC Publishes Warning Against Unlawful Crypto Exchanges
On Wednesday, March 7, the U.S. regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a letter concerning the potential of...
Wallet Provider Bread Adds Bitcoin Cash Support for Apple Devices
This week the popular wallet provider Bread (BRD – formally Bread Wallet) announced the release of its new update — fully integrated...
Mt. Gox Soap Opera Continues: Karpeles Released on Bail, Shadow Companies, and Whale Dumps
Mt. Gox Mark Karpeles’ release on bail has produced a new radio program examining the historic hack and heist, but is also raising...
PR: Auctus Releases the First Blockchain Based Retirement Planning Platform
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Research Paper Says Issuers of ICO Tokens Will Face Class Action Lawsuits
This month a law firm called Polsinelli LLP published a study called “Cryptocurrency Class Action Lawsuits: A New Frontier” which explains...
Bots Blamed for Binance Bug That Leaves Traders Reeling
Binance has found itself at the center of an unusual trading bug that has created big winners and losers. In a matter of minutes, viacoin...
From ‘Attack’ to ‘Optimization’ — Slush Pool Reveals ASIC Boost Compatibility
Back in the spring of 2017, the discussion of a technology called ‘ASIC Boost’ was a very hot debate amongst bitcoin proponents. Bitcoin...
Cryptocurrency, ICO and Blockchain Officially Added to the Dictionary
Besides helping language learners, students and everyone else find the exact definitions of words, dictionaries also sometimes serve as...
The Wealthy Want Crypto but Don’t Understand It, Survey Shows
The world’s richest people are putting more and more money into cryptocurrency, despite the fact they don’t understand it very well, a new...
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Are Commodities, Federal Court Rules
Courts, financial regulators, legislators and governments around the world are struggling to fit bitcoin into their existing frameworks....
Venezuela Picks FX Platform to Auction Petro ‘Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency’
Venezuela has chosen a platform on which to auction its “oil-backed cryptocurrency”, the petro. While the country’s National Assembly has...
Domains Running Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts Surge 725 Percent
The number of domains with cryptocurrency mining scripts installed has skyrocketed 725 percent in four months, according to a security...
Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission Suspends Mining Scheme
Brazil’s Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) recently suspended the operations of mining investment scheme, Hashbrasil. The CVM has...
PR: Betex Blockchain P2P Binary Options Platform Launches the Main Token Sale
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Retirement Custodian Bitira Offers Insured Multi-Cryptocurrency IRAs
The cryptocurrency retirement account firm Bitira has announced the launch of two new features added to its business model, which includes...
Bittrex Adds Tether Competitor TrueUSD as Regulation Rumors Persist
As the saying goes, don’t keep all your stablecoins in one basket. Over-reliance on tethers could prove costly to an exchange such as...
Popular Social Networks in Russia to Accept Bitcoin
Two Russian-based social networking platforms have announced they are now accepting cryptocurrency payments. Vkontakte, the most popular...
New Study Looks at the Cost to Mine BTC Across the Globe
Just recently the firm Crescent Electric Supply Company conducted a study that showed the cost of mining one single bitcoin in each state...
One in Three Cryptocurrencies Is Currently Unspendable
Cryptocurrencies are speculative instruments, their price predicated upon future prospects rather than current reality. As a consequence,...
How the Marshall Islands Sovereign Cryptocurrency Came About
The cryptocurrency community is full of entrepreneurial people who think they can change the world. From challenging financial and tech...
Coinbase to Launch its First Crypto Index Fund
Popular US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced today the launch of its first ever index fund. Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX),...