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Bitcoin.com Wallet Celebrates 2 Million Wallets Created
This week our company is proud to say that two million Bitcoin.com Wallets have been created since its release just seven months ago. The...
16 Government-Approved Crypto Exchanges Forming Self-Regulatory Body in Japan
16 cryptocurrency exchanges that have been approved by the Japanese government are teaming up to form a self-regulatory group, following...
North Korea Obtained 11,000 bitcoins in 2017, Expert Says
North Korea may have made over $200 million USD from cryptocurrency transactions last year, according to a former NSA official. DPRK is...
1200 Australian New Agencies Are Selling Fractions of Crypto
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts from Australia now have the ability to purchase the digital assets bitcoin core (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) via...
Data Company Tracks Crypto-Adoption Using Social Media
Just recently the audience intelligence company, Pulsar, published a report examining the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies. Rather...
EU Losing Patience – Urges Global Crypto Regulation
Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, Valdis Dombrovskis of the European Union (EU), is...
Germany Treads Lightly on Bitcoin Taxation
Germany is taking a lead within European Union established economies, deciding upon slow regulation when it comes to the world’s most...
Bitpay Launches Bitcoin Cash Debit Card Top Ups
In late 2017 the bitcoin payment processor Bitpay revealed it would add the ability to process payments for multiple blockchains —...
How a Single Tweet Wiped $90 Million off Waltonchain’s Market Cap
Digital marketing guides are filled with cautionary tales of social media faux pas that have caused brand suicide. All it takes is an...
Russian Ministry Offers to Set Up Crypto Exchange for Miners
Russia’s Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has put forward the idea to set up a cryptocurrency exchange, where Russian miners...
Aussie Crypto Traders Expect Tax Crackdown Ahead of New Regulations
With Australia set to introduce new legislation that will empower authorities to monitor and regulate the activities of cryptocurrency...
China’s Police Force Reveals Offshore Exchange Surveillance
According to regional reports, China’s police agency is allegedly monitoring cryptocurrency exchanges based outside of the country. An...
PR: Trading Platform RobotsCrypto Is a New Promising Project on the Blockchain Which Really Deserves Your Attention!
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JP Morgan Chase Fears Crypto Is Disruptive Competition
Perhaps cryptocurrency’s largest institutional nemesis is JP Morgan Chase. Led by the ever-belligerent Jamie Dimon, it and he have taken...
Crypto Tax Breaks Proposed by Officials in Russia
Tax exemptions on profits from crypto-related transactions have been proposed during a meeting at the Ministry of Economic Development of...
$9 Million a Day Is Lost in Cryptocurrency Scams
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, $850 will have been lost to cryptocurrency scams. In the time it takes to complete this...
SEC Subpoenas Shepherd ICOs Towards A+ Regulation
The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission is believed to have issued dozens of subpoenas to ICOs in its quest to uncover evidence of...
Genesis Launches Whale Sized Crypto-Loan Service
This week the institutional over-the-counter (OTC) digital currency service, Genesis Global Trading, announced it’s creating a lending...
Transaction Data Suggests a Crypto Recession Is Brewing
Charts can reveal a lot about crypto assets. Past performance and future indicators can be gleaned at a glance, but there’s also a lot...
Dutch Bank That Once Called Bitcoin ‘High Risk’ Considers Building Crypto-Wallet
A Dutch multinational financial provider, Rabobank has announced the possible introduction of a ‘cryptocurrency wallet’ tethered to the...
Coinbase Reveals ‘Overhauled’ Changes and Tax Tools
This week the popular cryptocurrency service Coinbase revealed a slew of announcements concerning certain aspects of the business. The...
Venezuela Claims Petro Cryptocurrency Has Raised $3bn from Investors in 127 Countries
The Venezuelan government has made some new claims about the pre-sale of the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro. After one...
Thai Regulators in Race With Growing Popularity of Token Sales
The Thai government is concerned with the growing number of companies in Thailand racing to launch their initial coin offerings ahead of...
PR: Bitcoin Exchanges: Please Help Your Users Claim BCP and BCPC as Soon as Possible
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Ukraine’s Financial Watchdog Clarifies Stance on Cryptos
The State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine has published its official position on crypto matters. While offering some borrowed...
Over 100 Firms Seek Licenses to Operate Cryptocurrency Exchanges in Japan
There are over 100 companies reportedly waiting for the Japanese Financial Services Agency to approve their registrations to operate...
Louisiana Attorney General Fires IT Staff for Allegedly Mining Bitcoin
It appears that the allure of free electricity and computer systems, courtesy of the tax payers, might be too hard for some government...
Circle-Poloniex Deal Presages the Future of Cryptocurrency Exchanges
When it was announced on Monday that Circle would be acquiring Poloniex, much of the focus was on the $400 million reported to have...
Goldmoney Launches Ether and Bitcoin Cash Cold Storage
As cryptocurrency investing is becoming more mainstream, it keeps attracting wealthier and more cautious established players. To answer...
Court Will Not Seize Crypto as Debt Payment from Bankrupt Citizen in Russia
The Moscow bankruptcy court has ruled that cryptocurrencies of a bankrupt debtor will not be seized to pay his creditors. The trustee for...
132 Customers File Class Action Lawsuit Against Coincheck
This week local Japanese news outlets report that the exchange Coincheck, who suffered from a $530Mn USD loss of the cryptocurrency NEM,...
Court Strikes Down Ban on 40 Bitcoin Sites in Russia
Saint Petersburg City Court has struck down a ban on 40 bitcoin related websites offering information about cryptocurrencies and exchange...
PR: ValueCash Launches ICO That Allows Users to Earn as They Spend While Using Crypto to Pay for Goods & Services
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Offshore Tax Haven Marshall Islands to Issue National Cryptocurrency
A small island nation with less than 60,000 inhabitants best known internationally as a former test site for nuclear weapons is joining...
US Bitcoin Futures Regulator Allows Employees to Trade Crypto
While private businesses all over the world struggle with employees so much as possessing cryptocurrency, the US Commodity Futures Trading...
Japanese Electricity Company Uses Excess Solar Power for Crypto Mining
Japan’s Kumamoto-Energy, a local power producer and supplier from Kumamoto City, has revealed that it recently began using solar power for...
More Infrastructure Support Joins the Bitcoin Cash Ecosystem
This week the Bitcoin Cash network has gained more infrastructure and support from a variety of crypto-based businesses. Additionally, the...
Customer ID Now Required for Crypto Exchange Purchases in Malaysia
Bank Negara announced Tuesday that its "Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism Policy for Digital Currencies" is now the...
PR: Education Ecosystem Announces Token Exchange Listings and Chance to Win Three Tesla Model S Cars
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Lawyers Discuss Challenges Posed by Cryptocurrencies During Divorce
Several lawyers have discussed some of the challenges that arise from cryptocurrency ownership during divorce. The anonymous nature of...
Report: Crypto Miners Bought 3 Million GPUs Last Year
More than 3 million graphics cards have been sold to cryptocurrency miners in 2017, with sales reaching $776 million, a new report...
Digital Currency Group Welcomes Bitcoin-Friendly Bank to the ‘DCG Family’
This week the ‘bitcoin-friendly’ financial institution Silvergate Bank sold 9.5 million shares that raised a sum of $114Mn USD during the...
Bill Gates Says Crypto Has Caused Deaths in a Fairly Direct Way
One of the world’s most affluent persons, Bill Gates, appears to have bought in to the rhetoric of popular media and government law...
British Man in Amsterdam Allegedly Laundered €11.5m in Bitcoin Drug Money
A UK man living in Amsterdam is facing up to five years in prison for allegedly helping people by exchanging fiat cash for bitcoin which...
Swiss Stock Exchange Chairman Advocates National Cryptocurrency
The chairman of Switzerland’s stock exchange, Romeo Lacher, has spoken in favor of developing a Swiss national cryptocurrency. Mr. Lacher...
Forking Today: Bittrex’ Stance on Bitcoin Private Angers Zclassic Bagholders
In less than six hours, zclassic will fork to create bitcoin private, a new privacy-oriented coin that uses zk-snarks to obfuscate...
PR: Brahma OS Is the Decentralized Value Operating System Based on Revolutionary Blockchain Technology
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Scammers Are Ruining Crypto Twitter and Twitter Is to Blame
You’ve heard of the scheme, seen the tweets, and been smart enough not to send cryptocurrency in the promise of receiving more back. The...
Craig “Satoshi” Wright Sued for Billions
Forget the debate about whether bitcoin is a store of value or a currency. What everyone can agree upon is that it is a store of drama....
Bitcoin ATMs Thriving in Michigan’s Most Populous City
Low-income areas in the city of Detroit are seeing a bunch of cryptocurrency-based automated teller machines (ATM). According to local...
Europol: Hardcore Criminals Are Shifting From Bitcoin to Monero, Zcash and Dash
A multitude of representatives of law enforcement agencies from around the world have talked about the use of bitcoin by criminal...
35 Countries, EU and FATF Agree to Revise Global Cryptocurrency Standards
Thirty-five countries and the European Commission have asked the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), responsible for setting global...
PR: Viola.AI Announces Worldwide Community-Choice Campaign for the Name, Look and Persona for the World’s Smartest Love Advisor
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Las Vegas Strippers Accept Bitcoin via QR Tattoos
There has been a lot of talk recently about the missing representation of women in the male-dominated cryptocurrency ecosystem. While Las...
Justice Dept Looks to Develop ‘Cryptocurrency Strategy’
Over the past few months, the U.S. government and its special agencies have been ramping up their efforts to try to regulate bitcoin and...
China’s Crypto Exchanges Didn’t Just Survive – They’re Thriving
It began like this: officials from the People's Bank of China stepped into the offices of the largest crypto exchanges in the country and...
Another Thai Bank Shuts Down Accounts of Local Crypto Exchange
Another major Thai bank is reportedly terminating transactions involving cryptocurrencies through the bank accounts of a local crypto...
Bitwala Launching Full-Fledged Crypto-Friendly Banking Service with Debit Card
Bitwala has announced that it is launching a new banking service with real debit cards. Its application with the Federal Financial...
Chinese Entrepreneur Warns Against Mining and ICO Bans
Angel investor and Founder of Chinese app Meitu, Cai Wensheng, has published criticisms of the central government’s expanding regulatory...
PR: CryptoWorld LLC Announces Wall Street and the Internet of Money Conference.
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak’s Bitcoin Stolen
Last year, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak (Woz) revealed he’d purchased bitcoin, likening it to being better than gold. And then, months...
Israeli Supreme Court Forbids Bank From Denying Service to Bitcoin Exchange
The Supreme Court of Israel issued a temporary injunction order on Monday forbidding Bank Leumi from sweepingly halting the account...
Hacked Japanese Exchange Considers Capital Tie-Up to Regain Public Trust
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck is reportedly considering a capital tie-up in order to regain the trust of crypto investors,...
Bitfract by Shapeshift Lets You Swap One Cryptocurrency for Many
Instant cryptocurrency exchange specialist Shapeshift has quietly launched a new service. Bitfract, which is still in beta, allows users...
ICOs and Exchange Sign-Ups Create Boom for Automated Compliance Industry
Many of the major cryptocurrency exchanges have announced that a massive influx of new traders in late 2017 caused them to be overwhelmed,...
Sixth Grader Writes a 57-Page Book About Bitcoin
An 11-year old named Andrew Courey from Massachusetts just published a book on bitcoin so the younger generation can grasp this emerging...
This Week in Bitcoin: Everything Has a Price
In crypto, as in life, everything comes with a price. You want free tokens airdropped to your wallet? Prepare to answer a bunch of...
Markets Update: Volume Is Weaker as BTC Prices Push Past $10,000
Over the past two days, BTC/USD markets dipped below the $10K price region to a low of $9,260 on February 25. The following day the price...
PR: Trading Platform FundFantasy ICO Launches in a Few Hours! 50% Bonus for First 48 Hours
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Hacker Chic; Get a Bitcoin, Periodic Table or Fibonacci Sequence Fashion Dress
Crypto is going to change the world, and so are women. And women who dabble in bitcoin never want to look basic. As an answer, Shenova...
A Review of the Swiss-Made Digital Bitbox Hardware Wallet
During the Anarchapulco event last week I had purchased a Digital Bitbox hardware wallet. I’ve tested and reviewed a variety of popular...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Poloniex Has Been Bought by Circle
Payment company Circle has announced that it has purchased Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange. Rumors of the acquisition had been...
US Navy Investigators Bust Bitcoin Drug Ring at Naval Academy
Despite recent claims that bitcoin is becoming less popular for illicit dealings on the dark web, investigations show that it is still the...
Bitpay Bans Payments to Merchants of Explicit Content, Cloud-Mining and Gambling
Bitcoin was originally created to free people’s money from the control and censorship of regulators, banks and governments. Companies in...
Poland Refutes Reports of Its Interest in Venezuela’s Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency
Poland’s Ministry of Finance has refuted reports that it is interested in the petro, the Venezuelan ”oil-backed” currency. Earlier this...
People Who Don’t Understand Cryptocurrency Should Probably Stop Writing About It
It’s only February, but the award for most inaccurate cryptocurrency article of the year is already in the bag. The Financial Post, which...
PR: Unicorn Go Ltd. and ITO Center Create the UnicornGO Collection Game
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Transaction Batching: Good for Fees, Bad for Privacy
Over the past few weeks, many people have noticed that bitcoin core network fees and transactions times have been a lot better than two...
Poll: Bitcoin More Popular With Czechs than the Euro
Czechs are more inclined to store value in cryptos than in euros, according to a new poll gauging attitudes toward currencies other than...
Amelie Arras Prepares to Defend Bitcoin’s Title at Money 20/20 Asia Race
It has been announced that the Marketing Director of Adastra Marketing, Amelie Arras, will look to defend bitcoin’s crown in the upcoming...
Georgia Lawmakers Propose Tax Amendment That Allows Bitcoin Payments
Residents from the state of Georgia may soon be able to pay their taxes in bitcoin as two senators have introduced a bill that allows...
Uzbekistan to Legalize Bitcoin and Support Developers
Uzbekistan has taken the road to bitcoin legalization. In accordance with a presidential decree, a law regulating “electronic money”...
Hacker Returns 20,000 ETH to Coindash
Coindash has announced that 20,000 ETH have been sent to the company’s wallet from the address associated with the hacker that stole...
Coinbase Compelled by IRS to Provide 13,000 Customers’ Information
Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been forced by court order to hand over thousands and thousands of its customers’ names and...
Thai Bank Terminates Account of Local Cryptocurrency Exchange
A major bank in Thailand has reportedly terminated the bank account of a local cryptocurrency exchange, following an announcement by the...
PR: Jason Butcher Joins Advisory Board of Xinfin, the Singapore Based Fastest Growing Blockchain Technology Company
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Venezuelan Government Opens School to Teach Citizens About Cryptocurrencies
The Venezuelan government has opened a school in the capital city to teach its citizens how to buy, sell, and mine cryptocurrencies,...
New Plant to Assemble Mining Rigs in Belarus
Plans to build a new manufacturing facility for mining equipment have been announced in Belarus. It will be situated in the...
Some Major Canadian Banks Still Allow Cryptocurrency Credit Card Transactions
While TD Bank has revised its policies and stopped allowing customers to purchase cryptocurrencies using its credit cards, some major...
Nasdaq-Listed “Blockchain” Companies Hit With New Legal Troubles
Adding “Blockchain” to the name of their firms have proved to be very beneficial to the top management of publicly listed companies over...