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The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 5: Privacy, Anonymity, and Pseudonymity (Part 1)
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 2 : The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 5: Implementing Crypto...
South Korea Discusses Cryptocurrency Policies With China’s Central Bank
The South Korean Minister of Strategy and Finance has met with the governor of the People’s Bank of China to discuss and share economic...
PR: John Mcafee Joins Decentralized Coding Platform Transcodium’s Advisory Board
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Japanese Financial Authority Inspecting 32 Cryptocurrency Exchanges
The Japanese Financial Services Agency has announced that it is inspecting all 32 cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan. This includes 16...
Coingeek Announces Funding the Electron Cash Development Team
On February 1 the cryptocurrency media outlet and blockchain company Coingeek announced it plans to fund the Electron Cash team’s...
Dead again? In Reality Bitcoin Is Up 729% Since Last February
The price of bitcoin has seen some corrections over the years, but really there have only been a few deep cuts. With the bearish dips in...
Another Post-Soviet Jurisdiction Welcomes Crypto Miners
Following in the footsteps of counterparts from former Soviet countries, government officials in Transnistria have attempted to create...
Montana is Home to New 53 Acre, $75 Million Bitcoin Mining Facility
This week, the cities of Butte and Anaconda, Montana, learned bitcoin mining company Crypto Watt LLC secured 53 acres on which they plan...
Missed the Altcoin Craze? Don’t Worry, the Satoshi Is Still Very Cheap
When Satoshi Nakamoto designed bitcoin, his smartest trick wasn’t to cap the total supply at 21 million coins – it was to make each coin...
Cryptocurrency Is Harder to Launder Than Fiat Currency
Bitcoin is a tool for terrorists and money launderers. At least that’s what your elected officials believe. When western leaders are...
12 Reasons Bitcoin Cash is the Real Bitcoin
The following opinion piece was written by Jonald Fyookball. So you’ve heard of Bitcoin Cash — one of the top cryptocurrencies along with...
PR: Lunyr – Blockchain-Based Knowledge Sharing Platform Launches Open Beta
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Philippine SEC to Develop Cryptocurrency Regulations
The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has indicated that it is currently developing a regulatory framework designed to...
Popular Chinese Firm Cheetah Mobile Launches Crypto-Wallet
The Chinese tech giant Cheetah Mobile has announced this week it just launched a new multi-cryptocurrency wallet that stores bitcoin core...
Leaked Document Appears to Show NSA Infiltrated Cryptos, Tor, VPN
A photograph posted on imageboard 4chan appears to show a leaked 21 August 2017 memorandum from the US Army Cyber Protection Brigade. The...
The Cryptocurrency Markets Are Having an Interesting Week
The crypto markets have been having an interesting week to put it mildly. Seas of red and deep cuts have had the vultures circling, the...
Bank of Russia Allows Crypto Mining But Proposes Miners Sell Their Coins Overseas
The Bank of Russia said it will allow cryptocurrency mining in the country, given tax, control, and reporting considerations. However, the...
Japan Unfazed By Recent Exchange Hack Realizing Cryptocurrencies Not to Blame
Japanese investors are undeterred by the recent Coincheck hack and the general public is now more interested in cryptocurrencies due to...
PR: Neurogress Enabling the Future Now at the Speed of Thought
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Senate of Nigeria Launches Probe of Bitcoin Trading in the Country
Nigeria is known to have one of the biggest and fastest growing bitcoin markets in the whole of Africa. The authorities in the country...
AMD Increases GPU Production to Match Crypto Mining Demand
Responding to strong market demand, AMD is planning to increase production of graphics cards which are currently in short supply. The...
Tether Printed One-Third of All USDT After Receiving Subpoena
Following the recent announcement that Tether received a subpoena from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission on the 6th...
The Bee Token Crowdsale Stung by $400k Phishing Scam
The Bee Token, 2018’s most eagerly anticipated and oversubscribed ICO, has had a disastrous start to its crowdsale. Over 100,000 people...
Coinbase Sends American Clients IRS Tax Form 1099-K
If you are an American client of Coinbase and made plenty of transactions during 2017, you better check your email. The company sent out...
PR: Gaming Ecosystem IQeon Anticipates ICO Success as Pre ICO Raised Significant Sum
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Market Risk Advisory Committee: Bitcoin Futures Self-Certification Works
Bitcoin futures regulators met for their first Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) of the new year, and it was dedicated exclusively to...
Bitcoin.com Introduces the New Buy Bitcoin Cash Portal
The web portal Bitcoin.com has just launched its Buy Bitcoin Cash page that enables users to easily buy bitcoin cash (BCH) using a credit...
Markets Update: Bears Claw Cryptocurrency Prices Down to New Lows
Cryptocurrency markets are suffering from new lows on the first of February as nearly every digital asset is down 3-20 percent. Since the...
PR: 3D-Token ICO – 3D Printing Robots’ Network Expansion Started
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Bitcoin Tax Payments Bill Advances in Arizona
Lawmakers in Arizona have advanced a proposal that would allow residents in the state to pay their taxes in bitcoin. By Stan Higgins...
Bitcoin Sinks Below $10k on $133 Billion January Loss
Bitcoin price has dropped to the lowest level since for two weeks and could drop below $9,000 in the next 24 hours, price charts indicate....
Mobile Payment Company Square Launches In-app Bitcoin Buy/Sell Option
This Wednesday Jack Dorsey, the CEO of the payment processing firm Square, revealed the company’s Cash App users can now purchase and sell...
Japan’s Most Popular Chat App Launching Cryptocurrency Exchange
The operator of Japan’s most popular chat app with approximately 168 million monthly users has announced its plans to launch a...
Venezuela Releases Petro Whitepaper Ahead of ”$5 Billion ICO”
Venezuela’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, is a step closer to reality following the release of the official whitepaper. The...
PR: Video Surveillance Faceter – Presale Date Is Changed
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Bitcoin Tax Reporting Software Developer Node40 Acquired for $8m
A publicly traded Canadian crypto miner has just made a $8 million bet that all bitcoin users around the world will eventually be...
Search the Blockchain With Bitcoin.com’s New Block Explorer
This week the team at Bitcoin.com, the internet’s premier bitcoin portal, launched its block explorer enabling cryptocurrency enthusiasts...
Coinshares Group Plans to Launch New Crypto-Investment Funds
This week the firm Coinshares Group has announced two new investment vehicles tethered to cryptocurrencies. Coinshares was the first...
Ukraine’s Cyberpolice Supports Legalization of Cryptocurrencies
The cybercrime combating department of Ukrainian Police has voiced support for the legalization of cryptocurrencies despite sharing some...
Hawaii’s New Money Transmitters Act Will Require Virtual Currency Licenses
The state of Hawaii is planning to regulate the use of bitcoin and digital currencies that would require licensure to transmit...
South Korean Court Rules Bitcoin Has Economic Value
A South Korean court has ruled that bitcoin has an economic value for the first time. This overturned an earlier court ruling which did...
PR: BCShop.io Aids Ethereum Business Adoption
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Number of People Looking for Crypto-Careers Increased 10-Fold in 2017
New data from the UK shows that interest in crypto careers more than doubled in December 2017 when the all time high Bitcoin price record...
South Korea Finds Nearly $600 Million in Crypto Crime
Reports from the 대한민국 Republic of South Korea (ROK) indicate its Customs Service announced on Wednesday, 31 January 2018, it has...
PR: All Crypto – Friendly Venues Are Finally Listed in One App – CryptoFind
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Venezuela Announces Whitepaper and Pre-Sale of Its Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency Petro
Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has announced the pre-sale of his country’s national oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro. In...
Facebook Bans Cryptocurrency Ads
Following persistent complaints about spammy and fraudulent cryptocurrency ads, Facebook has issued an outright ban. As of a new ruling...
Deep Web Roundup: Dream Adds Monero and Bitcoin Tumbler “Chip Mixer” Launches
The darknet has been quiet of late, which is the way it’s meant to be. No news means no mega busts, honeypots, or mass market shutdowns....
U.S. Regulators Send Tether and Bitfinex Subpoenas
There’s been a lot of discussion and controversy surrounding Tether (USDT) a digital asset that claims to be backed by the U.S. dollar....
Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs David Birch on The Bitcoin Standard
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, by bitcoin maximalist Saifedean Ammous, is set for a spring...
PR: ETicket4 Launch Its Pre ICO and Offers Qualitatively New Dimensions in the Ticket Industry
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Coincheck to Repay Hack Victims’ XEM Balances at 81 U.S. Cents Each
Major Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has announced that it will reimburse the accounts of the 260,000 customers who lost XEM...
Samsung Enters the Bitcoin Mining ASIC Manufacturing Business
Korean electronics giant Samsung is the latest chip manufacturer to enter the bitcoin mining hardware market. The company’s foundry has...
Europol and Interpol to Increase Measures Against BTC Laundering
A two-day workshop involving over sixty financial investigators in Basel, Switzerland has seen Europol and Interpol agree upon a range of...
US Financial Regulator Requests Crypto Trading Data From South Korea
The New York State Department of Financial Services has asked two South Korean financial authorities to share cryptocurrency-related data...
South Korea Ends Anonymous Cryptocurrency Trading Today
The new South Korean cryptocurrency account system has entered into force nationwide today, ending the current practice that allowed for...
PR: Viola.Ai Token Pre-Sale Sells out More Than 5 Days Ahead
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Neo ICOs Make a Shaky Start
The Neo platform was designed to serve as a launchpad for Initial Coin Offerings. Since hosting the Red Pulse ICO last year, Neo has...
Tether Severs Ties With Its Auditor, Leaving Its Accounts Shrouded in Mystery
Barely a week passes when Tether isn’t in the news. For a so-called stable coin, Tether and its acolyte Bitfinex are at the center of a...
Vegetables on a Blockchain ICO Exit Scams After Paying People to Write On Their Bodies
The current cryptocurrency investments ecosystem is one of the purest forms of a free market in economic history. This gives rise to an...
Charitystars Auction With Roger Ver Raises $87K for Antiwar.com
On January 25th, 2018, the online auction platform, Charitystars, finished its bidding auction that featured a chance to win a private...
New Website Ranks 600 Cryptocurrencies by Github Activity
From market cap to trading volume, there’s a lot of ways to assess and quantify cryptocurrencies. Traders evaluating new crypto projects...
Hong Kong Fund Acquires Chinese Mining Powerhouse BTCC
On January 29 the longstanding Chinese bitcoin company BTCC has announced it was acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment fund. The...
The 2018 Satoshi’s Vision Conference Heads to Japan
After the successful ‘Satoshi’s Vision Conference’ held in San Francisco in 2016, and last year’s ‘The Future of Bitcoin’ event in Arnhem,...
Ethereum Is Quietly Closing In on Record Price Highs
By Omkar Godbole Ethereum's ether token could revisit record highs very soon, courtesy of last week's bullish price action, the price...
AIER Researchers: Bitcoin’s Price Moves with News
Researchers at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) teamed with Missouri University to examine whether the price of bitcoin...
PR: Propy Launches the First Pilot in the US for Blockchain Land Registry
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Us Government Scientists: “Bitcoin Is a Fork and Bitcoin Cash Is the Original”
Answering demands from the private and public sectors, US government scientists have created a guide to the technology behind bitcoin and...
PR: LiveTree Adept and the 21 Million Project Partner on First-Ever Blockchain TV Drama
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Japanese Crypto Exchanges Strengthen Self-Regulation Following Coincheck Hack
Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges are strengthening their self-regulation procedures following the hack of one of the country’s largest...
Russia Developing System to Identify Crypto Miners but Considers Giving Them Tax Break
A Russian ministry is preparing a bill for the regulation of cryptocurrency mining which reportedly includes a “special system” to detect...
Singapore Mall Sells Cryptocurrency Mining Hardware
Cryptocurrency miners in Singapore can now buy their rigs pre-assembled right at the mall as more retail computer hardware shops enter...
University College London Fights CV Fraud via Bitcoin Verification
Imagine getting treated by a doctor with a fake diploma, or losing a job to another candidate who faked his resume. Unfortunately, such...
Russia’s Longest-Serving Finance Minister Backs Crypto “Self-Regulation”
Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin favors “self-regulation” in the cryptocurrency sector. He believes it will be more...
Growing Number of South Korean Crypto Exchanges Participate in Self-Regulation
The number of cryptocurrency exchanges participating in self-regulation has nearly doubled in South Korea. The crypto self-regulation...
Report Finds Correlation Between USDT Issuances and BTC Price Moves
The Tether Report, a pseudonymously authored analysis examining the speculative assertion that bitcoin price volatility is highly...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies Recover Gains After the Coincheck Hack
Bitcoin markets and cryptocurrencies values across the board are seeing healthy rebounds after the past three weeks of price dips. At the...
Lightning and Mainnet: A Look at the Protocol’s Hype, Trials, and Error
Over the past few weeks, there’s been a lot of hyped up discussion about the Lightning Network (LN) from those who believe it will help...
This Week in Bitcoin: Japan Gets Goxxed and Iota Gets Into a Tangle
For the first time in forever, this week in bitcoin was strangely subdued. No major price movements, no regulatory crackdowns and no...
PR: DocCoin Announces Pre-ICO for Blockchain Protocol Telehealth Services
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Bitcoin Futures Report Shows Bullish Sentiment Is In the Air
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets, in general, have been bearish during the first month of 2018 after many digital assets reached...
Why Venezuela’s New National Cryptocurrency El Petro Will Fail
Washington and legacy media are in a tizzy about Venezuela reportedly thwarting international sanctions by way of a dreaded state-backed...
PR: Mycelium Wallet Partners with Changelly Exchange
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Japan’s Largest Consumer Electronics Chain Trials Bitcoin Payments
Japan’s largest consumer electronics retailer Yamada Denki has partnered with the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bitflyer to...
Bitcoin Cash Supporters Prepare for the Network’s Next Six Months
It’s been six months since the inception of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network, and the decentralized currency’s infrastructure continues to...
Lawyers Are Taking Payment in Bitcoin Despite Conflict of Interest Concerns
An increasing number of lawyers are taking payment in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. With many ICO startups destitute until their...
Indians Expect Clarity on Bitcoin Taxes within Days
Under mounting pressure to make decisions and take steps to clarify cryptocurrency matters, the Indian government may soon shed some light...
Thailand Taking Steps to Regulate ICOs
As part of its balanced approach, Thailand is taking further steps to regulate initial coin offerings by expanding current guidelines....
U.S. Agency ICE Conducts Investigations That Exploit Blockchain Activity
On January 25 the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deputy assistant director, Greg Nevano, explained in a testimony that the...
Robinhood Brings Free Transactions To Coinbase’s $1B Party
The big news in crypto isn’t a $400 million loss (yawn), but the hotting battle between exchanges for the biggest slice of the consumer...