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Coinsquare to Launch IPO on TSX — Hopes to Compete With Coinbase
This week the well known Canadian digital asset exchange, Coinsquare announced its plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) hoping...
Fintech Company Mogo Plans to Launch Bitcoin Mine in British Columbia
This week the publicly traded firm Mogo Finance Technology Inc. (TSX: MOGO) announced the creation of a new subsidiary called Mogo...
Chairmen of SEC and CFTC Co-Author Article on Crypto Regulations
Jay Clayton, the chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and J. Christopher Giancarlo, the chairman of the...
Exchange group Nasdaq Inc and Nordic financial services group SEB have teamed up to test a blockchain-based mutual fund trading platform…
...For the Swedish market in an effort to simplify and make the process faster. The platform would enable fund companies, distributors and...
South Korean National Pension Fund Indirectly Invests In Crypto Exchanges
The South Korean National Pension Fund has been indirectly investing billions of won in cryptocurrency exchanges such as Upbit,...
PR: Game Machine – Exciting Time to Be an Investor in Gaming Industry
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Most Cryptocurrencies Are More Centralized Than You Think
The whole point of cryptocurrencies is that they’re decentralized. Peer-to-peer cash; trustless exchange; bypassing intermediaries. So why...
Bitgo Snaps Up Kingdom Trust, Paving the Way for Custodial Cryptocurrency Offerings
Bitcoin payment specialists Bitgo have announced the acquisition of Kingdom Trust, an investment firm with custody of over $12 billion in...
Arsenal Football Club Partners with Gambling ICO
Premier League football club Arsenal FC has announced a partnership with Cashbet, a cryptocurrency marketing itself as being “designed...
Bank of Japan: No Big Problems With Bitcoin So Far
It’s not the sexiest headline in the world, but so far things with bitcoin seem to be going relatively well in Japan, according to a Bank...
Malta Extends Scope of Proposed Virtual Currency Regulations
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has published a ”feedback statement” regarding its proposal for regulatory guidelines...
Coincheck Halts Operations Amidst Hacking Rumors After $723 Million Withdrawn
One of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges has halted all withdrawals amidst rumors of a large-scale hack. Ripple worth $123 million...
Robinhood Smartphone Trading App Adding Bitcoin and Ether
Popular smartphone app Robinhood announced it will begin to allow users to trade bitcoin next month, and without transaction fees. Until...
Russia Finalizes Federal Law on Cryptocurrency Regulation
The Russian government is in the process of finalizing the federal law for the regulation of cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings....
PR: Genie Financial Services ICO Adds Cryptocurrency Heavyweight David Drake and Other Experts to Its Advisory Board
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Bitconnect Faces Lawsuit for Operating “Wide-Reaching Ponzi Scheme”
Bitconnect is facing litigation from six individuals accusing the company of operating a Ponzi scheme in addition to numerous violations...
Bitcoin 2018 Price Projection Using Monte Carlo Random Walks: ~50,000 USD
Using the Monte Carlo statistical projection method, combined with what are known as random walks, Xoel López Barata developed some pretty...
FX Platform Integral Now Covers Bitcoin, BCH and a Dozen More Cryptocurrencies
As more FX traders are demanding access to the hottest market these days, all banks and brokers will have to respond sooner rather than...
Goldman Sachs CEO: ‘Bitcoin Trading Desk Rumors Are Not True’
According to multiple reports back in October and December of last year, it was said that the financial institution Goldman Sachs had...
CFTC Files Against ‘My Big Coin’ for Scamming $6 Million USD
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against “a virtual currency know as My Big Coin (MBC).” The CFTC...
Canadian Financial Service Versabank Launches Digital Asset Vault
The well known Canadian financial institution Versabank has announced it is in the midst of building a new vault initiative for customers...
All Major Korean Cryptocurrency Exchanges Fail Privacy Tests – 30 Days to Improve
The South Korean Communications Commission has conducted a survey of major cryptocurrency exchanges in the country and found them to have...
Bitcoin Cash Games Arrives — Play Your Favorites Faster With BCH
Last September the premier source for everything bitcoin-related, Bitcoin.com, launched our casino gaming platform Bitcoin Games. Since...
Brisbane Airport to Introduce Bitcoin Payments
Air travelers will soon be able to spend some satoshis in stores and cafes at Brisbane Airport. Major retailers will be accepting several...
PR: KuCoin Becomes First Cryptocurrency Exchange to List Coinfi (COFI) Token on Jan 29, 2018
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57 Ukrainian Officials Declared Over 21,000 Bitcoins
A study of Ukrainian officials’ asset declarations reveals that 57 officials have declared over 21,000 bitcoins with the majority of...
Why a $39 Million ICO Chose Stellar Over Ethereum
"We look at ethereum like AOL or Myspace." By Brady Dale That's how Mobius Network co-founder and CEO David Gobaud explains why his...
Vouching Bitfinex and Tether’s Bank Accounts Hold Nearly $3 Billion USD
Zhao Dong, a prominent Chinese early bitcoin adopter and shareholder in Bitfinex, recently posted on Weibo seeking to provide anecdotal...
PR: FLOGmall Ready to Share Revenue with Investors
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Scientist Deciphers Instructions to Claim Bitcoin In a DNA Sample
This week, Sander Wuyts, a Ph.D. student from the University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) completed an...
Oil Company Wants to Sell Bitcoin ATMs to Casinos, Stock Jumps 60%
Despite the warnings of the Israeli regulator that it won’t tolerate bitcoin to get somehow backdoor listed on the Tel Aviv Stock...
TD Ameritrade CEO Says Young Investors Focused on Cryptocurrencies and Pot
This week Tim Hockey the chief executive officer of the large brokerage firm, TD Ameritrade, revealed that his company is seeing a “huge...
3,000 Metric Tons of Wheat Was Recently Traded for Bitcoin
Cryptocurrencies are slowly becoming mainstream when it comes to settlement for all kinds of goods and services. Just recently the first...
HYCM Launches Bitcoin Cash CFD Trading
HYCM, of the Henyep Capital Markets Group, has announced its launch of a contract-for-difference (CFD) for Bitcoin Cash paired against the...
Estimate: Crypto Investments in Russia Reached $200 Million Last Year
Cryptocurrency investments in Russian startups have increased 10 times in 2017 when entrepreneurs set in motion more than 100...
Nasdaq-Issued Bitcoin Futures Contracts May Comprise “Investment” Rather Than “Tracking Stock”
The chief executive officer of Nasdaq, Adena Friedman, has discussed the company’s position with regards to the potential bitcoin futures...
New Weiss Ratings for Cryptocurrencies Award No “A”s and Score Bitcoin a C+
Financial ratings agency Weiss has just released its much-hyped cryptocurrency review. The eagerly-anticipated report rates 74 of the most...
Rapper 50 Cent Has Millions in Bitcoin
Rapper 50 Cent reportedly found out he has millions of dollars worth of bitcoin from long-ago album sales. Nearly 700 bitcoin were paid in...
PR: 3D – Token ICO – Etherical Invests in the Factory 4.0
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The Marketing Ploys of Clones: Another Project Aims to Create a ‘Perfect Bitcoin’
This week another bitcoin-based clone is coming called ‘Bitcoin Atom,’ a project that joins the myriad of other BTC copycats that have...
Vibrate Joins The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)…
...with over 250-member companies. Viberate joined EEA as a representative of the music and live entertainment sector, to look for...
People Are Paying Thousands of Dollars for Crypto Celebrities on the Blockchain
Anything can be placed on the blockchain with a little ingenuity – even Hollywood celebrities. Cryptocelebrities is this week’s...
Analyst: IOTA Sharply Overvalued Due to “Overwhelming Evidence of Serious Flaws”
Analysts have found that IOTA is trading well above any real value it might have. The project is said to have no real product market fit...
South Korean Prime Minister Imposes Crypto Code of Conduct on Government Officials
The South Korean prime minister has ordered a new code of conduct to be prepared and implemented specifically to address the actions of...
Survey: 60% of Americans Have Heard of Bitcoin, 5% Own
Global Blockchain Business Council and Survey Monkey teamed for an appraisal of American attitudes toward the world’s most popular...
Analysts and Bullion Dealers Notice a Relationship Between Gold and Bitcoin
As cryptocurrencies have grown popular over the past year, researchers have noticed an inverse relationship between gold and bitcoin...
PR: GymCoin Announces First Fitness ICO That Allows Digital Currency to Be Accepted at Gyms Worldwide
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South Korea Releases Official Guidelines for Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Banks
The South Korean government has officially released two sets of previously promised guidelines that specify cryptocurrency regulatory...
Stripe is Withdrawing Support for Bitcoin Payments
Payment processor Stripe is halting bitcoin support. Declaring that “there are fewer and fewer use cases for which accepting or paying...
BitConnect collapse reveals that…
...cryptocurrency sites can really only succeed as long as they receive good press to build “confidence” by Ethan Huff A major...
Japan’s GMO Internet Develops 12 NM Mining Chips
Major internet technology manufacturer and recent entrant into virtual currency mining hardware industry, GMO Internet Inc, has announced...
Benebit ICO Does a Runner with $2.7 Million of Investor Funds
Benebit, one of this year’s most hyped ICOs, has pulled an exit scam, making off with a reported $2.7 million of investor funds. Other...
SEC Chairman Signals a Storm Coming for Fly-by-Night Blockchain ICOs
There may a storm brewing for shady companies intent on jumping on the blockchain bandwagon. Startups with no working product seeking to...
Coinbase Is Making $2.7 Million a Day
Running a major cryptocurrency exchange can be a logistical nightmare, but the rewards make it all worthwhile. In information released to...
Church in Zürich Accepts Donations in Bitcoin, BCH, Ether, Ripple and Stellar
While some mainstream media sources will have you believe that bitcoin is only used for buying illicit drugs, contracting hitmen and...
PR: World’s First Ai & Blockchain-Based Dating & Relationship Project Viola.Ai Raises 70% of Pre-Sale Hard Cap with Less Than 2 Weeks Left
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Microsoft, Hyperledger, UN Join Blockchain Identity Initiative
By Sujha Sundararajan - Tech giant Microsoft and blockchain alliance Hyperledger have joined blockchain-based digital identity initiative,...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies Try to Regain Strength After the Recent Dip
A vast majority of cryptocurrencies were suffering from losses yesterday after last weekend’s recent spikes in value. Bitcoin core (BTC)...
Everyone’s Talking About Blockchains But Hardly Anyone’s Using Them
We live in an era in which everything is on the blockchain and there’s a blockchain for everything. From bananas to sex, there’s a token...
Block.one and Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Announce Joint Venture for New $325 million EOS.IO Fund
Block.one, the developer behind the leading blockchain software EOS.IO, and Galaxy Digital LP (“Galaxy Digital”), a full service, digital...
New Research: 10% of Funds Raised in ICOs Lost or Stolen
Close to $400 million USD raised from initial coin offerings have been lost or stolen, a new research has found. The embezzled funds...
Nvidia Tries to Limit GPU Sales to Cryptocurrency Miners
After years of enjoying the increased demand from cryptocurrency mining, GPU manufacturers have begun to signal they might not be too...
South Korean Card Companies Block Transactions to Overseas Cryptocurrency Exchanges
South Korean card companies are reportedly working on blocking payments to overseas cryptocurrency exchanges. Currently, 20 major crypto...
Northern European Bank Nordea Confirms Bitcoin Ban for Employees
As News.Bitcoin.com learned two weeks ago, one of Europe’s largest banks, Nordea, will enact a company-wide policy to effectively ban its...
Bitflyer Launches in Europe – Now Licensed on Three Continents
Japan’s leading cryptocurrency exchange Bitflyer has launched in Europe after obtaining a license to operate in the European Union. The...
PR: Kucoin Exchange Adds BCH Trading Pairs
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Hydro-Quebec Unable to Meet Energy Demand From Cryptocurrency Miners
Hydro-Quebec, the largest state-owned utility in Canada, appears unable to meet the electricity demand from cryptocurrency miners seeking...
Tax Loophole Closing For South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchanges
The South Korean government is working on taxing cryptocurrency transactions. While the media reports that up to 24.2 percent taxes will...
Tezos Swiss Foundation Concept is “Old, Inflexible and Stupid”
The drama from Tezos just keeps coming. A top attorney in the cryptocurrency space, once involved with setting up the Tezos Foundation,...
As Blockchains Grow Bigger, Full Node Counts Increase
Back in 2016, the number of full nodes within the Bitcoin core network was dropping. At the time, Bitcoin enthusiasts thought the amount...
Trend Analysis Reveals the Most Loved and Hated Cryptocurrencies
For investors trying to predict market movements, the more data that can be analyzed the better. Trend analysis and fundamental analysis...
Your Taxes Paid for a Lot of Blockchain Surveillance Last Year
Governments worldwide have been ramping up regulations for cryptocurrencies and hiring research and blockchain surveillance teams. One...
There Are At Least Twice as Many Bitcoin Traders in Brazil as Stock Investors
Bitcoin critics try to attack the cryptocurrency from all angles, but one thing no one can deny is that BTC has now completely captured...
IOTA Attacked for Subpar Wallet Security Following $4m Hack
The IOTA project is again the target of public anger and criticism. This time the issue is a feature of the technology that apparently...
PR: Payment Gateway Graft Blockchain Launches Mainnet Ahead of Schedule
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UK Bitcoiners Might Have Tax Loophole
With success comes attention, and with notice comes the taxman. Bitcoin’s crazy great jump in price over 2017 has taken the world’s most...
South Korean Exchange Korbit Stops Serving International Citizens
Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges implementing new infrastructure systems that comply with...
Russian Bill Requires Deputies to Declare Their Cryptocurrency Investments
The bill for the regulation of cryptocurrencies in Russia submitted by the finance ministry and the central bank requires State Duma...
Samourai Wallet Introduces Bitcoin via SMS Text Message for Censorship Resistance
Bitcoin privacy wallet pioneers Samourai Wallet have announced a new proprietary app called Pony Direct, a transaction payment method (or...
PR: YouTube For Professional Development LiveEdu ICO Reaches $8m in Less Than a Week! 10 Reasons to Participate in the Crowdsale
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Senior Figures Clash as the Tezos ICO War Heats Up
Tezos, last year’s most notorious ICO, is back in the news and once again it’s for all the wrong reasons. The blockchain project, with its...
Korean Crypto Exchanges to Share Data with Banks in New Account System This Month
The South Korean government has announced that six major banks will be ready to provide services to cryptocurrency exchanges this month....
More than Half of Russians Know About Bitcoin Now
More than half of Russians have some knowledge about bitcoin, according to a new survey. Awareness is higher among young people and in...
Consumer Protection Association Slams Bank for Blocking Transfers to Bitcoin Exchanges
From Israel to Australia, commercial banks in various parts of the world have tried preventing people from entering the cryptocurrency...
This Week in Bitcoin: Up, Down and Sideways
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. From the hubris and excess of the North American Bitcoin Conference to the gloominess...
Grayscale Will Launch Stock Split for Bitcoin Trust Shares
This week the sponsor of the Bitcoin Investment Trust, Grayscale Investments has announced the launch of a 91-for-1 stock split of the...
Coinbase to Reopen the GDAX Bitcoin Cash-Euro Order Book
Many European cryptocurrency investors are about to get another venue for investing in bitcoin cash with their regional fiat. The GDAX...
U.S. Rating Agency to Issue Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Grades Wednesday
Additional Wall Street money might start making its way into cryptocurrency investments soon. An American rating agency is set to issue...
PR: Game Machine – Game Investments That Connect to the Cryptoworld
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Blockchain Rolls Out Trading Feature for 22 States in the U.S.
This week the UK-based company Blockchain has announced it has begun to roll out buying and selling features for U.S. residents. Starting...