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Bank of Korea Criticized for Poor Crypto Research, Does Not Recognize Bitcoin as Currency
Regulation A parliamentary audit of the Bank of Korea revealed that it has done “poor” research on digital currencies including bitcoin...
Early Bitcoin Adopter Jeff Garzik Goes The ICO/Altcoin Route
Altcoins On Tuesday Jeff Garzik’s company Bloq announced what the company claims is a groundbreaking advance. The “world’s first...
Publiq Launches Blockchain-Based Content Platform For Genuine, Unbiased News
Swiss non-profit the Publiq Foundation has launched a blockchain-based content platform that aims to fight “fake news” and bias...
FCA Accuses Banks of Anti-Competitive Practices Towards Distributed Ledger Technology Start-Ups
Regulation The UK financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has accused financial institutions of withholding financial...
Ledger Bitcoin Wallet Partners With Tech Giant Intel
Technology The Paris-based cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturing company, Ledger, has announced a recent partnership with the giant...
Apple Co-Founder Wozniak: Bitcoin is Better than Gold
By Josiah Wilmoth Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes that bitcoin is superior to both gold and the “phony” U.S. dollar. As reported...
Saudi Arabia Believes Cryptocurrency Industry Is “Not Mature Enough” to Warrant Regulation
Regulation In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh, senior adviser at Saudi Arabia’s central bank, stated that the...
BitGive Announces Beta Donation Platform, GiveTrack
BitGive, the world’s inaugural Bitcoin 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is releasing the Beta version of their cutting-edge GiveTrack...
Wirex and SBI Holdings Partner Up, Prep to Launch Bitcoin Card in Japan
Services London crypto-payments company Wirex just partnered with Japanese-based SBI Holdings. Their goal is to produce a bitcoin and...
Bitcoin May End Up being a Bigger Idea than Amazon or Apple, Says Ark Investment Management
Bitcoin may be a bigger idea than Amazon or Apple. That’s according to Catherine Wood, CEO and CIO of Ark Investment Management, and...
China’s Baidu Plans to Place a Driverless Bus on the Road by 2018
China will always remain a crucial area when it comes to the future of technology. Baidu, best known for its search engine, is also...
Playkey Decentralizes Gaming on the Cloud
There are a lot of tokens predicated on the decentralization of the video gaming space and esports. None of them, however, answer the...
PR: Meet the New Generation of Online Advertising with Socialmedia.Market
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Bitcoin Gold: What to Know About the Blockchain’s Next Split
Anyone who owns bitcoin will soon be able to receive a new cryptocurrency. As of block 491,407 on the bitcoin blockchain, another...
Goatse Aims to Introduce Meme Creation on the Blockchain
Blockchain technology will be used for many different purposes over the coming years. While there is a strong focus on the financial...
Life After China’s Exchange Ban – an Interview with Hong Kong-based Binance CEO Zhao
Interview Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of Binance and former CTO/Cofounder of Okcoin sat down with news.Bitcoin.com to talk about dealings...
E-Chat Pre-ICO – First Decentralized Messenger with Capabilities of a Multi-currency Crypto-Wallet
On October 16th, a Hong Kong start-up, developing a decentralized multi task e-Chat messenger, announced the start of pre-ICO! At the...
Bitcoin Price Falls to 5-Day Low Following Fork Currency Creation
The price of bitcoin fell to a five-day low today, though the reasons why are perhaps complex to unpack. At press time, the bitcoin-US...
Venezuelans Risk “Energy Theft” Arrest and Police Extortion Mining Bitcoin
Mining Agence-France Presse (AFP) reports Venezuelans hard-hit by hyperinflation are still apt to mine the world’s most popular...
Bitcoin Businesses Refused Accounts as UK Banks Consolidate Power
Fintech The UK boasts about its relative European dominance in the financial technology (fintech) sector, but its own banks are making...
PR: Appian Decentralized Application Creator- the Secret to Making Big Money with Crypto
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NEO Price Climbs to $30 Again Thanks to 15% Gain Over Bitcoin
The cryptocurrency markets are seeing some healthy growth now that the Bitcoin Gold snapshot is well behind us. In fact, Bitcoin is...
Coinbase, Gatecoin and BTC.com Reveal Segwit2x Splitting Plans
News A hard fork to increase the block size is planned for the bitcoin network on or around November 16, 2017, at block height 494784, to...
Financial Tycoons and Celebrities Weigh in on Bitcoin
Finance Financial luminaries and celebrity types are talking about the bitcoin phenomenon quite a bit these days. While some of them are...
Indonesian Bitcoin Payment Processors Shut Due to Regulatory “Grey Area”, Exchanges Unaffected
Emerging Markets Reports indicate that Indonesian bitcoin payment platforms Toko Bitcoin and Bitbayer have ceased operations in response...
DRW and Other Firms Embrace High-Frequency Bitcoin Trading
Featured A large Chicago-based proprietary stock trading firm, DRW, has embraced bitcoin trading over stock trading. DRW has pivoted in...
DHS Issues Public Warning on Hackers Targeting US Public Infrastructure
Whenever a US agency launches a public warning regarding an imminent threat, people need to heed the government’s words. Most...
Why Bitcoin Could One Day Replace ATMs
Tony Gallippi, co-founder and executive chairman at BitPay, a leading bitcoin payments processing platform for merchants, revealed that...
The Flawed Analysis Behind the Proposed Repeal of the Clean Power Plan
The Trump Administration’s proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP) is based on flawed analysis that understates its benefits. This...
What Is Bounty0x?
Quite a few aspects of online life can be decentralized with a bit of effort. One of the newer projects focusing on decentralization is...
PR: Hedge Token Platform Launched Its Flagship Cryptocurrency Index Named ‘Buchman Crypto 30 Index’ for Effective Crypto Trading & Investme…
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Blockchain for Change – Identity as a Point of Access
In the United States, approximately 13 million voting-age citizens do not have proper and updated identity documentation. One study showed...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Price Drops a Touch After Reaching New Highs
Markets and Prices Bitcoin markets experienced a bit of a pullback on October 23 as prices dipped roughly 3 percent after reaching new...
Upside Ahead? Stellar Rally Fizzles But Lumen Could Regain Luster
The price of Stellar's lumen cryptocurrency is fast fading. After rising to $0.05 last week, the value of the native token that runs the...
Russia Promises Regulation Will Not Kill ICOs
Regulation Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov promised not to let initial coin offerings (ICOs) in Russia “die” because of...
PR: E-Chat Pre-ICO: First Decentralized Messenger with Capabilities of a Multi-Currency Crypto-Wallet
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Should We Fix Malleability in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash? If so, how? And when?
Op-Ed Written by Jonald Fyookball. If you’re a Bitcoiner or crypto-enthusiast, you’ve probably heard this “malleability” issue being...
Plus500 Purportedly Subject to Litigation Over Allegations Of “Rigging” CFD Markets
News Online trading platform Plus500 is reported to have become the subject of legal action, owing to accusations that the company has...
Astronaut – A Platform Meant to Transform ICOs Into Simpler Investments
On a dynamic market, filled with initial coin offerings, managing all of your investments can be quite difficult. Astronaut, a...
Bitcoin Service Providers Continue to Reveal Plans for Bitcoin Gold
News This week bitcoin proponents have been talking about the bitcoin gold fork scheduled for October 25. With just a few days away,...
South Korea to Step Up Supervision of Bitcoin Trading After IMF Calls for Reform
Regulation Following a meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), South Korea is pushing for structural reforms which include...
MIT to Issue Diplomas Using Bitcoin Blockchain
Blockchain The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced a pilot program that will issue diplomas to 111 graduates...
How Second-Layer Solutions Enable Private Transactions and Help Ethereum To Scale
Since early 2017, the developers behind most leading public blockchain networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have begun to actively...
The Ten Biggest Power Plants In America — Not What You Think
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona By James Conca, Lately, there have been some cool articles on the largest power...
ConsenSys’ Ethereal SF to Activate Ethereum Community in San Francisco
Every blockchain enthusiast is sure that blockchain technology will come to the forefront of daily life. Decentralized Autonomous...
PR: Aeron Blockchain Flight Safety Startup Announces Agreement to List Aeron ARN Token on HitBTC
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Secure Identity Ledger Corporation Goes Direct to Consumer with Initial Coin Offering
New blockchain platform to put consumers in control of their online identities FALLS CHURCH, Va., Oct. 23,2017, Secure Identity Ledger...
Lucyd – Decentralizing the AR Space with Glasses
It’s not every day that an ICO comes around with thirteen patented technologies for a virtual space that's expected to boom. By...
Win Bitcoin Merchandise From BitcoinShirt.co
After reading a recent Reddit post from the owners of Bitcoinshirt.co, we fell in love with their latest designs and got in touch with...
Wild Case of Religion, Bitcoin, Hacking, Ends in Prison Sentences
Featured Criminal hacking is nothing new, but this case has it all: religion, bitcoin, and ransomware. It’s hard to turn away....
Pareto – the Peer to Peer Financial Content Marketplace
San Francisco, CA – October 22, 2017 – Pareto, the platform that will allow anyone to create & distribute actionable...
Bitcoin Hard Forks Mean Tax Complications, IRS Offers Little Help
Regulation With three hard forks in less than twelve months a real possibility, many bitcoiners are wondering about their implications....
Seven Japanese Bitcoin Exchanges Announce Bitcoin Gold Hard Fork Plans
Markets and Prices Seven of Japan’s leading bitcoin exchanges have announced their policies regarding the planned Bitcoin Gold hard fork...
Bitcoin Cash Community Preps Hard Fork Slated for November 13
Technology Over the past few weeks, the discussion regarding fixing the Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm for the Bitcoin Cash network has...
PR: Quicker, Safer, Cheaper: What Exactly Does Universa Blockchain Present?
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Former Yunbi COO Shares Outlook for Bitcoin Markets After China’s Crackdown
News Lao Mao, the former chief of operations for the Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Yunbi, has posted a statement outlining his outlook...
With Bitcoin’s Price Above $6000 USD, Satoshi Nakamoto Should Be on Forbes’ Rich List
Economics Bitcoin’s recent spike above $6000 USD has elevated the estimated value of Satoshi Nakamoto’s holdings to more than $6 billion...
Algorithmic Trading Platform Quantconnect Extends Reach to Cryptocurrencies
News The GDAX exchange, owned and operated by the firm Coinbase has just announced integration with the popular algorithmic trading...
Survey Respondents Say Bitcoin to Reach $10,000
Markets and Prices What a difference just a few months make. Once viewed as a plaything for cryptoanarchists and cypherpunks now has...
Double Trouble – UTRUST and Soma Partner-Up and Fuse Future-Thinking Payments with Classifieds
Powerful partnerships have been at the core of business success for many top-performing companies, across almost every industry. SOMA and...
Over $1 Million in Bitcoin Swaps and Options Traded on Ledgerx in its First Week
Finance Federally regulated exchange and clearinghouse, Ledgerx, is now live. Within its first week of a soft launch testing period, it...
PR: Well-Connected Travel Experiences on the Blockchain with TripAlly
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TriForce Tokens Garners Support from Coventry University Enterprise, Benefits from Innovate UK’s IP Audit Process
Acclaimed blockchain start-up TriForce Tokens has secured a vital partnership with the UK's Coventry University Enterprises LTD, just days...
Two South Korean Bitcoin Exchanges Announce Hard Fork Plans
Technology Two South Korean bitcoin exchanges, Coinone and Coinnest, have announced their policies regarding the upcoming hard forks of...
Satoshi Revolution- Chapter 2: Currency Creates Freedom and Civilization…Or Oppression (Part 4)
Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 1: The Trusted Third Party ProblemChapter 2: Monetary...
BitBay User Sells 5 Acres of Land Using Smart Contracts
Smart contracts have become incredibly popular over the past year or two. While most people associate these with Ethereum, other platforms...
Microchip Powerhouse TSMC Credits High Performing Quarter to Cryptocurrency Mining
Hardware The world’s largest independent semiconductor foundry, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has attributed its...
Russia’s Capital Discusses Issuing Moscowcoin Cryptocurrency
News As the work on Russia’s national cryptocurrency is underway, the city of Moscow is discussing issuing its own cryptocurrency, the...
PR: Cointal, the First Multi-Cryptocurrency Peer-To-Peer Marketplace, Has Launched
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Overstock.com’s Stock Shares Soar in Relation to Bitcoin
Markets and Prices The e-commerce dark horse, Overstock.com, has experienced stock shares soar as a result of their acceptance of bitcoin...
Y’alls Platform Allows Article Monetization Using Lightning Network Micropayments
Technology Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on the launch of the Lightning Labs desktop application that aims to open the doors for...
PR: 4NEW – Announcing the Largest Waste to Energy Blockchain ICO Known to Man at 350 Million Usd
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Italian Auction House is First to Allow Bidding with Bitcoin
Services Sant’Agostino, an Italian auction house, is the first to let people bid and settle with bitcoin. Auctioneers determined it will...
Chinese Miners Sell Hardware Amidst Regulatory Uncertainties
Mining It has been reported that an increasing number of Chinese bitcoin miners are liquidating their hardware via second-hand trading...
Cyber Crimes Unit to Catch Sexual Predators By Mining Bitcoin
Featured A Benton County Arkansas Cyber crimes police unit said they intend to catch child pornographers and sex criminals by mining...
Intel Plans to Make Driverless Cars Free of Blame From Accidents
There is another major development in the world of driverless cars on the horizon. A recent announcement by Intel will not go over well...
The Price of Bitcoin Touches New Highs Reaching the $6K Mark
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin took a stab at the $6K zone today at approximately 11:20 am EDT reaching yet another record...
Bank of Canada’s Project Jasper Advances Blockchain-Based Securities Settlement
There are so many blockchain projects out there, one is almost at a loss when trying to keep tabs on everything. That in itself is no real...
Notes from the Solar Underground: Highly Competitive Industries and Their Highly Expected Mergers
In 2012, NSP and Del Solar merged, claiming that at 1.5-GWp the new company would be the largest cell manufacturer in the world. In 2015,...
WaterMiner Is a New Monero Mining Malware Strain
Most people are well aware of the proliferation of malicious Monero mining software and plugins. In most cases, such tools are embedded on...
Dash Listed On Quoine Exchanges As Demand For Cryptos Surges In Asia
Image credit: Three Dash concept physical coins by Wit Olszewski via Shutterstock.comDash, the sixth largest cryptocurrency by market...
UK Police Force Investigate the Defunct Mintpal Exchange and Owner
News According to various reports, users of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mintpal have received an email from the UK’s Avon and...
Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions: ”Bitcoin is a big problem”
Featured President Donald Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The committee...
PR: Smartbillions Blockchain Lottery Continues Ticket Sales and ICO Success!
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Leaks Everywhere – How Much Of Your Data is Being Used by Third Parties?
Whether you know it or not, unless you are using a VPN, almost every action you make online is recorded digitally. Facebook, Yahoo, CNN,...
Sweden Latest Government to Auction Bitcoins, Turns Tidy Profit
Featured Asset forfeiture goes digital, as governments around the globe attempt to profit from the world’s most popular cryptocurrency’s...
Bitcoin Surging Means New Storage Fears as Users Take Extreme Measures
Hardware Bitcoin millionaires are now a thing, and so are thousandaires. It’s been a good, good year for users of the world’s most popular...
Coinmall Hopes to Build an Ebay for Digital Goods Powered by Cryptocurrency
Services This week we looked at a new cryptocurrency-based marketplace called, Coinmall.io, a platform that allows users to purchase...
Star Jets International Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments
Featured Star Jets International LLC now accepts bitcoin payments for private jet flights. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary...
Bitcoin Price Analysis – Volatility reigns
Bitcoin has been extremely volatile over the past week, now recovering after violent 4% and 8% pullbacks. The market cap for the top...