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Exchanges Experience Difficulties During Bitcoin Cash Distribution
Blockchain Several major cryptocurrency exchanges experienced a number of difficulties during the highly anticipated bitcoin cash...
These Exchanges Are Now Trading Bitcoin Cash
News An increasing number of trading platforms have started trading Bitcoin Cash (BCH, BCC), the new cryptocurrency resulting from the...
Bitcoin Cash Now Third Highest Valued Cryptocurrency Market Cap
News On August 1st the Bitcoin blockchain forked into two separate networks producing a digital currency called Bitcoin Cash (BCH)....
KEVM Wins IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp 2017 Competition
Image credit: Award victory, by sondem, via Shutterstock.comKEVM, a framework developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
D10e Startup Societies Summit: A Conversation With Organizer Matt McKibbin
Interview This week Bitcoin.com spoke with Matt McKibbin organizer of the D10e conference – an event that specializes in promoting...
Nchain and Bitcoin Unlimited Promote Bitcoin Scaling Initiatives Amid Hard Fork
Technology Prior to the bitcoin cash hard fork, research firm Nchain conducted a workshop with the Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) team. The intent...
Fork Watch: Japanese Exchanges Embracing Bitcoin Cash Post-Fork
News As Bitcoin Cash (BCC, BCH) blocks are being mined, all major Japanese exchanges are gearing up to credit their customers with the new...
BTC-e Closure: Clients Are Mt. Goxed by the U.S. – A New Front in Crypto Wars
Op-Ed For the first time, the U.S. government attacked a foreign exchange on foreign soil. It closed down the Russian-based exchange...
Fork Watch: First Bitcoin Cash Block Mined Included Over 6K Transactions
Mining As Bitcoin.com reported earlier today, Bitcoin Cash miners initiated the beginning of the fork on August 1 at 12:37 p.m. UTC at...
Fork Watch: BCH – The Ghost in the Exchange – Mostly
News Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has so far been like a ghost in the exchange; there was little market activity with the currency this morning....
Internet Censorship: Five Countries That Block The Web
In 2011, the Arab Spring arrived in in Egypt: thousands took to the streets to protest the autocratic rule of Hosni Mubarak. Since most of...
Fork Watch: First Bitcoin Cash Block Mined
Blockchain The first Bitcoin ABC (Bitcoin Cash) block was mined on August 1 at approximately 12:37 p.m. UTC at block height 478558. Also...
Chronicled Completes Pilot For Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chain System
Image by Anton Balazh, via Shutterstock.com.San Francisco-based startup Chronicled has completed a technical pilot aimed at demonstrating...
Bitcoin.com Pool Members Now Have the Option to Mine Bitcoin Cash
Promoted Post This past March Bitcoin.com launched its mining pool which has garnered quite a bit of hashrate since it started. This is...
Hours Away From Bitcoin Fork, Price Above $2,900 as Investors Remain Confident
The scheduled execution of the bitcoin hard fork proposal Bitcoin Cash which is set to begin on August 1, 12:20 UTC, is hours away and yet...
20+ New ICOs Announced Despite SEC Warnings
Regulation Last week, SEC announced that some Initial Coin Offering (ICO) tokens could be considered securities. This means startups...
Coinbase Customers Suffer from Delays as Withdrawal Period Ends
News Over the past few days the bitcoin platform Coinbase has been experiencing some significant withdrawal backlog from customers trying...
14,000 Coinbase Customers Could Be Affected by IRS Tax SUMMONS
by Stan Higgins Digital currency exchange startup Coinbase is pushing back against a renewed court effort by the Internal Revenue...
DOJ’s Asset Forfeiture Decision Illustrates Bitcoin’s Usefulness
Asset forfeiture is a controversial policy that allows local and state police departments to seize money and property from those suspected...
PR: Top Blockchain Companies AlphaPoint, Bloq and RSK Labs Show Support for Exchange Union
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Bitcoin Exchange Sued for 3085 Bitcoins After Reversing Bitcoin-Ether Trades
News A major bitcoin exchange with a strong presence in Japan, Quoine, is being sued for reversing bitcoin-ether trades after it allegedly...
PR: Former PayPal Exec and Leading Online Reputation Expert Join Monetha As ICO Date Approaches
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Public Company to Convert Bitcoin to Stock in First-of-Its-Kind Fundraise
by Michael del Castillo As initial coin offerings (ICOs) start to come under regulatory scrutiny in the U.S., one Australian venture...
BTC-e on Refunds, the FBI and Alexander Vinnik
News On July 31 the bitcoin exchange BTC-e sent a message over Twitter and on the forum Bitcointalk concerning the company’s recent...
PR: LAToken Implements Blockchain to Sell Fractions of Any Assets — From Real Estate to Art Objects
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Alphabet Wants to Fix Renewable Energy’s Storage Problem — With Salt
Alphabet Inc.'s secretive X skunk works has another idea that could save the world. This one, code named Malta, involves vats of salt and...
Blockchain Education Network to Conduct Multi-City ‘Bitcoin Airdrop’
Blockchain The Blockchain Education Network will be conducting a global ‘Bitcoin Airdrop’ in partnership with Bitjob. It has been...
Developers are Utilising Ethereum For Video Games
Immutability deriving from Bitcoin’s proof of work consensus protocol and its mining ecosystem has proven to be beneficial for a variety...
The Bitcoin Trust Reveals Post-Fork Contingency Plan
Finance Grayscale Investments, the sponsor of the Bitcoin Investment Trust has revealed its upcoming plans for the fund if a hard fork...
Chinese Demand for Gold Bars Climbs by 50 Percent on Hunt for Havens
Tweet 0 inShare Demand for gold bars in China, the world’s biggest bullion market, soared by more than half in the first six months of the...
Vanished Cryptsy CEO ‘Big Vern’ Ordered to Pay $8M in Class Action Lawsuit
News This week Judge Kenneth Marra came to a conclusion in the District of Florida class action lawsuit against Paul Vernon and his...
PR: Social Media Is Buzzing About This Summer’s Hottest ICO – Karbon
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Hard Forking For Dummies: 2 Simple Rules to Access Your Bitcoin Cash
News There are two cardinal rules bitcoin holders should follow to prepare for the bitcoin hard fork. These rules will help users protect...
Fork Watch: Indian Bitcoin Exchanges Will Not Support ‘Bitcoin Cash’
News India’s top bitcoin exchanges have announced that they are either not supporting or have not planned to support “Bitcoin Cash,” the...
Bitcoin Whales and How They Make Market Waves
Op-Ed Sometimes when there’s a huge drop in bitcoin’s price traders called “bitcoin whales” are blamed for dumping on the market. Bitcoin...
Fork Watch: Korean Bitcoin Exchanges Divided on ‘Bitcoin Cash’
News Bitcoin exchanges in South Korea have been preparing for the planned user-activated hard fork (UAHF) on August 1. Some have announced...
Poloniex Quits Washington State as New Exchange Rules Become Active
News Back in April, Washington politicians finished piecing together and finalizing the regulations for bitcoin exchanges. Those...
Genesis Mining Hacked – Coinjournal
Earlier this week, the Genesis Mining development team announced that an unauthorized intrusion by an undisclosed attacker was discovered...
Overstock’s TØ Has Already Built a Platform for Trading Regulated ICOs
by Michael del Castillo US retail giant Overstock.com has been waiting for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to tell the...
BTC-e Domain Seizure by U.S. Law Enforcement Sparks Jurisdiction Questions
News On July 28, 2017, the bitcoin-exchange BTC-e domain was seized by six U.S. law enforcement agencies including the Secret Service....
Fork Watch: Take Extra Precaution When Trying to Access Post-Fork Tokens
Security Bitcoin holders should be aware that during and after a fork people can make mistakes when differentiating between the two...
Fork Watch: ‘Bitcoin Cash’ Support Grows as August 1 Draws Near
News The user-activated hard fork (UAHF) on the Bitcoin network is looming around the corner. ‘Bitcoin Cash’ (BCC; BCH) is slated to break...
Secretive Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Metastable Examined
News Fortune has published an examination of a secretive cryptocurrency hedge fund that is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture...
Bitcoin’s ‘Market Dominance’ Climbs Above 50% For First Time Since May
Bitcoin's market capitalization relative to the rest of the cryptocurrency market has risen above 50% for the first time in two months,...
EU Commission Opens 500K€ Call for Blockchain, DLT Expertise Hub
Image credit: European Union Flags by Thijs ter Haar via FlickrThe European Commission (EC) has opened a 500,000€ call for proposals to...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Price Jumps Higher as Protocol Changes Approach
Markets and Prices Bitcoin markets are having another eventful run since our price report last week. At the time bulls had pushed the...
Fork Watch: JP Powerhouse Coincheck Now Unlikely to Suspend Bitcoin Payments
News Currently, over 5,000 Japanese stores and restaurants use Coincheck Payment service to accept bitcoin payments. The bitcoin exchange...
PR: ICO for Authorship Tokens Will Be Open for Investors from 15th August
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Do Not Help U.S. Cops Seize Your Assets
Op-Ed A new Department of Justice (DOJ) directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes it more important than ever to own...
PR: Bluemining.net Cloud Mining Allows Anyone To Mine Ethereum
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Survey: 28% of Russians Have Heard of Bitcoin
News As the Russian government works on the regulatory framework for digital currencies, a nationwide survey is published showing that...
The Evolution of Cryptocurrency Visuals, Memes, and Bitcoin Street Art
Emerging Markets The decentralized currency Bitcoin has grown incredibly popular over of the past year. In parallel with this increased...
Bitcoin’s Relationship With the ‘Mark of the Beast’ Theories
Op-Ed Over the past eight years bitcoin has been involved in a few conspiracy theories, and even though they are highly improbable, they...
Bitpay Will Not Suspend Services — ‘Very Little Risk of Network Disruption on August 1st’
News On July 27 the world’s largest bitcoin payment processor, Bitpay, announced its plans for August 1st. According to the company, there...
XBT Provider Fined by Nasdaq
News The issuer of bitcoin exchange traded notes was found to be in several violations of Nasdaq’s listing rules and subsequently fined,...
Bank of America: Bitcoin Trading Volume Surpassed That of Gold ETF
In recent months, major financial institutions have warmed to Bitcoin, increasing coverage and providing increasingly positive...
North Korea Commences Large Scale Bitcoin Mining Operation
Mining Information recently surfaced that someone in North Korea has started mining bitcoin. According to Recorded Future, a threat...
‘First’ Ethereum Decompiler Launches With JP Morgan Quorum Integration
The ethereum virtual machine (EVM) now has what appears to be its first ever decompiler designed to revert smart contracts into source...
Fork Watch: These Bitcoin Exchanges Will Not Support ‘Bitcoin Cash’
News As the possibility of an August 1 user-activated hard fork (UAHF) approaches, a few well-known bitcoin exchanges have issued...
The End of the ICO Wild West? Blockchain Advocates Weigh In On SEC Report
News This week’s the U.S. regulatory agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announced in a report the organization...
$110 Million: BTC-e Fined as US Vows Crackdown on Bitcoin Exchanges
by Stan Higgins The US government has unsealed an indictment against BTC-e and one of its alleged operators, levying a $110 million...
Understanding the Risk of SEC Enforcement
by Jason Somensatto ADVERTISEMENT Jason Somensatto is counsel at Morvillo LLP where he focuses his practice on internal...
Washington’s New Cryptocurrency Exchange Rules Are Now in Effect
by Stan Higgins ADVERTISEMENT New regulations for cryptocurrency exchanges have gone into effect in the U.S. state of Washington....
Why We Need to Clean Up Mining if We Want a Renewable Energy Economy
A massive open-pit copper mine might not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about solar power. But the construction of...
Indian Multi-Industry Survey Shows 97% Awareness of Bitcoin
News A survey released on Wednesday by a leading Indian trade and industry body found that 97% of respondents across multiple industries...
The Rate of Blockchain Patent Applications Has Nearly Doubled in 2017
The number of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related patent applications being submitted and published in the US has nearly doubled in...
Australia to Welcome World’s First XEM Dedicated Exchange Platform
Image: Australia, Map, via PixabayBlockchain Global, an Australian blockchain company, has announced today that it will be powering the...
BTC-e Operator Indicted and Connected With Missing Mt Gox Funds
News According to a report revealed by the U.S. Department of Justice, formal charges against Alexander Vinnik are waiting for him on...
BitClave Targets US$550B Ads Market With New Blockchain-Powered Search Engine
Silicon Valley-based startup BitClave is going after the US$550 billion ads markets with a new blockchain-enabled search engine that...
Philippines Government yet to Approve Cryptocurrency Exchange Applicants
Emerging Markets Philippine business press, Businessmirror, has reported that the government has been yet to approve a single virtual...
Brazilian Man Uses Bitcoin to Evade Judge’s Extortion
Regulation The story of how a Brazilian man was able to use bitcoin to evade a corrupt judge’s extortionate demands has been published by...
Greek Authorities Arrest Suspected BTC-e Mastermind
News Suspected BTC-e mastermind, Alexander Vinnik, was arrested on Wednesday whilst vacationing with his partner in Northern Greece. The...
Bankers Outgrow Legacy Finance and Join the Cryptocurrency Space
Finance As global regulatory watchdogs eye cryptocurrency with increasing suspicion, bankers continue retreating from legacy finance. They...
Richard Branson’s Private Blockchain Summit Begins on Necker Island
Conferences This week Sir Richard Branson and the Bitfury Group are hosting another ‘exclusive’ bitcoin and blockchain retreat on...
Litecoin ATMs Proliferate Globally
Altcoins The number of litecoin ATMs more than doubled during June, making Litecoin the clear market leader in altcoin-supporting...
Abra Bitcoin Wallet App Integrates American Express
News The bitcoin wallet with its own network of human tellers around the world, Abra, has just integrated a new way of buying...
Early Stage Investor Talks Bitcoin’s Scalability & Long-Term Vision
It’s taken the Bitcoin industry years to reach an agreement on how to best scale Bitcoin and begin the process of activating Segregated...
PR: Bitconnect Coin Price Reaches All-Time High, Briefly Surpasses Growth Rate of Ethereum
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Rooftop Concentrating Photovoltaics Win Big Over Silicon In Outdoor Testing
A concentrating photovoltaic system with embedded microtracking can produce over 50 percent more energy per day than standard silicon...
Goldman Sachs: Bitcoin May Reach New High Over $3,600
Reversing a bearish outlook for the price of bitcoin, Goldman Sachs chief technician Sheba Jafari told clients in a new report this week...
One of the Largest Bitcoin Mixing Services Closes its Doors
News On July 24 the operator of the website and bitcoin mixing service Bitmixer.io announced the operation is now ending its mixing...
Rothschild Investment Corporation Becomes Bitcoin Stakeholder
Finance A major mainstream investment company, Rothschild Investment Corporation, has embraced cryptocurrency by investing in bitcoin. The...
Bitpay Wallet Adds Coinbase Integration for In-App Bitcoin Purchasing
Wallets The bitcoin-based startup Bitpay has announced the company’s Bitpay wallet will now feature in-app exchange services so users can...
The Third Annual World Blockchain Forum Heads to London
Promoted Post On September 25 & 26, 2017 the world’s leading blockchain conference organizer Moe Levin from Keynote Events has announced...
American Express Brings Credit Card Buying to Bitcoin App Abra
Beginning today, a select group of Abra users and new customers will see the option to buy bitcoin with their American Express card. The...
PR: Centra Tech Announces ICO, Centra Card, & Insured Wallet
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What Every Bitcoiner Should Know About ‘Bitcoin Cash’
News In a few days the notorious August 1st is approaching, and it’s likely this day will be remembered for a long time. This week...
Effects of Bigger Bitcoin Blocks on Mining Centralization Debated at State of Digital Money Event
During a panel discussion on Bitcoin scaling at the recent State of Digital Money event in Los Angeles, the idea that a larger block size...
UK to Invest $320M in Energy Storage R&D
In a move aimed at powering its transition to a low-carbon economy with energy storage, the UK is set to fund battery technology research...
New Hampshire’s Bill to Deregulate Bitcoin Effective Next Week
News New Hampshire House Bill 436 is slated to take effect next week on August 1st. The bill exempts bitcoin from regulatory action and...