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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...
New Bitcoin Embassy Opens in the United States
A mooted Bitcoin Embassy is the first of its kind, since an early attempt in New York City, for a bitcoin gathering place. It was American...
PR: LiveTree – the Beginning of the End of the Centralized Entertainment Industry
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Korea Investigates 20 Public Companies for Using Crypto Claims to Boost Share Prices
The South Korean financial authorities are investigating 20 publicly listed companies for unfairly using cryptocurrency claims to boost...
Bitcoin.org Owner Asks the Community to Change Bitcoin’s Central PoW Algorithm
This week the owner of the web portal Bitcoin.org and Bitcointalk, a pseudonym called Cobra wrote an open letter to the bitcoin community...
Bank of America Acknowledges the Threat Posed by Cryptocurrency
For all the inroads that bitcoin has made on the current financial system, it has yet to threaten their ascendancy. The CEOs of Paypal,...
Trading Tip `The Wall´ – Meet the TA Gods
Whether TA works or not is a topic discussed ad nauseam in cryptocurrency circles. As a cryptocurrency trader with a fascination for...
Japanese Police Reveal 669 Money Laundering Cases Tied to Local Exchanges
Just recently Japanese investigators revealed they had obtained 669 reports concerning “suspected money laundering” tied to cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Launches SegWit Compatability
Coinbase have announced that the site will now be implementing SegWit on Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals. The transition is being...
Wendy McElroy: Privacy Is the Virtue That Sparked the American Revolution
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 2: The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 6: Privacy is a...
What to Expect When You Order a Hardware Wallet
Over the past few months, well known hardware wallet manufacturers have been swamped with sales during and after the holiday season....
Gifting Bitcoin Is One Way a Person Can Avoid Paying Crypto-Taxes
After the newly written U.S. tax laws recently passed, cryptocurrency investors realized the tax-free exemption filing 1031 for IRS...
PR: Why the Bitcoin Holders Should Hurry up to Invest in e-Chat Before March 1, 2018
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Bitcoin Is Finding Its Way into High Schools
Over the past few years, colleges and universities all over the world have been creating courses revolving around cryptocurrencies and...
Vladivostok Discussed as Russia’s New ”Crypto Hub”
Bankers and government officials have discussed the possible creation of a crypto valley on Russia’s Pacific coast. Representatives of the...
French Manufacturer Archos Launches Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
Cryptocurrency users are blessed with an increasing choice of hardware wallets. Ledger and Trezor, the two dominant players in the space,...
Austria Wants to Regulate Bitcoin like Gold and Derivatives
Austria Finance Minister Hartwig Löger is urging both his country and the broader European Union to treat cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin...
Bitcoin Hardware Manufacturer Bitmain Made a Profit of up to $4 Billion Last Year
The wealth of bitcoin mining titan Bitmain has long been assumed to be north of “huge”. Thanks to its near-monopolization of the ASIC...
Finance Ministry Employees Caught Mining Cryptos in Kazakhstan
The Ministry of Finance in Kazakhstan has announced measures to improve security and oversight in its IT department after catching four...
Montana Scores $250 Million Bitcoin Mining Campus
The Big Sky Country state of Montana keeps raking them in. For the second time this month, a mining operation is announcing its moving to...
Report Claims 34,000 Ethereum Smart Contracts Are Vulnerable to Bugs
Over 34,000 ethereum smart contracts containing $4.4 million in ETH may be vulnerable to exploitation. That’s the conclusion reached by a...
Bitcoin Fees Drop $26 down to $3: Why It Happened And What It Means
The average cost of sending a bitcoin transaction is cheaper than it's been in a year and a half, showing the price isn't the...
Turkish Minister Proposes National Cryptocurrency
The deputy chair of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu, has written a 22-page report seeking to highlight...
Sneak Peek: Mexico’s Regulations for Crypto Exchanges Expected in ‘Weeks’
Mexico’s bill to regulate fintech institutions including cryptocurrency exchanges is expected to become law within “weeks,” according to...
Oregon’s Cheap Hydropower Attracts a Swarm of Bitcoin Miners
Over the past few months, quite a few bitcoin miners have been flocking to regions in North America in places such as Vancouver, and...
Maduro Asks Venezuela’s Banks to Mine and Use Cryptocurrency – Unions Outraged
Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has authorized all savings banks in the country to mine and use the recently launched national...
PR: US Fintech Expert From Prudential Financial Launches Cryptocurrency – Backed Lending Startup Money Token
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An Ethereum Classic Fork Snapshot Is Coming Next Week
Next week the ethereum classic (ETC) community is expecting to receive coins from a ‘snapshot’ fork called ‘callisto’ (CLO). The clone...
46% of Last Year’s ICOs Have Failed Already
It has always been assumed that a large number of ICOs will fail, be it at the fundraising stage or when it comes to delivering the actual...
Crypto-Backed SALT Claims $1.3 Billion Backlog, Suspends New Memberships
Secured Automated Lending Technology (SALT) has an enviable problem if its recent Medium post is to be believed. The membership-based...
France Cracks Down on Bitcoin Derivatives
Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the independent regulatory body governing France’s stock market, issued two statements today, one...
Centralized Cryptoruble Not Possible, Minister Tells Putin
The Russian Ministry of Finance is not against a national cryptocurrency, provided the state does not participate in it. The creation of a...
California Bill Aims to Recognize Blockchain Records
The state of California has introduced a new bill that aims to recognize blockchain transactions, digital signatures, and smart contracts...
Four Arrested Following Taiwanese Crypto Robbery
Taiwanese police have arrested four men after a bitcoin robbery worth five million Taiwanese dollars (approximately $170,000 USD). The...
Russia to “Tame and Test” Crypto Technologies in Crimea
A proposal to “tame” crypto technologies in Crimea has been made in Russia’s parliament this week. A local representative of the Russian...
Venezuela Orders Government Services to Accept Any Cryptocurrency
Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has ordered the country’s consular services, as well as several other services and gas stations, to...
Australia’s Consumer Watchdog Received 1289 Crypto Complaints in 2017
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has revealed that it received more than 1,200 complaints relating to...
Spokesperson Confirms Bitfinex Is Client of ING
Major Dutch financial services company, ING, has confirmed that Bitfinex holds an account with the company in the Netherlands. The bank...
Markets Update: BTC Prices Dip Below $10K
BTC prices and a vast majority of other cryptocurrencies have taken a significant dive over the past 24-hours as the entire crypto-economy...
FBI Arrests Exchange Operator for Lying About 6000 Bitcoin Hack
Jon E. Montroll, a 37 year old from Texas, is now facing up to 30 years in jail for perjury and obstruction of justice. The operator of...
The ICO Is Dead. Long Live the ICO 2.0
By Howard Marks The entire cryptocurrency industry is full of debates about regulation and which victims the SEC will go after next....
France Cracks Down on Unregulated Cryptocurrency Futures Trading
France’s chief financial markets watchdog said Thursday that it will crack down on unregulated cryptocurrency futures and derivatives...
Robinhood Starts Rolling Out Cryptocurrency Trading Today
Robinhood has finally launched today its highly anticipated crypto trading for bitcoin and ethereum, allowing its now 4 million investors...
Russian Lawmaker Proposes Legalization of Cryptocurrencies to Attract Investments
The head of the Russian State Duma Committee for Economic Policy has proposed legalizing cryptocurrencies in order to attract foreign...
Bug at Japanese Government-Approved Zaif Exchange Let Users Get Free Bitcoin
Have you ever dreamed about buying bitcoin for only $1,000, $100 or even just $10? What about a round at $0? Some fast and sharp eyed...
Islamic Republic of Iran to “Control and Prevent” Growth of Cryptocurrencies
جمهوری اسلامی ایران The Islamic Republic of Iran has apparently changed course on cryptocurrency, or perhaps it has clarified its real...