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Why the Rise of the CBDC Is Bad for Your Privacy
Like, hate, or fear them, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are on their way. There will be no stopping them. From Sweden to...
Grayscale’s Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash Trusts Trade for Tremendous Premiums
This week data from Arcane Research shows there’s been massive demand for Grayscale’s recently launched publicly traded crypto...
Nigeria’s Foreign Currency Crisis Boon for Bitcoin: Country Tops Wallet Downloads Ahead of the US
Nigeria’s weakening naira currency, as well as the shortage of U.S. dollars, are forcing businesses to switch to bitcoin as the...
Rich Dad, Poor Dad Author Says ‘Major Banking Crisis Coming,’ Praises Bitcoin and Gold
Robert Kiyosaki, the author of the best-selling book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” explained this week that time is running out as a...
OMG price shoots up nearly 100% after USDT integration
OMG’s chart is almost vertical after skyrocketing nearly 100% following its integration with leading stablecoin Tether Traders are likely...
John McAfee Ditches Ghost Crypto Project: He Says It Will Fail
Two-time U.S. presidential candidate John McAfee has announced that he is leaving the ghost cryptocurrency project, claiming that it will...
Qtum hits new year-to-date high as price surges by 30%
QTUM/USD reached a new local high of $5.40 before retracing to around $4.55 Qtum is up nearly 30% in the past 24 hours, with a major rally...
OCC Chief Says Americans Gravitating Toward Digital Currencies: Urges Banks to Embrace Innovation
Brian Brooks, the acting comptroller of currency at the U.S. Office of Comptroller of Currency (OCC), says America must adopt digital...
Hollywood Royalty Flexes Crypto-Art Goals: Ashton Kutcher Auctions NFT Digital Art for ETH
Actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher’s first attempt at digital art, an awful piece titled “The Eye of the...
Onecoin Allegedly Tied to Racehorse Firm, Phoenix Thoroughbreds Removed from France Galop Race
Last week the firm Phoenix Thoroughbreds was reportedly banned from horse racing in France over the founder’s alleged involvement...
Russia and China De-dollarization Approaching ‘Breakthrough Moment’
China and Russia are collaborating to reduce their dependence on the U.S. dollar. Trade settlements in USD between the two countries have...
12 Crypto Firms Authorized to Operate License-Free in Hawaii for Two Years
The U.S. state of Hawaii has authorized 12 cryptocurrency companies to start operating in the state without needing a money transmission...
Yearn Finance Token Jumps 270% in 5 Days – Defi Token YFI Worth More Than a Single Bitcoin
Decentralized finance (defi) continues to make waves this week, as the Yearn Finance project token (YFI) jumped over 270% during the last...
Bitcoin likely to see further pullbacks to $11K
BTC/USD saw candle wipe off $900 after its recent gains to $12,485: analysts say it may drop to $11K first before climbing to new highs...
US Says North Korea Has 6,000 Hackers: Many in Belarus, China, India, Malaysia, Russia
North Korea allegedly has about 6,000 hackers, many of whom operate abroad, according to a recent report published by the U.S. Army. The...
DeFi token YFI hits $13,000 to surpass Bitcoin
DeFi token YFI launched this July and has risen more than 3,000% to hit $13,370, a price level that put it above Bitcoin’s $11,700...
Japanese Court Orders Seizure of Cryptocurrency Linked to Coincheck Hack of 2018
A court in Tokyo, Japan has ordered the seizure of crypto assets that have been traced back to the Coincheck hack of January 2018, The...
China’s Bitcoin Mining Industry Impacted the Most This Year, Says Report
The researchers and analysts from Tokeninsight published it’s “2020 Q2 Cryptocurrency Mining Industry Report” which...
Hash Watch: Bitcoin Cash Miners Begin Signaling Node Implementations
There’s 88 days left until the Bitcoin Cash upgrade scheduled for November 15, 2020, and the community has been watching miners...
Massive $2,000,000 Prize Pool in the Biggest Ever Promotion Launched on Bitcoin Games
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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Was Paid $35k to Discuss Bitcoin
The notorious NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, was paid to discuss bitcoin and other digital assets at virtual conferences, according to...
South African Regulator Pressures Bitcoin Investment Company, Urges Clients to Request Refunds
An embattled bitcoin investment company, Mirror Trading International (MTI)’s troubles took another twist August 18 after the South...
Analyst: Chainlink Is Another Altcoin Bubble as Price Crashes 20% in 48 Hours
Chainlink is a bubble that is waiting to burst, and the token will eventually lose 99% of its value, according to crypto investor and...
Bitmain Retains Only a ‘Minuscule Lead’ Over Competitor Microbt Amid Ongoing Power Tussle, Says Report
Bitcoin mining hardware maker Bitmain still has a “minuscule lead” over competitor Microbt despite the former’s ongoing...
Big Brother Nigeria Housemates Participate in Bitcoin Quiz, Get $500 BTC as Reward
Eighteen housemates of Nigeria’s version of Big Brother took part in a bitcoin quiz with each participant getting $500 worth of BTC...
Report: Bitcoin Untied from the Economic Cycle, ‘Largely Uncorrelated to Other Asset Classes’
On Tuesday, Coinshares Investment strategist James Butterfill published a report which shows that bitcoin is a unique asset, but is...
Warren Buffett Changes Mind on Gold: He Will Panic-Buy Bitcoin at $50K, Says Max Keiser
Warren Buffett has changed his mind about gold as an investment, prompting some people to think that he might do the same with bitcoin....
Excessive Flooding in Sichuan Causes 20% Hashrate Losses for Chinese Bitcoin Miners
Torrential downpours of nonstop rain have been wreaking havoc in China’s Sichuan province, which has caused some operations to shut...
Capital One Files Patent for Cryptocurrency Market AI Prediction System
Major U.S. financial services company Capital One has filed a new patent application for a cryptocurrency analysis and trading system that...
Ripple’s XRP climbs 5.4% to reach major price area
XRP/USD jumps 5.4% in 24 hours to post the best returns among the top 10 coins, even as traders eye a revisit to $0.35 XRP has seen...
Bitcoin eyeing $13k as total market cap hits $380 billion
Bitcoin’s price spiked past the $12,480 level as a resurgent crypto market clocked over $380 billion in total market capitalisation...
Sichuan Officials Continue to Foster the Relationship Between Bitcoin Mining and Hydropower
The province of Sichuan is well known for being one of the largest concentrations of bitcoin miners on earth because electrical costs are...
72% of Investors Will Hold Bitcoin Even if Price Falls to $0
A new poll finds that 72% of bitcoin investors are bullish about the cryptocurrency and will hold onto it even if the price somehow falls...
Amid US Postal Service ‘Crisis’ USPS Files Patent for Blockchain Mail-in Voting Scheme
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is falling apart at the seams and many Americans are blaming the Trump administration. The USPS...
Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trusts from Grayscale Investments Begin Trading
Grayscale Investments’ Litecoin Trust (LTCN) and Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCHG) have received DTC eligibility on Monday, which means the...
Ethereum Classic 51% Attack: Okex Crypto Exchange Suffers $5.6 Million Loss, Contemplates Delisting ETC
Cryptocurrency exchange Okex reveals it suffered the $5.6 million loss as a result of the double-spend carried out by the attacker(s) in...
$RMPL Launches, Revolutionizing the Cryptocurrency Market with a Decentralized Elastic Supply Model
Announcing the official launch of $RMPL, an ERC20 cryptocurrency with an elastic supply model, redesigned to solve unfair market...
South African Firms Ordered to Cease and Desist in 2 US States for Crypto Debit Card Fraud
Two U.S. states have issued emergency cease and desist orders to South African firms and a South African national promoting a...
China Testing Digital Currency in Major Cities, Including Beijing and Hong Kong
China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced the pilot run of the country’s central bank-backed digital currency in major...
ClinTex’s Ongoing CTi Presale Gives Unparalleled Access to the $350bn Medical Trials Market
Bitcoin Press Release: ClinTex announce details of their CTi Token Presale, which will give participants access to the $350bn/year...
Litecoin surges 4.5% to outpace top 10 coins
Litecoin is trading at around $64.56, up nearly 4.5% in the past 24 hours, as Bitcoin and Ethereum struggled to climb Litecoin is the best...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Hits Record High 130 EH/s, as BTC Price Faces Resistance at $12,000
Bitcoin’s seven-day average hashrate has reached a new all-time high of 130 exahash per second (EH/s) – a feat that might...
Bitcoin’s hashrate hits new high as market dominance falls
Bitcoin’s hashrate has spiked to 129 EH/s, the highest level it has ever been, whereas market dominance for the king of crypto has...
Flipstarter Campaign Aims to Raise Funds for Viral Bitcoin Cash Marketing
Bitcoin Cash supporters are a passionate bunch and the CEO of Bitcoinbch.com, Hayden Otto is an extremely impassioned BCH supporter. Otto...
Lockdown Life & Darknets: BTC Still the DNM King, Cashaa’s Stolen Coins Sent to Hydra, Cannabis Sales Surge
During the last six months, the Covid-19 outbreak has caused a lot of disarray in the world and one thing is for sure, the use of darknet...
Former Prudential Financial CEO George Ball Says Now Time to Buy Bitcoin
Former Prudential Financial CEO George Ball is advising wealthy investors to acquire bitcoin because it is the only asset that cannot be...
Onchain Data Shows $449M Worth of Bitcoin on ETH Eclipses Offchain Competitors
Onchain analytics show the number of bitcoin (BTC) held on the Ethereum blockchain has been multiplying at an extremely fast rate since...
$6 Billion Akon City Underway: Akon Says Cryptocurrency Will Empower Africans
The construction of Akon City, the $6 billion futuristic city that will function solely on the akoin cryptocurrency, is underway. Akon...
3 People Arrested in Hong Kong for Cheating Bitcoin ATMs
The authorities in Hong Kong have arrested three people in connection with robberies from six bitcoin ATMs after two cryptocurrency...
$217 Million Pour Into Grayscale’s Crypto Funds Following Bitcoin TV Ad Campaign
Grayscale Investments announced that it has raked in record investments of $217 million the week its TV commercial campaign launched. The...
4 of South Korea’s Largest Banks to Provide Cryptocurrency Services
Four of the top five South Korean banks have reportedly announced their plans to provide cryptocurrency services. The announcements came...
US Regulator Charges Tech Firm, CEO in $5 Million ICO Fraud Case
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) jointly charged Virginia-based Boontech and CEO, Rajesh Pavithran for fraud and...
Dex Platforms Trade Over $2.4 Billion in 7 Days, Defi Swaps up 68% Since Last Week
Years ago the cryptocurrency community did not have access to a plethora of decentralized exchanges (dex). In 2020 with the rise of...
Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Holdings Reports $38.5 Million Income for Q2: “We’ve Crossed the Rubicon’
Galaxy Digital Holdings reported on Friday, August 14 that its comprehensive income for Q2 grew to $38.5 million. The figure reflects both...
Law Firm Sees Crypto Investors Flocking to St. Kitts & Nevis for Dual Citizenship
This week news.Bitcoin.com spoke with Jennifer Harding Marlin from the St. Kitts & Nevis islands law firm JH Marlin. The business...
Bitcoin and Tesla: America’s Most Loved Assets on Tradingview
Tradingview said Friday that bitcoin and Tesla, the electric car maker and clean energy firm, are America’s most viewed assets on...
LIFETIONCOIN Provides Payment Solutions and Worldwide Prosperity
What Is Cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrencies use cryptographic protocols that encrypt sensitive data transfers, to secure their units of...
Andreas Antonopoulos: Hex Team Offered Me 10 BTC to Speak Well of Their Token
Andreas Antonopoulos says he was offered 10 BTC for an interview with the objective to show that Hex is not a scam. The alleged offer...
Miner Hut 8 Reports Q2 Revenue Plunged 67% to $6.9 Million Due to Bitcoin Halving
Canadian miner Hut 8 Mining Corp has reported that second quarter revenue tumbled 67% to $6.9 million from $21.2 million a year ago, as...
US Federal Reserve Reveals Building a Digital Dollar Codebase With MIT
The U.S. central bank has been working on creating a digital dollar, according to a recently published transcript from Federal Reserve...
Nasdaq-Listed Firm Marathon Buys 10,500 Next-Gen Bitcoin Miners for $23M
One of the earliest Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency mining companies, Marathon Patent Group, announced a new agreement contract with the ASIC...
Market Update: BTC Inches Toward $12K, ETH Jumps 12%, Report Says LINK May See ‘Rough Waters’
Digital currency markets have increased significantly in value during the last 24 hours as the market capitalization of all 5,700+ coins...
Chinese Bitcoin Miners Develop Strong Relationships and Crypto Mining Facilities in Iran
During the last few months, crypto proponents have focused their attention on Iran. The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani initiated a new...
Ripple, Cardano and Algorand price analysis: August 14
XRP is up 6.72%, Cardano has gained 3.5% while ALGO/USD has spiked more than 40% in the past 24 hours XRP, as well as Cardano and Algorand...
Market Report: Merculet Token Price Doubles in 7 Hours, Algo up More Than 500% Since March
The merculet token gained 160% from $0.00068 to $0.0011 in just 7 hours of trading on August 14. The price jump makes the token biggest...
Ethereum rally takes price to 2020 high at $431
ETH/USD has hit a new local high at $431 and could extend to higher highs with another leg up over the next few sessions After days...
Coinbase to Offer Bitcoin-Based Cash Loans of up to $20,000 Across 17 US States
U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase will start offering bitcoin-backed cash loans to select customers as early as next month. Investors can...
Markets.Bitcoin.Com Holds Fort as Coinmarketcap Temporarily Goes Offline
Coinmarketcap (CMC) temporarily went offline Thursday, August 13 and normal service only resumed some hours later, but not before...
ETC Group’s Bitcoin ETP Hits $49 Million Assets Under Management in Two Months
Etc Group said Wednesday that its centrally cleared bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) has accumulated up to $49 million in assets...
Bitcoin.com Wallet Reveals USDT Support – Users Can Swap and Store SLP-Based Tether
During the first week of July, Bitcoin.com’s Wallet added a number of new features including a portfolio breakdown and honestcoin...
Crypto Pro Portfolio Tracker Gets a Major Update
Crypto Pro app has extended its Apple device support and is now available on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. What is Crypto Pro?...
Defi Implosion: YAM Token Market Cap Plummets to Near Zero After Founder Claims He ‘Failed’
Yield farmers excited about the recent decentralized finance (defi) project, Yam Finance, got a rude awakening after the token’s...
305 Venezuelan Municipalities to Collect Tax in Cryptocurrency Petro
Venezuela’s national tax harmonization agreement has been signed by the council representing 305 municipalities. They have agreed to...
YAM has crashed by 99% after security flaw was found
YAM crashed from $167 to $0.6 in minutes, with over $750k worth of Curve tokens likely lost YAM token, a DeFi token launched on Tuesday,...
High Fees Make BTC Less Appealing for Remittances in Africa: ‘Pray Blocks Happen Quickly’
Bitcoin trading volumes are on the rise on the African continent despite the ongoing concerns about the high network fees. Data shows peer...
Ethereum’s daily transaction fees hits $6.8m
Average fees hit $7.40, the highest it has ever been, pushing total daily transaction fees to an all-time high of $6.83 million The...
Australian Woman Jailed Two Years for Stealing $300,000 Worth of XRP
An Australian hacker who stole 100,000 units of the XRP cryptocurrency has been sentenced to a maximum of two years and three months in...
Bitcoin Users Leery of Tor: 23% of the Network’s Exit Capacity Compromised
Hackers are stealing bitcoin through the large-scale use of malicious relays on the Tor network according to a newly published research...
Defi Project Yam Finance Sees Over $500M Locked in 24 Hours, Devs Reveal Contract Bug
A new yield farming project is all the rage this week, as the Yam Finance project saw over $460 million dollars locked into the platform...
Bitcoin and Gold Correlation Reaches Record High 70%, Bolstering BTC’s Store of Value Credentials
The prices of bitcoin and gold have reached a monthly average correlation of 70%, an all-time-high, according to data analytics firm Skew....
Russia Developing AI System to Monitor Cryptocurrency Transactions — Prototype Already in Use
Russia is reportedly developing a system using artificial intelligence to track and analyze transactions involving cryptocurrencies, such...
Building the Infrastructure for the Future Decentralized Financial Market, Coinbase Included HBTC.Com Debut DeFi Project – Nest Protocol
As the world’s leading regulatory compliant digital asset exchange, Coinbase sets one of the most stringent requirements for digital...
$4.6 Billion Under Management: Grayscale Purchased Over $100M Worth of Bitcoins Last Week
This week cryptocurrency proponents discussed the firm Grayscale Investments, as the firm purchased 9,702 bitcoins (over $110 million) in...
This new DeFi token just rocketed 1,609%: here’s why
Serum has skyrocketed 1,609% just hours after it was launched Project Serum has skyrocketed from $0.10 at launch to hit $1.98 just hours...
Bitcoin’s correlation with Gold hits all-time high
BTC price is down 4% over the past 24 hours as Gold slips from a high of $2,029 to lows of $1,901 Bitcoin dumped overnight, slipping by...
LocalCryptos Integrates Inbuilt Crypto-To-Crypto Exchanges, Powered by ChangeNOW
ChangeNOW is happy to announce the integration with LocalCryptos – the world’s most popular non-custodial peer-to-peer crypto...
Fusing With Whales: Cashfusion Privacy Mixing Expands Allowing 10x Bigger Coins
On August 11, 2020, the Electron Cash developer Jonald Fyookball announced that Cashfusion tiers have been expanded to allow 10x bigger...
Ternio’s ERC-20 TERN Token Listed On Global Crypto Exchange Bibox
ATLANTA, GA – August 10, 2020 – Ternio’s ERC-20 payment token TERN, has been listed by global cryptocurrency exchange,...
Kazakhstan Proposes 15% Tax on Bitcoin Mining to Help Combat Coronavirus
Kazakhstan has proposed legislation that would see a 15% tax imposed on bitcoin mining firms. This is part of efforts to raise money to...
Defcon Speaker Discusses Liberating $300K Worth of Bitcoin From an Encrypted File
This year due to the coronavirus outbreak the world-famous hackers’ convention Defcon held it’s 28th annual event with virtual...