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Danske Bank Caught Using Gold Bullion to Launder Illicit Funds
The Danish financial institution Danske Bank has been embroiled in a massive money-laundering scandal associated with an Estonian branch...
Tax Agencies Worldwide Plan to Crack Down on ‘Dozens’ of Crypto Tax Evaders
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has revealed the agency is cracking down on “dozens” of cryptocurrency users evading...
Bitcoin Cash House Launches Crypto Hub in Venezuela
A new crypto resource has emerged in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, for Venezuelans interested in learning about Bitcoin Cash and...
How to Start With Bitcoin at No Cost
Getting into the Bitcoin world is by default easy and it doesn’t have to cost you anything. All you need to do to get started is to...
Corrupt CBI Officer Booked for Extorting Vigilante Bitcoiner
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has reportedly booked its own officer in an extortion case involving bitcoin. The...
What to Expect From the Next Bitcoin Cash Protocol Upgrade
On November 15, shortly after 12 p.m., Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will execute an upgrade of the network’s consensus rules. After the...
For Initial Exchange Offerings, Liquidity is King
There are many benchmarks for measuring IEO success. Token price, community size, code shipped, and milestones met are all yardsticks for...
QE Infinity: 37 Central Banks Participate in Stimulus and Easing Practices
Since the last week of October, a great number of central banks have been slashing interest rates, joining the massive synchronization of...
Crypto-Based Commerce Spikes 65% in 7 Months
Commerce fueled by cryptocurrencies has once again started to grow. Data collected by blockchain forensics company Chainalysis shows a...
How Crypto Winters of Bitcoin’s Past Compare to Today
Cryptocurrency and bitcoin proponents have been patiently waiting to see if crypto winter is returning as the recent price decline has...
Holders of the Digital Yuan Will Not Be Paid Interest
China has been sending mixed signals about its preparedness to issue a national crypto. Despite the new blockchain push, there is still no...
Crypto Tax Guidelines Leave More Questions Than Answers
Cryptocurrency holders have long wrestled with their tax obligations. These fiduciary duties have been complicated by tax agencies, which...
Activist Larken Rose Weighs In on Bitcoin, Anarchy, and the Importance of Permissionless Cash
Though his latest project with partner and fellow activist Amanda Rose, Candles in the Dark, is a program helping people escape...
Crypto-Friendly Silvergate Bank IPO Debuts on NYSE
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has declared the IPO of pro-crypto Silvergate Bank effective. Its shares started trading...
Congressional Hopeful Agatha Bacelar Talks Silk Road on the Bitcoin.com Podcast
“It’s clear that the political establishment wants to hold back a future where economic freedom is afforded to all.”...
Ridiculous Crypto Regulations Are an Enemy of Bitcoin
One of the biggest privacy issues in today’s society revolves around the use of overreaching know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money...
FBI Says Bitcoin Concern Is Getting ‘Bigger and Bigger’
In a recent U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs hearing, Senator Mitt Romney expressed concerns about...
Market Outlook: Crypto Whale Tales and China’s Blockchain Hype
During our last market outlook, cryptocurrency prices had found new foundations after the massive rally on Friday, October 25. Since then...
Turkey Becomes the Latest Nation to Work on Digital Fiat
Trade wars, sanctions, fear from private and decentralized cryptocurrencies. Regardless of the motive, a number of governments have...
Bitcoin History Part 19: Wikileaks and the Hornet’s Nest
“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.” With those 13 words, Satoshi Nakamoto...
Hong Kong Now Offers Opt-In Regulation to Crypto Exchanges
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has established a new regulatory framework that allows crypto exchanges to opt-in to...
Meet Flowee the Hub: A Feature-Rich Bitcoin Cash Validator
Bitcoin Cash development has been growing wildly over the last year between third party services and infrastructure. Since the inception...
Kim Dotcom Token Sale Postponed Over ‘Regulatory Uncertainty’
In 2017, Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload, revealed a similar service called K.im that planned...
Conceal and Reveal: The Evolution of Privacy Coin Technology
Privacy can assume many forms and occur on many levels. The technologies that blockchain architects originally envisioned for privacy...
China Removes Bitcoin Mining From Unwanted Industries List
Inspired by its new fascination with blockchain, China now seems to have changed its mind about cryptocurrency mining. The latest version...
Video: Bitcoin Cash Lets You Buy Equity Over the Counter at a Bar
With all the talk about investing in digital assets new people to the scene might not know that cryptocurrency is still used being used as...
Tokens.net Seals Partnership With Bitcoin.com as an Official SLP Partner
Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) is a protocol for token creation on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) chain, promoting tokenization of assets in a...
Chinese Communist Party Reportedly Filling Roles at Top Exchange Huobi
A source has reported to news.Bitcoin.com that the Chinese government is attempting to directly manage the crypto exchange industry in the...
190 Indian Bank Locations Raided in Massive Fraud Crackdown
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has reportedly raided over 190 bank locations nationwide in an effort to crack down on fraud...
Canadian Regulator Seizes Troubled Crypto Exchange
The British Columbia Securities Commission has taken control of a cryptocurrency exchange which allegedly owes customers over $12 million....
Bitcoin Cash Captured 90% of October’s Crypto Spending in Australia
Just recently the web portal Bitcoinbch.com reported that the number of bitcoin cash (BCH) Australian retail transactions throughout the...
New Hire to Head Digital Currency Research at the US Fed
The United States Federal Reserve is looking to employ a Manager, Retail Payments, part of whose responsibilities will be to oversee the...
UK-Based Electric Bike Company Launches SLP Reward Token
On November 5, Cryptophyl.com, the SLP-centric trading platform, announced a commercial partnership with the bicycle company Toba Electric...
No Inflation? Here It Is – Hidden in Plain Sight
Popular among politicians, media, and central bankers alike is the claim that in spite of all the quantitative easing (QE) and...
Crypto Secularizes Wealth by Returning Power to the People
Secularization is the process of converting something from a religious status to a nonreligious one. In its usage here, the word...
Finland Approves First 5 Crypto Service Providers
Finland’s crypto regulation is now in full effect. The first five crypto service providers have been approved to legally operate in...
China Now Censors Anti-Blockchain Sentiment, Educates Public on Bitcoin
Officially Bullish on blockchain technology, China is now reportedly censoring anti-blockchain sentiment. Meanwhile, a popular Chinese app...
Critics Savage Research Paper Alleging Lone Whale Caused Bitcoin’s 2017 Rally
Crypto commenters have torn into a new research paper alleging a single whale caused bitcoin’s 2017 price rally. The paper, reported...
Britain’s Tax Authority Updates Crypto Guidelines
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has updated its guidelines on the taxation of transactions involving crypto assets. The...
Central Bank Blockchains and Corporate Ledgers Are Still Vaporware
There’s been a resurgence of blockchain discussion this year, especially after China’s President Xi Jinping lauded blockchain...
The North American Bitcoin Conference Returns
TNABC and Miami Blockchain Week return to kick off 2020. On the 16th and 17th of January, 2020, pioneers of the global Bitcoin and...
Crypto Winter Claims Another Victim as DX Exchange Closes
The digital assets market has been on an upward trend recently, with top cryptocurrencies such as BTC and BCH maintaining higher price...
Bad Loans at Big British Banks Jump Over 50% in a Year
Shaken by the never-ending saga around Brexit and the global slowdown, the British economy is now showing signs that point to an upcoming...
Cryptosteel Capsule Will Keep Your Wallet Seed Safe and Out of Sight
A hollow steel cylinder despatched with 800 lettered tiles, the Cryptosteel Capsule is what it sounds like and nothing more. Assemble the...
OSC Commissioner Debunks Arguments Against Bitcoin, Green-Lights Bitcoin Fund
A commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has debunked the arguments against bitcoin used to deny the public offering of...
Billion Dollar Bitcoin Lawsuit Continues as Craig Wright Breaks Settlement
In early September, the high-profile court case Kleiman v. Wright looked as though it was coming to an end as the two parties reached a...
Maker’s Stability Fee Drops to 5.5% After Multi-Collateral Dai Announcement
According to the CEO of the Maker Foundation, Rune Christensen, Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) will launch on November 18. On October 28,...
Satoshi ‘Nakamolto’ Emerges With Great Hair and Questionable Claims
A viral video taken at a Las Vegas event has put self-claimed “Bitcoin co-founder” Jörg Molt in the spotlight this past...
Cred Merchant Solutions to Help Unbanked Business Sectors
Cred Merchant Solutions has been unveiled in Emeryville during San Francisco Blockchain Week in an event hosting several California...
Another Chinese Lender Bailed Out After Bank Run
Yichuan Rural Commercial Bank, a lender operating in the central Henan province, has become the latest Chinese bank to be bailed out by...
CME Group Publishes Bitcoin Options Specifications
In mid-September, the foreign exchange company CME Group announced the launch of options on its bitcoin futures contracts in Q1 2020,...
Kuverit Launches Multi Trader Marketplace
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23 Central Banks Divulge Their Digital Currency Requirements
Twenty-three leading central banks participated in an in-depth survey on their digital currency developments and requirements, including...
Andrew Yang’s ‘Freedom Dividend’ Is Not Only Unnecessary, It’s Unethical
Andrew Yang has taken to Twitter in dynamic fashion as of late, advertising his universal basic income (UBI) proposal known as the...
Trusted Friends Can Become Crypto Custodians With the Vault12 Platform
A firm called Vault12 launched its new passkey security solution for cryptocurrency assets. Vault12 is an application that allows people...
Blockchain Conference TNABC Returns to Miami
On January 16-17, The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) and Miami Blockchain Week are returning to the sunshine state as 2020 sets...
French Ministry of Education Publishes Bitcoin Resource Guide for Educators
As digital currencies transform the world, concepts like Bitcoin continue to percolate into academic courses and higher education...
ACIF – Asia Crypto Investment Forum Joins Thailand Blockchain Week
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Crypto Traders Rush to Revamp Their Security After Bitmex Dox
The world’s largest crypto derivatives exchange Bitmex has accidentally doxed tens of thousands of its users. An email newsletter...
GlobalBitcoinsPro.com Enables Offline BCH Cash Trades
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ECB President: ’We Should Be Happier to Have a Job Than to Have Our Savings Protected’
Newly installed European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde made controversial remarks in a recent statement prior to assuming her...
Video: Will Bitcoin Crash or Double in Price After the Halving? Miners Have Their Say
Will the price of bitcoin double or crash during the upcoming halving next year? And how will the mining industry adapt to their revenue...
Do You Know the Newspeak of the Looming ‘NIRP’ Economic Meltdown?
Negative and zero interest rate policy (NIRP and ZIRP) are becoming a new global norm. Endless printing of paper money is said to make...
How Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Cash System Was Revealed 11 Years Ago
On October 31, 2008, on the eve of Halloween, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper. Since then the revolutionary design of...
Korean Presidential Committee Pushes to Legalize Crypto
A South Korean presidential committee is pushing for the government to establish legal status for cryptocurrency to stay competitive...
US, EU and UK Companies Can Now Pay Workers in Bitcoin Cash via Bitwage
Getting at least partially paid with cryptocurrency is a great way to enter the digital asset market without having to do any trading. If...
The Xi Effect – Chinese Government to Fund Blockchain Projects
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s announcement that the country would invest heavily in blockchain technology – coupled with a...
Big Name Announcements Will Not Save Your Blockchain Project
At the peak of the ICO bubble it was a common tactic for project promoters to use big name announcements to pump their tokens. Every day...
Mining Giant Bitmain Confidentially Files for U.S.-Based IPO
According to reports, bitcoin mining manufacturer Bitmain Technologies confidentially filed for a U.S.-based initial public offering (IPO)...
Satoshi’s Final Messages Leave Tantalizing Clues to His Disappearance
As Jameson Lopp once quipped, the smartest thing Satoshi did after creating Bitcoin was to disappear. The question isn’t ‘why...
Argentina’s Example Shows That You Don’t Own Your Money
Cash shortages, bank closures and ATMs running out of funds seems to be the new norm for many countries, and recently increased capital...
Cryptophyl Exchange Reveals Fiat On-Ramp to SLP Token Ecosystem
The London-based exchange Cryptophyl is a trading platform focused on the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) and bitcoin cash (BCH) ecosystem....
Avalon Mining Rig Maker Canaan Files for $400M IPO on Nasdaq
Mining rig manufacturer Canaan has filed for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $400 million on the Nasdaq...
More Filthy Fiat: Two Dozen Central Banks Ramp up the Printing Presses
The global economy seems to be heading toward a financial crisis fueled by central planners that could devastate markets worldwide. This...
Why a VPN Is the First Layer You Should Pull On When Browsing the Web
Virtual private networks (VPNs) can be useful for all kinds of things, from streaming foreign sports to protecting your identity from...
Exchange Tokens Have Outperformed BTC This Year
Few crypto assets have outperformed bitcoin this year, but the handful that have are predominantly exchange tokens. Their success attests...
Speculation Abounds Over the Cause of Bitcoin’s Recent Rally
Crypto’s most recent bull run began last Friday, October 25, after a significant plunge in prices just days earlier that had some...
China Ranks 35 Crypto Projects as President Xi Pushes Blockchain
China has been on a roll with a series of crypto-related announcements. President Xi Jinping’s speech to accelerate the development...
Why Central Banks Are Not Designed for Democracies
Through their policies, central banks exert tremendous influence over the socio-economic conditions in a country and its business...
After Breaking New Records Bakkt Announces Crypto Consumer App
Following the all-time record of 1,179 contracts on October 25, Mike Blandina, Bakkt’s chief product officer, revealed the firm is...
Stealth Miners on the BCH Network Attract Scrutiny
In roughly 17 days, the Bitcoin Cash network will upgrade by adding two new features to the protocol. Meanwhile, prior to the forthcoming...
Cred to Demo Global Merchant Solution at Blockchain Week Kick-Off
On Wednesday, October 30, Cred and the Universal Protocol Alliance will be hosting a live demonstration of a point-of-sale (PoS) device...
Bitfinex Claims to Be Victim of Fraud After Crypto Capital President Arrested
The operators of Bitfinex claim that the cryptocurrency exchange is a victim of fraud committed by its payment processor Crypto Capital....
Indian Crypto Trading Volumes Accelerate on Positive Sentiments
Cryptocurrency trading volumes in India have accelerated despite regulatory uncertainty and banking restrictions imposed by the Reserve...
How Hard Is It to Brute Force a Bitcoin Private Key?
Trying to crack a private key with a brute force attack is a bit like trying to count to infinity: the sooner you begin, the faster...
The Big Lie Perpetuated by Central Banks
The central banking system controls monetary policy within a given jurisdiction, including the creation of money itself. The system is a...
Market Update: Crypto Prices Hold Steady After Massive Bullish Spike
Digital currency markets are coasting along after an enormous move on Friday of more than 20-40%. The entire cryptoconomy is hovering...
Low Interest Rates Are Crushing Young People and Fueling Global Riots
There are currently riots going on in Chile, Hong Kong and Lebanon. While in every place they are caused by complex local issues, there is...
Is China’s New Fascination With Blockchain Really Good for Bitcoin?
Blockchain development has kind of become an element of the party line in the world’s largest officially communist state. The...
Cash Runs Dry at ATMs as Protests Escalate in Chile
There’s a lot of unrest in Chile right now as the country has seen massive protests against government manipulation and an...