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Charitystars Auction With Roger Ver Raises $87K for Antiwar.com
On January 25th, 2018, the online auction platform, Charitystars, finished its bidding auction that featured a chance to win a private...
New Website Ranks 600 Cryptocurrencies by Github Activity
From market cap to trading volume, there’s a lot of ways to assess and quantify cryptocurrencies. Traders evaluating new crypto projects...
Hong Kong Fund Acquires Chinese Mining Powerhouse BTCC
On January 29 the longstanding Chinese bitcoin company BTCC has announced it was acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment fund. The...
The 2018 Satoshi’s Vision Conference Heads to Japan
After the successful ‘Satoshi’s Vision Conference’ held in San Francisco in 2016, and last year’s ‘The Future of Bitcoin’ event in Arnhem,...
Ethereum Is Quietly Closing In on Record Price Highs
By Omkar Godbole Ethereum's ether token could revisit record highs very soon, courtesy of last week's bullish price action, the price...
AIER Researchers: Bitcoin’s Price Moves with News
Researchers at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) teamed with Missouri University to examine whether the price of bitcoin...
PR: Propy Launches the First Pilot in the US for Blockchain Land Registry
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Us Government Scientists: “Bitcoin Is a Fork and Bitcoin Cash Is the Original”
Answering demands from the private and public sectors, US government scientists have created a guide to the technology behind bitcoin and...
PR: LiveTree Adept and the 21 Million Project Partner on First-Ever Blockchain TV Drama
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Japanese Crypto Exchanges Strengthen Self-Regulation Following Coincheck Hack
Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges are strengthening their self-regulation procedures following the hack of one of the country’s largest...
Russia Developing System to Identify Crypto Miners but Considers Giving Them Tax Break
A Russian ministry is preparing a bill for the regulation of cryptocurrency mining which reportedly includes a “special system” to detect...
Singapore Mall Sells Cryptocurrency Mining Hardware
Cryptocurrency miners in Singapore can now buy their rigs pre-assembled right at the mall as more retail computer hardware shops enter...
University College London Fights CV Fraud via Bitcoin Verification
Imagine getting treated by a doctor with a fake diploma, or losing a job to another candidate who faked his resume. Unfortunately, such...
Russia’s Longest-Serving Finance Minister Backs Crypto “Self-Regulation”
Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin favors “self-regulation” in the cryptocurrency sector. He believes it will be more...
Growing Number of South Korean Crypto Exchanges Participate in Self-Regulation
The number of cryptocurrency exchanges participating in self-regulation has nearly doubled in South Korea. The crypto self-regulation...
Report Finds Correlation Between USDT Issuances and BTC Price Moves
The Tether Report, a pseudonymously authored analysis examining the speculative assertion that bitcoin price volatility is highly...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies Recover Gains After the Coincheck Hack
Bitcoin markets and cryptocurrencies values across the board are seeing healthy rebounds after the past three weeks of price dips. At the...
Lightning and Mainnet: A Look at the Protocol’s Hype, Trials, and Error
Over the past few weeks, there’s been a lot of hyped up discussion about the Lightning Network (LN) from those who believe it will help...
This Week in Bitcoin: Japan Gets Goxxed and Iota Gets Into a Tangle
For the first time in forever, this week in bitcoin was strangely subdued. No major price movements, no regulatory crackdowns and no...
PR: DocCoin Announces Pre-ICO for Blockchain Protocol Telehealth Services
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Bitcoin Futures Report Shows Bullish Sentiment Is In the Air
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets, in general, have been bearish during the first month of 2018 after many digital assets reached...
Why Venezuela’s New National Cryptocurrency El Petro Will Fail
Washington and legacy media are in a tizzy about Venezuela reportedly thwarting international sanctions by way of a dreaded state-backed...
PR: Mycelium Wallet Partners with Changelly Exchange
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Japan’s Largest Consumer Electronics Chain Trials Bitcoin Payments
Japan’s largest consumer electronics retailer Yamada Denki has partnered with the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bitflyer to...
Bitcoin Cash Supporters Prepare for the Network’s Next Six Months
It’s been six months since the inception of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network, and the decentralized currency’s infrastructure continues to...
Lawyers Are Taking Payment in Bitcoin Despite Conflict of Interest Concerns
An increasing number of lawyers are taking payment in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. With many ICO startups destitute until their...
Indians Expect Clarity on Bitcoin Taxes within Days
Under mounting pressure to make decisions and take steps to clarify cryptocurrency matters, the Indian government may soon shed some light...
Thailand Taking Steps to Regulate ICOs
As part of its balanced approach, Thailand is taking further steps to regulate initial coin offerings by expanding current guidelines....
U.S. Agency ICE Conducts Investigations That Exploit Blockchain Activity
On January 25 the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deputy assistant director, Greg Nevano, explained in a testimony that the...
Robinhood Brings Free Transactions To Coinbase’s $1B Party
The big news in crypto isn’t a $400 million loss (yawn), but the hotting battle between exchanges for the biggest slice of the consumer...
How Big Will Telegram’s ICO End Up Being?
Telegram, a privacy-centered messaging application, is planning a massive initial coin offering (ICO) that appears to be drawing similar...
PR: Okoin VR Project Launches 2nd ICO Round
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Australian Gold Refinery Announces Plan to Develop Cryptocurrency
Perth Mint, Australia’s largest gold refiner, has announced plans for the development a cryptocurrency backed by physical gold. If...
Trading Tip `The Wall´ – Wall Street Price Manipulation? Go Long
Trading is arrogant, be it on Wall Street or across crypto exchanges. In order to trade rather than hodl, you must fundamentally believe...
Role Playing Game Imperatum Adds Dynamic ‘Bitcoin Mode’ Difficulty
Fans of the Role Playing Game (RPG) Imperatum now have the chance to play an all-new level in their favorite Sci-Fi simulator. Imperatum...
The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 4: Kiss a Computer Engineer Today (Part 4)
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 2 : The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 4: When Privacy is...
Discover Card’s 44 Million Customers Denied Crypto
The credit card company crypto squeeze continued this week with Discover Card announcing it would not allow its customers to use their...
Bill Submitted to Make Cryptoruble Legal Tender in Russia
A bill has been submitted to the Russian parliament to make the country’s national “cryptocurrency,” the cryptoruble, legal tender in...
George Soros: Bitcoin is Propped Up by Dictators
Legendary currency trader, hedge fund titan, philanthropist George Soros, 87, delivered his yearly talk at The World Economic Forum 2018...
Cobinhood to Adopt Controversial Stablecoin Tether After Termination of Banking Services
Recently launched cryptocurrency service platform, Cobinhood, has announced that it has suffered a termination of services from its...
Vietnam Imported More Mining Rigs in 3 Weeks This Month Than All of Last Year
The Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department has revealed that in the first 3 weeks of this month almost 8,000 mining rigs were imported into...
Coincheck Faces Pressing Questions in the Wake of the World’s Biggest Hack
It was, by any reckoning, a huge haul. Between $400 million and $534 million dollars of NEM stolen, depending on whether you go on its...
Coinsquare to Launch IPO on TSX — Hopes to Compete With Coinbase
This week the well known Canadian digital asset exchange, Coinsquare announced its plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) hoping...
Fintech Company Mogo Plans to Launch Bitcoin Mine in British Columbia
This week the publicly traded firm Mogo Finance Technology Inc. (TSX: MOGO) announced the creation of a new subsidiary called Mogo...
Chairmen of SEC and CFTC Co-Author Article on Crypto Regulations
Jay Clayton, the chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and J. Christopher Giancarlo, the chairman of the...
Exchange group Nasdaq Inc and Nordic financial services group SEB have teamed up to test a blockchain-based mutual fund trading platform…
...For the Swedish market in an effort to simplify and make the process faster. The platform would enable fund companies, distributors and...
South Korean National Pension Fund Indirectly Invests In Crypto Exchanges
The South Korean National Pension Fund has been indirectly investing billions of won in cryptocurrency exchanges such as Upbit,...
PR: Game Machine – Exciting Time to Be an Investor in Gaming Industry
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Most Cryptocurrencies Are More Centralized Than You Think
The whole point of cryptocurrencies is that they’re decentralized. Peer-to-peer cash; trustless exchange; bypassing intermediaries. So why...
Bitgo Snaps Up Kingdom Trust, Paving the Way for Custodial Cryptocurrency Offerings
Bitcoin payment specialists Bitgo have announced the acquisition of Kingdom Trust, an investment firm with custody of over $12 billion in...
Arsenal Football Club Partners with Gambling ICO
Premier League football club Arsenal FC has announced a partnership with Cashbet, a cryptocurrency marketing itself as being “designed...
Bank of Japan: No Big Problems With Bitcoin So Far
It’s not the sexiest headline in the world, but so far things with bitcoin seem to be going relatively well in Japan, according to a Bank...
Malta Extends Scope of Proposed Virtual Currency Regulations
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has published a ”feedback statement” regarding its proposal for regulatory guidelines...
Coincheck Halts Operations Amidst Hacking Rumors After $723 Million Withdrawn
One of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges has halted all withdrawals amidst rumors of a large-scale hack. Ripple worth $123 million...
Robinhood Smartphone Trading App Adding Bitcoin and Ether
Popular smartphone app Robinhood announced it will begin to allow users to trade bitcoin next month, and without transaction fees. Until...
Russia Finalizes Federal Law on Cryptocurrency Regulation
The Russian government is in the process of finalizing the federal law for the regulation of cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings....
PR: Genie Financial Services ICO Adds Cryptocurrency Heavyweight David Drake and Other Experts to Its Advisory Board
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Bitconnect Faces Lawsuit for Operating “Wide-Reaching Ponzi Scheme”
Bitconnect is facing litigation from six individuals accusing the company of operating a Ponzi scheme in addition to numerous violations...
Bitcoin 2018 Price Projection Using Monte Carlo Random Walks: ~50,000 USD
Using the Monte Carlo statistical projection method, combined with what are known as random walks, Xoel López Barata developed some pretty...
FX Platform Integral Now Covers Bitcoin, BCH and a Dozen More Cryptocurrencies
As more FX traders are demanding access to the hottest market these days, all banks and brokers will have to respond sooner rather than...
Goldman Sachs CEO: ‘Bitcoin Trading Desk Rumors Are Not True’
According to multiple reports back in October and December of last year, it was said that the financial institution Goldman Sachs had...
CFTC Files Against ‘My Big Coin’ for Scamming $6 Million USD
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against “a virtual currency know as My Big Coin (MBC).” The CFTC...
Canadian Financial Service Versabank Launches Digital Asset Vault
The well known Canadian financial institution Versabank has announced it is in the midst of building a new vault initiative for customers...
All Major Korean Cryptocurrency Exchanges Fail Privacy Tests – 30 Days to Improve
The South Korean Communications Commission has conducted a survey of major cryptocurrency exchanges in the country and found them to have...
Bitcoin Cash Games Arrives — Play Your Favorites Faster With BCH
Last September the premier source for everything bitcoin-related, Bitcoin.com, launched our casino gaming platform Bitcoin Games. Since...
Brisbane Airport to Introduce Bitcoin Payments
Air travelers will soon be able to spend some satoshis in stores and cafes at Brisbane Airport. Major retailers will be accepting several...
PR: KuCoin Becomes First Cryptocurrency Exchange to List Coinfi (COFI) Token on Jan 29, 2018
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57 Ukrainian Officials Declared Over 21,000 Bitcoins
A study of Ukrainian officials’ asset declarations reveals that 57 officials have declared over 21,000 bitcoins with the majority of...
Why a $39 Million ICO Chose Stellar Over Ethereum
"We look at ethereum like AOL or Myspace." By Brady Dale That's how Mobius Network co-founder and CEO David Gobaud explains why his...
Vouching Bitfinex and Tether’s Bank Accounts Hold Nearly $3 Billion USD
Zhao Dong, a prominent Chinese early bitcoin adopter and shareholder in Bitfinex, recently posted on Weibo seeking to provide anecdotal...
PR: FLOGmall Ready to Share Revenue with Investors
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Scientist Deciphers Instructions to Claim Bitcoin In a DNA Sample
This week, Sander Wuyts, a Ph.D. student from the University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) completed an...
Oil Company Wants to Sell Bitcoin ATMs to Casinos, Stock Jumps 60%
Despite the warnings of the Israeli regulator that it won’t tolerate bitcoin to get somehow backdoor listed on the Tel Aviv Stock...
TD Ameritrade CEO Says Young Investors Focused on Cryptocurrencies and Pot
This week Tim Hockey the chief executive officer of the large brokerage firm, TD Ameritrade, revealed that his company is seeing a “huge...
3,000 Metric Tons of Wheat Was Recently Traded for Bitcoin
Cryptocurrencies are slowly becoming mainstream when it comes to settlement for all kinds of goods and services. Just recently the first...
HYCM Launches Bitcoin Cash CFD Trading
HYCM, of the Henyep Capital Markets Group, has announced its launch of a contract-for-difference (CFD) for Bitcoin Cash paired against the...
Estimate: Crypto Investments in Russia Reached $200 Million Last Year
Cryptocurrency investments in Russian startups have increased 10 times in 2017 when entrepreneurs set in motion more than 100...
Nasdaq-Issued Bitcoin Futures Contracts May Comprise “Investment” Rather Than “Tracking Stock”
The chief executive officer of Nasdaq, Adena Friedman, has discussed the company’s position with regards to the potential bitcoin futures...
New Weiss Ratings for Cryptocurrencies Award No “A”s and Score Bitcoin a C+
Financial ratings agency Weiss has just released its much-hyped cryptocurrency review. The eagerly-anticipated report rates 74 of the most...
Rapper 50 Cent Has Millions in Bitcoin
Rapper 50 Cent reportedly found out he has millions of dollars worth of bitcoin from long-ago album sales. Nearly 700 bitcoin were paid in...
PR: 3D – Token ICO – Etherical Invests in the Factory 4.0
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The Marketing Ploys of Clones: Another Project Aims to Create a ‘Perfect Bitcoin’
This week another bitcoin-based clone is coming called ‘Bitcoin Atom,’ a project that joins the myriad of other BTC copycats that have...
Vibrate Joins The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)…
...with over 250-member companies. Viberate joined EEA as a representative of the music and live entertainment sector, to look for...
People Are Paying Thousands of Dollars for Crypto Celebrities on the Blockchain
Anything can be placed on the blockchain with a little ingenuity – even Hollywood celebrities. Cryptocelebrities is this week’s...
Analyst: IOTA Sharply Overvalued Due to “Overwhelming Evidence of Serious Flaws”
Analysts have found that IOTA is trading well above any real value it might have. The project is said to have no real product market fit...
South Korean Prime Minister Imposes Crypto Code of Conduct on Government Officials
The South Korean prime minister has ordered a new code of conduct to be prepared and implemented specifically to address the actions of...
Survey: 60% of Americans Have Heard of Bitcoin, 5% Own
Global Blockchain Business Council and Survey Monkey teamed for an appraisal of American attitudes toward the world’s most popular...
Analysts and Bullion Dealers Notice a Relationship Between Gold and Bitcoin
As cryptocurrencies have grown popular over the past year, researchers have noticed an inverse relationship between gold and bitcoin...
PR: GymCoin Announces First Fitness ICO That Allows Digital Currency to Be Accepted at Gyms Worldwide
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South Korea Releases Official Guidelines for Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Banks
The South Korean government has officially released two sets of previously promised guidelines that specify cryptocurrency regulatory...