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Mistakes Crypto Owners and Traders Should Avoid
There are many pitfalls one can easily get caught in when using, storing, investing or trading cryptocurrencies. While some mistakes could...
Bank of Lithuania Issues Guidelines on Security Token Offerings
Recognizing that businesses are seeking alternative ways to raise capital other than bank lending, the Bank of Lithuania has issued new...
Tax Form to Report Revenues From Cryptocurrency Trading Issued in Poland
Authorities in Poland have clarified the taxation of revenues received from cryptocurrency exchange transactions. The Ministry of Finance...
Lyn Ulbricht Speaks Out Against Unfair Silk Road Sentencing, Facebook and Government Hypocrisy
U.S. representative Ann Wagner noted at a recent hearing that child pornographic material has been reported on Facebook more than any...
Market Update: Crypto Prices Spike Significantly In a Matter of Minutes
Digital currency markets have seen a strong price spike on Friday, adding billions to the overall market capitalization of the entire...
McKinsey: Majority of Banks May Not Be Economically Viable
Management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review and found that a majority of banks worldwide may...
State Bank of India Chief Argues Crypto Regulation Is a Must
The chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI) has spoken in favor of cryptocurrency regulation in an interview. He believes that it is...
The Demand for Permissionless Freedom Is Just Getting Started
Every year the world seems to be getting crazier and more people are starting to realize that it stems from oppressive government...
Lebanese Protestors Gather at Central Bank as Financial Lockout Continues
Since the beginning of widespread protests in Lebanon last week, banks and lending institutions have remained closed, fueling fears of an...
As Crypto Exchanges Exit the US, Which Trading Platforms Will Enter the Breach?
The U.S. remains a challenging environment for centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, with major players significantly scaling back their...
Mario Draghi Leaves European Central Bank Without Ever Raising Interest Rates
Preparing for a change at the top, the European Central Bank has decided to keep interest rates on hold and at their all-time lows. Mario...
Bakkt Announces Bitcoin Options After Record-Breaking Futures Volumes
On October 23, Bakkt’s physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts touched an all-time high with 640 BTC ($4.8 million) swapped on...
Lightning Network User Confused By Protocol: Lost 30,000 USD
The Lightning Network has long been touted by its proponents as a speedy, low-cost solution to Bitcoin’s scaling issues. A series of...
PlayDApp Will Unlock the True Potential of Gaming
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3 Major Signs That Precede the Fall of World Reserve Currencies
The story of reserve currencies is long and stretches far back into ancient times. As modern history shows, however, the average lifespan...
Germany’s Financial Crisis Invokes 5-Year Rent Freeze
All eyes are on the German economy which was once perceived as stable and strong. However, the financial state of affairs has been...
Belarusian Bank Gets the Go-Ahead to Service Crypto Investors
A bank in Belarus has effectively gotten the green light to process transfers related to digital assets. DFS, an affiliated company of...
How Centralized Payment Systems Learned to Accept Decentralized Cryptocurrency
They might not be shouting it from the rooftops, but fiat payment gateways are no longer the enemy of bitcoin. Hostilities have ceased,...
How Fiat Money Fails: Deconstructing the Government’s Paper-Thin Promise
Fiat money has a surprisingly short lifespan. The almighty U.S. dollar currently serving as world reserve currency is not exempted, in...
Malaysia Regulator Approves International Crypto Exchange Luno
The strict financial regulator in Malaysia is trying to help the local fintech industry scale up and attract new investors. As part of...
Bank Crisis Spreads in India – Deaths, Strike, Supreme Court Denial
The Indian banking sector is facing multiple challenges. Customers of several cooperative banks are still struggling to withdraw their...
Bitmain Aims to Build a 300MW Texas Mining Farm
The Beijing-based Bitmain Technologies and DMG Blockchain Solutions announced the launch of a 25MW mining facility in Rockdale, Texas. The...
How to Start a Crypto Podcast
The idea of starting your own podcast is undeniably appealing. Not only do you get to sound off about a topic that’s close to your...
The Silk Road Investigation: A ‘Pattern of Bad Behavior and Double Agents’
Kathryn Haun, a general partner at U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has revealed in recent interviews how she helped take...
How Cryptocurrency Developers Can Earn Bitcoin Cash With REST APIs
A recent video by Chris Troutner, Senior Javascript Developer at Bitcoin.com, points out a problem with anti-profit seeking approaches to...
Credit Suisse Is Latest Bank to Charge Clients for Cash Deposits
In a normal world savers are expected to receive compensation for giving their money to the bank. Instead, due to negative interest rates,...
Smartphone Developers Embrace Crypto as Opera Integrates BTC and TRX
The love-in between smartphone developers and cryptocurrency users is smoldering. What started out as a flirtation by HTC and Samsung has...
Cashaa Launches Banking Solution for Indian Crypto Owners
Banking services platform Cashaa is offering a solution for Indian crypto owners facing banking restrictions imposed by the...
Bitcoin.com Launches HashRace Promotion to Maximize Miners’ Profits
JAPAN, TOKYO, October 21, 2019 — Bitcoin.com, the world’s leading resource for cryptocurrency-related products and news, has...
4 Cryptocurrency Projects That Successfully Changed Chains
Choosing the right blockchain is a tough call for any development team. It’s a decision that entails correctly anticipating project...
Running Bitcoin Cash: An Introduction to Operating a Full Node
Setting up a Bitcoin Cash node is a fairly easy task for someone who wants to contribute to the decentralized ecosystem. There are various...
Bad for Business: How KYC/AML Makes Everyone a ‘Terrorist’
Two reports from risk solutions group Lexisnexis assert that anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) policies can...
How to Safely Store Your Wallet Recovery Phrase
As a cryptocurrency holder, security is paramount – and you can’t be too careful when it comes to your wallet recovery phrase....
Bitmain’s Jihan Wu Talks Mining and Industry Growth With Bitcoin.com’s CEO
At the World Digital Mining Summit in Frankfurt, Germany, Bitcoin.com’s CEO Stefan Rust sat down with Jihan Wu, cofounder of Bitmain...
Court Postpones TON Hearing Till February, Impatient Investors May Get 77% Back
The New York court reviewing Telegram’s contested coin offering in the U.S. has postponed a scheduled hearing on the case till...
FATF Starts Checking How Well Countries Implement Crypto Standards
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has agreed on how it will assess whether countries have taken the necessary steps to implement the...
Bitcoin.com Acquires Blockchain Software Startup O3 Labs
JAPAN, TOKYO, October 21, 2019 — Bitcoin.com has announced the acquisition of blockchain startup O3 Labs, the Tokyo-based software...
Indian Finance Minister Answers Crypto Questions at IMF Meeting
At an IMF and World Bank meeting, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked about cryptocurrency and stablecoins when asked about...
McAfee Envisions DEX in a World Where Crypto Won’t Be Traded for Fiat
In a recent video posted to Twitter. John McAfee states: “Imagine a world…where fiat currency is diminishing in...
Bittrex Pulls Out of 31 Markets Citing Regulatory Uncertainty
Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex is discontinuing operations in 31 countries, including Venezuela and Zimbabwe. The trading platform has...
Earn More Interest on Your Crypto With These Comparison Tools
2019 has been the year in which crypto lending has really taken off. Centralized and decentralized finance have been major growth areas,...
Traditional Law and Finance Can Adapt to Bitcoin, These Examples Show
Bitcoin brought about solutions to persistent problems that stood in the way of previous attempts to invent digital money, such as the...
Market Outlook: Crypto Prices Hold Steady but Face a Crucial Turning Point
After sitting around $257 billion, the cryptocurrency market lost $35 billion in less than 30 minutes on September 24. Since then, many...
‘No-Deal Brexit Huge Positive for UK Cryptocurrency’ – How Brexit Could Affect the Industry
British lawmakers have voted to postpone a crucial Brexit vote and forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension....
Fed Research Considers Negative Interest Rates Effective Policy Tool
A research paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows how negative interest rates could become an important policy...
How to Trade Crypto in Person Safely
With mainstream exchanges becoming progressively cumbersome due to privacy invasive policy and regulation, some crypto traders are...
Bitcoin Cash Roundup: Adoption Stories and New Developments
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) adoption, development, and participation continue to spread as there’s been a myriad of BCH-related announcements...
Circle Drops Poloniex Leaving US Crypto Traders High and Dry
According to a blog post published by Circle, the cryptocurrency firm is releasing its subsidiary exchange Poloniex which is now owned by...
Russia Blocks 2 Crypto News Websites
Russian authorities have restricted access to a couple of cryptocurrency news outlets. The formal reasons for the censorship move are...
6 Darknet Markets for the Crypto Curious
If you’ve got a few thousand satoshis burning a hole in your wallet, the darknet beckons. There’s no obligation to spend a...
Telegram Offers to Postpone Launch of the TON Network
Telegram, which was surprised with a last minute restraining order on the sale of its tokens in the U.S., is now ready to delay the launch...
Ethereum Name Service Adds Infrastructure for Multi-Currency Support
On October 16, the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) announced multi-currency support and integration with 15 platforms and wallets. The fusion...
CME Bitcoin Futures Sees Institutional Interest and Demand from Asia
Global markets business CME Group said that institutional interest toward the firm’s Bitcoin futures is thriving and 2019’s...
Global Crisis Looms as IMF Report Cites Its Own Policy as Dangerous
In a new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) entitled “Global Financial Stability Report: Lower for Longer,” the...
SEC Wants Second Look at Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Proposal
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing its order issued last week pertaining to a rejected proposal for a bitcoin...
Alleged Las Vegas Scammer Charged for $11 Million Crypto Binary Options Ponzi
A Las Vegas man is charged with raising at least $11 million from cryptocurrency investors he promised to trade binary options for, and...
SLP Token Ecosystem Built on Bitcoin Cash Continues to Blossom
The Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) has come a long way since its inception and more than 4,900 SLP tokens have been created to date. During...
104 Addresses Hold 70% of Tether, Research Reveals
The ownership of tether (USDT) turns out to be quite concentrated. According to a recent report, a few addresses control the bulk of the...
Bitcoin ATM in Miami Airport Raises Questions About Traveling With Crypto
Miami based bitcoin ATM maker Bitstop has recently installed Miami International Airport’s first crypto ATM, according to a press...
Smart Contract Blockchains Are Struggling to Scale
Second generation blockchains were presented as being faster, cheaper, and more scalable than Bitcoin. Third generation chains (basically...
Binance to Add Bitcoin Cash to Its Decentralized Exchange
Already widely available for trading across the world, bitcoin cash continues to expand into new markets and platforms. The latest venue...
‘Why Are You Afraid?’ – Watch Roger Ver Debate Nouriel Roubini on Cryptocurrency
Starting a debate by calling nearly everyone in the room “economically illiterate” doesn’t usually end well for someone...
Meet Be.cash: An Offline Bitcoin Cash Sending Tool
On October 13, software developer Tobias Ruck showed off a demo of an offline bitcoin cash (BCH) wallet tool called Be.cash. The concept...
Survey: Chinese Students Want Crypto Jobs, 8% Own Cryptocurrencies
A poll conducted among university students in China indicates that many of them see a bright future for cryptocurrencies in their country....
Rare Joint Statement From U.S. Regulators Proves Crypto Centralization Is Here
The U.S. SEC, Fincen and CFTC issued a rare joint statement Friday addressing regulation of “activities involving digital...
ICOs Are Dead But ICO Scammers Are Immortal
The initial coin offering may have all but died, but the ICO scammer marches on regardless. Whereas legitimate projects have to wrangle...
80% of Crypto Trade Volume Tracked by Blockchain Surveillance
Ever since governments worldwide started showing adversity toward cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, a few startups have dedicated their...
Where US Regulators Stand on Crypto Assets
The U.S. has many regulators responsible for overseeing different aspects of crypto assets, each with its own stance on how they should be...
G20 Informed Stablecoins Could Pose Financial Stability Risk
The Financial Stability Board has informed the G20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the risks stablecoins could pose to...
CoinEx Chain Elects New Node Partners
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10 of the Best Telegram Crypto Channels
Telegram’s token might have received short shrift from the SEC, but its messaging app has been embraced everywhere by everyone. 300...
Street Artist Pascal Boyart Helps Venezuelan Creators Earn Crypto
Crypto-passionate street artist Pascal Boyart, well known in the space for being the first artist in his style to affix Bitcoin QR codes...
Telegram Awaits Court Hearing on SEC Case Against Its Token Sale
Telegram, the most popular messenger in the crypto community, is facing challenges surrounding the launch of its TON blockchain. Following...
Bitcoin’s Smallest Unit ‘Satoshi’ Added to Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University Press published its recent quarterly report which revealed the term ‘satoshi’ was added to the Oxford...
Europol Predicts Rise of ‘Criminal’ Crypto Exchanges in Digital Underground
Is the current industry landscape, where centralized exchanges dominate cryptocurrency trading volumes, about to change in the coming...
Bitcoin Is a Weapon for Free Speech in the Face of Government and Corporate Censorship
The latest skirmishes in the bruising trade war between the U.S. and China have led to the unlikely politicization of the NBA. But how did...
Indian Supreme Court Postpones Crypto Case to November
The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday once again postponed hearing the case against the crypto banking restrictions by the Reserve Bank of...
Diversified Crypto Fund Receives FINRA Regulatory Approval
Grayscale Investments has received regulatory approval to publicly quote shares of its diversified crypto fund. The product, which is the...
The Fed Plans to Inject $60 Billion per Month Into the Economy
On October 11, the U.S. Federal Reserve explained that it would inject more easing into the economy by purchasing Treasury bills at an...
Berlusconi Admins Disappear — Darknet Users Rush to Find Alternatives
The darknet marketplace Berlusconi Market has been reportedly down for more than two weeks, according to users who patronize the hidden...
Tax Guide: What Crypto Owners Should Know
With the rise in price and the growing adoption of cryptocurrencies, more governments worldwide have been ramping up efforts to tax them....
IMF Has Another Trick Up Its Sleeve When Fiat Fails – Its Own Coin SDR
Virtually everybody knows what a dollar is, but not as many know about the SDR. The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special...
More Nations Join the Club of Crypto-Friendly Jurisdictions
Regulatory barriers are a major concern for businesses working with decentralized assets. Not all governments, however, are putting...
Android Tool Lets You Check Crypto Payment Apps for Double-Spends
The risk of double-spending has traditionally been a major obstacle to creating and fully using digital money. A flaw of this kind would...
Bitcoin Cash Outshines BTC Retail Spending in Australia by a Wide Margin
The BCH-centric web portal Bitcoinbch.com published on September 13 an in-depth report that shows the aggregate of cryptocurrency...
Coinbase Receives E-Money License From the Central Bank of Ireland
Coinbase has secured a new legal foothold in Europe. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange has received an e-money license from...
Dutch National Bank Says Gold Can Re-Start Economy in Case of Total Collapse
An article found on the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) website has surprised many in the crypto space, with its bold claim that “If the...
Bitcoin Cast Program Gives Guests a Unique SLP Token
Bitcoin Cash has been around for quite some time, but lots of individuals are still learning about the innovative technology each and...
6 Monitoring Websites That Help Track Bitcoin Cash Data
When it comes to cryptocurrency networks and markets, there’s a lot to keep track of. Thankfully there’s also now a bunch of...
IRS to Require 150 Million Tax Filers to Disclose Crypto Dealings
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has unveiled a new draft tax form used by some 150 million people in the country to file tax...