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PR: Bithumb Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary with BTC Air Drops
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Japanese Internet Giant GMO Postpones Shipments of 7nm Bitcoin Mining Equipment
Japan’s GMO Internet has postponed the shipments of its two lines of 7nm bitcoin mining rigs. A representative of the company has...
Bitcoin Group SE Buys Investment Bank Tremmel for Undisclosed Figure
Bitcoin Group SE has bought 100 percent shares of investment bank Tremmel for an undisclosed amount. This is the German digital currency...
Regulations Roundup: Chinese Mining Farms Undergo Tax Inspection, Michigan Bans Campaign Donations in Cryptocurrency
In recent regulatory news, we report on an authorized mining company in China that has had its operations temporarily halted for tax...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Cash Price Rally Stalls but Trade Volume Spikes Hard
There are less than two days left until the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network faces a contentious hard fork and BCH markets are showing some...
Digital Bank Revolut Surpasses 3-Million Customer Mark
U.K. startup Revolut has announced that its customer base has surpassed three million users. The fintech platform, which has quickly...
How to use a Blockchain to Prevent Election Rigging
Last Wednesday, after a mid-term election that saw more voters than any previous mid-term in more than 50 years, defeated independent...
The Daily: Coffee Company to Pay Farmers in Bitcoin, Bitfury’s Latest Investment
In today’s edition of The Daily, we feature an upcoming bitcoin cash token backed by physical diamonds and an American coffee company that...
President of Marshall Islands Faces Challenge Over National Cryptocurrency Plan
The president of the Marshall Islands, Hilda Heine, has narrowly survived a no-confidence vote. One of the principal catalysts for the...
Sompo Holdings Acquires 10% Stake in Kenyan Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitpesa
Japanese insurance group Sompo Holdings has acquired a 10 percent stake in Bitpesa, a Kenyan digital currency exchange and payments...
PR: IXE Token Backed by Blockchain Powered Education Platform Little Detective
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Venezuela: Petro Can Be Converted Into Any Cryptocurrency If Bought This Year
The Venezuelan government has announced that its national digital currency, the petro, can be exchanged into any cryptocurrency if...
Namibian Bitcoin Trading Platform BTN Perseveres Despite Partial Crypto Ban
Bitcoin Trade Namibia (BTN), an emerging bitcoin marketplace, is trying to make things work for Namibians keen on investing in digital...
Cryptocurrency ATM Growth Spikes Exponentially to 4,000 Machines Worldwide
According to global statistics provided by Coinatmradar.com, there are now close to 4,000 cryptocurrency automated teller machines (ATMs)....
Circle Launches Crypto Reward Program to Attract New Customers
Crypto finance startup Circle has announced the launch of a new reward program in a bid to attract new customers to its Circle Invest...
GMO Internet Reports Cryptocurrency Exchange Profit Rose Over 34% in Q3 2018
GMO Internet, the Japanese technology and online finance conglomerate, presented its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2018 on Nov....
Bitcoin Cash Association Bounty Spreads Merchant Adoption in Latin America
The Bitcoin Cash Association (BCA) and Spendbch.io recently started a bounty to spread bitcoin cash (BCH) merchant acceptance in several...
Exchanges Roundup: Revolut CEO Discusses Investment, Binance Launches Research Unit
In recent exchange news, the chief executive officer of Revolut has expressed doubt regarding the institutional appetite for...
The Daily: US Museum to Accept Bitcoin, Estonia Grants License to B2BX Exchange
In today’s edition of The Daily, we report on the latest U.S. museum to open up to cryptocurrency payments, as well as several new...
DMG Starts Operating 60MW Bitcoin Mine in British Columbia
DMG Blockchain Solutions has announced that it has started generating up to 60 megawatts (MW) of electricity at an 85MW substation it owns...
South Korea’s Upbit to Launch Cryptocurrency Exchanges in Thailand and Indonesia
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has reportedly started marketing new crypto exchanges in Thailand and Indonesia as part of its...
Vietnam at Crossroads on Cryptocurrency Regulations
Vietnamese authorities are still considering their approach to regulating the cryptocurrency space. The Ministry of Justice has put...
Markets Update: All Eyes on Bitcoin Cash Prices Before the Pending Fork
Since our last markets update five days ago, a lot has changed as a good chunk of the top cryptocurrency markets have dipped in value over...
Exchanges Roundup: Binance ‘Very Healthy’ Despite Volume Drop, Gate.io Breached
In cryptocurrency exchange news, Binance’s CEO has described the exchange as “very healthy” despite the dramatic reduction in trade volume...
The Daily: Shatner Dives Deep Into Crypto, Bank to Launch Digital Deposit Box
In today’s edition of The Daily, we feature a story about William Shatner flaunting his vast crypto knowledge, from Tether to Kitties....
Korean Exchange Shuts Down as Regulators Crack Down on Its Cryptocurrency Fund
Cryptocurrency exchange Zeniex has announced that it is terminating all services after South Korea’s financial authorities started...
Regulations Roundup: CFTC to Embrace DLT, SIM Swapping Task Force
In recent regulatory news, the chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission has predicted that distributed ledger...
Iran Completes Development of Rial-Supported National Cryptocurrency
Iran has finalized the development of its national cryptocurrency, which is backed by the local fiat unit, the rial. Once the Central Bank...
Colorado Takes Action Against Four More ICOs – 12 in Total
The Division of Securities of the U.S. state of Colorado has issued four new cease-and-desist orders to stop as many companies from...
Bitmain Files ‘John Doe’ Lawsuit in the State of Washington
According to court documents filed in Seattle, Washington, the mining rig manufacturer Bitmain has filed a lawsuit against an unidentified...
Bahamas Releases Discussion Paper on Crypto-Asset Regulation
The Central Bank of The Bahamas (CBOB) has released a discussion paper proposing how it intends to regulate digital assets. This includes...
PR: Geeba Token Sale Lists on Latoken Exchange
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Bitcoin Cash Miners Break Records Processing Multiple 32 MB Blocks
On Saturday, Nov. 10, the operation BMG mining pool mined multiple 32 MB blocks on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. The first block at...
Uzbekistan Sets up International Arbitration Center for Crypto Businesses
Following in the footsteps of Russia, Uzbekistan has announced plans to implement arbitration mechanisms to resolve disputes in the...
Deep Web Roundup: Market Vendors Monitored, Darknet Benefits Revealed
The internet layer that’s accessible via the Tor browser was instrumental in the growth of Bitcoin in its early years. Since then, darknet...
The Daily: BCH Outpaces LTC, Where Next for DEXs?
Saturday’s edition of The Daily builds upon some of the stories that have been developing all week. The last few days have been...
Growing Number of Crypto Companies Operating From Belarus
A number of cryptocurrency businesses are now based in the Belarus Hi-Tech Park after the government in Minsk legalized crypto-related...
‘Asia’s Amazon’ Starts Using Bithumb’s Payment Service for Cryptocurrency Users
One of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb, has begun providing a cryptocurrency payment service to a major online...
Nigerian Startups Call for Cryptocurrency Regulation to Stem Investment Outflows
Nigeria’s financial technology startups have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to provide legal guidelines for the...
Canadian Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Reports Q3 Loss of $8.7 Million
Hut 8 Mining Corp., a Canadian bitcoin mining company, has released its third quarter earnings report, which shows a net loss of US $8.7...
Fork Watch: List of BCH Services Providing Fork Support and Network Monitoring Tools
The Bitcoin Cash community have been heavily discussing and preparing for a possible network split due to two development teams competing...
Blockchain Healthcare Platform MediBloc Partners with Massachusetts General Hospital
Blockchain startup MediBloc has announced a three-year project with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the original and largest...
US Excludes Iran’s Central Bank from the Global Financial System
The Central Bank of Iran has been cut off from the global monetary system, after the Swift banking network bowed to U.S. pressure. The...
Qiibee CEO: Blockchain is the Perfect Technology for Loyalty Programs
Blockchain is the perfect technology to connect the loyalty program industry as it delivers more options and value to customers....
The Daily: Binance Launches Analysis Division, Cobinhood Adds 4 Stablecoins
In this edition of The Daily, we cover the launch of Binance Research, a new analysis division that will produce in-depth reports for...
Beyond Government: Embracing Self-Governance and Rejecting Mainstream Erotica
There are many new entrants in the crypto ecosystem yearning for regulations and praising government. More folks with these notions emerge...
Thai SEC Expects to Approve Country’s First ICO Portal This Month
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly revealed that it expects to approve the country’s first portal...
Trade.io Acquires Primus Capital Markets to Offer BTC-Backed Forex Trading
Trade.io, a cryptocurrency exchange and investment company, has acquired British brokerage firm Primus Capital Markets Ltd for an...
Minecraft-Like Platform Craft.cash Brings a 3D World to Bitcoin Cash
On Oct. 8, a new application was introduced to the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community called Craft.cash, a BCH-powered onchain platform that’s...
Crypto POS Maker Pundi X Partners with HARA to Bring Blockchain to Farmers
Pundi Labs (Pundi X), a point-of-sale (POS) terminal maker, has announced a partnership with blockchain startup HARA to bring its...
Korean Lawyers Lobby Government to Pass Several Cryptocurrency Laws
The Korean Bar Association, whose membership is mandatory for all lawyers in the country, has campaigned publicly for the government to...
Craig Wright Threatens to Crash Bitcoin Cash in Email to Ver
The Bitcoin Cash Civil War just got a lot more heated. Roger Ver, the owner of Bitcoin.com and one of the largest figures in Bitcoin Cash...
Latest Release of Badger Wallet Supports SLP and Wormhole Tokens
On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the developers of the Badger Wallet announced the team had released Badger version 0.0.7, the first bitcoin cash...
PR: Volentix Introduces a Digital Assets Ecosystem DAE
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Etherdelta Founder Fined $400K for Operating Unregistered Securities Exchange
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has published details of a cease and desist order it has taken against Zachary Coburn, the...
Cryptogem Global Defies Zimbabwe’s Central Bank with New P2P Bitcoin Exchange
Cryptogem Global, a new peer-to-peer bitcoin (BTC) exchange, has opened in Harare in defiance of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s...
Huobi Opens Office in Russia, Plans Startup Accelerator and Mining Hotels
The Russian branch of digital asset exchange Huobi is scheduled to open on Nov. 12 with a Russian-language website and local support...
IBM and Seagate Partner to Tackle Counterfeit Hard Drives Using Blockchain Technology
Seagate Technology Plc and IBM have today announced that they are working together to reduce global hard drive counterfeiting using...
Review: Coldcard’s BTC Hardware Wallet Is Air-Gapped for Added Security
There has been an explosion of hardware wallets recently, with new models shipping on a weekly basis. What’s more, many of these...
PR: Remco Launches Pre-ICO Token Sale – Parent Company Processed $700,000,00 in the Last 24 Months
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The Daily: Security Experts Rank Exchanges by Safety, Malta Dominates Trade Volume
In today’s edition of The Daily, we cover several different reports about the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The first was written by a...
Texas Takes Action Against Cryptocurrency Mining Company Promising 200% Profit
The Texas State Securities Board has issued an emergency cease and desist order to an Australia-based cryptocurrency mining company and...
French Lawmakers to Lower Cryptocurrency Tax by 6 Percent
French lawmakers have adopted an amendment to the 2019 budget bill that will cut capital gains tax on bitcoin sales to 30 percent from...
Why the Energy Sector Meets the Conditions for Decentralization
The following piece on decentralizing the energy sector was written by Richard Lohwasser, who holds a PhD in energy economics and is the...
Bitcoin Cash Community Introduced to New BCH Library Written in Rust
On Nov. 5, the software developer Brenton Gunning announced to the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community that he’d developed a BCH library written...
Free Cryptocurrency Given Away at Web Summit 2018
The 2018 Web Summit event will witness the distribution of free digital assets from a number of blockchain companies. The yearly event...
Israeli Central Bank to Hold off on Issuing Digital ‘E-Shekel’ Coin
A group under the Bank of Israel has published a report on a proposal to issue a national digital currency. The team, which was set up...
Discussions Intensify as BCH Fork Approaches
As the Bitcoin Cash fork draws near, a lot has been announced over the last few days concerning the consensus changes scheduled for Nov....
Snark.art Brings Blockchain to Visual Art with New Collaboration with Eve Sussman
Snark.art, a digital laboratory for blockchain-based art, has unveiled its first artistic collaboration with artist Eve Sussman. The new...
Mauritius Regulator to Provide Licenses to Digital Asset Custodians
The authorities in the island nation of Mauritius plan to start issuing custodian licenses to companies holding digital assets on behalf...
The Daily: Pro-Bitcoin Governor Elected, Augur Predicts the US Midterms
Wednesday’s edition of The Daily has a distinctly political tint, coming a day after U.S. voters turned out for the midterm...
PR: MoneyToken Allows You to Earn 8% in Interest on Your Stable Coins – Consistently
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eToro Launches Crypto-Based Universal Basic Income Project GoodDollar
eToro, a European social trading and multi asset brokerage company, has announced the launch of the GoodDollar experiment, an open source...
Survey: South Africans Turning to Crypto as Hedge Against Volatility of the Rand
A survey by Luno, a London-based cryptocurrency platform, has revealed that a growing number of people in South Africa prefer holding...
ECB Shuts Down Maltese Bank Over Schemes to Launder Money and Evade US Sanctions
Malta’s Pilatus Bank has been shut down by the European Central Bank (ECB). Its banking license was revoked after its chairman was charged...
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange to Create Infrastructure for Cryptocurrency Assets
The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange has released a paper aimed at creating the infrastructure necessary to accommodate transactions with...
Exchanges Roundup: First UAE-Based Exchange, LXDX to Launch Security Token Offering
A partnership between Al Zarooni Group, Crypto Bulls and Gulf Coin Gold has fostered the launch of the first cryptocurrency exchange...
Global Cryptocurrency Exchanges Cut Ties With Iran After New US Sanctions
A number of cryptocurrency exchanges have reportedly cut ties with Iran after the U.S. imposed tougher economic sanctions against the...
Marshall Islands President Attacked Over National Cryptocurrency Plan
Dr. Hilda Cathy Heine, President of the Marshall Islands, is facing a political attack for her support of a planned national...
Blockchain Announces US$125M Stellar Lumens Airdrop
Blockchain, the Luxembourg-based crypto startup, has announced its first ever airdrop. The company has partnered with the Stellar...
Major Car Dealerships and Airport Limos in Japan Begin Accepting Cryptocurrencies
A regulated cryptocurrency exchange in Japan has partnered with two companies to enable cryptocurrency payments for their businesses....
Bitmain’s New 7nm Antminer Goes on Sale on November 8
Mining rig manufacturer Bitmain Technologies has announced the company’s latest Antminers equipped with 7nm semiconductors will go on sale...
Exchanges Roundup: Luno Expects ‘Open’ South African Rules, Bitstamp Updates Engine
In this edition of Exchanges Roundup, we look at a Luno executive’s belief that the South African government will introduce...
Norwegian Startup Bitruption Plans to Launch a Localbitcoins Competitor
On Nov. 4, a Norwegian startup announced the launch of a new peer-to-peer marketplace called Bitruption. Similar to Localbitcoins, the...
Markets Update: BCH Rallies, XRP Nears ETH Market Cap
In the cryptocurrency markets, BCH appears to be confirming the recent establishment of a double bottom at approximately $422, preceding...
Bitfury Secures $80M in Private Placement
Bitfury Group, the San Francisco-based manufacturer of bitcoin mining hardware, announced today that it has closed an $80 million private...
eToro Launches Its Crypto Wallet, Key to Opening Up the Market for Investors
eToro, a global trading and investment platform, has announced the unveiling of its crypto wallet, enabling, for the first time, its users...
The Daily: Cryptocurrencies on the Davos Agenda, FINMA Issues Rules for Cryptoassets
In this edition of The Daily, we look at the decision to add cryptocurrencies as a topic of discussion at the next World Economic Forum in...
BancorX Becomes the First dApp Across Blockchains
BancorX has become the first dApp to work across blockchains, now supporting both the Ethereum Network and EOS. This allows users of...
Bitcoin Miners Flock to Paraguay as Country Weighs Its Social Development Options
Paraguay’s Itaipú Dam, one of the largest hydroelectric facilities in the world, is supporting bitcoin and ethereum mining in a city on...