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BP Re-Enters Solar Power Market With $200 Million UK Deal
After a six-year absence, BP Plc returned to the solar energy business with a $200 million investment in a British company that develops...
EOS Raises $700M Despite Token Affording No “Rights, Uses, Purpose, or Features”
Block.one’s EOS ICO has raised approximately $700 million USD, despite EOS’ FAQ page clearly stating that token-holders will not be...
Three Ways Science Is Targeting Energy Storage Cost
In 2017, scientists shared new ways to think about energy storage and identify opportunities to work with materials that are readily...
Nigeria Experiences Spike in Bitcoin Adoption
Nigeria has witnessed a recent spike in bitcoin adoption, with the P2P markets setting a new record for trading volume thus far during the...
Major Korean Crypto Exchange Upbit at Center of Regulatory Controversy
The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange affiliated with Kakao Talk has recently become the center of regulatory controversy. Upbit is the...
Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee Reveals He Sold All His Litecoin
Litecoin creator Charlie Lee has revealed on social media that he sold and donated all his LTC holdings over the past few days. The...
“Bitcoin” And “Mining” Dominate Google Searches as Ukraine Closes in on Legalisation
Keywords like „Бiткойн“ (Bitcoin) and „майнинг“ (mining) have climbed to the top 5 of the “What is…” category in Google Ukraine’s 2017...
New Chain Platform Ivy Brings Smart Contracts to Bitcoin
Smart contracts – self-executing pieces of code – are most commonly associated with the ethereum network. Long before Vitalik Buterin...
Bitcoin Cash Jumps 70% as Coinbase and Gdax Announce Immediate Trading
Retail and professional cryptocurrency traders can now trade Bitcoin Cash (BCH) on two of the world’s most popular exchanges, Coinbase and...
Bitcoin Glossary: You’ve Heard of Crypto Mania – Now Say Hello to Cryptophasia
To outsiders, cryptocurrency is a strange and bewildering world. Dive into bitcoin Twitter for the first time and you’re confronted by an...
2018 Pyeongchang United States Olympic Luge Team to Accept Bitcoin Donations
Over the weekend, the United States Olympic Luge Team announced they are the first Olympic team in the country to advocate for and accept...
SEC Suspends Trading in Publicly Traded `The Crypto Company´ after 2500% Rise
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced “the public interest and the protection of investors require a suspension of...
Despite Falling Revenue, ICO Fever Remains High
Once celebrities began endorsing ICOs, many were quick to claim that this was the top; the mania had reached its peak and the token bubble...
SEC Halts Crypto Stock Over Manipulation Concerns After Massive Jump
Trading halt tied to concerns shares being manipulated: SEC Agency adds that investors may not be getting accurate data By Matt Robinson...
Inside Renewable Energy — The Washington DC Outlook on Renewables in 2018
In this episode, Joel Stronberg of the JBS Group discusses the top three big events that happened in Washington D.C. that affected the...
“Fake Satoshi” Dorian Nakamoto is Probably $273,000 Richer After Selling His Bitcoins
In 2014, Dorian Nakamoto was wrongly identified as being the inventor of bitcoin. In the aftermath of Newsweek’s faulty dox, a...
Markets Update: Several Coins Surging as Crypto-Economy Value Tops $600 Billion
This week on December 19 the cryptocurrency market capitalization for all digital assets has crossed a significant $609bn valuation....
Legendary Investor Bill Miller Now Holds Half His Hedge Fund in Bitcoin
With the launch of bitcoin futures by two leading American options exchanges, lending the cryptocurrency more credibility among mainstream...
New Energy Storage Firm Launches Business with Pipeline Purchase
California-based esVolta last week launched its new utility-scale energy storage business with the purchase of operational projects and a...
PR: Crypto Trust Network $CTN ICO Launches: It’s Time to Bring Trust Back to the Trustless Network and Fight Crypto Fraud
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3 Things Companies Can Do in 2018 to Push Global Climate Action
Companies stepped up on climate change in 2017. In 2018, they need to bring countries with them. It is fantastic that there are now more...
China’s New Policy Will Move Solar Closer to Regions Where It’s Needed
China’s plan to introduce a system to monitor and evaluate the solar-power market will help direct new investments to regions where fewer...
House Bill Seeks New Energy Storage Tax Credit
U.S. Reps. Ryan Costello (R-Penn.) and Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) last week introduced a bill that would create a new investment tax credit for...
The Next Step In Overstock’s Master Blockchain Plan Is Underway
That's how Overstock founder Patrick Byrne describes the often unexpected moves that have come to characterize his efforts to rethink Wall...
US Blames Bitcoin Ransomware Attack Wannacry on North Korea
The US government has announced it now officially considers North Korea to be behind the Wannacry bitcoin ransomware cyber attack which...
Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit to Close After Second Hack in a Year
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Youbit has revealed plans to file for bankruptcy. The decision to close operations follows...
India’s Crypto Crackdown: Wealthy Bitcoiners Targeted, Start-Ups Scrutinized
It has been a busy week for the government of India concerning cryptocurrencies. After it raided crypto exchanges, it is now actively...
PR: Investing Platform Coinseed Announces ICO Pre-Sale for Spare Change Investment in Cryptos
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Zerolink Invites Users to Test its Anonymous Bitcoin Coinjoin Mixer
Zerolink, a bitcoin-based privacy solution, has announced plans for a large-scale anonymity test. To ensure the pilot’s success, the...
Major Japanese Automotive Group and Dealerships Embracing Bitcoin
One of Japan’s largest used car automotive groups has partnered with the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bitflyer to enable...
Thomson Reuters Adds Bitcoin Cash to Eikon Platform
Over 300,000 financial professionals working in asset management, hedge funds or other institutions now have access to bitcoin cash data...
Centra ICO Faces Class Action Lawsuit, Accused of Violating US Securities Laws
Centra, an initial coin offering (ICO) noted for having been promoted by Floyd Mayweather, is now facing a class action lawsuit. The ICO...
Fifteen Ways to Donate Bitcoin to Charity This Holiday Season
The holidays are coming, and as bitcoin has increased in value, many crypto-proponents are donating their funds during this year’s “season...
Tax Equity Market in Potential Peril from Final Tax Reform Bill
As lawmakers prepare to vote on the final version of the much-anticipated U.S. tax reform bill that was released last week, the renewable...
PR: Extra Credit Takes Bitcoin Education to the Next Level
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Wind in Europe — How Does It Blow?
Europe maintains a healthy market but is looking forward to fresh energy and climate ambitions to add certainty over what the post-2020...
More Firms Entering the Bitcoin Market See Stocks Soar
It appears that public companies have found a new way to attract investors to their stocks, implying they are becoming a part of the...
Three Reasons to Remain Hopeful for More Clean Energy Investment in Cuba
2017 has been an eventful year for Cuba. Two major hurdles took place that would potentially jeopardize clean energy investment on the...
Russian Crypto News Outlet Shook Down by the Ukrainian Security Service
According to the owner of the Russian cryptocurrency news outlet Forklog, Anatoly Kaplan, his media firm is being harassed by Ukrainian...
How Dorian Nakamoto Became Satoshi Nakamoto
In 2014, Newsweek doxxed Dorian Nakamoto, an unassuming senior, as the creator of bitcoin. The bumbling Dorian, who claimed never to have...
Trading Bitcoin for an Altcoin Won’t Shield You From the IRS Anymore
Any American bitcoin investors who were hoping to avoid paying taxes for their profits this year by trading them for altcoins are in for...
Brainwallet: The Bitcoin Wallet That’s All in Your Head
If the safety of your bitcoins is keeping you awake at night, perhaps it’s time you considered a more secure solution. Exchanges can be...
PR: Online Sports Lottery Ethersport Launches MVP and Offers 100% Bonus!
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Crypto to Take Center Stage at G20 – “Need to See How We Can Regulate Bitcoin”
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced on Sunday December 17th that the next Group of 20 (G20) meeting would include discussion...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Spot Prices Slide After CME Group Opens Futures
Bitcoin markets took a slide on Sunday evening December 17 about an hour after CME Group launched the company’s futures markets. Even...
Options Giant CME Launches Bitcoin Futures — Here’s What to Expect
Last week the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) introduced its bitcoin-based futures markets and the first day got a reasonable level...
Not Just Drugs: Darknet Markets Carry a Variety of Goods for Your Bitcoin
Since the fall of the darknet markets Hansa and Alpha Bay, three markets have taken the reigns on the deep web. Now Dream, Point...
Bitcoin Fees Have Become Infeasible
In 2013, one bitcoin cost $20. In 2017, it costs $20 to send one bitcoin. With record highs, thriving adoption, and media attention, this...
Divorce is Messy – Especially When You Own Bitcoin
It ain’t easy owning bitcoin. Back in the day, you could own 50 BTC and nobody cared. But now that the digital currency is actually worth...
Hong Kong Investors Rush to Enter the Bitcoin Markets
With bitcoin again dominating headlines, a flood of new money has recently entered the cryptocurrency markets – including from emerging...
Massachusetts Joins List of US States Hostile to Bitcoin
Lifelong Massachusetts politician, William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth, turned sudden investment and currency expert this week,...
The Most Pointless Cryptocurrency Tokens Ever Invented
Just as Satoshi’s vision wasn’t 1,000 bitcoin forks, the vision of ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin wasn’t to decentralize the parenting...
“There Will Only Be One” – an Interview With Viabtc Founder Yang Haipo
Back in August, Viabtc founder Yang Haipo was one of the first public figures to declare ”Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin”. His exchange Viabtc...
South Africa Wants to Track and Tax Bitcoin Trading
It’s said that nothing in this world is certain, except death and taxes. And at least for the latter we can be sure that the...
PR: Peer to Peer Crypto Exchange Cointal.com Restores the Cryptocurrency’s Freedom: Performance Summary + Bitcoin Cash Added
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Bitcoin Gold: A Case Study on the Cryptocurrency Security Problem
This is an Op-ed article written by Arseny Reutov. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. Bitcoin.com does not...
This Week in Bitcoin: Regulators Mount Up as Bitcoin Keeps Bubbling
Welcome to the latest installment of This Week in Bitcoin stuffed with all the highlights and lowlights from the past seven days. In this...
Kik Ditches Ethereum “The Dial-Up” Cryptocurrency
Ethereum is often promoted as the ultimate solution for decentralized apps, with some even claiming that it will be the substrate for...
Japanese Investors Increasingly Switching From Traditional FX Trading to Bitcoin
A growing number of Japanese retail investors are switching from leveraged FX trading to leveraged cryptocurrency trading, thus driving...
PR: World’s First Ai & Blockchain-Based Dating & Relationship Project – Viola.ai, Sets to Disrupt the Love Industry
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European Union Terror Fears Drive New Crackdown on Bitcoin Across Member States
Citing pretext to end all pretexts, “terrorism,” European Union legislators moved Friday, December 15 to impose tighter controls on the...
South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Implement Self-Regulation
Over 40 companies in South Korea are participating in cryptocurrency self-regulation. Among them are 14 exchanges which have agreed to...
Scrutiny Intensifies as Tether Exceeds Supply of 1 Billion USDT
1 billion USDT have now entered into circulation, again drawing attention to the operations of Tether. The eight-figure threshold for...
PR: Bitcoin Giant, Bread, Launches Native Rewards Token (Brd) to Become Global Digital Asset Platform
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Rise of the Bitcoin Politician: Austin Petersen’s Scrappy Run for US Senate
In the run-up to the 2018 November federal elections in the United States, at least three politicians are accepting bitcoin in donation,...
The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 3: Do You Want a Government Fiat Crypto? (Part 4)
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 1 : The Trusted Third Party Problem Chapter 3: Trying to Undo Satoshi...
Bitcoin’s Market Cap Surpasses the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights Reserves
Twenty-four hours ago the decentralized cryptocurrency bitcoin and its US$300Bn market capitalization just surpassed the International...
Cryptocurrency Gets Its Own Comedy In “Bitcoin” – the Movie
Bitcoin is serious business, but not so serious that it can’t afford to laugh at itself. It was inevitable that someone would commission a...
Bitcoin’s Price Captures a New High Touching $18,000
The price of bitcoin has reached the landmark milestone of $18,000 per BTC across global exchanges after having an incredible run during...
Venezuela’s National Cryptocurrency Advances But Experts Warn of Corruption
Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has advanced the creation of the country’s national cryptocurrency, the Petro. He believes it will...
PR: Dimpay ICO – Don’t Miss Your Chance to Invest in Dimpay Before the Exchange Listing!
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Bitcoiners Increasingly Targeted by Police as Prices Yield Large Forfeiture Gains
The Department of Justice has announced another potential auction of seized bitcoin, totalling over 8 million USD. There’s a noticeable...
Bitfinex Critic Claims to be Organizing Class Action Lawsuit Against Ifinex
A prominent Twitter-based critic of Bitfinex, AB33, has announced his intention to initiate a class-action lawsuit against Ifinex – a BVI...
Bitpay Plans to Use Bitcoin Cash for Payment Invoices and Debit Loads
On December 15 the largest bitcoin payment processor in the world, Bitpay, announced it will now process payments for multiple...
Ahead of CME’s Bitcoin Futures, Regulator Creates Website and New Crypto Rules
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was very active on the final business day before the globe’s largest futures market maker, CME...
Jimmy Nguyen Discusses Nchain’s New Investment Arm and Bitcoin Cash
Earlier this week the blockchain technology-based research and development organization, Nchain, announced a strategic partnership with...
That Crypto Trader You’re Paying for Advice Isn’t as Smart as You Think
Professional cryptocurrency traders are a clever bunch. They must be, with all their talk of MAs, fibs, and ichis. Mere mortals could...
Komodo Developers Demonstrate Bitcoin Cash Atomic Swap
This week the developers of the komodo (KMD) blockchain platform performed a successful atomic swap between KMD and bitcoin cash (BCH)...
Malaysia Issues Proposed Digital Currency Regulations for Public Review
Just recently, the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the country’s central bank, has issued drafted digital currency regulatory guidelines for...
Tesla Opens New York Store for Solar, Cars and Storage
If there’s any doubt Tesla Inc. isn’t just a car company anymore, its brand-new Manhattan showroom should put it to bed. On Friday, Tesla...
Danish Billionaire Renames the Rungsted Capital Ice Rink to ‘Bitcoin Arena’
According to a few regional news outlets, a Danish bitcoin billionaire and the co-owner of the Rungsted Seier Capital ice rink, Niklas...
Subsidy-Free Offshore Wind Power Possible in Dutch Auction
Subsidy-free renewables could appear in a second country after an auction this week in the Netherlands, which is seeking about $2.7...
PR: Cedex – Transforming Diamonds into a Tradeable Asset
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Eight Great Women in the Business and Science of Solar
Izumi Kaizuka, RTS, Japan Dr. Izumi Kaizuka has dedicated her life to the study of the global photovoltaic industry its technologies,...
Can Puerto Rico Really Depend on Microgrids and Renewables for Power?
As Puerto Rico sets out to rebuild its electric system knocked out by Hurricane Maria in September, can it become a model for renewable...
Brazil to Dominate Latin America’s Wind Power Market in 2018
Latin American wind has grown swiftly in recent years to almost 20 GW by August 2017, with 80 percent of installed capacity in Brazil and...
Korean Regulation Fails to Shake Bitcoin Market But Could Wipe Out Some Exchanges
After South Korea’s regulators announced their emergency measures for cryptocurrencies, the bitcoin market breathes a sigh of relief....
An Anonymous Early Adopter Is Donating 5,057 BTC ($86M) to Charity
This week an early bitcoin adopter announced on the forum Reddit that he had so much bitcoin he plans to donate 5,057 BTC (US$86Mn) to...
New York Credit Card Scammer Allegedly Sent Bitcoin to ISIS
A Long Island woman has been charged with sending tens of thousands of dollars to ISIS fighters in Syria. As has been widely reported, the...
PR: Winning Moonrise Competition Scales Talent Acquisition Platform Bitdegree Crowdsale to the Next Level
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