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Bitflyer Cracks Down on Market Manipulation – Coincheck Eyes August Relaunch
Japan’s largest crypto exchange, Bitflyer, may freeze accounts caught manipulating prices. Meanwhile, GMO Internet has released quarterly...
Libertarian Hotspot the Free Keene Project Bolsters More Crypto-Adoption
The Free Keene Project, a growing community of libertarians and cryptocurrency proponents, has announced the region now has a dentist,...
The Story of How Bitcoin Was Compromised
Cryptocurrency is to money what the internet is to information. It is a powerful and potent technology, with the power to transform the...
Deep Web Roundup: BCH Adoption Increases and Dread Rises
The specter of the deep web looms large over everything bitcoin does. You won’t hear it mentioned by VCs funding blockchain startups, or...
Report: 3 Million Brits Invested in Crypto via Exchanges, Few Sought Advice
According to a new study, about 3 million British investors have put money into crypto through online trading platforms and only 5 percent...
Pantera Capital Reports Lifetime Return of More Than 10,000%
Major cryptocurrency investment firm, Pantera Capital, has reported a lifetime return of more than 10,000% on its fund. The company has...
Remittance Firm Transfergo Launches Cryptocurrency Trading
In a recent interview, Daumantas Dvilinskas, the founder and chief executive officer of Transfergo, a U.K.-based remittance firm that...
Telegram Launches Passport Service for ICO Verification
Messaging service Telegram launched a new crypto-oriented feature on Thursday. Telegram Passport is a “unified authorization method for...
Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From Play Store
In the Google’s latest move against virtual currencies, cryptocurrency mining apps have been banned from the Google Play Store. Despite...
PR: Bringing the Blockchain Conference and Luxury Cruising Together – Coinsbank’s 3rd Blockchain Cruise
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BCH PLS: Lil Windex Earns 1 Million Views for “Bitcoin Ca$h” Video
Canadian rap artist Lil Windex has scored a legitimate, platinum hit with his track “Bitcoin Ca$h”. In only four months since its drop,...
Indian Government-Appointed Commission Recognizes Crypto as Means of Payment
The law commission established by the order of the Indian government has issued a report recognizing cryptocurrency as a means of payment....
The Daily: Twitter Blocks Bots Mimicking Musk, Coinvault Hackers Sentenced
In Friday’s edition of The Daily, Twitter has taken measures against crypto scammers imitating the profile of Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk and a...
Bitcoin Cash Fund to Help Promote Future r/MillionaireMakers Drawings
Back in early 2015 a Reddit forum was created called r/millionairemakers which is a subreddit that tries to create a millionaire by...
FINMA Launches Proceedings Against $100 Million ICO
Switzerland’s financial regulator, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), has announced that it has launched...
Japanese Class Action Against Gambling Coin Claims $12m Damages
Withcoin, a virtual currency reportedly designed for casinos, and listed on the Hitbtc exchange around May, is accused of selling coins...
More Than 6% of Securities Lawsuits Filed in 2018 Have Related to ICOs
Cornerstone Research, an economic and financial consulting company, has published a report finding that more than 6% of the securities...
Exchanges Round-Up: CME Volume Doubles Q2, Lawyer Predicts SEC Delays ETF Until March
In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has revealed that trading volume on its bitcoin...
Major Bitcoin ETF Rejected by SEC: One Commissioner Disagrees Publicly
Thursday, July 26 might go down as a severe setback for the prospect of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). For the second time, the...
The Iranian Government Is Preparing to Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency
The government of Iran is preparing to launch its own cryptocurrency, according to state-controlled media reports. The intended purpose of...
Mining Round-Up: AMD GPU Sales Decline, Hut 8 Claims to be Largest Miner in Canada
In recent mining news, AMD has reported declining sales of mining hardware during the second quarter of 2018, Hut 8 has claimed to now...
Dispute Erupts Over the Ownership of Bitcoin.org
Bitcoin.org, the first bitcoin website ever created, is at the center of a new dispute. Since being established by Satoshi Nakamoto and...
Financial Professionals Bet On Rising Cryptos, UK Report
New survey among financial professionals in Britain shows that more than half of those who have invested in cryptocurrencies, plan to buy...
Florida State Citrus Employee Arrested for Mining Cryptocurrencies
This week a government employee working for Florida’s Department of Citrus (FDoC) was arrested for purported cryptocurrency mining using...
Privacy Coin Verge Has Its Twitter Hacked and Developer Doxed
Verge, a cryptocurrency that advocates “advanced privacy as a choice”, had its Twitter account hacked on Tuesday and its developer’s...
Playboy Plans to Integrate Multi-Cryptocurrency Wallet
On March 14, the adult industry leader Playboy Enterprises announced the integration of cryptocurrency payments starting with its Playboy...
PetroDollars, Digital Tokens Backed By Oil And Gas Reserves, Promises New Financial Ecosystem
PetroDollars marks the first regulated currency supported by oil and gas reserves. As digital assets linked to existing, verified real...
Coinbase Granted E-Money License by UK’s Financial Conduct Authority
Coinbase appears poised to increase its global market share for licensed cryptocurrency exchanges. It recently hired a mergers and...
PR: Blockchain Nation Miami – Conference That Matters
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Nvidia Mining GPU to Be Launched Sooner Than Expected, Reports
New Reports suggest that Nvidia is going to launch a mining GPU sooner than previously expected. The graphics unit comes with features...
Cryptocurrencies are heading back to Capitol Hill on Wednesday
On March 14, a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled "Examining...
Big Sister Watching: IMF’s Lagarde Warns of Crypto’s Dark Side
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde released a blog post Tuesday, March 13, Addressing the Dark Side of...
Bitcoin Futures Predictions Volumes Grow
Over the past few months, the Chicago Board of Exchange (Cboe) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) have been selling...
Following Facebook – Google Bans Crypto Ads: No Currencies, ICOs, Exchanges, Wallets, Advice
The largest search engine on the planet, Google, announced formally it will restrict advertisement of “Cryptocurrencies and related...
PR: Viola.AI Announces New Joint Venture Partnership with MegaX to Build AI-Driven Worldwide Shopping Experience for the Future
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This April the World Blockchain Forum Returns to Dubai
This year the World Blockchain Forum, a two-day conference held in Dubai, will host an abundance of innovation that gives a glimpse...
Japan to Call for Crypto Rules at the G20 Summit
Japanese representatives will push for the adoption of global rules on cryptocurrencies at the upcoming G20 meeting in Argentina. Next...
Binance Is Launching Its Own Blockchain
In an era in which there’s a blockchain for everything and everyone is launching a blockchain, it’s not surprising that a cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin Classes Are All the Rage for University Students in Chicago
Hosting the CME, the Cboe and many investment funds, Chicago is an American and global financial trading powerhouse. As such it should...
India Can’t Regulate Bitcoin Says Official
Indian authorities have been struggling to grasp the crypto phenomenon for quite some time now – years, to be more precise. The inability...
Coinbase Launches Cryptocurrency Trading Tax Calculator
Having recently had to report over 13,000 of its clients to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), making it easier to handle tax...
Openbazaar Raises $5M from Investors Including Bitmain
On Tuesday, March 13, OB1, the company building the cryptocurrency-centric marketplace Openbazaar, has announced it has raised $5 million...
Meet the Bitcoin Cash Hyper Mini-Sprint Car
Just recently news.Bitcoin.com spoke with Corsair Hancock, a mini-sprint driver who decided to rebuild his 2007 Hyper Chassis into a...
Spooked By SEC, Video Streaming ICO Halts Airdrop
Entrepreneurs are starting to doubt that crypto tokens can be used at all in the U.S. In fact, according to Simar Managt, the co-founder...
World’s Central Bank: Crypto Could Risk Bank Runs
How many central banks are actually considering their own version of cryptocurrency is unclear, Russia and Venezuela being the most...
IMF Chief Lagarde Calls for Blockchain-Powered Bitcoin Regulation
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants to start a blockchain arms race. Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director,...
EOS, Cardano and Tezos: Sleeping Giants Starting to Stir
EOS, Cardano and Tezos are cryptocurrency’s big sleepers. The latter project has lain dormant since last summer while its legal troubles...
PR: Credits.Energy – New Revolutionary Cryptocurrency with Mobile Mining App Aims to Support GREEN Energy
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Survey Finds South Korean Youth the Most Active Crypto-Investors
A survey released this week reveals that many South Koreans in their 20s are actively investing in digital assets. The region has become a...
South Carolina Declares Cloud Mining Contracts to Be Securities
The Attorney General of South Carolina has served a cease and desist order on Genesis Mining. In documents filed before its Securities...
PR: Multiversum Delivering 4th Generation Blockchain – a Crypto Relational Database Pre ICO Raises $2.9million in Just 6 Days
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Blogger ‘Bitfinex’ed’ Hires Legal Counsel to Fight Bitfinex Lawsuit
According to reports the infamous Twitter handle and blogger, ‘Bitfinex’ed,’ has hired the well-known attorney Stephen Palley to fight...
Large Mining Farm Discovered in Abandoned Russian Factory
A large illegal facility for mining bitcoin was discovered by police in the Russian city of Orenburg. The farm has been set up on the...
Nasdaq-Listed Marathon Begins Bitcoin Mining Operations, Stock Up 32%
Traditional stock investors have just gotten another avenue for indirect exposure to the bitcoin market. A Nasdaq exchange listed former...
South African Google Searches for Bitcoin Spike Amid Economic Uncertainty
Economic uncertainty appears to have spurred a significant spike in the number of South African citizens engaging with bitcoin and...
80% of Companies Are Interested in Bitcoin Transactions, Survey Finds
Another survey has revealed that the business world is eager to start using bitcoin to save on transactions costs and reduce dependence on...
Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Making Millions from Just Listing Coins
Running a major cryptocurrency exchange is a lucrative business. Coinbase is reported to have made over $1 billion last year, and Binance...
Former Thai Finance Minister Supports Proposals for SEC-Regulated Cryptocurrency Sector
The Chairman of the Thai Fintech Association (TFA) and Thailand’s Former Finance Minister, Korn Chatikavanij, has offered his support for...
John Oliver Tackles Cryptocurrency on Last Week Tonight
On Sunday evening, John Oliver devoted 25 minutes to cryptocurrency on his eponymous HBO Show. The comedian and political commentator...
Thomson Reuters and Marketpsych Launch Bitcoin Sentiment Index
Thomson Reuters Corp has announced the launch of a gauge tracking the sentiment of cryptocurrency traders. The metric will track and...
Dutch Finance Minister Advocates Changes to European Crypto Laws
Wopke Hoekstra, the Dutch finance minister, has issued a letter to Holland’s parliament describing the current regulatory framework...
PR: Globatalent Announces Sports ICO
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Markets Update: Crypto Assets Spike But Traders Are Skeptical
Most of the top crypto assets are seeing gains today as many cryptocurrencies suffered losses over the past week. BTC/USD markets reached...
PwC Reveals Blockchain Analytics Tool For Tracking ICO Tokens
Major accounting firm, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), has announced that it is currently trialing a blockchain analytics tool designed to...
Blockchain Technology Talk is Largely Nonsense
Every so often, corporate business blushes its latest fad speak. Disruptive. Paradigm shift. 2.0, 3.0. Game changer. For about half a...
‘Cryptomatoes’ Using Excess Mining Heat to Grow Produce
Over the past couple of years, there’s been a lot of discussions concerning the energy consumed by cryptocurrency mining. However, more...
This Week in Bitcoin: Black Swans
It would be an unusual week in bitcoin where there weren’t glum tidings to report, be it an exchange hack, regulatory clampdown, or edict...
PR: DIWtoken.com Proposes the Creation of a Global, Blockchain-Based Network to End Online Fraud and Data Breaches
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Study Finds $3B Worth of Faked Cryptocurrency Volumes and Wash Trades
On March 10 a cryptocurrency trader and researcher published a report on how he believes $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency trade volumes,...
China’s PBOC Governor Speaks Against Speculative Cryptocurrencies
This week the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, spoke about both public and privately issued cryptocurrencies. Zhou...
Silicon Valley VCs Help Crypto Hedge Fund Reach Quarter Billion Target
With bitcoin hovering at around only $9,000 and the entire cryptocurrency market at similar low levels, short term speculators are acting...
South Korea Internet Giant Moves Deeper Into Crypto
What a week for the peninsular nation, 대한민국 Republic of Korea. Moon Jae-in’s administration appears to have brokered a potential meeting...
Bitmain Opens Repair Center in Russia
Leading manufacturer of crypto mining equipment Bitmain has opened a service center in Russia. Miners in the country will be able to...
Binance Offers $10 Million Hacker Bounty
In the wake of Wednesday’s market manipulation incident which caused all kinds of mischief, Binance has issued a hacker bounty. A total of...
What If the SEC Is Going After the SAFT?
Rumors seem to be feeding rumors as it relates to a spate of subpoenas sent out recently to initial coin offering (ICO) issuers by the...
Adding Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Is Main Goal of 2018 for Gemini Exchange
Bitcoin cash and litecoin futures might be coming to Cboe as soon as this year. The Gemini exchange, which supplies the data feed for the...
PR: Introducing Emotiq – a Next-Generation Blockchain with Powerful Scalability and Privacy
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Bitcoin – A China Perspective
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Excessive Crypto Regulation Not Optimal, EU Banking Authority Says
The Chairman of the European Banking Authority has spoken against excessive regulation of the crypto sector, warning it might constrain...
Finnish Crypto Services Provider Prasos Loses 4 of 5 Banking Partners
Finnish bitcoin services provider, Prasos, has lost all but one of its banking partners. Prasos’ chief executive officer recently revealed...
Anecdotal Reports Suggest Google is Cracking Down on ICO Advertising
According to the anecdotal reports of several companies operating in the initial coin offering (ICO) industry, Google is taking steps to...
PR: Zero Edge – How Blockchain Can Solve Problems for Online Gambling Sites?
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Tennessee Lawmakers Aim to Obstruct Retirement Funds from Cryptos
Last Tuesday Tennessee bureaucrats pushed forth a bill through the Tennessee Senate Ways and Means Committee that aims to obstruct...
Thailand Dodges Extreme Cryptocurrency Regulations
The Thai Deputy Prime Minister has mandated that the law on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings be finalized within a month. The...
Bitcoin Sports Betting Site Under Investigation in Australia
Australian authorities have announced that Bitcoin-based sports betting website, Justbet, is currently the subject of an investigation....
Venezuelan President Claims Petro Pre-Sale Raked in $5 Billion
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed the pre-sale of the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro (PTR), has raised $5...
Belgium Warns of 19 Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms Showing Signs of Fraud
The Belgian financial authority has published a list of 19 cryptocurrency trading platforms that it had received complaints about. The...
A Look at This Week’s Bitcoin Cash Markets and Merchant Support
Bitcoin cash (BCH) markets have been declining in value following suit with BTC and a vast majority of cryptocurrency prices suffering...
PR: Verifier – the Idea of Using Blockchain to Verify Elections Is Not New
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75% of $20M Bitcoin Auction from Drug Busts
Nabbed in conjunction with various administrative, civil, and federal prosecutions, the United States Marshals are preparing to auction...