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US Navy Investigators Bust Bitcoin Drug Ring at Naval Academy
Despite recent claims that bitcoin is becoming less popular for illicit dealings on the dark web, investigations show that it is still the...
Bitpay Bans Payments to Merchants of Explicit Content, Cloud-Mining and Gambling
Bitcoin was originally created to free people’s money from the control and censorship of regulators, banks and governments. Companies in...
Poland Refutes Reports of Its Interest in Venezuela’s Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency
Poland’s Ministry of Finance has refuted reports that it is interested in the petro, the Venezuelan ”oil-backed” currency. Earlier this...
People Who Don’t Understand Cryptocurrency Should Probably Stop Writing About It
It’s only February, but the award for most inaccurate cryptocurrency article of the year is already in the bag. The Financial Post, which...
PR: Unicorn Go Ltd. and ITO Center Create the UnicornGO Collection Game
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Transaction Batching: Good for Fees, Bad for Privacy
Over the past few weeks, many people have noticed that bitcoin core network fees and transactions times have been a lot better than two...
Poll: Bitcoin More Popular With Czechs than the Euro
Czechs are more inclined to store value in cryptos than in euros, according to a new poll gauging attitudes toward currencies other than...
Amelie Arras Prepares to Defend Bitcoin’s Title at Money 20/20 Asia Race
It has been announced that the Marketing Director of Adastra Marketing, Amelie Arras, will look to defend bitcoin’s crown in the upcoming...
Georgia Lawmakers Propose Tax Amendment That Allows Bitcoin Payments
Residents from the state of Georgia may soon be able to pay their taxes in bitcoin as two senators have introduced a bill that allows...
Uzbekistan to Legalize Bitcoin and Support Developers
Uzbekistan has taken the road to bitcoin legalization. In accordance with a presidential decree, a law regulating “electronic money”...
Hacker Returns 20,000 ETH to Coindash
Coindash has announced that 20,000 ETH have been sent to the company’s wallet from the address associated with the hacker that stole...
Coinbase Compelled by IRS to Provide 13,000 Customers’ Information
Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been forced by court order to hand over thousands and thousands of its customers’ names and...
Thai Bank Terminates Account of Local Cryptocurrency Exchange
A major bank in Thailand has reportedly terminated the bank account of a local cryptocurrency exchange, following an announcement by the...
PR: Jason Butcher Joins Advisory Board of Xinfin, the Singapore Based Fastest Growing Blockchain Technology Company
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Venezuelan Government Opens School to Teach Citizens About Cryptocurrencies
The Venezuelan government has opened a school in the capital city to teach its citizens how to buy, sell, and mine cryptocurrencies,...
New Plant to Assemble Mining Rigs in Belarus
Plans to build a new manufacturing facility for mining equipment have been announced in Belarus. It will be situated in the...
Some Major Canadian Banks Still Allow Cryptocurrency Credit Card Transactions
While TD Bank has revised its policies and stopped allowing customers to purchase cryptocurrencies using its credit cards, some major...
Nasdaq-Listed “Blockchain” Companies Hit With New Legal Troubles
Adding “Blockchain” to the name of their firms have proved to be very beneficial to the top management of publicly listed companies over...
New Bitcoin Embassy Opens in the United States
A mooted Bitcoin Embassy is the first of its kind, since an early attempt in New York City, for a bitcoin gathering place. It was American...
PR: LiveTree – the Beginning of the End of the Centralized Entertainment Industry
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Korea Investigates 20 Public Companies for Using Crypto Claims to Boost Share Prices
The South Korean financial authorities are investigating 20 publicly listed companies for unfairly using cryptocurrency claims to boost...
Bitcoin.org Owner Asks the Community to Change Bitcoin’s Central PoW Algorithm
This week the owner of the web portal Bitcoin.org and Bitcointalk, a pseudonym called Cobra wrote an open letter to the bitcoin community...
Bank of America Acknowledges the Threat Posed by Cryptocurrency
For all the inroads that bitcoin has made on the current financial system, it has yet to threaten their ascendancy. The CEOs of Paypal,...
Trading Tip `The Wall´ – Meet the TA Gods
Whether TA works or not is a topic discussed ad nauseam in cryptocurrency circles. As a cryptocurrency trader with a fascination for...
Japanese Police Reveal 669 Money Laundering Cases Tied to Local Exchanges
Just recently Japanese investigators revealed they had obtained 669 reports concerning “suspected money laundering” tied to cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Launches SegWit Compatability
Coinbase have announced that the site will now be implementing SegWit on Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals. The transition is being...
Wendy McElroy: Privacy Is the Virtue That Sparked the American Revolution
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 2: The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 6: Privacy is a...
What to Expect When You Order a Hardware Wallet
Over the past few months, well known hardware wallet manufacturers have been swamped with sales during and after the holiday season....
Gifting Bitcoin Is One Way a Person Can Avoid Paying Crypto-Taxes
After the newly written U.S. tax laws recently passed, cryptocurrency investors realized the tax-free exemption filing 1031 for IRS...
PR: Why the Bitcoin Holders Should Hurry up to Invest in e-Chat Before March 1, 2018
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Bitcoin Is Finding Its Way into High Schools
Over the past few years, colleges and universities all over the world have been creating courses revolving around cryptocurrencies and...
Vladivostok Discussed as Russia’s New ”Crypto Hub”
Bankers and government officials have discussed the possible creation of a crypto valley on Russia’s Pacific coast. Representatives of the...
French Manufacturer Archos Launches Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
Cryptocurrency users are blessed with an increasing choice of hardware wallets. Ledger and Trezor, the two dominant players in the space,...
Austria Wants to Regulate Bitcoin like Gold and Derivatives
Austria Finance Minister Hartwig Löger is urging both his country and the broader European Union to treat cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin...
Bitcoin Hardware Manufacturer Bitmain Made a Profit of up to $4 Billion Last Year
The wealth of bitcoin mining titan Bitmain has long been assumed to be north of “huge”. Thanks to its near-monopolization of the ASIC...
Finance Ministry Employees Caught Mining Cryptos in Kazakhstan
The Ministry of Finance in Kazakhstan has announced measures to improve security and oversight in its IT department after catching four...
Montana Scores $250 Million Bitcoin Mining Campus
The Big Sky Country state of Montana keeps raking them in. For the second time this month, a mining operation is announcing its moving to...
Report Claims 34,000 Ethereum Smart Contracts Are Vulnerable to Bugs
Over 34,000 ethereum smart contracts containing $4.4 million in ETH may be vulnerable to exploitation. That’s the conclusion reached by a...
Bitcoin Fees Drop $26 down to $3: Why It Happened And What It Means
The average cost of sending a bitcoin transaction is cheaper than it's been in a year and a half, showing the price isn't the...
Turkish Minister Proposes National Cryptocurrency
The deputy chair of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu, has written a 22-page report seeking to highlight...
Sneak Peek: Mexico’s Regulations for Crypto Exchanges Expected in ‘Weeks’
Mexico’s bill to regulate fintech institutions including cryptocurrency exchanges is expected to become law within “weeks,” according to...
Oregon’s Cheap Hydropower Attracts a Swarm of Bitcoin Miners
Over the past few months, quite a few bitcoin miners have been flocking to regions in North America in places such as Vancouver, and...
Maduro Asks Venezuela’s Banks to Mine and Use Cryptocurrency – Unions Outraged
Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has authorized all savings banks in the country to mine and use the recently launched national...
PR: US Fintech Expert From Prudential Financial Launches Cryptocurrency – Backed Lending Startup Money Token
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An Ethereum Classic Fork Snapshot Is Coming Next Week
Next week the ethereum classic (ETC) community is expecting to receive coins from a ‘snapshot’ fork called ‘callisto’ (CLO). The clone...
46% of Last Year’s ICOs Have Failed Already
It has always been assumed that a large number of ICOs will fail, be it at the fundraising stage or when it comes to delivering the actual...
Crypto-Backed SALT Claims $1.3 Billion Backlog, Suspends New Memberships
Secured Automated Lending Technology (SALT) has an enviable problem if its recent Medium post is to be believed. The membership-based...
France Cracks Down on Bitcoin Derivatives
Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the independent regulatory body governing France’s stock market, issued two statements today, one...
Centralized Cryptoruble Not Possible, Minister Tells Putin
The Russian Ministry of Finance is not against a national cryptocurrency, provided the state does not participate in it. The creation of a...
California Bill Aims to Recognize Blockchain Records
The state of California has introduced a new bill that aims to recognize blockchain transactions, digital signatures, and smart contracts...
Four Arrested Following Taiwanese Crypto Robbery
Taiwanese police have arrested four men after a bitcoin robbery worth five million Taiwanese dollars (approximately $170,000 USD). The...
Russia to “Tame and Test” Crypto Technologies in Crimea
A proposal to “tame” crypto technologies in Crimea has been made in Russia’s parliament this week. A local representative of the Russian...
Venezuela Orders Government Services to Accept Any Cryptocurrency
Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has ordered the country’s consular services, as well as several other services and gas stations, to...
Australia’s Consumer Watchdog Received 1289 Crypto Complaints in 2017
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has revealed that it received more than 1,200 complaints relating to...
Spokesperson Confirms Bitfinex Is Client of ING
Major Dutch financial services company, ING, has confirmed that Bitfinex holds an account with the company in the Netherlands. The bank...
Markets Update: BTC Prices Dip Below $10K
BTC prices and a vast majority of other cryptocurrencies have taken a significant dive over the past 24-hours as the entire crypto-economy...
FBI Arrests Exchange Operator for Lying About 6000 Bitcoin Hack
Jon E. Montroll, a 37 year old from Texas, is now facing up to 30 years in jail for perjury and obstruction of justice. The operator of...
The ICO Is Dead. Long Live the ICO 2.0
By Howard Marks The entire cryptocurrency industry is full of debates about regulation and which victims the SEC will go after next....
France Cracks Down on Unregulated Cryptocurrency Futures Trading
France’s chief financial markets watchdog said Thursday that it will crack down on unregulated cryptocurrency futures and derivatives...
Robinhood Starts Rolling Out Cryptocurrency Trading Today
Robinhood has finally launched today its highly anticipated crypto trading for bitcoin and ethereum, allowing its now 4 million investors...
Russian Lawmaker Proposes Legalization of Cryptocurrencies to Attract Investments
The head of the Russian State Duma Committee for Economic Policy has proposed legalizing cryptocurrencies in order to attract foreign...
Bug at Japanese Government-Approved Zaif Exchange Let Users Get Free Bitcoin
Have you ever dreamed about buying bitcoin for only $1,000, $100 or even just $10? What about a round at $0? Some fast and sharp eyed...
Islamic Republic of Iran to “Control and Prevent” Growth of Cryptocurrencies
جمهوری اسلامی ایران The Islamic Republic of Iran has apparently changed course on cryptocurrency, or perhaps it has clarified its real...
PR: IQeon Gaming Ecosystem – Female Celebrities and Their Favorite Computer Games
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Russian Authorities Criticized over Proposed Crypto Regulation
Criticism aimed at authorities and the new legislation on “digital financial assets” is mounting in Russia. Local officials have rebuked...
Ross Ulbricht Denied Post-Conviction Relief Extension
The man convicted of creating the Silk Road marketplace, Ross Ulbricht, has lost yet another appeal to extend his “post-conviction...
66% of Funding to Stop the AI Apocalypse Comes from Crypto Donors
Have you ever suffered from existential dread about what will happen when the smart contracts will be smarter than you? Or that a...
Bitcoin Skeptic Dennis Gartman Duped by Dubious Blockchain Investment
‘Commodities King’ Dennis Gartman has been left with a red face and diminished pension fund after investing in a dubious blockchain...
Bitcoin Usage Falls to Its Lowest in Months
There’s never a bad time to be sending and receiving bitcoin, but right now is especially good. Fees are at the lowest in 18 months, with...
You Can Now Tokenize Yourself
The future was meant to involve flying cars and jetpacks. Instead, it involves tokenizing yourself on the blockchain. It was Andy Warhol...
PR: Bitcoin Holders, Please Claim Your BCP and BCPC, as They Will Be on Exchanges Soon
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Bafin Clarifies Stance on ICOs as More Germans Ask About Tokens
Germany’s financial regulator has clarified its position on initial coin offerings. Bafin admitted it was receiving many inquiries about...
Sell-Off Incoming? Someone Just Split & Moved 664,000 Bitcoin Gold
Bitcoin Gold investors might want to brace for impact because someone just moved approximately 664,000 BTG — coins which had lain...
Regain Control From Nanny Zuck – How To Make Facebook Show You The News Again
The beginning of 2018 saw a dramatic change in how the world’s most popular social media platform, Facebook, presented its content....
What We’ve Learned About Venezuela’s Petro Token
The government of Venezuela published several guides Tuesday in support of the presale for its "petro" cryptocurrency. By Nikhilesh De...
How South Korean Government Prevents Officials from Insider Crypto Trading
South Korea currently has no law against government officials insider trading with the knowledge of cryptocurrency regulations. The case...
Tesla Hit by Hackers Who Used its Systems to Mine Cryptocurrency
Elon Musk might be able to send his personal Tesla car into space, he might change the way humanity produces and stores energy, and he...
PR: SaaS Company Axpire – for a Better Future
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Smartbtc Sees the Need for Centralized Python-Based Smart Contracts
Just recently the startup Smartbtc announced the execution of a bitcoin-based smart contract written in the Python codebase. The team...
Italy Completes Consultations on Registration of Crypto Companies
Public consultations on a new regulatory regime for crypto companies in Italy are now closed. Interested parties were invited by the...
Venezuela Says Pre-Sale of Oil-Backed Petro Cryptocurrency Has Raised $735 Million
Venezuela has announced that the pre-sale of its oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, has attracted $735 million on the first day. The...
ICOs Have Raised $2 Billion This Year – Mostly from Private Sales
Despite the quality of this year’s initial crowd offerings being patchy at best, investors’ appetite for them remains unsated. $2 billion...
SBI Doesn’t Ban Credit Card Crypto Purchases Despite Issuing Warning
SBI Cards & Payments Services Pvt. Ltd, the second largest issuer of credit cards in India, has warned customers of the risks associated...
Tim Draper on Bitcoin: “Why Would I Sell the Future for the Past?”
One of the most intriguing things about the cryptocurrency space is the diverse, eclectic, and often eccentric characters it attracts....
US Federal Authorities Arrest Man for Selling 9.99 Bitcoin
If you are thinking about selling bitcoin for cash inside the Unites States to people you don’t know, caution is advised. A reminder to...
South Korean Regulator Supports ‘Normal’ Cryptocurrency Transactions
The director of the South Korean Financial Supervisory Service has announced that the government will support “normal” transactions of...
Bangladesh Authorities on “Hunt” for Bitcoin Traders
Bangladesh – one of the few countries presently attempting to enforce a ban on cryptocurrency trading and use – has announced that several...
Antminer S5 Disrupts T-Mobile Broadband Network
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has demanded that a New York City resident turn off his bitcoin mining hardware after it...
US Lawmakers Eye National Crypto Regulation
Gun control? Russia? Health care? Members of the US House of Representatives and Senate in both parties tend to differ, and often...
PR: Smart Contract Platform Fabric Token Raises More Than $1 Million in Less Than a Day After ICO Open
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