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PR: Video Surveillance Faceter – Presale Date Is Changed
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Bitcoin Tax Reporting Software Developer Node40 Acquired for $8m
A publicly traded Canadian crypto miner has just made a $8 million bet that all bitcoin users around the world will eventually be...
Search the Blockchain With Bitcoin.com’s New Block Explorer
This week the team at Bitcoin.com, the internet’s premier bitcoin portal, launched its block explorer enabling cryptocurrency enthusiasts...
Coinshares Group Plans to Launch New Crypto-Investment Funds
This week the firm Coinshares Group has announced two new investment vehicles tethered to cryptocurrencies. Coinshares was the first...
Ukraine’s Cyberpolice Supports Legalization of Cryptocurrencies
The cybercrime combating department of Ukrainian Police has voiced support for the legalization of cryptocurrencies despite sharing some...
Hawaii’s New Money Transmitters Act Will Require Virtual Currency Licenses
The state of Hawaii is planning to regulate the use of bitcoin and digital currencies that would require licensure to transmit...
South Korean Court Rules Bitcoin Has Economic Value
A South Korean court has ruled that bitcoin has an economic value for the first time. This overturned an earlier court ruling which did...
PR: BCShop.io Aids Ethereum Business Adoption
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Number of People Looking for Crypto-Careers Increased 10-Fold in 2017
New data from the UK shows that interest in crypto careers more than doubled in December 2017 when the all time high Bitcoin price record...
South Korea Finds Nearly $600 Million in Crypto Crime
Reports from the 대한민국 Republic of South Korea (ROK) indicate its Customs Service announced on Wednesday, 31 January 2018, it has...
PR: All Crypto – Friendly Venues Are Finally Listed in One App – CryptoFind
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Venezuela Announces Whitepaper and Pre-Sale of Its Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency Petro
Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has announced the pre-sale of his country’s national oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro. In...
Facebook Bans Cryptocurrency Ads
Following persistent complaints about spammy and fraudulent cryptocurrency ads, Facebook has issued an outright ban. As of a new ruling...
Deep Web Roundup: Dream Adds Monero and Bitcoin Tumbler “Chip Mixer” Launches
The darknet has been quiet of late, which is the way it’s meant to be. No news means no mega busts, honeypots, or mass market shutdowns....
U.S. Regulators Send Tether and Bitfinex Subpoenas
There’s been a lot of discussion and controversy surrounding Tether (USDT) a digital asset that claims to be backed by the U.S. dollar....
Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs David Birch on The Bitcoin Standard
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, by bitcoin maximalist Saifedean Ammous, is set for a spring...
PR: ETicket4 Launch Its Pre ICO and Offers Qualitatively New Dimensions in the Ticket Industry
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Coincheck to Repay Hack Victims’ XEM Balances at 81 U.S. Cents Each
Major Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has announced that it will reimburse the accounts of the 260,000 customers who lost XEM...
Samsung Enters the Bitcoin Mining ASIC Manufacturing Business
Korean electronics giant Samsung is the latest chip manufacturer to enter the bitcoin mining hardware market. The company’s foundry has...
Europol and Interpol to Increase Measures Against BTC Laundering
A two-day workshop involving over sixty financial investigators in Basel, Switzerland has seen Europol and Interpol agree upon a range of...
US Financial Regulator Requests Crypto Trading Data From South Korea
The New York State Department of Financial Services has asked two South Korean financial authorities to share cryptocurrency-related data...
South Korea Ends Anonymous Cryptocurrency Trading Today
The new South Korean cryptocurrency account system has entered into force nationwide today, ending the current practice that allowed for...
PR: Viola.Ai Token Pre-Sale Sells out More Than 5 Days Ahead
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Neo ICOs Make a Shaky Start
The Neo platform was designed to serve as a launchpad for Initial Coin Offerings. Since hosting the Red Pulse ICO last year, Neo has...
Tether Severs Ties With Its Auditor, Leaving Its Accounts Shrouded in Mystery
Barely a week passes when Tether isn’t in the news. For a so-called stable coin, Tether and its acolyte Bitfinex are at the center of a...
Vegetables on a Blockchain ICO Exit Scams After Paying People to Write On Their Bodies
The current cryptocurrency investments ecosystem is one of the purest forms of a free market in economic history. This gives rise to an...
Charitystars Auction With Roger Ver Raises $87K for Antiwar.com
On January 25th, 2018, the online auction platform, Charitystars, finished its bidding auction that featured a chance to win a private...
New Website Ranks 600 Cryptocurrencies by Github Activity
From market cap to trading volume, there’s a lot of ways to assess and quantify cryptocurrencies. Traders evaluating new crypto projects...
Hong Kong Fund Acquires Chinese Mining Powerhouse BTCC
On January 29 the longstanding Chinese bitcoin company BTCC has announced it was acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment fund. The...
The 2018 Satoshi’s Vision Conference Heads to Japan
After the successful ‘Satoshi’s Vision Conference’ held in San Francisco in 2016, and last year’s ‘The Future of Bitcoin’ event in Arnhem,...
Ethereum Is Quietly Closing In on Record Price Highs
By Omkar Godbole Ethereum's ether token could revisit record highs very soon, courtesy of last week's bullish price action, the price...
AIER Researchers: Bitcoin’s Price Moves with News
Researchers at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) teamed with Missouri University to examine whether the price of bitcoin...
PR: Propy Launches the First Pilot in the US for Blockchain Land Registry
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Us Government Scientists: “Bitcoin Is a Fork and Bitcoin Cash Is the Original”
Answering demands from the private and public sectors, US government scientists have created a guide to the technology behind bitcoin and...
PR: LiveTree Adept and the 21 Million Project Partner on First-Ever Blockchain TV Drama
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Japanese Crypto Exchanges Strengthen Self-Regulation Following Coincheck Hack
Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges are strengthening their self-regulation procedures following the hack of one of the country’s largest...
Russia Developing System to Identify Crypto Miners but Considers Giving Them Tax Break
A Russian ministry is preparing a bill for the regulation of cryptocurrency mining which reportedly includes a “special system” to detect...
Singapore Mall Sells Cryptocurrency Mining Hardware
Cryptocurrency miners in Singapore can now buy their rigs pre-assembled right at the mall as more retail computer hardware shops enter...
University College London Fights CV Fraud via Bitcoin Verification
Imagine getting treated by a doctor with a fake diploma, or losing a job to another candidate who faked his resume. Unfortunately, such...
Russia’s Longest-Serving Finance Minister Backs Crypto “Self-Regulation”
Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin favors “self-regulation” in the cryptocurrency sector. He believes it will be more...
Growing Number of South Korean Crypto Exchanges Participate in Self-Regulation
The number of cryptocurrency exchanges participating in self-regulation has nearly doubled in South Korea. The crypto self-regulation...
Report Finds Correlation Between USDT Issuances and BTC Price Moves
The Tether Report, a pseudonymously authored analysis examining the speculative assertion that bitcoin price volatility is highly...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies Recover Gains After the Coincheck Hack
Bitcoin markets and cryptocurrencies values across the board are seeing healthy rebounds after the past three weeks of price dips. At the...
Lightning and Mainnet: A Look at the Protocol’s Hype, Trials, and Error
Over the past few weeks, there’s been a lot of hyped up discussion about the Lightning Network (LN) from those who believe it will help...
This Week in Bitcoin: Japan Gets Goxxed and Iota Gets Into a Tangle
For the first time in forever, this week in bitcoin was strangely subdued. No major price movements, no regulatory crackdowns and no...
PR: DocCoin Announces Pre-ICO for Blockchain Protocol Telehealth Services
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Bitcoin Futures Report Shows Bullish Sentiment Is In the Air
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets, in general, have been bearish during the first month of 2018 after many digital assets reached...
Why Venezuela’s New National Cryptocurrency El Petro Will Fail
Washington and legacy media are in a tizzy about Venezuela reportedly thwarting international sanctions by way of a dreaded state-backed...
PR: Mycelium Wallet Partners with Changelly Exchange
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Japan’s Largest Consumer Electronics Chain Trials Bitcoin Payments
Japan’s largest consumer electronics retailer Yamada Denki has partnered with the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bitflyer to...
Bitcoin Cash Supporters Prepare for the Network’s Next Six Months
It’s been six months since the inception of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network, and the decentralized currency’s infrastructure continues to...
Lawyers Are Taking Payment in Bitcoin Despite Conflict of Interest Concerns
An increasing number of lawyers are taking payment in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. With many ICO startups destitute until their...
Indians Expect Clarity on Bitcoin Taxes within Days
Under mounting pressure to make decisions and take steps to clarify cryptocurrency matters, the Indian government may soon shed some light...
Thailand Taking Steps to Regulate ICOs
As part of its balanced approach, Thailand is taking further steps to regulate initial coin offerings by expanding current guidelines....
U.S. Agency ICE Conducts Investigations That Exploit Blockchain Activity
On January 25 the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deputy assistant director, Greg Nevano, explained in a testimony that the...
Robinhood Brings Free Transactions To Coinbase’s $1B Party
The big news in crypto isn’t a $400 million loss (yawn), but the hotting battle between exchanges for the biggest slice of the consumer...
How Big Will Telegram’s ICO End Up Being?
Telegram, a privacy-centered messaging application, is planning a massive initial coin offering (ICO) that appears to be drawing similar...
PR: Okoin VR Project Launches 2nd ICO Round
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Australian Gold Refinery Announces Plan to Develop Cryptocurrency
Perth Mint, Australia’s largest gold refiner, has announced plans for the development a cryptocurrency backed by physical gold. If...
Trading Tip `The Wall´ – Wall Street Price Manipulation? Go Long
Trading is arrogant, be it on Wall Street or across crypto exchanges. In order to trade rather than hodl, you must fundamentally believe...
Role Playing Game Imperatum Adds Dynamic ‘Bitcoin Mode’ Difficulty
Fans of the Role Playing Game (RPG) Imperatum now have the chance to play an all-new level in their favorite Sci-Fi simulator. Imperatum...
The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 4: Kiss a Computer Engineer Today (Part 4)
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 2 : The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 4: When Privacy is...
Discover Card’s 44 Million Customers Denied Crypto
The credit card company crypto squeeze continued this week with Discover Card announcing it would not allow its customers to use their...
Bill Submitted to Make Cryptoruble Legal Tender in Russia
A bill has been submitted to the Russian parliament to make the country’s national “cryptocurrency,” the cryptoruble, legal tender in...
George Soros: Bitcoin is Propped Up by Dictators
Legendary currency trader, hedge fund titan, philanthropist George Soros, 87, delivered his yearly talk at The World Economic Forum 2018...
Cobinhood to Adopt Controversial Stablecoin Tether After Termination of Banking Services
Recently launched cryptocurrency service platform, Cobinhood, has announced that it has suffered a termination of services from its...
Vietnam Imported More Mining Rigs in 3 Weeks This Month Than All of Last Year
The Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department has revealed that in the first 3 weeks of this month almost 8,000 mining rigs were imported into...
Coincheck Faces Pressing Questions in the Wake of the World’s Biggest Hack
It was, by any reckoning, a huge haul. Between $400 million and $534 million dollars of NEM stolen, depending on whether you go on its...
Coinsquare to Launch IPO on TSX — Hopes to Compete With Coinbase
This week the well known Canadian digital asset exchange, Coinsquare announced its plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) hoping...
Fintech Company Mogo Plans to Launch Bitcoin Mine in British Columbia
This week the publicly traded firm Mogo Finance Technology Inc. (TSX: MOGO) announced the creation of a new subsidiary called Mogo...
Chairmen of SEC and CFTC Co-Author Article on Crypto Regulations
Jay Clayton, the chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and J. Christopher Giancarlo, the chairman of the...
Exchange group Nasdaq Inc and Nordic financial services group SEB have teamed up to test a blockchain-based mutual fund trading platform…
...For the Swedish market in an effort to simplify and make the process faster. The platform would enable fund companies, distributors and...
South Korean National Pension Fund Indirectly Invests In Crypto Exchanges
The South Korean National Pension Fund has been indirectly investing billions of won in cryptocurrency exchanges such as Upbit,...
PR: Game Machine – Exciting Time to Be an Investor in Gaming Industry
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Most Cryptocurrencies Are More Centralized Than You Think
The whole point of cryptocurrencies is that they’re decentralized. Peer-to-peer cash; trustless exchange; bypassing intermediaries. So why...
Bitgo Snaps Up Kingdom Trust, Paving the Way for Custodial Cryptocurrency Offerings
Bitcoin payment specialists Bitgo have announced the acquisition of Kingdom Trust, an investment firm with custody of over $12 billion in...
Arsenal Football Club Partners with Gambling ICO
Premier League football club Arsenal FC has announced a partnership with Cashbet, a cryptocurrency marketing itself as being “designed...
Bank of Japan: No Big Problems With Bitcoin So Far
It’s not the sexiest headline in the world, but so far things with bitcoin seem to be going relatively well in Japan, according to a Bank...
Malta Extends Scope of Proposed Virtual Currency Regulations
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has published a ”feedback statement” regarding its proposal for regulatory guidelines...
Coincheck Halts Operations Amidst Hacking Rumors After $723 Million Withdrawn
One of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges has halted all withdrawals amidst rumors of a large-scale hack. Ripple worth $123 million...
Robinhood Smartphone Trading App Adding Bitcoin and Ether
Popular smartphone app Robinhood announced it will begin to allow users to trade bitcoin next month, and without transaction fees. Until...
Russia Finalizes Federal Law on Cryptocurrency Regulation
The Russian government is in the process of finalizing the federal law for the regulation of cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings....
PR: Genie Financial Services ICO Adds Cryptocurrency Heavyweight David Drake and Other Experts to Its Advisory Board
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Bitconnect Faces Lawsuit for Operating “Wide-Reaching Ponzi Scheme”
Bitconnect is facing litigation from six individuals accusing the company of operating a Ponzi scheme in addition to numerous violations...
Bitcoin 2018 Price Projection Using Monte Carlo Random Walks: ~50,000 USD
Using the Monte Carlo statistical projection method, combined with what are known as random walks, Xoel López Barata developed some pretty...
FX Platform Integral Now Covers Bitcoin, BCH and a Dozen More Cryptocurrencies
As more FX traders are demanding access to the hottest market these days, all banks and brokers will have to respond sooner rather than...
Goldman Sachs CEO: ‘Bitcoin Trading Desk Rumors Are Not True’
According to multiple reports back in October and December of last year, it was said that the financial institution Goldman Sachs had...
CFTC Files Against ‘My Big Coin’ for Scamming $6 Million USD
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against “a virtual currency know as My Big Coin (MBC).” The CFTC...
Canadian Financial Service Versabank Launches Digital Asset Vault
The well known Canadian financial institution Versabank has announced it is in the midst of building a new vault initiative for customers...
All Major Korean Cryptocurrency Exchanges Fail Privacy Tests – 30 Days to Improve
The South Korean Communications Commission has conducted a survey of major cryptocurrency exchanges in the country and found them to have...