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Puerto Rico Report ‘Build Back Better’ Falls Short on Microgrids
In December 2017, a steering committee constituted in the wake of Hurricane Maria that devastated Puerto Rico wrote a report, "Build...
Analysts Point to Regulatory Vacuum as Driving Australian Cryptocurrency Banking Woes
There are increasingly publicized challenges posed to the Australian cryptocurrency industry by the country’s ‘big four’ banks’ refusal to...
RSK Mines Its Genesis Block – Bitcoin Now Has Ethereum-Like Smart Contract Platform
RSK Labs has finally mined its genesis block and formally launched its long-awaited Bitcoin-based smart contract platform and sidechain on...
French Entrepreneur’s Case to Overturn the Bitlicense Dismissed
This week the longstanding New York Supreme Court case involving the state’s Bitlicense was dismissed. The lone bitcoin entrepreneur, Theo...
Stellar Rockets into the Cryptocurrency Top 10 After Tripling in a Week
2018 is still in diapers and yet the cryptocurrency top 10 is already looking very different to last year. Gone are the likes of dash,...
Strong Cryptocurrency CFD Volumes Bring Record Revenues for Plus 500
The latest trading update from Plus 500 reveals a growing appetite for cryptocurrency exposure among contract-for-difference (CFD)...
Binance Exchange Disables New User Registrations
Anyone still sitting on the fence and considering whether to jump on the runaway cryptocurrency train way wish to make a move, because...
Bitconnect Slapped with Securities Emergency Cease and Desist Order
On Thursday the Texas Securities Commissioner (TSC) signed an Emergency Cease and Desist Order to stop Bitconnect from operating. The...
Canadians Harness Wind to Mine Bitcoin – in Romania
Canadian investors have decided to put money and effort into a wind-powered crypto mining undertaking in Romania. To make it happen, they...
Fantasy Football Giant Fanduel Launches ‘Bitcoin Bowl’ Contest
This week one the largest fantasy football leagues, Fanduel, announced it’s having an NFL playoffs contest called “The Bitcoin Bowl.” The...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Resolution: “Give People the Power” via Cryptocurrency
Mark Zuckerberg, founder, chairman, and CEO of social media platform Facebook, has posted his annual challenge. It’s often a look back at...
BTCC Founder Positive the PBOC Will Remove China’s Exchange Ban
This week the founder and CEO of the trading platform BTCC, Bobby Lee, was featured on the broadcast ‘Squawk Box’ and spoke about last...
Japanese Entertainment Giant DMM Launches Specialty Crypto Mining Lab
Japanese e-commerce and internet conglomerate DMM Group is creating a specialty lab for cryptocurrency mining. The company has also...
3 Decentralizing Trends: Empowering State Capitals, Consumers and the Capital Markets
Even as uncertainties loom, the outlook for clean energy technologies and business models is bright. We can pin this optimism in the...
Ripple Gateways Can Freeze Users’ Funds at Any Time
Ripple has been the talk of the town lately thanks to its rocketing value and growing market capitalization that’s making eyes at bitcoin....
A New Second Layer: Channel Factories
Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion about a new concept called ‘Channel Factories.’ The technology ultimately makes the Lightning...
New Bill Targets Solar, Storage for Disaster Resilience in Florida
A bill filed this week in the Florida state legislature aims to establish a pilot program to demonstrate the benefits of solar and energy...
Total Capitalization of the Crypto Markets Now Exceeds $750 Billion
The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has broken into new highs, with coinmarketcap indicating that the market cap of...
Risky Tariff Proposed for India’s Solar Panels Imports
India, the largest buyer of solar equipment from neighboring China, is considering a 7.5 percent tax on imported solar panels, according...
Bitcoin Futures Flat as Contracts Move Short and Merrill Lynch Imposes Ban
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the industry’s main regulatory arm, reports a net increase in short contracts; volume is...
These Dutch Researchers Are Mining Cryptocurrencies With Body Heat
Cryptocurrencies may be bringing us closer to a world of singularity and the Matrix more than we can imagine. One experiment designed by...
Austrian Brokerage Service Bitpanda Adds Full Bitcoin Cash Integration
Bitpanda (formerly known as Coinimal) is a cryptocurrency broker based in Vienna, Austria that operates brokerage services with dash,...
Blockchain Guild’s Community Fund Makes Its First Award for Bitcoin Development
The Blockchain Guild, a community fund set up to further bitcoin development, has made its first award. The project is designed to mentor...
Venezuela Seeks Miners for the Petro – Maduro Claims 860,811 Already Signed Up
Venezuela is looking for miners for the country’s national cryptocurrency, the Petro. The government has opened up a registry for miners...
Chinese Cryptocurrency Exchanges Delay Launching in South Korea Due to Regulation
Two major Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges have delayed their launches in South Korea due to uncertainties surrounding the government’s...
Statistical Analysis Reveals Ties That Bind the Cryptocurrency Markets
Predicting the price movements of cryptocurrencies is a dark art that combines technical and fundamental analysis with an understanding of...
Hooters Investor Joins the Crypto Hype: “Eating a Burger Is Now a Way to Mine!”
Companies routinely roll out new loyalty programs with much fanfare but arouse little to no excitement from investors, at least until they...
African Holding Company VP Urges Central Bank to Buy Bitcoin and Ditch Dollar
Concerned about the US dollar’s predicted drop in value, and many African countries relying on USD cash reserves, vice president of Groupe...
Bitcoin Mining ICO Giga Watt is Being Sued for Securities Fraud
Another month, another ICO lawsuit. This time it’s Giga Watt in the firing line, a startup whose aim is to launch a cryptocurrency mining...
I Am an AI Researcher. This Is What Keeps Me Up at Night.
Might I become “the destroyer of worlds,” as Oppenheimer lamented after spearheading the construction of the first nuclear bomb? By Arend...
Bitcoin Futures Are a Threat to Whole Banking System, Fears ECB Director
While major stock brokers are lining up to add bitcoin futures to their platforms, central bankers are apparently not too happy about it....
Cryptocurrency Mining Soars in Vietnam – Over 7000 Rigs Imported
The Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department has revealed the number of known mining rigs imported into Vietnam in 2017. Over 7,000 rigs were...
Chinese Central Bank Hosts Closed-Door Meeting on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Miners
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) today had a closed-door meeting on the use of electricity for bitcoin mining. The legitimacy of the news...
Of Venomous Toads and Precious Jewels — Farewell 2017!
When Shakespeare’s Duke in As You Like It is deposed and forced into exile by his wicked brother, losing everything and living rough in...
Top Seven Clean Energy Actions in 2017 — Ringing Out the Old Year and into 2018
2017 was a whirlwind of energy market records, policies, and reports. And here’s my list of the big seven areas of note. Source
We’ve Come A Long Way – Bitcoin Block Zero Was Born Nine Years Ago Today
On this day nine years ago, quietly, bitcoin and its blockchain network were birthed with block zero, the Genesis Block. Without...
New York Steps Up Energy Storage Investment, Sets 1,500 MW Storage Goal
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo yesterday said that the state is launching an initiative to deploy 1,500 MW of energy storage by 2025. To...
Bitcoin Fees Are Falling Amidst Greater Segwit Adoption
Transaction fees, a bugbear for many in the bitcoin community, are on their way down. Spiraling fees were a contentious issue that reached...
New York to Procure 800 MW of Offshore Wind in Next Two Years
As part of New York’s 2018 State of the State proposal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo yesterday said that New York will procure at least 800 MW of...
US Grid Needs to Go on a Diet to Get Leaner and Greener
Many regions of the U.S. have overbuilt and retained too many power plants, which can be detrimental to their owners, consumers, clean...
Rising Ripple Threatens to Usurp Bitcoin and Usher In “The Rippening”
First came ethereum, which threatened to unseat bitcoin as the dominant cryptocurrency in an event dubbed The Flippening. Then came...
Gavin Andresen Drops A New Concept On Github for Bitcoin Cash
On January 2 one of the most well-known developers for the original bitcoin protocol, Gavin Andresen, contributed an idea to Github called...
PR: LetBet Announces ICO to Revolutionize Online Gambling
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Community-Focused Exchanges with Proprietary Tokens Are Prospering
“Community” is a word that is synonymous with cryptocurrency projects, but aside expressing a desire to develop a strong user base, what...
From Mansions to Prisons: Bitcoin and Real-Estate Doesn’t Mix So Well
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding purchasing real-estate with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. However, even though bitcoin has spiked...
New Code Release Means Bitcoin Cash Addresses Are Just Around the Corner
The bitcoin cash community moved one step closer to having their own address format today with the release of Bitcoin ABC 0.16.2. The full...
Peter Thiel, Bitcoin Astronaut, Moves Markets with Crypto Moonshot
Investor Peter Thiel has reportedly made an all-in, rather giant, bet on bitcoin. Mainstream financial press is reporting his venture...
Putin Wants to Use Cryptoruble to Evade Sanctions But Bank of Russia Skeptical
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has reportedly commissioned work to create a cryptocurrency as a tool to circumvent international...
Gibraltar Launches Regulation to Protect Cryptocurrency Value and Reputation
A mechanism tailored to protect customers of cryptocurrency businesses in Gibraltar, and its own reputation, went into effect on January...
South Korea Expected to End Anonymous Crypto Trading by January 20
The South Korean government has been working on a system to enforce real-name identity verification on cryptocurrency traders. This system...
Bitcoin Adoption in Africa Hinders EAC Plans for a Unified Currency
Due to a declining economy and eroding national currencies, the East African Community (EAC), an intergovernmental central bank...
Jimmy Song Uses Andreas Antonopoulos Model, Open Sources Forthcoming Book
Jimmy Song, well-known bitcoin core developer, has embarked on writing a book for technical publisher O’Reilly. Programming Bitcoin is...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies See Big Gains After New Year’s Day
The second day of the new year sees cryptocurrency markets come back after another holiday slump over the past few days. Bitcoin core...
PR: The Segwit 2x Fork Has Been Successfully Launched on December 28th
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Bitcoin Cash Used to Pay for Music Records, Gift Cards, Plastic Surgery
With BTC transactions taking forever to complete and fees higher than ever, the adoption of bitcoin cash by small businesses and big...
Six Natural Resource Projects in Canada That Got it Right in 2017
Being an environmental journalist says DeSmog, at this point in history can be a bit, well, depressing. It often means bringing negative...
ICOs Raise Over $1 Billion in a Month for the First Time
While bitcoin and resurgent altcoins were claiming the headlines in December, ICOs were quietly claiming the money. From a media...
The Year Renewables Became Mainstream in Australia
South Australia’s lithium-ion battery grabbed the headlines in 2017, first when Elon Musk announced he’d build the world’s largest battery...
Top 5 State Legislative Issues of 2017
With another year behind us, it is time to take a look in the rearview mirror at the year that was for the advanced energy industry. Our...
Paving the Way for a Non-Electric Battery to Store Solar Energy
By UMassAmherst, with commentary by Jennifer Delony AMHERST, Mass. - Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of...
Koreans Deposited 64 Times More Fiat Into Crypto Exchanges in 2017
The South Korean government has for the first time obtained data of the total amount of fiat deposits made at cryptocurrency exchanges. At...
PR: The Money Token AI Assistant, Amanda, Will Provide Blockchain Backed Loans to the Crypto Community
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Convenience Stores and Pawn Shops See Foot Traffic from Bitcoin ATMs
Bitcoin is continuing its popular trend throughout society, and these days the decentralized currency can now be purchased at your local...
The Bitcoin Exchange That Once Dominated China Is Heading to Japan
At one time the Beijing-based digital currency exchange Huobi was once the largest bitcoin trading platform in China before the central...
Japan’s GDP Grows Due to Bitcoin Wealth Effect
Analysts Yoshiyuki Suimon and Kazuki Miyamoto claim bitcoin will assist Japan in a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) boost of 0.3% heading into...
South Korean Exchanges Revise Policies to Comply with Crypto Regulation
South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchanges have implemented changes to comply with the government’s mandates announced last week. In addition...
‘Privacy Coin’ Verge is Allegedly Leaking Users’ IP Addresses
Privacy coins are meant to be private: that’s their raison d’être. Without this functionality, they’re just altcoins, and dangerous ones...
Public Firm Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Falsely Claiming Link to Bitcoin
An application for a class action lawsuit against Apollo Power (TASE: APLP) has been submitted to the Tel Aviv District Court. The solar...
PR: Gambling Affiliate Site Bonus.ca Joins the Bitcoin Community
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Localbitcoincash.org Plans to Add Zero-Fee BCH-Based ‘Shapeshifting’ Trades
Back in October, we reported on the launch of the peer-to-peer trading platform called Localbitcoincash. Since then the website has seen...
After Ripple’s Rise BTC Dominance Falls Below 40%
Despite being one of the most amazing periods of sustained gains for bitcoin, 2017 ends with the first cryptocurrency losing market share...
Bank of England Could Issue “Bitcoin-style Digital Currency” in 2018
The Bank of England might have “its own Bitcoin-style digital currency” this year already, according to the country’s legacy media. The...
PR: Promising ICOs and How to Spot Them – ICOtoInvest.com
The ICO market has exploded in 2017. Once a relatively unknown funding method, the total number of ICOs in the first half of 2017...
Venezuela Unveils Mining, Trading, and Launch Details of National Cryptocurrency
The Venezuelan government has published a decree outlining the operation of Venezuela’s national cryptocurrency, the Petro. It details the...
First Real Bitcoin Lightning Network Payment Completed via Bitrefill
Considering the persistent issues with the system at the moment, fast and cheap bitcoin (BTC) transactions might sound like a distant...
PR: Cryptocurrencies Are Now Instantly Spendable with MoxyOne’s White Labelled Debit Cards
Cryptocurrencies are now worth over $600 billion. This is more than the net worth of Amazon or Facebook. Owing to its continual...
CME Launches Bitcoin Futures Trading Simulator
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has launched a market simulation tool that allows newcomers to practice trading bitcoin futures without...
Global P2P Crypto Markets Experience Record Volume Throughout December
The global peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin markets have seen record trading volume as a consequence of last week’s major price retracement....
Is the Centralized Ripple Database With the Biggest Pre-Mine Really a Bitcoin Competitor?
The rise of ripple (XRP) over the past eight months has been interesting to many digital asset spectators and the network also has its...
Cryptocoinopoly Is the Game That Lets You Play the Cryptocurrency Markets with Friends
Someone was bound to create a cryptocurrency version of Monopoly. Well now they have, enabling you to gather friends and family to trade...
Korean Exchange Youbit May Avert Bankruptcy – Members Have 3 Options
South Korean exchange Youbit filed bankruptcy last week but has now come up with additional options to pay back its members. The exchange...
PR: Alibaba and eBay’s Representatives Support Global Marketplace Storiqa
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Markets Update: BTC Value Against the Dollar Continues to Slide
Another holiday cryptocurrency market slump is here as bitcoin, and a broad swathe of other digital assets, are hitting new lows during...
Trading Tip `The Wall´ – Absurd Profits from Zclassic a.k.a. Bitcoin Private
In just 3 months, the price of Zclassic (ZCL) has increased by +5,768%. In this post, I’ll give some background to what Zclassic is and...
The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 3: Exchanges – Exchanging Liberty for Convenience? (Part 6)
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 1 : The Trusted Third Party Problem Chapter 3: Trying to Undo Satoshi...
Russian Crypto Expert Released After Allegedly Being Kidnapped
Pavel Lerner, the Russian IT specialist kidnapped by masked men near his Kiev office on Tuesday, has been released after reportedly paying...
Ripple Gains 1,000% in One Month – Now the Second Largest Cryptocurrency
Today, the total market capitalization of Ripple exceeded $100 billion for the first time ever. This milestone makes Ripple the first...
Australian Freeze: Big Aussie Banks Denying Bitcoiners
Bitcoiners in Australia claim banks are on purpose freezing their bank accounts, disallowing exchange transfers, and at least one exchange...
PR: Prediction Markets Delphy Announces International Expansion
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Privacy Coins
With over 50 privacy coins on the market, purveyors of anonymous transactions are spoilt for choice. This smorgasbord of privacy-centric...