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Five Countries Where Bitcoin is Illegal
Emerging Markets To those who understand it, bitcoin is a blessing, but not everyone shares that sentiment. From scaremongering CEOs to...
This is the Tesla semi truck
Awesome - 500 miles of range and more aerodynamic than a supercar The Tesla semi truck is a hulking and menacing hauler, with the...
Bitcoin Price Analysis – Institutional buying on the horizon
Bitcoin (BTC) continued to push a new all time high today after completely recovering from the 30% correction less than a week ago. The...
High demand for crypto exchange traded notes in Europe
Exchange traded notes (ETNs) are debt backed securities which offer investors exposure to the change in value of an underlying asset. They...
Crypto Goes Hollywood: “Startup” Season 3 Greenlit by Sony Pictures Television
Reviews Online streaming service Crackle looks to capitalize on the growing cryptocurrency craze, greenlighting a popular show for a third...
Initial Troll Offering Fires Back at Wall Street with Paid Ad of its Own
Crowdfunding There’s an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), an Initial Fork Offering (IFO), but is the ecosystem ready for an Initial Troll...
Bitcoin Cash Comes To eToro, Bitstamp
Bitcoin Cash, an altcoin which was created from a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain is gaining steam with an increasing number of...
Finance Industry Representatives Criticize Bitcoin
Finance Many representatives of the traditional finance industry are continuing to criticize bitcoin. In recent days, CNBC has spoken with...
Pre-Mined Initial Fork Offerings (IFOs) the New and Trendy Way to Fund Crypto Projects
Crowdfunding First Bitcoin Cash, then Bitcoin Gold, now another Bitcoin hard fork, the Super Bitcoin (SBTC), is on the way. It plans to be...
Don’t Sacrifice Security for Convenience
Humans both love and fear technology. Things that make our lives easier usually are greeted warmly only after initial apprehension....
Police Bust Turkish Gang That Kidnapped Wealthy Bitcoin Holders
Security Turkish police are toasting their success after capturing an enterprising gang of crypto kidnappers. Their targets were major...
Decentralized Ethereum-Based AirBnB Records 300 Listings Within Its First Month
CryptoCribs, a decentralized Ethereum-based application which enables users to book spaces, rooms, and houses using cryptocurrencies...
PR: Game Machine – First Blockchain Ecosystem Connecting Game Industry and Cryptocurrency
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Underpaid YouTubers Can Now Earn Brave’s Browser Tokens
Users of the Brave Browser can now donate cryptocurrency, including the company's Basic Attention Token (BAT), directly to YouTubers. With...
Putin Advisor Bearish on Bitcoin: ”The Cryptoruble Must Compete With Cash”
News Russia’s deputy finance minister has suggested that the name of the country’s national cryptocurrency should be changed from...
Democratizing Space – One BlockClaim® at a Time… ASTEROID Ltd. Launches ICO
There are over 600,000 asteroids orbiting near the earth. These asteroids are mineable with resources ranging from iron and nickel to...
Kik Might Just Move Its ICO Tokens to a New Blockchain
Kik, the first mainstream company to complete an initial coin offering (ICO) on ethereum, is reportedly considering whether it might...
The Biggest Obstacle to Bitcoin Scaling Isn’t Technical – It’s Political
Op-Ed Bitcoin is accustomed to taking flak from non-believers. It’s been declared dead more times than most people care to count, and will...
Lisk Price Approaches $10 as Market cap Surpasses $1bn for the First Time
While most people are keeping a very close eye on the top cryptocurrencies, interesting things are happening outside of the top 10 as...
Record Highs in Sight? Bitcoin Price Moves Back Above $7,500
There seems to be no stopping the bitcoin freight train. Having taken the 61.8 percent Fibonacci retracement level yesterday, the world's...
World Gold Council Head: “Nothing to Suggest Gold is Suffering From the Popularity of Crypto”
Op-Ed Neil Hume, Mining and Commodities Editor for Financial Times, was quick to have World Gold Council Head of Market Intelligence,...
Bitcoin as an Unstoppable Force: Hyperbitcoinization Theory and Practice
Op-Ed One of the earliest references to hyperbitcoinization (H-theory) derives from the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. It describes a world...
PR: Quoine Crypto Exchange Raises 350 Million Qash in Significantly Oversubscribed ICO
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Real Estate Listings Use Bitcoin to Garner Publicity
News 2017 has seen a significant increase in the number of real estate listings made available for purchase using bitcoin. The...
Russia Unveils Details of Cryptocurrency Bill Expected in February
Regulation Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister announced that the cryptocurrency bill is expected to be ready by February 1. He then unveiled...
Confidential Transactions Could Add Anonymity to Bitcoin and Litecoin
Privacy Privacy coins have rocketed this year, fueled by the increasing ease with which bitcoin transactions can be de-anonymized and...
Analysts Debate How Much Power Is Consumed per Bitcoin Transaction
Economics In recent months, numerous media outlets have claimed that the power used to conduct a single bitcoin transaction is the...
Monetary Authority of Singapore Publishes “Guide to Digital Token Offerings”
Regulation The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published a “guide to digital token offerings”, which seeks to elaborate upon how...
Parity Disable Multi-Sig in the Wake of Bug That Nuked $168 Million Ether
Security Parity have concluded their report into the bug which enabled an ethereum hobbyist to break their multi-sig wallet. The incident...
Daniel Krawisz on Governance – ”The Invisible Bitcoin Leaders: Insights of Don Quixote and Tom Bombadil”
Op-Ed Daniel Krawisz is cofounder of Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, a consistently great repository for thoughts on Bitcoin as a network and...
Without a Voice, How can Crypto-Enterprise be Legally Sound? LEGAL Braces to Impact the Crypto-World in a Spectacular Way
As the potential for real-world implementation of blockchain technology grows, major companies in the financial and commercial industries...
Chicago Firm DRW to Open Singapore Bitcoin Trading Desk
News Chicago and Singapore are two cities that are becoming synonymous with bitcoin. The Windy City is home to CME and DRW, two major...
Wall Street Fears Bitcoin Futures Will “Destabilize the Real Economy”
Featured Wall Street is not happy about a pending cryptocurrency futures market set to open before Christmas this year, and some of the...
Governments Show Interest in Firms Analyzing Monero and Zcash Transactions
We recently noted that the US government is increasingly tracking Bitcoin users with the help of the Chainalysis firm. It turns out there...
This Blockchain-Powered Platform, Aims to Disrupt the Gambling Industry
Gambling has come a long way. This year, online gambling is expected to generate $50.65 billion dollars and jump to $56.05 billion in...
Bitmex Launches Bitcoin Cash Futures and Announces BCH Distribution
News Bitmex traders can now speculate on the price of bitcoin cash after the exchange activated futures trading. As a consequence, 20x...
Bitcoin Cash Network’s Block Intervals Settle With New DAA
News On November 13, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the successful completion of the Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm hard fork applied to...
PayPal Will Hand Over User Transaction Data to the Canada Revenue Agency
When thinking about popular online payment methods, PayPal is a platform that comes to mind immediately. It is a global powerhouse when...
Chinese Power Company Responds to Document Indicating Mining Crackdown
Mining The Chinese state-owned State Grid Sichuan Ganzi Prefecture Electric Power Co, Ltd. has responded to the widespread circulation of...
PR: Nuls—the Global Open Source Platform for Blockchain-Based Applications to Be Adopted in Business Scenarios
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Bitcoin Price Pierces $7,000 as Crypto Market Cap Hits All-Time High
The cryptocurrency market cap reached a new all-time high on Wednesday amid a generally-bullish day of trading. The bitcoin price set the...
Q&A With the StreamSpace Founders
This week, we had the opportunity to sit down with Robert Binning and James Baggett, founders of StreamSpace LLC, a young company using...
Bitcoin Gold Developer Under Scrutiny For Allegedly Hiding Mining Code
Mining The bitcoin gold development team is under fire once again as the currency’s mining community has discovered a hard-coded hidden...
UPS Joins Alliance on Blockchain Adoption for the Freight Industry
So far, there have been a few studies exploring how blockchain technology could improve the freight industry and its supply chain. New...
Japan’s Fujitsu Labs Unveils Technology For Blockchain Interconnectivity
Fujitsu Laboratories, a leading research center and a subsidiary of Japan’s IT giant Fujitsu, has unveiled ConnectionChain, an extension...
Hamster Marketplace – The Decentralized Solution to Online Commerce Announces ICO Launch
Blockchain-based commerce platform, Hamster Marketplace, is gearing up for its public introduction — formally announcing its...
Rush to Bitcoin Cash Causes Exodus Wallet to Suspend BTC Trading Pairs
Technology Wallet software platform Exodus suspended exchange features for bitcoin trading pairs over the weekend, after a rush to bitcoin...
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan: “Bitcoin is What Used to be Called Fiat Money”
Economics Just recently the notorious former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan gave his opinion concerning the rise of bitcoin in...
PR: EtherSport – a Decentralized Online Sports Lottery to Launch Its Pre-ICO on November, 13th
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FCA Issues Warning Regarding Cryptocurrency CFDs
Featured The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a warning aimed at retail investors who may be considering...
CME CEO: Bitcoin Futures Could Launch in Mid-December
CME Group chairman and CEO Terry Duffy has said that the planned bitcoin futures contract could launch by mid-December.At the end of...
Singaporean Mining.sg Reports Increasing Hardware Demand
Mining Mr. Dexter Ng of Singaporean company Mining.sg has reported growing demand for his company’s cryptocurrency mining hardware. Mr. Ng...
Kaspersky Lab and Parity Technologies Launch Blockchain-Based Voting System
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab unveiled Polys, a secure online voting system based on blockchain technology and backed with...
CommerceBlock Turns Real Estate Buying and Selling Into a Global Tokenized Market
Global real estate market transactions will surpass $1 tln by 2020, private investors will make about one-third of those sales. The time...
Are 2017’s Network Attacks ”Real” or Are Bitcoiners Growing Paranoid?
Technology Over the past year or so there’s been a lot of discussion concerning ‘attacks’ on the Bitcoin network. Across forums and social...
Dutch Watchdog Warns of ICO Risks, Calls them a ‘Dangerous Cocktail’
The Dutch financial regulator has issued a new warning to investors about the risks linked to initial coin offerings (ICOs).The...
Simple Token Altdrop Will Pay Investors and Early Adopters in any ERC20 Token of their Choice
Apart from the value proposition offered by the Simple Token project ahead of its token sale, the startup is embarking on an...
PR: Bitcoin’s Roger Ver and Mate Tokay Join Naga Fintech Board of Advisors
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The UK’s Biggest Solar Farm Will Be Built Without Government Help
Pixabay Cleve Hill is set to become the UK's biggest solar farm when it is built in 2020. At a capacity of 350 MW, it will be able to...
Trezor Announce Support for Bitcoin Gold But Other Platforms Steer Clear
Featured Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor have announced support for Bitcoin Gold, making them one of the few major platforms to commit...
Singapore Central Bank Partners With MIT Media Lab To Advance Fintech, Blockchain R&D
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has joined hands with the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge to help strengthen Singapore’s talent pool...
Man Group – The World’s Largest Publicly Traded Hedge Fund
Finance Bitcoin futures are all the rage right now, with CME poised to launch contract trading in a matter of weeks. Their arrival will...
RocketICO Builds Trust in Blockchain Community
14th November 2017, Minsk, Belarus – RocketICO is the world’s first accelerator based on the principles of Decentralized...
The IRS May Get Approval to Conduct Coinbase Tax Probe
Taxes This week the battle between the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the San Francisco firm Coinbase is heating up once again as...
After Rollercoaster Crypto Price Weekend, European Union Issues Two ICO Warnings
Regulation European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued two same-day warnings concerning initial coin offerings (ICO) on 13...
BCH’s New Combo: Bull Exhaustion With Limited Downside?
Bitcoin cash is buoyant again today, but some hints of bull exhaustion are starting to show. At press time, the bitcoin cash-U.S. dollar...
Satoshi Forest Gets Permit After 3+ Years, Why The Delay?
After more than three years, bitcoin’s most visible and arguably most successful charity has won its legal battle with Escambia County....
Blockchain technology could have a Major Effect on the Freelancing Industry
As blockchain technology becomes more popular with a growing number of applications, it may have a major impact on the freelancing...
Chinese Hydroelectric Crackdown Could Herald the Demise of Cheap Bitcoin Mining
Mining Chinese bitcoin miners are the latest tranche of the country’s cryptocurrency community to be hit by restrictions. This time it’s...
Bottom in Place? Bitcoin’s Price Needs to Consolidate Gains
Bitcoin's price is holding its ground so far today. As of writing, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is changing...
6 Trillion Dollar Man Says “Tiny” Bitcoin Succeeds Due to Being “Anonymous” and “Cross-Border”
Featured After almost endorsing cryptocurrencies, Blackrock Inc’s Chief described to Reuters how the world’s most popular cryptocurrency...
Police Posted at Bithumb as Users File Lawsuit After Server Outage Costs Millions
Markets and Prices Users of Bithumb, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, have filed a class action lawsuit following a costly...
Ethereum Price Reaches $335 Again as Market Rebounds Strongly
It has been a relatively boring day for all cryptocurrencies so far. Although most coins are in the green again, there are no real changes...
Vitalik Buterin: Early Versions of Ethereum Were Supposed to Launch on Bitcoin
Earlier this week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin revealed that early versions of Ethereum were set to be launched on top of the...
Naga – Smart Cryptocurrency for Gaming and Stock Trading
Some financial technology sectors see the potential in cryptocurrencies and offer a few of the major ones as investment options. The...
BP and Shell Among Those Developing an Energy Blockchain Trading Platform
A consortium of major energy companies and banks are working together to build a blockchain-based digital platform for energy commodities...
Bill Gates Is Buying Land in Arizona to Build a “Smart City”
The community will integrate technology and high speed data into its infrastructure. By Sophie Weiner An investment firm run by Bill Gates...
CromoLab Predicts the Future of Cryptocurrencies With 95% Success
CromoLab is a predictive model generating BUY and SELL signals on the cryptocurrency market with 95% level of success. CromoLab...
PR: Buy Gift Cards with Cryptocurrency. Introducing Gift Token
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Dash Cryptocurrency Builds Base After Setting Record Above $500
Dash is seeking direction after hitting new highs. After setting a new record above $500 on Sunday, the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by...
Quantum Physics and Astrology Predict Bad Things For Bitcoin
Markets and Prices Forget about technical analysis, charting, or market psychology. There’s a new way of predicting the fate of bitcoin...
Ethereum Process Approximately Twice The Transactions of Bitcoin
The Ethereum network now processes twice the transactions than bitcoin on a daily basis, as it settles more than 520,000 transactions per...
Confusion and Euphoria As Bitcoin Cash Surges Past $30 Billion
"BITCOIN CASH IS BITCOIN NOW." Issued by Li Ang, head of China-based bitcoin mining outfit Canoe Pool, the proclamation may not be...
Bitcoin-Based Ethereum Rival RSK Set to Launch Next Month
Interview The long-awaited smart contract solution for Bitcoin’s blockchain that offers additional scaling improvements, RSK, is preparing...
Dash Releases Software Upgrade For Cheaper Transactions
Image credit: Dash cryptocurrency, by Akarat Phasura, via Shutterstock.comDash has released a new software upgrade that cuts transaction...
Operation to Bypass China’s Capital Controls Using Bitcoin Ends up in South Korean Court
News A South Korean police officer has been indicted for his role in an operation to bypass China’s capital controls. Using bitcoin to...
PR: PodOne, the Uber of In-House and Remote Contact Center Agents, Files US Patent and Launches Pre-ICO Campaign
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SEC Chairman: Initial Coin Offerings Will Have to Register as Securities
Featured In a recent speech to an exclusive group of attorneys in New York, Walter Joseph “Jay” Clayton III, Securities and Exchange (SEC)...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies See Volatile Prices After Canceled Fork
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin (BTC) has been on a bearish run over the past 72 hours, after reaching $7,900 the day the Segwit2x...
The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 2: Was Satoshi a Libertarian and Anarchist? (Part 4)
Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 1: The Trusted Third Party ProblemChapter 2: Monetary...