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Ethereum Security Lead: Hard Fork Required to Release Frozen Parity Funds
by Rachel Rose O'Leary A resolution has yet to be found for yesterday's Parity hack which saw up to $150 million frozen across the...
IBM: Blockchain May End Up Tracking Cannabis Sales in Canada
Technology giant IBM has pitched for the use of their blockchain technology to track the legal distribution of cannabis in British...
Financial Regulators of New Zealand and Sweden Issued Statements Regarding ICOs
Regulation The respective financial regulators for Sweden and New Zealand have recently issued statements addressing initial coin...
PR: MDK: the Largest European Community on the Vkontakte Social Network Launching ICO
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India Central Banker Doubles-Down on Suppressing Bitcoin
Featured S Ganesh Kumar, Executive Director at the Reserve Bank of India, answering audience questions during a conference, continued the...
Startups Raise Over €5M On Blockchain-Enabled Bourse Funderbeam
Image: Funderbeam team, Dec 2016, FacebookStartups have raised over €5 million on Funderbeam, a startup marketplace powered by blockchain...
The World’s Largest FX Exchange Hopes to Tame Bitcoin Volatility
Finance The Chicago Mercantile Exchange & Chicago Board of Trade otherwise known as CME Group announced its bitcoin futures specs this...
Bitcoin and Weak Frequency Signals: Bypassing Network Censorship With Radio
Technology This past weekend at the Scaling Bitcoin 2017 conference at Stanford University, two individuals discussed a new method of...
Bitspark Receives Investment From Fortune 500 Company
Finance Hong Kong-based remittance platform Bitspark has announced that it has received investment as part of a partnership with...
Two Popular Hardware Wallet Firms Reveal Segwit2x Fork Plans
News This week two well-known bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturers, Satoshi Labs (Trezor) and Ledger Wallet, revealed their contingency...
As Bitcoin Reaches New Price Highs, Network Congestion and Fees Spike
Technology Bitcoin markets have been on a tear lately, and the price has spiked quite a bit last month and into November. However, as...
DAO PlayMarket 2.0 to Provide a Decentralized Store for Android Apps
At this moment in time, the mobile app market represents a huge industry which is actively developing, with new apps of all kinds...
PR: Oracles Network Introduces First Scalable Public Blockchain with Proof-Of-Authority Consensus; Announces $25m Initial Coin Offering S…
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Ethereum Wallet Parity Hit by Second Critical Vulnerability – $150+ Million Frozen
Security Makers of the Parity multi-sig Ethereum wallet have announced a critical vulnerability that has led to millions of dollars of...
Calling an ICO a Crowdsale Doesn’t Make It Less of an Initial Coin Offering
No one can deny initial coin offerings have become increasingly popular as of late. While a lot of companies have successfully raised...
Cryptocurrency Companies See Dramatic Spikes in Share Price
Markets and Prices Numerous companies involved in the cryptocurrency industries have seen dramatic increases in share price following the...
Japanese Cryptocurrency Startup Tech Bureau Raises Funding To Expand Business
Tech Bureau, a Japanese fintech and cryptocurrency company from Japan, has raised US$767,500 from Shinsei Bank and OKWave to expand...
After SEC Snub, Vaneck Re-Enters Crypto Markets with First Major Indices
Finance After the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) refused a review of Vaneck‘s exchange-traded fund (ETF) application, the...
Monero Price Rises to $100 Again in Wake of Multisignature News
Most altcoins have started to recover some of their lost value over the past 24 hours. Although most of the gains are rather small, Monero...
PR: B2BX Team Creating a Cryptocurrency Exchange, or ICO from the Real Business
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Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Crypto Trading: An Interview with Guy Zyskind
Interview As hedge funds rush to enter the cryptocurrency space, the landscape for retail cryptocurrency investors is fundamentally...
Japanese City Attracts Cryptocurrency Miners with Abundant Renewable Energy
Mining The government of a Japanese city known for its renewable energy and low temperature in the wintertime is attracting cryptocurrency...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Price Took A Dive After Breaching New Highs
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin dived on November 6 after reaching an all-time high of $7,590 across global exchanges. The...
Coinbase CEO Owns More Ether Than Bitcoin
Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency wallet provider and exchange Coinbase, personally holds more Ether than bitcoin, according to...
Fork Watch: The Chain With Less Hashrate Could Come to a Screeching Halt
Op-Ed Over the next two weeks, bitcoin proponents from both sides of the scaling debate will be preparing for a possible hard fork. A lot...
Graphene Block Propagation Technology Claims to be 10X More Efficient
Technology This week at the Scaling Bitcoin Conference 2017, at Stanford University in California, bitcoin proponents heard about a new...
Nepal Continues Crackdown, Two More Bitcoiners Arrested
Emerging Markets Whereas bitcoin exchanges and information are prized on other parts of the globe, in Nepal dealing in the world’s most...
Tezos Faces Class-Action Lawsuit in California
The game is afoot as far as the Tezos ICO is concerned. Over the past few weeks, we have seen multiple cracks in the facade of this...
PR: KuCoin Strikes Another Impressive Partnership: It Will List Change Coin on November 7th 2017
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Florio – The First Blockchain Health Platform Incentivising People to Live Healthy
Obesity has been, and continues to be one of the biggest health issues of our society, and the trend is only getting worse. According to a...
CHP Project for Empire State Plaza Misses the Mark
An associate in New York recently sent me a copy of the “Empire State Plaza CHP and Microgrid Project Overview, October 26, 2017,” found...
Enterprise Ireland Gets Fickle, Funds and then Backs Away from Cryptocurrency Start-ups
Finance After funding two cryptocurrency-related companies, the Irish state agency Enterprise Ireland (EI) suddenly reversed course,...
This Developer is Bringing Atomic Swaps to the Bitcoin Cash Network
Technology Atomic swaps between blockchains have become a hot topic that has sparked a lot of interest due to the decentralized nature of...
Central Bank of Swaziland: It’s Not Wise to Dismiss Cryptocurrencies
The Central Bank of Swaziland (CBS) is exploring the use of cryptocurrencies in the country even though it remains cautious of...
PR: Bankex, the Top-50 Fintech Company Worldwide, Launches Token Sale on November 28
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Ethereum Classic Price Pump Continues as ETC Surpasses $15
It appears we are starting off this week with more of the same trends we saw appear yesterday. More specifically, the Ethereum Classic...
China Monitors Booming OTC Bitcoin Market After Shutting Down Exchanges
Finance After shutting down the country’s bitcoin exchanges, the Chinese government is monitoring the booming cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin Ivy League! Yale, Wharton, Haas Offer Courses on Blockchain Tech
Featured Business schools are getting pressure from two sides: growing student population interest in cryptocurrencies, and successful...
Bjork to Embrace Cryptocurrency With Upcoming Album Launch
News Icelandic musician and composer, Bjork, has sought to embrace cryptocurrencies with the release of her new album. Bjork’s ninth...
A Simple Guide to What Bitcoin Forks Are and Why They Happen
Technology Right now people keep hearing about the pending fork scheduled for on or around November 16. Because software forks and...
Augur Founder: Not Enough Developers are Working on Ethereum Scaling & Development
Joey Krug, the founder of Augur, the decentralized prediction market build on top of the Ethereum protocol, believes there is a shortage...
South Korea vs USA – Movie Stars Show How to Survive on Bitcoin for a Week
Featured A South Korean broadcast television channel has produced and broadcasted a reality TV show where two movie stars competed to live...
A Closer Look at How Three of the Biggest Scamcoins Lure Its Investors
Op-Ed Run-ups of the kind bitcoin is having in price and valuation make fertile ground for scams. Scams are valuable and very teachable...
What Is Binary-Chain?
There are plenty of reasons to keep a close eye on altcoins these days. That isn’t only because these new coins may actually be a...
Bitcoin Regains Over 60% Crypto Market Dominance For First Time in 7 Months
Markets and Prices As of this writing, bitcoin has a market dominance of 62.7% – representing more than 60% of the entire cryptocurrency...
Legendary Entrepreneur Keith Teare is Coming Onboard as Crypterium Project Advisor
Crypterium just gained the support of a very important ally: Keith Teare, a seasoned digital veteran of international renown, just...
PR: Arna Blockchain Helps In Cancer Diagnostics
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SegWit2x Keeps Losing Support From Prominent Backers
It seems things are going from bad to worse for the SegWit2x developers and their supporters. More specifically, we have seen more and...
Uruguay to Launch Digital Currency, “Not Bitcoin” it Stresses
Altcoins Uruguay’s Central Bank (BCU) formally presented rollout of its pioneering digitization of the Uruguayan peso on 3 November 2017....
We Asked 10 ICOs Why They Decided to Issue a Token. These Are Their Responses
Initial coin offerings have become very popular over these past few months. Dozens of new projects attempt to raise money every single...
Buterin’s Father and Antonopoulos Deny Advising Tapscott; CIBC Pulls Out
Featured Andreas Antonopoulos and Dmitry Buterin, among others, are denying their involvement in well-known Canadian investor Alex...
What Crypto and Traditional Markets Can Learn From Each Other
I was speaking with a friend of mine in traditional finance recently and we began to talk crypto. He and I discussed the merits of both...
Kenyan Miner Describes Cryptocurrency As “Biggest Wealth-Distribution System Ever”
Emerging Markets Eugene Mutai, a Kenyan cryptocurrency miner, recently described “the entire [cryptocurrency] ecosystem” as possibly...
PR: Nau ICO Platform Revolutionizing the Relationship Between Retailers and Customers
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PR: SwissBorg The Blockchain Era of Swiss Private Banking
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Balaji Srinivisan: 21 Inc Rebrands to Earn.com, Not Shifting Away From Bitcoin
Last week, 21 Inc, a Silicon Valley-based bitcoin startup which raised over $121 million in venture capital funding, officially rebranded...
Grayscale Investments Plans to Sell GBTC-Based Bitcoin Cash Reserves
Finance Just recently the sponsor of the Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTCQX: GBTC), Grayscale Investments, has announced its plans for the...
Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Targets Australians via SMS
Security Australians have increasingly become the target of an SMS-based bitcoin mining scam. The scam entices users with fictional free...
Two Companies File for Blockchain ETFs
Finance Two companies have filed to launch blockchain tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) late last week, sparking a new derivative...
DHS Taps Facial Recognition Technology to Protect US Border Crossings
Any decision made by the Department of Homeland Security will be scrutinized, for obvious reasons. Earlier this week, the agency announced...
Social Network DADA Launches The First Digital Marketplace For Collaborative Art Using Blockchain Technology
The world's only visual conversation network will help add financial value to digital art through blockchain technology. Its first digital...
PR: Serenity Financial Forex Problems Solved by Blockchain
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What Is SatanCoin?
It is always refreshing to see joke digital currencies come to market. Although these projects serve no real purpose, the creative side of...
PR – REALISTO Announces ICO to Launch Global Crowdfunded Real Estate Investment Marketplace
Berlin, Germany -November 04, 2017- REALISTO, a Berlin-based decentralized real estate investing marketplace, has officially announced its...
Blockchain-Based Chain ID Brings More Security to Korean Online Banking
By JP Buntinx Blockchain technology continues to be of great interest to financial institutions all over the world. Although there is a...
The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 2: Cautionary Tales From Earlier Digital Cash (Part 3)
Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 1: The Trusted Third Party ProblemChapter 2: Monetary...
PR – Heardbeats Seeks to Revolutionize the Live Music Industry Through Innovative Technology
Virtual Reality and live concerts are being fused together as Heardbeats seeks to disrupt the music industry. They aim to raise funds...
New To Bitcoin? Welcome! Here’s How To Take Those First Steps
Featured If you’re new to Bitcoin, welcome. We’re a community of people from every part of the world, from as many walks of life as you...
Israeli Digital Currency Startup Colu Eyes US$50M ICO To Boost Expansion
Image: Colu appColu, an Israeli startup offering localized digital currencies based on blockchain technology, is looking to raise US$50...
PR: Centra Releases Centra Wallet v2.0 and Announces Upcoming Developments
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Blockchain Announces Service Plans for Segwit2x
News One of the largest bitcoin wallet providers in the world, Blockchain, has announced its plans for the upcoming Segwit2x fork. After...
Chinese Analyst Describes Bitcoin as Potential “Nuclear Bomb’ In “New Currency War” Between China and USA
News Xiao Lei, a Chinese financial analyst, has published an article that seeks to argue that the spheres of bitcoin and cryptocurrency...
Software Wars: Segwit2x Uncertainty and the Casting of Miner Votes
Technology Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Segwit2x lead developer Jeff Garzik detailing that the upcoming fork was “still...
Turkish Central Bank President: “Cryptocurrencies May Contribute to Financial Stability”
News Bitcoin is trending in Turkey, and the country’s central bank officials are starting to notice. This week President Murat Cetinkaya...
PR: Realisto Announces ICO to Launch Global Crowdfunded Real Estate Investment
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Russian Economy ”Lost 18 Billion Rubles This Year Due to Lack of ICO Regulation”
Regulation Research has shown that the Russian economy has been deprived of 18 billion (approx $300 million) rubles so far this year due...
Blockchain Helps in Cancer Diagnostics
There is an ICO boom, and most projects are eager to attract even more money for financial services development. The share of projects...
Monero Wikipedia Page Is Vandalized by Unknown Entity
Wikipedia is a great platform for finding all kinds of information. The world’s top cryptocurrencies all have their own Wikipedia...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrency Market Cap Now Commands $200 Billion
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin (BTC) has been soaring once again after reaching an all-time high of $7350 on November 2. Now...
Unparalleled Leadership: The 2017 Power-Gen Woman of the Year Finalists
In early 2013, a group of industry women, dubbed the Women in Power committee, assembled in Orlando, Fla., to figure out how to honor...
This DIY Kit Lets Anyone Modify DNA
The concept of modifying DNA – human or otherwise – has always been met with a lot of resistance. No one should be allowed to...
Britain’s Royal Mint Reveals Details on ‘Live’ Blockchain for Tracking Gold
You wouldn't think you'd lose a 1kg gold bar worth more than $40,000. But during the London Blockchain Summit this week, Nicola Robinson,...
Bitcoin Price Sets New Record As Cryptocurrency Market Tops $200 Billion
Amid a surging cryptocurrency market, bitcoin price gains have continued today, reaching a new all-time high of over $7,450. A rapid rise...
Ukraine Drafts Law to Exempt Crypto Income and Profits from Taxation
Regulation A bill has been submitted to the Ukrainian parliament to amend the country’s tax code to exempt cryptocurrency income and...
How Coinbase’s GDAX Intends to Evaluate Digital Assets for Exchange Listing
Finance Coinbase’s Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX) released its Digital Assets Framework, an answer to clients urging more...
Music Festival Organisers in India Surprised by 1% of Total Sales in Bitcoin
Featured Even while multiple news outlets report India’s government readying to close cryptocurrency exchanges, its population continues...
Bitcoin Gold Issues Daily Updates, Adds Replay Protection
Altcoins After a bumpy roll-out and widespread criticism regarding the project’s supposed secrecy, Bitcoin Gold’s development team has...
BTCC Founder Bobby Lee: “Segwit2x Feature Is an Upgrade”
News This week Bobby Lee, the chief executive officer of the Chinese cryptocurrency exchange BTCC, held an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) with...
PR: Confideal, a Smart Contract Management Platform Announces the Start of Their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) After Garnering Cooperation …
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Satoshi Labs Launches New Bitcoin Hardware Wallet ‘Model T’
Wallets This week, Czech Republic-based Satoshi Labs, launched the pre-order batch of the startup’s Trezor 2 hardware wallet called the...