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Russian Prosecutor’s Office Summons Burger King for Issuing Cryptocurrency
News The Russian prosecutor’s office has summoned Burger King to explain the issuance of its cryptocurrency called Whoppercoin. Burger...
Top 3 Monero Wallet Solutions
There are several Monero wallets currently under development which will be released soon. Ledger, for its part, is apparently working on...
PR: Aeron Arn Token to List on Binance.com, the Fastest Growing Exchange
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Skrilla – Esports Daily Fantasy Platform Launching a Crypto-token to Deliver Blockchain Benefits
Skrilla is a licensed, fully regulated, global esports wagering platform. Skrilla is a collaboration between two leading technology firms,...
Younger Americans See Bitcoin As Investment Opportunity, Survey Says
Featured A new survey recently conducted by Lend Edu polled Americans about their interest in bitcoin. The survey asked basic questions...
India Solar — Unboxing Valuation
Some really interesting developments are taking place in the Indian solar space. Module prices are hardening and there is talk of Discoms...
U.S. CFTC Files Charges Against NY Firm And CEO Over Alleged Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme
Image credit: Court gavel on money background by B.Stefanov via Shutterstock.comThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has...
Venezuelans Turn to Selling In-Game Gold for Bitcoin
Economics According to multiple reports, Venezuelan citizens suffering from the country’s horrible economy are now playing massive...
Chinese Cryptocurrency Aficionados Flee To Hong Kong
Image credit: Hong Kong by Nik Cyclist via FlickrChina’s cryptocurrency clampdown has forced mainland investors and entrepreneurs to find...
PR: Lunyr Private Alpha Now Live on Ethereum Mainnet
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Bank of Russia Opposes Cryptocurrency Legalization, Worried About ‘Loss of Control’
Regulation The head of the Central Bank of Russia has spoken against the legalization of cryptocurrency at a meeting between President...
Bitnovo Offers Loaded Bitcoin Cards at Fifty Spanish Carrefour Retail Stores
Emerging Markets On September 20 the Spanish bitcoin payment platform, Bitnovo, announced residents from Spain can now purchase redeemable...
Major Japanese Travel Agency Accepts Bitcoin and Offers Bitcoin-Exclusive Deals
News One of Japan’s largest travel agencies, H.I.S., will start accepting bitcoin payments at some of its stores via Japan’s largest...
Expert on Blockchain-backed firms David Drake Joins DOVU Advisory Board
The blockchain mobility project welcomes the entrepreneur and investor, whose previous successes include Alibaba and Lyft. New York City,...
PR: Vietnam’s Largest Smart Vending Machine Operator Dropfoods Plans to Raise Through ICO on 21 Sept
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Free Society Foundation Plans to Establish Libertarian Country
News The Free Society Foundation is in the process of realizing a libertarian and crypto-anarchist dream. Currently, the organization is...
Jamie Dimon’s Bitcoin Statements Reported as Market Abuse in Sweden
News JP Morgan’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, might be getting into some trouble with Swedish financial authorities for market abuse when...
This Electric Bus Covers Over 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge
Electric vehicles still suffer from a few major drawbacks. First of all, they need to be recharged on a regular basis to cover...
Bitso Exchange Raises Cryptocurrencies for Mexican Earthquake Victims
Crowdfunding The Mexican bitcoin exchange Bitso has announced they are soliciting donations for victims of the 7.1 magnitude earthquake...
PR: Rocket ICO Soft Cap Reached
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Leverj Announces Ethereum-Based Decentralized Trading Platform for Crypto Derivatives
Image credit: Forex, Wikimedia CommonLeverj, a project developed by the team behind Coinpit, has unveiled plans to launch a fully...
McAfee at Shape The Future; “Pandora’s box has been opened”
Conferences “Pandora’s box has been opened.” John McAfees’ words echoed through the halls of the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong. The several...
Confideal Announces the Release of Their Smart Constructor and the Launch of the Crowdsale Campaign
Confideal is a new multifunctional escrow platform powered by the Ethereum Blockchain. After smashing the pre-ICO and raising a sum of...
Russian Governor Invites Cryptocurrency Miners to Set Up Mining Farms in Leningrad
Mining The Russian Leningrad region wants to create an industrial park for cryptocurrency mining including bitcoin. Leningrad’s governor...
Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Executives Allegedly Must Remain in China
Regulation Reports have emerged alleging that Chinese bitcoin exchange executives have been forbidden from leaving the country. The travel...
US Department of Energy Has High Hopes for Future-Predicting Exascale Computer
By JP Buntinx Predicting the future is something our society both fears and finds intriguing at the same time. In a way, it would be...
Staying Safe on the Job: Fall Protection in Renewable Energy Demands Planning and Training
Several wind turbine fires have been documented in recent years. Some of them left firefighters helpless as they watched turbine...
Dentacoin Foundation’s “Proof-of-Concept” Clinic is a Success
Dentacoin is the first integral Blockchain solution for the global dental industry. It has a unique business model that both disrupts and...
Updates on Equifax Breach Frustrate Consumers
Recently, one of the largest personal data breaches ever was made public. A credit reporting company, Equifax, reported that the personal...
Listen Up: Roof Attachment Products for Solar — Key Considerations
With much higher volume manufacturing, prices for solar panels have come down tremendously over the past 20 years — from about $1,000 each...
Hedge Token Launched September 15th
The Hedge Token team will revolutionise the way investors, evangelists and speculators view and interact on crypto markets. By creating...
Money Psychology: How Cryptocurrency Makes Us More Compassionate (Part 1)
Op-Ed One of the prominent buzzwords in the cryptocurrency and bitcoin space is “disruption.” We all constantly hear how bitcoin and other...
PR: Ethbet’s Crowdsale Sells 70% Of All Tokens During Its First Day
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Bitcoin-Accepting Expedia to Accelerate Its Global Expansion
Featured Expedia, the giant pro-Bitcoin online travel company, has worldwide expansion plans. Specifically, the company’s new CEO will...
Bitcoin Software Wars: Discussions Heat Up as November Hard Fork Approaches
Technology September is almost over, and the Segwit2x plan to hard fork the network’s block size to 2MB is approaching quickly. Because...
Financial Commission Issues ICO Certification to Genesis Vision
Altcoins The Financial Commission, an independent entity that certifies trading products and provides external dispute resolution services...
New Mobile Banking Trojan can Infect Millions of Android users
Banking Trojans have regained a lot of their popularity over the past few months. While these tools have been around for several years...
‘Bond Street’ Level Jeweler Samer Halimeh NY Now Accepts Bitcoin
News The well-known international diamond and luxury jewelry retailer, Samer Halimeh New York, has announced the company will now start...
PR: Changelly Partners with Coinomi wallet
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Pirate Bay Founder’s ‘Njalla’ Offers Anonymous Domain Registration for Bitcoin
Privacy Just recently the founder of the notorious torrent website the Pirate Bay launched a new privacy-centric domain registration...
ICO Options Program – Equal Opportunities To All Investors
“Many ICOs right now fail to promptly deliver tokens to their investors. You have to be really quick to get your coins, or else you risk...
A Brief History of Utility-Scale Energy Storage
Five years ago, a mere 0.34 GW of energy storage could be found globally. Fast forward and the market is expecting 6 GW to be installed in...
MIT Creates Delayed Vaccination Capsules
Ever since vaccinations were discovered to be incredibly effective in preventing contagious and dangerous diseases, the medical community...
At Last, with the Launch Of LEGAL Tokens, SmartOne Has a Legal Solution for the Crypto Community
The world of crypto enterprise is booming and the vast potential of Blockchain technology is finally being realised. From global banks to...
How Finland is Using Blockchain Technology to Help Unbanked Asylum Seekers
Nations around the world are witnessing an influx in refugee numbers. Yet, while countless individuals are keen to re-establish themselves...
Only in Arizona: How Smart Contract Clarity Is Winning Over Startups
by Aaron Stanley What happens when someone breaches a contract? If you've gone through all the rigmarole of developing a paper contract,...
HydroMiner ICO -The Eco Friendly Mining Operation
A new day, a new initial coin offering. But this time one that looks very prospective: HydroMiner.org; mining in the Austrian Alps! They...
IBM Turns Quantum Computing into a Commercially Viable Product
Quantum computing has always been an interesting industry. Multiple technology firms are working on bringing this technology to life. So...
Spheris: A Transparent and Fair Ethereum-Based App Marketplace For Developers and Users
The vast majority of data-reliant industries such as finance, insurance, and app distribution markets are heavily dependent on the...
China May Try to Block All Bitcoin Transactions in the Country
Regulation The Chinese authorities may be moving toward a broad clampdown on Bitcoin, including peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges and...
PR: Propy ends token sale with $16 Million raise and a new hire from MIT
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Aliant Payment Systems Partners with Bitpay, Bringing Bitcoin Mainstream
Services Bitpay recently partnered with Aliant Payment Systems, which is a company that provides online merchant services for credit card...
Blockchain Proptech Startup Propy Raises US$15M; Strikes New Partnership
Image credit: Businessman and real estate market by ImageFlow via Shutterstock.comPropy, a startup that’s building a global property store...
Regulations Push Chinese Bitcoin Volumes to OTC and Neighboring Countries
Markets and Prices Following the regulatory crackdown in China, bitcoin’s price has climbed back up 30 percent over the $4K zone since the...
DIGI Token Takes Aim at the Digital Goods Market
The digital goods market is huge, multi-billion dollar industry that is worth about 4 times more than the entire market cap of all...
European Central Bank Criticizes Estonian National Cryptocurrency Plans
Regulation The president of the European Central Bank has criticized the Estonian government’s plan to launch a national cryptocurrency....
Danetonbit Project – Social and Business Networking In One Platform
The Danetonbit platform is a digital content sharing service which allows for the fusion of both social and business networking. A...
PR: DIGI Token & Platform to Revolutionize Multi-billion Dollar Digital Market
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September’s Bitcoin Market Madness: When Panic Selling and FOMO Ensues
Markets and Prices On September 15, after a couple of Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges announced they were closing, bitcoin’s price...
Making Sense of Trump’s Surprising Investment in Solar
The DOE’s $62 million into concentrated solar projects could push forward a technology that addresses a critical shortcoming of...
Dubai green lights world’s tallest solar tower for world’s largest solar park
By Nick Lavars Construction of the 700-MW extension to Dubai's Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park will kick off in 2020(Credit:...
Gaining Control of Auction Bidding Through the Blockchain
The auction marketplace can be dangerous for consumers, no matter how savvy they are. With all of the complex analysis that must be...
Bitcoin in the Browser: Google, Apple and More Adopting Crypto-Ready API
by Michael del Castillo Developers at some of the top tech companies have created a browser API that could soon make it easier to buy...
$4,000: Bitcoin’s Price Shrugs Off China Exchange News
Bitcoin's price has bounced back above $4,000 following market losses linked to the recent regulatory crackdown in China. After China's...
What is the Cryptogene Project?
For the most part, cryptocurrencies see the majority of their enthusiasts in Asia, Europe, and North America. However, the rest...
South Africa’s Second Largest Supermarket Chain Pick n Pay Trials Bitcoin Payments
News A major supermarket chain in South Africa, Pick n Pay, has started a trial to accept bitcoin payments in-store at its head office...
The Bitcoin Cash Network Continues to Grow With an Ambitious Roadmap
News It’s been over forty-eight days since the hard fork, and the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network is alive and well. Also Read: Bitcoin...
Five Leading Russian Universities Start Offering Cryptocurrency Courses
Featured Many universities across Russia have added new courses to their existing finance curricula that are focused on cryptocurrencies,...
Expert: Seven Reasons Why Chinese Regulators Shut Down Bitcoin Exchanges
Regulation A professor at China’s Renmin University has offered his interpretation of why the regulators are shutting down Chinese bitcoin...
The Pirate Bay Tests Cryptocurrency Miner as Alternative Revenue Stream
Recently a story broke on TorrentFreak outlining a test that The Pirate Bay ran for a short period of time. The Pirate Bay team is looking...
PR: Bitboost Releases Beta Version of the Block and Prepares Token Generating Event
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BTC-e Exchange Relaunches as Wex
There is an intriguing development in the ongoing BTC-e debacle. Ever since the company’s domain was seized, there have been rumors...
New “Heroes of the Storm” Ransomware is Based on HiddenTear
Ransomware can come in many different forms, sizes, and shapes. Every now and then, a unique version pops up which will get some form of...
Autonomous Submarines are the Next Frontier for the US Navy
Unmanned vehicles can include any form of transportation. Cars, trucks, and even small aircraft come to mind almost immediately. US Navy,...
The SEC is in Support of ICOs That Do Not Fall Under the Definition of Securities
According to Gil Penchina a partner at IDG Ventures and Flight.vc, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is in support of initial coin...
India Considers Issuing Its Own Bitcoin-Like Cryptocurrency as Legal Tender
Regulation While working on creating a legal framework for bitcoin and other digital currencies, the Indian government is now considering...
PR: Ethbet’s Crowdsale For The First Peer-To-Peer Blockchain Gambling Project Opens To Investors Today
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Coincheck Becomes the First Licensed Japanese Bitcoin Exchange
Emerging Markets Just recently the Japanese exchange Coincheck announced they have become the first licensed exchange in Japan after being...
Chinese Investors to Trade Bitcoin Over-The-Counter Via Telegram
Featured As Chinese-based bitcoin exchanges plan to shut down, bitcoin investors are taking their trading elsewhere. They will now focus...
Donald Trump Tweet Suggests “Cutting Off” the Internet
There has been a recent terror attack in London on the Tube. Homemade explosive devices detonated on a train car, injuring many. This...
After the Boss Calls Bitcoin a ‘Fraud’ — JP Morgan Buys the Dip
News Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on JP Morgan executive Jamie Dimon calling bitcoin a “fraud” and claiming he would fire any...
Bitstamp to Introduce Bitcoin Cash Trading by End of the Month
Altcoins Bitstamp has issued a statement confirming that it plans to implement Bitcoin Cash (BCH) trading pairs before the end of...
QuikNode Adds Tutorials for Easy Setup
Nodes are essential parts of the Ethereum ecosystem, so it is important that as many people as possible run these nodes. They provide...
Germany’s new Cyber Surveillance Agency Receives Carte Blanche for Mass Data Collection
The German government takes cyber surveillance a lot more serious than other European countries. They even opened a new cyber surveillance...
Bitcoin Journalism Wanted – We Are Hiring!
News.bitcoin.com is hiring! We are looking for an assistant editor and another staff writer/editor, preferably based in Asia...
Nebraska Ethics Board Allows Attorneys to Accept Bitcoin
Featured A Nebraska ethics board just granted attorney’s permission to accept bitcoin, with a few stipulations. The Lawyers Advisory...
PR: The Deep Transforms Online Interaction With Blockchain Powered Virtual World
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Beijing Sets Deadlines for Bitcoin Exchanges – Customers to Withdraw Funds Quickly
Regulation Beijing has ordered all affected bitcoin exchanges to post a notice of their closure by midnight on Friday. Now, the exchanges...
BTC-e Rebrands to Wex Exchange — Claims to be AML/KYC Compliant
News On September 15 the trading platform BTC-e announced its official rebranding and the new exchange domain called Wex.nz. The company’s...
What Is the Swap Protocol?
The way we exchange digital assets and cryptocurrencies will undergo some radical changes in the future. In the case of Ethereum, multiple...