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Bitcoin Markets Rebound as More Chinese Exchanges Plan to Close Operations
Regulation According to blog posts from two of the largest bitcoin exchanges in China, Huobi and Okcoin will be closing operations on...
Market Turmoil Pushes Cryptocurrency Market Cap Below $100 Billion
Via CoinMarketCapThe total value of all cryptocurrencies below $100 billion this morning amid new developments out of China. That figure...
China’s Regulatory Crackdown Forces More Bitcoin Exchange Closures
Regulation The regulatory crackdown in China against cryptocurrency trading platforms is happening once again. It all started yesterday as...
BlitzWolf BS2 Headphones Review
How do you listen to your audio? Headphones have been around for ages, and although you’ve probably been through a few different...
Bitcoin Stumbles Amid Regulatory Uncertainties In China
Image credit: Recession of stock market by leungchopan via Shutterstock.comThe price of bitcoin has fallen 38% since the beginning of this...
PR: Licensed Casino Betstreak Joins ICO Playing Field with a Full Fledge Working Product
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EOS.IO Announces Major Updates to Project
There is a new project that is turning heads. EOS.IO is a software that introduces a new blockchain structure to the cryptographic and...
3 Countries with 3 Different Legal Approaches to the Cloud
One of the most fascinating things to watch is how different governments and organizations deal with the advent of cutting-edge tech. It's...
Bitcoin Proponents Respond to JP Morgan Executive’s Statements
Finance Bitcoin proponents got fired up last week when JP Morgan executive Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a “fraud” and told the CNBC news...
Worldcore Payment Institution Announces ICO
CEO, Alexey Nasonov envisions exponential development for the European Payment Institution. Worldcore announces Initial Coin...
Coinmarketcap in Top 400 Most Visited Websites During August
News Coinmarketcap has become the 397th most visited website in the world according to Alexa. The data shows a drastic spike in traffic...
PR: Dentacoin Upcoming Token Sale: The Integral Blockchain Solution to Shape the Future of Dental Care
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Snip’s Decentralized News Revolution
By Josiah Wilmoth Online content is a broken system. Quality content gets buried beneath mountains of biased articles, clickbait, and...
California may Take Protecting Citizens’ Privacy into its own Hands
There is a bill going to its final vote in the California state legislature this Friday and it could be a huge win for consumer privacy....
Bitcoin’s Price Is Down More Than $500 Today
The price of bitcoin fell more than $500 today as market turmoil continues in the aftermath of Chinese exchange BTCC's trading stoppage...
Coinbase Vets Talk New Fund: Want Returns? Think Beyond Bitcoin
by Ash Bennington "People have this perception that bitcoin and ethereum are completely anonymous when that is not the case." That's one...
Monero Developers Release Non-beta GUI Binaries for Helium Hydra Upgrade
The Monero community has been patiently waiting for some major upgrades to the protocol. Most of those changes were introduced in the...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrency Prices Dip Significantly Hitting a 30-Day Low
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin has dropped to its lowest average this month, to a low of $3,426 amid the recent regulatory storm...
Danish Startup Media Sifter Uses Blockchain To Change How We Consume News
Media Sifter, Google+Copenhagen-based startup Media Sifter is looking to transform the news media industry using blockchain technology and...
Bitcoin Exchange BTCC to Halt Trading as Regulatory Storm Brews in China
Regulation This past week there’s been many rumors that Chinese cryptocurrency trading platforms would be shutting down shortly due to...
China Introduces a Commercial Quantum Network in Shandong
The past few years have taught us that no communication method is safe. There are always individuals looking to snoop on communication in...
PR: OREN Platform Aims to Fix the Gaming Industry’s Biggest Problems
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Revain Crowdsale Post-release
REVAIN is excited to announce the conclusion of crowdsale that ended as scheduled on September 6, at 12 P.M. NY with 2108 BTC accumulated....
GMO to Invest 10 Billion Yen in Its Own 7nm, 5nm and 3.5nm Dedicated Bitcoin Chips
Mining More details on the Japanese Internet Giant GMO’s plans to enter the Bitcoin mining market have been released. The company has...
Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges May Face Stricter Regulation and Licensure
Regulation Over the past week, bitcoiners everywhere have been focused on the speculative news of China ‘banning’ bitcoin and wondering if...
The Night Poloniex Listed Ethereum Classic
Note: The following is a story of the events that led to the survival of the original Ethereum chain after the hard fork related to The...
Building “Cappasity” for AR, VR and 3D Content
Imagine for a minute the next evolution of online retail, featuring an in-store browsing experience with interactive 3D images. All of...
Cryptocurrency Music Heats up the Ecosystem as Jason Vandal Releases New Rap
Featured Blockchain and bitcoin rapper, Jason Vandal, just announced his new Rap Crypto single, which should see full release on September...
PR: BlockRx to Improve Patient Safety with the First Pharmaceutical ICO Offering
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Why Solar SCADA is Taking Center Stage in Grid Modernization
While solar monitoring is not new, solar supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), with the emphasis on the “supervisory control”...
India’s Central Bank Says Digital Currencies Are ‘Susceptible to Misuse’
India’s central bank has said to a parliamentary committee that digital currencies are ‘susceptible to misuse or abuse.’In March, India’s...
Better, Faster zk-SNARKs: Zcash Developers Release New Privacy Tech
Researchers working on the zcash protocol announced today they've invented a new way to speed up the anonymous cryptocurrency. Today,...
Michal Kosinki – “Face-Reading AI can Detect Your Political and Sexual Orientation”
Opinions about facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence are all over the place. The combination of these two powerful...
PR: Smartlands Platform Opens the Agricultural Sector for Crypto-Investors
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Markets Update: Bitcoin Breaks Below $4000 During 12% Sell-Off
Featured Bitcoin has broken below $4000 USD following a sudden 12% sell-off. The dump occurred following the establishment of a third...
Korea’s Coinone Launches Physical Cryptocurrency Exchange
News Korea’s third largest bitcoin exchange Coinone has opened a physical cryptocurrency exchange. Six cryptocurrencies are supported...
Calvin Ayre Foundation Asks Crypto Community For Hurricane Aid in Barbuda – Will Match Donations
Crowdfunding Longtime Antiqua and Barbuda resident, Calvin Ayre, wants people to send immediate relief aid to the islands. Hurricane Irma...
Blockchain Tech Lauded in China, ICOs Shunned in the UK, Bitcoin Revered in Finland
Regulation Financial regulators have made official statements regarding a number of issues pertinent to cryptocurrency regulations in...
How One Blockchain Startup Is Combatting Centralization of the Credit Industry
Startup company Bloom seeks to take advantage of blockchain technology's perks to create a platform where the participants will have...
PR: TokenStars Launches ACE Token Sale, Early Bird Buyers Get Up To 50% Purchase + 40% Conversion Bonus
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The Risks of Segregated Witness: Problems under Evidence Laws
Op-Ed By Jimmy NguyenChief IP, Communications & Legal Officer – nChain Group The bitcoin community still debates whether Segregated...
BTCC Mining Pool Stops Signaling for SegWit2x
More and more signs are pointing to the SegWit2x hard fork not taking place in November of 2017. After F2Pool pulled its support, it...
Deadcoins Launches Compendium of Deceased Cryptocurrencies
Altcoins Deadcoins hosts “a curated list of cryptocurrencies forgotten by this world”. Most of the coins detailed are artifacts from...
Bear Call? Ether-Bitcoin Trading Pair Positions for Weak September
The ether-bitcoin exchange rate (ETH/BTC) could be preparing for a breakout. At press time, ether is trading at 0.07165 BTC (about $310),...
Central Bank of Finland: Bitcoin Can’t and Doesn’t Need to be Regulated
In a research discussion paper entitled “Monopoly without a monopolist: an economic analysis of the bitcoin payment system” the central...
Hedge Token – The Next S&P Index of Crypto
Hedge Token is launching its ICO on September 15th, 2017 at 12:00 PM (GMT+2), creating the ï¬rst professionally created, rulebook-based...
Why Bitcoin is Not a Bubble
Op-Ed The internet is replete with people referring to bitcoin as a “bubble.” They are spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt galore. They...
PR: Why Investors Cant Wait To Invest In Revolutionary Dicing Platform Ethbet
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ERC20 Tether To Launch Next Week On The Ethereum Network
Image credit: Silver Ethereum coins by Wit Olszewski via Shutterstock.comTether and Ethfinex are about to launch the Tether ERC20 token on...
Goldmint Signs Agreement With Euroasia Mining
On September 4, 2017 Eurasia, the platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium and gold production company, is pleased to announce it has entered...
IG Bringing Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ether CFD Trading to the Mainstream
Finance Leading Contract for Difference (CFD) and spread betting provider, IG Group, is actively marketing bitcoin, bitcoin cash and ether...
LAT Research – The Exponential Growth of Crypto Markets to $5 Trillion
LATokens research team, formed by Deutsche Bank and McKinsey alumni, prepared the first LAT Crypto Research, outlining that total market...
AI-Driven Drones may Soon Assist Humans to Inspect Heavy Industrial Equipment
Drones and other AI-driven technology can make a big impact when it comes to security. These gadgets can be used to remotely monitor...
Vietnamese Hurry to Import Mining Rigs
Mining Vietnamese investors are in a hurry to import crypto mining equipment. As the bitcoin price continues to flourish — despite the...
California power officials beg customers to stop using air conditioning
West Coast power grid reaches critical Level - failure by Ethan Huff A prolonged heat wave that continues to hover over much of the...
Finland Uses the Blockchain to Help Refugees
Blockchain technologies have already irrevocably changed many industries, with the most obvious example being finance. Fortunes are both...
A Transactive Energy Future: The Inevitable Rise of Economic-based Grid Control
Every day, the number of new power generators from renewable resources joining the world’s collective electricity grid steadily goes up....
Lead Developer Amaury Séchet Discusses the Future of Bitcoin Cash
Technology This week the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, Amaury Séchet, engaged in a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) discussion about the...
What Is Hyperloop?
Advancements in transportation technology have often dramatically redefined modern life. They change how people and goods move, meaning...
Industry Experts Urge UK FCA To Not Stifle Innovation
Image credit: The Palace of Westminster in London, the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, WikimediaAs countries such...
PR: LAT Research: The Exponential Growth of Crypto Markets to $5 trillion
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Bitcoin Finds Bottom at $4,000 as Price Awaits Post-China Breakout
The bitcoin-US dollar exchange rate (BTC/USD) may have climbed back above $4,000, but it might be ready to push higher even though China...
Openbazaar 2.0 Beta Launches with Tor, Offline Stores, Shapeshift and Segwit
Technology Openbazaar 2.0, a major upgrade from the previous version, has been released. The fully-functional public beta expands the...
Xero to Offer Cross-Border Payments Through Bitcoin Partnership With Veem
Services Cloud-based accounting software company Xero has announced that its users can now send cross-border payments using bitcoin...
PR: Enjin Coin Chooses Bancor for Tokenizing In-Game Items
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Ripple Labs Enters Legal Dispute With R3
News Ripple Labs Inc and R3 Hondco LLC filed lawsuits against each other on Friday. The suit is in relation to Ripple’s attempted...
7nm ASICs Will Bring Bitcoin Mining to a Whole New Level
Technology This week news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Japanese corporation GMO Group announcing plans to start a bitcoin mining operation...
ICOs: Compelling Advantages, Real Risk
Joshua Cook is a corporate and securities partner at business law firm Gunderson Dettmer, where he specializes in the representation of...
Blockchain Embassy Opens for Business in Panama City
Blockchain A new location for bitcoin and cryptocurrency enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, activists, iconoclasts, connoisseurs, and the general...
Bitcoin-Friendly Companies Enter the Flying Taxi Business
Featured The smartest minds and smartest companies in the world are not only dealing with cryptocurrencies, but they are also bringing...
P2P Bitcoin Trading Slows in China, Booms in Hong Kong and South America
Markets and Prices In recent weeks, Chinese P2P bitcoin trading has seen a significant reduction in trading volume. Transversely, Hong...
PR: SPARC Brings Distributed Computing To The Research Industry
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Russia’s Finance Ministry Drafts Law to Legalize Cryptocurrencies
Regulation Russia’s finance ministry is working on a draft bill to legalize cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, which is expected by the...
Chiasso, Switzerland to Allow Citizens to Pay Taxes in Bitcoin
Taxes The Swiss municipality of Chiasso has announced that it will accept tax payments in bitcoin from January 2018 onwards. The...
Yours Network Launches Bitcoin Cash Beta – Adds New Features
Blockchain Last month, Yours Network CEO, Ryan X. Charles, announced their platform would be switching from litecoin to bitcoin cash for...
ECB’s Mario Draghi Rejects the Concept of Estcoins
Not long ago, we touched upon the concept of so-called Estcoins. The new digital currency would complement Estonia’s e-residency...
UK, Malaysia, and Switzerland’s Crypto Valley Association
Regulation UK and Malaysian financial regulators have issued statements suggesting that many ICO token sales may fall under the...
Ethereum Network Sets a New Transaction Throughput Record
The Ethereum ecosystem is maturing in front of our eyes. Whereas most people focus on the technological side of things such as smart...
Coinomi Wallet for Android Now Supports Enjin Coin Gaming Token
The Coinomi wallet is well known for its support of a truly massive amount of different cryptocurrencies. It is one of the most...
Scientists use Genome Sequencing and Machine Learning to Predict Facial Traits
Some of the recent advancements in technology and science are downright scary. A recent experiment by Human Longevity researchers shows...
Juvenile Hacker Uses Same Skype ID for Botnet Activity and Applying for Freelance Jobs
Malware developers are often quite impressive when it comes to introducing new features. However, not all of these developers are the...
Greg Maxwell on the Prospects of SegWit2x And Why Bitcoin Developers May Leave The Project If It Succeeds
At a recent SF Bitcoin Developers meetup, Bitcoin Core contributor and Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell provided a technical presentation on...
Japan’s Entertainment Giant DMM Launching Bitcoin Mining Farm and Pool
Mining Japanese entertainment giant DMM Group, the operator of e-commerce site DMM.com with 27 million members, has announced that it will...
Korean Court Rules Bitcoin Cannot Be Confiscated
Regulation A South Korean district court has ruled for the first time regarding the nature of digital currencies. In the case where 216...
PR: Xenio.io Gaming Blockchain Announcement
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Bitcoin IRA Adds Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Ethereum to Retirement Accounts
Services The Bitcoin IRA, an IRS-sanctioned retirement account, has added bitcoin cash, ethereum, and litecoin to its list of tokens for...
US Politicians Want Tax Exemptions For Bitcoin Purchases Less Than $600
Regulation Two politicians want to make bitcoin purchases below $600 not subject to tax laws. The lawmakers, Representatives David...
Bankrolling Alternative Content Creators to be Done on Blockchain
In an age where independent content creators fight for relevancy and page views to earn a living, the very content and the messages they...
Editor’s Letter: If We Could Talk to the Batteries…
One year ago, at Solar Power International 2016, I helped Julia Hamm, CEO of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) with a keynote...
Markets Tumble Again – How Many Times can China Cry Wolf?
Markets and Prices The cryptocurrency markets are blood red again as rumors circulate that China plans to shutter Bitcoin exchanges. This...