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Siemens Financial Offers ‘Outcome-based’ Financing for Energy Storage
A new offering from Siemens Financial Services (SFS) could give potential customers in the UK an avenue to access Siemens’ energy storage...
Eleven Banks Develop Trade Finance App On R3’s Distributed Ledger Platform
Image credit: Industrial port with containers, by hxdyl, via Shutterstock.comEleven banks, including Bangkok Bank, BBVA, BNP Paribas,...
PR: StreamSpace Announces ICO to support Innovative Film Distribution Platform
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‘Bitcoin Regulation Act’ Introduced in South Korea Bans MLMs
RegulationLegislation outlining the regulatory framework for digital currencies including bitcoin in South Korea has been introduced by...
Researchers Develop Transparent, Flexible Solar Cells
Imagine a future in which solar cells are all around us - on windows and walls, cell phones, laptops, and more. A new flexible,...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Continues to Orbit Above $3K
Markets and PricesOur last markets update revealed bitcoin’s price was extremely bullish, testing the US$2700-2800 range just before the...
A Complete Guide to Bitcoin Cash: Supporting Exchanges, Wallets, Trading Advice
On August 1, Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork proposal initially developed as Bitcoin ABC by Bitmain was officially activated. Shortly...
After FBI Takedown: BTC-e Exchange Says They Still Possess Databases and Wallets
NewsAccording to a new post on the forum Bitcointalk, the now defunct BTC-e exchange says it has control over some its servers and bitcoin...
PR: Crypto Users To Invest In Real Estate through REAL Platform
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Blockchain Data Reveals Someone Is Trying to Slow Down Bitcoin Cash
BlockchainIt’s been five days since the fork, and the Bitcoin Cash (BCH/BCC) blockchain is still on the move as 85 blocks have been...
PR: Protostarr to Commodify Investments in Youtubers and Twitch Casters with Ethereum
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Major Japanese Department Store Chain Marui Accepts Bitcoin
NewsA large Japanese department store chain, Marui, has partnered with bitcoin exchange Bitflyer to accept bitcoin payments starting on...
Segwit2x and the Tale of Three Bitcoins
TechnologyAs the entire community has been laser-focused on the recent hard fork and Bitcoin network split, many people have forgotten...
Node40 Introduces Easy-To-Use Tax Compliance Software for Bitcoiners
TaxesNode40 just released a software as a service offering (SAAS) to bring tax compliant bitcoiners an easy-to-use and “IRS-friendly”...
PR: Rivetz Parity Partnership – Bitcoin News
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Bitcoin Surpasses Milestone Price of $3000 Across Global Exchanges
Markets and PricesBitcoin has finally surpassed the US$3000 per BTC average across global exchanges. In fact, it didn’t stop there and...
Bitfinex Enables Bitcoin Cash Deposits and Withdrawals but Credits 15% Less
NewsBitcoin exchange Bitfinex announced on Friday that it has started allowing Bitcoin Cash deposits and withdrawals. However, some...
150 Bitcoin ATMs Coming to Ukraine
News150 Bitcoin ATMs will be installed in Ukraine this year, including 20-30 machines set to be installed on the streets of Kiev, the...
Bitcoin Price Surges Past $3,200 to Hit New All-Time High
The price of bitcoin has risen sharply, exceeding the $3,200 level for the first time on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). The...
Coinsilium Sells Satoshipay Holdings to Blue Star Capital
FinanceThe UK-based blockchain venture investment fund, Coinsilium Group Limited, has confirmed the sale of the entirety of the company’s...
PR: InvestFeed Showcases First Version of Cryptocurrency-Based Social Investment Platform
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Australian Trader Loses $430K at BTC-e: ‘Nothing Illegal Tied to My Funds’
InterviewThis week news.Bitcoin.com spoke with Jack Kingston, a cryptocurrency trader from Melbourne, Australia, who lost $430,000 USD...
PR: ATLANT Real Estate Platform
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Post Fork Update: The Bitcoin Cash Network and Markets
Markets and Prices It’s been four days since the infamous August 1st blockchain split on the Bitcoin network which gave birth to a new...
Bitcoin Mobile SIM Card Top-Ups Now Available in 136 Countries
Services Bitcoin remittance service Sobit has been launched to enable users to charge their prepaid mobile SIM cards using bitcoin. The...
investFeed Unveils New Cryptocurrency-Based Social Investment Platform
Image via investFeedinvestFeed, a social investment network for digital currency traders and enthusiasts, has released the first version...
Tesla Finishes First Solar Roofs—Including Elon’s House
First the Model 3 electric car. Now the solar roof. In just one week, Tesla has challenged two distinct industries with radically new...
Just Add Solar: Building Africa’s Largest Thermal-Solar PV Hybrid Power Plant
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä is set to deliver a 15-MW solar PV plant in Burkina Faso — creating Africa’s largest thermal-solar PV...
$1.6 Billion: All-Time ICO Funding Climbs as Record $500 Million Invested in July
Blockchain projects have raised a total of $1.67 billion via initial coin offerings (ICOs) so far – a figure that was bolstered by a...
Chart, Learn and Explore: CoinDesk Launches ICO Tracking Tool
More than $1.5 billion and counting... Call them token sales or initial coin offerings (ICOs), the funding method has quickly emerged as...
Malta’s First Bitcoin ATM Triggers Warning From Financial Services Authority
Regulation Malta’s financial regulator has issued a warning aimed to deter cryptocurrency adoption following the installation of the...
New York City Employee Disciplined For Mining Bitcoin at Work
News A New York City employee was recently caught mining bitcoin at work, which stemmed from a 2014 incident. Vladimir Ilyayev is a worker...
Research Paper Makes the Case for a $5.8 Million Bitcoin Price
A new research paper from a pseudonymous author puts the valuation of a single bitcoin at $5.8 million. The paper makes the case that...
Coinbase Reverses – Plans to Allow Bitcoin Cash Withdrawals in January 2018
News Bitcoin exchange Coinbase has reversed its decision to support bitcoin cash. The company now plans to allow customers to withdraw...
Germany’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Hands Over Customer Data Voluntarily
Privacy According to regional reports, Germany’s largest bitcoin exchange Bitcoin.de has been giving customer data to investigators...
Bitfinex Enables Bitcoin Cash Margin Trading
News Bitfinex has enabled margin trading of Bitcoin Cash on its platform. Also read: Indian Government May Take Immediate Steps to Stop...
This Gambling Platform Offers a Bitcoin Savings Account with 8% Interest
While the main sales pitch of Bitcoin has always been that it allows users to route around governments and banks to create a new,...
Despite Naysayers the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain Chugs Forward
News Over the course of the past twelve hours, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain has been chugging along as miners have processed a total...
PR: BetKing ICO Raises Over $1,200,000 In Pre-sale
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New Bitcoin.com Podcast Episode With Bitcoin IRA’s Chris Kline
This week’s Bitcoin.com podcast with our host Richard Jacobs features Chris Kline COO at Bitcoin IRA the retirement plan backed by...
Singapore Central Bank Clarifies ICO Regulations
Regulation Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has published a document that seeks to clarify the...
Wanchain To Enable Interoperability Between Blockchains
Wanchain, a public blockchain project by Chinese firm Wanglu Tech, is building a distributed financial infrastructure on the Ethereum...
Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Bitcoin Wallet Abra as Advisor
News Bitcoin wallet startup Abra has announced that actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow has joined its team as an advisor. Also...
Czech National Bank Publishes Letter Addressing Bitcoin
News The Czech National Bank has published a statement addressing bitcoin and cryptocurrency on its website. The document addresses the...
European Union Proposes Account Freezes to Protect Failing Banks
Regulation EU member nations are considering adopting measures that would allow states to protect against runs in failing banks by...
MultiChain 1.0: Bitcoin-Compatible Private Blockchain Launches for Enterprise
A modified version of bitcoin's software is now available for enterprise use. Built over the course of almost four years by venture-backed...
UK Innovation Agency Supports Liquid Air Energy Storage Demo Project
Innovate UK is investing in a liquid air energy storage (LAES) demonstration project to meet the requirements for National Grid’s enhanced...
Exchanges Experience Difficulties During Bitcoin Cash Distribution
Blockchain Several major cryptocurrency exchanges experienced a number of difficulties during the highly anticipated bitcoin cash...
These Exchanges Are Now Trading Bitcoin Cash
News An increasing number of trading platforms have started trading Bitcoin Cash (BCH, BCC), the new cryptocurrency resulting from the...
Bitcoin Cash Now Third Highest Valued Cryptocurrency Market Cap
News On August 1st the Bitcoin blockchain forked into two separate networks producing a digital currency called Bitcoin Cash (BCH)....
KEVM Wins IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp 2017 Competition
Image credit: Award victory, by sondem, via Shutterstock.comKEVM, a framework developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
D10e Startup Societies Summit: A Conversation With Organizer Matt McKibbin
Interview This week Bitcoin.com spoke with Matt McKibbin organizer of the D10e conference – an event that specializes in promoting...
Nchain and Bitcoin Unlimited Promote Bitcoin Scaling Initiatives Amid Hard Fork
Technology Prior to the bitcoin cash hard fork, research firm Nchain conducted a workshop with the Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) team. The intent...
Fork Watch: Japanese Exchanges Embracing Bitcoin Cash Post-Fork
News As Bitcoin Cash (BCC, BCH) blocks are being mined, all major Japanese exchanges are gearing up to credit their customers with the new...
BTC-e Closure: Clients Are Mt. Goxed by the U.S. – A New Front in Crypto Wars
Op-Ed For the first time, the U.S. government attacked a foreign exchange on foreign soil. It closed down the Russian-based exchange...
Fork Watch: First Bitcoin Cash Block Mined Included Over 6K Transactions
Mining As Bitcoin.com reported earlier today, Bitcoin Cash miners initiated the beginning of the fork on August 1 at 12:37 p.m. UTC at...
Fork Watch: BCH – The Ghost in the Exchange – Mostly
News Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has so far been like a ghost in the exchange; there was little market activity with the currency this morning....
Internet Censorship: Five Countries That Block The Web
In 2011, the Arab Spring arrived in in Egypt: thousands took to the streets to protest the autocratic rule of Hosni Mubarak. Since most of...
Fork Watch: First Bitcoin Cash Block Mined
Blockchain The first Bitcoin ABC (Bitcoin Cash) block was mined on August 1 at approximately 12:37 p.m. UTC at block height 478558. Also...
Chronicled Completes Pilot For Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chain System
Image by Anton Balazh, via Shutterstock.com.San Francisco-based startup Chronicled has completed a technical pilot aimed at demonstrating...
Bitcoin.com Pool Members Now Have the Option to Mine Bitcoin Cash
Promoted Post This past March Bitcoin.com launched its mining pool which has garnered quite a bit of hashrate since it started. This is...
Hours Away From Bitcoin Fork, Price Above $2,900 as Investors Remain Confident
The scheduled execution of the bitcoin hard fork proposal Bitcoin Cash which is set to begin on August 1, 12:20 UTC, is hours away and yet...
20+ New ICOs Announced Despite SEC Warnings
Regulation Last week, SEC announced that some Initial Coin Offering (ICO) tokens could be considered securities. This means startups...
Coinbase Customers Suffer from Delays as Withdrawal Period Ends
News Over the past few days the bitcoin platform Coinbase has been experiencing some significant withdrawal backlog from customers trying...
14,000 Coinbase Customers Could Be Affected by IRS Tax SUMMONS
by Stan Higgins Digital currency exchange startup Coinbase is pushing back against a renewed court effort by the Internal Revenue...
DOJ’s Asset Forfeiture Decision Illustrates Bitcoin’s Usefulness
Asset forfeiture is a controversial policy that allows local and state police departments to seize money and property from those suspected...
PR: Top Blockchain Companies AlphaPoint, Bloq and RSK Labs Show Support for Exchange Union
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Bitcoin Exchange Sued for 3085 Bitcoins After Reversing Bitcoin-Ether Trades
News A major bitcoin exchange with a strong presence in Japan, Quoine, is being sued for reversing bitcoin-ether trades after it allegedly...
PR: Former PayPal Exec and Leading Online Reputation Expert Join Monetha As ICO Date Approaches
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Public Company to Convert Bitcoin to Stock in First-of-Its-Kind Fundraise
by Michael del Castillo As initial coin offerings (ICOs) start to come under regulatory scrutiny in the U.S., one Australian venture...
BTC-e on Refunds, the FBI and Alexander Vinnik
News On July 31 the bitcoin exchange BTC-e sent a message over Twitter and on the forum Bitcointalk concerning the company’s recent...
PR: LAToken Implements Blockchain to Sell Fractions of Any Assets — From Real Estate to Art Objects
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Alphabet Wants to Fix Renewable Energy’s Storage Problem — With Salt
Alphabet Inc.'s secretive X skunk works has another idea that could save the world. This one, code named Malta, involves vats of salt and...
Blockchain Education Network to Conduct Multi-City ‘Bitcoin Airdrop’
Blockchain The Blockchain Education Network will be conducting a global ‘Bitcoin Airdrop’ in partnership with Bitjob. It has been...
Developers are Utilising Ethereum For Video Games
Immutability deriving from Bitcoin’s proof of work consensus protocol and its mining ecosystem has proven to be beneficial for a variety...
The Bitcoin Trust Reveals Post-Fork Contingency Plan
Finance Grayscale Investments, the sponsor of the Bitcoin Investment Trust has revealed its upcoming plans for the fund if a hard fork...
Chinese Demand for Gold Bars Climbs by 50 Percent on Hunt for Havens
Tweet 0 inShare Demand for gold bars in China, the world’s biggest bullion market, soared by more than half in the first six months of the...
Vanished Cryptsy CEO ‘Big Vern’ Ordered to Pay $8M in Class Action Lawsuit
News This week Judge Kenneth Marra came to a conclusion in the District of Florida class action lawsuit against Paul Vernon and his...
PR: Social Media Is Buzzing About This Summer’s Hottest ICO – Karbon
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Hard Forking For Dummies: 2 Simple Rules to Access Your Bitcoin Cash
News There are two cardinal rules bitcoin holders should follow to prepare for the bitcoin hard fork. These rules will help users protect...
Fork Watch: Indian Bitcoin Exchanges Will Not Support ‘Bitcoin Cash’
News India’s top bitcoin exchanges have announced that they are either not supporting or have not planned to support “Bitcoin Cash,” the...
Bitcoin Whales and How They Make Market Waves
Op-Ed Sometimes when there’s a huge drop in bitcoin’s price traders called “bitcoin whales” are blamed for dumping on the market. Bitcoin...
Fork Watch: Korean Bitcoin Exchanges Divided on ‘Bitcoin Cash’
News Bitcoin exchanges in South Korea have been preparing for the planned user-activated hard fork (UAHF) on August 1. Some have announced...
Poloniex Quits Washington State as New Exchange Rules Become Active
News Back in April, Washington politicians finished piecing together and finalizing the regulations for bitcoin exchanges. Those...
Genesis Mining Hacked – Coinjournal
Earlier this week, the Genesis Mining development team announced that an unauthorized intrusion by an undisclosed attacker was discovered...
Overstock’s TØ Has Already Built a Platform for Trading Regulated ICOs
by Michael del Castillo US retail giant Overstock.com has been waiting for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to tell the...
BTC-e Domain Seizure by U.S. Law Enforcement Sparks Jurisdiction Questions
News On July 28, 2017, the bitcoin-exchange BTC-e domain was seized by six U.S. law enforcement agencies including the Secret Service....
Fork Watch: Take Extra Precaution When Trying to Access Post-Fork Tokens
Security Bitcoin holders should be aware that during and after a fork people can make mistakes when differentiating between the two...
Fork Watch: ‘Bitcoin Cash’ Support Grows as August 1 Draws Near
News The user-activated hard fork (UAHF) on the Bitcoin network is looming around the corner. ‘Bitcoin Cash’ (BCC; BCH) is slated to break...
Secretive Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Metastable Examined
News Fortune has published an examination of a secretive cryptocurrency hedge fund that is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture...