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Barclays Want UK Government to Regulate Bitcoin
In a recent interview with CNBC, Barclays CEO, Ashok Vaswani revealed that the bank has been in communications with Britain’s Financial...
How The EU’s Data Grab Could Affect You
The EU is poised to grab personal data in a way that could impact people around the globe. Information is power; it is power over your...
New Trading Platform Taps Into Ethereum-Based ICOs Craze
US-based startup Ambisafe has unveiled its newest development, Orderbook, a venture operating a trading platform for Ethereum-based...
Bitcoin Adoption Grows in World’s Leading Electronics District
Bitcoin adoption is growing in Akihabara, an area in Japan known as “the world’s largest electrical equipment marketplace.” Als read: The...
PR: Dentacoin Presale List – More Than 2K Individuals Declared Their Interest
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Poland’s Largest Food Delivery Website with 5000+ Restaurants Starts Accepting Bitcoin
Poland’s largest website for ordering food online, Pyszne.pl, now accepts bitcoin for all orders. The site boasts the largest selection of...
PR: Aigang To Build DAO Insurance For IoT Devices Using Smart Contracts
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Onecoin Operators Get In Trouble Again In Three More Countries
The accused Ponzi scheme Onecoin is starting to get into more trouble these days as the fraudulent operations are becoming more apparent...
Six Legal Issues Bitcoin Faces in South Korea
South Korea currently has no regulations regarding bitcoin, even as the digital currency has gained immense popularity following its...
Markets Update: After Some Stability Bitcoin Price Trends Downwards
On June 24 the price of bitcoin dipped down 7 percent to a low of $2512 USD after remaining relatively stable at $2680-2700 for the past...
Scheduled Scaling Updates for the Bitcoin Network Are Getting Closer
Over the past six months, the bitcoin scaling debate has been going on relentlessly as many cryptocurrency proponents are trying to figure...
The Company Also Announced That They “Will Follow up Directly With Affected Customers About This Process Next Week.”
Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX) Vice President, Adam White, issued a follow-up statement regarding the multi-million dollar market...
Cryptobuyer Installs First Bitcoin ATMs in Latin American Commercial Bank
Major Latin American cryptocurrency and digital assets company, Cryptobuyer, has installed two bitcoin ATMs on the premises of a...
Russian GPU Prices Spike, Miners Turn to International Markets for Graphics Cards
An increasing number of Russian nationals living abroad are generating an income through reselling graphics cards to Russian...
Bitpay to Launch Bitcoin Wallet App for Windows Phone Market
Bitcoin payment processor Bitpay Inc. has announced that it will be making its bitcoin wallet app available to Windows Phone users,...
Canadian Luxury Home Listed for Sale on Beijing Craigslist for 1,075 Bitcoins
An eight-bedroom luxury home in Canada has been listed for sale on the Beijing Craigslist website with an asking price of 1,075 bitcoins....
Tesla Battery Emissions Study Making the Rounds? It’s Bunk.
No, making a Tesla battery does not equal eight years of driving an internal combustion car. By Ezra Dyer If you're predisposed to...
Private Schools for Kids Are Now Accepting Bitcoin for Tuition
Over the last few years, there have been many colleges and well-known universities all across the world that have started accepting...
18-Year Old Erik Finman Details How Bitcoin Made Him a Millionaire
This week the 18-year old entrepreneur, Erik Finman, recently did an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on a technology subreddit where he details his...
Indian Bitcoin Adoption Responds to Government Signalling for Regulation
The Indian government recently announced that it is in favor of regulating bitcoin. A task force is being set up to provide...
Netcents and VISA Team up to Offer Bitcoin Purchases via Credit Card
Netcents and VISA have announced a partnership to facilitate the direct purchase of bitcoins using a credit card. Also Read:...
FBI Requests New Funding To Investigate Use Of Virtual Currencies
On June 21 the acting director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, gave a speech to U.S. bureaucrats requesting a new budget for the fiscal year of...
PR: Compcoin Announces $45M Initial Coin Offering For Its A.I. Trading Platform
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Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds Outperform Rivals
The cryptocurrency hedge fund industry has significantly expanded in recent years. The meteoric rise in the price of bitcoin has...
South Korean Mobile Commerce Leader Omnitel Adds Bitcoin Services
South Korean mobile commerce leader Omnitel announced that its subsidiary Omni Networks is starting a bitcoin remittance business. In...
Mycelium Employee Quits After ICO Funds Used for Spanish Vacation
In a recent interview former backend developer for Mycelium, Daniel Drawisz, has detailed his reasons for leaving the company. Daniel...
Analyst: Like Amazon, Bitcoin Offers a Lucrative Multi-Decade Investment Opportunity
A financial analyst looked closely at the spikes in Amazon’s stock price and bitcoin recently. While detailing similarities between the...
PR: iDice June Development Update
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GDAX Exchange Sees Colossal ETH Flash Crash, Angered Traders Mount Lawsuit
Details have surfaced of a violent flash crash on Global Digital Asset Exchange’s (GDAX) ETH markets today, with Ethereum tokens being...
BitInka Announces Expansion of Bitcoin-Based Payment-App Services Across Latin America
Bitinka, a platform that allows users from 9 South American nations to purchase and sell bitcoins, has announced significant uptake of...
Mainstream Journalist Makes Bizarre Attempt at Living for a Week Using Bitcoin
CNBC journalist Seema Moody recently published a report detailing the trials and tribulations of her attempt to live for a week solely...
South Korean Officials Bash ICO:s and Plan to Approach Bitcoin ‘Cautiously’
On June 18, government officials from South Korea revealed some opinions concerning cryptocurrency ‘speculation’ taking place in the...
Chainalysis Says They’ve Found the Missing $1.7 Billion Dollar Mt Gox Bitcoins
On June 8 the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance discussed the possible connection between...
Bitcoin Games Amazing Summertime 10% Cashback Bonus
To celebrate the beginning of summer and make things a lot more exciting we are offering Bitcoin Games players who register their email 10...
BITCF and SAMCO to Install Automated Check-Cashing Bitcoin ATMs Throughout California
First Bitcoin Capital Corp (BITCF) and Simple Automated Money, Inc (SAMCO) have announced a partnership to introduce check-cashing Bitcoin...
New Ethereum-Based Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange Aims to Improve Security and Transparency
Hong Kong’s Open ANX Foundation has unveiled openANX, a project aimed at building a new decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and trading...
Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain.Info Raises $40 Million From Well-Known Investors
The popular online bitcoin wallet, Blockchain.info, has announced the completion of a successful series B funding round by raising $40...
Hackers Use NSA Exploit to Mine Monero Using Victims’ Computers
Reports have surfaced detailing a malware trojan that uses an NSA hacking tool to infect Windows computers with a cryptocurrency mining...
Singlepoint Acquires Funding to Tackle Cannabusiness Banking Problems With Bitcoin
US cannabis merchants could soon have a major new service to accept payments using bitcoin, which would sidestep the federal ban on...
$13: Ether Prices Plunge in GDAX Exchange Flash Crash
In yet another instance of just how volatile the cryptocurrency markets can be, the price of ether plummeted to $13 today on...
Status ICO Generates Over $60 Million, Fails to Deliver, Triggers Ethereum Network Overload
A decentralized messaging app called Status — built on the Ethereum blockchain— raises over $60 million dollars during its initial coin...
Unicode Consortium Adds Official Bitcoin “B” Symbol
On June 20 the Unicode Consortium revealed new version 10.0. They finally added the bitcoin symbol to their code. Now users can type the...
Bitstamp Initiates Litecoin Trading Function as the Currency’s Price Surges
European digital currency exchange Bitstamp rolled out Litecoin trading on Monday. The trading function will be accomplished by using...
State-funded Bitcoin Data Center Infuriates Montana Locals
Citizens of Bonner have complained to their local council about noise pollution coming from a state-funded data processing center owned by...
Investment Legend Bill Miller Is Still Bullish on Bitcoin
In a recent interview with CNBC, investment legend Bill Miller described bitcoin as “a true disruptor and true innovation in money”. Also...
Bitcoin.com Cloud Mining Contracts — Record Daily Sellouts
This past May, Bitcoin.com launched our cloud mining service which was met with phenomenal success. Since then we’ve had significant...
New Bitcoin.com Podcast Episode with Stefan Thomas of Ripple Labs
During this week’s Bitcoin.com podcast our host, Richard Jacobs, sits down with Stefan Thomas, CTO of Ripple Labs to discuss his company’s...
PBOC Will Not Release Regulations for Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges Anytime Soon
Local Chinese publications reported last month that the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will issue regulatory guidelines for Chinese bitcoin...
Former Mycelium Employee Quit After Token Sale Funds Were Used for Vacation
On a recent episode of The Crypto Show, Daniel Krawisz, who previously worked as a backend developer at Mycelium, shared some of the...
GPU Shortage Intensifies as Cryptocurrency Mining Offers up to Twice the Average Russian Monthly Wage
European consumers in general and especially russian consumers have faced massive graphics card shortages following a dramatic increase in...
New York Regulator Reports on Cryptocurrency Licensing, Inspects Businesses
An annual report by the New York State Department of Financial services reiterates the importance of regulating digital currency...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Price Climbs Higher After Last Week’s Low
Since our last markets update bitcoin’s fiat value dipped 30 percent throughout the second week of June. Following the correction, the...
Ayondo to Offer Bitcoin Trading Through Tradehub and Wetrade
Ayondo have joined the growing list of mainstream contracts for difference (CFD) brokers who are offering bitcoin trading, with Ayondo...
Indian Government to Monitor Bitcoin Before Deciding If Regulator Is Needed
Representatives of various Indian government departments have made statement regarding the Indian government’s inquiry into virtual...
How to Piggy Bank Bitcoin Keys in a Cold Storage Mosaic Artwork
Just recently Bitcoin.com chatted with Max Hampton-Fischer, an industrial design student at the Rhode Island School of Design to talk...
Forbes Encourages Readers to Buy Bitcoin at All-Time High Price Area
An article posted in Forbes’ Level-Up encouraged its readers to buy into bitcoin, despite bitcoin’s price currently sitting within range...
UK Regulator Warns Investors Bitcoin Trading is Risky
A high ranking UK regulator recently warned people about the pitfalls and perils of bitcoin investing. Chris Woolard, The Financial...
China Blames Bitcoin Transactions for Leading to More Synthetic Drug Deaths
China is expected to ban a new synthetic heroin substance called U-47700, and they blame bitcoin as the currency “criminals” use to...
PR: How Ethereum Is Used in CTFs (Coin Traded Funds) and What the Benefits Are
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Lightning Network Developer Explains What Happens If SegWit Isn’t Activated on Bitcoin
Segregated Witness (SegWit) and the Lightning Network have often been associated with each other because SegWit would enable an improved...
Most Popular Contactless Smart Cards in Japan Adding Bitcoin Hardware Wallets
Sony’s Felica technology is behind many of the most popular contactless NFC smart cards. Already the de facto standard in Japan for...
PR: HashMining.eu Cloud Mining Allows Anyone To Mine Ethereum
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PR: This Investment Is Just Like Buying Bitcoin in 2012
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Australian Financial Authorities Look Into Ethereum’s Conflicts of Interest
This week Bitcoin.com spoke with an anonymous individual from Australia who has been in contact with the Australian Securities and...
Assisting in Bitcoin Purchases for Ransomware May Be Illegal in the US
‘White hat’ security consultant, Vinny Troia, had his Coinbase account suspended for breaching US regulations by paying cyber-ransoms,...
Indian Government to Recommend Bitcoin Regulation Within 6 Months
The Indian government will meet to discuss the regulatory framework of Bitcoin and other digital currencies next week, according to a...
Israeli Startup Colu Launches Second Local Digital Currency in the UK
Image credit: London via PixabayColu, a startup headquartered in Tel Aviv that develops localized digital currencies based on blockchain...
HYCM Offers Bitcoin-USD Pairing Amidst Greater Cryptocurrency Integration into Mainstream Financial Industries
In response to popular pressure from clients, forex and CFDs broker HYCM have announced that they have added the BTC-USD pairing to their...
Survey Provides Insight Into Malaysian Cryptocurrency Community
Luno has published results of a survey conducted from its Malaysian userbase. The findings yield fascinating insights into the development...
Litecoin’s Price Tops $50 to Set New All-Time High
After three years of ups and downs, the price of the cryptocurrency litecoin has finally set a new all-time high. Launched in late 2011 as...
70 Percent of the Bitcoin Hashrate Begins Signaling Segwit2x
On June 16 the alpha code for the scaling solution Segwit2x was released to the public following a large number of mining pools having...
Feecon 2017: Bolstering the Principles of a Free Society and Bitcoin
On June 15-17 hundreds of liberty focused individuals attended the Foundation for Economic Education’s Feecon 2017 to learn about...
Australian Tells Story of Throwing Away Hard Drive Hosting 1400 Bitcoins
Sydney-based technology journalist Campbell Simpson details his story of throwing away a hard drive containing 1400 bitcoin 5 years ago....
Coincheck Reopens Lending Service with 11 More Cryptocurrencies
The bitcoin lending service has resumed at Japanese exchange Coincheck, with the addition of eleven more cryptocurrencies that the...
Craig Wright on “The Risks of Segregated Witness: Opening the Door to Mining Cartels”
Written by Dr. Craig Wright. The bitcoin community continues to debate Segregated Witness, the Bitcoin Core development team’s proposed...
Bitcoin Trading in Venezuela Intensifies, Bolivar Still Down and Devalued
A Bloomberg article pointed out June 15 that Bitcoin trading volume has jumped to 1.3 million this past week in Venezuela. There seems to...
Chinese Explore Future of OTC Trading at Bitcoin Meetup
In a recent meeting in Chengdu, China, traders explored how over-the-counter (OTC) exchanges will function in the future. The meeting was...
Celebrities Continue to Discuss the Subject of Bitcoin With Optimism
Over the past few months, many well-known investors have been coming out of the woodwork to discuss the decentralized cryptocurrency...
Top Bitmex Representatives Discuss The People’s Bank of China and Bitcoin’s Future
In a recent interview published on Technode with CEO Arthur Hayes and COO Ben Delo, Bitmex’s co-founders discussed Bitmex’s growth,...
Bitpesa CEO Claims Bitcoin-Based Remittance Companies Have Reduced Costs by 75%
Bitpesa founder and CEO, Elizabeth Rossiello, has claimed that bitcoin-based remittance services have reduced the costs of international...
PR: The Secret to Becoming a Crypto Millionaire
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Chinese Miners Announce Accelerated Development and Activation of Segwit2x
A new agreement has been struck among Chinese Bitcoin exchanges and mining companies representing the majority of Bitcoin’s hashing power....
Popular Japanese Capsule Hotels Embracing Bitcoin
Since the Japanese government started recognizing bitcoin, an increasing number of merchants in the country have adopted it as a payment...
Central Bank of Samoa Issues Warning Against Digital Currency
The Central Bank of Samoa has issued a warning against digital currency, including bitcoin, as part of a larger effort to crack down on...
Ignore the State’s Coming Blockchain Grab. Be Happy Libertarians
A May 30tharticle in the Atlantic declared, “Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism. Extreme libertarians built blockchain to...
PR: How to Profit from “The Flippening”
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Legality of Basic Attention Token and Other ICOs Called Into Question
At the start of June, Brave Software raised $35 million USD in 30 seconds, selling out their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in record time....
Second Annual Coinsbank Blockchain Cruise ‘Massive Success’
Just recently Bitcoin.com reported on the Second Annual Coinsbank Blockchain Cruise that took place this past May 25th through June 3rd....
New Dandelion Proposal Aims to Anonymize Bitcoin Transaction Broadcasts
Back in February a new privacy white paper for the Bitcoin network called ‘Dandelion’ was published and received a lot of attention from...
Coinbase Temporarily Disables Ross Ulbricht’s Account, Hires Silkroad Prosecutor
Yesterday, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase disabled alleged Silkroad founder Ross Ulbricht’s account. They reactivated it later, citing...