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SEC Rejects Another High-Profile Bitcoin ETF Proposal
Another high-profile proposal for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been denied by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
Decentralized Exchanges Are Evolving at Last
The humble DEX has come a long way since the days of Etherdelta. While not all of those steps have been forward – such as the...
IRS Issues New Crypto Tax Guidance After 5 Years – Experts Weigh In
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued long-awaited guidance on the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies. It is generally...
Chinese Bitcoin Miners Migrate North After Wet Season
A China-based crypto news outlet recently published a comprehensive report on the costs associated with building a digital currency mining...
Over 200 Venezuelan Taxis Discover the Benefits of Bitcoin Cash
A man named Oscar Salas recently spoke about his quest to spread bitcoin cash (BCH) adoption on episode 34 of the Bitcoin Cast show. Salas...
Sean Walsh: Cryptocurrencies Can Harness More Human Energy
Bitcoin scores high in terms of ‘moneyness’ compared to other forms of money as it has some technical advantages and social...
United Nations Agency Unicef Launches Cryptocurrency Fund
Unicef announced Wednesday that it has launched a cryptocurrency fund and become the first United Nations organization to hold onto its...
Crypto and Real Estate Were Built for One Another
Whether buying, selling or tokenizing real estate, the property market and blockchain are deeply intertwined. As the purchase of property...
Bitcoin.com Partners with Canadian Gaming Giant Bravio Tech on Global Lotteries
Following on from its landmark partnership with HTC, Bitcoin.com has partnered with Canadian gaming and lottery giant Bravio Technologies....
Major German Coop Bank Passes Negative Interest Rates to Customers
One of Germany’s largest cooperative banks has begun charging its retail customers a negative interest rate. Other major banks could...
Bitcoin Cash Settles More Value Than ETH in Dollars Moved
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have recently been discussing the amount of value participants have been sending onchain. For quite some...
Tether Created ‘Largest Bubble in Human History’ Claims Lawsuit Against Bitfinex
A common attack against Tether in the crypto ecosystem is that the stablecoin isn’t really backed one-to-one by the U.S. dollar. We...
Why Bitcoin Is Better Than Banks: Major Credit Card Breach Exposes 60M Accounts
Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia with a regional and global presence, has suffered a major data breach. Personal information belonging...
Market Outlook: Leading Cryptocurrencies Attempt to Break Resistance
Digital currency markets have started to show strong signs of recovery after dropping to new lows last week. On Monday, a number of...
Economic Turmoil in Hong Kong Escalates as Colonial-Era Law Is Imposed
Colonial-era law has been imposed in Hong Kong causing the economic situation to degrade further, with empty ATMs and bank runs becoming a...
NIXT – Nexinter Launches Exchange Offering Using SLP
Today, NextHash and Bitcoin.com have entered a technical partnership to design and structure the NIXT utility token. NIXT token is being...
2019’s Token Sales Have Produced a Handful of Winners
2019 has proven a challenging year in which to launch a crypto startup, with the most successful tokens recording only modest returns....
Banking Giant HSBC Set to Fire 10,000 More Employees
The banking sector continues to suffer drastic layoffs as the global economic outlook remains uncertain. The latest financial institution...
UK Regulator Ramps up Crypto Investigations and Considers KYC for Wallets
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been relentlessly scrutinizing cryptocurrency startups and investigations are up...
4 Noncustodial Bitcoin Cash-Powered Payment Button Generators
Bitcoin cash development is popping, whether it’s from engineers programming infrastructure or developers creating third-party...
Here’s How Belarus Pressures Russia to Legalize Cryptocurrencies
Relations between Belarus and Russia have always been quite complicated. The union the two close allies created has faced all kinds of...
Indian Supreme Court Sets Date to Hear Crypto Case Next Week
The Supreme Court of India has confirmed a new date to hear the crypto case after multiple delays. During the last hearing, the court...
FOIN Allows Merchants to Accept Crypto Payments In-Store
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Crypto Outpaces Political Donation Laws in Japan
A major Japanese news publication has reported that crypto donations to individual politicians are legal and do not need to be reported...
Bitfinex Braces for Imminent Lawsuit Alleging Tether Manipulates Crypto Market
The operators of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and the stablecoin Tether are again engaged in public relations crisis management....
Bitcoin Cash Proponents Prepare for Forthcoming Upgrade Features
In five weeks, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network will upgrade once again, adding two new features to the blockchain. The first component...
Liechtenstein Adopts Token Act to Attract Crypto Business
One of Europe’s smallest but richest nations, Liechtenstein, has made a significant step towards clarifying the regulatory...
Bitcoin History Part 18: The First Bitcoin Wallet
Bitcoin users today are blessed with a panoply of feature-rich software and hardware wallets. When Bitcoin launched, however, there were...
Paypal Exits Libra – Mastercard and Visa May Follow
Facebook’s ambitious financial inclusion project, Libra, continues marching forward in spite of mountainous regulatory obstacles,...
Bank Raided, Arrests Made But RBI Still Restricts Withdrawals
The crisis has elevated at the cooperative bank recently placed under regulatory restrictions by India’s central bank. Multiple...
McAfee to Launch Decentralized Token Exchange With No Restrictions
On the heels of launching his crypto platform, McAfee Magic, the former antivirus software tycoon John McAfee plans to launch a...
Turkish Government Freezes Over 3 Million Bank Accounts
Hundreds of thousands of businesses and individuals with tax obligations to the Turkish state have received foreclosure notices this week...
Protesters Wield Tools of Freedom as Hong Kong Imposes Dictatorship
Four months of protests continue in Hong Kong as the world is witnessing the biggest uprising of political dissent in the territory since...
Bitcoin.com Launches Games Stars Leaderboard – Win BTC Every Week
To introduce a new flavor to the ever exciting online gaming experience at games.bitcoin.com, we are launching a fresh new promotion where...
Data Shows Institutional Interest in Bitcoin Has Diminished
Last spring and the beginning of summer 2019 saw digital asset markets spike considerably in value, and many speculators assumed the rise...
Russia Regulates Digital Rights, Advances Other Crypto-Related Bills
After much deliberation in the past months and years, Moscow has recently taken important steps toward regulating the crypto space. These...
200,000 People Have Signed Ross Ulbricht’s Clemency Petition
Ross Ulbricht is forced to spend the rest of his life in prison, and October 1 marked the beginning of his seventh year behind bars....
Crypto Investment Group Grayscale Releases Bitcoin Cash Primer
Crypto investment firm Grayscale has just released “An Introduction to Bitcoin Cash” highlighting the basics of BCH for those...
7 Crypto ETPs Now Trading on Main Swiss Stock Exchange
Switzerland’s principal stock exchange now has seven cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) listed. They allow investors to...
The Exchange for the New Generation — Bitsoda.com Launches Globally
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
RBI Ban Stops Indian Police From Cashing Out Seized Crypto
The effects of banking restrictions by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have reached an Indian police department. The police sold some...
Global Law Enforcement Has Auctioned Massive Amounts of Bitcoin
Last month, the U.K. police auctioned off roughly $300,000 worth of cryptocurrencies after they were confiscated by the country’s...
Zimbabwe Bans Popular Mobile Money Services From Paying out Fiat Cash
Zimbabwe is once again showing the need to take away from politicians the power to control normal people’s money. The government...
Ohio Removes Option to Pay Taxes With Crypto While Local SLP Project Presses Forward
The state of Ohio has become an unexpected center of American fintech focus in recent years, thanks to remarkable developments at the...
How to Create an Anonymous Digital Identity Using Cryptocurrency
If you could go back in time and do the internet all over again, what would you change? Would you think twice about joining Facebook,...
German Bank Predicts BTC at $90,000 After Next Halving
You wouldn’t expect a traditional financial institution to come up with a very optimistic forecast about the future of a...
Trump Pressures Fed for More Rate Cuts as Mega Banks Drain the Balance Sheet
U.S. President Donald Trump is pressuring the central bank to cut interest rates even further as a spike in oil prices has offset the...
SLP Hackathon Produces a Variety of Innovative Token Ideas
Software developers wrapped up the first Simple Ledger Protocol Virtual Hackathon (SLPVH) which ended on September 30 with the first place...
These Debit Cards Will Help You Spend Your BCH Anywhere
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin cash are ideally suited to payments. While their popularity increases with growing awareness of the benefits...
No Victim, No Crime: How the Darknet Drug War Is Ruining Young Lives
There aren’t many areas of modern society unaffected by the draconian war on drugs, and non-violent crypto exchange is no exception....
New Evidence Escalates Panic as RBI Still Limits Bank Withdrawals
Customers of a cooperative bank with 137 branches across India still do not know the fate of their money, which was restricted by the...
5 Educational Resources That Will Level up Your Cryptocurrency Knowledge
Crypto is a constant learning curve. Keeping pace with developments in bitcoin, blockchain, and the ever-evolving cryptocurrency ecosystem...
How G20 Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Progressing
Central bank digital currency has become a hot topic among finance ministers and central bankers worldwide, with some G20 countries ahead...
Shots Fired as Nancy Pelosi Challenger Bacelar Funds Campaign With Crypto
27-year-old Agatha Bacelar is a Brazilian-American immigrant from a STEM background, and she’s targeting Speaker of the House Nancy...
SEC Imposes Multimillion Dollar Fine for Unregistered EOS Token Sale
The United States securities regulator has announced hefty fines for two crypto companies. The penalties have been imposed for EOS’...
Market Outlook: A Few Cryptocurrencies Rebound While Fear Grips Central Banks
In the last 48 hours, digital currency markets have rebounded after some bearish price dips last week. After losing $35 billion in a short...
Video Shows $10M Chinese Bitcoin Mining Farm in Flames
During the early morning hours of September 30, a nine-minute video circulated on Twitter showing a large bitcoin mining farm burning...
Bank of Japan Eyes Lower Rates for Halloween as Negative Global Trend Continues
In a recent rate review meeting of the Bank of Japan (BoJ), bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda and others on the nine-member board urged...
This AI Platform Identifies Privacy Threats in Social Networks and Messengers
Preserving your online privacy has become almost a lost cause these days. Thankfully, some entrepreneurial minds have taken it upon...
Financial Giant Fidelity Backs Bitcoin Derivatives Yield Fund
The Los Angeles-based Wave Financial has announced the launch of a bitcoin derivatives-based yield fund and Fidelity will provide custody...
Bittrex, Coinbase and Kraken Set up Crypto Rating Council
The heavy hand of regulators has been stifling the growth of the cryptocurrency industry in the U.S. and caused innovators to flock...
Darknet Markets Are Thriving Despite the Mysterious Death of Dread
Obtaining reliable information about darknet markets (DNMs) is a constant struggle, given the propensity of news sites and forums to come...
Massive Layoffs: Banks Cutting Nearly 60,000 Jobs Worldwide
Banks are laying off workers across the globe as revenue declines throughout the sector. According to reports, banks have announced nearly...
IRS Releases ‘Tax Cheat’ Info Raising Concerns About Crypto Theft
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a new report and infographic on Thursday illustrating unpaid or underpaid taxes for the...
Bitcoin Is a Viable Way to Remove the State From Your Life
The last decade has seen central banks print trillions of dollars, governments grown much larger, wars continue with no end, and ordinary...
International Crypto Exchange Luno Adds Bitcoin Cash Trading
Luno exchange has added bitcoin cash trading to the platform following feedback from its client base. BCH is now only the third...
Bankers Start to Recognize Bitcoin’s Role in Financial Evolution
Digitization, disruption, blockchain, and frictionless payments. It’s amazing how prominent figures from the financial elite can...
Bitcoin Cash Meetups Help Plant the Seeds of Economic Freedom
Our newsdesk recently caught up with Bitcoin.com’s community manager Chris Bridgman who discussed the recent expansion of Bitcoin...
Hidden Lightning Network Bug Allowed Spending of ‘Fake’ Bitcoins
A bug discovered in the Lightning Network in June, which allowed lightning bitcoins not backed by actual bitcoins to be spent, has...
XinFin, Black Tier Solutions and Blockchain at Michigan Announce Joint Partnership
Black Tier Solutions announced a partnership with Blockchain at Michigan. Black Tier Solutions will be responsible for assisting the...
SEC Commissioner Speaks Positively About Digital Assets Despite Recent Enforcement Flurry
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regularly draws the ire of crypto proponents who are frustrated at its failure to...
Traders Bemoan New Localbitcoins Identity Requirements
Recent data shows that countries with corrupt governments have a strong correlation with Localbitcoins trade volumes. However, even though...
Bitcoin Smart Contract Platform RSK Acquires Latin America’s Fourth Largest Social Network
IOV Labs, the parent company of Bitcoin smart contract platform RSK, has announced the acquisition of Taringa. As a result, the Hispanic...
Venezuela’s Central Bank Indicates Plans to Stockpile Bitcoin
Various reports reveal Venezuela’s central bank is allegedly contemplating hoarding a variety of cryptocurrencies like BTC within...
Bitmain to Launch the World Digital Mining Map This October
SINGAPORE, 27 September, 2019 – During the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) – which will take place in Frankfurt on 8-10...
Decentralized Finance Projects Are Starting to Ship
Defi, defi, defi. You can’t go anywhere in crypto these days without having that contraction thrown at you. 2017 was all about the...
Without Disobedience, Bitcoin Is No Better Than Gold
With the launch of Bakkt’s bitcoin futures market and Binance’s revamped U.S. exchange, there’s been a lot of talk in...
Bitcoin Cash City Conference Success Wrap-Up
So many firsts from the Bitcoin Cash City Conference – what a huge success and a proud feather in the cap of North Queensland. As...
Software Engineer Reveals Oracle Creation Platform for Bitcoin Cash
On September 23, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developer Gabriel Cardona revealed a project called Oracles.cash, a platform he constructed at the...
Protests Led RBI to Raise PMC Bank’s Withdrawal Limit
The Reserve Bank of India has relaxed the withdrawal limit of 1,000 rupees (approximately $14) it placed on a cooperative bank a couple of...
Bitflyer Adds Bitcoin Cash Trading Across Europe and the US
Bitflyer has added a selected number of new cryptocurrencies for its European and American clients to trade. Bitcoin cash (BCH) is among...
Latin American Payment App Mercado Pago Can Be Topped-Up With Crypto
The Atlanta-based blockchain payment provider Bitpay has announced the firm has partnered with Mercado Livre, one of the largest ecommerce...
The Number of Cryptocurrency Wallets Is Growing Exponentially
Wallets are a necessity for cryptocurrency users and their creation is a strong indication of how fast the popularity of decentralized...
Monex Offers Crypto Rewards to Shareholders Furthering Japanese Adoption
Owner of popular Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck, Monex Group, has now announced it will reward shareholders in the company with...
Despite Lower Prices, Bitcoin’s Hashrate Remains Strong
People watching cryptocurrency markets have been patiently waiting for prices to rise and the overall sentiment to change. However, one...
NASA to Launch Bitcoin to the Moon? Space Agency Seeks Crypto Experience
Could experience with cryptocurrency help you become a better space scientist? NASA seems to think so. The U.S. aeronautics agency is...
Appetite for Bitcoin Futures Is Growing
After all the fanfare, fevered anticipation, and breathless media coverage, Bakkt’s launch of bitcoin futures on Monday was a damp...
Market Outlook: Traders Play New Positions After Massive Drop in Crypto Prices
On September 24, digital currency markets saw significant losses as the entire cryptoconomy lost $35 billion in a short period of time....
McAfee Hints Institutional Money Won’t Bring Bitcoin Revolution
In a tweet posted Monday, September 23, Libertarian presidential candidate and crypto rebel John McAfee wrote: “BAKKT goes live...
Swiss Banks Team With Fintechs to Enter the Crypto Space
Multiple joint projects between banks and crypto companies based in Switzerland now offer customers the opportunity to invest in digital...