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UK Judge Strikes Out Craig Wright’s Libel Lawsuit Against Roger Ver
According to documents from the U.K.’s High Court of Justice published on July 31, a judge has denied Craig Wright’s libel...
Indian Government Updates Parliament on Crypto Plans
The Indian parliament has repeatedly asked the finance minister about the government’s plans for cryptocurrency. In July alone, the...
Liquidity Difficulties in China: Second Bank Bail-Out Now Reality
Although it has its peculiarities, the Chinese banking sector now faces similar challenges to the west’s financial system. Dozens of...
PR: Bitpunter Launches Transaction Mining for Online Gaming
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Pre-Register for Bitcoin.com’s New Crypto Exchange to Win Bitcoin Cash Prizes
Over the last few years, Bitcoin.com has striven to make digital assets more accessible to everyone in the world. In June we launched our...
Bitcoin Cash 2-Year Anniversary: Celebrating Protocol Development and Achievements
Today Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fans from all around the world will be celebrating the 2-year anniversary of the BCH network. The day is a great...
New Bitcoin Cash Specs Propose Heightened Privacy and Double-Spend Proofs
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) development continues as software engineers have revealed two distinct concepts that aim to boost the BCH network....
PR: EO Coin Volume Surges on July Listings
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PR: CheapAir.com and Bitcoin.com Partner to Serve Bitcoin Cash Travelers
CALABASAS, CA (July 31, 2019) – Online travel agency CheapAir.com and Bitcoin.com today announced a partnership to serve crypto...
Indian Finance Minister Addresses Crypto Proposal – Industry Responds
India’s finance minister has broken silence and talked about the crypto draft bill and report her department is examining which...
China Publishes New Rankings of 37 Crypto Projects
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development has published its latest crypto rankings. Thirty-seven projects have been...
Testing Haven, OB1’s New Social Media and Crypto Marketplace App
On Monday, OB1, the development team who created the crypto-infused marketplace Openbazaar, launched a new platform called Haven. The...
When Cash Is Banned, Centralized Cryptos Are Not Going to Save You
Australia is now moving forward with its proposed legislation to ban cash purchases over 10,000 AUD ($6,900) for business purposes....
Reddit Roasts the IRS: Have America’s Tax Collectors ‘Gone Crypto Fishing’?
In a juicy little chunk of news from the Redditsphere, a user claiming to be a former IRS employee has called the agency’s new...
Blockchain.com Launches High Speed Crypto Exchange for Retail Traders
Cryptocurrency investors looking for a trading platform focused on high speed performance just got a brand new option, from a company they...
Exploring the SLP Token Universe Built on the Bitcoin Cash Chain
Since last August, the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) has become a prevalent application within the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. So far...
Calls Intensify for Indian Government to Regulate Cryptocurrency
Since the Indian government unveiled a draft bill to ban cryptocurrency, the crypto community has ramped up its efforts to influence the...
Crypto Is Part of Free Speech, and Free Speech Is Everything
On July 23, U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave a speech demanding big players in the tech industry work with government agencies in...
Large Regulated Token Sales Indicate ICOs May Be Coming Back
Initial coin offerings have seen a significant decline in popularity, but they are not to be written off completely. Although you...
Market Outlook: Crypto Prices Consolidate as Economic Uncertainty Looms
Digital currency markets have been meandering sideways for a few days as most of the top crypto prices have been consolidating. Some...
Unbanked for Buying Bitcoin: How the Financial System Criminalizes Crypto
When we think of the unbanked, we envisage citizens of developing nations who lack the means and documentation to obtain access. But you...
Five of the Most Important Use Cases for Cryptocurrency
Crypto assets have come a long way since Bitcoin. What started out as a P2P payment system has spawned an array of use cases that extend...
Btc.top CEO Highlights the Benefits and ‘Golden Mean’ of Bitcoin Cash
On July 23, the CEO of Btc.top, Jiang Zhuoer, debated Nchain’s chief scientist Craig Wright in regard to the civil war between BCH...
10,000 American Cryptocurrency Owners Will Receive Warning Letters From the IRS
On July 26, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the tax agency has started sending letters to American cryptocurrency...
SLP Developers Publish Specs for a Unique Type of Non-Fungible Tokens
The Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) has become a popular project within the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem because it gives anyone the ability to...
Indian Government Official Resigns After Drafting ‘Flawed’ Crypto Bill
The Indian government official who headed the committee which drafted the bill to ban cryptocurrencies has applied for voluntary...
How Government Agencies Make Criminals of Crypto Traders
A New Jersey man has been indicted this week for converting over $2 million to bitcoin and operating a private exchange business not...
Venezuelan Government Accused of Using Bitcoin to Bypass US Sanctions
Nicolás Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela have been accused of circumventing financial blockades imposed by the...
JP Morgan Admits Dollar’s Doomed Reserve Status to Unwittingly Cheer Bitcoin
The US dollar is at risk of losing its status as the world’s dominant currency. That’s according to one strategist at JP Morgan’s private...
The Next Big Financial Meltdown Is Around the Corner, Many Voices Warn
“The economy is looking great,” how many times have they told you that? And why do you usually hear it when you are late on a...
Consensys Inner Conflicts Spark Legal Action Against Founder
Ethereum cofounder Joseph Lubin was recently summoned to court in New York when a former employee initiated a lawsuit for more than $13...
PR: CoinLoan Welcomes Bitcoin Cash to Their List of Collateral Currencies
CoinLoan is among the first to offer loans secured by Bitcoin Cash As we mentioned in our previous updates, new assets are about to join...
Is Bitcoin Money? Revisiting Mises’ Regression Theorem
Over 100 years after the publication of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises’ “The Theory of Money and Credit,” the ideas...
Le Roux Biographer: Cartel Boss Is the Most Credible Satoshi Yet
Paul Le Roux is a criminal kingpin turned criminal informant whose misdeeds have filled a book. The author of that tome is investigative...
Dapper Labs Announces Cheeze Wizards Hackathon in Lead up to The First Official Tournament
Dapper Labs, creators of the massively popular Ethereum game, Cryptokitties have announced a hackathon for their latest creation, inviting...
PR: bitHolla Releases Open Exchange Kit HollaExShell
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Another Self-Proclaimed Satoshi Appears in the High Profile Bitcoin Lawsuit
A new filing has been submitted to the ongoing Kleiman v. Wright case stemming from a man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. The man,...
US, EU and Japan Could Trigger ‘Cold Currency War’ by Debasing Fiat
The world’s major central banks are waging war to determine who can make their respective fiat currency weaker. With the likelihood...
Indian Supreme Court Sets New Date to Hear Crypto Case
The Indian supreme court has set a new date to hear the crypto case that was originally scheduled to be heard on July 23. The court is...
PR: Pbet Raises Storm in Casino Space With Blockchain Solution
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Bitcoin Cash Adoption Continues to Spread in North Queensland and Japan
BCH merchant acceptance has continued to grow month after month but there are a few regions in the world where bitcoin cash retail...
Bitcoin Futures Update: Bakkt Testing, CME Breaks Records, and a $100K Call Option
Over the last few months, the interest surrounding cryptocurrency derivatives products has been growing fast. For some time now, open...
Indian Government Unveils Draft Crypto Bill Ahead of Supreme Court Hearing
The Indian government has officially released the report by the interministerial committee tasked with proposing crypto measures. The...
Sorry, I Don’t Want to Pay for More Bombs: Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Funding War
After nearly two decades of U.S.-led coalition bombs falling on the Middle East, peace in the region still has not been achieved. Now the...
PR: FuzeW Launches Special BCH Cold Wallet Summer Promo
Fuze W announces that it will hold a promotion to offer discount coupons to Bitcoin.com readers who purchase the Fuze W as a special event...
Privacy Is a Human Right Worth Fighting For
Privacy is a basic human right. It’s there in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Freedom from...
Honestnode Founder Discusses the First Stablecoin Built on Bitcoin Cash
On June 12, the Honestnode team announced the release of a new stablecoin project built on top of the Bitcoin Cash network called...
The Myth of Authority: Mnuchin Denies USD Is Used Criminally
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has once again weighed in on bitcoin, claiming the U.S. dollar has not been used to finance...
How Big Hydro Power Partners With Bitcoin Miners to Prevent Energy Waste
We are often told that the verification of bitcoin transactions eats a lot of energy. The largely inaccurate comparison to a small...
PR: Folgory Launches Mobile App and Regulated Crypto Exchange
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Money and Democracy: How the Elite Manipulated Ledgers and Created a Social Ranking System
Money is one of the most important but least understood manmade tools in existence. For more than 5,000 years humans have used a tool of...
Deutsche Bank Collapse Could Crash Global Financial Markets
German financial services giant Deutsche Bank AG is one of the largest and most important economic institutions in the world. Mainly due...
How the Blockchain Stops Cheaters: Cryptocurrency and Provably Fair Gaming
Online casinos and betting sites have proliferated since the first of their kind came on the scene in 1994. Thanks to the convenience of...
Crypto Bullishness Spreads on Capitol Hill
U.S. Congress has shown that it is starting to care about cryptocurrency as a number of lawmakers spoke up in favor of it this week....
Why You Can’t Bet With Bitcoin at Online Casinos in the US
Since the dawn of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency landscape has seen a lot of digital currency gaming websites where users can wager their...
G7 Agrees on Crypto Action Plan Spurred by Facebook’s Libra
G7 finance chiefs met this week and Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency was high on their agenda. They agreed on several crypto...
Bitcoin Cash Milestones: Delivered Code, Upgrades and Platform Development
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) platform and protocol development have seen a lot of delivered code and projects over the last two years. The upgrades...
7 Unorthodox Ways to Mine Bitcoin
Bitcoin isn’t crazy – in fact it might just be the soundest monetary system this generation has ever known. Some of the...
Hayek’s 1984: Rediscovered Footage Shows Austrian Economist Predicting Bitcoin
Born in 1899 in Vienna, Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek is a legend of sorts in voluntaryist, libertarian, and crypto-economic...
Ethereum’s Wrapped Bitcoin Set to Eclipse Lightning Network Capacity
Since the project launched a little over six months ago, Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) has roughly $5.9 million or 558 BTC locked into the...
Bitcoin Mining Helps Oil Companies Reduce Carbon Footprint
Natural gas acquired as a byproduct of oil extraction has become synonymous with wasted energy. In certain areas, drilling companies are...
Indian Government Breaks Silence on Crypto Regulation
The Indian government has finally spoken up about the regulatory framework for cryptocurrency it has been deliberating, providing answers...
Market Outlook: Crypto Bulls Rally After Bearish Downturn
Since July 13, digital currency prices have dropped in value significantly, but most coins have since experienced some recovery. While...
Money Laundering Fines Worth Billions Help Bankers Avoid Prosecution and Unpleasant Labels
The recent seizure of a cargo ship owned by JP Morgan, a vessel loaded with 20 tons of cocaine according to latest accounts, highlighted...
Bitcoin and Voluntaryism – Where Libertarian Philosophy Meets Crypto
For the uninitiated, voluntaryism is a philosophy based on consent. In the simplest terms it says: “If it’s not voluntary,...
Ignore Crypto Twitter – Life as a Nocoiner Isn’t That Bad
Crypto Twitter (CT) is filled with half-witted commentary and price predictions by so-called luminaries, maximalists, and influencers. As...
Lightning Network’s Antifraud Methods Inferior to Nakamoto Consensus, Research Shows
The Lightning Network, the touted scaling solution for the BTC chain, has recently seen its capacity decrease significantly and the beta...
SEC Begins Green-Lighting Token Offerings
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently made history when it green-lighted two token offerings under Regulation A+....
PR: Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority Approves Tokenized Real Estate Investment Product
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How They Will Attack Bitcoin: The Hypocritical Shock Campaign of US Monetary Policy
On July 16, U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin gave a short press briefing discussing cryptocurrencies and the...
Global Crypto War Is Heating up – Iran Next in Line With Its Own Gold-Backed Coin
Control of the U.S. dollar and the global financial system that depends on it gives the American government an incredibly powerful tool in...
How to Create and Airdrop Your Own Token to Your Friends
Roughly a year ago, the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) debuted on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network, giving anyone the ability to mint, store,...
Spain Thwarts Bitcoin ATM Scam, Prompting Regulatory Debate Worldwide
Bitcoin ATMs are not currently governed by EU money laundering regulations, and arrests coordinated by Spanish police and Europol in May...
PR: Bitcoin.com Wallet Joins Blockchain Consortium FIO
Popular BCH and BTC wallet joins Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) to improve crypto usability across blockchains DENVER, CO...
Complete Indian Draft Crypto Bill Leaked – Experts Weigh In
A draft cryptocurrency bill for India has been leaked in full, but details of the bill have raised some questions. News.Bitcoin.com talked...
Bitcoin Cash Multi-Party Escrow, Retail Adoption, and Upgrade Discussions
Another week has passed for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community and as usual, there’s been a bunch of announcements and developments....
Diamonds and the Treasury Debt Ceiling: Why Nothing Has ‘Intrinsic Value’ in Economics
The U.S. Treasury Department has just issued an urgent letter requesting a lift on the debt ceiling, warning Congress of imminent...
PR: Cred and Bitcoin.com Join Forces to Boost Crypto Lending
By John Yearwood Cred Correspondent Amid a dramatic Bitcoin bull run, two of the most influential names in the blockchain finance industry...
Bitcoin Cash Merchant Adoption Grows and Exchange Supports BCH in the Weekly Video Update
Businesses around the world continue to adopt bitcoin cash as a payment method and an exchange adds support for trading BCH. Watch these...
How US ‘Keep Big Tech Out of Finance’ Draft Bill Targets Facebook’s Libra
Facebook’s digital currency plans have caused concern among bureaucrats worldwide and members of the U.S. government seem fearful of...
PR: Matrix Exchange Receives Approval From Abu Dhabi Global Market
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Panda Group’s Crypto Terminals Offer Venezuelans a Bridge to Economic Prosperity
Arley Lozano, founder of the cryptocurrency based startup Panda Group, recently explained how his firm is spreading cryptocurrency...
South African Payment Gateway Drops BTC Over Fees and Network Congestion
On July 12, South African payment gateway service Payfast announced the company is dropping bitcoin core (BTC) payments due to network...
Binance Adds Margin as Exchange Competition Heats Up
This week, the world’s largest exchange by trading volume, Binance, launched margin trading. In doing so, it made the elite group of...
Thailand Approves 4 New Cryptocurrency Service Providers
The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission has approved four new crypto business operators to legally operate in the country. In addition...
Georgia Exempts Bitcoin From VAT to Become the Next Country to Affirm Its Currency Status
Cryptocurrency taxation is a subject that concerns a growing number of users, traders and investors. An area that creates a lot of...
Miners Flock to Iran Where Bitcoin Mining Is Set to Be Sanctioned
According to regional reports, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) is planning to allow licensed cryptocurrency mining as long as operations...
‘Zimdollar’ Reboot: Bitcoin Fills Liquidity Gaps as New Zimbabwe Currency Flounders
P2P bitcoin trade is surging in Zimbabwe via mobile exchange platforms like Ecocash, despite recent government efforts to curb the use of...
Win 2019 Rugby World Cup Tickets When You Play at Games.Bitcoin.com
Are you a cryptocurrency user and rugby fan who’s always dreamed of going to the World Cup? Here’s your chance to win tickets...
What Are Dollars Used for, President Trump? – The Gun Money Known as USD
Donald Trump has taken to Twitter yet again, and this time he’s talking about bitcoin and the superiority of the United States...