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Mt. Gox Restitution Process Frozen Due to One Man’s $16B Claim
On Jan. 31, Mt. Gox victims were enraged to hear that the founder of Coinlab, Peter Vessenes, is still causing problems for the former...
Tidbits: Kraken CEO Offers Help in Quadrigacx Case, Iranian Bitcoiner Learns Expensive Lesson
Tidbits is a roundup of talking points from across the cryptosphere. In this edition, Jesse Powell offers to help the Canadian police...
Cryptocurrency Independence Under Threat As Regulation Encroaches
For governments, cryptocurrency is becoming too mainstream to ignore and too chaotic to neglect. Across the world, government agencies are...
The Daily: Twitter CEO Talks Bitcoin, Bitstamp Releases New Mobile App
In Monday’s edition of The Daily we cover a recent interview with Jack Dorsey where the Twitter CEO again publicly shares his views on the...
Venezuela’s New Cryptocurrency Rules Enter Into Force
The decree establishing a legal framework for cryptocurrencies in Venezuela has entered into force. It contains 63 articles including...
Decentralized Protocols Are Making It Easier Than Ever to Gamble With Cryptocurrency
Americans wagered $140 million on the 2017 Super Bowl, but if sports betting was legal nationwide, that figure would have been closer to...
SEC Solicits Blockchain Analysis Tool to Identify Wallet Owners
While U.S. investors are waiting for a bitcoin ETF to be approved, American financial regulators are looking to make the market more...
New Hampshire House Subcommittee Approves Bitcoin for Taxes Bill
During the first week of the new year, two U.S. representatives from New Hampshire, Dennis Acton and Michael Yakubovich, proposed a bill...
The Importance of Risk Management and Psychology When Trading Crypto
In 2017, as crypto mania escalated, we witnessed extreme cases where individuals decided to make huge bets on bitcoin. Some liquidated all...
Markets Update: Traders Patiently Wait for Crypto’s Longest Bear Run to End
Cryptocurrency prices have been seemingly stable lately as there hasn’t been much volatility in the last two weeks in either...
The Daily: Grin Developer Fund Grows, Russian Agent’s BTC Transaction Tracked
In this edition of The Daily, a leading Grin developer has received donations worth $26,000 to fund his work on the project. Also,...
Bitcoin Had a Fairer Launch Than Any Altcoin
What constitutes a fair coin launch? It’s a question that has had some of the brightest minds and brashest projects in the space debating...
Point-of-Sale Platform Anypay Adds Full Bitcoin Cash Support
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents were pleased to hear this week that the point-of-sale payment processing application Anypay has fully...
Crypto-Stealing SIM Swapper Pleads Guilty, Gets 10 Years in Prison
Joel Ortiz, a college student who allegedly stole cryptocurrency worth over $5 million, has pleaded guilty and accepted a 10-year prison...
Stacks Network Plans to Leverage BTC’s Proof of Work and Burn Bitcoins
Blockchain startup Blockstack has revealed the company is in the midst of developing a new distributed ledger protocol called Stacks, a...
Fidelity Announces Institutional Crypto Platform is in ‘Final Testing’
Fidelity has published an update announcing that its highly anticipated cryptocurrency exchange and custody platform, Fidelity Digital...
These Payment Gateways Will Enable Your Business to Accept Cryptocurrency
As more people become interested in the world of cryptocurrency, adoption grows and so does the number of merchants interested in...
Properties Are Still Being Sold for Cryptocurrency Despite the Bear Market
Bitcoin and many other digital assets have lost more than 80 percent of their fiat value since 2017. Despite this, the trend for people...
Canadian Exchange Insolvent After CEO Dies With Keys to $145M of Cryptocurrency
Death is complicated enough in the cryptosphere when a private investor dies with the private keys to their fortune. But the pain is...
The Daily: Zebpay Launches in 5 European Markets, Coinpulse Enters ‘Indefinite Maintenance’
Saturday’s edition of The Daily covers developments of interest to crypto traders. Once one of the largest exchanges in India, Zebpay is...
Crypto Thefts, Scams On The Rise Finds New Research
Thefts and scams are plaguing the crypto space, which saw US$1.7 billion worth of cryptocurrencies being stolen and scammed in 2018, a...
Wyoming Senate Passes Bill Recognizing Cryptocurrency as Money
The Senate of the U.S. state of Wyoming has passed a bill which defines cryptocurrency as property and establishes rules including for...
Australia’s Financial Intelligence Agency Registers 246 Bitcoin Exchanges
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) has now officially registered 246 cryptocurrency exchanges....
Anarchapulco Returns Promoting Freedom and Cryptocurrencies
On Feb. 14-17, 2019 the fifth annual Anarchapulco conference, dubbed “Life Unchained,” will be hosted in Acapulco Mexico. During previous...
A Short History of Major Fiat Currency Collapses and What Triggered Them
Earlier this year we witnessed a mini flash crash that hit the fiat currency markets. It took approximately seven minutes for the...
Startup Launches Loaded Bitcoin Cash Notes to Spread BCH Adoption
Bitcoin Cash proponents can purchase collectible and loaded BCH notes from a company called Global Notes based in Melbourne, Australia....
Over 50 Bitcoin ATMs Operate Legally in Russia, Study Finds
At least 51 cryptocurrency ATMs operate in compliance with the current regulations in Russia, estimates a new report. According to the...
Markets Update: TRX and NEM Post Significant Losses While Most Cryptos Consolidate
The cryptocurrency meta-trend has seen most leading markets continue to grind sideways at key support zones, though there has been a...
How To Get Started on Crypto Twitter
If you’re new to cryptocurrencies, there’s no better place to be than on Crypto Twitter. Crypto Twitter is where the burgeoning crypto...
Cottonwood Becomes Second Cryptocurrency ATM Operator to Receive Bitlicense
U.S.-based cryptocurrency ATM operator Cottonwood Vending has been granted regulatory approval to operate in the state of New York. As...
B9Lab Creating Education Program to Certify 1000 Ethereum Developers
B9Lab has announced the creation of the Community Blockstars Program. They plan to certify 1,000 Ethereum developers during two five month...
The Daily: Bitcoin Carnivory, Dapps & DEXs, Quadrigacx Claims Insolvency
The Daily curates stories from the eclectic and often bizarre world of Bitcoin. Today’s roundup demonstrates just how varied that world...
Regtech Startup TRM Raises US$1.7M for Crypto Compliance Solutions
TRM Labs Inc., a regtech startup based in San Francisco, has raised US$1.7 million in a seed funding round led by Blockchain Capital with...
PR: aXpire.io Updates – AXPR HODL Initiative and CoinExchange.io Listing
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
South Korea Updates ICO Stance After 3-Month Investigation
The South Korean government has updated its stance on initial coin offerings (ICOs) as well as announced the results of its 3-month...
Coincheck Registers 1.7M New Users Since Resuming Operations Last October
Coincheck has reported 1.73 million downloads of its mobile app since the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange resumed new account signups,...
BCH Community Responds to Allegations of Faked Coinbase Video
The BTC community recently accused Coinbase of editing a video to make zero-conf BCH payments appear quicker than they actually are. In...
Crypto Startups Push Swiss VC Investments to a Record $1.25B
Startups based in Switzerland have attracted a record amount of venture capital in 2018 and companies from the cryptocurrency industry...
Panda Exchange Deploys Hybrid Point of Sale and Crypto ATM in Bogota
The Colombian-based Panda Group has announced the launch of a cryptocurrency point of sale (PoS) terminal called Xeler that also acts as a...
6 Philanthropic Projects That Accept Cryptocurrency
Much of the growing interest in bitcoin and other digital currencies has been focused on individual financial gain and buying lambos. For...
January Markets Report: MKR, TRX and ZEC Among Top 10 by Volume
The first month of 2019 has seen a slight decline in 30-day trading volume across many leading markets. Bucking the trend, however, were...
PR: Marconi Introduces Developer Testing Network to Secure Complex Cloud Networks
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Understanding Cryptocurrency Options – An Alternative Way to Trade Crypto
Crypto proponents have been excited by the launch of bitcoin futures and options, but many are unfamiliar with the fundamentals. Bitcoin...
Florida Appeals Court Defines Bitcoin as Money as Espinoza Ruling Reversed
In 2016, Judge Teresa Mary Pooler of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida made headlines for a ruling she made during the Michell...
Finally: Binance Adds Credit Card Support for Crypto Purchases
Binance users can now make crypto purchases on the exchange using their credit cards. Malta-based Binance has announced support for credit...
European P2P Trade Posts Strongest Activity Since March 2018
In recent peer-to-peer (P2P) market action, Latin American Localbitcoins trade has continued to show strength after producing record...
South Korea Welcomes KRW-Based Stablecoin KRWb
South Korean company BxB Inc. has announced the launch of KRWb, the world’s first 1:1 Korean won-backed stablecoin aimed at providing...
Blockstream’s Andrew Poelstra on Why Bitcoin Still Has Weak Privacy
Among the general public, Bitcoin is often viewed as a sort of anonymous online payment method for activities like buying drugs on darknet...
The Daily: New Institutional Crypto Wallet, Korean Won Stablecoin
In today’s edition of The Daily, we feature a couple of new offerings in the cryptocurrency market including a wallet made for exchanges...
Indian Government Invites Law Firm to Present Suggestions for Cryptocurrency Regulation
The Indian government has invited lawyers from Nishith Desai Associates to present their suggestions for the country’s crypto regulation....
Genesis Capital Processed $1.1B of Cryptocurrency Loans in 2018
Cryptocurrency lender Genesis Capital provided $500 million worth of digital asset loans in the fourth quarter of 2018 alone, soaring...
The Wrapped Bitcoin Project Has Officially Launched on Ethereum
On Jan. 30, a group of cryptocurrency developers and organizations officially launched a project called Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) on the...
Currency.com Allows Crypto Traders to Buy Leveraged Equities, Indices and Metals
The worlds of traditional finance and cryptocurrency have always been divided, for regulatory and technical reasons. Until recently, it...
PR: MoneyToken Is Launching Its Own Exchange – in Collaboration With Huobi Cloud
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Privacy and Scaling: Schnorr Signatures Are Coming to Bitcoin Cash
On Tuesday, Jan. 29, Bitcoin Cash developer Mark Lundeberg revealed two planned features for the scheduled May 2019 BCH upgrade. In the...
Wikipedia Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations via Bitpay
Users from all over the world can now support the widely popular free encyclopedia Wikipedia with bitcoin cash donations via Bitpay. The...
The Daily: Fidelity Crypto Custody Update, Cryptopia Hack Continues
In today’s edition of The Daily we feature a number of stories about financial companies adding cryptocurrency-related services including...
Markets Update: Top Crypto Assets Open 2019 With Slow Month of Trading
The leading cryptocurrency markets have seen a slow start to the year, with the top three markets by capitalization shedding between 10%...
Study Finds Three Quarters of Attendees at Crypto Events Are Male
A recently released report confirms a well-known observation – crypto-focused events are still largely male-dominated, not only in terms...
A Look at Openbazaar’s Multi-Currency Wallet and Vendor Listings
On Jan. 17, the blockchain and cryptocurrency company OB1 released Openbazaar version 2.3 which provides users with the ability to use a...
Iran in Talks With 8 Countries for Use of Cryptocurrency in Financial Transactions
Iran is exploring various options, including holding negotiations with other countries to introduce cryptocurrency in global trade, as the...
Analysis: Will the Cryptocurrency Market’s Long Tail Trend Ever End?
The cryptocurrency market has its very own long tail trend that sees the majority of all value flow to BTC, with altcoins left to fight...
Report: Two Hacker Groups Stole $1 Billion From Crypto Exchanges
A new report alleges that just two groups of hackers dominate the majority of cybercrime directed against cryptocurrency exchanges....
Inspired by Unwriter’s Apps, BCH Developers Create Fountainhead Cash
When the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network split last November, prominent platform developer Unwriter decided to focus on building applications...
Cryptocurrency Is Providing a Lucrative New Revenue Stream for Governments
Cryptocurrency’s resistance to government control is countered by the fact that a number of governments, including Chile, Romania, Spain...
Bitspark Launches World’s First Stablecoin Pegged to the Hong Kong Dollar
A Bitcoin remittance startup located in Hong Kong has announced that it has launched the world’s first stablecoin pegged to the Hong...
Bitsdaq & Bittrex Launch Crypto Exchange Targeting Asian Markets
Bitsdaq has launched a new cryptocurrency trading platform targeted at Asian markets. The Bitsdaq Exchange, powered by Bittrex’s...
Tidbits: Voorhees Believes Maximalism Is Flawed, Craig Wright Self-Proclaimed Largest BTC Holder
Tidbits summarizes interesting chatter from across the cryptosphere. Today, the crypto community reacts to Erik Voorhees’s argument...
The Daily: Privacy Coin Strength Debated, Hardware Wallet Exploit Demonstrated
In Tuesday’s edition of The Daily, we detail the theoretical vulnerability found in the Coldcard crypto wallet, coming just one month...
Petitions to End RBI Crypto Banking Ban Advancing in India
A lawyer representing the Internet and Mobile Association of India in its writ petition against the RBI banking ban has shared new details...
Bitfinex Partnered With at Least 6 Different Banks During 2018
22 months since Wells Fargo suspended the processing of withdrawals sent by four Taiwanese banks that service Bitfinex, the platform...
Crypto Mining Could Bring Russia $1B in Taxes, Report Suggests
Using its excess energy generating capacity to mine cryptocurrencies, Russia can increase its budget receipts by more than $1 billion...
Italian Court Orders Bitgrail Founder to Refund $170M of ‘Missing’ Cryptocurrency
An Italian court has ruled that Francesco Firano, founder of defunct cryptocurrency exchange Bitgrail, was at fault for the...
Civil Forfeiture Is State-Sanctioned Theft
Ever since 1929, the FBI has shared annual crime statistics via the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Each year, it breaks down criminal...
Van Eck Associates CEO: Bitcoin Investors Will Add Gold This Year
Gold and bitcoin markets have have attracted comparisons for some time now, with gold investors taking an interest in the cryptocurrency...
Widening Global Wealth Inequality Gap Can Be Narrowed By Universal Basic Income
The global wealth inequality gap is widening, according to Oxfam. To coincide with the start of the World Economic Forum 2019 in the Swiss...
Bitcoin Mixing Concept Payjoin Makes a ‘Huge Mess’ for Blockchain Surveillance
On Jan. 24, Adam Gibson, author of Waxwing’s Joinmarket blog, wrote about an interesting Coinjoin concept called Payjoin. The protocol...
S Korean Crypto Exchanges Team up to Fight Money Laundering, Illegal Trading Activities
Four of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Upbit, have announced a new initiative to increase...
Arwen Enables Self-Custody for Traders of Centralized Crypto Exchanges
Centralized exchanges are a common security concern in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. As a single point of failure they can be strong-armed...
Back to Basics: What Is Money?
Our current economic system can be compared to a merry-go-round that has us consuming, trapped in debt and spending as quickly as we...
Mystery Bitcoin Miners Are Altering Mining Pool Dominance
During the first month of 2019, studies have revealed the growing trend of unknown miners processing blocks on the Bitcoin Core (BTC)...
Belarus’ Largest Commercial Bank May Establish a Cryptocurrency Exchange
The cryptocurrency market might be underperforming in terms of prices, but the technology continues to evolve and become deeply integrated...
The Daily: Iran Said to Announce Crypto-Rial This Week, Italy Closer to Crypto Regulation
In this edition of The Daily, Iran is reportedly preparing to announce its national cryptocurrency during a conference starting on Jan....
Report: Indian Government Finalizing Crypto Regulatory Framework
The Indian government has reportedly confirmed that the report containing a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies by an...
Markets Update: Consolidation Continues as Traders Wait for a Breakout
On Sunday, Jan. 27, a vast majority of cryptocurrency markets have seen sideways consolidation as prices have been following a narrow...
8 Food Delivery Sites That Accept Cryptocurrency
Purchasing goods and services online with cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly popular. A growing number of takeaway platforms around...
Bloq Labs Reveals Software Suite That Aims to Increase Hash Power by Double Digits
The blockchain organization Bloq Labs has introduced a beta version of a new software suite for cryptocurrency miners called Titan. Bloq...
$15.4 Billion of New Cryptocurrency Value Was Created During 2018
A report recently published by Diar has estimated that nearly $15.42 billion of value was added to the market capitalization of the...
The Daily: Crypto Wallet Raises $15 Million, Localbitcoins Suffers Vulnerability
In today’s edition of The Daily we feature another recent example of venture capital infusion into the cryptocurrency space as...
Defying Crypto Winter, Swiss Crypto Valley Grows to 750 Companies
A new survey shows that the cluster of companies working with cryptocurrencies and related technologies in the Swiss Crypto Valley has...