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Video: Will Bitcoin Crash or Double in Price After the Halving? Miners Have Their Say
Will the price of bitcoin double or crash during the upcoming halving next year? And how will the mining industry adapt to their revenue...
Do You Know the Newspeak of the Looming ‘NIRP’ Economic Meltdown?
Negative and zero interest rate policy (NIRP and ZIRP) are becoming a new global norm. Endless printing of paper money is said to make...
How Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Cash System Was Revealed 11 Years Ago
On October 31, 2008, on the eve of Halloween, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper. Since then the revolutionary design of...
Korean Presidential Committee Pushes to Legalize Crypto
A South Korean presidential committee is pushing for the government to establish legal status for cryptocurrency to stay competitive...
US, EU and UK Companies Can Now Pay Workers in Bitcoin Cash via Bitwage
Getting at least partially paid with cryptocurrency is a great way to enter the digital asset market without having to do any trading. If...
The Xi Effect – Chinese Government to Fund Blockchain Projects
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s announcement that the country would invest heavily in blockchain technology – coupled with a...
Big Name Announcements Will Not Save Your Blockchain Project
At the peak of the ICO bubble it was a common tactic for project promoters to use big name announcements to pump their tokens. Every day...
Mining Giant Bitmain Confidentially Files for U.S.-Based IPO
According to reports, bitcoin mining manufacturer Bitmain Technologies confidentially filed for a U.S.-based initial public offering (IPO)...
Satoshi’s Final Messages Leave Tantalizing Clues to His Disappearance
As Jameson Lopp once quipped, the smartest thing Satoshi did after creating Bitcoin was to disappear. The question isn’t ‘why...
Argentina’s Example Shows That You Don’t Own Your Money
Cash shortages, bank closures and ATMs running out of funds seems to be the new norm for many countries, and recently increased capital...
Cryptophyl Exchange Reveals Fiat On-Ramp to SLP Token Ecosystem
The London-based exchange Cryptophyl is a trading platform focused on the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) and bitcoin cash (BCH) ecosystem....
Avalon Mining Rig Maker Canaan Files for $400M IPO on Nasdaq
Mining rig manufacturer Canaan has filed for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $400 million on the Nasdaq...
More Filthy Fiat: Two Dozen Central Banks Ramp up the Printing Presses
The global economy seems to be heading toward a financial crisis fueled by central planners that could devastate markets worldwide. This...
Why a VPN Is the First Layer You Should Pull On When Browsing the Web
Virtual private networks (VPNs) can be useful for all kinds of things, from streaming foreign sports to protecting your identity from...
Exchange Tokens Have Outperformed BTC This Year
Few crypto assets have outperformed bitcoin this year, but the handful that have are predominantly exchange tokens. Their success attests...
Speculation Abounds Over the Cause of Bitcoin’s Recent Rally
Crypto’s most recent bull run began last Friday, October 25, after a significant plunge in prices just days earlier that had some...
China Ranks 35 Crypto Projects as President Xi Pushes Blockchain
China has been on a roll with a series of crypto-related announcements. President Xi Jinping’s speech to accelerate the development...
Why Central Banks Are Not Designed for Democracies
Through their policies, central banks exert tremendous influence over the socio-economic conditions in a country and its business...
After Breaking New Records Bakkt Announces Crypto Consumer App
Following the all-time record of 1,179 contracts on October 25, Mike Blandina, Bakkt’s chief product officer, revealed the firm is...
Stealth Miners on the BCH Network Attract Scrutiny
In roughly 17 days, the Bitcoin Cash network will upgrade by adding two new features to the protocol. Meanwhile, prior to the forthcoming...
Cred to Demo Global Merchant Solution at Blockchain Week Kick-Off
On Wednesday, October 30, Cred and the Universal Protocol Alliance will be hosting a live demonstration of a point-of-sale (PoS) device...
Bitfinex Claims to Be Victim of Fraud After Crypto Capital President Arrested
The operators of Bitfinex claim that the cryptocurrency exchange is a victim of fraud committed by its payment processor Crypto Capital....
Indian Crypto Trading Volumes Accelerate on Positive Sentiments
Cryptocurrency trading volumes in India have accelerated despite regulatory uncertainty and banking restrictions imposed by the Reserve...
How Hard Is It to Brute Force a Bitcoin Private Key?
Trying to crack a private key with a brute force attack is a bit like trying to count to infinity: the sooner you begin, the faster...
The Big Lie Perpetuated by Central Banks
The central banking system controls monetary policy within a given jurisdiction, including the creation of money itself. The system is a...
Market Update: Crypto Prices Hold Steady After Massive Bullish Spike
Digital currency markets are coasting along after an enormous move on Friday of more than 20-40%. The entire cryptoconomy is hovering...
Low Interest Rates Are Crushing Young People and Fueling Global Riots
There are currently riots going on in Chile, Hong Kong and Lebanon. While in every place they are caused by complex local issues, there is...
Is China’s New Fascination With Blockchain Really Good for Bitcoin?
Blockchain development has kind of become an element of the party line in the world’s largest officially communist state. The...
Cash Runs Dry at ATMs as Protests Escalate in Chile
There’s a lot of unrest in Chile right now as the country has seen massive protests against government manipulation and an...
Bitcoin.com Joins the Coinex Chain Pre-Election Node Process
Trading platform Coinex recently announced the creation of a public decentralized exchange (dex) blockchain that leverages the consensus...
Mistakes Crypto Owners and Traders Should Avoid
There are many pitfalls one can easily get caught in when using, storing, investing or trading cryptocurrencies. While some mistakes could...
Bank of Lithuania Issues Guidelines on Security Token Offerings
Recognizing that businesses are seeking alternative ways to raise capital other than bank lending, the Bank of Lithuania has issued new...
Tax Form to Report Revenues From Cryptocurrency Trading Issued in Poland
Authorities in Poland have clarified the taxation of revenues received from cryptocurrency exchange transactions. The Ministry of Finance...
Lyn Ulbricht Speaks Out Against Unfair Silk Road Sentencing, Facebook and Government Hypocrisy
U.S. representative Ann Wagner noted at a recent hearing that child pornographic material has been reported on Facebook more than any...
Market Update: Crypto Prices Spike Significantly In a Matter of Minutes
Digital currency markets have seen a strong price spike on Friday, adding billions to the overall market capitalization of the entire...
McKinsey: Majority of Banks May Not Be Economically Viable
Management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review and found that a majority of banks worldwide may...
State Bank of India Chief Argues Crypto Regulation Is a Must
The chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI) has spoken in favor of cryptocurrency regulation in an interview. He believes that it is...
The Demand for Permissionless Freedom Is Just Getting Started
Every year the world seems to be getting crazier and more people are starting to realize that it stems from oppressive government...
Lebanese Protestors Gather at Central Bank as Financial Lockout Continues
Since the beginning of widespread protests in Lebanon last week, banks and lending institutions have remained closed, fueling fears of an...
As Crypto Exchanges Exit the US, Which Trading Platforms Will Enter the Breach?
The U.S. remains a challenging environment for centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, with major players significantly scaling back their...
Mario Draghi Leaves European Central Bank Without Ever Raising Interest Rates
Preparing for a change at the top, the European Central Bank has decided to keep interest rates on hold and at their all-time lows. Mario...
Bakkt Announces Bitcoin Options After Record-Breaking Futures Volumes
On October 23, Bakkt’s physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts touched an all-time high with 640 BTC ($4.8 million) swapped on...
Lightning Network User Confused By Protocol: Lost 30,000 USD
The Lightning Network has long been touted by its proponents as a speedy, low-cost solution to Bitcoin’s scaling issues. A series of...
PlayDApp Will Unlock the True Potential of Gaming
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
3 Major Signs That Precede the Fall of World Reserve Currencies
The story of reserve currencies is long and stretches far back into ancient times. As modern history shows, however, the average lifespan...
Germany’s Financial Crisis Invokes 5-Year Rent Freeze
All eyes are on the German economy which was once perceived as stable and strong. However, the financial state of affairs has been...
Belarusian Bank Gets the Go-Ahead to Service Crypto Investors
A bank in Belarus has effectively gotten the green light to process transfers related to digital assets. DFS, an affiliated company of...
How Centralized Payment Systems Learned to Accept Decentralized Cryptocurrency
They might not be shouting it from the rooftops, but fiat payment gateways are no longer the enemy of bitcoin. Hostilities have ceased,...
How Fiat Money Fails: Deconstructing the Government’s Paper-Thin Promise
Fiat money has a surprisingly short lifespan. The almighty U.S. dollar currently serving as world reserve currency is not exempted, in...
Malaysia Regulator Approves International Crypto Exchange Luno
The strict financial regulator in Malaysia is trying to help the local fintech industry scale up and attract new investors. As part of...
Bank Crisis Spreads in India – Deaths, Strike, Supreme Court Denial
The Indian banking sector is facing multiple challenges. Customers of several cooperative banks are still struggling to withdraw their...
Bitmain Aims to Build a 300MW Texas Mining Farm
The Beijing-based Bitmain Technologies and DMG Blockchain Solutions announced the launch of a 25MW mining facility in Rockdale, Texas. The...
How to Start a Crypto Podcast
The idea of starting your own podcast is undeniably appealing. Not only do you get to sound off about a topic that’s close to your...
The Silk Road Investigation: A ‘Pattern of Bad Behavior and Double Agents’
Kathryn Haun, a general partner at U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has revealed in recent interviews how she helped take...
How Cryptocurrency Developers Can Earn Bitcoin Cash With REST APIs
A recent video by Chris Troutner, Senior Javascript Developer at Bitcoin.com, points out a problem with anti-profit seeking approaches to...
Credit Suisse Is Latest Bank to Charge Clients for Cash Deposits
In a normal world savers are expected to receive compensation for giving their money to the bank. Instead, due to negative interest rates,...
Smartphone Developers Embrace Crypto as Opera Integrates BTC and TRX
The love-in between smartphone developers and cryptocurrency users is smoldering. What started out as a flirtation by HTC and Samsung has...
Cashaa Launches Banking Solution for Indian Crypto Owners
Banking services platform Cashaa is offering a solution for Indian crypto owners facing banking restrictions imposed by the...
Bitcoin.com Launches HashRace Promotion to Maximize Miners’ Profits
JAPAN, TOKYO, October 21, 2019 — Bitcoin.com, the world’s leading resource for cryptocurrency-related products and news, has...
4 Cryptocurrency Projects That Successfully Changed Chains
Choosing the right blockchain is a tough call for any development team. It’s a decision that entails correctly anticipating project...
Running Bitcoin Cash: An Introduction to Operating a Full Node
Setting up a Bitcoin Cash node is a fairly easy task for someone who wants to contribute to the decentralized ecosystem. There are various...
Bad for Business: How KYC/AML Makes Everyone a ‘Terrorist’
Two reports from risk solutions group Lexisnexis assert that anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) policies can...
How to Safely Store Your Wallet Recovery Phrase
As a cryptocurrency holder, security is paramount – and you can’t be too careful when it comes to your wallet recovery phrase....
Bitmain’s Jihan Wu Talks Mining and Industry Growth With Bitcoin.com’s CEO
At the World Digital Mining Summit in Frankfurt, Germany, Bitcoin.com’s CEO Stefan Rust sat down with Jihan Wu, cofounder of Bitmain...
Court Postpones TON Hearing Till February, Impatient Investors May Get 77% Back
The New York court reviewing Telegram’s contested coin offering in the U.S. has postponed a scheduled hearing on the case till...
FATF Starts Checking How Well Countries Implement Crypto Standards
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has agreed on how it will assess whether countries have taken the necessary steps to implement the...
Bitcoin.com Acquires Blockchain Software Startup O3 Labs
JAPAN, TOKYO, October 21, 2019 — Bitcoin.com has announced the acquisition of blockchain startup O3 Labs, the Tokyo-based software...
Indian Finance Minister Answers Crypto Questions at IMF Meeting
At an IMF and World Bank meeting, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked about cryptocurrency and stablecoins when asked about...
McAfee Envisions DEX in a World Where Crypto Won’t Be Traded for Fiat
In a recent video posted to Twitter. John McAfee states: “Imagine a world…where fiat currency is diminishing in...
Bittrex Pulls Out of 31 Markets Citing Regulatory Uncertainty
Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex is discontinuing operations in 31 countries, including Venezuela and Zimbabwe. The trading platform has...
Earn More Interest on Your Crypto With These Comparison Tools
2019 has been the year in which crypto lending has really taken off. Centralized and decentralized finance have been major growth areas,...
Traditional Law and Finance Can Adapt to Bitcoin, These Examples Show
Bitcoin brought about solutions to persistent problems that stood in the way of previous attempts to invent digital money, such as the...
Market Outlook: Crypto Prices Hold Steady but Face a Crucial Turning Point
After sitting around $257 billion, the cryptocurrency market lost $35 billion in less than 30 minutes on September 24. Since then, many...
‘No-Deal Brexit Huge Positive for UK Cryptocurrency’ – How Brexit Could Affect the Industry
British lawmakers have voted to postpone a crucial Brexit vote and forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension....
Fed Research Considers Negative Interest Rates Effective Policy Tool
A research paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows how negative interest rates could become an important policy...
How to Trade Crypto in Person Safely
With mainstream exchanges becoming progressively cumbersome due to privacy invasive policy and regulation, some crypto traders are...
Bitcoin Cash Roundup: Adoption Stories and New Developments
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) adoption, development, and participation continue to spread as there’s been a myriad of BCH-related announcements...
Circle Drops Poloniex Leaving US Crypto Traders High and Dry
According to a blog post published by Circle, the cryptocurrency firm is releasing its subsidiary exchange Poloniex which is now owned by...
Russia Blocks 2 Crypto News Websites
Russian authorities have restricted access to a couple of cryptocurrency news outlets. The formal reasons for the censorship move are...
6 Darknet Markets for the Crypto Curious
If you’ve got a few thousand satoshis burning a hole in your wallet, the darknet beckons. There’s no obligation to spend a...
Telegram Offers to Postpone Launch of the TON Network
Telegram, which was surprised with a last minute restraining order on the sale of its tokens in the U.S., is now ready to delay the launch...
Ethereum Name Service Adds Infrastructure for Multi-Currency Support
On October 16, the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) announced multi-currency support and integration with 15 platforms and wallets. The fusion...
CME Bitcoin Futures Sees Institutional Interest and Demand from Asia
Global markets business CME Group said that institutional interest toward the firm’s Bitcoin futures is thriving and 2019’s...
Global Crisis Looms as IMF Report Cites Its Own Policy as Dangerous
In a new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) entitled “Global Financial Stability Report: Lower for Longer,” the...
SEC Wants Second Look at Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Proposal
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing its order issued last week pertaining to a rejected proposal for a bitcoin...
Alleged Las Vegas Scammer Charged for $11 Million Crypto Binary Options Ponzi
A Las Vegas man is charged with raising at least $11 million from cryptocurrency investors he promised to trade binary options for, and...
SLP Token Ecosystem Built on Bitcoin Cash Continues to Blossom
The Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) has come a long way since its inception and more than 4,900 SLP tokens have been created to date. During...
104 Addresses Hold 70% of Tether, Research Reveals
The ownership of tether (USDT) turns out to be quite concentrated. According to a recent report, a few addresses control the bulk of the...
Bitcoin ATM in Miami Airport Raises Questions About Traveling With Crypto
Miami based bitcoin ATM maker Bitstop has recently installed Miami International Airport’s first crypto ATM, according to a press...
Smart Contract Blockchains Are Struggling to Scale
Second generation blockchains were presented as being faster, cheaper, and more scalable than Bitcoin. Third generation chains (basically...