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Brazil’s Tax Authority Goes After Cryptocurrency Profits
Brazil’s tax authority has published proposals to regulate the cryptocurrency landscape over concerns digital assets are being used to...
Regulations Roundup: Ebang IPO Challenged by Probe, Plattsburgh Passes Mining Guidelines
In recent regulatory news, a criminal investigation may prevent Ebang from conducting an initial public offering, Plattsburgh has passed...
Top Three South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchanges Expand Overseas
Three of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges are expanding overseas. Upbit has launched a Singaporean crypto exchange with 156...
Another Token Project Launches on the Bitcoin Cash Network
A new smart contract and tokenization system has been launched on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. On Oct. 31, BCH developer Clemens Ley...
Op-Ed: Why Bitcoin Users Should Ditch Apple and Google for Purism
Major tech companies have received increased scrutiny in 2018, especially when it comes to how they’re handling user data. Internet users...
Dash Text Launches in Venezuela, Opening SMS Payments
Dash Text launched in Venezuela today, allowing users without smartphones to send and receive Dash using SMS enabled cell phones on the...
‘Decentralized’ Exchange IDEX to Introduce Full KYC
IDEX, the world’s most popular decentralized exchange, is to transition to a full verification model. The move comes days after the...
PR: Coinseed Announces Crypto Cash Back Program
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Community Platform Tapatalk Taps Blockchain to Improve Online Forums
Tapatalk Inc., the startup behind the popular application that aggregates discussions from several online forums, is working on a...
Mintshop Makes ERC-1155 Tokens Simple, But is it Simple Enough?
Personally, I am not a huge fan of the blockchain-game craze. I am simply too familiar with both industries to believe they will meld...
New Bitcoin Cash Stress Test Sees 700,000 Transactions in One Day
On Thursday, Nov. 1, a group of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents who call themselves the Professional Stress Test Team, performed a network...
Blockchain-Based Crowdfunding Platform Investx Opens Its Ethical ICO Pre-Sale
A blockchain-based SME funding platform has announced that the opening of its token sale will follow ‘ethical ICO’ principles....
The Daily: Coinbase Launches Investment Fund, Cointext Enters New Markets
In this edition of The Daily, we look at Coinbase’s decision to create a new investment vehicle for institutions in partnership with asset...
Tether Confirms New Bank and Claims to Have $1.8 Billion in Cash
Tether Ltd. has confirmed the identity of its new bank. The company behind the eponymous tether stablecoin (USDT) has historically been...
PR: BTC.com Releases New Ethereum Block Explorer to Support Ethereum Community
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Digital Asset ATM Provider Coinsource Acquires Bitlicense
Coinsource announced on Thursday that it has become the first digital asset ATM provider to be granted a Bitlicense in the state of New...
China Updates Crypto Ranking, Downgrades BTC Further
China’s Center for Information Industry Development has updated its ranking of 33 crypto projects, evaluated in three separate categories...
Africa Dominates Trade Volume on P2P Bitcoin Exchange Paxful
Paxful Inc., a peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange, is seeing significant growth in Africa. The U.S.-based company said Africans now accounted...
How to Use a VPN Within Your Browser to Protect Your Privacy
Major internet browsers now offer access to VPN services via a number of third-party extensions and in some cases through built-in...
Holacracy: Governance in an Age of Innovation and Subversion
The following opinion piece on Holacracy was written by Max Borders, director of Social Evolution and author of The Social Singularity. ...
Origin Adds TrueUSD Stablecoin
The Ethereum powered, sharing economy platform Origin is adding another stablecoin: TrueUSD. The news comes in the form of a blog post,...
Ledger Wallet Plans to Pause Bitcoin Cash Services on November 15
Ledger, the popular hardware wallet manufacturer based out of France, has recently revealed the company’s contingency plans for the...
Hong Kong Regulator Announces New Plans for Cryptocurrency Industry
The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong has announced new plans to regulate the cryptocurrency industry. The regulator issued...
PR: Optherium Launches a Global Finance Blockchain Infrastructure
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Anypay Provides Bitcoin Cash Invoices That Can Be Paid by Sending a Text Message
On Oct. 29, a Bitcoin Cash proponent used the Cointext wallet to purchase a croissant by text message at La Maison Navarre, a bakery...
Morgan Stanley Is Still Struggling to Understand Bitcoin
Like many late arrivals to cryptocurrency, Morgan Stanley doesn’t quite know what to make of bitcoin. The investment bank...
Shakepay Introduces Crypto OTC Trade Desk in Canada
Shakepay, a Montreal-based crypto startup, has launched an over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk to serve high net-worth individuals,...
The Daily: Consensys Acquires Planetary Resources, New Zealand Backs Crypto R&D
In today’s edition of The Daily, we look at a company that has decided to expand from the cryptocurrency space into outer space by...
Arbitrators to Resolve Disputes in the Russian Cryptocurrency Industry
A leading industry organization in Russia has decided to establish an arbitration body to look into disputes within the digital economy,...
PR: Bitcoin.com Pairs up with eGifter to Simplify and Streamline Gift Card Purchases
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Bitcoin.com Store Now Offers Hundreds of Top-Branded Gift Cards
The Bitcoin.com Store has now partnered with the company Egifter. Thanks to the collaboration, Bitcoin.com Store patrons can purchase an...
Korean Court Rules in Favor of Cryptocurrency Exchange Against Bank
A South Korean district court has ruled that Nonghyup Bank, a major bank in the country, cannot block transactions to the account of...
Bitcoin History Part 1: In the Beginning
With today marking the tenth anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, the web is predictably thick with op-eds, retrospectives and thought...
Exchanges Roundup: BNB on Etoro, Binance Freezes Wex Funds, Bittrex International
In cryptocurrency exchange news, Binance’s native coin has listed on Etoro, Bittrex has announced the upcoming launch of its...
Brazilian Banks Ordered to Reopen Cryptocurrency Exchange’s Frozen Accounts
A Brazilian court has ordered the reopening of cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin Max’s bank accounts, which were closed without...
October Volume Report: Weakest Monthly Trading Activity of 2018
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the initial publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper, the cryptocurrency markets recorded their weakest...
CMC Markets Adds Bitcoin Cash to Cryptocurrency Offering
CMC Markets, a U.K.-headquartered financial derivatives brokerage with shares listed on the London Stock Exchange, revealed on Tuesday...
Ten Years Ago Today, the Whitepaper Changed the Way We Look at Money
On Oct. 31, 2008, at 2:10 p.m. EDT, the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto, announced the publication of the...
PR: aXpire Acquires BlockchainWarehouse (BCW)
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Cryptocurrency Going For A Song On Bitcoin’s 10th Birthday
eToro, the global investment platform with over ten million registered users, is helping Brits celebrate the tenth anniversary of Bitcoin...
Bitcoin Trader Faces Five Years in US Jail for Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business
Bitcoin trader Jacob Burrell-Campos pleaded guilty this week in a U.S. federal court to operating an unlicensed money transmitting...
The Daily: Nexo to Pay Interest on Stablecoins, Startups Launch Bank Services
In this edition of The Daily, we cover Nexo’s recent decision to pay interest on stablecoin holdings, as well as a project by two...
Venezuela Begins Public Sale of National Cryptocurrency Petro
The Venezuelan government has opened up an exchange desk for the country’s national cryptocurrency at the headquarters of the...
Kenya’s Bithub Africa Mines Bitcoin Using Solar Power
Bithub Africa has started using off-grid solar power to mine bitcoin and ethereum. John Karanja, the founder and chief executive officer...
PR: BitCanna – Dutch Blockchain Startup Launching a Revolutionary Cannabis Platform
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ConsenSys Engineering Team PegaSys Releases Open Source Ethereum Client Pantheon
PegaSys, the protocol engineering team at ConsenSys, has announced the release of Pantheon, an open source Ethereum client developed under...
South Korea Cracks Down on Unauthorized Cryptocurrency Funds
South Korean financial regulators are cracking down on unauthorized cryptocurrency funds. In particular, one crypto fund launched by a...
UK Government Moots Ban on Cryptocurrency Derivatives
The U.K. government is considering a ban on cryptocurrency-linked derivative products. The Financial Conduct Authority said in a report on...
Coinbase Raises $300 Million, Reaching $8 Billion Valuation
The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage service Coinbase announced on Tuesday that it had raised $300 million in...
Russia’s Financial Watchdog to Oversee the Cryptocurrency Industry
Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service has revealed that it will regulate cryptocurrency-related transactions in the country,...
Civic Joins Rivetz, ElevenPaths Partnership to Provide Blockchain-Powered Identity Verification Solutions
Blockchain identity startup Civic has joined a partnership previously formed between crypto cybersecurity company Rivetz and Telefónica’s...
How to Easily Give BCH as Gifts in Halloween Trick-or-Treat Packages
If you want to see cryptocurrency adopted by more people, one of the best ways to personally ensure that happens is to simply give away...
WeTrust Spring to Match 100% of ETH Donations Through Giving Tuesday, Announces 14 Partnerships
A fundraising platform has announced that it will match 100 per cent of every Ethereum donation as part of Giving Tuesday through to...
China Seeks Public Feedback on Draft DLT Regulations
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has announced that it will accept public feedback through Nov. 2 on draft rules it recently...
The Daily: Security Startup Raises $30M, Crypto Used to Fight Plastic Pollution
In today’s edition of The Daily, we focus on an Israeli crypto security startup that has raised $30 million in funding from a number of...
Bitstamp Confirms Acquisition by South Korean Company
Bitstamp has confirmed that it has been acquired by a European subsidiary of a South Korean corporation. Nejc Kodrič will remain the CEO...
Coincheck Reports Deepening Losses of $5.3 Million in Third Quarter
Coincheck reported a pre-tax loss of 588 million yen (US $5.3 million) for the third quarter of 2018, the Japanese exchange’s second...
BitGo Adds First Gold-Backed Digital Asset as Demand for Crypto Pegged to Gold Increases
Digix’s gold-backed digital token has been added to crypto custodian BitGo as demand increases for cryptocurrency to be pegged to...
Survey: 60% of US Voters Want Cryptocurrency Political Donations to Be Legal
Clovr recently surveyed 1,023 registered U.S. voters to learn how the American public views the possibility of political candidates...
Exchanges Roundup: Ironx Raises $22.3M in Private Sale, IDCM to Target STOs
In this edition of Exchanges Roundup, we focus on Ironx, which has just wrapped up a $22.3 million private sale. We also look at...
Markets Update: Traders Play a Lower Range After Cryptocurrency Prices Dip
Digital asset prices dropped in value on Monday after the last few weeks of cryptocurrency market consolidation and stability. Around 8:10...
European Crypto Exchange Bitstamp Gets Acquired
Cryptocurrency exchange platform Bitstamp has been acquired by NXMH, a Belgium-based investment company. The acquisition, a reportedly all...
Pandacash Wins Grand Prize at BCH Devcon
The second BCH Devcon hackathon took place in Amsterdam on Oct. 27-28, with more than 100 people competing to build useful cryptocurrency...
Gold-Backed Hedge Coin
According to the statistics from CoinMarketCap, as of August 2018, the market value of global cryptocurrency has evaporated nearly 75%,...
Bitcoin Price Breaks South, Drops to $6,211
The bitcoin price took a southward turn on Monday, dropping beneath $6,300 as the cryptocurrency market experienced a jolt of volatility....
eToro Becomes First Platform to List Binance Coin (BNB) for Trading
Digital assets platform eToro has listed Binance Coin (BNB) on its platform, taking the total number of crypto assets listed on the...
Bittrex goes Blockchain on Malta
Bittrex International is launching a digital trading platform for qualified international customers. Previously branded as “Bittrex...
Rumors of Exit Scam Swirl as Maplechange Loses Funds in Hack
Maplechange, a small Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, has ceased operations following the purported theft of all the funds it was...
Tech Firm Run By Doctors Turns To The Blockchain For Fighting Healthcare Fraud
When a psychiatrist makes a schizophrenia diagnosis, it can alter a patient’s life forever. Such a diagnosis is often accompanied by...
The Daily: Outcry Over Censoring of Gab, Chinese State Media Plugs Bitcoin Book
In today’s edition of The Daily, we focus on the crypto community’s alarm over the de-platforming of a social media network in...
Review: 7 of the Best Cryptocurrency Widgets for Webmasters
When you’re running your own website, widgets are the final piece of the puzzle, as these simple lines of HTML or Javascript code...
Japanese Regulator: Stablecoins Are Not Cryptocurrencies Under Current Law
Japan’s top financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency, has exclusively explained to news.Bitcoin.com how stablecoins are...
Thai SEC Warns About 9 Unauthorized Tokens
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned about nine unauthorized tokens and initial coin offerings. These have...
French Business School Accepts Fees in Bitcoin for Blockchain Technology Courses
France’s Financia Business School, which offers post-graduate courses in financial and blockchain technology, now allows students to pay...
Send Bitcoin Cash Over the Web in a Private Fashion Using Tor
There are several ways to add layers of anonymity to bitcoin cash (BCH) transactions such as using a VPN or shuffling coins with mixers....
Markets Roundup: Spot BTC Markets Shrug CME Settlement, Pantera CEO on Cyclical Sentiment
In the cryptocurrency markets, the recent settlement of CME futures contracts appears to have exerted little impact on spot BTC prices,...
Patience pays: Get to Know Popular Investor Reinhardt Coetzee
Ask any trader and they’ll tell you: diversifying your portfolio is one of the best ways to reduce risk. If you’re curious about branching...
Cyprus Partners with VeChain Foundation and CREAM to Advance Blockchain
Invest Cyprus, the government’s dedicated partner responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment in key...
Regulations Roundup: Cryptocurrency Campaign Donations, US Judge Warns Malaysians
In recent regulatory news, a report by the Center for Public Integrity has explored the potential for cryptocurrency donations to...
Handcash Developers Launch ‘Cashport’, a Developer Kit for Bitcoin Cash
The creators of the Handcash wallet have released a free software developer kit (SDK) for programmers who want to leverage the Bitcoin...
The Daily: Coinbase Reportedly Cuts Staff, Telegram Loses Appeal Against Ban
In this edition of The Daily, we cover reports that the U.S. exchange Coinbase has laid off some of its remote workforce. We also look at...
Ukraine Plans to Fully Legalize Cryptocurrencies Within Three Years
The government in Kiev intends to legalize cryptocurrencies and comprehensively regulate the fintech sector as part of a new public policy...
Taiwan Drafting National ICO Standards
The Taiwanese Financial Supervisory Commission is drafting a set of national standards for initial coin offerings. The regulator...
Silk Road Operator Libertas Pleads Guilty, Seeks Plea Deal
Gary Davis, an Irishman who was extradited to the United States in July to face charges for his suspected involvement in the operations of...
Xhoneybadger.com Pays Viewers Cryptocurrency to Watch Content
On Oct. 16, Elise de Loos from Cashpay Solutions launched a new video website called Xhoneybadger.com, a platform that utilizes bitcoin...
Exchanges Roundup: SBI to Develop Wallet, Huobi Targets New Markets
In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, SBI Group has unveiled a partnership with Sepior that will see the companies...
Markets Update: Tranquil Markets Presage a Storm Brewing
Cryptocurrency prices have been quite stable over the last few weeks as volatility throughout many markets has been non-existent. After...
Wendy McElroy: In a Stateless Society Crypto is Law and Justice
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 5: Saving the World Through Anarchism Chapter 11, Part 5 In a...
The Daily: September Losses for Most Traders, Crypto Debit Cards Shipped in Singapore
The majority of cryptocurrency traders recorded losses on their investments last month, according to a report we’ve covered in The Daily....
Czech Bank Launches Cryptocurrency-Friendly Services
A commercial bank in the Czech Republic is now offering online services that combine traditional financial features with those for...