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Wrapped Bitcoin Is Coming to Ethereum
Bitcoin core is poised to make its Ethereum debut. An initiative involving several decentralized exchanges (DEXs) as well as...
Belgium Adds 21 Websites to List of Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms
Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority has updated the list of websites it says are cryptocurrency trading platforms...
Okex Cryptocurrency Exchange to Delist 42 Trading Pairs
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Okex will delist 42 trading pairs on Oct. 31 for failing to meet its listing requirements. Tokens...
Weaponized Money: Thoughts on the Creation and Control of Bitcoin
Some tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists believe government devised and built bitcoin as weaponized money to enslave the people. They think...
Exchanges Roundup: UK MP Quits Ironx After Four Days, Daily OTC Volume Estimated at $250M
In recent news regarding cryptocurrency exchanges, a member of the British Parliament has quit his role with a cryptocurrency exchange...
Visa CEO Plays Down Cryptocurrency Threat, Indicates Possible Intervention
Visa chief executive officer Alfred Kelly has said that cryptocurrencies are not a significant threat to his company’s electronic payments...
Regulations Roundup: Shenzhen Court Recognizes Bitcoin, Coinbase Lawsuit Dismissed
In recent regulatory news, a Shenzhen court has ruled in favor of protecting an “equity transfer agreement” involving bitcoin, the judge...
Unwriter Launches ‘Bitsocket’ — A Push API for the Bitcoin Cash Network
After a slew of new applications released over the last six months, on Oct. 24 the software developer Unwriter published another platform...
Sony Develops ‘Contactless’ Hardware Wallet for Digital Assets
Sony has announced the development of a new type of cryptocurrency hardware wallet that uses its IC card technology. The Japanese...
Regulations Roundup: SEC Considers Crypto Fund Criteria, South Korea Warns Investors
In this edition of Regulations Roundup, we focus on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) ongoing discussions with...
The Daily: Royal Mint Drops Digital Gold, Malta Issues Warning About Trading Platform
In this edition of The Daily, we cover the U.K. Royal Mint’s decision to freeze a plan to issue digital gold tokens. We also look at...
Review: Ellipal’s ‘The Cold Wallet 2.0’
Ellipal is one of the lesser-known names in the hardware wallet game. The Hong Kong-based company is on the rise, however, propelled by...
Post-fork Monero Decoy Selection Bias Could Have Detrimental Impact On Privacy
BTC.com engineer and concerned Monero user ‘Lacksfish’ has outlined a troubling bias towards the use of coinbase (block reward)...
Bitcoin is Stable, and I Hate It
In perhaps the strongest sign that the market is maturing yet, Bitcoin has been less volatile than stocks for the past month. While one...
PR: Debut of USDD – A Stable Coin That Pays You Interest
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Indian Supreme Court Gives Government Two Weeks to Submit Cryptocurrency Report
India’s supreme court has brought up the case against the cryptocurrency banking ban by the Reserve Bank of India after...
Debunking Dr. Doom: Building a New Global Economy on a “Glorified Spreadsheet”
This rebuttal to Dr. Doom, AKA Nouriel Roubini, was written by Thomas Schouten, the Head of Marketing at Lisk. Schouten holds a Bachelor...
Blockchain Launches Hardware Wallet
The popular cryptocurrency software provider Blockchain has announced the launch of a custom hardware wallet that is exclusively tethered...
House of Nakamoto Opens in Amsterdam
The House of Nakamoto, an Austrian project helping newbies enter the cryptocurrency world, has recently opened a new store in Amsterdam....
Crypto Wallet Edge Announces Integration of Changelly, Stellar, and More
Edge, a Californian startup formerly known as Airbitz, has released a major version update to the Edge Wallet, expanding users’ ability to...
Blockchain.com Launches Custom Hardware Wallet Lockbox
Online wallet provider Blockchain.com has launched an exclusive hardware wallet in partnership with hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger,...
Meet ‘Spedn’ — A Smart Contract Programming Language for Bitcoin Cash
On Wednesday, a developer called Tendo Pein announced the launch of a new smart contract programming language for the Bitcoin Cash...
Tether Treasury Holds Nearly 30% of Total USDT Supply
The “Tether Treasury’s” USDT wallet has rapidly risen up the ranks to become the top holder of the stablecoin,...
New ‘Trust Machine’ Blockchain Film Tackles Politics of Technology
Tinseltown turns its gaze back to technology in “Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain,” which opens on Oct. 26 at Cinema...
The Daily: AMD Takes a Hit, Johnny Depp and Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Cryptosphere
Today’s edition of The Daily showcases the impact of cryptocurrencies on the computer hardware business and the entertainment...
Stablecoins Are Proliferating, Finds New Research
More than 100 unique stablecoins are currently in existence, almost double the number compiled last month, according to a new analysis and...
SEC Suspends Trading in Company Over False Cryptocurrency-Related Claims
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended trading in a firm for making several false cryptocurrency-related claims....
Indian Police Seize Unocoin’s ATM, Arrest Two Founders
One week after Indian cryptocurrency exchange Unocoin announced the launch of its ATM, local police have reportedly seized the machine and...
Japan Approves Self-Regulation of Cryptocurrency Exchanges
On Wednesday, Oct. 19, Japan’s Financial Services Agency granted the cryptocurrency industry the authority to self-regulate. The approval...
Drivechain Project Sees an Influx of Development Since Launch
Software developer Paul Sztorc revealed on Sept. 24 the launch of his first iteration of Drivechain, a sidechain concept that enables a...
Bitcoin Cash Association to Fund Eatbch Charity in $1,000 BCH per Month
On Oct. 24, the community-driven Bitcoin Cash Association announced a new initiative where $1,000 worth of bitcoin cash will be sent to...
New York Regulator Approves Coinbase’s Custody Services for Six Cryptocurrencies
The New York State Department of Financial Services has licensed a subsidiary of Coinbase to operate as an independent qualified...
Cryptocurrency Roundup App Gets $100,000 Shark Tank Investment
Services that allow individuals to invest small amounts of money on a recurring basis have become popular in recent years, especially for...
Regulations Roundup: Investors Not Protected in China, Albania to Regulate
In recent regulatory news, a court in China’s Futian District has ruled that cryptocurrency investments are not protected by law,...
PR: trade.io Effectively Contains Breach of Cold Storage Wallet and Protects TIO Holders
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
IDEX Blacklists New York Residents, Setting a Worrying Precedent
IDEX, the supposedly decentralized exchange, plans to start blocking traders who reside in the state of New York. The decision sets an...
The Daily: Square Open-Sources Subzero, Coin Stats Launches Chat Platform
In this edition of The Daily, we look at Square’s recent decision to open-source its Subzero cold storage solution. We also focus on...
Sony Pictures Joins Greenfence to Put Goosebumps Collectible Trading Cards on the Blockchain
If you were a child growing up in the 90s you may have read Goosebumps, the children’s horror fiction novels written by American...
PR: Bithumb to Hold Payback 70% of Transaction Fee for Overseas Users
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Online Bank Swissquote Begins Offering Clients Access to ICOs
Swissquote, a provider of online financial and trading services in Switzerland, has announced that its clients can now participate in...
Bitcoin Cash Organizations Start Preparing for the November Hard Fork
As the days draw closer to the scheduled Bitcoin Cash upgrade, affiliated organizations are preparing for the hard fork. Data websites...
HTC’s New Blockchain Smartphone Can Be Bought With Bitcoin
HTC, the struggling Taiwanese phone-maker, has launched a smartphone that can be bought only with BTC or ETH. Called the Exodus 1, the...
Developers Launch Bitcoin Cash Social Media App ‘Hivr’
On Monday, Oct. 22, a new Bitcoin Cash-powered social media application called Hivr launched in beta form. The platform, available for...
Bill Proposes Tax Holiday for Cryptocurrency Businesses in Ukraine
A draft bill introducing tax breaks for entrepreneurs and companies dealing with cryptocurrencies has been filed in Ukraine’s...
Circle and Coinbase Join Forces on USD Coin
We previously covered the announcement of Centre and its first product USD Coin by Circle. Today, they have announced some news that will...
Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Added to Coinbase
The global cryptocurrency exchange based out of San Francisco, Coinbase, has announced the firm will now support Circle’s USDC stablecoin...
Bakkt Bitcoin Futures to Start Trading in December
Intercontinental Exchange has announced that its Bakkt Bitcoin Daily Futures Contract will start trading on Dec. 12. Each trade...
Crypto Social Network Minds Raises US$6M From Overstock.com Blockchain Subsidiary
Minds, Inc., a crypto social network, has raised US$6 million in a Series A investment from Medici Ventures, the wholly-owned blockchain...
Ethereum Gets An Open Source Block Explorer
Some much needed competition is entering the Ethereum blockchain explorer space, and this time. . . it is OPEN SOURCE, BAY BAY! Unlike...
Will the ‘Blockchain Phone’ Exodus 1 save HTC?
As if your phone wasn’t already enough of a target for thieves, now HTC wants you to store large amounts of cryptocurrency on it....
Nexo Lending Platform Adds Bitcoin Cash Support
Cryptocurrency loans service Nexo has confirmed it is adding support for bitcoin cash (BCH). The Switzerland-based lending platform offers...
Cointext Launches SMS Bitcoin Cash Wallet in 4 New Markets
The Cointext SMS Bitcoin Cash (BCH) wallet continues its rapid expansion around the world. Residents of one more country in South America...
Spain Approves Bill Requiring Disclosure of Cryptocurrency Assets
The Spanish government has approved a draft anti-fraud law that, among other things, will require investors in cryptocurrencies such as...
The Death of Hype, Amara’s Law and the Crypto-Anarchist Dream
The hype surrounding blockchain and cryptocurrency has simmered to a dull roar. Last December, the markets spiked as traders drooled over...
Ethereum Developers to Postpone Constantinople Hard Fork until January 2019
Ethereum core developers made it known in the last bi-weekly meeting on Friday, October 19, 2018, that Ethereum’s next system-wide...
The Daily: Binance to Expand in Singapore, Uphold Launches Loan Service
In today’s edition of The Daily, we look at a strategic investment that could help Binance to establish a fiat-to-crypto exchange in...
Former Russian Economics Minister Sees Huge Potential for Cryptocurrency
Herman Gref, the former Russian minister of economics and trade and the current CEO of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, recently...
Japanese Regulator to Host Regular Global Cryptocurrency Roundtable
Japan’s top financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency, has exclusively shared with news.Bitcoin.com the details of its first-ever...
Samsung Begins 7nm Chip Production, Easing Miner Demand for Improved Semiconductors
After delivering 10nm semiconductor technology, the electronics giant Samsung has announced the firm’s foundry has started production of...
Bitmain Launches Asicboost Firmware Support for Antminers
On Oct. 20, Bitmain launched a new firmware upgrade for the company’s Antminer S9 mining rigs that allows for the activation of overt...
Genesis Global’s Bitcoin Loans Hit $553M in 6 Months
Genesis Global Trading has released a financial report for the third quarter that shows the U.S. cryptocurrency lender provided $553...
Russian Lawmakers Drop ‘Mining’ References in Digital Assets Bill
Russian lawmakers have dropped the term “mining” from a bill to regulate digital assets, following the earlier removal of...
National Bank of Canada Trials Blockchain Platform for Trade Finance
The National Bank of Canada has announced the successful completion of a pilot program in collaboration with IT firm CGI and blockchain...
PR: Xsolla Adds MobileGO (MGO) as New Payment Method for Developers and Gamers Globally
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Musicians Will Release Their Own Crypto Tokens to Reward Them and Their Fans
A new token-generating, blockchain-powered, music fan-rewards platform is aiming to connect fans with the artists they love. The Fanbase...
Report: Cryptocurrency Job Market Continues to Grow
Glassdoor, a California-based company that runs a recruiting and employer-review website, has published a report by its economic research...
The Daily: Global Cryptocurrency M&As Rise, US Town Halts Mining
In today’s edition of The Daily, we look at how the current bear market is facilitating consolidation in the global cryptocurrency...
Yenom Developers Propose a New BCH Payment Protocol
The developers who created the Bitcoin Cash-centric wallet Yenom have revealed the team has been working on an interesting protocol for...
Online Fiat Wallet Neteller Launches Cryptocurrency Exchange Service
Digital fiat currency wallet provider Neteller has started allowing its users to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies including BTC, BCH,...
Alexander Elbanna Launches Digital World Exchange
Digital World Exchange is now open for trading. This platform is one-of-a-kind in the fact that it is backed by ten million in...
Markets Update: A Narrowing Range of Consolidation and Lower Trade Volumes
Not a lot has changed since our last markets update four days ago as cryptocurrency markets continue moving sideways in a consolidated...
Celebrity ICO Endorsers Face Legal Blowback Over Alleged Fraud
Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather and rap producer DJ Khaled face a legal battle for serving as celebrity endorsers to an initial coin...
The Daily: Goldman Sachs Invests in Wallet, Institutional Traders Borrow $553M
In today’s edition of The Daily we cover stories about the latest investment in the cryptocurrency space by Goldman Sachs, the amount...
US Federal Court Fines Bitcoin Ponzi Schemer Over $2.5 Million
A U.S. federal court has fined a New York firm and its chief executive officer over $2.5 million in the first anti-fraud action involving...
World’s Biggest Banks Helped Clients Steal $63 Billion in Taxes in Europe
Europe’s top banks allegedly helped wealthy clients across the continent steal 55 billion euros ($63 billion) from multiple governments by...
Bitcoinfiles.com Developers Launch Censorship-Resistant File Storage System
On Friday, Oct. 19, the developers of Bitcoinfiles.com launched the first official version of the product. Now anyone from around the...
Indian Cryptocurrency Exchanges See Rapid Growth in P2P Trading
Trading volumes on exchange-escrowed peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency trading platforms in India are rising rapidly amid the banking ban...
The Daily: Huobi Unveils HUSD, New Cryptocurrency Loans Launch
It’s been a week for stablecoin stories in the crypto sphere, and while we’d like to have started the weekend on a different tack, Huobi’s...
Bitcoin Intentions: Are We Aiming to Replace the Status Quo or Become Them?
When the idea of a working digital currency like bitcoin was introduced, many of its early adopters disliked the current bureaucratic...
Weak Demand for Mining Hardware Impacts TSMC’s Growth Outlook
During a recent Q3 earnings call, the world’s largest producer of semiconductors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),...
Wendy McElroy: Crypto Anarchism and Civil Society – The Technology is the Revolution
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 5: Saving the World Through Anarchism Chapter 11, Part 3 Crypto...
$50 Million Bitcoin Mining Farm Opens in Armenia
A new cryptocurrency mining facility opened in Armenia on Oct. 18. The $50 million farm will extract bitcoin and ethereum using 3,000...
Bitcoin Cash Merchant Directory Marco Coino Surpasses 500 Listings
Over the last year bitcoin cash adoption has been thriving and in certain regions, BCH merchants are spreading like wildfire. Thanks to a...
Only 39 Percent Pass Malta’s Cryptocurrency Exam for Financial Services Practitioners
The pass rate for the exam developed by the Maltese government for financial services practitioners seeking to obtain cryptocurrency agent...
The Daily: Blockchain Surveillance vs Privacy Protocols
The battle for privacy is ramping up. Every day, in the cryptocurrency space, we learn of increased blockchain surveillance, countered by...
10 Days That Shook the World of Bitcoin
When Bitcoin’s history is written, the following events will command a chapter apiece. Bitcoin is a creeping revolution that does not lend...
New Qart Wallet Gives Bitcoin Cash QR Codes a Personal Touch
There’s a new bitcoin cash wallet under construction called Qart, a light client that provides the ability to create human-recognizable QR...
Gibraltar Commits to Train New Generations and Professionals on Blockchain
The government of Gibraltar has announced the launch of a new advisory group focused on creating education courses covering new...
Bitconnect Faces Consolidated Class Action Complaint
More than a dozen lawsuits targeting Bitconnect have been merged into a single case, following the submission of an Amended Consolidated...
Marks Jewelers Now Accepting Bitcoin Cash for Payments
U.S. jewelry retailer Marks Jewelers has started accepting payments in cryptocurrency, including bitcoin cash. Shoppers can now pay for...