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UK Bank NatWest Adopts Blockchain for Syndicated Loans Market
National Westminster Bank (NatWest), a UK bank part of the the Royal Bank of Scotland, has announced its integration with a new...
Emma Integrates Crypto Exchanges into Money Management App
Emma, a London-based startup firm specializing in money management services, has launched cryptocurrency exchange integration for its new...
Cobo Raises $13M in Series A Funding Round
Chinese startup Cobo raised $13 million this week in a Series A financing round led by DHVC and Wu Capital. The Beijing-based company —...
Goldman Sachs and Novogratz Invest in BitGo’s $1 Trillion Crypto Wallet
Goldman Sachs and Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz have teamed up to invest in BitGo Holdings Inc., as the platform seeks to attract more...
Toronto-Based Clothing Charity Relies Solely on Bitcoin Cash
Last February, a bitcoin cash-centric charity based out of Canada had announced the launch of an organization called Coins 4 Clothes. The...
Order Speed Analysis Reveals the Fastest Cryptocurrency Exchanges
When you’re trading digital assets, speed matters — particularly so if you’re engaged in high-frequency trading, when every...
The Daily: Peak Blockchain and Stablecoin Drama
Differentiating truth from fiction isn’t always easy, especially in the realm of blockchain. We’ve got distributed ledger...
Security Giant G4S Offers Protected Offline Cryptocurrency Storage
G4S (LSE: GFS), a security services provider with operations in more than 90 countries, guards everything from cash transfers to nuclear...
Former CFTC Chair Advocates ‘Technology Neutral’ Cryptocurrency Regulations
The former chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Gary Gensler, recently expressed his views on the...
African Cryptocurrency Exchanges Forced to Step up Security
Cryptocurrency exchanges in some of Africa’s biggest bitcoin markets have been forced to rethink their security to thwart persistent...
Two US States Issue Cease and Desist Orders Against Five ICO Issuers
The U.S. states of Colorado and North Dakota have independently issued cease and desist orders against companies promoting initial coin...
The Power of HODL
The first time you see “HODL” when someone is discussing cryptocurrencies, the word causes you to stop reading. You think: “Is it a...
Blockchain Surveillance Firm Partners With Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance
On Oct. 17, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, Binance, announced a partnership with blockchain surveillance...
Chinese Startup Cobo Raises US$13M Series A for Crypto Wallet Hardware and App
Cobo, a cryptocurrency startup headquartered in Beijing, has raised US$13 million in a Series A funding round from DHVC and Wu Capital to...
Majority of Crypto Assets Are Highly Centralized, Research Finds
One of the central pillars of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is that the system is decentralized, ensuring no single point of...
Markets Update: Stable Cryptocurrencies and Unstable Pegged Coins
Since our last markets update, cryptocurrencies have been steadily moving sideways as traders are patiently waiting for the next big move....
Civil Fails to Raise $8M Minimum in ICO
Civil, a blockchain startup that has partnered with Forbes and The Associated Press, failed to reach the $8 million minimum target it set...
Gibraltar’s Financial Regulator Awards Coinfloor with DLT Licence
A London-based Bitcoin exchange has been awarded a full distributed ledger technology (DLT) licence by the Gibraltar Financial Services...
Cypherpunk Essentials: A Beginner’s Guide to Crypto Privacy
The following op-ed on crypto privacy was written by Reuben Yap. He is the Chief Operations Officer of Zcoin. A corporate lawyer for ten...
The Daily: A Dirty War on Bitcoin
Today’s installment of The Daily is all about dirty tricks. The sort of tricks designed to convince the world that Bitcoin is bad....
PR: Bithumb to Hold Special Promotion for New Registered Foreign Users
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Sony is Building a Blockchain-Enabled Rights Management System for Digital Content
Japanese technology giant Sony Corporation has announced the development of a rights management system for digital content that utilizes...
Zebpay Sets Up Operations Overseas After Suspending Exchange Activities In India
Zebpay is reportedly expanding its global presence after suspending cryptocurrency trading operations in India due to the banking ban...
BTCC Launching Cryptocurrency Exchange in South Korea
Hong Kong-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange BTCC is reportedly launching services in South Korea this month. In addition to a...
This Firm Wants Legacy Financial Players Trading Cryptocurrencies
Over the last few months, there’s been a lot of talk about institutional money coming into the digital asset economy. On Tuesday,...
Bitcoin Unlimited Adds ABC Client Upgrade Features for November’s Hard Fork
The Bitcoin Unlimited development team have published the full node clients’ Bitcoin Cash edition version 1.5.0, which includes an...
How Bitcoin Mining Can Help Nuclear Reactors
Bitcoin mining has been criticized by mainstream media, environmentalists and some economists for its energy consumption deemed excessive....
Hong Kong Regulator: Cryptocurrencies ‘May Not Qualify as Securities’
Cryptocurrency falls into a legislative gray area in many jurisdictions, which is why governments should take a particularly nuanced...
Cointext Launches Bitcoin Cash SMS Wallet in Argentina and Turkey
Cointext began offering its new SMS-based bitcoin cash wallet service on Oct. 15 in Turkey and Argentina, two countries in which...
Crypto Hedge Fund Launches Retail Public Offering in Japan
Epoch Partners launched the retail public offering for a new hedge fund in Japan this week that will focus on cryptocurrencies and digital...
Bitfinex Introduces Top Secret Banking System
Bitfinex has restored the ability of customers to make fiat currency deposits. Details of its new deposit system remain shrouded in...
Codebook
A year ago, the Department of Homeland Security gave nearly all civil federal agencies 12 months to adopt an email security...
Nouriel Roubini Attacks Blockchain in Latest Rant
NYU economics professor Nouriel Roubini, commonly known as Dr. Doom in mainstream financial media circles, is a long-established Bitcoin...
Dublin is the Clear Choice for Coinbase as Its Second European Office
Crypto exchange Coinbase has announced that it is expanding its European presence into Dublin giving it access to Ireland’s growing...
Coinfloor Obtains DLT Provider License in Gibraltar
Coinfloor, the oldest operational cryptocurrency exchange in the U.K., has become the first company to secure a distributed ledger...
50 Indian Traders Share Thoughts on Investing, RBI Ban, Future of Crypto in India
Fifty traders who use Indian crypto exchange Instashift have shared their thoughts on the current crypto environment in India. Most of...
The Daily: Tether Regains Ground, Coinbase Does Dublin
Today’s edition of The Daily starts where Monday’s left off: by looking at the latest on Tether, whose stablecoin anchors so...
The Value of Uncensorable Technology in an Age of Censorship
Governments and corporations have deployed censorship to limit speech and deprive people of vital communication channels. The ruling elite...
Binance Opens Fiat-To-Crypto Exchange in Uganda
On Oct. 15, Binance announced the launch of its fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchange in Uganda. The world’s biggest digital currency exchange...
19 Companies Licensed to Operate Crypto Exchanges in Philippine Economic Zone
Nineteen firms have been granted provisional licenses to operate crypto exchanges by the Philippine government-owned Cagayan Economic Zone...
Fidelity Launching Crypto Custody and Trading Services
Fidelity Investments has announced the launch of a new company dedicated to providing cryptocurrency services including custody and trade...
Canaan Creative Announces New Avalonminer A911 Mining Rig
Canaan Creative, the world’s second largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining hardware, has announced a new mining rig, the...
Bitpay Announces Stablecoin Support for Merchant Settlement
On Monday the cryptocurrency payment processor Bitpay announced the company is now supporting settlement options using two stablecoins —...
Bizarro World: Federated Sidechain Technology Promoted Over Nakamoto Consensus
On Oct. 10, Blockstream revealed that the company’s new product, Liquid, generated its first block on Sept. 27 and noted that a lot of the...
Tether Falls, What Is Next?
The sky is falling in Crypto today because its biggest stable coin has lost its peg to the dollar. Tether USDT, long claimed to be backed...
Zambia Launches Crackdown on Crypto Companies
The Bank of Zambia has started to clamp down on cryptocurrency-related businesses, mere days after declaring that it does not view digital...
Chinese Insurance Giant Ping An Bets on Blockchain, AI, Cloud in Fintech Push
Ping An Insurance, the largest insurer by market value in mainland China and second-largest life insurer in terms of premiums, is betting...
Bitcoin After Death: The Perils of Sharing One’s Fortune
If you are a young fortune-hunter toiling away on a computer in a basement, the prospect of death probably isn’t among your top...
PR: Roger Ver Joins Azbit Crypto Exchange Advisory Board
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Research: 1 of 5 New Hedge Funds in 2018 Is a Crypto Fund
New research shows that one out of five hedge funds launched thus far this year has been a cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund. This is a...
The Fall of Tether and What It Means for the Cryptocurrency Markets
The demise of Tether has been a car crash in slow motion. An unswervable event that has played out over the course of months, it has...
Fincen Claims Iran Using Crypto to Evade Sanctions
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has warned U.S financial institutions that the Iranian government might be dodging economic...
The Daily: Tether Sheds Its Peg
What kind of a world are we living in when bitcoin and tether, two of the stablest currencies in the cryptosphere, break out at the same...
Report: Barclays Drops Plan for Cryptocurrency Trading Desk
Barclays (LSE: BARC) has reportedly scrapped its plan to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk. However, it remain unclear whether the U.K....
After Suffering a 51% Attack, Horizen Has a Solution
Horizen (formerly ZenCash) has proposed a new way to head off 51% attacks in cryptocurrencies. While it isn’t a cure-all, it might...
Korean Government Expected to Announce ICO Stance in November, Official Says
The South Korean government is expected to announce its position on initial coin offerings in November, according to a high-ranking...
Church Mining Cryptocurrency Told to Pay Higher Electricity Rates
The outcome of a court case in Russia may affect the popular practice of cryptocurrency mining in basements and garages. According to a...
Bitcoin Markets Comprise Imminent Alternative to Foreign Exchange
A report authored by researchers from the Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics has found that Bitcoin is maturing. The...
Bitcoin Cash Developers Are Building Tools for Better BCH Fungibility
On Oct. 12 the Bitcoin Cash developer Chris Troutner published a new shuffling protocol concept called Tokenshuffle, a platform that aims...
Research: Corporations Fail to Deliver on Blockchain Hype, Scalability a Top Concern
A new report from Greenwich Associates, a provider of market intelligence and advisory services to the financial services industry, tries...
Hacker Livestreams 51% Attack on Bitcoin Private
On Oct. 13, ethical hacker “Geocold” followed through on his promise to 51 percent attack an altcoin. He eventually settled on Bitcoin...
The Daily: Robinhood Reaches 25th State, Fake Adobe Crypto Malware
In today’s edition of The Daily we cover stories about Robinhood expanding to its 25th American state, recently discovered mining malware,...
Study Argues Chinese Mining Centralization Poses Threat to Bitcoin Network
A joint study conducted by Princeton University and Florida International University has found three-quarters of Bitcoin mining is based...
PR: Exosis Launches ICO to Create a Multi Utility Platform
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
BCH Devcon Streamlines Bitcoin Innovation in San Francisco
Last week, on Oct. 10-11, Bitcoin Cash developers gathered in San Francisco for the first of many BCH Devcons hosted by Bitmain’s...
30 Crypto ATMs Launching in India — Unocoin Unveils Solution to RBI Banking Ban
A major crypto exchange in India, Unocoin, has officially announced the launch of its crypto ATMs. CEO Sathvik Vishwanath told...
Can blockchains replace retail giants like Amazon and eBay?
Blockchain tech is causing a massive rethink in how the internet can be used across all sorts of applications – from social networking, to...
Zambian Central Bank Declares Bitcoin Is Not Legal Tender
The Zambian central bank said on Oct. 12 that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin core and bitcoin cash aren’t legal tender, cautioning...
Despite Setbacks Crypto Wages Still an Option for Russians, Poll Finds
Crypto markets have passed through hard times this year but cryptocurrency remains a viable remuneration option for businesses in the...
An In-Depth Look at the Keepkey Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
Keeping cryptocurrencies safe is a fundamental part of participating in the digital economy, and hardware wallets have become popular...
Wendy McElroy: The Double C-Word in the Private Sector
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 5: Saving the World Through Anarchism Chapter 11, Part 2 The Double...
Court Refuses to Drop Money Laundering Charge Against UBS, $5.8 Billion Fine Looms
A French court has reportedly rejected a request by the largest Swiss bank to drop money laundering charge against it. UBS Group and a...
The Daily: Nasdaq Eyes Security Tokens, Blockstack Tackles Social Media
Today’s installment of The Daily is about building more than bickering, though we’ll squeeze in a little of the latter before we sign off....
Scam Victim Loses $48,000 Claim Against Canadian Bitcoin ATM Firm
A woman suing for 62,500 Canadian dollars ($48,125) sent to a phone scammer over a bitcoin ATM has lost her court case, local media...
South Korea’s Largest Crypto Exchange Sold to Singapore-Based Consortium
The largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, Bithumb, has reportedly been sold to a Singapore-based consortium...
EOS’ Grand Governance Experiment Has a New Enemy: China’s Great Firewall
Matías Romeo (left) and Jesús Chitty of EOS Argentina at a meet-up in Seoul. As of June, two rival groups were briefly in competition to...
Facebook and Twitter Beware — Censorship-Resistant Social Media Is Here
Over the past few months, Bitcoin Cash developers have been creating applications that are similar to social media and forum platforms...
Japanese Exchange Takeover: Zaif Transfers All Crypto Services to Fisco
Japanese crypto exchange Zaif has concluded a business transfer agreement with another regulated crypto exchange in Japan. Fisco...
Worst Cryptocurrencies of 2018 Have Left Some Heavy Bagholders
Tales of woe are easy to come by in the current market, in which most altcoins are faring multiples worse than bitcoin. Investors that...
UAE Startup Menachain Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for the Middle East, North Africa Region
A young startup named Menachain Solutions DWC-LLC is building a cryptocurrency and blockchain-based payment platform targeted at the...
Markets Update: Heavy Selling Across Leading Markets, ZRX Rallies
The cryptocurrency markets appear to be consolidating following the significant sell-off that transpired on Thursday. The event saw BTC...
Micropayments: Bringing Cryptocurrencies Into Everyday Life
The following post about micropayments was written by Dmytro Spilka. He is the CEO at Solvid and founder of Pridicto, a web analytics...
Win $100 of Bitcoin Cash in Bitcoin.com’s Paper Wallet Design Contest
Over the next few weeks, Bitcoin.com is hosting a paper wallet design contest to create a beautiful cold storage visual graphic for...
The Daily: Kanye Teaches Opsec, Crypto Foes Joins Forces
The last 24 hours has been one of those all-too-rare periods in which the cryptosphere unites against a shared enemy. We’ll detail who in...
US Court Issues Emergency Order Halting a Planned Initial Coin Offering
An American court has put a stop to an initial coin offering (ICO) by a company claiming to offer “the first licensed and regulated...
Largest South Korean Exchange Launches Crypto Market Indices
The largest crypto exchange in South Korea by trading volume, Bithumb, has launched two cryptocurrency market indices. One tracks all...
Funny New Advert Shows Bitcoin Is on Google’s Mind
Google, which currently sits on the fence with regard to cryptocurrency, took an opportunity to throw shade at digital coins like bitcoin...
Facebook Purge Continues: 559 Pages, 251 Accounts Removed Ahead of US Elections
Facebook’s Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, and Oscar Rodriguez, Product Manager, announced that “Today, we’re removing...
SV Pool Mines Its First Block as November’s Bitcoin Cash Fork Approaches
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, the mining operation SV Pool mined its first Bitcoin Cash block. The pool operators led by the blockchain firms...
Hundreds of ICOs Being Secretly Investigated by SEC, Claims Report
Hundreds of startups are reportedly being “secretly” targeted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for their...