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Bitcoin Price Could Fall to $3,000, Says One of Crypto’s Most Bullish VCs
Anthony Pompliano, founder and partner, Morgan Creek Digital Assets has predicted that bitcoin could fall as low as $3,000 in a complete...
Bitcoin (BTC) Transaction Value Passes PayPal at $1.3 Trillion
So far this year, Bitcoin has processed more than $1.3 trillion, placing it ahead of the latest numbers from both PayPal and Discover. THD...
New CNBC Documentary Explores the Cultism of Bitcoin
To outsiders, Bitcoin is a weird and wacky cult. Its devotees adhere to their own acronym-filled jargon, and have monetary theories that...
Crypto Exchange Okex Introduces Stricter KYC Rules
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Okex is enforcing tightened identity verification procedures. Daily withdrawal limits will soon...
Japan Roundup: No Excessive Crypto Regulation, Quoine Launches New Platform
Japan’s top financial regulator says it does not intend to excessively curb the crypto industry. Licensed Japanese crypto exchange Quoine...
Regulations Round-Up: Tokenized Securities in Singapore, China Warns of Illegal Fundraising
In recent regulatory news, Chinese authorities have issued a warning seeking to encourage citizens to be skeptical regarding the...
This Week in Bitcoin: Islamic Exchange, Self-Regulation, Social Trading
In this week’s daily editions of Bitcoin in Brief we reported about a new Islamic trading platform, a couple of steps towards self...
Banks Freeze Company’s Accounts After Owner Traded on Localbitcoins
The owner of cryptocurrency mining electric bicycle retailer, 50cycles, recently had his company’s accounts with HSBC and Barclays frozen...
P2P Exchange Options Increasing for Crypto Traders in India
Since the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, banned banks from providing services to cryptocurrency businesses,...
Bitcoin Journalist Pioneer: Jamie Redman Has Over 2,000 Articles Published
Journalist Jamie Redman is a pioneer. He’s one of first writers in the world to make his living by covering the cryptocurrency ecosystem....
Tron Transactions Surge On Twitter and Telegram, With 11+ Million TRX Sent
Tron’s crypto community is taking full advantage of a new platform that makes it easy to send TRX through Twitter and Telegram. Shortly...
Report: North Korea to Hold a Crypto Conference
North Korea is reportedly planning to hold a conference devoted to blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies. The event, said to have...
Bitcoin Lost: The Heroic and Maddening World of Crypto Wallet Recovery
David Veksler of Walletrecovery.info has seen it all. News.Bitcoin.com caught up with the man many in the ecosystem call upon when the...
An In-Depth Conversation With Coinbase Engineer Josh Ellithorpe
There’s been a lot going on within the crypto-ecosystem and this week news.Bitcoin.com chatted with Josh Ellithorpe, Senior Software...
Regulations Round-Up: 21-Year-Old Arrested, Coinbase Files for Patent
In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency regulations, Alibaba and Tencent are collaborating with Chinese authorities to monitor and...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies See Some Small Gains This Weekend
Over the past few days, a good portion of cryptocurrency assets have been increasing in value. In fact, this Saturday, August 25, 19 out...
Wendy McElroy: The Key to the Crypto Revolution’s Success is Overlooked
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 10, Part 1 The Key to the Crypto...
Indiegogo Facilitates Issuance of Securities Tokens
Indiegogo, a popular crowdfunding website, is allowing an Aspen-based luxury ski resort to issue and distribute securities tokens via its...
The Daily: China Escalates Crackdown, Russia Chases Shadows, UK Warns of Scams
Following the closing of social media accounts of crypto news organizations and after forbidding hotels from hosting crypto-related...
$1.1 Million Landmark Crypto Fraud Case Establishes CFTC Jurisdiction
The US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) helped bring a fraud case to court, hoping to both assist in its ultimate prosecution...
Canadian Crypto Exchange Coinsquare Expanding Into European Market
One of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinsquare, is expanding into the European market. This is the exchange’s first...
BCH Roundup: Millions of Merchants, More Tokens, and Clashing Visions
There’s been a lot happening within the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem over the last week as far as development and upcoming announcements...
SEC Wants Second Look at Nine Bitcoin ETFs
One day after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected proposed rule changes for nine bitcoin ETFs, the Commission...
Mt. Gox Creditors Can File Rehabilitation Claims by October 22
Victims of the Mt. Gox hack can now file rehabilitation claims under a new procedure announced by the trustee of the exchange, Nobuaki...
Bitcoin.org Owner Announces the ‘Cobra Client’ BCH Node Software
Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder in the cryptocurrency space, one of the most untrusted characters within the Bitcoin...
Dash Is in Trouble
2018 hasn’t been kind to cryptocurrencies, with every major asset except for BNB recording a loss for the year to date. Dash has been...
A Look at Two More Bitcoin Cash Token Projects in the Works
Since the Bitcoin Cash upgrade last May there’s been a sudden emergence of token creation protocols introduced to the BCH protocol. Lots...
Two Norwegian Miners Scrutinized for Low Taxable Incomes
Two Norwegian cryptocurrency miners have garnered national media attention after declaring taxable incomes of less than $20,000 USD...
The Daily: Crypto Exchange Rents Pricey HK Offices, UAE Realtor Sells Homes for Crypto
Crypto trading platform Bitmex has reportedly rented some of the world’s most expensive offices, in a Hong Kong skyscraper. Also in...
Bitcoin ATM Card Goes Metal, Offering Cryptocurrency Cash Back
Revolut Metal is the latest offering from the United Kingdom-based digital bank, Revolut. It claims to return cryptocurrency cash back on...
PR: Brock Pierce and Company Will Bring Together Exchanges, and Regulators Around Spanish Crypto Summit Futurama
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Blockchain Enters “Trough of Disillusionment” According to Gartner
Gartner, Inc., a research and advisory firm specializing in the financial and IT industries, recently published a report that asserts...
Japanese Star Honda Receives $40 Million in Crypto to Promote Exchange
Japan superstar professional soccer player, entrepreneur and investor Keisuke Honda, 32, was appointed by the Japanese crypto exchange...
Another Japanese Company Developing 7nm Bitcoin Mining Equipment
Besides GMO Internet, another Japanese company is working on producing 7nm mining equipment. Triple-1 has been working on its 7nm bitcoin...
GPU Manufacturing Giant Nvidia Leaves Crypto Mining
Media accounts are leaning toward blaming a supposed lack of interest in cryptocurrency as the reason US chip behemoth Nvidia has backed...
Bank of Thailand and 8 Commercial Banks Developing Central Bank Digital Currency
Following the adoption of the country’s first cryptocurrency regulation, the central bank of Thailand is working on its own digital...
Liechtenstein Bank to Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency Backed by the Swiss Franc
Union Bank AG, a bank in Liechtenstein that offers corporate banking services mainly to companies based in Germany, Switzerland, Austria...
Bitmain Unveils New 18 Terahash Water-Cooled Bitcoin Miner
On August 23, the China-based firm Bitmain Technologies revealed the company’s latest mining device, the Antminer S9 Hydro. The newly...
Cryptocurrency Card Issuer Wirex Granted E-Money License in the UK
European crypto card provider Wirex has been awarded an e-money license by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. The accreditation...
PR: INLOCK Strengthens Advisory Board with Addition of Bitcoin.com COO Mate Tokay
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Simple Ledger Token Creation Platform Launches on the BCH Network
During the second week of July news.Bitcoin.com reported on a Bitcoin Cash-powered token creation proof-of-concept called the Simple...
Ripple Believes Its Cryptocurrency is More Decentralized Than Bitcoin
Ripple Labs, Inc is big on decentralization right now. Stung by criticism that XRP is a centralized currency, and the very real risk that...
The Daily: Proxy Bitcoin, Simjacking, Zencash Becomes Horizen
In today’s Bitcoin in Brief, we’ve got details of a new interoperability alliance to create proxy tokens such as bitcoin that can be...
PR: The New Era of Jewellery Pioneered By The Pure Diamond Blockchain Project
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China Continues Crackdown: No Hotels, Malls, Offices Used as Crypto Venues
Zheping Huang, reporter for South China Morning Post, claims to have verified authenticity of online documents urging further crackdowns...
Swedish Tech Company to Trade Crypto Fund in Exclusive Partnership With German Bank
Stockholm IT Ventures AB (SITV), a Swedish technology company specialized in cryptocurrency production, announced that its subsidiary,...
Regional Government Announces Opening of Largest Crypto Mining Farm in Russia
The largest cryptocurrency mining farm in Russia has opened in the Leningrad Region, according to the regional government. The facility is...
Bitcoin ETFs Rejected Again: SEC Denies 9 Hopefuls in 3 Decisions
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued three published decisions, covering nine different Bitcoin ETFs....
P2P Cryptocurrency Lending Grows Increasingly Popular in China
China is reportedly witnessing a surge in peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency lending amid the country’s recent liquidity crunch and the...
Hiding Bitcoin Cash in Pictures With the New Pixel Wallet App
There’s been a lot of development since the last Bitcoin Cash (BCH) upgrade this past May. Now, this week a unique light client called...
Someone Wins $3 Million Jackpot in Ethereum Ponzi Fomo3D
Fomo3D, a controversial but highly popular ethereum gambling game, has its first jackpot winner. The aim of the game is to purchase the...
Markets Update: Record Shorts Drive Short-Lived BTC Squeeze
The BTC markets rallied today, with a minor short squeeze quickly driving the price up by more than 5% in less than half an hour. The...
PR: Coinseed Announces Crypto Trading Contest – Prize of $1000
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BCH Upgrade Debate Continues — A Fork Strategy and the ‘Miners Choice’ Meeting
On August 21 Bitcoin Unlimited’s lead developer Andrew Stone wrote a proposal which outlined a strategy for the upcoming November hard...
Thailand Embarks on Its Own Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency
In an announcement on Tuesday, the Bank of Thailand outlined a preliminary roadmap for ‘Project Inthanon’, its central bank digital...
Bitmain Founder Jihan Wu: A Most Important Man in Crypto
He’s not flashy. He doesn’t post photographs of himself aboard yachts, arm-in-arm with scantily-clad groupies. A safe bet would be to...
Theories Abound After BTC Leaps While Bitmex is Down
It’s been an interesting 12 hours for BTC, with the cryptocurrency finally breaking through resistance levels. Most of the drama took...
Reagan Guru, Predictor of iPhone Foresees New Web Revolution
There's life after Google! Big Tech's Achilles' heel By Art Moore, In 1981, his bestselling “Wealth and Poverty” provided a blueprint for...
The Daily: Bakkt Won’t Offer Leverage, Congresswoman Holds Crypto
In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover stories about Intercontinental Exchange’s crypto trading platform Bakkt, which won’t be...
PR: More Stamps Global Launches – Cryptocurrency Travel Agency Opens Doors to World
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Apple Co-Founder: Crypto World “Like the Internet When it was Brand New”
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple along with Steve Jobs, recently announced his participation in a crypto startup. During the interview,...
Cointree and Gobbill Enable Australian Bill Payments in Over 50 Cryptocurrencies
A partnership between a bill payment company and a crypto exchange will allow Australians to pay their bills with between 50 and 100...
Researcher: Stop Worrying About Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact
A common mainstream media trope is that Bitcoin mining will soon use so much electrical power it could lead to an environmental...
Satoshi’s 1 Million Bitcoin Haul Could Be Smaller Than First Thought
Bitcoin’s elusive creator Satoshi Nakamoto owns 1 million BTC, plus a corresponding number of BCH and other forked coins. That’s always...
Markets Update: BTC Shorts Approach Record Highs This Week
Cryptocurrency markets have been consolidating after a few volatile spikes and subsequent dumps over the last few weeks. Now a lot of...
Network Incompatibility Discussed After Bitcoin ABC Launches Latest Version
On August 20, 2018, maintainers of the most used full node BCH client have announced the release of Bitcoin ABC version 0.18.0. The...
PR: Bithumb to Refund New Users up to 70% on Fees
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Dead Man’s Switch App Wins Tokyo Hackathon for Bitcoin Cash Grand Prize
Thirty four tech-savvy engineers, enthusiasts and students gathered at Hash Hub, the co-working space in the Tokyo University neighborhood...
A Look at Venezuela’s Other Cryptocurrencies, While the Petro Takes Center Stage
Financially troubled Venezuela, which is introducing the new, denominated, crypto-anchored “sovereign bolivar” this week, is also the...
Coinbase Trading Drops 83% Since January, Offshore Cryptocurrency Exchanges Make Gains
Cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase might, as market research firm Bernstein recently said, be on the cusp of assembling an...
The Daily: Crypto Self-Regulatory Organization, 100 BTC Whistleblower Reward
In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover a couple of stories that show how the cryptocurrency industry is trying to police itself....
Thai Central Bank Defends Cryptocurrencies
In the high-profile Thai crypto fraud case involving an actor, Thailand’s central bank has clarified that the fraud is not related to...
PR: No More Waiting – Ronaldinho Soccer Coin Crowdsale Goes Live
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Trump vs Erdoğan: Bitcoin Is the Answer to Turkey’s Financial Chaos
Latest reporting out of Washington appear to signal no deal struck between the Trump administration and the government of Turkey under...
China Updates Crypto Ranking – Bitcoin Makes Top 10
China has updated its crypto ranking, adding two projects to the previous month’s list. Bitcoin has significantly improved, making the top...
3D Printable Gun Advocate Sued by 21 States, Launches Fundraiser
Embattled 3D printable gun advocate Cody Wilson and his Texas-based company, Defense Distributed are being sued by nearly two dozen states...
A BCH-Fueled Colored Coins Desktop Wallet Launches
Over the past few months, the idea of Bitcoin Cash powered token assets has been at the forefront of a lot of conversations. So far over...
BCH Stress Testers Will Put Pressure on the Network in Two Weeks
On September 1, 2018, Bitcoin Cash ecosystem participants have plans to conduct a network stress test which will involve individuals and...
Laughing at the Misfortune of Other Traders is Crypto’s Fastest Growing Sport
The world can be a mean place, and never is this more evident than on Crypto Twitter (CT) and Telegram. In addition to enduring the...
Crypto Exchange Works With Regulators to Develop Legal Frameworks for Arab States
Following the statement by Saudi Arabia declaring cryptocurrency illegal, the largest crypto exchange in the Middle East and North Africa...
The Daily: Binance Tracker Available in Beta, New Crypto Exchange Ready in Two Weeks
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced the launch of its new market intelligence app in beta. The mobile tracker is...
PR: Former Meituan Cloud Veteran Launches BonusCloud – AWS in Decentralized Cloud Computing
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Japan Roundup: Public Companies Unveil New Mining Plan, Exchange, Token Fund
Three Japanese public companies have individually made announcements regarding their cryptocurrency operations. Forside has grown its...
Second Hand Rigs Are Dumped as the Solo Mining Dream Dies
In the summer of 2017, rising cryptocurrency prices led to a run on high performance graphics cards. Coveted cards with a high hashrate...
Three Hackers Held in China Over $87 million Crypto Theft
Three suspects have been detained by Chinese police in connection with an alleged cryptocurrency theft. The supposed hackers stole bitcoin...
SHA-256 Mining Hashrate Climbs Significantly in One Year
Over the last year, SHA-256 mining, the process that’s used to find blocks on both the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Core (BTC) networks,...
India Bitconnect Head Arrested
Alleged India Bitconnect head, Divyesh Darji, was arrested this week at a airport in Delhi as he arrived from Dubai. He and conspirators...
44% of American Executives Think “Blockchain Is Overhyped”, Deloitte Survey Finds
New indicators point to corporate executives starting to wisen up to the notion that so-called blockchain technology is some kind of...
South African Tax Authority Going After Crypto Traders
The South African Revenue Service is working to improve the tracking of cryptocurrency traders and their transactions in order to verify...
Prolific Bitcoin Dealer ‘Blew a Giant Hole’ Through US Legal Framework
A Mexico-based “prolific bitcoin dealer” has been indicted and held without bond in the US on a number of international money laundering...