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Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork To Ropsten Testnet In October, No Date For Mainnet Yet
Ethereum’s core developers have agreed to activate Constantinople in a testing environment, next month, according to a bi-weekly...
North Queensland is Becoming a Hub of BCH Accepting Businesses
The northern part of the Australian state, Queensland, is bustling with cryptocurrency energ. The region is extremely passionate towards...
The Secret to Better Government Is Less Government
Governments. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them, right? From first world countries to war-torn hellholes, bemoaning politicians...
The Daily: Wirex Expands to Canada, Coin Stats Syncs Exchange Transactions
Wirex, the popular European crypto card provider, has announced it’s expanding to Canada and we have the details covered in The Daily....
BTC Hashpower Doubles During Bear Market as Miners Sacrifice Profit for Position
According to Fundstrat analyst Sam Doctor, it appears Bitcoin Core (BTC) hashpower has doubled since just before the start of summer. That...
PR: EasyVisual Blasts Advertising Market with New Channel for Brand Promotion
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Japanese Regulator Unveils Crypto Regulation Updates
Japan’s financial regulator has recently unveiled the current state of the crypto regulations in the country. Three crypto operators are...
Exchanges Round-Up: Coinbase to Hire 130, EF Hutton Backs Acex Exchange
In cryptocurrency exchange news, Coinbase plans to hire 130 additional staff at its New York office by the end of 2019, a recently...
Google Security Expert Warns Against Bitcoin Bragging Online
Mark Risher, Google’s director of product management, Google Identity, account security, and spam & abuse, recently urged...
Nigerian President Demands HSBC Bank Return $100M in Stolen Money
Decentralised cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are anathema to traditional banking. Bitcoin allows people to trade directly with each other,...
Growing Number of Indian Crypto Exchanges Say Fiat Support Is Back Despite RBI Ban
A growing number of crypto exchanges in India have announced the return of fiat deposit and withdrawal support despite the crypto banking...
Netherlands’ Largest Bank ING Group Fined $900M for Money Laundering
This week Dutch authorities revealed to the public that the Netherlands’ largest financial services provider, ING, had violated numerous...
Don’t Hate EU Internet Regulation – Defy It
The European Union has come in for criticism over its repeated attempts to regulate the web. Critics assert that waves of EU legislation...
Peter Thiel: Crypto vs AI Dichotomy Will Determine the Future of Humanity
From time to time we all need a reminder that Bitcoin is much more than just an asset that can be checked on a daily price chart. Peter...
The Daily: Binance Tests Fiat Exchange, Russians Mull Crypto Platforms
Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange, has announced it will start testing a fiat currency trading platform in Singapore and we’ve...
Exchanges Round-Up: Aus Regulators Doubt Coinjar Volume, Paysend Partners With Bitstamp
In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, Australia’s financial regulators have expressed skepticism regarding Coinjar’s...
Wyoming’s Crypto Cowboys: First State Hackathon Lures 27 Teams
Over nearly three days on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, more than two dozen hacker teams competed for cash and prizes in...
$150B Money Laundering Probe of Danske Bank Implicates Citigroup and Deutsche Bank
U.S. law enforcement agencies have started their money laundering investigations of Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest bank, according...
Gemini Dollar Code Review Reveals the Stablecoin’s Accounts Can Be Frozen
This week a blockchain researcher named Alex Lebed published a code review on the new stablecoin, the gemini dollar, created by the Gemini...
Alternative Crypto Bills Presented in Ukraine and Russia
Draft laws employing alternative approaches to regulating digital currencies have been introduced in Ukraine and Russia. In Kiev, a bill...
Op-ed: The Case for Adding CTOR to Bitcoin Cash in November
The following opinion piece on Canonical Transaction Ordering (CTOR) was written by Jonald Fyookball the lead developer of Electron Cash. ...
A Decade After Lehman Brothers Died: Mises, Satoshi, Bitcoin, and Wall Street Worship
September 15, 2018 brings the post-industrial financial world to a ten-year milestone. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was officially...
Markets Update: Short Term Recovery – Is a Bullish Reversal in Sight?
Cryptocurrency prices are back on the mend after a great majority of digital assets plunged last week losing 10-20 percent or more in...
Wendy McElroy: Crypto and the New Cold War
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 10, Part 4 Crypto and the New Cold War...
The Daily: Bitfinex Building Decentralized Exchange, Bitpanda Adds Zcash
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is working on a project to launch a decentralized trading platform and we’ve got all the details here....
Mexico Publishes Crypto Rules, Puts Central Bank in Charge
The government of Mexico has published provisions regarding cryptocurrency. The Bank of Mexico will decide which cryptocurrencies are...
Overstock to Offer Bitcoin for Sale After Acquiring Bitsy.com Biometric Wallet
Medici Ventures, a blockchain/crypto specific division of Overstock.com, has acquired Bitsy.com in an effort to finally merge the worlds...
Test Driving the Money Button — Simple Enough for a 9-Year Old
On September 13 the Money Button launched, allowing people the ability to integrate a Bitcoin Cash-powered payment button into any website...
Poor Internet Access Could Slow Down Cryptocurrency Growth In Africa
Africa is often lauded as the next big thing for cryptocurrency adoption and development. But could poor internet access and connectivity...
Crypto-Flashbacks: How the Media Pumped the ICO Known as Paycoin
Just recently Josh Garza was sentenced to 21 months of prison and six months of home confinement for his role in the many Ponzi scams like...
Cofound.it Voluntarily Winds Up, Prompting Suspension of Token Trading
In a surprise move, tokenized project Cofound.it has elected to cease operations. The project, whose CFI token traded on Bitfinex, has...
RBI Ban Hearing Delayed – Indian Supreme Court Too Busy for Crypto This Week
All petitions against the crypto banking ban by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are supposed to have been heard by the country’s...
Bitpay CCO Holds Pessimistic Outlook for Altcoins
In a recent interview, Sonny Singh, the chief commercial officer (CCO) of Bitpay, Inc, shared his outlook for the cryptocurrencies,...
Google Under Fire: Centralization, Censorship, Crypto Startup Complaint and Resignations
Search-engine giant Google is under fire for allegedly running a secret operation to build a censored search engine for China. Codenamed...
Bitgo Attains Regulatory Approval in United States
Bitgo, a cryptocurrency security and custody company, has been granted regulatory approval to provide its storage services to the United...
Blockchain Heavyweights Join Advisory Board of “Supply Chain-as-a-Service” Platform SUKU
Blockchain startup Citizens Reserve has announced the appointment of five key executives to the board of advisors of its SUKU blockchain...
Bittrex to Launch Crypto Exchange in Malta Next Month
US-based cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex is reportedly launching a crypto exchange in Malta at the beginning of next month. Bittrex says...
Josh Garza Sentenced to Prison and Fined $9M over GAW & Paycoin Scam
U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut has announced Homero Joshua Garza (Josh Garza) has been sentenced to “21 months of...
The Daily: Dapp Revival, Remme Launch, 1 Million Cryptokitties
There are green shoots of recovery throughout the crypto markets today, which some have attributed to Morgan Stanley’s reported foray into...
How to Use a VPN in the EU to Access the Uncensored Web
If you’re reading these words from within the European Union, you may have had to first check a box confirming your consent. Ever since...
Corporate Creditors Can Now File Claims for Mt Gox Restitution
This week the trustee in charge of the Mt Gox legal case has announced that corporate customers can now file rehabilitation claims for the...
New French Law Sets Out Guidelines For ICOs
After slashing taxes on profits made from cryptocurrency trading by more than half, France has now implemented a new legal framework for...
Bitmain’s $50M ‘Permissionless Ventures’ First Project: BCH Dev Con
Cryptocurrency mining hardware giant, Bitmain, is sponsoring a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hackathon in the United States — San Francisco, to be...
Bitcoin Cash Can Scale Exponentially and Support the Global Economy
For well over a year now the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) protocol has shown quite a bit of capability as far as on-chain scaling is concerned. The...
Do You Have What it Takes to Write Op-Ed Articles for Bitcoin.com?
We will now accept regular op-ed article submissions for the bitcoin.com news page. We want to provide crypto-enthusiasts, idea-mongers,...
Abra App Launches Support for Bitcoin Cash Deposits and Withdrawals
Users of the cryptocurrency exchange and wallet app Abra can now make deposits and withdrawals to their accounts with bitcoin cash (BCH)....
21 Months for $20M, Josh Garza Gets off Light
Finally, Crypto’s biggest villain of 2014 has his saga come to an end. A little less than three years after Paycoin’s launch and failure...
Exchanges Round-Up: Spotware Launches “Out-of-the-Box” Platform, Huobi to Rebrand Hadax
In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, Spotware has announced the launch of an “out-of-the-box” cryptocurrency exchange...
Markets Update: Ethereum Leads Strong Altcoin Rally
Since yesterday’s update, the cryptocurrency markets have produced a strong bounce over the last 24 hours. Of the top ten cryptocurrencies...
Berkeley Professor Takes A Swipe at Stablecoins in Op-Ed
A University of Berkeley professor has called out the flaws in stablecoins, in an op-ed published in The Guardian. In the critique, Prof....
BMW Works with Blockchain Startup Bloom to Streamline Lending
German automobiles and motorcycles manufacturer BMW is working with blockchain startup Bloom on a solution to streamline customers’...
Crypto Featured in British Soap Coronation Street With 8 Million Viewers
Cryptocurrency is a major plot of the longest-running British soap opera Coronation Street this week. Each of the show’s episodes...
Faced With Cash And Forex Shortages, Zimbabweans Turn To Bitcoin – Even When It’s Banned
Cryptocurrency may be banned in Zimbabwe, but bitcoin is helping ordinary folk make payments bank-free. It makes for a great fit for the...
Former RBI Governor Stirs Up PMO India – Time For Better Banks
Bank frauds in India have opened a can of worms this year, leaving the public questioning concepts such as board, governance, public...
The Daily: Shapeshift Shuts Down Prism, Jamie Dimon Wants to Be President
In today’s edition of The Daily we cover stories about Shapeshift shutting down its decentralized portfolio platform Prism, the...
Canadian Regulated Bitcoin Trust Achieves Mutual Fund Trust Status
A Canadian regulated bitcoin trust has achieved the mutual fund trust status, allowing eligible investors to invest in the trust through...
Mt. Gox Victims Must Take Claims to Tokyo, Not US, Judge Rules
Since its implosion back in 2014, the Mt. Gox exchange hacks continue to loom large within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The U.S. District...
US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Issues Its First Crypto Disciplinary Action
The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has taken its first disciplinary action involving cryptocurrencies. The authority charges...
Government-Funded Drug Trafficking Makes USD the World’s Dirtiest Currency
Pablo Escobar. Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. Rick Ross. Household names, each and every one of them; drug lords collectively responsible for...
Sales Tax and Bitcoin in the United States Can Be Confusing
Over the last two years in the US, the federal government and states have been trying to grasp the concept of cryptocurrencies and apply...
Huobi ‘Aggressively’ Enters Japanese Market With Plans to Become the Largest Exchange
Crypto exchange Huobi is entering the Japanese market by acquiring a majority stake in one of the 16 government-approved crypto exchanges...
Cash to Crypto Trade Blooming in Moscow, Reports Say
Buying cryptocurrency in Russia these days increasingly means parting with fiat cash, be it Russian rubles or American dollars. According...
High Profile Cryptocurrency Firms Hope to Influence US Law
A group of cryptocurrency luminaries and businesses have announced the formation of a US lobbying entity based in Washington known as the...
Public Anger Forces Bank CFO to Quit Over Huge Money Laundering Affair
Bank executives rarely get punished for their misdeeds, leading to many people distrusting the entire banking system as plagued with...
Japanese Telco SoftBank Explores Use of Blockchain in Mobile Payments
A proof-of-concept (PoC) project of a mobile payments service utilizing blockchain technology has been successfully completed by SoftBank...
Markets Update: ETH Hits 14-Month Low Amid Heavy Altcoin Losses
Many altcoins have posted significant losses in recent days, with ETH currently testing price levels not seen in over 12 months after...
Crypto Hedge Fund Managers Aren’t as Smart as You Think
There’s a tendency, societally, to place self-appointed experts on a pedestal. If a professional’s job title is impressive enough, and...
Start a Business – Do Not Ask for Permission, Skip the Bank Account
Doing business, relying on your own abilities and talents to make a living, shouldn’t be so hard to start. But unlike the times when...
Malta The New Cypto Capital – Why the EU Is Furious With Malta
The union’s least-populous member nation has become a cryptocurrency and online gambling hub plagued by allegations of corruption and...
66% of Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts Don’t Want to Receive Wages in Fiat
Companies and projects wishing to attract the best and brightest young talent need to offer bitcoin salaries. A recent survey of...
The Daily: Nobel Laureates to Advise Industry, DoD Facility to Become Mining Farm
In today’s edition of The Daily we cover stories about two Nobel winners to advise the crypto industry, another leading sports team...
Chinese Report Finds 9 in 10 Altcoins to Have Stolen 80% of Their Code
A report published by Chinese media has alleged that more than 80% of alternative cryptocurrencies are comprised of “plagiarizing code.”...
Billions of Dollars ICO Industry is Governed by Securities Law, Judge Rules
U.S. V. Zaslavskiy, 17-cr-0647, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), just might go down as a definitive...
SEC Takes Action Against ‘First US Regulated Crypto Asset Fund’
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it has taken action against two cryptocurrency firms. Both...
With Bitcoin Cash, A Namibian Conservationist Hopes To Save Endangered African Wild Dog
In Namibia, the African wild dog population has been decimated to near extinction. But one wildlife lover is trying to stop all that. And...
IMF Pressures Marshall Islands to Drop National Crypto
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has exerted pressure on the Marshall Islands to torpedo its proposed crypto. The move by the...
BCH Roundup: Rock Festivals, Long Form Blogging, and Prescription Drugs
The past seven days has been another interesting week for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents. After wrapping up a successful Stress Test Day...
Tokenized Securities: The Next Boom
The following opinion piece on token-as-securities was written by Benjamin Pirus, a crypto trader who has written many articles for...
US Authorities Ask India to Seize Property of Bitconnect Promoters
The authorities of two U.S. states have reportedly asked Indian officials to seize the property of the promoters of Bitconnect since...
NY Approves Stablecoins Gemini Dollar and Paxos Standard Token
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has authorized Gemini Trust Company LLC, the cryptocurrency exchange platform...
Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Debate Reconvenes After the Stress Test
Over the last few weeks, there’s been a heated discussion within the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community concerning the scheduled November 15...
Ethereum Price Flirts With Yearly Low as ICOs Offload 157,700 ETH
Ethereum was back on the defensive Tuesday, with prices approaching fresh yearly lows amid signs that initial coin offerings were...
Decentralized Exchange Bisq Launches Mobile App, Holds Market Kickstart Event
Fully decentralized peer-to-peer crypto exchange Bisq has launched a mobile notification app for both Android and iOS systems. The...
Philippines Okays PDAX Crypto Exchange
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) cleared the Philippine Digital Asset Exchange (PDAX) for license to exchange crypto and the Philippine...
SEC Halts US Trading In Both CXBTF & CETHF, Citing Confusion Amongst Market Participants
Over the weekend, the Securities Exchange Commission temporarily halted trading in US venues of two products from Swedish company XBT...
The Daily: Malta Sees No Issue With Unlicensed Crypto Firms, Valletta Mansion on Sale for Crypto
Malta is not worried about crypto companies operating while their applications for licenses are still pending as the loophole does not...
The Nakamoto Imperative: Why We Have to Build a Decentralist Culture
The following opinion piece on building a decentralist culture was written by Max Borders, director of Social Evolution and author of The...
PR: Killing Banks – A Financial Crypto Startup MoneyToken Announced 0% Loans and Token Burn This Wednesday
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material....
Korean Banks to Limit Services for Crypto Traders Without Real-Name Verification
South Korean banks are reportedly taking measures to limit services for customers who are not using the real-name system. It has been over...
India Small Town Layman Falls For A Conman: First MLM, Then Wallet Theft
The growing incidence of bitcoin multi-level marketing (MLM) scams in countries like India is a two-pronged wake-up call. First, has a...