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This Week in Bitcoin: Courtroom Drama
Bitcoin was born on the internet but destined to end up in court. Where there’s money, there’s a trail of gold-diggers, scammers, and...
PR: Electroneum Launches Groundbreaking Mobile Miner
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24-Year-Old Sent to Prison for Selling Bitcoin Without Asking for ID
US law agencies can celebrate another success in their tireless crusade to stop ‘unlicensed money transmitting’ in the land of the free....
$500 Million Has Been Mistakenly Sent to Ethereum’s Genesis Address
Genesis blocks hold a symbolism that’s almost spiritual. They represent the birth of a new cryptocurrency, and when that currency...
Bitfarms to Raise Up to CAD$50m to Scale Cryptocurrency Mining Operation
Canada seems to have become the hottest destination for bitcoin miners from all over the world thanks to a combination of cheap renewable...
New Malaysian Cryptocurrency Regulation Come Into Effect
Last week, Malaysia’s new Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) policy guidelines specifically addressing...
Major Pawnshop Network in Ukraine Launching Cryptocurrency-Secured Loans
A major network of pawn shops in Ukraine is launching a new lending service with loans secured by cryptocurrency. With over 300 branches,...
Bittrex Blocks Residents of North Korea, Iran, Crimea, Syria, and Cuba
Concerns from Russian traders that they may be unable to access Bittrex once the exchange’s new terms of service come into effect this...
Class Action Complaint Accuses Coinbase of ‘Insider Trading’
A class action lawsuit was filed against Coinbase this past Thursday on March 1 accusing the exchange of ‘insider trading’ for the bitcoin...
Jameson Lopp Leaves Bitgo to Launch Casa Wallet for the Crypto Rich
Bitgo engineer Jameson Lopp is a Bitgo employee no more. The developer, who is one of the best known figures in bitcoin, has been coaxed...
PR: Rate3 Wants to Empower a Truly Global Payment and E-Commerce Network by Making It Fair, Transparent and Cheap
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Highly Organized Crime Blamed for $2mil Bitcoin Mining Burglaries
Local police in Iceland are describing it as the largest theft of its kind, if not ever, for the country. Hundreds of bitcoin mining...
Interest in Cryptocurrency Jumped 15-Fold in Kazakhstan
Interest in cryptocurrency in Kazakhstan has surged fifteen-fold this year compared to 2017 according to a study by Yandex. The number of...
Trading Tip `The Wall´ – Bitcoin Dominance On The Rise
In the cryptocurrency market today, there’s a wide variety of investors. But it wasn’t always like that. Between 2010-2016, the landscape...
GPU Producers Fear Drop in Demand from Crypto Miners
Reports concerning major manufacturers of graphics processing hardware have indicated expectations of decreasing demand in the...
PR: How to Ensure Support for Tokens on the Open Market in Hamster Marketplace’s Experience
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Two Indian Token Marketplaces Suspend Trading Due to Regulatory Pressure
Two Indian crypto token marketplaces have announced that they will halt trading from March 5. The platforms state that this is due to...
The Next Generation of Politicians Will Be Crypto’s Biggest Advocates
Technology favors the young. While tweens are swiping through life and conversing through Snapchat filters, grandma’s still getting the...
Belgian Tax Authority Going After Crypto Investors
Cryptocurrency investments have attracted the attention of tax authorities in Belgium. Several investigations have been opened into cases...
Markets Update: Crypto Markets Continue to Spike Higher
Cryptocurrency markets are on the rise again this weekend as the total market capitalization of all 1,500 digital assets touches $465Bn....
Quarter Million Dollars Already Raised in Bitcoin Cash 48 Hour Challenge
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is on a roll lately, scoring new mainstream adoption platforms in countries like the United States. But it’s still a...
PR: ZeroEdge.Bet Casino Launched Its Pre-ICO and Offers 79% Discount for a Very Limited Time!
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Rebel Bitcoiners in Ecuador Open First Crypto ATMs
The government of Ecuador launched an all-out war on cryptocurrency about four years ago, even going so far as to push its own...
Wendy McElroy: Silence and Soul in the Crypto Cold War – the Evolution of Privacy
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations. Section 2: The Moral Imperative of Privacy Chapter 6: Privacy is a...
Mexican Cryptocurrency Regulations Approved by Congress
Mexico’s bill to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges has been approved by the country’s lower house of Congress and is now awaiting the...
Liechtenstein Bank Offers Account Holders Direct Crypto Investments
This week the private bank headquartered in the Principality of Liechtenstein, Bank Frick, announced its customers will now have the...
PR: The Most Significant Event of March 2018! Don’t Miss out on Datarius Cryptobank ITO!
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Talking About Decentralization Is Easy – Achieving It Is Hard
Browsing the latest cryptocurrency projects, it would be easy to conclude that decentralization is a panacea; a cure for humanity’s...
NEO Is Either a Raging Success or a Total Disaster
What to make of NEO? The Chinese blockchain is, on paper, the most successful Asian cryptocurrency project to date. It’s listed on most...
New ‘Hack-Proof’ Security-Centric Phone Features Built-In Bitcoin Wallet
Mobile cybersecurity firm Sikur has unveiled “the first fully encrypted, hack-proof smartphone that can safely store cryptocurrencies.”...
Bitcoin.com Wallet Celebrates 2 Million Wallets Created
This week our company is proud to say that two million Bitcoin.com Wallets have been created since its release just seven months ago. The...
16 Government-Approved Crypto Exchanges Forming Self-Regulatory Body in Japan
16 cryptocurrency exchanges that have been approved by the Japanese government are teaming up to form a self-regulatory group, following...
North Korea Obtained 11,000 bitcoins in 2017, Expert Says
North Korea may have made over $200 million USD from cryptocurrency transactions last year, according to a former NSA official. DPRK is...
1200 Australian New Agencies Are Selling Fractions of Crypto
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts from Australia now have the ability to purchase the digital assets bitcoin core (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) via...
Data Company Tracks Crypto-Adoption Using Social Media
Just recently the audience intelligence company, Pulsar, published a report examining the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies. Rather...
EU Losing Patience – Urges Global Crypto Regulation
Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, Valdis Dombrovskis of the European Union (EU), is...
Germany Treads Lightly on Bitcoin Taxation
Germany is taking a lead within European Union established economies, deciding upon slow regulation when it comes to the world’s most...
Bitpay Launches Bitcoin Cash Debit Card Top Ups
In late 2017 the bitcoin payment processor Bitpay revealed it would add the ability to process payments for multiple blockchains —...
How a Single Tweet Wiped $90 Million off Waltonchain’s Market Cap
Digital marketing guides are filled with cautionary tales of social media faux pas that have caused brand suicide. All it takes is an...
Russian Ministry Offers to Set Up Crypto Exchange for Miners
Russia’s Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has put forward the idea to set up a cryptocurrency exchange, where Russian miners...
Aussie Crypto Traders Expect Tax Crackdown Ahead of New Regulations
With Australia set to introduce new legislation that will empower authorities to monitor and regulate the activities of cryptocurrency...
China’s Police Force Reveals Offshore Exchange Surveillance
According to regional reports, China’s police agency is allegedly monitoring cryptocurrency exchanges based outside of the country. An...
PR: Trading Platform RobotsCrypto Is a New Promising Project on the Blockchain Which Really Deserves Your Attention!
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JP Morgan Chase Fears Crypto Is Disruptive Competition
Perhaps cryptocurrency’s largest institutional nemesis is JP Morgan Chase. Led by the ever-belligerent Jamie Dimon, it and he have taken...
Crypto Tax Breaks Proposed by Officials in Russia
Tax exemptions on profits from crypto-related transactions have been proposed during a meeting at the Ministry of Economic Development of...
$9 Million a Day Is Lost in Cryptocurrency Scams
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, $850 will have been lost to cryptocurrency scams. In the time it takes to complete this...
SEC Subpoenas Shepherd ICOs Towards A+ Regulation
The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission is believed to have issued dozens of subpoenas to ICOs in its quest to uncover evidence of...
Genesis Launches Whale Sized Crypto-Loan Service
This week the institutional over-the-counter (OTC) digital currency service, Genesis Global Trading, announced it’s creating a lending...
Transaction Data Suggests a Crypto Recession Is Brewing
Charts can reveal a lot about crypto assets. Past performance and future indicators can be gleaned at a glance, but there’s also a lot...
Dutch Bank That Once Called Bitcoin ‘High Risk’ Considers Building Crypto-Wallet
A Dutch multinational financial provider, Rabobank has announced the possible introduction of a ‘cryptocurrency wallet’ tethered to the...
Coinbase Reveals ‘Overhauled’ Changes and Tax Tools
This week the popular cryptocurrency service Coinbase revealed a slew of announcements concerning certain aspects of the business. The...
Venezuela Claims Petro Cryptocurrency Has Raised $3bn from Investors in 127 Countries
The Venezuelan government has made some new claims about the pre-sale of the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro. After one...
Thai Regulators in Race With Growing Popularity of Token Sales
The Thai government is concerned with the growing number of companies in Thailand racing to launch their initial coin offerings ahead of...
PR: Bitcoin Exchanges: Please Help Your Users Claim BCP and BCPC as Soon as Possible
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Ukraine’s Financial Watchdog Clarifies Stance on Cryptos
The State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine has published its official position on crypto matters. While offering some borrowed...
Over 100 Firms Seek Licenses to Operate Cryptocurrency Exchanges in Japan
There are over 100 companies reportedly waiting for the Japanese Financial Services Agency to approve their registrations to operate...
Louisiana Attorney General Fires IT Staff for Allegedly Mining Bitcoin
It appears that the allure of free electricity and computer systems, courtesy of the tax payers, might be too hard for some government...
Circle-Poloniex Deal Presages the Future of Cryptocurrency Exchanges
When it was announced on Monday that Circle would be acquiring Poloniex, much of the focus was on the $400 million reported to have...
Goldmoney Launches Ether and Bitcoin Cash Cold Storage
As cryptocurrency investing is becoming more mainstream, it keeps attracting wealthier and more cautious established players. To answer...
Court Will Not Seize Crypto as Debt Payment from Bankrupt Citizen in Russia
The Moscow bankruptcy court has ruled that cryptocurrencies of a bankrupt debtor will not be seized to pay his creditors. The trustee for...
132 Customers File Class Action Lawsuit Against Coincheck
This week local Japanese news outlets report that the exchange Coincheck, who suffered from a $530Mn USD loss of the cryptocurrency NEM,...
Court Strikes Down Ban on 40 Bitcoin Sites in Russia
Saint Petersburg City Court has struck down a ban on 40 bitcoin related websites offering information about cryptocurrencies and exchange...
PR: ValueCash Launches ICO That Allows Users to Earn as They Spend While Using Crypto to Pay for Goods & Services
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Offshore Tax Haven Marshall Islands to Issue National Cryptocurrency
A small island nation with less than 60,000 inhabitants best known internationally as a former test site for nuclear weapons is joining...
US Bitcoin Futures Regulator Allows Employees to Trade Crypto
While private businesses all over the world struggle with employees so much as possessing cryptocurrency, the US Commodity Futures Trading...
Japanese Electricity Company Uses Excess Solar Power for Crypto Mining
Japan’s Kumamoto-Energy, a local power producer and supplier from Kumamoto City, has revealed that it recently began using solar power for...
More Infrastructure Support Joins the Bitcoin Cash Ecosystem
This week the Bitcoin Cash network has gained more infrastructure and support from a variety of crypto-based businesses. Additionally, the...
Customer ID Now Required for Crypto Exchange Purchases in Malaysia
Bank Negara announced Tuesday that its "Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism Policy for Digital Currencies" is now the...
PR: Education Ecosystem Announces Token Exchange Listings and Chance to Win Three Tesla Model S Cars
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Lawyers Discuss Challenges Posed by Cryptocurrencies During Divorce
Several lawyers have discussed some of the challenges that arise from cryptocurrency ownership during divorce. The anonymous nature of...
Report: Crypto Miners Bought 3 Million GPUs Last Year
More than 3 million graphics cards have been sold to cryptocurrency miners in 2017, with sales reaching $776 million, a new report...
Digital Currency Group Welcomes Bitcoin-Friendly Bank to the ‘DCG Family’
This week the ‘bitcoin-friendly’ financial institution Silvergate Bank sold 9.5 million shares that raised a sum of $114Mn USD during the...
Bill Gates Says Crypto Has Caused Deaths in a Fairly Direct Way
One of the world’s most affluent persons, Bill Gates, appears to have bought in to the rhetoric of popular media and government law...
British Man in Amsterdam Allegedly Laundered €11.5m in Bitcoin Drug Money
A UK man living in Amsterdam is facing up to five years in prison for allegedly helping people by exchanging fiat cash for bitcoin which...
Swiss Stock Exchange Chairman Advocates National Cryptocurrency
The chairman of Switzerland’s stock exchange, Romeo Lacher, has spoken in favor of developing a Swiss national cryptocurrency. Mr. Lacher...
Forking Today: Bittrex’ Stance on Bitcoin Private Angers Zclassic Bagholders
In less than six hours, zclassic will fork to create bitcoin private, a new privacy-oriented coin that uses zk-snarks to obfuscate...
PR: Brahma OS Is the Decentralized Value Operating System Based on Revolutionary Blockchain Technology
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Scammers Are Ruining Crypto Twitter and Twitter Is to Blame
You’ve heard of the scheme, seen the tweets, and been smart enough not to send cryptocurrency in the promise of receiving more back. The...
Craig “Satoshi” Wright Sued for Billions
Forget the debate about whether bitcoin is a store of value or a currency. What everyone can agree upon is that it is a store of drama....
Bitcoin ATMs Thriving in Michigan’s Most Populous City
Low-income areas in the city of Detroit are seeing a bunch of cryptocurrency-based automated teller machines (ATM). According to local...
Europol: Hardcore Criminals Are Shifting From Bitcoin to Monero, Zcash and Dash
A multitude of representatives of law enforcement agencies from around the world have talked about the use of bitcoin by criminal...
35 Countries, EU and FATF Agree to Revise Global Cryptocurrency Standards
Thirty-five countries and the European Commission have asked the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), responsible for setting global...
PR: Viola.AI Announces Worldwide Community-Choice Campaign for the Name, Look and Persona for the World’s Smartest Love Advisor
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Las Vegas Strippers Accept Bitcoin via QR Tattoos
There has been a lot of talk recently about the missing representation of women in the male-dominated cryptocurrency ecosystem. While Las...
Justice Dept Looks to Develop ‘Cryptocurrency Strategy’
Over the past few months, the U.S. government and its special agencies have been ramping up their efforts to try to regulate bitcoin and...
China’s Crypto Exchanges Didn’t Just Survive – They’re Thriving
It began like this: officials from the People's Bank of China stepped into the offices of the largest crypto exchanges in the country and...
Another Thai Bank Shuts Down Accounts of Local Crypto Exchange
Another major Thai bank is reportedly terminating transactions involving cryptocurrencies through the bank accounts of a local crypto...
Bitwala Launching Full-Fledged Crypto-Friendly Banking Service with Debit Card
Bitwala has announced that it is launching a new banking service with real debit cards. Its application with the Federal Financial...
Chinese Entrepreneur Warns Against Mining and ICO Bans
Angel investor and Founder of Chinese app Meitu, Cai Wensheng, has published criticisms of the central government’s expanding regulatory...
PR: CryptoWorld LLC Announces Wall Street and the Internet of Money Conference.
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