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Dash Releases Software Upgrade For Cheaper Transactions
Image credit: Dash cryptocurrency, by Akarat Phasura, via Shutterstock.comDash has released a new software upgrade that cuts transaction...
Operation to Bypass China’s Capital Controls Using Bitcoin Ends up in South Korean Court
News A South Korean police officer has been indicted for his role in an operation to bypass China’s capital controls. Using bitcoin to...
PR: PodOne, the Uber of In-House and Remote Contact Center Agents, Files US Patent and Launches Pre-ICO Campaign
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SEC Chairman: Initial Coin Offerings Will Have to Register as Securities
Featured In a recent speech to an exclusive group of attorneys in New York, Walter Joseph “Jay” Clayton III, Securities and Exchange (SEC)...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies See Volatile Prices After Canceled Fork
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin (BTC) has been on a bearish run over the past 72 hours, after reaching $7,900 the day the Segwit2x...
The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 2: Was Satoshi a Libertarian and Anarchist? (Part 4)
Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 1: The Trusted Third Party ProblemChapter 2: Monetary...
SMSCHAIN to Help Users Leverage their SMS Bundles for a Profit via the SMSTO Token
Every year, people throughout the world send fewer SMS messages, due to the increase in popularity that social media platforms and instant...
Bitcoin.com Wallet Celebrates 500,000 Downloads in Three Months
This week the Bitcoin.com wallet has reached a significant milestone as we are pleased to announce our wallet app has been downloaded...
Bitcoin by Numbers: 21 Statistics That Reveal Growing Demand for the Cryptocurrency
News By whatever metric you care to measure it, 2017 has been a record-breaking year for bitcoin. From transactions to trading volume, and...
PR: Alexander Borodich Develops Universa Blockchain Platform-Based Solution for the President of Russian Federation
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Third Ethereum Classic Price Pump Pushes ETC Value to $17.35
It is evident there are multiple altcoins which are clearly getting pumped right now. There is no real reason for a currency such as...
North Korean Hackers Ramp Up Malware Attacks Against Bitcoin Exchange Staff
News Malware targeted against cryptocurrency users is becoming increasingly prevalent, a new report shows. Attacks are also getting more...
A New Website Claims the Segwit2x Hard Fork Isn’t Going Away
News news.Bitcoin.com recently reported on an unknown software developer called Bitpico who stated the Segwit2x fork will still happen on...
Bitcoin Gold Plans to Launch its Network on November 12
News The fork called “Bitcoin Gold” (BTG) has been quite the mystery since it announced its plans to fork the Bitcoin network and change...
NO2X: Hard Fork “Suspended” Due to Lack of Consensus
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ICOs, Tiny IPOs, & OTC Securities, Oh My …
All early stage investing is risky and should be viewed through the same lens. Small IPOs, initial OTC listings, private equity/venture...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Market Correction Could See Lows of $5,800
In our last discussion of the bitcoin market, an emphasis was placed on the $7,000 support level because it represented a historic point...
Bitcoin.org Owner Wants to Revise Satoshi’s White Paper
News Following the Segwit2x working group’s announcement to cancel the hard fork scheduled for next week, many shocked bitcoin proponents...
Bee Token Begins Decentralized Future for Short-term Housing Rentals
Blockchain Powered Platform with Proven Business Model, Beenest Utilizes Bee Token Charging 0% Commission Returning Power Back to Hosts...
Digital Payments Solution UTRUST Achieves Soft Cap on Initial Day of Public ICO, Surpassing $10 Million
UTRUST's vision of a decentralized payment system for the unbanked is off to a blistering start, raising all of its $10 million soft cap...
Total Supply of Tethers Increases By 20% in One Week
News The controversy surrounding the correlation between the release of new Tethers (USDT) and dramatic price spikes led by Bitfinex...
Listen Up: Home Backup Power System Primer
Look around your home. Your landline phone, fireplace and pilot lights (on stoves and hot water heaters) are likely gone. Our reliance on...
PR: Vienna Insurance Group and Moirai Announced Partnership to Experiment with “the Wisdom of Crowds”
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SegWit2x Futures Tank Even Though Hard Fork Is Still Happening
A lot of interesting things are happening in the SegWit2x futures market right now. Although it seemed this hard fork had been called off...
Trump’s Treasury Secretary: “We are Looking Very Carefully and Will Continue to Look at” Bitcoin
Regulation Trump administration Treasury Secretary, Steven Terner Mnuchin, in a recent interview, largely about US tax code and proposed...
fidentiaX to Disrupt the Status Quo by Taking on Multi-billion Tradable Insurance Policy Market
At this moment in time, studies have shown that the insurance industry actively generates billions of dollars in premiums every year. For...
Bitcoin Unlimited Reveals Gigablock Testnet Performance
Technology Last October Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) chief scientist Peter Rizun announced the first ever 1GB block was mined on the team’s...
Bitcoin Cash Surges as Businesses Abandon Legacy BTC
Featured Bitcoin cash is enjoying a new lease of life as major figures throw their weight behind the chain. In the wake of the abortive...
Richard Browning Flies at 32 MPH in Iron Man Suit
With so much progress being made in the world of science and technology, it is not surprising that we would see some very strange...
The Only Winner in the Mt Gox Trial is Mark Karpeles
News The net worth of Mark Karpeles could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to a 200,000 stash of bitcoins the disgraced...
Bull Grip Weakens As Bitcoin Price Breaks Below $7,000
Bitcoin remains on the back foot ahead of the weekend. According to Coindesk's Bitcoin Price Index, the number one cryptocurrency fell...
Bitcoin’s Encryption Could be Broken by 2027, Claim Singapore Quantum Experts
Featured Key protocols securing technology undergirding bitcoin are “susceptible to attack by the development of a sufficiently large...
PR: Quantstamp and Experty Announce Partnership to Provide Smart Contract Auditing Consultations
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XBT Provider Unveils Distribution Plan After Selling 44,471 Bitcoin Cash Coins
News XBT Provider has announced its plans to distribute the proceeds from the sale of 44,471 bitcoin cash to eligible holders of its...
Governments Not Taking Bitcoin Disruption Lightly, Says Citigroup CEO
Featured While Wall Street heavies publically shamed bitcoin and its users, Citigroup is taking a more nuanced approach. In a wide-ranging...
Cracks Appear as Critics Label Bitconnect a Ponzi Scheme
Economics To its founders, Bitconnect “is an open source, peer-to-peer, community-driven decentralized cryptocurrency that allow people to...
Bitcoin Cash Markets Remain Resilient As the Network’s Upgrade Approaches
News It’s been a crazy week for cryptocurrency enthusiasts as the digital asset ecosystem is still reeling over the canceled Segwit2x fork...
What Is SingularX?
Competition is heating up in the world of decentralized trading platforms. Projects focusing on peer-to-peer trading are of special...
PR: Spacoin: The First Spa Project Applied Blockchain in The World
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Sports Betting Start-Up, EtherSport, to Develop Innovative Sports Betting Platform, Announces ICO Starting November 13th
The sports betting industry is plagued with various problems ranging from high fees to delayed payouts, complicated registration process,...
New Parity Bug Freezes Half a Million Ether in Useless Smart Contracts
By JP Buntinx The big news of Tuesday night is that the Parity wallet has been exploited once again. It is the second time the second-most...
Relief and Disbelief: Bitcoin Reacts to Sudden ‘2x’ Suspension
by Pete Rizzo & Alyssa Herti ADVERTISEMENT The tweets came fast and furious, almost quicker than the articulation. After months of...
With Segwit2X Called Off, Crypto Developers Get Back to Work
News Over the past few weeks, a fog of uncertainty over bitcoin’s direction has forced a number of crypto projects to grind to a halt....
Segwit2x Futures Continue to Trade Despite Fork Cancellation
Markets and Prices Despite yesterday’s announcement that the anticipated Segwit2x hard fork will not be taking place, Segwit2x futures...
Markets Update: Bitcoin’s Daily Trade Volume Surpasses $5B
Bitcoin markets over the past week have seen some phenomenal energy and the past three days has been a thrilling run. Also read: Bitpico...
Former OpenAI Employees Aim to Let Robots Learn on Their Own
There is plenty of competition in the world of robotics and artificial intelligence. At the same time, it is not uncommon for employees to...
Bitpico Claims Segwit2X is Still Alive Despite All Evidence to the Contrary
News Reports of 2X’s death have been greatly exaggerated. That’s according to a statement issued by little-known mining group Bitpico. In...
Luno Launches Ether Trading In 40 Countries Across Europe, Asia And Africa
Bitcoin startup Luno has announced the support of ether, allowing users in 40 countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, South...
India Drug “Cartel” Uses Bitcoins, Two Arrested: A Closer Look at Mainstream Media Libel
Reviews This week, Delhi Police accused two people of operating a drug ring, according to the Daily Mail India edition. Using the world’s...
How Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Can Be Used as a Decentralized Betting Platform
One of the more interesting presentations at the Scaling Bitcoin workshop at Stanford University over the weekend was MIT Digital Currency...
Banking License Applicant Revolut to Offer One-Click Bitcoin Buying In-App
Finance Britain’s Revolut filed a formal application for banking licensing this week. Established British banks are bracing for rule...
PR: Dmarket Cross-Game Extends Token Presale and Announces the New Dates of Crowdsale
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Tim Draper Predicts Using Fiat Currencies in Five Years Will Be Laughable
News After making a prediction that bitcoin would be $10K by 2018, the American venture capitalist, Tim Draper, is still bullish about...
Millennials Are Big On Bitcoin (But Over 65s Not So Sure)
News It’s become fashionable to malign millennials for killing everything from dinner dates to department stores. If the results of a...
Closing the Curtains On Segwit2x and the Following Aftermath
News In less than eight days Bitcoin network market participants were ready for the planned Segwit2x fork, canceled yesterday. Now...
Israel Securities Authority Chairman Outlines Concerns Regarding ICOs
Regulation The chairman of the Israel Securities Authority (ISA), Professor Schmuel Hauser, has recently outlined a number of the...
Openbazaar Sees a Variety of New Vendors After Privacy Enhancements
Reviews This past September the cryptocurrency-based decentralized marketplace, Openbazaar, launched its 2.0 platform with a slew of new...
PR – Ethbet Development Continues After Crowdsale Sells Out During First Week
Ethbet – the first gambling platform on the Ethereum blockchain that has announced support for peer-to-peer betting - launched its...
PR: Spectiv Advertising ICO Acquires Livetourlab Intellectual Property and Assets: Token Sale December 8th
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Breaking News: Segwit2x Fork Cancelled
News Mike Belshe has published a blog post indicating that the planned Segwit2x hard fork will not be taking place. The markets have...
New York City Preschool Accepts Tuition Payments in Bitcoin & Ethereum, Rejects Credit Card
A New York City preschool has taken the step of offering parents the opportunity to make tuition payments with bitcoin and ethereum rather...
What Is Tokit?
Seemingly everyone on the planet has introduced their own digital token by now. Most tokens are issued on top of the Ethereum...
Silk Road Secret Service Agent Sentenced for Laundering Money While Prosecuting Ross Ulbricht
Featured A Secret Service agent, key in prosecuting Ross Ulbricht during the infamous Silk Road case, was himself sentenced to prison 7...
Litecoin Price Looks Northwards Amid Korean Volume Spike
Litecoin got its mojo back this week. Having spent a better part of the last month defending the key trend line support, the...
Chicago Options Exchange Getting the Bitcoin Bug: “We Believe” says President
Featured In a conference call updating investors and media on its third quarter (Q3) earnings, Cboe Global Markets, which owns the Chicago...
Ethereum Security Lead: Hard Fork Required to Release Frozen Parity Funds
by Rachel Rose O'Leary A resolution has yet to be found for yesterday's Parity hack which saw up to $150 million frozen across the...
IBM: Blockchain May End Up Tracking Cannabis Sales in Canada
Technology giant IBM has pitched for the use of their blockchain technology to track the legal distribution of cannabis in British...
Financial Regulators of New Zealand and Sweden Issued Statements Regarding ICOs
Regulation The respective financial regulators for Sweden and New Zealand have recently issued statements addressing initial coin...
PR: MDK: the Largest European Community on the Vkontakte Social Network Launching ICO
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India Central Banker Doubles-Down on Suppressing Bitcoin
Featured S Ganesh Kumar, Executive Director at the Reserve Bank of India, answering audience questions during a conference, continued the...
Startups Raise Over €5M On Blockchain-Enabled Bourse Funderbeam
Image: Funderbeam team, Dec 2016, FacebookStartups have raised over €5 million on Funderbeam, a startup marketplace powered by blockchain...
The World’s Largest FX Exchange Hopes to Tame Bitcoin Volatility
Finance The Chicago Mercantile Exchange & Chicago Board of Trade otherwise known as CME Group announced its bitcoin futures specs this...
Bitcoin and Weak Frequency Signals: Bypassing Network Censorship With Radio
Technology This past weekend at the Scaling Bitcoin 2017 conference at Stanford University, two individuals discussed a new method of...
Bitspark Receives Investment From Fortune 500 Company
Finance Hong Kong-based remittance platform Bitspark has announced that it has received investment as part of a partnership with...
Two Popular Hardware Wallet Firms Reveal Segwit2x Fork Plans
News This week two well-known bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturers, Satoshi Labs (Trezor) and Ledger Wallet, revealed their contingency...
As Bitcoin Reaches New Price Highs, Network Congestion and Fees Spike
Technology Bitcoin markets have been on a tear lately, and the price has spiked quite a bit last month and into November. However, as...
DAO PlayMarket 2.0 to Provide a Decentralized Store for Android Apps
At this moment in time, the mobile app market represents a huge industry which is actively developing, with new apps of all kinds...
PR: Oracles Network Introduces First Scalable Public Blockchain with Proof-Of-Authority Consensus; Announces $25m Initial Coin Offering S…
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Ethereum Wallet Parity Hit by Second Critical Vulnerability – $150+ Million Frozen
Security Makers of the Parity multi-sig Ethereum wallet have announced a critical vulnerability that has led to millions of dollars of...
Calling an ICO a Crowdsale Doesn’t Make It Less of an Initial Coin Offering
No one can deny initial coin offerings have become increasingly popular as of late. While a lot of companies have successfully raised...
Cryptocurrency Companies See Dramatic Spikes in Share Price
Markets and Prices Numerous companies involved in the cryptocurrency industries have seen dramatic increases in share price following the...
Japanese Cryptocurrency Startup Tech Bureau Raises Funding To Expand Business
Tech Bureau, a Japanese fintech and cryptocurrency company from Japan, has raised US$767,500 from Shinsei Bank and OKWave to expand...
After SEC Snub, Vaneck Re-Enters Crypto Markets with First Major Indices
Finance After the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) refused a review of Vaneck‘s exchange-traded fund (ETF) application, the...
Monero Price Rises to $100 Again in Wake of Multisignature News
Most altcoins have started to recover some of their lost value over the past 24 hours. Although most of the gains are rather small, Monero...
PR: B2BX Team Creating a Cryptocurrency Exchange, or ICO from the Real Business
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Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Crypto Trading: An Interview with Guy Zyskind
Interview As hedge funds rush to enter the cryptocurrency space, the landscape for retail cryptocurrency investors is fundamentally...
Japanese City Attracts Cryptocurrency Miners with Abundant Renewable Energy
Mining The government of a Japanese city known for its renewable energy and low temperature in the wintertime is attracting cryptocurrency...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Price Took A Dive After Breaching New Highs
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin dived on November 6 after reaching an all-time high of $7,590 across global exchanges. The...
Coinbase CEO Owns More Ether Than Bitcoin
Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency wallet provider and exchange Coinbase, personally holds more Ether than bitcoin, according to...
Fork Watch: The Chain With Less Hashrate Could Come to a Screeching Halt
Op-Ed Over the next two weeks, bitcoin proponents from both sides of the scaling debate will be preparing for a possible hard fork. A lot...