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Markets Update: Bitcoin Bull-Run Primes Altcoin Markets for New USD Highs
With bitcoin currently consolidating above $8000 USD after establishing an all-time high of nearly $8400 USD, some liquidity has shifted...
What Is the Tulip Mania ICO All About?
One term we hear all too often in the cryptocurrency world these days is “tulip mania”. Financial experts from all over the...
Developers Invoke the Idea of Bitcoin Cash-Based Colored Coins
This week the Openbazaar developer, Chris Pacia, got the bitcoin cash (BCH) community excited about the possibility of using ‘Colored...
Wallet-Monero Is a New Website Attempting to Steal Your XMR
A lot of people have started paying attention to Monero as of late. This also means people are looking for proper wallets to store their...
SophiaTX Integrates Blockchain Technology With SAP
In September, SophiaTX announced the first open-source platform to primarily integrate blockchain technology with SAP software, used by 87...
Bank Negara Malaysia Will Introduce Crypto Regulation in Early 2018
Governments around the world are actively looking for ways to regulate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. That is much easier said than...
PR: Alphaex.net Partners with Xinfin.Org to Provide Digital Exchange Backbone for It’s Pilot Projects
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Paradise Papers Reveal Bitfinex’s Devasini and Potter Established Tether Already Back in 2014
Bitfinex’s Giancarlo Devasini and Philip Potter has been named in the Paradise Papers – an enormous data leak identifying over 120,000...
Sacramento Regional Transit Hackers Demand $8K Bitcoin Ransom
It has been a while since we last heard anything about hackers demanding a Bitcoin ransom. In Sacramento, hackers have successfully...
Bitcoin Gold Wallet That Stole Private Keys Scooped $3.3 Million
Last week it emerged that a fake BTG wallet which had been promoted on the bitcoin gold website was fraudulent. The team’s developers...
SMS Coin is Planning on Being Listed on Exchanges in UK, Asia, and Latin America on November 27
Speed Mining Co., Ltd. (Hereinafter, Speed Mining) built a Cryptocurrency Mining Center in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. Their Coin, SMS...
New Mexico College to Issue Digital Diplomas via Blockchain
Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced its intention to issue diplomas to over 100 graduates through the...
Six of the World’s Most Bitcoin-Friendly Neighborhoods
If you’ve tired of trying to red-pill your mom on bitcoin, and your mailman isn’t feeling your frequent pitches on decentralization,...
Spread Solar for the Holidays: Four Gift Giving Ideas for 2017
It’s that time of year again: holidays! Until 2018 begins, we try to set aside some extra time for family, eat delicious meals together,...
Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin Black Friday
Black Friday, the internet’s annual day for rampant consumer excess, is looming. On November 24, an online spending spree the likes of...
Bitcoin Cash Price Tops $1,500 Again as Second Pump is in Effect
A lot of things have changed in the world of cryptocurrency these past few days. A lot of currencies are surging in value, with Bitcoin...
PR: Blockchain Intermediators Lamden Announce December Tau Token Crowdsale
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Malaysia to Place Bitcoiners Under Existing Anti-Money Laundering Laws
In order “to prevent the abuse of the system for criminal and unlawful activities and ensuring the stability and integrity of the...
NAGA Token Sale – The Tokens From the Real Economy
A vast majority of the companies who are entering ICO are not offering any already established product. You are being told that if you...
Rare Pepe Blockchain Cards Have Produced More Value Than Most ICOs
Over the course of 2017, there’s been a lot of blockchain projects, and the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) craze has been off the charts. One...
Three (non-pointless) permissioned blockchains in production
It's exactly two years since we published "Avoiding the pointless blockchain project", a checklist of questions to ask when assessing...
Bitcoin Skeptics Just Too Old to Get Digital World, Says Hedge Fund Mogul Novogratz
With this year’s incredible rally in bitcoin’s valuation driving it into mainstream global financial conversation, many established...
Deep Web Roundup: Alphabay Suspect Dies, Monero Climbs, and 126m Verge Lost
The days of darknet markets driving bitcoin are long gone, but even for those with no compunction to visit the deep web, its activity is...
Top Wall Street Analysts Set New Bitcoin Price Targets Above $10,000
Prominent Wall Street analysts from Fundstrat, Standpoint Research, and Galaxy Investment Partners are pointing to a coming bullish run on...
Bitcoin Cash Sees Significant Support and Adoption Over Four Months
The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network is almost four months old from when it split away from the legacy chain on August 1. Since then the...
Piety Aims to Disrupt Organized Religion
We've been seeing a splurge of many innovative blockchain solutions built on the Ethereum platform, but one which stands out with it's...
What Is the Stash Node Pro?
We have seen many intriguing creations in the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Stash may be one of this year’s more interesting...
He’s Back! Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan Chase Ponders Bitcoin Futures Move
The Wall Street Journal reports Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan Chase & Co. is “looking at business opportunities in the planned bitcoin-futures...
Spectiv VR Video StreamingPlatform Launch – Pre-ICO December 8th
Today marks the alpha launch of the community-driven VR streaming platform, Spectiv VR! Check it out here: www.spectivvr.tv Spectiv VR...
PR: Tumblebit™ from Stratis – a Trustless, Decentralized, Privacy Solution for Sending or Receiving Bitcoin
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Tobam Launches European Bitcoin Mutual Fund
Paris-based asset manager, Tobam, has launched the first bitcoin mutual fund in Europe. The fund has been approved by France’s financial...
Video Streamers Have More Options with These New Blockchain Startups
Innovative technology companies are leveraging blockchain technology to build next-generation business models and Content Delivery...
BitPay Announces the End of the Copay Chrome App
A lot of cryptocurrency enthusiasts have used the Copay app from BitPay through their Chrome browser. This particular app has seen pretty...
Uber to Purchase 24,000 Autonomous Cars From Volvo by 2021
In the world of technology, few companies are on so many people’s radars as Uber. The company’s business model has been...
Australian Company Processes $1 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency in Bill Payments Weekly
Living Room of Satoshi, an Australian company that allows its customers to make payments via credit card, direct bank, or BPAY using...
Monero Price Successfully Surpasses $155 and Reaches new All-time High
It has been a pretty interesting week for Monero holders. With the Monero price surging toward $155 at the time of writing, it seems...
Questions Mount as Bitfinex Stay Silent in the Wake of the Tether Hack
Bitfinex are having quite a week, to put it mildly. You wouldn’t know as much by monitoring their social channels though: there’s not a...
Real Estate World “Shocked to Find Out How Many People Have Bitcoin”
From Miami to Manhattan, the real estate world is under pressure to accept bitcoin. Savvy sellers are looking to cash out depreciating...
PR: Human Discovery Platform Token Sale Is Officially Opened
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Dash Price Reaches new All-time High of $574
It doesn’t happen all that often most top 10 cryptocurrencies are in the green at the same time. Especially with the Bitcoin price...
Morocco Threatens Bitcoiners, Announces Ban
Focus on the Use of Virtual Currencies (Mise au point au sujet de l’utilisation des monnaies virtuelles), published by a division of...
Bitcoin Gold Addresses ‘Scam’ Wallet and Premine Endowment Process
On Monday November 20, the cryptocurrency-based hardware wallet manufacturer, Satoshi Labs, revealed that the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) network...
Litecoin Price Analysis – Retest of all time highs on the horizon
Litecoin (LTC) has remained stable throughout the recent Bitcoin bull run. The cryptocurrency is now seventh by market cap, at US$3.77...
Bitcoin ATMs Prompt Audit From Prosecutor’s Office of Russian Republic
In Tatarstan, a republic of the Russian Federation, the prosecutor’s office has “warned [a] businessman against violation of the law in...
Changing the Sports Industry with Sportyfi
Almost all Americans grow up playing organized sports. Some of us are lucky enough to play the same sports in adulthood. But, a vast...
Philippines Move in Direction to Legalize Bitcoin as a Security
A principal regulator in the Philippines has announced: “The direction is for us to consider this so-called virtual currencies offerings...
Forum Wars: r/Bitcoin Mods Accused of Hacking and Vote Manipulation
It’s no secret that not everyone in the world of bitcoin shares the same opinion. Heated debates, and all out flame wars, play across...
Options Exchange Giant Cboe Reveals Bitcoin Futures Specs
Over the past two weeks, many bitcoin proponents have been focused on the upcoming bitcoin futures markets planned for the last quarter of...
Kraken CEO Apologizes for Site Issues as Bitcoin Exchanges Struggle to Meet Demand
As cryptomania has swept the world in 2017, the influx of new users has caused bottlenecks at major exchanges. From server outages to lack...
Why the Bifurcation of an Industry’s Supply and Demand is Bad for Everyone
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. In the solar industry, strong...
Tether Claims $30 Million in US Dollar Token Stolen
By Stan Higgins Tether, the company behind a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency widely used in the market's exchange trade, is claiming that its...
Beware of the NEOConnect Pyramid Scheme
We have seen a fair few new currencies and tokens launch throughout 2017. Not all of these ventures are worth investing in or even...
Hacker Allegedly Siphons $31 Million Out of Tether, Driving Further Speculations About the Cryptocurrency
Tether, a cryptocurrency pegged 1-to-1 to the U.S. dollar, was allegedly hacked today to the tune of $31 million.Tether functions to...
BM Radar is Launching the Wallet for BMT Tokens
The Business Molodost company announced the release of the beta version of the vault for the BMCHAIN ​​project. The functionality of...
Russian Minister States Cryptocurrencies Will Not Be Legally Recognized in Russia
The Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media, Nikolai Nikiforov, has expressed his belief that bitcoin will not be legally...
Can NEO Become China’s Go-To Platform for ICOs?
A lot of people may have noticed that the NEO price went up quite a bit over the weekend. At the time, there were some reports circulating...
PR: Connectius Using Blockchain to Change the E-Commerce Market
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xChainge Aims to Replace Crypto Exchanges with Blockchain-based P2P Transactions
xChainge is a new platform with a simple user interface for anonymous and decentralized exchange of assets based on the Ethereum...
Someone Just Helped Themselves to $600k of Bitcoin Cash from Segwit Addresses
As anyone with a passing knowledge of bitcoin cash will tell you, BCH and segwit don’t mix. Send BCH to a segwit address and you’re gonna...
“Chinese Ethereum” NEO Drops After Investor Relations Disaster
Investor relations management is a crucial part of the operations of any business whose assets are traded by the public. In the growing...
Blockchain Based Building Platform BitRent Announces Token Sale
Nowadays, construction processes are mostly monitored manually. Manual labor slows down the processes and increase the working costs....
China on Pace for Record Solar Capacity as Forecasts Jump
China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, is poised to install a record amount of solar-power capacity this year, prompting researchers...
Italian Doctor Performs Head Transplant on Human Corpses
The idea of human head transplants still makes a lot of people uncomfortable. It is one thing to opt for plastic surgery, but getting your...
NEO Price Loses 12% in Value Overnight
It was somewhat to be expected the NEO price had seen massive growth based on half-truths and rumors. A lot of people are excited about...
CEOs of Alibaba, JD and 58.com Talk About Bitcoin and Blockchain
Just recently, Alibaba founder Jack Ma said that he doesn’t have much interest in bitcoin. In a new series, the CEOs of Chinese e-commerce...
Dash Price Resumes Uptrend Toward $500
It was to be expected the top 10 cryptocurrencies would start to recover after the recent Bitcoin price rally. More specifically, we now...
PR: Flux Gaming Platform Introduces First of Its Kind ICO Investment Plan
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Venture Capitalists Use SAFTs to Tap $4 Billion ICO Market
Finance Simple Agreements for Future Tokens (SAFTs) are a new way for venture capitalists (VCs) to enter booming initial coin offering...
Exchanges Suspend USDT Transactions After $30 Million Tether Treasury Wallet Hack
Altcoins The company behind the controversial Tether altcoin has revealed a few hours ago that it suffered a cyber attack in which the...
Orchid Labs Unveils Open Source Protocol to Fight Internet Surveillance and Censorship
Image: Censored stamp, Wikimedia Commons Orchid Labs, a company headquartered in San Francisco, has launched the private alpha version of...
Stash Releases Privacy Centric Beta Wallet for Android
Wallets Just recently at the Texas Bitcoin Conference, the CTO and co-founder of the company Stash, Chris Odom, revealed the beta release...
Pirate Party Founder Discusses Revolutionary Potential of Cryptocurrency With RT
Markets and Prices Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the world’s first pirate party, discussed the revolutionary potential of bitcoin and...
Trustless Payment Startup Confido Makes Off with $375k of ICO Funds
News Confido, an ICO startup whose name means “I trust”, has done a bunk with 1,235 ETH. The company was supposed to have been creating a...
PR: German Fintech Company Naga Group to Launch Token Pre-Sale
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Futures Markets: What They Are and What They Mean for Bitcoin
Economics As bitcoin gains worldwide attention, there’s lots of discussions lately about futures markets. With companies like LedgerX and...
The Reaper Is Grim – What to Expect From the Latest Botnet
Using a network of internet-connected devices, botnets efficiently steal data, deny services, send spam, and perform a bevy of other...
The Big Embrace: Electric Utilities Accept Wind and Solar as Reliable Sources, Plan for the Long Haul
Despite the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that the Clean Power Plan is being repealed, the attractive cost of renewables...
How Inventory Management Technology Changed Business
Inventory management is a pain. In the past, employees devoted entire weeks to counting and recounting stock and comparing their numbers...
PR: Crypto20’s Autonomous Crypto Index Fund Passes $15 Million
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CME Group Plans to Launch Bitcoin Futures December 10
Finance Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) planning to launch its bitcoin-based...
Blockchain Startup EthereCash Announce Peerless Crypto-Platform Set to Take on the Global Banking Industry
For many, the services provided by the current financial industry are sub-par in their attempts to bounce back from the financial crisis...
The White Paper is Dead – Here’s What Should Replace It
Op-Ed “Bitcoin Silver combines the revolutionary power of cryptocurrency with the speed of the Ethereum network to extend it’s [sic]...
62% of Institutional Investors are Buying or Considering Buying Bitcoin
Finance Over the past few weeks, a string of surveys has provided an insight into the public’s perception of bitcoin. Japanese; Americans;...
What Is a Digital Nomad?
The Internet has changed the way we view a lot of things. Banking, commerce, and community have all been altered by the Internet. Another...
Futures Boost? Ether Looks Up on 11-Week High
Having clocked an eleven-day high on Sunday, the price of ether, ethereum's native token, may have more gains ahead. As per CoinMarketCap,...
Hundreds of Bitcoin Cash Are Stuck in Segwit Addresses – But There Might Be a Way to Get Them Back
Featured Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of BCH is languishing in segwit addresses. The funds were mistakenly sent there by users...
Rally Fatigue? Low Bitcoin Volumes Could Cap Upside
Bitcoin prices are at their highest ever, but there may be a chink in the cryptocurrency's armor. Just a week ago, the bitcoin-U.S. dollar...
Australian Government Grants $8 Million for Blockchain Energy Pilot
The Australian government has announced that it will provide over AU$8 million (around US$6 million) in grants for a blockchain-powered...
Stanford’s Applied Cryptography Group Aims to Bulletproof Bitcoin
Blockchain Stanford University’s Applied Cryptography Group (ACG) is proposing Bulletproofs, a way to drastically reduce blockchain data,...
PR: Spectiv VR Video Streaming Platform Launch – Pre-ICO December 8th
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