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Getting Bitcoin on Mom’s iPhone: 3 Easy Steps
New technology can be intimidating. With the holiday season in full swing, a topic of conversation around the family table is bound to be...
IOTA Price Surpassed $5.55 Before Correction Started Setting In
Cryptocurrencies will continue to appreciate and decrease in value, regardless of any price they may have. In the case of IOTA, there are...
PR: Biafracoin ICO – Blockchain for Referendum and Election Voting
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Over 10,000 People Have Downloaded Fake Cryptocurrency Apps
The open web can be a dangerous place for cryptocurrency users. Phishing, trojans, and social engineering all come with the territory,...
Deep Web Roundup: Aero Sinks and the Ghost of Trade Route Rises
Welcome to the second edition of Deep Web Roundup in which we collate the most intriguing stories from the darker side of the net. Despite...
Monero Price Analysis – Living up to promises
Monero (XMR) has continually made new highs over the past month, and now holds a market cap of US$3.88 billion with US$310.8 million in...
More Bitcoin Fork Clones on the Way: Bitcoin God Will Be Born Xmas Day
It seems forking bitcoin has become a new cryptocurrency obsession lately as a myriad of bitcoin clones are joining the economy. Now two...
Australian Vault Provider Says Securing Bitcoin in Safety Boxes Is Trending
The price of bitcoin has become extremely valuable these days as one BTC is roughly $12K right now. This has led to bitcoin enthusiasts...
Bitcoin Markets Push the Cryptocurrency’s Value to $12,000
The price of bitcoin has pushed above the $12,000 zone on December 5, 2017, at approximately 9:30 pm EDT, reaching yet another all-time...
Your Stupidity, Your Responsibility
One way of looking at the title of this article is that I am proposing a harsh world in which fools are triumphantly preyed upon by...
Hoover Dam Is as Inspiring as it Is Educational
It’s been more than 80 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Bolder Dam, which was renamed Hoover Dam more than decade...
Tim Draper Advises Argentina’s President to Invest in Bitcoin
Famed venture capitalist and bitcoin investor Tim Draper recently met with Argentina’s president, Mauricio Marci, and chief of staff,...
What Is the Best Way to Empower a Cleaner Grid?
Energy market participants in some regions of the world are facing the challenge of renewables integration head-on, creating a slow, but...
Salt and Coinloan Promise Crypto-Asset Backed Fiat Loans
Typically, when we think of taking a loan, we think of going to a bank, filling out a ton of paperwork and then getting denied the loan...
Peer-to-Peer Bitcoiner Gets Year in Prison for Being Unlicensed
“Detroit Man Sentenced to a Year and a Day for Operating an Unlicensed Bitcoin Business”, boasts Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s...
Bitfinex Critics Prepare for Possible Legal Action After Cryptocurrency Exchange Lawyers Up
Bitfinex, the world's largest cryptocurrency trading platform, has hired Steptoe & Johnson, a heavy-hitting, international law firm...
Bitcoin Bubble Burst Uses AI to Predict a Bitcoin Price Crash
The Bitcoin price momentum is a very hot topic right now. Many people think this is only the beginning, whereas others feel the bubble...
Promising DApps Make Their Way to the NEO Ecosystem
Decentralized applications are some of the hottest things in all of cryptocurrency and blockchain right now. They transform the way people...
Azeb Asnake Is the 2017 POWER-GEN Woman of the Year
In recognition of her great work advancing power generation in Ethiopia, on Tuesday, December 5 at POWER-GEN International, Azeb Asnake,...
UK Treasury Will Introduce EU-Wide Bitcoin Regulation by Late 2018
Bitcoin has always been associated with various types of illegal activity. One of the claims which is repeated quite often is that the...
TD Ameritrade, Ally Invest to Offer Exchange Traded Bitcoin Futures
With two of the most respected exchanges in the US about to launch bitcoin futures, CME and Cboe, American brokers now have little excuse...
PR: A Single Network to Unite the Entire Crypto World: Otn
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Decentralization of the Financial System: Blockchain Instead of Central Banks and Payment Systems?
Blockchain changes the world. It is obvious for many people that after October 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto wrote his landmark article...
China Resources Power and SCE Snag Project of the Year Wins at POWER-GEN International
On Tuesday, December 5th during the keynote session of POWER-GEN International, Renewable Energy World and Power Engineering magazine...
South Korea Launches Cryptocurrency Task Force to Spearhead Regulations
South Korea’s government has established a new task force to regulate bitcoin and other cryptocurrency trading. Taking over the effort...
Bittrex Locks, Freezes Withdrawals for Thousands
Since the summer of this year, Bittrex has been imposing changes on its users and requiring increasingly detailed verification paperwork....
PoweReliability-as-a-Service Enables DER Integration for Microgrid Applications
Fairbanks Morse, an EnPro Industries company, today at POWER-GEN International in Las Vegas said that it has released its...
Bitfinex Slaps a Lawsuit on Its Nemesis as the Tether Squabble Gets Ugly
Bitfinex has come out fighting after weeks of being on the backfoot. The bitcoin exchange, which has parried stinging accusations from the...
Bitcoin Price Mounts Another Surge Toward $12,000
It is that time of the week again during which all the important cryptocurrencies go up in value. This also means some currencies will...
Silk Road – The Theatrical Version, Funded by Bitcoin, to Debut in London
The first of its kind to be funded by bitcoin, Silk Road, the play, ran in 2014 at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe. After a...
IOTA Price Keeps Rising as $5 Becomes a Possible Target
A lot of interesting things are happening in the world of cryptocurrency right now Although the Bitcoin price is still of great interest,...
This Bulgarian Business School Offers Bitcoin Scholarships
This week the international business school, Varna University of Management (VUM), located in Bulgaria, has announced that ten applicants...
Bitfury is Building the ”Largest Bitcoin Mining Operation in North America”
Vancouver’s Hut 8 Mining Corp has announced plans to create “North America’s largest bitcoin mining datacenters”. The ambitious scheme...
New York Assemblyman Proposes Digital Currency Task Force
A few new bills have been proposed by New York state officials concerning the implications of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies....
Report Claims That 46% of All Funds Generated by ICOs Have Been Raised in Europe
Research conducted by Atomico, a prominent European venture capital firm, claims that nearly half of all funds generated through initial...
Offshore Wind Farm Cape Wind Officially Comes to an End
Cape Wind, the offshore wind project off the coast of Massachusetts that drew the ire of the Kennedy and Koch families, is officially...
Azerbaijan Rejects Crypto as Means of Payment
The chairman of Azerbaijan’s Central Bank (CBA), Elman Rustamov, has described the nation’s position regarding cryptocurrencies as...
Israeli Regulator: We Need to Welcome Cryptocurrency to Develop International ICO Hub
One of the toughest financial regulators in Israel has made some surprisingly positive comments today regarding the acceptance of ICO...
How the Digital Grid Is Powering the Renewable Energy Era
To serve twenty-first century needs, legacy grids need the ability to accommodate new demands such as intermittent generation sources and...
Cboe to launch Bitcoin Futures trading on December 10th
In a move that looks set to pip the CME at the Bitcoin Futures trading post, Cboe Global Markets has announced plans to offer trading in...
Ether Price Analysis: Potential Reaccumulation Phase Could Push Stronger Highs
Since its rapid ascent from $8 to the $400s, ether has seen a fair amount of volatility. Over the last few weeks, there has been a surge...
Bitcoin-Based Ethereum Smart Contract and Sidechain Rival RSK Launches Today
RSK Labs has announced that the main network of their Bitcoin-powered smart contract platform is launching in beta on Monday after more...
Demand Response for Renewables Integration: Making a Smart Grid for Tomorrow
In September 2017, Arizona Public Service proposed a new product, reverse demand response (DR), that aims to balance system load with...
9 Industry Experts Share Their Future Bitcoin Price Predictions
Industry experts always differ in their opinions on how the Bitcoin price will evolve. So far, optimism is still pretty strong, although...
US Government’s New Cyber Unit Files its First Charges Against “ICO Scam”
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today its newly created Cyber Unit has filed a complaint against a Canadian initial...
The Ethereum Blockchain is Congested by Cats
Even though Bitcoin is much larger than Ethereum it isn’t the only blockchain to suffer scaling issues: the ethereum network is presently...
PR: Full Steam Ahead – Fresh off a Successful Pre-Sale Round, the Naga Fintech Group Launches the Main Token Sale
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What Is the CryptoKitties Project?
Blockchain technology is suited for many different purposes, although the vast majority of use cases have yet to be explored. The new...
Despite Warnings China’s Over the Counter Bitcoin Economy Is Booming
Bitcoin in China has deep roots as a vast majority of mining takes place in the region, and the country once accounted for the lion’s...
The Next Unicorn ICO? 15% Bonus Pre-Sale live – What is Beluga Pay?
Beluga Pay is making big waves in the ICO world, due to having a live product in market, a partnership with a billion dollar bank and...
Cboe Beats CME to the Market, Will Launch Bitcoin Futures December 10
Very few people would have imagined just a year ago the rapid pace of bitcoin adoption by established financial institutions today. We are...
What Is LocalTabs?
There is a new service in the Bitcoin world guaranteed to spark a few new debates. The LocalTabs platform is designed to find others in...
Three Kenyans Face Felony Charges for Selling Bitcoin to a Bank Robber
One of the fundamental aspects of money is that its origins are irrelevant for its use or value (Pecunia non olet), also called...
UK Ministry of Treasury Plans to Regulate Bitcoin
Regional reporting insists Her Majesty’s Treasury (Treasury) of the United Kingdom (UK) is “launching a crackdown on the virtual currency...
PR: Gameflip ICO Is Now Live! Launch Comes After a Pre-Sale That Achieved 112% of Its Goal
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IOTA Price Reaches new All-time High of $2.4
Cryptocurrency markets are always evolving in interesting directions. While most people keep an eye on Bitcoin or Ethereum, the IOTA price...
Venezuela Announces the Creation of Oil-Backed National Cryptocurrency – the Petro
Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has announced the creation of the country’s national cryptocurrency. It will be called the Petro and...
Dutch Columnist: Bitcoin Destabilizes the Economy and Undermines Banks
A Dutch columnist has come under flak for urging readers to sell their bitcoins because they’re “dangerous”. In a widely shared op-ed, the...
Blockchain-Based Digital Art – Passing Fad or the Next Big Thing?
Two words: Crypto Kitties. Last week’s feel-good story, infused with the perfect blend of cute, kitsch, and crazy, was all about...
Localbitcoins Markets Set Record Trading Volume
In recent weeks, numerous countries have set record highs for trading volume on Localbitcoins. The spike in volume can be attributed to...
Ethereum Price Analysis – Dapp testing network limits
Ethereum (ETH) underwent a tumultuous week following a breach of all time highs, and now currently carries a market cap of US$43.8 billion...
Trading Column `The Writing on the Wall´ – What Will CME Bitcoin Futures Do to the Price?
This post is the third in a trading tips series called ’The Writing On The Wall’, in which our game theory guide Eric Wall tries to...
This Week in Bitcoin: Big Bangs, Huge Swings, and a Word From the White House
Every week we tell ourselves “This one’s got to be quieter” and yet every week we’re proven wrong. Welcome to the latest and craziest...
IOTA Doing Big Things as Microsoft Partnership Announced
IOTA has been on a tear as of late, with prices more than doubling in the span of a week thanks to favorable headlines and a new...
Gold Mining Company’s Shares Jump 1,300% After Switch to Bitcoin
With the exponential growth in bitcoin’s price this year and ‘blockchain technology’ becoming the hottest buzzword in the business world...
Clean Energy Leaders Fear Brutal Impact on Renewable Growth As US Tax Reform Takes Shape
In the early morning hours of Dec 2, lawmakers in the U.S. Senate passed their version of a tax reform bill. Unlike the version of the...
Ukrainian Regulators: Bitcoins Cannot Be Recognized as Money, Legal Tender, Currency or Securities
A joint statement between the Ukrainian central bank and the country’s top financial regulators shows that existing legal concepts do not...
CME and CBOE Receive Regulatory Approval for Bitcoin Futures Contracts
The past few weeks have brought major changes for Bitcoin in the financial sphere. More specifically, we are seeing more and more entities...
PR: CoinLoan Lending Platform Granted Full License
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The Abyss Platform Aims To Reimagine The Video Game Industry Marketing
The Abyss digital distribution platform is gearing up for its Token Sale. The team behind the project aims to allow gamers and game...
trade.io Announces Historic Partnerships & Introduces Tiered Structure Further To Community Demand
03 December 2017, Zug Switzerland highly anticipated upcoming ICO trade.io has made three major announcements this week, which have...
Coinsource Adds 18 Bitcoin ATMs in Atlanta, Among Ten Most Unbanked US Cities
The Texas-based bitcoin ATM network, Coinsource has deployed 20 new machines in the state of Georgia, marking its single largest...
Drivechain Team Submits Two Sidechain-Related BIPs
Scaling Bitcoin is still a very talked-about topic in the developer community. On-chain scaling isn’t the approach most people are...
How Qchain Plans To Fix Native Advertising
Qchain, an American-based blockchain company, is here to streamline the fastest-growing sector of the digital advertising agency: native...
Japan Increases Lead – Approves Another Four New Cryptocurrency Exchanges
The Japanese Financial Services Agency has approved four more cryptocurrency exchanges to legally operate in Japan. This is the second...
ECB Wants Digital Cash for Banks to Keep up With Bitcoin
While American central bankers are still just monitoring the risks bitcoin poses to the established banking system, their counterparts...
Three Crypto Projects Attempting to Penetrate the Video Game Industry
2017 has seen an explosion of cryptocurrency projects and startups focused on video games. As a whole, the video game industry appears to...
Bitcoin Pushes Canada Toward State Crypto Coin
You’ve read in these pages of the possible Cryptoruble, Russia’s attempt to stave off bitcoin. The European Central Bank and Swift is also...
Bitcoin’s Price Rocket is Bringing Out New Prophets of Doom: Nobel Economist, Vanguard Founder, Fed Governor
Curiously, bitcoin’s success has brought out new prophets of doom (few below 60 years of age though), and the digital asset’s price only...
PR: Quoine Lists Qash on Global Exchanges Quoinex, Qryptos and Bitfinex
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Bitcoin Cash Network Status: Transactions On the Rise
The Bitcoin Cash network is trucking along as the blockchain is currently finishing up its fourth month of existence. As more adoption and...
Record ICO Tezos Founders Seek Bail-Out From Foundation
Following mounting lawsuits, the founders of Tezos are seeking for their legal costs to be covered by the Swiss-based foundation tasked...
Trading Column `The Writing on the Wall´– Futures are Almost here, Is This the Right Time to Buy?
This post is the second in a trading tips series called ’The Writing On The Wall’, in which our game theory guide Eric Wall tries to...
Bitcoin-Related Job Postings Have Spiked on Linkedin and Upwork
The number of jobs relating to bitcoin and cryptocurrency on Linkedin and Upwork has grown significantly in recent years. Both platforms...
What’s Going on with Einsteinium?
Skeptics and supporters alike are scratching their heads about the massive run Einsteinium (EMC2) has taken over this path month, rising...
CME Rival Cboe Suggests its Coming Futures Market Would Include Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) only months old is being floated as a possible addition to a futures offering family by Cboe Global Markets (Cboe)....
This Ukrainian Shipping Firm is Using Bitcoin to Evade Sanctions
A Ukrainian shipping company has become the first to accept payment in bitcoin. Its motivation for taking the digital currency? To evade...
Proposed U.S. Legislation May Criminalize Those Who Conceal Bitcoin
Last week on November 28 a revision was made to the U.S. bill S.1241 called “Modernizing AML Laws to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist...
Bitcoin Isn’t the Environmental Monster Most People Think It Is
Over the past few years, we have heard multiple allegations that Bitcoin is a threat to our environment. More specifically, the amount of...
International Mining Consortium Announces ICO For Mining Gold
For decades various multinational companies around the world have been mining gold and other metals. Russia is the third largest gold...