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How Dropgangs and Dead Drops Are Transforming Darknet Practices
Since the creation of the Silk Road, authorities have waged a war against the online drug trade with a wave of surveillance and...
Ethereum, Tron and EOS Control 98% of All Dapp Volume
2019 was a good year for dapps and a particularly good one for Tron and Ethereum. That’s the upshot of Dapp Review’s new...
Researcher’s Scathing Lightning Network Analysis Finds Flaws
On January 7, digital preservation researcher David Rosenthal published an overview of BTC’s Lightning Network (LN) which claims LN...
This Company Sets Out to Prove Crypto Mining Has a Place in Your Home
Hotmine, a company based in Ukraine which engineers home appliances for crypto enthusiasts, is not new to mining equipment development....
ECB Wants Active Role in Crypto, Will Not Deter Private Solutions
The European Central Bank (ECB) wants to play an active role in the field of digital currency, said President Christine Lagarde. As the...
Kerala Outlines Plans to Become India’s Blockchain Hub
The Indian state of Kerala is actively exploring using blockchain technology to improve a wide range of existing systems, including...
Why the Counter Economy Is Necessary to Bitcoin’s Survival as a Disruptive Currency
As Bitcoin is adopted by more and more traditional financial institutions, and becomes regulated by governments worldwide, the question of...
Bitcoin History Part 23: The First BTC Escrow
Before the emergence of crypto exchanges and trustless multi-sig, early bitcoiners saw the need for an escrow service – a mediator...
Federal Reserve Considers Creating a Separate Entity for Cash Injections
While American President Donald Trump wages war with Iran, the U.S. Federal Reserve has continued to inject fresh capital into the hands...
Japanese Firms SBI and GMO Join the Digital Gold Rush in Texas
The city of Rockdale, Texas is attracting attention again, similar to the interest the region saw back in the fifties when the Alcoa...
Binance Donates $1 Million in Crypto for Australian Bushfire Relief
The cryptocurrency community is again showing its commitment to support charitable goals around the world. Binance, the most active...
Korean Presidential Committee Pushes to Make Cryptocurrency Mainstream
A South Korean committee directly under the president has recommended several measures to the government that will make cryptocurrency...
Bank Closures and Withdrawal Restrictions Anger Lebanese Citizens
Lebanese citizens have been dealing with economic hardship, as the country’s central bank imposed customer withdrawal limits last...
Kraken Reveals 49% Increase in Law Enforcement Investigations
The publication of crypto exchange Kraken’s 2019 Transparency Report has provoked discussion about the scale of government...
Honk Launches Token Sale to Fund SLP-Powered Sports Betting Site
The team behind one of the most active tokens in the SLP ecosystem is launching a crowd sale to fund the development of a new sports...
Bitmain Responds to Layoff Rumors From Ousted Co-Founder Zahn
Ousted Bitmain co-founder Micree Zahn took to Weibo on Monday to speak out against a reported Bitmain “personnel optimization...
Market Update: Top Cryptos Face Strong Resistance Ahead
On January 6, digital currency markets saw decent gains as the entire crypto market capitalization surpassed the $200 billion mark at 3:50...
Regs Roundup: SEC Actions, Crypto Tax-Free in Korea, India’s National Blockchain Seminar
In this roundup, we cover several crypto-related actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York...
Problems Escalate in Venezuela as Millions Rush to Spend Petros
According to the Venezuelan government, millions of families have used the petro, the country’s national digital currency, to pay...
Bravio to Develop fully Tokenized iGaming & Lottery Platform for LFE Group Holding
Bravio is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Software Management & Content Licencing Agreement with LFE Group Holdings...
How to Sell Anything for Bitcoin on Your Website
Selling things for bitcoin online doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, it shouldn’t be, given the decentralized nature and low...
The Top 50 Crypto Memes of All Time
Memes are the fuel that powers the cryptoconomy. Exploitable image macros, shareable acronyms, and obscure in-jokes are the stuff that...
Meet the Multi-Cryptocurrency PoS Device Eletropay
On January 5, Bitcoin.com’s Executive Chairman Roger Ver introduced a bitcoin cash (BCH) point-of-sale (PoS) merchant solution...
Turkey Prepares to Increase Oversight in the Crypto Space
Turkish authorities, alarmed by the spread of cryptocurrencies in the country, are reportedly ramping up efforts to introduce greater...
Chipmaking Giant Samsung Reveals 3nm Semiconductor Prototype
In mid-December, Intel revealed that the company expects to design 2nm and 1.4 nm semiconductors by 2029. During the same timeframe,...
McAfee Catches Heat After Welshing On Famous Bitcoin Bet
Many bold predictions about bitcoin’s price have been made over the years, but tech entrepreneur John McAfee’s 2017 claim that...
33,000 Companies in China Claim to Use Blockchain Technology
China now has more than 33,000 registered companies claiming to use blockchain technology in their businesses, according to the...
ISIKC – Where Deep Traditions Meet Innovation
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Stablecoins Are Crypto’s Version of Fractional Reserve Banking
Stablecoins provide much sought after stability in the volatile crypto markets. They are sometimes even said to affect the price of...
SLP Devs Publish Code Bounties With $2,500+ in Crypto Rewards
While a number of software developers work on the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework, SLP devs are still looking for other...
John McAfee Plans to Tokenize All 535 Members of US Congress
On Saturday, the notorious John McAfee revealed a new project he’s launching that aims to tokenize all 535 members of U.S. Congress...
Travala Scores 33% Revenue Growth With 60% of Bookings Paid With Crypto
Travala, the online platform that allows crypto users to book hotel rooms in thousands of destinations around the world, has registered...
Subhash Chandra Garg on the Future of Crypto
India’s former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has shared his views on the future of cryptocurrency, both in India and...
Telegram Rejects SEC Request to Hand Over Bank Records for TON
Telegram Group, the company behind the TON blockchain project, has reportedly refused to share information with the SEC showing how much...
New SLP Telegram Bots Introduced to Bitcoin Cash Supporters
The Bitcoin Cash community was recently introduced to two new Telegram bots that use Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) tokens within the...
Ross Ulbricht Supporters Auction Collectibles After BTC Price Wager Goes Sour
Digital currency influencers have started an auction to raise money for Ross Ulbricht who is serving a double life sentence for his...
Crypto Fundraising Is Changing Again in 2020
Funding is a prerequisite for any new crypto project, but with IEOs likely to play a reduced role in 2020, where will the all-important...
IMF Helping Philippines Become Important Crypto Market
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is providing the Philippines with technical assistance regarding crypto assets. The IMF believes the...
Grassroots Bitcoin Cash House Movement Expands to Ghana
With one Bitcoin Cash House now established in Venezuela, the grassroots movement is independently spreading to other locations. Read.cash...
Scottish Novelist Andrew O’Hagan Asked to Testify in Kleiman v. Wright Lawsuit
The high profile billion dollar bitcoin lawsuit, Kleiman v. Wright, has continued into the new year. The Kleiman estate’s legal team...
HSBC Closes 2 Branches Following New Protests in Hong Kong
HSBC had two of its Hong Kong branches closed on Jan. 2, the first working day of the year, following attacks by protesters during the...
Proof of Keys Day Returns on Bitcoin’s 11th Birthday
Last year’s inaugural Proof of Keys day didn’t see massive amounts of bitcoin withdrawn judging by onchain data – but it...
A Deep Dive Into Satoshi’s 11-Year Old Bitcoin Genesis Block
11 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network at approximately 18:15:05 UTC and the world hasn’t been the same...
Ticker Tool Uses the BCH Blockchain to Provide Reliable Rate Data
Instantly verifiable, unhackable and forever retrievable are some of the key features of information stored on a blockchain. These are...
Why Double Spends on BCH Are Not the Same as Replace-By-Fee Fraud
When it comes to creating a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, accepting zero confirmation transactions becomes critically important....
BTC’s Hashrate Touches 120 Exahash, But the Price Has Not Followed
On January 1, the BTC network hashrate touched an all-time high at close to 120 exahash per second (EH/s). Despite the crypto market lull...
Early Cypherpunk Emails Reveal a Blueprint for Bitcoin
The cypherpunks, a ragtag group of tech tinkerers, cryptographers, and privacy advocates, were obscure in their 1990s heyday. And it would...
Read.cash Platform Rewards Content Creators With Bitcoin Cash Incentives
Since the platform’s launch, the Bitcoin Cash-centric blogging site read.cash has gathered a lot of traction. The website’s...
Was Youtube’s Christmas Crypto Purge Illegal?
This article considers the legal implications of Youtube’s notorious purge of crypto channels on Christmas Eve. What legal context...
Google Restores Metamask App After Community Uproar
Similar to how it’s restored some crypto Youtube channels after a lot of pushback from the crypto community, Google has now restored...
Why Nick Szabo Probably Isn’t Satoshi
Search online for ‘possible creators of Bitcoin’ and Bit Gold creator Nick Szabo will always appear near the top of the list....
Tron-Based Tether Has Ballooned to Over 900 Million Tokens, Almost 22% of Total Supply
Since Tether’s (USDT) migration to other networks beside the BTC-based Omni protocol, significant shifts have taken place seeing the...
Government Confirms Crypto Profits Not Taxable in South Korea
South Korea has confirmed that income tax cannot be levied on individual investors’ profits from crypto transactions under the...
These Are the Bitcoin Stories You Loved in 2019
2019 was a crazy year for cryptocurrency enthusiasts and a number of interesting events happened throughout the last 12 months. It’s...
Using a VPN May Get Israeli Crypto Traders in Trouble
Do you use a VPN? It’s a privacy-enhancing tool that everyone should be using, especially those with digital assets. Or do you...
Wifi Sharing Platform Wicrypt Gets Government Grant in Nigeria
A crypto startup providing wifi hotspot sharing services in Nigeria has won funding from the country’s telecom regulator. Wicrypt...
Alleged $8B BTC Tulip Trust Expires With Tales of Bonded Couriers
Five years ago, the crypto community became aware of an alleged contract called the Tulip Trust. The supposed contract emerged when a few...
China Takes Another Step Away From USD Hegemony
The China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) announced that effective January 1, 2020, the system “will adjust weights for CFETS...
Etoro CEO Yoni Assia on Reaching 12 Million Users and Why Cryptos Are a Gateway to Stocks
Yoni Assia is the CEO and founder of multi-asset trading platform Etoro. The brokerage firm, which enjoys a high profile within the...
Veriblock Captured Close to 60% of BTC’s OP Return Transactions in 2019
During the course of 2019, the most used BTC-based OP_Return protocol, Veriblock, outshined Omni Layer outputs. According to statistics,...
Live Streaming Platform Dlive Joins Bittorrent Ecosystem
Live streaming platform Dlive will soon be joining the Bittorrent ecosystem and begin migrating to the Tron blockchain. The Twitch...
A Tor-Integrated Cashfusion Build for Bitcoin Cash Is Coming
On Monday, Electron Cash developer Jonald Fyookball updated the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community in regards to the Cashfusion protocol....
Regulatory Roundup: China Blockchain ETF, France New Crypto Rules, Tokens Like Money in Russia
In this roundup, we cover Russia’s supreme court recognizing tokens as assets like money and property, France’s new crypto...
Bitcoin’s Next Decade Will Be Shaped by Derivatives
The last five years have been a test phase for bitcoin derivatives, which began tentatively when Bitmex eased into life in 2014. Now, as...
Number of Israeli Blockchain Companies Grew by 32% in 2019
Despite the harsh market conditions this year, high profile closures of a few ventures and a lot of employee downsizing, the number of...
Debate Ensues After 68% of BCH Hashrate Mined by Stealth Miners
2019 was known for the growing trend of stealth miners mining on the BTC and BCH network. On Dec. 30, data shows that 68% of the Bitcoin...
South Korea Imposes $69M Tax Obligation on Crypto Exchange Bithumb
The National Tax Service of South Korea (NTS) has decided to withhold income tax from Bithumb’s foreign customers. The total tax to...
Ethereum Proponent Virgil Griffith Deemed a Flight Risk, Judge Denies Bail
U.S. law enforcement filed in November criminal charges against Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith because he traveled to North Korea and...
Wazirx CEO on 2020 Outlook, RBI Ban, Crypto Regulation for India
The Indian crypto community has had an eventful year, with a bill on the horizon, the RBI ban’s supreme court hearing, and the...
RUON.AI Announces Patents and Successful Upload Of SovereignSky Space Blockchain
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Coinbase Wallet Removing Mobile Dapp Browser to Comply With Apple
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for bad news in crypto, with Youtube’s removal of hundreds of videos, Google Play’s...
Central Bank Gold Hoarding Hits 50-Year High
While dozens of the world’s economic leaders participate in extreme monetary easing policy, central banks have also been hoarding...
French Businessman Detained for Stealing €1.2 Million in Crypto From His Partners
An investigation launched on the request of a French startup has led to the indictment of a 37-year-old entrepreneur accused of stealing...
You Can Now Buy Cryptocurrency With Credit Card on Bitcoin.com Exchange
Users can now purchase cryptocurrency with a credit or debit card on Bitcoin.com’s premier trading platform via a new partnership...
Google Bans Crypto App Metamask From Play Store
Soon after Google-owned Youtube has swung the strikes hammer against video content creators that talked about cryptocurrency-related...
Market Update: Crypto Traders Search for Bullish and Bearish Trends
During the last few days, digital currency markets have been meandering sideways and prices have been less volatile. On Sunday, during the...
Indian Government’s Institute Offers Blockchain Training in Multiple Cities
The National Power Training Institute, under India’s Ministry of Power, is offering blockchain training in multiple cities...
France’s Social Media Stalking Points to the Violence of Fiat, Consent of Crypto
France will soon be monitoring social media accounts to catch suspected tax evaders. The endeavor could label anyone as suspicious who so...
Cloud Token and the Rise of MLM Crypto Projects
Chinese law enforcement recently busted 72 individuals connected to the Cloud Token (CTO) scam. The Ponzi was similar to the Plustoken...
Authorities in Sichuan Go After Miners to Save Electricity in the Dry Season
Regional authorities in the province of Sichuan are reportedly pressuring bitcoin miners to scale down operations amid electricity...
Harsh Laws Make Bitcoin Holders Consider Renunciation or Dual Citizenship
As digital currencies become a mainstay in society, a great number of governments have enforced strict tax guidelines, severe money...
Asia’s Love Affair With Blockchain Is Blossoming
Far away from western eyes, Asian blockchain projects are thriving. A vibrant ecosystem of public and permissioned chains has sprung to...
Mainstream Media’s Hit Piece on Hitmen Fails Miserably
Mainstream media is probably one of the worst mediums for factual information because it’s typically filled with ignorance and...
User Reports Reveal Visa and Mastercard Outages During the Holidays
Having problems with payments around Christmas can be frustrating, especially for those who leave gift buying till the last minute. With...
As FATF Regulations Galvanize, Crypto Mixing Applications Are Targeted
Since the inception of Bitcoin, governments have tried to keep track of all the transactions taking place on the public blockchain. As the...
4 Beijing Regulators Issue New Crypto Activity Warning
Four financial regulators in China have jointly issued a fresh warning regarding crypto trading activities in Beijing. The notice explains...
Crypto’s Counterpunch to U.S. Hegemony and Empire
“The Muslim world should be designing measures to save themselves from the domination of the United States dollar and the American...
Germans Rush to Buy Gold as Draft Bill Threatens to Restrict Purchases
Reports have emerged depicting long lines in front of a physical gold sales location in Germany, in view of pending legislation which...
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Launches Index of Top 50 Blockchain Public Companies
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange has launched a blockchain index comprising 50 of the largest publicly listed companies with blockchain...
Bitcoin Gained 8.9 Million Percent Over the Last Decade
2020 is fast approaching and the last decade will be behind us. Throughout the last ten years, the biggest unicorn firms were born like...

























































































