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Kenyan Miner Describes Cryptocurrency As “Biggest Wealth-Distribution System Ever”
Emerging Markets Eugene Mutai, a Kenyan cryptocurrency miner, recently described “the entire [cryptocurrency] ecosystem” as possibly...
PR: Nau ICO Platform Revolutionizing the Relationship Between Retailers and Customers
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PR: SwissBorg The Blockchain Era of Swiss Private Banking
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Balaji Srinivisan: 21 Inc Rebrands to Earn.com, Not Shifting Away From Bitcoin
Last week, 21 Inc, a Silicon Valley-based bitcoin startup which raised over $121 million in venture capital funding, officially rebranded...
Grayscale Investments Plans to Sell GBTC-Based Bitcoin Cash Reserves
Finance Just recently the sponsor of the Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTCQX: GBTC), Grayscale Investments, has announced its plans for the...
Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Targets Australians via SMS
Security Australians have increasingly become the target of an SMS-based bitcoin mining scam. The scam entices users with fictional free...
Two Companies File for Blockchain ETFs
Finance Two companies have filed to launch blockchain tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) late last week, sparking a new derivative...
DHS Taps Facial Recognition Technology to Protect US Border Crossings
Any decision made by the Department of Homeland Security will be scrutinized, for obvious reasons. Earlier this week, the agency announced...
Social Network DADA Launches The First Digital Marketplace For Collaborative Art Using Blockchain Technology
The world's only visual conversation network will help add financial value to digital art through blockchain technology. Its first digital...
PR: Serenity Financial Forex Problems Solved by Blockchain
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What Is SatanCoin?
It is always refreshing to see joke digital currencies come to market. Although these projects serve no real purpose, the creative side of...
PR – REALISTO Announces ICO to Launch Global Crowdfunded Real Estate Investment Marketplace
Berlin, Germany -November 04, 2017- REALISTO, a Berlin-based decentralized real estate investing marketplace, has officially announced its...
Blockchain-Based Chain ID Brings More Security to Korean Online Banking
By JP Buntinx Blockchain technology continues to be of great interest to financial institutions all over the world. Although there is a...
The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 2: Cautionary Tales From Earlier Digital Cash (Part 3)
Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 1: The Trusted Third Party ProblemChapter 2: Monetary...
PR – Heardbeats Seeks to Revolutionize the Live Music Industry Through Innovative Technology
Virtual Reality and live concerts are being fused together as Heardbeats seeks to disrupt the music industry. They aim to raise funds...
New To Bitcoin? Welcome! Here’s How To Take Those First Steps
Featured If you’re new to Bitcoin, welcome. We’re a community of people from every part of the world, from as many walks of life as you...
Israeli Digital Currency Startup Colu Eyes US$50M ICO To Boost Expansion
Image: Colu appColu, an Israeli startup offering localized digital currencies based on blockchain technology, is looking to raise US$50...
PR: Centra Releases Centra Wallet v2.0 and Announces Upcoming Developments
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Blockchain Announces Service Plans for Segwit2x
News One of the largest bitcoin wallet providers in the world, Blockchain, has announced its plans for the upcoming Segwit2x fork. After...
Chinese Analyst Describes Bitcoin as Potential “Nuclear Bomb’ In “New Currency War” Between China and USA
News Xiao Lei, a Chinese financial analyst, has published an article that seeks to argue that the spheres of bitcoin and cryptocurrency...
Software Wars: Segwit2x Uncertainty and the Casting of Miner Votes
Technology Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Segwit2x lead developer Jeff Garzik detailing that the upcoming fork was “still...
Turkish Central Bank President: “Cryptocurrencies May Contribute to Financial Stability”
News Bitcoin is trending in Turkey, and the country’s central bank officials are starting to notice. This week President Murat Cetinkaya...
PR: Realisto Announces ICO to Launch Global Crowdfunded Real Estate Investment
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Russian Economy ”Lost 18 Billion Rubles This Year Due to Lack of ICO Regulation”
Regulation Research has shown that the Russian economy has been deprived of 18 billion (approx $300 million) rubles so far this year due...
Blockchain Helps in Cancer Diagnostics
There is an ICO boom, and most projects are eager to attract even more money for financial services development. The share of projects...
Monero Wikipedia Page Is Vandalized by Unknown Entity
Wikipedia is a great platform for finding all kinds of information. The world’s top cryptocurrencies all have their own Wikipedia...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrency Market Cap Now Commands $200 Billion
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin (BTC) has been soaring once again after reaching an all-time high of $7350 on November 2. Now...
Unparalleled Leadership: The 2017 Power-Gen Woman of the Year Finalists
In early 2013, a group of industry women, dubbed the Women in Power committee, assembled in Orlando, Fla., to figure out how to honor...
This DIY Kit Lets Anyone Modify DNA
The concept of modifying DNA – human or otherwise – has always been met with a lot of resistance. No one should be allowed to...
Britain’s Royal Mint Reveals Details on ‘Live’ Blockchain for Tracking Gold
You wouldn't think you'd lose a 1kg gold bar worth more than $40,000. But during the London Blockchain Summit this week, Nicola Robinson,...
Bitcoin Price Sets New Record As Cryptocurrency Market Tops $200 Billion
Amid a surging cryptocurrency market, bitcoin price gains have continued today, reaching a new all-time high of over $7,450. A rapid rise...
Ukraine Drafts Law to Exempt Crypto Income and Profits from Taxation
Regulation A bill has been submitted to the Ukrainian parliament to amend the country’s tax code to exempt cryptocurrency income and...
How Coinbase’s GDAX Intends to Evaluate Digital Assets for Exchange Listing
Finance Coinbase’s Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX) released its Digital Assets Framework, an answer to clients urging more...
Music Festival Organisers in India Surprised by 1% of Total Sales in Bitcoin
Featured Even while multiple news outlets report India’s government readying to close cryptocurrency exchanges, its population continues...
Bitcoin Gold Issues Daily Updates, Adds Replay Protection
Altcoins After a bumpy roll-out and widespread criticism regarding the project’s supposed secrecy, Bitcoin Gold’s development team has...
BTCC Founder Bobby Lee: “Segwit2x Feature Is an Upgrade”
News This week Bobby Lee, the chief executive officer of the Chinese cryptocurrency exchange BTCC, held an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) with...
PR: Confideal, a Smart Contract Management Platform Announces the Start of Their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) After Garnering Cooperation …
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Satoshi Labs Launches New Bitcoin Hardware Wallet ‘Model T’
Wallets This week, Czech Republic-based Satoshi Labs, launched the pre-order batch of the startup’s Trezor 2 hardware wallet called the...
Lebanon to Issue Its Own Digital Currency
BY Daniel Dob In a recent statement addressing attendees at the 7th CSR Lebanon Forum, the governor of the Bank of Lebanon, Riad...
Siberians Use Cryptocurrency Miners to Heat Homes
Mining RT has reported that citizens of the Russian city of Irkutsk in Siberia have been using cryptocurrency mining to heat their homes....
PR – XTRABYTES’ Revolutionary Proof-of-Signature Blockchain Technology
The XTRABYTES development team is in the process of refining a new concept called Proof-of-Signature (PoSign) for achieving blockchain...
Japanese Financial Regulator Issues Warning on ICOs
While many people consider initial coin offerings to be high-risk investments, the rewards are often worth it for investors throughout the...
Celebrity Endorsements of ICOs ‘May be Unlawful’, Says SEC
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a warning to investors regarding initial coin offerings (ICOs) that are...
PR: Brickblock Announces ICO Token Sale Right After Alpha Version Release
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New Zealand’s Financial Regulator states all Cryptocurrencies are Securities
Not long ago, the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority, also known as the FMA, has published a commentary about initial coin offerings...
Central Bank Round-Up: Kenya, Swaziland & Australia
Regulation The Central Banks of Kenya and Swaziland have recently made statements pertaining to cryptocurrencies, with Kenya’s central...
SEC Warns of Celebrity Endorsement, ICOs Might be a Target
Regulation The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an Investor Alert: Celebrity Endorsements from its Office of Investor...
After Raising $100 Million, Status Reveals an NFC Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
Status, an innovative project which introduced an Ethereum blockchain-based decentralized browser, with built-in chat and wallet...
Chinese Exchanges Move Abroad in Search of Friendlier Regulation
Not long ago, China decided to crack down on digital currencies by banning both initial coin offerings and exchanges within the mainland....
Bitwage Introduces Payroll Services for 18 Additional Fiat Currencies
Economics Bitwage has announced that it will introduce 18 new currencies for invoicing. Bitwage is a bitcoin payroll and international...
Bitcoin Soars Past US$7,000 Mark
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Bitcoin’s Path to the Moon Draws Closer Breaking $7K New All Time High
Markets and Prices Bitcoin has reached yet another price milestone as the digital asset has surpassed $7K per BTC on November 2. The...
As Bitcoin Rises Above $6,000 Will Government Restrictions Succeed? Jeffrey Tucker is Skeptical
Interview Renowned Austrian economist and anarcho-capitalist, Jeffrey Tucker, recently spoke with news.Bitcoin.com regarding his views on...
PR: Kubera – Innovative Gaming Platform Powered by Ethereum Blockchain
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Bitcoin Price Gains Continue with Record High Just Shy of $7,000
Another day, another record... Bitcoin prices have continued to climb overnight, building on consecutive highs in recent days and...
Markets Update: First of the Month Sees Bitcoin Skyrocket to $6900+
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin continues to drive higher as the decentralized currency’s value has reached a high once again this...
PR – Confideal ICO Begins November 2nd, Time to Contribute to Success
Confideal, a smart contract platform on Ethereum blockchain (confideal.io), are excited to announce the beginning of the long-awaited ICO...
Next Generation of Canadian Banking Customers Want Bitcoin
Finance Doug Alexander of Bloomberg Technology reports an online lender’s stock price and value “rose the most in eight months after...
Go nowhere ICOs testing investor patience
While startups tend to measure ICO success by how much money they have raised, investors, on the other hand, care more about how well the...
Go nowhere ICOs testing investor confidence
While startups tend to measure ICO success by how much money they have raised, investors, on the other hand, care more about how well the...
Meet the K-7 Offline Paper Wallet Generator
Technology As the price of bitcoin continues to rise, cold storage solutions like hardware and paper wallets are becoming more popular...
Listen Up: Designing a Reliable Electric Grid
Over the past few months we’ve experienced a solar eclipse, several devastating hurricanes, another under-construction nuclear plant...
PR: Ethersport a Blockchain-Based Online Sports Lottery Platform to Launch ICO Campaign
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What Are Private Blockchains and What Purposes Do They Serve?
These days, the market is filled with both public and private blockchains, yet due to their similarities, many people tend to confuse the...
Bitcoin Cash Markets Surge As the Pending Hard Fork Approaches
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin cash (BCH) has been on a tear lately as network participants are steadily preparing for the...
How to Diversify Your Digital Currency Portfolio
When it comes to making digital currency investments, it is essential to strike the perfect balance within your crypto portfolio, as this...
Understanding Segwit2x: Why Bitcoin’s Next Fork Might Not Mean Free Money
Bitcoin is gearing up for what could be the biggest (and least understood) change to its software to date. by Pete Rizzo Often called...
A More User-Friendly Bitcoin Market? OpenBazaar Version 2.0 Is Here
The startup behind OpenBazaar has released version 2.0 of its popular bitcoin-powered marketplace. First launched in 2014, the software...
Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges Eye Friendlier Asian Countries As Crypto/CNY Trading Ban Comes Into Effect
Image credit: China's flag on the background of skyscrapers of Shanghai World Financial Center, Nickolay Vinokurov, Shutterstock.comA ban...
Over One Million People Enroll in Online Crypto Class
Featured CNBC’s Senior Tech Reporter Ari Levy details how the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, with its acceptance explosion...
PR: Smartlands – the Platform for Agriculture Announces That It Will Integrate with the Stellar Network
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Joel Osteen-Endorsed Pastor Sentenced to Five Years in Coin.mx Case
Featured Pastor Trevón Gross, endorsed by televangelist Joel Osteen, was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Coin.mx...
What is Hashgraph?
By Demetri Kofinas of Hidden Forces Has been recently leading the charge in reporting on what may be one of the biggest technological...
Major Chinese Exchanges Launch P2P Trading Platforms
Markets and Prices China’s major exchanges have found a legitimate means through which to continue operations despite the Chinese...
Swirlds, CULedger collaborate on distributed applications to CUs
HASHGRAPH News Swirlds, creators of the hashgraph distributed consensus platform, and CULedger, a credit union consortium supported by the...
Bitpay to Suspend All Services During the Segwit2x Hard Fork
Technology With roughly fifteen days left bitcoin-based businesses all around the world have been preparing their users for the possible...
No, Blockchain won’t upend digital marketing — yet. But the potential is real
By Andrew Birmingham Will blockchain upend digital marketing, eliminate advertising fraud and usher in a new MarTech ecosystem fuelled by...
CharityStars Accepts $36,000 Worth of Bitcoin to Meet Cristiano Ronaldo
How much would you pay if you had the opportunity to meet your lifetime hero? And what if you could pay with bitcoin or ethereum? Would...
Bitcoin Price Captures Another All-Time High Surpassing $6,400
Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin has reached another all-time high this week touching an average of $6,420 across popular...
No, the FCC Is Not Voting on Net Neutrality in November
Last week, there was talk that the FCC had chosen a late November date to vote on rolling back Obama-era net neutrality regulations. These...
CME Group Aims to Launch a Bitcoin Derivatives Platform This Quarter
Finance On October 31 the world’s largest options and futures exchange, CME Group, has announced it will be launching a bitcoin-based...
PR: Xenio.io Releases Decentralized Gaming Blockchain Source Code
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What Is Kovri?
Not too long ago, we had to clarify some misconceptions regarding the recent Monero node IP leaks. It was mentioned that this would become...
It is now practical to refuel electric vehicles through thin air
Electromagnetic induction gets rid of cables A WISE driver keeps an eye on the fuel gauge, to make timely stops at filling stations. For...
Five in Six British MPs Don’t Know How Money Is Created
If you were to ask people on the street how money is created, most couldn’t give you a decent answer. For some reason, everyone uses...
Vertcoin Clocks Record High Ahead of Reward Reduction
Bitcoin isn't the only cryptocurrency trading at all-time highs today. At press time, the vertcoin-U.S. dollar (VTC/USD) exchange rate is...
Can Hashgraph Dethrone Blockchain as the Future Backbone of Consensus Algorithms?
Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about a new technology known as Hashgraph. So far, a lot of people have no idea what...
Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Plans Updated – New Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm Chosen
Technology The Bitcoin ABC development team has announced its plans for the November 13 Hard Fork upgrade of Bitcoin Cash. The upgrade is...
BANKEX Proof-of-Asset Protocol Open Access to Fair Capital
When it comes down to distributed ledgers, the current technology employs two main protocols- Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake, both of...
Trump to Appoint Bitcoin-Skeptic Powell as Fed Chair
News The New York Times is reporting President Trump will appoint “Jerome H. Powell as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed).”...