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A Visual Comparison Between Bitcoin and Other Markets
The market cap of cryptocurrencies, the world’s fastest growing asset class, has surpassed $677 billion. And bitcoin itself has surged...
Kentucky Fried Chicken Canada Launches “Bitcoin Bucket”
Bitcoiners in the past few days have witnessed mainstream media spreading rumors about South Korea’s ban on cryptocurrency. This, as...
Bitcoin Enthusiast Finds Undiscovered Cave and Names It Satoshi
Few people will ever encounter an undiscovered natural wonder, and then have the pleasure of naming it. That’s what happened to Guido...
New Year, New Forks: World Bitcoin and Bitcoin Candy Expected Soon
The fork of Bitcoin Cash sparked a wave of airdrops and bitcoin-related fork projects in 2017. A new project, World Bitcoin (WBTC), is to...
Mining Operations Offered to India After Mixed Signals from Beijing
Members of the Indian crypto community have received offers to set up mining facilities after reports of potentially negative developments...
Swedish Bank Allegedly Forbids Employees from Owning Cryptocurrency
A giant Northern European bank, Nordea, has allegedly enacted a company policy which forbids its employees from owning or trading in...
Exchange Problems Mount at Kraken and Coinbase but Bitfinex Reopens Registrations for 10k+ Deposits
Exchanges are regarded by many in the cryptocurrency world as a necessary evil. They provide liquidity and an on-ramp from fiat currency,...
Big Chinese Bitcoin Miners Are Turning to Canada
The bitcoin mining industry in China appears to be expanding to favorable locations around the world right now. Quebec is one such...
Paul Krugman Is Excited to See Bitcoin Have Issues
Yesterday on January 11 the American economist and professor of economics, Paul Krugman, seemed pretty excited about The North American...
Strict Regulations Force South Korean Banks to Stop Servicing Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Following the inspections of six major banks this week, South Korean regulators have uncovered some inadequate internal controls for...
Wind Developer Helps Cybersecurity Firm Raise $15 Million
Invenergy Future Fund, an investment fund linked to the largest closely held U.S. wind developer Invenergy LLC, provided funding for a...
California Regulators Direct PG&E to Prioritize Storage for Peak Demand
The California Public Utilities Commission approved an order Thursday that will require PG&E Corp., the state’s biggest utility, to change...
Fluence Moves to Support ‘Significant Capital’ Needs of Energy Storage
Fluence Energy, the energy storage joint venture launched last year by Siemens and AES, said it will begin offering leasing and project...
Taking on Storage Part Two: Risks and How to Mitigate Them
Part one of this article identified changes in the energy storage market that are driving deployment and improving the economics of...
CT Green Bank Expands Authorized Solar Software Provider List
Palo Alto-based software provider Aurora Solar said this week that Connecticut Green Bank authorized Aurora's remote shading simulation...
Singapore to Extend Regulatory Mandate Regarding Cryptocurrencies
The Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore has sought to clarify the nation’s stance on cryptocurrencies with regards to its money laundering...
Japan’s DMM Bitcoin Exchange Opens for Business With 7 Cryptocurrencies
Japanese e-commerce and entertainment giant DMM Group has launched its crypto exchange, supporting 7 cryptocurrencies and 14 trading...
Russia Drafts Bill to Legalize Cryptocurrency Trading on Approved Exchanges
The Russian Ministry of Finance is drafting a bill to legalize cryptocurrency trading at approved exchanges. The ministry is already...
Chinese Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain Establishes Branch in Zug, Switzerland
For centuries Switzerland was known around the world for its tradition of banking secrecy, but now a new financial industry is taking root...
Notorious Domain XBT.com Goes up for Sale at 200 BTC
XBT.com, one of the web’s most desirable domain names, is up for sale. Its current owners, XBT Holding SA, are seeking 200 BTC – or about...
Bitstamp Is Asking Users Who Want to Withdraw a Lot of Questions
Customers of Slovenia’s Bitstamp exchange are being forced to jump through hoops to meet an unprecedented level of compliance. A widely...
Overstock Glitch Gave Customers ‘Discounts’ With Bitcoin Cash
This week security experts found a website glitch on the e-commerce marketplace Overstock that let customers purchase items for a fraction...
Japan’s Most Popular Chat App In Talks to Integrate Cryptocurrencies
Japan’s most popular chat app, with 168 million active monthly users, Line, could soon integrate cryptocurrencies. The company is...
US Marshals Plan to Auction $52M Worth of Seized Bitcoins
The U.S. Marshals announced on January 11 that the agency has plans to have another online bitcoin auction on January 22. The six-hour...
North Carolina Hopes to Lure ‘EV Tourists’ with Rural Charging Stations
West Jefferson is among the first communities to benefit from an effort by North Carolina’s 26 electric cooperatives to lure...
Hive to Place Its $100M USD Bitcoin Mining Operations in Northern Sweden
This week the Canadian firm, Hive Blockchain, announced it would be starting a $100Mn USD mining operation in Sweden. Hive’s CEO says the...
New Pathway Emerges to Unleash Solar in Nonprofit Sector
The solar industry and the approximately 1.5 million U.S. nonprofit organizations have been hindered in their efforts to work together,...
No, Mainstream Media, That Country Did Not Ban Bitcoin. Again.
Headlines roared late last night in the western hemisphere, morning in the east, as mainstream media outlets breathlessly ran with an...
Trump: Hydropower “tremendous… fantastic”
President Donald Trump said yesterday that he would like to see the United States further increase its hydroelectric capacity, while again...
Venezuela Will Pre-Mine the Petro and Launch in 6 Weeks
One day after Venezuela’s oil-backed cryptocurrency was declared illegal, the government of president Nicolas Maduro announced plans to...
How Solar Power Is Helping Redefine This Alberta First Nation
In 2015, seven young people died in Beaver Lake Cree Nation — a tiny community in northeast Alberta with an on-reserve population of only...
Markets Update: Cryptos Look for Relief After South Korea FUD Causes Losses
There’s been a lot of uncertainty stemming from the mainstream media’s portrayal of South Korea’s digital asset economy, and rumors of a...
Taking on Storage Part One: Understanding the Drivers
Deployment of energy storage, especially batteries, will increase substantially in the next few years. Three underlying trends in the...
Crypto Companies Cashing in on the Name of Bitcoin’s Founding Fathers
Bitcoin is a powerful brand. Even uttering its name – or that of its underlying technology, blockchain – can be enough to revive tired...
Australian Taxation Office Creates Task Force to Go After Bitcoin Traders
Are you an Australian citizen and worried you might not be paying all the taxes you are due on your bitcoin investments? Well, worry no...
Bitcoin Investor Sues Huobi Over ¥400,000 in Losses
A bitcoin investor sued the Huobi exchange to recover 400,000 yuan he lost while trading. Also Read: Thailand’s Regulators Allow Bitcoin...
Goldman Sachs Recognizes Bitcoin’s Future Potential
First, Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase says he regrets calling bitcoin a fraud. Now, legacy bank Goldman Sachs is formally recognizing how...
Blockexplorer.com Declares a Preference for Bitcoin Cash Over “Blockstream Fork”
Blockexplorer.com has announced that it will henceforth refer to Bitcoin Cash as Bitcoin only and the “Blockstream fork of bitcoin” as...
Calvin Ayre Launching Bitcoin Cash Mining Operations
Online gambling entrepreneur and billionaire Calvin Ayre has announced his next business venture to be cryptocurrency mining operations....
Korean Regulators Launch Investigations of Bithumb and Coinone Crypto Exchanges
The South Korean regulators have started investigating two major cryptocurrency exchanges. The country’s National Tax Service has...
Bitcoin Becomes A Trendy Way to Buy New Homes
While some people still feel hesitant to accept cryptocurrencies, we see an increasing trend in the real estate markets. Over the last few...
SEC Suspends Trading in Blockchain Firm With No Revenues and No Product
Financial regulators around the world seem to finally notice that some companies are trying to capitalize on the insatiable appetite for...
Malaysia Issues Cease and Desist Order to Copycash ICO
The Malaysian financial regulator has issued an order to the team behind an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to halt any operations in the...
VPN Provider Now Accepts Lightning Network Payments
During the first week of the new year, many cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been talking about the Lightning Network (LN). So far the...
Japan’s Fisco Launching Cryptocurrency Fund – Derivatives Products to Follow
Following the issuance of its bitcoin bond, Japanese investment research group Fisco Corporation is now launching a cryptocurrency fund....
Miami Bitcoin Conference Stops Accepting Bitcoin Due to Fees and Congestion
Next week the popular cryptocurrency event, The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) will be hosted in downtown Miami at the James L...
SolarReserve Granted Approval for 150-MW Solar Thermal Project
SolarReserve’s 150-MW solar thermal power plant has been granted development approval by the South Australian Government, paving the way...
India Proposes 70 Percent Duty on China, Malaysia Solar Imports
India, the largest importer of Chinese solar equipment, proposed a 70 percent safeguard duty on cells and modules shipped from China and...
Michael Novogratz $400 Million Bet: Form Giant Crypto Merchant Bank
Billionaire investor Michael Novogratz pulled back from bitcoin toward the end of last year, citing market volatility, and ultimately...
Changing Energy Market Behind Delay of Contract for Maine’s 12-MW Floating Offshore Wind Project
Citing changes in the energy market, utility regulators in Maine have delayed a decision for a power contract that would allow development...
Who Controls the @Bitcoin Twitter Account?
The @Bitcoin Twitter account is a prime piece of crypto real estate. With 667,000 followers, it is more popular than any other...
Thailand’s Regulators Allow Bitcoin Futures Trading
Investors in Thailand can now trade bitcoin futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The...
Venezuela’s Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency Declared Illegal
The Venezuelan parliament has declared the oil-backed cryptocurrency created by President Nicolas Maduro illegal and in violation of the...
Kodak Getting Into Bitcoin Mining
Kodak, a legacy photography company synonymous with the last century, is to launch its own cryptocurrency, Kodakcoin. Not content with...
New Monero Mining Malware Sends Proceeds to Kim Il Sung University, North Korea
The code for a new Monero mining bot has been found to direct its ill-gotten gains to a computer server located at the first academic...
5000 MW to Spare – CEO of Hydro-QuéBec Wants to Attract Cryptocurrency Miners
Just recently in an interview with Québec’s local publication, Le Journal, the CEO of the public utility company Hydro-Québec wants to...
Bitcoin Developers Must Do What Investors Want, Long-Term or Short
There are snotty people who claim to be long-term thinkers and want me to treat their plans seriously. The problem with long-term thinkers...
JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon Regrets his ”Bitcoin Is a Fraud” Statement
Jamie Dimon, chair of JP Morgan Chase, was once again asked about his thoughts on bitcoin. In a wide-ranging interview on FOX Business,...
GDAX on Its Botched Bitcoin Cash Launch; “Heavy Buy Demand Resulted in Insufficient Liquidity”
On January 9, Adam White, the general manager of the GDAX exchange, a subsidiary of Coinbase, gave his “retrospective” on the recent and...
8 Alternatives to Coinmarketcap
Ask anyone where they go to compare cryptocurrency valuations and straight as a flash they’ll reply “Coinmarketcap” (CMC). It is by far...
Victoria Government to Build Wind Plus Storage for Advanced Agriculture Facility
The government of Victoria, Australia, recently completed an agreement that supports the development of a wind plus storage facility for a...
Hong Kong Hacker Arrested in Blackmail for Bitcoin Case
A suspect in a case involving hacking, blackmailing and Bitcoin has been arrested in Hong Kong. A 30-year-old computer technician has been...
Two More Bitcoin ETF Proposals Withdrawn
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reportedly informed two bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) aspirants their cryptocurrency...
Tesla’s New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production
Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop...
Fantasy Market Porn Coin CEO Ghosts, ICO Folds, Investors Lose
Fantasy Market’s website alerted investors to the bad news: its porn token CEO has vanished, and along with him potential millions in...
South Korea Urges 23 Countries, EU, and IMF to Collaborate on Curbing Crypto Trading
The South Korean government has called for financial regulators and central bankers of 23 other countries as well as 12 organizations,...
Aerospace Engineer Uses Bitcoin Cash to Buy $415,000 Home in Seattle
The mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency is continuing on pace in all different business sectors and in many economies across the world....
Federal Regulators Shut Down Perry’s Proposed Rule for Grid Resilience
In an order issued late yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission determined that Secretary Rick Perry’s Sep. 29 notice of...
Microsoft Has Stopped Accepting Bitcoin Deposits
Cryptocurrency users are used to seeing more and more adoption of the instruments by companies. From time to time there are setbacks...
The Bitcoin Price Equivalence Shows What “Cheap” Cryptocurrencies Are Really Worth
There’s been a lot of talk lately about market capitalization and circulating supply. As sub-$1 altcoins have shot up in price, some new...
Vermont Senator Proposes Digital Currency Tax Legislation
Earlier this week Senator Alison Clarkson (D) from Vermont has proposed legislation that outlines a use case for government-based...
EOS Has a $1 Billion War Chest – But Will Dan Larimer Stick Around Long Enough to Enjoy It?
On paper, EOS is a $6 billion company and the 14th largest cryptocurrency project in the world whose token changes hands for $10 a pop. It...
US Government to Sell Bitcoin Seized from Dark Web Dealer
The US government has been approved by a federal judge in Utah to sell 513 Bitcoin and 512 Bitcoin Cash seized from an investigation...
Bitcoin Adoption Continues to Thrive Within Africa’s Borders
According to multiple reports this week the decentralized currency bitcoin is still booming in many African countries. From South Africa...
South Korea to Cooperate with China and Japan on Regulation
South Korean regulators are seeking cooperation with counterparts from Beijing and Tokyo to address cryptocurrency speculation. Six...
Is Bitpay Bullying Other Bitcoin Wallets and Hurting Users’ Privacy?
Bitpay is facing a backlash against its decision to implement a controversial feature it says is meant to protect bitcoin users. The...
Markets Update: Exchange News from South Korea Brings the Bitcoin Bears
Cryptocurrency prices are sliding downwards since our last markets update, as the top ten digital assets are all seeing a loss of gains on...
Confusion Grows Surrounding Official Chinese Position Regarding Bitcoin Mining
In recent days a number of conflicting reports have surfaced pertaining to the stance of China’s government with regards to bitcoin...
How to Make Waste-to-Energy Community Friendly
The owners of a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen have released their design for making the roof of the plant into a community park,...
Geothermal Resources Council, Geothermal Energy Association Agree to Combine
The combined organization will focus on advancing the science, education, and development of renewable geothermal energy resources, the...
Rooftop Solar PV Market in Thailand ‘Largely Untapped’
Rooftop solar in Thailand faces several challenges that have left the industry “largely untapped,” according to a recent report from the...
3@3 on Solar PV: Predictions, Predictions, Predictions!
Today’s topics include predictions about what will happen with the U.S. solar trade case – will there be tariffs? If there are...
Litigation Filed in India for Immediate Intervention of the Flow of Bitcoins
Litigation has been filed in an Indian High Court by a public prosecutor of cybercrime cases. Claiming that cryptocurrencies facilitate...
Bitfury as Big Brother: Mining Company Tracks Bitcoiners
Bitfury Group announced they’re concerned about the advent of bitcoin users having multiple wallet addresses, which the company views as...
South Korea Found a Way to Tax Cryptocurrencies Under Current Law
The South Korean government has announced that some taxes can be applied to cryptocurrencies under the current law, which will be...
Four Cryptocurrencies That Actually Meet the Definition of Vaporware
‘Vaporware’ is a term that’s tossed about loosely, often against cryptocurrency projects that have no clear use case. It’s an easy...
Electrum Moves to Patch Bug That Left Thousands of Bitcoin Wallets Exposed
Popular wallet developer Electrum has issued an emergency patch for a critical bug in its bitcoin wallets. The flaw allowed any website...
Cut Off? Here Are 7 Different Bitcoin Debit Card Services and Fees
Just recently we reported on European bitcoin users having issues with their loadable bitcoin debit cards. Even though some of these...
After The Rise of its Controversial ”Digital USD” Tether Releases EURTs
Tether, creator of a USDT token claimed to be backed by the U.S. dollar, has been a hot topic of conversation lately to say the least. The...
Crypto Card Issuers Seek Solutions in the Wake of a European Ban
Intervention by Visa spelled an end to European crypto debit cards for the majority of customers on Thursday. Around a dozen crypto...








































































