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Bitcoin, Ether Prices Rise Pushes Crypto Market Cap Above US$150B
Image credit: The Cryptocurrency Bible, by Patricia Adam, via FlickrThe prices of bitcoin and ether rose this week, pushing the total...
Segregated Witness Has Officially Activated on the Bitcoin Network
Technology On August 23 at approximately 10:00 pm EDT on block 481822 Segregated Witness finally activated and is now live on the Bitcoin...
$44 Million in Ethereum Moved With $0.13 Fee, How Can Bitcoin Reach Similar Scalability?
Bitcoin fees have significantly decreased over the past few months, especially since the lock-in of the Bitcoin Core development team’s...
Silicon Blockchain: Intel’s Distributed Ledger Strategy Is All About Hardware
by Michael del Castillo & Bailey Reutzel In the age of advanced blockchain software, some companies are turning to something...
Chasing Profit? Bitcoin Miners Swap Networks As Difficulty Swings
Since bitcoin cash split from the bitcoin blockchain, miners have had a choice: which of two blockchains to mine? At play in their...
Thinking Beyond Trump: Why Power Companies Should Be Investing Now in Carbon-free Electricity
When utility executives make decisions about building new power plants, a lot rides on their choices. Depending on their size and type,...
Reward-based Social Media Platform Yours Switches from Litecoin to Bitcoin Cash
News On August 22 the creator of the Yours network, Ryan X Charles, announced his blockchain based media platform is switching over from...
Bitcoin Prices Are Up Over $100 Already Today
The average price of bitcoin across global exchanges in trending up, having already climbed over $100 during today's trading. At press...
$150 Billion: Total Cryptocurrency Market Cap Hits New All-Time High
Via CoinMarketCapThe combined value of all publicly traded cryptocurrencies has set a new record, surpassing $150 billion for the first...
PR: iDice Beta Makes 50% Profit on Bankroll in 1 Month
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Blockchain.info to Support Bitcoin Cash
Fintech Blockchain.info just released a blog post saying they will support bitcoin cash (BCH). They have been monitoring it since the hard...
Estonia Considers Launching Its Own Crypto Token Through An ICO
Image credit: Tallinn, Old Town, Estonia, via PixabayA proposal to issue so-called estcoin could make the Republic of Estonia the first...
Central Bank of Egypt Responds to First Bitcoin Exchange Launch
Regulation Following the news of the first bitcoin exchange launching in Egypt, a senior official at the country’s central bank promptly...
Bitcoin Software Wars: The Battle Between Nodes, Hashpower and Developers
Technology While many bitcoiners have been focused on the competition between Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), another significant...
Bitcoin Price Continues to Rise in Spite of Increased Competition
During the recent Blockstack Summit 2017 event, there was a panel discussion on the usefulness of digital currencies, such as bitcoin, for...
PR: Fizcal Brings Accounting to the Blockchain Through Initial Coin Offering
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Enigma Blockchain Project Hacked; Supporters Defrauded Of US$500K In Ether
Image credit: Hacker via PixabayThe Enigma blockchain project had its website and several social accounts compromised. The perpetrators...
Nakamoto Institute Daniel Krawisz: “I Don’t Like Altcoins, but I Like Forks”
Economics This week the founder of the Nakamoto Institute, and the developer of a bitcoin mixing tool called Shufflepuff, Daniel Krawisz,...
A Look at Two Alternative Bitcoin Hardware Wallets on the Market
Wallets There are a few ways bitcoiners can store their funds securely by utilizing cold storage options like a paper wallet and hardware...
PR: Cindicator ICO on September 12th Aims to Shake Up the Financial World
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Walmart, Kroger & Nestle Team with IBM Blockchain to Fight Food Poisoning
Several of the world's largest food suppliers are collaborating on a blockchain solution that could one day save both money and lives. In...
PR: LAToken Tokenized Apple Shares to Sell Them for Cryptocurrencies
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50 Bitcoin Exchanges Have Filed with the Japanese Financial Authority
Regulation The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) has revealed that about 50 bitcoin exchanges have filed registration documents...
Gibraltar Gets First Bitcoin ATM While Working on Cryptocurrency Regulation
Emerging Markets The first Bitcoin ATM in the British territory of Gibraltar has been installed. The European tax haven on the southern...
PR: Bankera Announces Pre-ICO Details for its Revolutionary Blockchain Based Regulated Bank
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Billionaire Calvin Ayre Acquires Crypto Media Outlet Coingeek
Featured Gaming industry website Calvinayre.com recently acquired cryptocurrency news site coingeek.org. This move represents billionaire...
Bitcoin Cash Now Commands Over 20% of BTC’s Total Hashrate
Mining On August 21 the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network got a lot more active as the large mining pool Antpool has pointed some of it’s...
PR: Robert Binning, CEO of StreamSpace to Speak on Blockchain Technology at Digital Hollywood Event
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3@3 on Solar PV: Global Solar Market Growth, Energy Storage, Eclipse
Today’s topics an update on the growth of the global solar market, the future of energy storage and how utilities learned from and...
Bitcoin Cash Wins Mining Power as Price Falls Back Below $600
Bitcoin may be winning the battle for investment dollars, but when it comes to attracting mining power, competition is heating up. After...
Part Deux! Onecoin Buyer Beware: The Definitive Ponzi Exposé
Interview It’s been a year since news.Bitcoin.com interviewed Timothy “Tim Tayshun” Curry, who shared his explosive investigation and...
Investor Group to Buy Calpine for $5.6 Billion
Calpine Corp. on Friday said that a consortium of investors will buy the geothermal and natural gas electricity supplier for $5.6 billion....
Philippine Central Bank Approves Registration of Virtual Currency Exchanges
Emerging Markets Local media has reported that the Philippines’ central bank, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), has approved the...
5 Key Takeaways for Engineers Interested in Designing Platforms for Offshore Wind Farms
To say the engineering that goes into the platform design for an offshore wind farm is “complicated” would be laughable at best....
Authorities Charge Californians in Connection with Dark Web Drug Ring
Featured Federal prosecutors said multiple people in California managed a sprawling dark web drug ring. Allegedly, they were making...
Media Granted Access to Bitmain’s Mongolian Bitcoin Mines
Mining This week Bloomberg published a video of a reporter, Tom Mackenzie, getting a tour of one of the largest bitcoin mines in the world...
PR: Platform for Genuine User Reviews Revain Announces Crowdsale
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Monero Price Hits Record High Near $100 on New Exchange Listing
The price of monero, the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency created in 2014, shot up by over 80 percent this morning, shattering its previous...
Surbtc Introduce Ethereum and Bitcoin Trading in Peru
Emerging Markets Latin American cryptocurrency exchange, Surbtc has launched ethereum and bitcoin trading catering for the Peruvian...
University Research Project Analyzes Bitcoin Blockchain to Combat Sex Trade
Technology Researchers from several American universities are using artificial intelligence to examine the bitcoin blockchain to identify...
Bitcoin Cash Mining Difficulty Drops Significantly – Speeding Up The Chain
Technology On Sunday, August 20, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network dropped its mining difficulty another notch down to 7 percent of BTC’s...
3000 Bitcoin Mansion for Sale in Russia Hindered by Lack of Regulation
Finance A provincial Russian mansion has been put up for sale with an estimated price of 3,000 bitcoins. However, the lack of legal...
PR: ATLANT Ending ICO Pre-Sale on August 19, Revenue Goals Achieved, Focus Turns to ICO Launch on September 7
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Japan’s Largest C2C Ticket Marketplace with 5 Million Users Accepts Bitcoin
Services Japan’s top customer-to-customer (C2C) ticket exchange marketplace, Ticket Camp, announced last week that it has become the first...
Bitcoin Trading Sideways as Bitcoin Cash Drops $800
Following the all-time highs set over the last week, bitcoin has been trading sideways for the last 48 hours, and prices are fluctuating...
MMA Championships Use Bitcoin To Circumvent Censorship
Interview Bitcoin proponents often talk about the many benefits the decentralized currency can offer the world, and one of these...
Zerolink Develop Anonymous Bitcoin Payments
Privacy Zerolink has claimed to develop a method for facilitating fully anonymous bitcoin payments. Zerolink comprises a collaboration...
Markets Update: Bitcoin Cash Rallies for Three Solid Days
Markets and Prices Bitcoin Cash (BCH) markets started climbing this past Thursday and soared on August 18 reaching a high of $760 per BCH...
Thai Central Bank Meets With Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin & OmiseGo
Earlier this week, Omise, the venture capital-backed startup behind the Ethereum-based technology OmiseGo, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik...
PR: TokenStub Launches ICO to Decentralize $33 Billion Ticketing Marketplace
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World’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Bitflyer Expands into US Market
News Bitflyer, Japan’s and the world’s largest bitcoin exchange by volume, has announced its expansion into the US market this fall. It is...
Bitcoin Prices Retreat Toward $4,000 While Bitcoin Cash Soars
Following a week of thrilling price gains and two all-times highs – $4,483 on August 15, and $4,520 on August 17 – bitcoin prices have now...
Bitcoin Prices Retreat Toward $4,100 While Bitcoin Cash Soars
Following a week of thrilling price gains and two all-times highs – $4,483 on August 15, and $4,520 on August 17 – bitcoin prices have now...
PR: ICO for Authorship.com Tokens is Open for Investors
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Government Agencies Adopting Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology
Security Government agencies are looking further into adopting blockchain technology and bitcoin. They hope to commandeer these protocols...
PR: SMNX ICO: An innovative Solomon Exchange for cryptocurrency
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100 Percent Renewable Powered Microgrid in Illinois Islands from the Grid for 24 Hours
On Thursday, Ameren Corporation and S&C Electric Company announced that they had successfully conducted a 24-hour islanding test at the...
Bitcoin Cash Flips Mining Profitability
Markets and Prices Bitcoin Cash (BCH) markets have been extremely bullish over the past two days after hovering in the $300 range for a...
Segwit2x and Bitcoin Core Drama Flares Up ‘Community’ Tension
News On August 17 the bitcoin payment processing company Bitpay published a blog post about Segwit2x that stirred quite a bit of...
South African Bitcoin Trading Sets Record Volume
Emerging Markets This past weekend South African bitcoin trading saw the establishment of a new all-time high for trading volume, in...
Bitcoin: The Next Evolution in Remittances
Traditionally, sending money to friends and family abroad is done through money transfer services such as Western Union or WorldRemit....
PR: Bitconnect Coin (BCC) Hits New All-Time High at $115, as Bitcoin Price Surges
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Ambrosus Aims For Greater Transparency In Food Retail With New Blockchain P2P Marketplace
Image credit: Fruits at Dallas farmers' market, Texas, by Travis Isaacs, via FlickrSwiss blockchain startup Ambrosus has launched a new...
Coinbase Receives Patent for New Bitcoin Security Measure
Encryption San Francisco-based exchange, Coinbase, just received a patent for a security methodology for storing, distributing, and using...
Australia Introduces Bill That Regulates Bitcoin Exchanges
Regulation The Australian Government has announced a bill that would regulate digital currency exchanges including bitcoin exchanges for...
PR: 2nd Stage of ATB Coin ICO Starts
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Bithumb Opens Walk-In Customer Service Center Following Unprecedented Growth
Services South Korea’s largest bitcoin exchange, Bithumb, is seeing unprecedented business growth and has opened a large customer support...
Breadwallet Moves to Switzerland, Acquires $7 Million in Investment Funding
Fintech Breadwallet recently announced they would be moving their headquarters to Switzerland. This relocation comes alongside news that...
Italian Authority Fines Onecoin Promoters 2.6 Million Euros
News Onecoin promoters have been fined 2.6 million euros in Italy after the country’s antitrust authority found them engaging in a pyramid...
PR: CarTaxi – The “Uber” of Car Towing – an Ethereum Based Platform, Becoming the 1-St Worldwide Towing Aggregator
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Trezor Calls an Article That Claims to Break Bitcoin Hardware Wallets “FUD”
Security This past June news.Bitcoin.com reported on a demonstration that took place at the world famous hacker conference in Las Vegas,...
Blockchain Wallet Adds the Ability to Exchange and Store Ethereum
Wallets On August 17 the popular bitcoin wallet platform, Blockchain, has announced it will be adding support for another digital...
Former Paypal COO Discusses Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency, Argues ICOs Are Threat to VCs
Finance Former paypal COO, David Sacks, discussed bitcoin and cryptocurrency during a recent interview with CNBC. During the interview,...
NorthVolt Starts Biggest Fundraising for $4 Billion Battery Plan
NorthVolt AB, the Swedish battery factory developer founded by a former Tesla Inc. executive, is planning to close its first major...
PR: Universa Expects to Raise Over $100 Million in the Upcoming ICO
CEO Alexander Borodich. This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or...
Bitcoin Prices Reach New All-Time High of Over $4,500
[Updated] Following two days of near sideways trading, bitcoin prices have once again reached record levels. Since setting its most recent...
Japanese Exchange Debuts Bitcoin Corporate Bond
Finance Japanese bitcoin exchange Fisco announced that it has issued Japan’s first bitcoin-denominated corporate bond to test the...
Washington Politicians Defend Regulations as Cryptocurrency Exchanges Flee
Regulation Washington regulators recently introduced exchange rules for any firm wanting to allow customers to trade in cryptocurrency....
Ethereum Based Proptech Startup Propy Signs Deal With Ukraine Government
Image credit: Map of Ukraine in focus by Photobank gallery via Shutterstock.comPropy, a blockchain property tech (proptech) startup, has...
Crypto Exchange Shapeshift Acquires Hardware Wallet Keepkey
Hardware On August 16 the Switzerland-based digital asset exchange, Shapeshift AG, has announced the firm has acquired the cryptocurrency...
PR: DetectorToken Announces ICO for their Blockchain Based Bot
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Search Volumes for Bitcoin and Ethereum Enter Inverse Correlation
Markets and Prices The volume of Google searches for bitcoin and ethereum appear to be inversely correlated during August – with bitcoin...
PR: MAGOS – Edge-seeking Oracle
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Bitcoin Cash 8MB Block 479469 Clears Over 37,000 Transactions
Technology On August 16 at approximately 8 am EDT the mining pool Bitclub Network mined an 8MB block on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain....
Swiss Private Bank to Add Support for Ether, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash
Image credit: Switzerland national flag, via PixabaySwitzerland’s Falcon Private Bank will begin supporting ether (ETH), litecoin (LTC)...
Russian Lawmakers Delay Bitcoin Regulation Bill
Regulation Russian lawmakers have been waffling on how to regulate bitcoin. They have delayed a bill intended to provide a regulatory...
Three Ukrainian Lawmakers Declare Bitcoin Holdings Worth $47 Million
Finance Three Ukrainian lawmakers have declared their bitcoin holdings as part of the country’s new electronics declaration system aimed...
PR: Rivetz Raises $5.5 Million in RvT Token Pre-Sale; Token Crowdsale Capped at 200,000ETH
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Protonmail’s Beta Version Enables Automated Bitcoin Payments
Privacy A year ago the popular encrypted email provider, Protonmail, launched its desktop, Android, and iOS platforms that...
Rogue Silk Road Agent Admits to Stealing Bitcoins Seized by U.S. Marshals
News Back in 2015 two rogue U.S. Secret Service agents, Shaun Bridges and Carl Mark Force, were caught and sentenced to prison for...




















































































