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Blockchain Will Integrate BitPay’s Payments System For Wallet Payments The largest wallet provider, Blockchain, partnered with the largest bitcoin payment processor, BitPay.

Lack Of Technical Knowledge Can Make Bitcoin Riskier The well-known Bitcoin proponent and author of Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos had spoken about one of the most important issues that the space has today, secure storage of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies during a Q&A session on YouTube, early this ...

Rep. Waters Says Congress Will Continue Review of Facebook’s Libra Congresswoman Maxine Waters announced a tentative schedule for this fall including a continued review of Facebook's Libra initiative.

Maker Foundation Tried and Failed to Register ‘DEFI’ Trademark Under current law, the responsibility of defending trademarks falls on the holder of the trademark.

Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Housed Illicit Crypto Mining Operation A nuclear power plant has been targeted by bitcoin hackers in the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk in south Ukraine near the country’s capital of Kiev. How a Nuclear Power Plant and Crypto Came Together The case marks the first time a ...

Trump Readies Fed Rate Cut amid Dow Plunge but Is It too Late? By CCN Markets: The Dow Jones has plunged by well over 2 percent in a single session on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern warning towards China. Ahead of the G7 Summit, President Trump expressed his displeasure ...

Bitcoin Rages Against The Establishment In true anarchist fashion, recent developments within Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies has proven that Bitcoin really is rising up against the establishment and is giving people access to a brighter and more economically viable future. The truth is, the world is ...

UK Central Bank Chief Sees Digital Currency Displacing US Dollar as Global Reserve BOE governor Mark Carney called on Friday for the creation of a wholly digital alternative to the U.S. dollar.

Crypto Exchange OKEx Pounds the Table on 34% Bitcoin Price Surge By CCN Markets: Crypto exchange OKEx isn't concerned that the bitcoin price appears to have hit a wall just above the $10,000 mark. In fact, the industry giant believes BTC will surge another 34% to $14,000 before the end of ...

Largest Korean Exchange to Review Listings and Drop Failing Coins Bithumb will assemble a committee to periodically review its listed cryptocurrencies, becoming the second exchange in Korea to update its listing policies.

Facebook’s Libra Backers Are Having Second Thoughts. No Surprise Here By CCN Markets: Facebook's Libra project could be dead on arrival. If it does launch, it probably won’t be anything like what was originally proposed by the world’s largest social media platform. More proof that all is not great with ...

Dow Crashes 623 Points, Erases Weekly Gains in 15 Brutal Minutes By CCN Markets: The Dow and broader U.S. stock market plunged anew on Friday after President Trump unleashed a fiery tweetstorm urging American businesses to shift their production domestically and look for “an alternative to China.” Economic data added fuel ...

MACH and Ontology, Joined MOU The MACH project, which launched blockchain-based P2P safety trading platform MarketMACH has announced the signing of an MOU with Ontology recently following the announcement of MACH listing. Through the agreement between the two companies, CEO Solomon Choi and CEO Lee ...

Judge Orders Hacker Grant West to Pay Back Bitcoins It’s happened again, folks. A hacker by the name of Grant West has taken control of several units of bitcoin that aren’t his and is now facing extensive prison time. West Has Been Ordered to Pay Funds Back This scenario ...

Crypto-Geography: How Cryptocurrency is Progressing in Mexico How often do you happen to scroll through your newsfeed and bump into some enlightening crypto news from another part of the world? We’ve all been surprised at times and caught ourselves thinking: “Gee, I don’t know anything about crypto ...

This Little-Known Indie Studio Just Stood Up to Epic Games By CCN Markets: When Epic Games tried to force the creator of DARQ, a promising indie horror title, to sign an exclusivity contract, the fledgling indie developer refused to back down. Now, gamers are hailing that developer - Unfold Games ...

Mobile Fuels Gaming's Ascent to $152B, Transforms Gamer Image By CCN Markets: Perceptions of gaming and gamers are on the cusp of changing thanks to the rising popularity of mobile games. This year alone, the value of the gaming market is expected to jump to a staggering $152.1 billion, ...

Binance Offers VIP Accounts to Hacked Users Binance will offer VIP accounts to affected users but recommends hacked users replace their government IDs.

Stock Market Tanks After Trump Unloads on 'Enemies' Powell & Xi By CCN Markets: The stock market entered a devastating free-fall after President Trump fired out a barrage of tweets today aimed at China and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. "My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powel (sic) ...

Web3’s Gavin Wood Launches Kusama Network to Test Polkadot Protocol The Web3 Foundation launched a live experimental version of the Polkadot network on Friday. Here's what Kusama will be testing.

Spencer Bogart: Bitcoin Can’t Afford a Recession As crypto enthusiasts, we really can’t afford a recession. That’s what venture capitalist Spencer Bogart is telling everyone. He’s saying that any severe financial crisis would ultimately cause bitcoin to plunge back into a period of extreme darkness that would ...

Blockchain May Be Used in FDA Medical Reviews and Recalls The FDA's acting chief information officer said the agency is rolling out a modernization plan using AI and blockchain.

Cryptocurrency Domains Have Become Hot Property Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain technology have become mainstream terms and are now featured in most dictionaries. Crypto-related terms have a lot of value when they are tethered to a web domain, and these days digital currency domains are prime real ...

Ethereum (ETH) Primed For A Crippling Crash In The Near Future Ethereum (ETH) is on the verge of one of a devastating decline. No number of relief rallies to the upside that temporary raises bullish morale is going to change that. There is a difference between bullish sentiment and bullish setup. ...

Canadians Charged for $220,000 Bitcoin Scam on Twitter Two Canadian nationals posed as HitBTC customer service representatives in order to steal a user's login credentials.

Would It Be Better If Facebook Threw In The Towel? Ever since it was announced, Facebook’s upcoming stablecoin, Libra has been getting slated by regulators over privacy concerns and understandably so as the social network has had a controversial few years when it comes to the legal system.
As the ...

Bitcoin (BTC) Bearish Setup Still Remains Intact Bitcoin (BTC)’s big move to the upside has finally come to an end. The price has faced a strong rejection at the 21 EMA and has now even declined below the 38.2% fib extension level. We did not expect this ...

Bitcoin Miners Are Heating Homes Free of Charge in Frigid Siberia Hotmine makes a bitcoin mining rig that doubles as a home heating appliance. It's targeting places where winter is brutally cold.

Binance CEO: We Are All Satoshi” In a tweet posted earlier this week, the CEO of Binance said that we all are Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous name given to the creator of Bitcoin. Changpeng Zhao said this a few months after he stated, clear as day ...

The Push to Kill Cash – Australia’s Proposed Ban Shows It’s Not Conspiracy Theory The supposed coordination of governments and tech companies to create a one-world, cashless society is often viewed as little more than fodder for silly Youtube conspiracy videos. After all, cash is still king in daily life, even in extremely high-tech, ...

Strengthening Dollar Currency Index (DXY) Spells Trouble For Bitcoin (BTC) The US Dollar Currency Index (DXY) began an uptrend in 2018 around the same time Bitcoin (BTC) began its downtrend and entered a bear market. Bitcoin (BTC) is predominantly paired to US Dollar (USD) on most exchanges which means that ...

$100K Crypto Donation to Amazon Rainforest Charity Blocked By BitPay A large donation to a non-profit working to protect the Amazon rainforest has been blocked by compliance hurdles at crypto payments firm BitPay.

Deribit Teams Up With Paradigm To Offer Block Trading Of Crypto Derivatives Dutch trading platform Deribit has announced it is teaming up with OTC trading communication platform Paradigm to offer a block trading solution for cryptocurrency derivative products. The solution will cover multiple types of crypto-derivative products and will be the first ...

Craig Wright Again Claims Authorship of Bitcoin White Paper Wright has made another attempt to cement his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, posting bitcoin's white paper on a scientific paper hosting site.

Bitcoin Price Looks Bearish Despite Bounce to $10.2K Bitcoin's recovery to $10,255 seen in the last 24 hours could be short-lived, suggest bearish price and volume indicators.

Bitcoin White Paper Posted By Craig Wright Whether you call him a fraud or Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright has taken another step to attempt to prove that he is the inventor of Bitcoin and claim the Satoshi title.
Earlier this week, on 22nd August Wright uploaded the ...

Litecoin’s Mining Power Has Fallen 28% Since Its Halving Mining power on the litecoin network has dropped by 28 percent since its recent "halving" event as miners struggle for profit.

How bitFlyer Is Changing Ethereum Purchases For a lot of newcomers to this emerging industry, is that they aren’t easy to use. I mean, when you get used to the digital currencies, they’re pretty easy to use but when you get dropped in the deep end, ...

One Analyst Believes Bitcoin Still Has A Way To Go Before Bull Market Ends The prices of Bitcoin have a long way to go before they hit the top of this bull run. At least, that’s according to an analysis of the Bitcoin Days Destroyed (BDD) technical metric.
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The New Bitcoin Banks Are Here A new age of banking is imminent. Legacy models will be forced to follow suit or become obsolete in the eyes of value holders worldwide, as new bitcoin and crypto services take over, seeking to implement blockchain systems with an ...

Tensions Rising at Facebook Libra as Backers Consider Quitting: Report Several backers of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project are said to be considering backing out due to growing "pushback" from regulators.

Canadian Exchange Claims Bitcoin Is More Efficient For Paying Taxes Than Bank Cards The co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinberry in Toronto has claimed Bitcoin is more efficient for paying taxes than bank cards.
As reported earlier this week by the real estate news outlet Mansion Global, Evan Kuhn said that his firm ...

Amazon Cloud Outage Causing Major Issues at Some Crypto Exchanges Problems with Amazon's cloud service, AWS, in Tokyo are disrupting services at some cryptocurrency exchanges on Friday.

Bitcoin Cash Analysis: BCH Eyeing Crucial Upside Break Bitcoin cash price is trading above the main $290 support area against the US Dollar. The price is currently testing a major resistance area near the $312 level. There is a crucial bearish trend line forming with resistance near $313 ...

Circle Is Raising a $100 Million Fund for Its Crowdfunding Arm Circle is hiring a new general partner to set up a $100 million venture capital fund via SeedInvest.

CoinDesk Talks to Supporters, Critics at Craig Wright’s Contempt Hearing CoinDesk travels to Florida to talk to supporters and detractors of the so-called creator of bitcoin.

Sally Ho's Technical Analysis 23 August 2019 Litecoin
Litecoin (LTC/USD) attempted to find relief from recent massive selling pressure below the psychologically-important 100.00 figure early in today’s Asian session. The pair’s depreciation during the month of August has been relatively abrupt from its recent high of 107.04 ...

How To Use XRP To Fight Off Spam Ripple XRP, most famous as a remittance payments token, a cross border transaction facilitator, or to others, a security. Did you know though, that XRP can also have a hand in helping you to find spam?
Here’s a thought.
Now ...

Ethereum Poised to Be First Public Blockchain in Hyperledger Consortium A proposal to add the ConsenSys-backed Pantheon project awaits a vote from the Hyperledger technical steering committee.

FBI Investigation Prompts Patrick Byrne to Exit Overstock Patrick Byrne, the CEO and primary board member of Overstock.com, has resigned from his position with the company. Who Will Replace Byrne? Many enthusiasts will likely remember that Overstock.com, a massive online retailer, was one of the first selling platforms ...

Germany Are Leading The Way For Bitcoin Adoption If you’re asked to think of countries that are paving the way for Bitcoin adoption, we could guess that you would think of countries such as Japan and the United States of America which have been in the game for ...

How to Create Non-Fungible Assets and Collectible Tokens With Bitcoin Cash On August 21, James Cramer, the developer behind the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), announced the launch of the Electron Cash SLP version 3.5. The latest release allows people to create a new type of SLP token called NFT1, a non-fungible ...

PundiX’s Crypto Cash Registers Will Be Installed in 49 Retail Stores Across Venezuela Traki department stores will integrate Pundi X’s point-of-sale device, XPOS, to offer a cryptocurrency payment rail for shoppers.

John Bollinger: Cryptocurrencies Act Like “Old” Stocks Cryptocurrencies have garnered something of a harsh reputation over the past year. While some people still look at them as volatile and untrustworthy, many analysts familiar with the space say they’re less “noisy” than traditional assets. In other words, they ...

Peter Schiff: “Gold Will Eventually Hit 5k. Bitcoin Will Never Hit 50k.” The gold bull and bitcoin naysayer, Peter Schiff has said that the leading cryptocurrency will never make it to $50k.
As it stands, I can see where Schiff is coming from. Given that the market is being very volatile and ...

New Report Says Use of Crypto in Palestine Is Mostly Ethical Bitcoin, per new research, is being utilized at an alarming rate throughout the region of Palestine. This is good in the sense that most use cases revolve around civilians utilizing cryptocurrency for ethical purposes. However, there do still appear to ...

Smokescreens and Mirrors: How Does a Country Do an ICO? They Call It QE Financial regulators all around the world have been cracking down hard on ICOs for promising more than they can deliver. At the same time governments and central banks are pulling off far worse scams, such as QE, wiping out the ...

Ripple (XRP)’s Next Breakout Could Have Dire Consequences Ripple (XRP) has broken below a fib ring on the weekly chart for XRP/BTC. A break below this ring put hopes of a bullish reversal to bed and has now raised concerns as to what might happen to Ripple (XRP) ...

California Universities To See Blockchain Education Programs at three California Universities are officially being rolled out thanks to the VC-backed blockchain company that previously helped curate courses at Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard.
MouseBelt’s blockchain Accelerator launched earlier this week at UC Davis, UC Los Angeles and ...

Major Swedish Bank Orders Negative Interest Rate on Euro Deposits Subzero interest rates have become the norm in some countries, especially in Europe. Nordic nations such as Sweden and Denmark have been in negative territory for a while and a growing number of banks in the region are now charging ...

Bitcoin Maximalists Embrace Ethereum After Receiving an Offer They Can’t Refuse A group of hardcore bitcoin maximalists have heroically overcome their hatred for Ethereum after receiving ERC20 shares in crypto exchange INX worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The staunch BTC loyalists, led by Blockstream CTO Samson Mow, have agreed to ...

PR: Cross Exchange Announces XCR Token and Establishes Private Fund CROSS is a project aiming to develop an exchange platform that trades various digital assets globally including CROSS exchange for the coming digital asset and digital money society.
The value of CROSS (XCR) is to “provide a platform for exchanging ...

EOS Price Analysis: Bears Eyeing Another Break Below $3.30 EOS price is currently under a lot of pressure and it recently broke $3.600 against the US Dollar. The price is consolidating above the $3.350 support, but it remains at a risk of more losses. There is a major bearish ...

Litecoin (LTC) Price Analysis: Risk Of A Nasty Breakdown Litecoin price declined heavily below the $85.00 and $80.00 supports against the US Dollar. LTC price is currently under a lot of pressure and it could even decline below the $70.00 support. There is a significant declining channel forming with ...

Democratizing the Platform Economy: The Quiet Revolution Through Blockchain Blockchain – a bursting bubble or disruptive transformation? The Internet has created digital marketplaces that efficiently bring supply and demand together. The success of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, but also Tencent and Alibaba, can be ...

Dapper Labs Announces Cheeze Wizards Hackathon in Lead up to The First Official Tournament Dapper Labs, creators of the massively popular Ethereum game, Cryptokitties have announced a hackathon for their latest creation, inviting developers to build on top of the game for the chance to win cash prizes, limited edition crypto-collectibles and the chance ...

Bull Bitcoin CEO Pouliot: SegWit Activation Process Showed Value of Running a Node During the opening panel of this year’s Understanding Bitcoin conference in Malta, some prominent members of the Bitcoin community reflected on the block size limit controversy and the eventual activation of Segregated Witness (SegWit). One of the individuals involved in ...