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Bitcoin
LongHash Launches Bitcoin Tracker to Speed up Crypto Adoption
On September 17, LongHash releases a publication detailing the functionality of a new bitcoin tracker on its webpage. The tracker allows…
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News
Singapore Prime Minister Protests against Fraudulent Sites For Bitcoin Promotions
The Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong revealed in a tweet that fraudsters are using names of top government…
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News
AML Task Force To Set Up International Standards For Cryptocurrencies
The international organization FATF (Financial Action Task Force) which came into existence in 1989 at the strict initiative of the…
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Exchange
Kraken’s CEO Responds to the New York’s Regulator on Virtual Market Report
On September 19, the newly appointed Attorney General of New York Barbara Underwood released a report highlighting the integrity of thirteen…
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Mining
Bitcoin Mining Firm to Construct 36 Megawatt Wind Farm in Morocco
Soluna, a subsidiary of the US-based private equity firm, Brookstone is expecting to capitalize on Morocco’s energy policies. John Belizaire,…
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Exchange
NY Attorney General Warns Kraken Crypto Exchange and Two Others
New York newly appointed Attorney General Barbara Underwood released a report addressing the integrity of global crypto exchanges. In addition, the…
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News
Crypto Hedge Funds Continue To Expand Even As Market Tumbles
A source reported that BlockTower Capital has hired more staffs amid the crypto price slump. The report adds that the company…
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News
XBT Provider AB to Launch a Full Basket of Digital Currencies
On September 16, the news source reported that XBT provider AB will be introducing a new exchange-traded product before the end…
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News
Brazil’s Avaí to Become First Football Club to Launch a Cryptocurrency
The Série B club which was founded in 1923 will be the first football club to create a digital currency.…
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News
FINRA Files Its First Crypto Related Sanction
Recently, the U.S. financial regulatory authority (FINRA) issued a crypto-related sanction against Timothy Tilton Ayre of Agawam, Massachusetts. The regulatory…
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News
HSBC Data Thief Plans On Launching A Cryptocurrency
Where Herve Falciani is planning on launching a cryptocurrency dubbed Tabu, the whistleblower is still awaiting a Spanish court’s verdict…
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Blockchain
China to Implement a Blockchain System to Track Charity Organizations
China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) has revealed that the government will implement blockchain into its charity tracking system. The…
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News
Overstock Founder and CEO Sells $20 Million Worth of Stock
On September 11, the news says that the CEO of Overstock Patrick Byrne revealed that he had sold 10% of his…
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News
Ripple and R3 Agrees to an Out of Court Settlement
Ripple Labs Inc. has announced that it has been able to reach a deal with R3 consortium in order to…
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Blockchain
Cryptocurrency Startups Merge as Wall Street Blockchain Investments Hits Wall
Wall Street Journal reported that Chain Inc. Is merging with another cryptocurrency start-up. Lightyear Corp, which is a spinoff of…
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Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin Says Cryptocurrency Will No More Give 1000 Times Profit
On September 8, the co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin told Bloomberg that the blockchain space is almost at its peak.…
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Blockchain
Alibaba and IBM Tops Global Rank for Number of Blockchain Patent Filed
IPR daily reported that Alibaba and IBM are topping a new list of global corporations with the highest number of…
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Exchange
Gemini Trust Launches Its First Cryptocurrency
On September 9, Forbes reported that the New York department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has approved Gemini Trust’s application to…
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Blockchain
Blockchain Startups to Tackle Internet’s Challenges
The realization that blockchain technology can do much more than just creating cryptocurrencies. IT is driving the rise of next-generation…
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Blockchain
China Courts to Accept Blockchain Validated Evidence
China has continued to show its support for blockchain technology. On September 7, China’s supreme people’s court published new rules for…
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News
SEC Suspends the Trading of Two Cryptocurrency Products
On 09 September, Reuters reported that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made an announcement it is stopping the…
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Bitcoin
There Are No Safe Havens For Crypto Investors As Digital Assets Maintain Ties
Cryptocurrencies are known not to correlate with other capital markets. However, the price pattern of different cryptocurrencies is always in…
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News
Skiptimynt Is the First Licensed Crypto Exchange in Iceland
Skiptimynt, the crypto exchange is the first to be registered under Iceland’s financial regulatory agency. More crypto firms are expected…
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News
Venezuela’s Petro Cryptocurrency Is a Farce
The cryptocurrency “Petro” by the Venezuelan government intends to help the nation recover from its current economic crisis. The government…
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Bitcoin
Goldman Sachs CFO Debunks Rumour That the Bank Is Ditching Bitcoin
Marty Chavez, the CFO of Goldman Sachs stated on Thursday that the bank is not having a rethink on its…
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News
Greyscale Investments Launches Zen Investment Trust for Certified Investors
Grayscale investments have officially launched an investment trust dubbed “Zen Investment Trust” for certified investors. The announcement made on Thursday…
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Blockchain
China Determined To End Cryptocurrency While It Embraces Blockchain
It has been almost a year since China officially bans initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency activities. The introduction of these…
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Exchange
Deutsche Bank’s Foreign Exchange Dealer Joins Japanese Crypto Start-Up
Bloomberg reported on September 3 that a former Deutsche bank foreign exchange dealer has been hired by FXcoins Ltd. FXcoin…
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Exchange
Japan’s FSA Implements Additional Screening Requirements for Crypto Exchanges
Japan’s financial service agency (FSA) has reportedly beefed up its regulatory framework for crypto exchanges. This move comes after earlier…
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Blockchain
Columbia Government to Adopt Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
The introduction of cryptocurrency and blockchain to the mainstream has increased the number of corporations and nations planning on adopting…
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News
Tom Lee: Bitcoin Price to Hit $20,000 before the End of 2018
The cryptocurrency market has very much struggled this year. It has failed to reach anything near the peak price of…
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Mining
Firefox Upgrades to Ban Crypto Mining Malware
Firefox has announced that it plans on blocking cryptojacking malware in future updates of its browser. The Mozilla Foundation announced…
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Bitcoin Cash
Viabtc CEO, Haipo Yang Proposes BCH Standard Organization
Haipo Yang on Friday released details of a proposed solution to bitcoin cash’s consensus problem. He stated that he plans…
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Exchange
Team McAfee Calls Out Kucoin on Rigging Allegations
Kucoin announced in July that it will be kicking off a Telegram competition that would allow the crypto community vote…
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Blockchain
Asia Now Sees 50 Percent Increase in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Jobs
Cryptocurrency’s underlying technology, blockchain has been identified to be a mechanism that applies to just about any industry. The adoption…
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Exchange
Japan’s Police Force to Implement Crypto Transaction-Tracking Software
The agency stated that the increase in illicit and illegal crypto transactions has prompted it to look for new methods…
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Ethereum
Cboe to Launch Ether (ETH) Futures Later This Year
Cboe had made a name for itself in the crypto community by launching the first regulated bitcoin futures. Now the…
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Exchange
Apple Orders Coinbase Wallet to Remove DApp (Decentralized Application)
Particularly, the approach came after a proposed game War Riders, featured on Coinbase wallet iOS app. The game was immediately…
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News
Terra Now Counts Binance, Okex, Huobi, and Upbit Crypto Exchanges
Terra announced that it raised up to $32 million in its seed funding stage. It went further to name four…
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Exchange
Yahoo Finance Implements Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin Trading
Yahoo Finance added features that will allow its users to buy and sell Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), and Ethereum (ETH)…
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin Price Has Appreciated Back into the $7,000 Bracket?
The digital currency had a 6 percent surge in its price from last week. It started the week at the…
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Mining
Google Plays Store Still has Apps with Crypto Mining Options
In July, Google placed a ban on crypto mining apps that features on Google Play Store. The affected developers were given…
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News
Poland Introduces New Bill for Cryptocurrency Taxation Clarifications
In particular, the bill outlines the differences between centralized digital money and decentralized cryptocurrency as well as the tax regime…
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Bitcoin
Kingdom Trust: Custody Service to Be Insured by Lloyd’s of London
Kingdom Trust is the first licensed financial institution that to offer storage of digital assets and investments like Bitcoin and…
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Exchange
Ironfx to Launch Crypto Exchange Platform in the Fourth Quarter
The Cyprus-based FX brokerage firm, IronFX Group, confirmed that it plans to launch its cryptocurrency exchange later this year. However,…
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Blockchain
Samsung SDS Introduces a Blockchain Certification Platform for Banks
The IT arm of tech giant Samsung, revealed that the certification system is as a joint project with Korea’s Federation…
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Mining
New York Firm to Set Up a Bitcoin Mining Farm Powered By Hydroelectric Dam
DPW Holding Inc.’s crypto mining subsidiary Super Crypto Mining intends to establish a bitcoin mining farm near the dam. The…
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Bitcoin
Jordan Ross Belfort: U.S. Regulators to Crush Bitcoin
Jordan Ross Belfort declared that eventually bitcoin will be crushed by regulators in America. Belfort widely known as the Wolf…
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Ban
Iran to Lift Blanket Ban on Cryptocurrency in September
Nasser Hakimi, the Deputy for Innovative Technologies at Iran’s Central Bank has revealed in a blockchain conference on Sunday. However,…
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News
Bitcoin Venture Capitalist Expert Says That Bitcoin Price Could Fall To $3,000
Anthony Pompilano revealed in a post that the $50,000 year-end bitcoin price he predicted earlier in January was four years…
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Exchange
South Korean Crypto Exchange Upbit to Host Blockchain Conference
The largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea Upbit, has announced that it will be hosting an inaugural conference next month.…
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News
Iran’s State-Backed Cryptocurrency Project Is Completed
The National Cyberspace center of Iran has announced the completion of the drafts for the creation of a state-sponsored cryptocurrency.…
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Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin.org Owner to Launch a BCH Node Software Called Cobra Client
The controversial owner of Bitcoin.org stated, Cobra has weighed into the ongoing Bitcoin Cash civil war by announcing the launch…
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ICO
Google Chrome Extension, Uppward to Flag Suspicious Initial Coin Offering Sites
The cryptocurrency market has witnessed a rise in crypto-related cybercrime since the turn of the year. However most notably the…
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Exchange
Rialto Partners With Bittrex to Launch Security Trading Platform
The announcement made by Riatlo, a next-generation Alternate Trading System (ATS) on August 23. The company revealed that the two…
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News
U.S Lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard Discloses Cryptocurrency Investments
The financial disclosure report the U.S. Rep filed with the clerk of the legislative body clearly showed her purchase of…
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News
SEC Rejects 9 Bitcoin ETF Application Proshares, Direxion, and Graniteshares
Three separate orders published by The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the 22nd of August revealed that the…
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Blockchain
Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Becomes a Fan of Blockchain
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has revealed his involvements with new blockchain start-up, Equi Capital. This revelation comes two months after…
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Blockchain
Tel-Aviv Based Start-Up Uses Blockchain Tech to Help Students Get Jobs
Accessing jobs on the internet is not a new thing as we have numerous internet based job agencies today. What…
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Mining
Researcher Declares the Bitcoin Energy Consumption is Good
A report published on Forbes claimed that bitcoin dramatically increases global energy consumption and concluded that electricity remains the major…
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Exchange
U.S Cryptocurrency Exchanges Adding Guidelines for Self-Regulatory Organization
The announcement says that representatives of Virtual community association (VCA) will be meeting on September. However, the association initially includes…
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ICO
EOS Remains No. 1 Cryptocurrency in China
China’s Center for Information Industry (CCID) publishes the third edition of its Global Publick chain evaluation index with this ranking. However,…
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News
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance Launches Education Hub, Binance Academy
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has successfully launched the Binance Academy Beta (v0.1). Binance academy beta (v0.1) is designed to be a…
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News
OKEX and Odyssey (OCN) Partners to Launch OCNEx
OKEx which is reported to be the second most important virtual exchange currency exchange in the world with a total…
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Banking/Finance
Bank of Thailand (BOT) Issued a Circular of Its New Crypto Policies
The regulations require that Commercial banks and other players engaged in cryptocurrency activities desist from engaging in some crypto activities.…
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Mining
Argo Blockchain Raises $32million on the London Stock Exchange
A mining company known as Argo Blockchain reportedly raised $32 million on the LSE. The company’s shares are sold out…
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News
Last Week in Crypto Sphere – Updates To Know
Among the popular happenings are the additional valuation of Bitmain exchange and MacDonald’s unveiling of its MacCoin. Vitalik clamors for…
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News
Bug in Coinbase systems prevents some exchange users from withdrawing funds
The Coinbase systems recently encountered technical issues that made some of its users unable to withdraw their cryptocurrency’s funds. The…
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News
Bithumb Exchange Back With Deposits and withdrawal service
The services will recommence on August 4 at 11am KST. Bithumb announced the resumption of the services on its twitter…
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Bitcoin
Intercontinental Exchange makes known its plans for Bitcoin Assets
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has announced plans to list physically-settled bitcoin futures. The exchange will be the custodian of the bitcoin…
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News
South Korea’s FSS Pitches Integrated Blockchain System for Stock Transactions
The released report highlighted the countries that have adopted the system. In an official report dated August 2, the Financial…
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News
SEC Subpoenas Long Blockchain Following Nasdaq Ouster
Media outlets report that Long Blockchain has been issued a subpoena by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The beverage…
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cryptocurrency payment
Gibraltar United F.C. to Introduce Cryptocurrency Payment option
Gibraltar United has made plans to include cryptocurrency as a payment option for its players next season. This is in…
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