‘Diet Bitcoin’: Brother of Drug Kingpin Pablo Escobar Launches Bizarre ICO,...
The brother of deceased Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has created his own cryptocurrency. It’s called Dietbitcoin (DXX), and it’s perhaps even more bizarre than you would imagine. Roberto...
View ArticleBitfury-Backed Bitcoin Miner Secures Canadian Land Deal
Bitfury-backed Hut 8 Mining Corp has secured a new headquarters in Canada’s Alberta province.
View ArticleFacebook’s Data Security Meltdown Could Bolster Blockchain: Analyst
The social media giant shouldn’t mistake the forest for the trees. While Facebook continues to reel from a security breach involving the personal data of tens of millions of users, they may just have...
View ArticleRipple ‘Very Confident’ of Hitting China’s Market This Year with Blockchain...
Ripple is ‘very confident’ that it will hit China’s market this year with its blockchain-based payments solution, according to reports. Sagar Sarbhai, Ripple’s head of government and regulatory...
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Sierra Leone and the Blockchain Election That Wasn’t
The big news on March 8, 2018, was that Sierra Leone had just run the first blockchain-based election. The big news in the days and weeks that followed, however, became that the government of Sierra...
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U.K. Fintech Sector Strategy Announces Crypto Asset Task Force
Today, March 22, 2018, at the government’s second International Fintech Conference, Exchequer Chancellor Philip Hammond announced the launch of a Fintech Sector Strategy that looks to keep the U.K. on...
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Bug Caught That Allowed Coinbase Users to Garner Unlimited Amounts of Ether
On March 20, 2018, it was revealed that a bug hidden in Coinbase’s Ethereum smart contract setup could have given users access to unlimited amounts of ether. At press time, it does not appear as...
View ArticleThink Crypto Mining Can’t be Environmentally Friendly? The Cryptomato Might...
A Prague-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur has come up with a novel way to offset the energy consumption of his crypto mining rigs. CNBC has published a report about Kamil Brejcha of digital currency...
View ArticleStudents are Taking a Punt on Cryptos… With Their Loans
One of the first pieces of advice offered to budding cryptocurrency investors is usually “don’t invest more than you can afford to lose”. Such a warning seems perfectly reasonable in a market that can...
View ArticleQuebec Pushes Hydropower Utility to Halt New Bitcoin Mines
Quebec is temporarily suspending new cryptomining operations from setting up facilities in its low-cost power region.
View ArticleBitcoin’s Next Year in Tech Development Is Coming into Focus
At a recent annual meeting in New York, bitcoin’s volunteer developer discussed their tech priorities for the year ahead.
View ArticleOFAC’s Bitcoin Blacklist Could Change Crypto
With just one paragraph, an agency of the U.S. government may have just radically altered the dynamics of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Online Ads, Exchanges and Lightning
Following last weeks news from Lightning Labs about the first beta release of the “Lightning” protocol for Bitcoin, Stellar announced that they will be integrating Lightning. In other announcements,...
View ArticleExenium: Chatbot Trading Platform with a Difference
The cryptocurrency industry has undergone a lot of improvements in the past few years. But at the same time, there is a lot to be desired, at least when considering the exchanges. Most of the...
View ArticleAltcoins Continue to Benefit From the So-called “South Korea Effect”
South Korean trading platforms affect cryptocurrency valuations in many different ways. Not just because of the premium trading value, but also the sheer volume in general. It is evident getting listed...
View ArticleGDPR: A Game Changer Is Coming for Cryptocurrency
The EU has finally come out with an approved framework for how corporations should handle user data. Although this are quite good news for people generally, I can also see it as a massive blow for so...
View ArticleSantander Confirms Ripple-based Cross-border Payments are Coming “Soon”
Ripple has made a lot of headlines over the past 18 months. The company is intent on disrupting the financial sector with digital ledgers and its XRP asset. Santander has confirmed they will carry out...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s only Crypto Exchange Aims for a National Digital Revolution
Cryptocurrency exchanges currently serve as the ideal gateway for entry into the ecosystem and therefore the designated channel of adoption into the mainstream. The effect of these exchanges in the...
View ArticleTrump Bans Petro, a Pacquiao ICO and the Caribbean Goes Crypto: Week in Review
What happened in crypto this week? Price Watch Bitcoin is up 16% this week to $9,000. This comes as part of an increase across the entire cryptocurrency market. It’s also likely the result of higher...
View ArticleBitmain Has Developed an Ethereum ASIC Miner, Wall Street Analyst Claims
A leading Wall Street research firm has slashed price targets for leading chipmakers Nvidia and AMD, claiming that it has received confirmation that cryptocurrency mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain...
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