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Formula One driver Romain Grosjean has just made a pit stop at the Bitcoin garage. A tweet by the French/Swiss driver shows a signed copy of Ben Mezrich’s popular “Bitcoin Billionaires” by none other than the stars of the book themselves, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss: Thanks @winklevoss & @tylerwinklevossLooking forward to read it 👍 pic.twitter.com/ves99P5QSl […]
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Dogecoin (DOGE) first gained attention in crypto when Jackson Palmer, a computer programmer, posted the now infamous Shiba Inu dog with the comment, “Pretty sure it’s the next big thing.” The post went viral and caught the eye of programmer Billy Markus who had been working on his own cryptocurrency. Thinking dogecoin could be more […]
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Sofia, Bulgaria, June 28th, 2019: Niquid Tech today announced the release of a new version of TokenGen, the company’s proprietary ICO automation tool. The new update features a re-structure of the pricing model, more specifically, a free basic plan. Previously, the company added a KYC solution by integrating TokenGen to work with the Civic decentralized identity ecosystem, available to projects using the Whitelistable Fundraiser feature.
By CCN Markets: Bitcoin millionaire John McAfee, who’s still running for U.S. president despite being a fugitive for tax evasion, has selected Havana, Cuba, as his campaign headquarters. John McAfee: ‘I Am Being Politically Persecuted’ McAfee made the revelation on Twitter, where he announced his “Campaign in Exile” under the banner of the Libertarian Party. McAfee noted that he was forced to make his headquarters in communist Cuba because he’s “being politically persecuted” in the United States. “My headquarters, since I am being politically persecuted, is now located in Havana, Cuba. I am still fighting. Stay with me, America!” McAfee:
KYC (Know Your Customer) policies and endless private data collection, coupled with force-backed, violent legislation compromise the utility and ethics of crypto trading. An uncompromising stance on user privacy is critically important to crypto traders and peer-to-peer transaction. It’s not about having nothing to hide, but about sound economics, human dignity, and creating a more peaceful, less violent, world.
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Slovenia has a population of just 2 million but contains more retail locations accepting bitcoin cash payments than the entire United States. What makes this small country such a cryptocurrency adoption leader? Watch the following video to find out.
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A short new documentary on Bitcoin.com’s Youtube channel highlights the thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem in Slovenia. The video features some of the places where you can pay with bitcoin cash (BCH), different Slovenian startups developing technologies for the market, as well as Roger Ver going shopping to test out the country’s now famous crypto-friendly locales.
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SINGAPORE, 10 June 2019 – Sparrow, the Singapore-based options trading platform has launched its revolutionary platform which empowers institutions and individuals to trade options that are settled by smart contract. Sparrow offers a simple and secure way for traders to control risk in the volatile digital asset market and monetize their assets.
The founder of decentralized crypto exchange Bisq has stepped away from all roles and activities, allowing the exchange’s DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) to oversee its operations.
Manfred Karrer released the departure announcement on Bisq’s official site on May 16, 2019, claiming that the exchange is “entering a new phase” and that the DAO “is now the infrastructure which enables that Bisq is managed by its stakeholders and contributors.” Noting that Satoshi’s departure from involvement in Bitcoin was critical to that project’s success, Karrer stated that Bisq will now be entirely autonomous.
The importance of reliable market data grows with rising cryptocurrency prices that inevitably attract more investors to the space. There is a wide choice of market cap aggregators, but some offer more rich functionality than others. Coincheckup is one good example of that.
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Coincheckup is a free online platform which tracks over 2,000 cryptocurrencies and digital tokens, providing information about their prices and price changes for different time periods, market capitalization, 24-hour volume, circulating supply, and percentage off all-time-high.
In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded guilty to running a drug trafficking business that laundered millions of dollars in Western Union and crypto payments.
According to an official announcement shared by the District Attorney’s office on April 24, 2019, Mark Sanchez and Callaway Crain have pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering through the sale of controlled substances on their website and on the dark web.
Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
Of course, this is an oversimplification of the Bitcoin community. Crypto Twitter, which is the main hub of online cryptocurrency conversations these days, does not make up anywhere near the entire Bitcoin user base. When people talk about the Bitcoin community being toxic, they’re mostly complaining that some Bitcoin users were mean to them on the internet.
PayPal (PYPL) has joined the Series A round for Cambridge Blockchain, a digital identity enterprise software provider, marking the company’s first official investment in the blockchain space. Cambridge Blockchain is pleased to announce that PayPal has joined our Series A funding round #Identity @PayPalNews https://t.co/qqyObowYAZ — Cambridge Blockchain (@C_Blockchain) April 2, 2019 According to a recent […]
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Online payments giant PayPal has taken a stake in Cambridge Blockchain – its first investment in the blockchain space.
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Facebook (FB) has made its first acquisition in the blockchain space, purchasing the team behind Chainspace, a small blockchain startup founded by researchers from University College London. According to a breaking report by Cheddar that cites individuals familiar with the matter, four of the five researchers behind Chainspace’s whitepaper are joining Facebook’s blockchain group, with two already […]
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On Jan. 24, Adam Gibson, author of Waxwing’s Joinmarket blog, wrote about an interesting Coinjoin concept called Payjoin. The protocol further obfuscates the ownership of UTXO inputs during a Coinjoin transaction mixing cycle. According to Gibson, the Payjoin technique is “another nail in the coffin of blockchain analysis.”
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Bitmain’s problems continue, as the world’s largest bitcoin mining firm has announced a fresh round of layoffs. Bitmain is rumored to have lost over $ 700 million in Q4 2018, and late last month reports broke out that the Chinese mining giant is set to fire 50% of its workforce. Later, the company shut down its
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Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Bitcoin exchange subsidiary, Bakkt, announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire select assets of Rosenthal Collins Group, a futures commision merchant. We’re pleased to share that we have entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets of Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG), an independent futures commission merchant https://t.co/5sgdbRO6Ql — Bakkt (@Bakkt) […]
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Crypto payment platform Bitrefill has launched Thor, a service that allows customers to open Lightning channels on demand. Thor will connect to Bitrefill's node on the Lightning Network, allowing users to receive Lightning payments whether they have bitcoin loaded into their Lightning wallets or not.
"This service will let the customer get an empty lightning channel opened to them from Bitrefill’s node, on the Lightning Network. Now anyone can now pay for, or gift, the ability to have a channel opened to a Lightning wallet in order to receive payments over Lightning at any time," according to a company announcement.
According to a report by Techcrunch, Robinhood, the zero fee trading company based in the United States, is making plans to open an office in London and it has started recruiting to that effect. Various sources in and within London’s FinTech market have confirmed that Robinhood, which was launched back in 2013 and is valued
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Donald Trump delivered his first prime-time address from the Oval Office Tuesday evening, speaking directly to the American people about the need to for a planned border wall with Mexico. The speech came mere hours after Senate Democrats prevented the chamber from considering bipartisan legislation in an attempt to pressure GOP lawmakers to reopen the
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