Ethereum Increases Efforts to Restrict ASIC Mining Devices

Mining is the process of securing, validating and confirming blockchain transactions by contributing excess computing power in return for the opportunity to earn cryptocurrency rewards. The idea, at least in theory, is to give people the opportunity to contribute to a network that is free from centralized control.

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Bitconnect Finally Gets Delisted From All Crypto Exchanges — “Officially Dead”

Crypto Exchange TradeSatoshi Bids Bitconnect Farewell Bitconnect, crypto’s now most infamous pyramid scheme, used to a hot topic of discussion within the cryptosphere, with everyone and their dog having something to say about the project.

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Dogecoin On A 9.9% Increase, Miracle In Penny Stocks?

Despite its nature, Dogecoin is maintaining its progress on a bull run even when the market tries to find the strength to get a leg up. The recent boost by the coin is suggestive from the steady upward surge it has been going through within the past month.

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Charlie Lee of Litecoin (LTC) Criticizes Ethereum Blockchain’s Immutability

Blockchain and crypto coins are on the rise despite the ongoing bearish market. One of the popular figures within the crypto arena, Charlie Lee, who is Litecoin founder, recently commented on the fundamental value of cryptocurrencies.

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Gemini and Paxos Both Launch Stablecoins on Ethereum Blockchain

Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar.   New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).

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Vitalik Buterin Proclaims an End to Explosive Growth as ETH Values Plummet: How Will Ethereum Recover?

Ethereum prices have plummeted over the last week, experiencing a drop in value of over 30% amidst a bloodbath that has shaved $50 billion off the cumulative cryptocurrency market cap. With ETH prices hovering around the $200 mark, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced the end of the age explosive growth within the cryptocurrency industry.

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Coinbase Doubles Staff Count To 500, Even In Bear Market

Coinbase Hires 250 Employees Within 6 Months Although many crypto-centric startups have been negatively affected by the most recent market correction the crypto market has undergone, Coinbase seems to be doing just fine and is not only surviving but thriving, even in the roughest of storms.

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Status Pushes Out Renegade dApps with New Browser Standard

On the heels of the industry’s latest push to protect users, one of the top Ethereum mobile clients, Status, is implementing a new interoperability standard to “drastically improve user privacy.” Where decentralized apps (dApps) once had autonomous access to users’ Ethereum accounts within the browser, Status will now force all applications to request permission, according […] The post Status Pushes Out Renegade dApps with New Browser Standard appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Monero, Ethereum And More Stolen From Hacked MEGA Extension

A Chrome browser extension used in conjunction with MEGA, a popular file-sharing platform, was recently hacked and used to steal private keys, usernames and passwords from users, allowing hackers to steal Ethereum, Monero and more.

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U.S Senate Confirms New Pro-Crypto SEC Commissioner (Elad Roisman)

The United States Senate confirmed Elad Roisman as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission during the session of September 5, 2018. This decision completes the five required members to complete all seats within the Commision.

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Kraken: Rumors of Office Closure are False

Kraken, one of the most important exchange houses of the crypto verse, denied yesterday a rumor that was spread within the community of crypto enthusiasts, that it had closed its offices suddenly after a violation of its security, causing alarm among its employees.

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World’s Largest Bank (ICBC) is “Focusing on Using Blockchain Technologies”

Blockchain technologies have revolutionized the way today’s society conceives business. The world of finance has been one of those that has benefited the most from this technological evolution, encouraging big players to think more and more about the moment in which they adopt the DLTs within their business scheme.

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Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH/USD Moving Lower Within Range

Key Highlights ETH price failed to gain traction above $292-295 and declined recently against the US Dollar. This week’s followed important bearish trend line is still in place with resistance near $288 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).

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Crypto Exchange Changelly Confirms It Can Steal Users’ Monero (XMR)

Changelly Can Withhold XMR If KYC Isn’t Completed  Privacy coins, such as Monero (XMR), ZCash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN), are often the topic of controversy within the cryptocurrency community, as some naysayers claim that these assets directly enable money laundering, terrorist financing and the like.

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Ethereum’s Price Flash Crashes on Kraken Below $240

Ethereum’s price briefly fell to $237 on Kraken, which usually handles about $20 million worth of eth/usd trading volumes within 24 hours. The flash crash occurred earlier today at about. .

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Ethereum Lands on Wirex Platform

Wirex launches Ethereum Wallet within weeks of XRP launch.

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Prominent Expert: 99% Chance Bitcoin (BTC) Will Succeed, 10k By November

The cryptocurrency industry has undoubtedly had its fair share of naysayers, with many critics of blockchain-based assets claiming that Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins are nothing more than fads, which are set to fail in a few months time.

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Bitcoin Core Dev Claims Ethereum (ETH) Can Go to Zero, Vitalik Strikes Back

Jeremy Rubin, Bitcoin core developer and Stellar consultant, suggested ETH could go down to zero, not only in market price, but also as utility token within the network.

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Japanese Regulators Clamp Down On Prospective Crypto Exchanges

Japanese Regulators Introduce New Measures To Protect Consumers Japan has long been at the forefront of the cryptocurrency/blockchain industry, with innovators and forward-thinkers within the country quickly adopting and developing crypto assets and similar technologies.

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Possible Outcomes as CBOE plans to launch Ethereum futures by year end

Many within the crypto community are not aware that the cryptocurrency bubble of late last year was caused by a factor? The reason for the so called bitcoin and other crypto bubble was as a result of the listing of Bitcoin futures by CBOE in the New York crypto exchange,Gemini Exchange after it got an […] The post Possible Outcomes as CBOE plans to launch Ethereum futures by year end appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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EOS (EOS) Sees Robust Distributed App Activity, One Million EOS Spent on Gaming

The EOS ecosystem, within months of its launch, sees more dApp activity than the older Ethereum network.

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Origin Protocol Launches Decentralized Messaging Platform

Origin Protocol, one of the early initial token offerings listed on CoinList, has announced the launch of its new decentralized messaging service. Origin’s latest offering could challenge encrypted giant Telegram, which, while not decentralized, is widely used within the cryptocurrency community.

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Elon Musk Thinks Ethereum Is A Scam, But He Still Wants It

Elon Musk, the man, the myth the legend? Whatever you think of him, you can’t deny that he has a notorious presence within cryptocurrency. According to recent reports, he’s now jumping on the Ethereum train, even though he’s suspicious that it could be a scam.

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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term

One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).

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Crypto Market Sees A Sea Of Green, Posts Weekly Gain

Bitcoin Hesitantly Moves Upwards, Altcoins Follow As the 24/7 crypto market moved transitioned from Friday to Saturday, traders were able to breathe a sigh of relief, as Bitcoin made a hesitant move upwards, with no bears in sight.

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Cryptocurrency Market Sees A Sea Of Green, Posts Weekly Gain

Bitcoin Hesitantly Moves Upwards, Altcoins Follow As the 24/7 crypto market moved transitioned from Friday to Saturday, traders were able to breathe a sigh of relief, as Bitcoin made a hesitant move upwards, with no bears in sight.

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Vitalik Buterin on BCH Civil War: Call Craig Wright ‘Bitcoin Craig’ (BCC) as successor Of Bitconnect

The founder of Ethereum and arguably one of the most influential personalities of the crypto community, Vitalik Buterin recently tweeted about the current heated civil war within the Bitcoin Cash community.

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Lisk (LSK) Coin Story, News and Development and Future Price Prediction

The crypto-verse is reaching not-imagined before heights with new technologies, ideas and coins debuting. This all begun from Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009 that was the only coin in its time. That number grew to over 1,500 cryptocurrencies per time of writing.

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Bank of America Interested in Cryptocurrency Storage Patent

Cryptocurrency–Despite the lack of positive price movement in the cryptomarkets over the preceding weeks, adoption and recognition for the industry continues to climb. While 2018 has the makings to be remembered as the worst bear cycle in the lifetime of crypto, many pundits within the industry have been keen to point out that adoption for […] The post Bank of America Interested in Cryptocurrency Storage Patent appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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3 Facts That Show The ‘Dark Side’ of Bitmain Before Its IPO

Bitmain is the most important company in the mining industry and one of the most succesful companies in the crypto-ecosystem . Jihan Wu’s company has contributed so much to the development of the crypto-verse that many believe no other private business can compare to it.

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Don’t get excited: Bitcoin’s sudden price rise Might Be induced

Many within the cryptocurrency community will wake up to see, or where trading and watching when the price of bitcoin almost hit the $7000 mark few hours ago, even though the prices of other cryptocurrencies like ethereum, xrp, bitcoin cash, EOS,Stellar lumen and litecoin where unable to appreciate with same momentum, which is usually common […] The post Don’t get excited: Bitcoin’s sudden price rise Might Be induced appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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Apple’s Wozniak Want’s To Make Ethereum Investment More Accessible

Steve Wozniak of Apple fame has finally revealed his plans for his future position within the cryptocurrency community. He’s not backing Bitcoin, nor is he joining Ripple. Wozniak, is about to back a very niche project, one that is based on the Ethereum blockchain by the name of Equi Capital, a blockchain project that is designed to make investment more accessible to everyone.

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eToro Platform Now Listing IOTA

Cryptocurrency (among other things) trading platform eToro has announced that they will be adding a listing for IOTA, making MIOTA the twelfth cryptocurrency to be added to the platform, alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Litecoin, Stellar, NEO, Dash, Ethereum Classic and Cardano.

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Bitcoin Energy Consumption Could Drive Innovation, Says Research Associate

Bitcoin (BTC)–By now, most within and outside of the industry of cryptocurrency are familiar with the narrative surrounding Bitcoin energy usage. The argument goes that as Bitcoin becomes a more popular choice in terms of digital currency, the increase of miners looking to capitalize on transaction fees and reward payouts will increase, thereby also raising […] The post Bitcoin Energy Consumption Could Drive Innovation, Says Research Associate appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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Ethereum Google Searches Rise by More Than at Any Time Since December

Ethereum Google searches within the United States have more than doubled from 9 to now 20, the highest level since March when eth’s price stood at around $800. While worldwide... The post Ethereum Google Searches Rise by More Than at Any Time Since December appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Barclaycard To integrate With The Ethereum Blockchain

According to a press release on The Paypers, UK banking firm Barclays have announced a new partnership between Barclaycard and Crowdz, a blockchain startup that works alongside the Ethereum blockchain in order to provide lightning fast transactions for businesses and institutions.

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Andreas Antonopoulos: A Bitcoin ETF is a “Terrible Idea”

Andreas M. Antonopoulos, one of the most respected and active personalities within the Bitcoin ecosystem, shared his impressions this week regarding the consequences that an approval of a Bitcoin ETF could have for the crypto ecosystem.

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TRON TRX Will Fly When China Open Up To Cryptocurrencies

What happens now with TRON? The past few months have seen some big developments within the TRON project, namely their movement from the Ethereum blockchain onto a TRON mainnet, yet even since this, and even with a few new exchange listings behind them, TRX remains stagnant, undervalued and a little deflated.

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VC Investor Explains Reasons Why Crypto Fell 80% in 2018

According to prominent venture capital investor Chris Burniske, the crypto market fell by nearly 80 percent in 2018 due to the lack of adoption of major digital assets. Throughout 2017, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and the majority of cryptocurrencies experienced a rapid increase in their valuation, recording 1,000 to 30,000 percent gains within a 12-month […] The post VC Investor Explains Reasons Why Crypto Fell 80% in 2018 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Ethereum Price Falls Below $300 as Cryptocurrency Market Tumbles

The price of Ethereum has fallen below $300 as the cryptocurrency market enters a more intense bearish pullback. Except for Tether, all other top ten coins have experienced significant negative price movements within the last 24-hour trading period.

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Minds surges to # 1 DApp

The Minds DApp climbed to the number one new app and Top 5 “Other” App within hours of its launch, bringing its million plus users to the blockchain.    Minds (https://minds.com), the leading crypto social network with over one million users, today became the top New DApp on the Ethereum Mainnet following its launch just The post Minds surges to # 1 DApp appeared first on ItsBlockchain.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Getting Creative With Blockchain Solutions

This week’s top stories include two feature interview: one with Kavita Gupta, founding managing partner at ConsenSys Ventures; and another with electronic dance music DJ Justin Blau (aka DJ 3BLAU) who is launching a decentralized music festival.

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Awesome!: Tron (TRX) Partners with Seedit to make Transactions Available on Twitter

Justin Sun, the founder of Tron foundation that Created the Tron(TRX) token has made news within the year through token burns, leaving the ethereum blockchain, buying over a business and fighting to ensure that Tron turns positive to its investors.

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The Ethereum Scalability Crisis Could Be Solved By Status

Cryptocurrency scalability is an issue, one that acts as a huge hurdle in the pursuit towards cryptocurrency adoption. Scalability issues means that sometimes, transactions aren’t quick enough. Networks can’t handle huge amounts of traffic and therefore, if adoption is the way forward, networks may become clogged and unworkable.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Analysis: Decent Bounce But Still in Correction Zone

Bitcoin made a strong bounce to land back at $6,500 but is still within the correction zone on the short-term chart. The post Bitcoin (BTC) Price Analysis: Decent Bounce But Still in Correction Zone appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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Video App to Reward Users with Bitcoin, Ethereum

The new, token-based user incentive program will aim to propel mainstream awareness and adoption among the masses within the cryptocurrency and blockchain spaces. Driving Participation in the Crypto Economy Cheez, a social video app, has teamed up with the public blockchain project Contentos to enable its users to earn Bitcoin and Ethereum by creating, viewing […] The post Video App to Reward Users with Bitcoin, Ethereum appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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XRP And ETC May Spike With This New Exchange Listing

Get ready – we’re adding more US dollar (USD) markets on @BittrexExchange. On August 20, we’re launching USD (fiat) markets for ETC & XRP. https://t. co/UVlW4g2B1h — Bittrex (@BittrexExchange) 8 August 2018 Industry leading cryptocurrency exchange, Bittrex, have announced that as of the 20th of August 2018, they will be listing the exchange of XRP and Ethereum Classic against the US Dollar.

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Ethereum Classic [ETC]’s price plummets by more than 14% – community says Coinbase to blame

August has been a wild ride for Ethereum Classic [ETC] with all the recent developments. The cryptocurrency’s price had been consistently rising over the past week post the Coinbase announcement made on 3rd August.

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Ethereum Transaction Fees Are Up Because of Ongoing Network Spamming

The Ethereum blockchain seems to be under some sort of attack by a network spamming that is causing congestion within the network which in turn, has had a negative impact on the base fee for the verification of an Ethereum transaction.

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