2020-7-15 22:00 |
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If you’ve looked into Bitcoin or cryptocurrency on Twitter over the past half-year, you likely know of “Joe007. ” He is a pseudonymous BTC whale that, through Bitfinex’s leaderboard system, displayed he made millions of dollars trading a month.
2020-7-4 07:00 | |
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The past few months have seen Coinbase throw millions of dollars at supporting the budding decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem based on Ethereum. As reported by CryptoSlate in December, a product manager at the company, Jacob Horne said: “DeFi, or decentralized finance, is an essential part of an open financial system.
2020-5-31 06:05 | |
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Central banks across the globe are having an ultra-busy time amid the coronavirus crisis. Besides pumping in millions on millions of money into the system to salvage the economy, central banks have had to disinfect likely tainted currency notes.
2020-5-21 20:42 | |
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Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX), a blockchain-powered platform to create, buy, sell, and trade virtual items, today introduced WAX Labs, a worker proposal system designed to grow the WAX Blockchain.
2020-3-13 00:40 | |
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The Internal revenue System (IRS) pulled the definition of “Virtual Currency” from its website that characterized gaming currencies used in Fortnite and Roblox as convertible virtual currency and would have subjected millions of US users to answer Question 1 on the 2019 1040 form.
2020-2-13 19:01 | |
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Recent reports have surfaced about an anomaly within the Robinhood trading application that has let users make crazy money. Cryptocurrency market critics often complain about the lack of security and worry about the users potentially cheating the system.
2019-11-6 11:30 | |
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Ripple-supported Japanese payment app Money Tap teams up with PayPay, offering payments to 10 mln users and 1 mln merchants in Japan with CAFIS system replaced by XRPL
2019-10-30 11:59 | |
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Lingering political unrest rendered millions of Lebanese nationals unable to access their own money deposited with banks for the seventh consecutive day on Wednesday, highlighting once again how Bitcoin can serve as an alternative financial system.
2019-10-24 07:24 | |
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The largest exchange in Eastern Europe Coinsbit is rapidly creating the largest cryptocurrency community of the exchange token, due to the powerful referral system. Currently, 7-8 thousand new users are registered every day.
2019-10-15 18:54 | |
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For millions of people, cryptocurrency makes perfect sense. Its neatly defined rules, mathematical certainty, and resistance to being co-opted by certain interest groups make it one of the soundest, and most apolitical financial tools ever created.
2019-10-10 18:16 | |
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With hundreds of millions of people excluded from the financial system, decentralized finance is being touted as the driving force behind the new economy #Sponsored
2019-10-8 15:25 | |
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Recently, the second-largest money transfer system in the world, MoneyGram, started using the xRapid product of California-based fintech startup Ripple to make cross-border payments. Currently, MoneyGram serves millions of customers in more than 200 countries over the world.
2019-8-10 14:28 | |
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A British think tank has revealed in a new study that Rockstar Games has apparently ducked taxes in the UK and received millions of pounds in subsidies — the latter by claiming at least one of its games, Grand Theft Auto V, to be a British game.
2019-7-30 23:48 | |
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Cryptocurrency lending platform YouHodler exposed privacy data, including crypto wallet addresses, from thousands of its cryptocurrency users, vpnMonitor reports. Data breach Is Severe with Widespread Implications vpnMentor and a team led by data scientists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered a significant cryptocurrency data breach affecting 86 million records.
2019-7-25 08:35 | |
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Embattled pseudo-crypto ponzi scam, OneCoin, has a lot to answer for, now allegedly including the ‘compromise’ of Samoa’s financial system. This is according to the country’s Central Bank, which is investigating two Samoan churches for money laundering over OneCoin.
2019-5-2 16:00 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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The US Congress will soon officially ban the IRS from offering its own tax filing service, according to reporting by ProPublica, a non-profit news agency. Probably. Advocates of a free, government-sponsored tax filing service have long argued that the current system doesn’t do justice to the millions of taxpayers making under $66,000 per year who actually shouldn’t be paying anything to file their taxes.
2019-4-10 09:42 | |
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After a year on its testnet, the VeriBlock blockchain went live yesterday on the Bitcoin mainnet, allowing exchanges, wallet providers, merchants and other crypto businesses to leverage Bitcoin’s robust blockchain security.
2019-3-27 19:35 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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According to local publications, an 18-year-old hacker stole 15 million yen, which is equivalent to $134,640, worth of a crypto asset called Monacoin. On Monappy, a platform that enabled Monacoin users to store their funds, the hacker initiated a large number of transactions in a short period of time to overload the system.
2019-3-15 19:20 | |
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the verdict is in on Mark Karpeles. He was found guilty on just one charge: producing illegal records. The rest of the charges, including the loss of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, were dropped.
2019-3-15 05:57 | |
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Speaking on what BitTorrent users would benefit sequel to the emergence of BTT, the Product Director at BitTorrent, Pavel Lagutin said millions of BitTorrent users will make money using the peer-2-peer file sharing system.
2019-3-5 21:28 | |
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A consumer watchdog in the Golden State has revealed that recycling conscious Californians being ripped off by an outdated collection system. A new report has outlined how environmentally friendly Californians are being short-changed by a flawed system and lack of basic recycling infrastructure.
2019-3-2 19:24 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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2019-2-17 16:47 | |
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On Jan. 22, blockchain infrastructure firm Bitfury announced during the World Economic Forum in Davos that Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper has been translated into Arabic and Hindi for the first time.
2019-1-25 01:45 | |
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Iberdrola, one of Spain’s main energy companies, has completed a blockchain pilot to track renewable energy more accurately than it ever could before – resulting in losses being slashed in half.
2019-1-15 13:55 | |
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2019-1-5 21:09 | |
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Midex, an international company with HQs in Estonia and representatives in Asia, has announced the launch of the first EU regulated crypto-to-fiat exchange. With the trading performance of millions of operations per second, a wide range of deposit and withdrawal methods (wire transfers, payment cards, instant payments), support of the top trading pairs, and a robust security system, the platform is here to meet the needs of crypto beginners and professional traders.
2018-12-3 21:30 | |
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Internet Retailing giant Overstock is prepared to sell their online retail business by investing the company’s funds on tZero, a blockchain-based trading system, and other blockchain startups. According to the Wall Street Journal’s article published on November 23, 2018, while tZero is currently costing the company millions of dollars every month, Patrick Byrne, the chief executive officer of Overstock remains.
2018-11-26 16:00 | |
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South Korea’s leading technology university, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is working with Theta Labs, the first blockchain-based video delivery system, to introduce students to an entirely new set of coursework regarding the applications of blockchain technology.
2018-11-15 01:26 | |
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“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992.
2018-11-15 18:50 | |
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International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts.
2018-11-13 00:43 | |
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Blockchain will be airdropping approximately $125 million worth of Stellar lumens to its users, in conjunction with the Stellar Development Foundation. This marks the largest airdrop in cryptocurrency history.
2018-11-7 00:24 | |
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In a bid to lower the barriers to mainstream adoption of blockchain technology, professional services giant Ernst & Young (EY) has launched a solution that it claims will allow companies to transact privately on Ethereum’s blockchain using zero-knowledge proof (ZKP).
2018-11-1 22:33 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has raised a fresh $300 million in a Series E financing round, bringing the company valuation to $8 billion. Coinbase plans to use the funding to "accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrencies," as it plans to remain the "entry-point into crypto" for millions of investors, according to a published blog post.
2018-10-31 20:51 | |
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Ripple has been making headlines for the past few weeks and is still making a push for the number two spot on the top 100 cryptocurrencies according to CoinMarketCap. In the last month, it took over for a short time but slunk back into the third spot on the chart.
2018-10-10 23:00 | |
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Binance has announced a $2. 5 million investment in Australian travel startup TravelbyBit in a move to introduce a blockchain-based, point-of-sale (POS) payment system across major airports around the world.
2018-10-4 17:50 | |
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Two Fortune 100 companies have teamed up to drastically alter the $1. 5 trillion food industry by leveraging blockchain technology. Walmart, the largest U. S. company, announced on Monday that it will require suppliers to install blockchain systems by September 2019 to track food items from farm to table and prevent E.
2018-9-25 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin is in the news, and we’ve all seen the stories about early investors who’ve made millions and driven away in new lambos. So it’s only natural that people who haven’t invested already are wondering if they should.
2018-9-21 19:18 | |
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Abra, the all-in-one digital wallet and cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its support for Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) bank accounts. European users can now enable direct wire transfers from European banks to purchase any of Abra’s 28 available cryptocurrencies.
2018-9-7 23:38 | |
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The team behind Lightning Ramp, a system that provides customers with faster bitcoin payments, has joined forces with Casa, a “be-your-own-bank” product that provides users with a multi-signature, multi-hardware device and multi-location wallet designed, to offer top-notch security against attacks and theft.
2018-9-6 00:14 | |
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Yesterday, the Lightning Ramp team revealed that they joined Casa a few months ago and that they have been building a Casa Lightning Node which is the easiest way use Lightning that is usable today.
2018-9-5 12:30 | |
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For those new to the world of digital currencies, being able to lean on others when entering the trading arena is a huge benefit. Akin to legacy “copy trading,” where a novice forex trader will copy experienced traders’ plays, mutual or social crypto trading is a support system that millions find beneficial. It too comes […]
2018-9-1 13:49 | |
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Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.
2018-9-4 21:43 | |
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Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has denied media reports of its involvement in a pre-IPO funding round of bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Bitmain. Last week, several media outlets had reported that SoftBank and Chinese internet giant Tencent were leading a pre-IPO funding round for Bitmain.
2018-8-21 18:03 | |
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This November, cryptocurrency users will be introduced to Bakkt, a new company designed to give millions of retail merchants the chance to buy, sell and trade digital currencies — and even buy a cup of coffee.
2018-8-4 00:38 | |
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Coinbase’s latest announcement heralds a WooCommerce plugin that makes it quick and easy to accept bitcoin and litecoin as payment methods on any WooCommerce-powered site.
2018-8-3 19:19 | |
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Coinbase announcements are dropping faster than exchange hacks these days. It’s just released a brand-new plugin that makes accepting cryptocurrency way easier for millions of websites. The new plugin, spotted by DailyHodl, enables WooCommerce webstores to accept major cryptocurrencies directly into a user-controlled Coinbase wallet.
2018-8-3 13:43 | |
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The administration’s public support of a restrictive amendment calls into question the original motives of the crypto provision.
Uniswap’s removal of a set of assets from its interface has the community asking just how decentralized is the platform.
The milestone isn’t just psychological, and potentially opens entire new groups of investors who couldn’t participate previously.
An overview of key news, from a new DeFi Index fund for accredited investors to bitcoin shrugging off growing Treasury yields.
As another wave of major financial institutions announce bitcoin plans, it’s getting harder for the MSM to simply print the same old FUD.
A reading of Nic Carter’s latest essay for CoinDesk on the inappropriateness of comparing the energy consumption of bitcoin and Visa transactions.
A recap of a swath of news about corporate players coming into the crypto space, and why it could change the landscape of regulation.