Mt. Gox Bankruptcy Repayments Unlikely to Destabilize Bitcoin: UBS

Early adopters are likely to have remained crypto believers, so will choose to be paid in bitcoin and keep it, the report said.

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Would Not Mind Being Paid in Bitcoin

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The NFL’s Russell Okung Won’t Stop Until He’s Paid in Bitcoin

“This is a revival, man!”

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How to Pay Employees or Get Paid With Bitcoin

Paying or getting paid with digital coins is the norm in the cryptocurrency sector. Participants in many other industries, however, may also be tempted to take advantage of the benefits offered by decentralized currencies.

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Bylls Crypto Startup Says Workers Getting Paid in Bitcoin is Key to Mass Adoption and Use Cases

Are Wages Paid in Bitcoin the Key to Mass Retailer Adoption? Francis Pouliot, CEO of Canadian Bitcoin startup Bylis, discussed whether retailers would be more keep to adopt Bitcoin payments if people were paid in bitcoin.

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Hacker Blackmails Apple iCloud, Demanding $175k in Bitcoin for User Data

iCloud Hacker Demands Ransom in Bitcoin A new Apple iCloud hacker demanded almost $175,000 in ransom to be paid in Bitcoin. The hacker filmed himself accessing Apple iCloud accounts and asking for a ransom to be paid in BTC.

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Do Wages Need to be Paid in Bitcoin for Retail Adoption to Happen?

Is this a case of chicken and egg? If more retailers accepted Bitcoin, would more employees expect their wages paid in Bitcoin? Or, does Bitcoin need to be viewed more widely as a replacement for fiat first? A recent tweet by Francis Pouliot, CEO of Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) payments startup Bylls began a discussion as to whether retailer adoption of Bitcoin payments is being stalled by the lack of wages paid in Bitcoin.

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iCloud Hacker Demanded $175,000 Ransom to be Paid in Bitcoin

A hacker who filmed himself accessing Apple iCloud accounts has appeared in a U. K. court. Kerem Albayrak had demanded around $175,000 in ransom be paid in Bitcoin and Apple iTunes vouchers for the non-disclosure of sensitive user data.

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19 Companies Licensed to Operate Crypto Exchanges in Philippine Economic Zone

Nineteen firms have been granted provisional licenses to operate crypto exchanges by the Philippine government-owned Cagayan Economic Zone Authority. In addition, eight firms have paid the application fees and are being reviewed.

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Singapore-based Blockchain Consortium Buys Majority Share in Bithumb

Singapore-based BK Global Consortium has paid 400 billion won (approximately $350 million) for a majority stake in South Korean Bithumb, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, according to a local news outlet.

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Positive Future For Bitcoin In Gambling

The world of digital currencies and the world of gambling seem to be joining up. The benefits offered by currencies such as the market leader, Bitcoin isn’t an oversight. Winning Poker Network is one of the companies that is benefitting from supporting from the world of crypto over the past few years.

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Twitter caught promoting bogus Elon Musk cryptocurrency scam

Those pesky Tesla-themed cryptocurrency scammers are back! Hackers have assumed the Twitterdentity of Elon Musk yet again, and are even paying Twitter to help swindle Bitcoin from unsuspecting users.

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Blockchain Business in Crypto Valley Has Doubled Since Last Year: Report

The number of blockchain-related companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has doubled in the last year, according to a new study published by CV VC. The Zug-based firm, in partnership with Strategy& (PwC’s global consulting arm) and inacta, compiled information about the top 50 blockchain and digital asset companies between the two countries.

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Binance Is Feeling Very Charitable

Ethereum World News published a report in early August regarding Chris Franko (Expanse) who claimed that he was ordered to pay 400 Bitcoin – which is equal to around $2. 5 million – for a listing position on Binance.

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Bitcoin miners hit $4.7B in revenue this year, but its becoming unprofitable

Bitcoin miners have raised over $4. 7 billion in revenue so far this year, but rising electricity prices have rendered cryptocurrency mining almost completely unprofitable, even for the world’s biggest pools.

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Thieves use Bitcoin ATMs to scam Australian immigrants out of $50,000

Being in a new country can be confusing and scary at times. Australian crooks are taking advantage of this and are using Bitcoin ATMs to scam newly-arrived migrants out of their life savings. It seems the crooks managed to scam more than $35,000 USD ($50,000 AUD) out of four Australian immigrants by telling them they needed to pay a tax debt.

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Soulja Boy Sprays Bars About Bitcoin on Latest Album “Young Drako”

US rap artist Soulja Boy has paid homage to the world’s most popular cryptocurrency on his latest record. The track, simply titled “Bitcoin”, features on the chart topper’s fourth album, Young Drako, which was released earlier today.

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In Search of Stability: An Overview of the Budding Stablecoin Ecosystem

Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.

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Crypto Task Force Bill Passes House of Representatives, Moves to Senate

A bill that seeks to create a task force to combat the use of cryptocurrency in financing terrorism has just passed the House of Representatives. House Resolution 5036 (H.

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Regulations Roundup: U.S. Govt. Pays $5.7 Million for Blockchain Analysis, Amit Bhardwaj’s Assets Seized

In recent regulatory news, a report published by Diar has found that U. S. government agencies have paid approximately $5. 7 million USD to blockchain analysis contractors, India’s Enforcement Directorate has seized $5.

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Novice, Intermediate or Expert? A Quiz to Test Your Bitcoin Knowledge

Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.

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Brave Publishers Can Now Have Their Identities Verified with Civic

Civic, a digital identity firm, has collaborated with Brave, the privacy-based browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, to provide identity verification services to Brave’s content creators.

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Study Reveals Growing Sophistication in Malicious Mining of Cryptocurrency

Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.

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Bitcoin Is Replacing Bolivar As Venezuelan Economy Crashes

Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is, he/she might be deserving of the Nobel Prize in economics for inventing Bitcoin (BTC), the nascent digital coin that is currently rescuing crypto-adopting Venezuelans from the abyss.

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Coil Integrates With YouTube and Twitch to Revolutionize Content Creation Monetization

Coil, a recently launched Google Chrome extension, is aimed at changing the way content creators monetize their artwork and enabling them to get paid in cryptocurrency while visitors are viewing their content.

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Lolli: How Legit is the Customer Loyalty Program that Rewards Users in Bitcoin

Imagine getting paid while shopping online. Even better: get paid in cryptocurrency while doing so. Sound good? Rewards platform Lolli thinks so. The post Lolli: How Legit is the Customer Loyalty Program that Rewards Users in Bitcoin appeared first on CoinCentral.

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Paxful CEO Ray Youssef Shows How Bitcoin Can Be Used for Social Good

Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.

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Survey: Most Crypto Investors Want Their Salaries Paid In Bitcoin

One main factor that puts most people in favor of crypto payments is the hope that their value will increase as the market expands. In fact, more than half of the people who were asked about it said that they would hold their digital assets and wait for them to appreciate in value instead of conducting transactions.

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Survey: 60% of Crypto Investors Don’t mind getting paid in Bitcoin Despite Recent Bearish Trend

There is an acrimony between some members of staff of organizations on the need to settle salaries with cryptocurrency. This could be confirmed from a recent survey that was carried out by Chronobank, a HR startup that was among the early adopters of cryptocurrency.

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Canadian Town Pays Hackers Ransom in Bitcoin (BTC)

An amount in Bitcoin (BTC) is what the Canadian town of Midland is said to have paid to regain access to its hacked computer systems.

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Two-for-One: SEC Slaps Crypto Hedge Fund, Broker With Registration Failures

In what it deems a first for both enforcement actions, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging two entities with registration failures.

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Crypto, Blockchain Companies Shine in LinkedIn’s Top 50 U.S. Startups

LinkedIn has been keeping its finger on the pulse of the United States’ most thriving startups, and crypto organizations are showing tremendous signs of life — and growth.

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Op Ed: DApps Can Increase Audience Engagement for Creators and Influencers

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.

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Craig Wright challenges Bitmain CEO, Says Bitcoin Cash a split and not a fork of Bitcoin

There has been debate in some quarters among the major shareholders of bitcoin cash(BCH) a fork of bitcoin that is also known as ABC, which came into existence in August 2018, after the scalability challenge of bitcoin and the high gas fees paid to miners resulted in this fork with larger block size and cheaper […] The post Craig Wright challenges Bitmain CEO, Says Bitcoin Cash a split and not a fork of Bitcoin appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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Investor Information Portal Launches Jobs Board for Cryptocurrency Industry

If you are looking for new avenues to increase your cryptfolio, one of the more direct ways to do so is to get involved with a project so you can be paid in tokens. And a new platform meant to help with finding employees and jobs in the field is on the way, with only […] The post Investor Information Portal Launches Jobs Board for Cryptocurrency Industry appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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eToro Brings Bitcoin [BTC] to English Premier League After Signing Sponsorship Deals With 7 Clubs

Seven high-profile English Premier League clubs have agreed to team up with multiasset trading platform eToro for the forthcoming 2018/2019 season. The sponsorship deals — all seven of them — will be paid in Bitcoin, which is what makes them iconic, considering that neither the League nor the global soccer industry had any prior large-scale […] eToro Brings Bitcoin [BTC] to English Premier League After Signing Sponsorship Deals With 7 Clubs was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.

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Japanese Soccer Star Honda Paid in Crypto to Promote Exchange

UPDATE: A previous version of this post claimed the sum Honda was being paid was 40 million USD. This has since been corrected. Japan superstar professional soccer player, entrepreneur and investor Keisuke Honda, 32, was appointed by the Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint to promote its brand, the company announced earlier this week.

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eToro Brings Bitcoin to Football – Seven Premier League Clubs Are to be Paid in Cryptocurrency in Landmark Partnership Deals

Global investment platform eToro has launched partnerships with seven Premier League clubs including Tottenham Hotspur in landmark deals paid using bitcoin. eToro will partner with Brighton & Hove Albion F.

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Scammers Cheat South Korean Businessman Exchanging Bitcoins For Fake Euros Worth €2 million

Two fraudsters from Serbia deceived the bitcoin seller from South Korea and paid him for bitcoins wirh counterfeit euro notes, drawn in Photoshop. The damage amounted to €2 million.

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eToro Brings Bitcoin to Football

Seven Premier League clubs to be paid in cryptocurrency in landmark partnership deals with eToro. Global investment platform eToro has launched partnerships with seven Premier League clubs including Tottenham Hotspur in landmark deals paid using bitcoin.

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eToro Signs U.K. Football Clubs in Sponsorship Deals, Pays With Bitcoin

Global investment platform eToro has partnered with British Premier League clubs in a sponsorship deal that could see future transfers of players in the English Premier League (EPL) settled in cryptocurrency.

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Australian Bills Can Soon Be Paid With 50-100 Cryptocurrencies

A partnership between a bill payment company and a crypto exchange will allow Australians to pay their bills with between 50 and 100 cryptocurrencies. Customers can use any coins in their Cointree accounts to pay their bills regardless of whether the billers accept cryptocurrency.

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eToro будет продвигать биткоин при поддержке английской премьер-лиги

Социальная инвестиционная платформа eToro объявила о партнерстве с семью футбольными клубами английской премьер-лиги. It’s official. We’re bringing bitcoin to football :) eToro has launched landmark partnerships with 7 Premier League clubs all paid using #bitcoin.

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Venezuelans to Be Paid at Least Half a Petro a Month

Announcing a 60-fold increase of the minimum monthly salary, President Maduro promised Venezuelans they will be paid at least 0. 5 petro, once his monetary reforms are in place next week. The national crypto will be exchanged at a rate of $60 USD and the new “sovereign bolivar” will be pegged to the digital coin.

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California Federal Court Allows Bail to Be Paid in Bitcoin

A US Federal Court in California has allowed a defendant to pay his bail fees in Bitcoin, local news media reported August 15 in what sources say is not a first-time use case for the cryptocurrency.

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Venezuela Nationalizes Petro, Will Introduce Crypto-Based Salary System for Workers

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently revealed that the nation’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, will be used as a unit of account by the state oil company PDVSA.

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Earning BTC By Shopping Online

You’ve heard of paying for products online using Bitcoin, but have you heard of being PAID in BITCOIN for buying products online? You may have used a cashback service before, one that rewards customers for choosing to shop with a particular brand, by refunding them a percentage of the overall price.

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You Can Now Get Paid (a Little) for Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network

Lightning nodes are making money – albeit not much – displaying the potential for a growing fee market on the layer two tech.

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You Can Now Get Paid (A Little) For Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network

Lightning nodes are making money – albeit not much – displaying the potential for a growing fee market on the layer two tech.

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