The Bounties Network to Pay Manila Residents With Ether to Clean Up Polluted Beach Area
The Bounties Network has recently partnered up with ConsenSys Social Impact in order to deal with the issue of plastic waste found in ocean waters....
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How Blockchain Will Change the Insurance Industry
It’s undeniable that blockchain is insanely paving its way in all business niches. Immutability, security, versatility, safety, and transparency are the main synonymous words behind...
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled fined over promotion of ICOs
The SEC announced that Mayweather and DJ Khaled has been fined for promoting unlawful ICOs. These are the SEC’s first cases to charge touting violations...
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Coinbase Pro Lists Crypto Coin Zcash (ZEC)
Zcash (ZEC) has finally manage to make its way onto the San Francisco-based exchange Coinbase. The exchange will be accepting inbound transfer of Zcash on...
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North Korean Hackers Are Targeting Individual Crypto Owners
In recent years, North Korea has manage to raise one of the most feared hacker army currently known. This hacker army has made it their...
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This Swiss company will be using blockchain to trace tuna
A Swiss food import company is about to become the first European food importer to make the supply chain of its canned tuna fully traceable...
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Fidelity Fires Up Their Venture Capital Crypto Fund
Fidelity’s crypto venture fund is once again on the move. Utilizing capital funds from the company’s coffers, Fidelity originally launched their funding during Fall of...
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Cardano’s CEO gives an update on Cardano in a surprised AMA
Charles Hoskinson, CEO of Cardano, recently did a surprised AMA on Youtube on a Cardano 1.4 update. According to the CEO, the update is progressing...
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Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Morgan Stanley Launch CLSNET, A Blockchain-Based FX Market Enterprise
CLSNet, a Bilateral payment netting service has officially launched CLSNET, a standardized, automated platform developed for digital ledger technology (DLT). Financial institutions Goldman Sachs, and...
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Huobi launches Huobi DM to allow users to buy cryptocurrencies at fixed prices
Huobi Group, a Singapore-based crypto exchange, launched the Huobi Derivative Market exchange Tuesday. Dubbed the Huobi DM, the new offering allows users to place bets...
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What Is Litecoin? An in-depth and straight forward guide
Litecoin (LTC) is the third largest cryptocurrency, after Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). It’s a decentralized, open-source payment network. In simple words, Litecoin allows you to...
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Steemit lays off close to 70% of it’s workforce to reduce operation costs
Steemit announced today that they are undergoing a structural reorganization which will result in laying off close to 70% of it’s workforce. So, what’s going...
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Co-Founder of Wikipedia is working on building a blockchain encyclopedia
Larry Sanger is pioneering the first ever encyclopedia built on the blockchain, the Everipedia project. According to the official website, the Everipedia IQ blockchain will bring...
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Invault Secures Crypto Custodial Services License in Hong Kong
Invault, a Shanghai-based startup, has secured a new trust license from the Hong Kong financial regulator to act as a digital custodian in the Chinese...
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Security Token Securitize Gains a Boost From Investors.
With the markets current initial coin offerings (ICOs) taking a nasty beating, its well regulated counterpart better known as security token offerings (STOs) is preparing...
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Citi Ventures Blockchain Consultant Says Ethereum and Stellar Can Take Over Global Payments Networks
Ethereum and Stellar-powered blockchains have the potential to revolutionize the credit card system of racking up billions of dollars in point-of-sale fees. Two percent swipe...
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Interview with Rahul Sood, CEO of Unikrn, On The Future of Esports And Blockchain
Rahul Sood is the Founder and CEO of Unikrn, an esports betting platform. In this brief interview, Rahul goes over the potential of Esports and...
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Binance adds Paxos Standard as a base currency for trading pairs
Binance announced today it is adding six trading pairs for the Paxos Standard Token (PAX), a dollar-backed stablecoin. Starting November 29, traders on Binance will be able...
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Nasdaq’s Bitcoin Future Will be Launched During Q1 2019
Nasdaq Inc. has recently reported to still be fully committed to listing Bitcoin futures during the coming months, regardless of the currently fluctuation of the...
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American Express and Santander Team Up With Ripple.
Ripple has recently launched their new version of xCurrent for some of their clients, which include America Express and Santander. The Upgrade The newly released...
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IOTA is giving away free money for their upcoming contest
IOTA announced it is now launching a new community contest named the Perfect Brainstorm. The IOTA contest aims to bring together the business-oriented, visionaries and...
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Cleveland is looking to become the blockchain hub of America
The city of Cleveland in Ohio is looking to revamp itself as a national tech hub, launching its own blockchain initiative to promote the local small business...
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EU has tapped major banks to join its blockchain initiative
As the blockchain debate gains traction in the mainstream media, the European Union is in the process of setting up a blockchain forum. Five banks...
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Make A Wish Foundation Gets Cryptojack By Malicious Hackers.
Cyber hackers have reached a new all time low when finding new ways to getting rich. They have manage to target one of the most...
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Vitalik Buterin Loses $460 Million Due to Price Drop, Community Mocks Him.
Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum, reportedly lost more than a total of $460 million due to recent price drops by more than 90% since Ethereum’s...
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Thai SEC Warns The Public About 14 Unauthorized Exchanges and Website For Buying Cryptocurrency
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned the public against 14 websites whose operators have been soliciting customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies and...
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Is Buying Real Estate And Securing A Mortgage With Cryptocurrency Possible?
The real estate market can be a complicated place and the process of qualifying for a mortgage can be extremely stressful especially for entrepreneurs and...
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Ripple’s Susan Athey, Shares Her Thoughts On RippleNet, Blockchain And More
Recently, Stanford professor, economist, and Ripple board member Susan Athey gave a speech analyzing how Bitcoin, banks, blockchain and RippleNet work behind the scenes. According...
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Binance Labs Invests $3 Million Into Koi Trading
Binance Labs has been reported to have invested over $3 million into an over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency trading startup based in San Francisco, Koi Trading. Koi...
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Four Crypto Entrepreneurs Choosen by Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30
Forbes Magazine has recently released their annual “30 under 30” ranking for 2019, celebrating some of the best entrepreneurs under the age of 30 in...
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Ohio Becomes The First State in the U.S. To Accept Bitcoin For Tax Payments
Starting Monday, businesses in Ohio will be able to pay their taxes in bitcoin making the state the first in the nation to accept cryptocurrency...
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Interview With Dmitri Love, CEO of Bundil, On Shark Tank And Bitcoin Investing
Dmitri Love is the founder of Bundil, an app that allows people to make micro-investments in cryptocurrencies. He’s appeared on Shark Tank and secured a...
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Bitcoin Price Plummets Below $4,000: Analyst Predicts Will Hit $3,000
The price of bitcoin fell below $4,000 for the first time today since September 27th of last year. At around 16:20 UTC Saturday, the world’s...
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Bitfinex Increases The Minimum Wire Fee Unannounced
The fifth largest exchange Bitfinex has recently raised the minimum fee for wire withdrawal from $20 to $60. While this may have been done to...
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Portuguese Premier League Football Team FC Sporting Plans to Launch its Own ICO
A Portuguese football team, that’s apart of the Portuguese Premier League, announced it was planning to launch an Initial Coin Offering as an alternative method...
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Bitex Launches Wallet and Trading Service in the UAE
According to Trade Arabia, Bitex a cryptocurrency exchange, announced today that they officially launched a wallet and trading service in the UAE region. Clients registered on Bitex...
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Overstock’s CEO Is Going All Out On Blockchain
Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock, an online retail store, told The Wall Street Journal, on Friday, that he plans on selling Overstock’s retail business in...
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Is TRON Doing Better Than Ethereum? Here Are Our Quick Thoughts
The performance of TRON seems to be improving since the launch of TRONbet. Ever since the launch, the number of its daily transactions also improved...
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Crypto Miners Under Pressure to Sell Their Cryptocurrency
With Bitcoin having suffered a major loss at 30% of its value during the past week and a half alone, Bitcoin miners are feeling the...
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Vitalik Buterin Meeting On Secret Upgrade to Increase Scalability
Recent reports have been circulating around the web about a secret meeting between Vitalik Buterin, The creator behind Ethereum and fellow developers during the recent...
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TransferGo Confirms They Are Looking Into Ripple’s xRapid
TransferGo, an international payment platform and one of Ripple’s partners has confirmed that they are exploring the use of Ripple’s powered xRapid. The confirmation was...
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Bitcoins To Be Sold At Tobacco Shops In France By January 2019
Tobacco shops all over France have been given the authorization to sell cryptocurrencies right as the next year begins. The Central Bank issues the authorizations,...
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UpBit Halts Crypto Trading In South Korea Due to Amazon Network Failure
Upbit, a Cryptocurrency exchange based in South Korea, have announced that trader funds are secure after an outage caused by a widespread Amazon Web Service...
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Stellar giving away $125 million worth of XLM in one of the biggest airdrops ever
According to a Medium post, Blockchain.com wallet and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have announced that they will be launching the largest token giveaway ever: $125...
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Huobi Wallet Now Supports TRON
Huobi Wallet, Huobi Group’s professional multi-chain light wallet, has added support for TRON (TRX). In addition to TRON, Huobi Wallet supports Bitcoin (BTC), EOS (EOS),...
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Cryptocurrency Bank Silvergate Files for $50 Million IPO
Financial Institution Silvergate Bank, has announced that it’s preparing to go public to raise up to $50 million in initial public offering (IPO), according to...
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Telegram Open Network Status Update Shows 70% Completed
A while back Telegram raised 1.7 billion in its ICO. Telegram released a status update on the development of the project in September. It was previously...
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Crypto Mining Firm Giga Watt Files for Bankruptcy
U.S. Crypto mining firm Giga Watt Filed for bankruptcy on Monday, Nov. 19. with millions owed to creditors. This major crypto mining firms entrant has...
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Bakkt Plan to Bring Multiple Cryptocurrencies to The Mainstream
Bakkt has announced that it plans to reiterate its master plan to bring multiple cryptocurrencies to the mainstream. The goals for this platform is to...
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Bitcoin Is Getting Close To Surpassing MasterCard in Daily Transfers
Bitcoin is close to overtaking MasterCard by the amount of value transferred daily, with bitcoin moving $8 billion in the past 24 hours while MasterCard...
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CIMB Group Will Begin Implementing Ripple’s Network
Malaysian banking giant, CIMB Group, which is also the fifth-largest ASEAN bank, has recently joined RippleNet. For those that aren’t aware, RippleNet is a consortium of over...
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How Cryptocurrencies Are Helping Developing Countries
Cryptocurrencies are changing the world in more ways than meet the eye. They have made transactions easier and safer, and the blockchain technology that allowed...
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Kobe Bryant Will Be Speaking At Tron’s NiTRON Summit
Who’s a Kobe Bryant fan? Guess what? Kobe Bryant will be speaking at Tron’s NiTRON Summit in San Francisco as a special guest invited by Justin...
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TransferWise Remains unconvinced by Ripple
TransferWise, a UK-based money transfer service has commented that they’ll start investigating blockchain-based solutions when more banks start utilizing Ripple. Even with Ripple having scored...
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ICE’s Bakkt Delays Bitcoin Futures Launch For 2019
Bakkt has deciding to delay the launch of its Bitcoin futures product. The crypto platform developed by ICE was originally intended to launch during December...
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IBM Launches Blockchain Accelerator Programs To Invest In More Blockchain Companies
IBM has just partnered with Columbia University to launch two accelerator programs to “build and scale the next generation of blockchain innovation.” The programs will...
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Playstation 4 Approves First Ethereum Based Video Game
Playstation 4 is making big moves by adding blockchain to their upcoming video game. Which game? Plague Hunters will be the first Ethereum-based game available...
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Everyone Needs To Be Aware of This Fake Trezor Wallet
Trezor, recently posted a tweet on their Twitter account warning people of the fake Trezor Wallet clone that’s currently out on the market. The model...
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First Bitcoin Cryptocurrency ETF With Ticker $HODL Approved By Switzerland
Offered by Amun Crypto, a UK based fintech company, the Bitcoin ETF $HODL will begin trading on Switzerland’s Six Swiss Exchange beginning next week. The...
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Binance CEO Asks Ripple Supporters to Pitch XRP To Him
CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhan has been listening to the XRP community and asking them why XRP should be added as the leading cryptocurrency exchange...
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The Most Straight Forward Guide To Security Tokens In Blockchain
Security tokens have been getting a lot of attention lately, but most people are still confused on what security tokens are. No worries, we’re here...
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Coverage: John McAfee Speech at Malta Blockchain Summit 2018
Quick highlights: Mcafee believes If all governments in the worlds decides to act together to shut down the exchanges, that could lead towards the end...
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Blockchain Project Power Ledger Partners Up With American PowerNet
Power Ledger has announced it’s launching a peer-to-peer trading product for renewable energy. Power ledger will plans to launch with American PowerNet in Pennsylvania. American...
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Crypto Exchange OKCoin Now Live In Latin America
The ever growing crypto market has a whole new cryoticurrency to welcome, as OkGroup, the owners behind the major crypto-crypto exchange OKEx, has launched in...
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Bitmain CEO, Jihan Wu, Believes In The Future of Bitcoin Cash
Speaking at the Nikkei/CNBC “Future of Money” event in Tokyo, Bitmain co-founder and CEO Jihan Wu came out in support of Bitcoin Cash and proof-of-work...
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Mythical Games Raises $16M Series A To Build Games On EOS
Mythical Games, an online gaming studio, announced that it had secured $16M from investors including Galaxy Digital, Javelin Venture Partners, and OKCoin. The company plans...
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Why Blockchain Will Play a Big Role In Future Esports Gaming
According to the source’s estimates, global eSports market revenue will reach 1.65 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. The eSports industry is expected to grow rapidly...
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Traki, The Largest Department Store In Venezuela Is Accepting Cryptocurrency
The biggest department store in Venezuela, Traki, has announced that it will start accepting cryptocurrencies for merchandise. The store has decided to support Bitcoin, Bitcoin...
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Mark Cuban and Lympo Launch Blockchain Fitness App
Mark Cuban and Antanas Guoga, Co-founder of Lympo, have recently announced the launching of Lympo, the nations first blockchain app and the first of its...
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Coinbase Custody Supports Ripple
Coinbase Custody has indicated that it will add the Ripple token to its list of supported crypto assets. The crypto-custody solution has been a work in progress...
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A Quick Look At The Most Supported Cryptocurrencies By Crypto ATMs
Bitcoin ATMs are nothing new. Recently, we’ve been seeing a spike in cryptocurrency ATMs. We took a quick look at the most supported cryptocurrencies by...
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H&M Confirms That The Company Will Be Testing VeChain
Today fashion empire H&M confirms that they will be giving Vechain a test run. Their main use for Vechain will be for supply chain tracking...
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Ron Paul Releases New Survey Pitting Cryptocurrency Against Traditional Investments
Former US Representative and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul posted a poll on his Twitter page asking followers what they’d prefer when it comes to...
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Visa Crypto Card Launching In US With Support for Bitcoin, XRP, Binance Coin and MCO
The long awaited Visa Crypto card will soon be making its grand debut in the US. Approval Crypto.com, formerly named Monaco, recently announced that it...
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Amazon and Bank of America Gain Crypto-Related Patents
Two of the largest institutions have just manage to secure cryptocurrency-related patents. Amazon has won two patents for cryptography and distributed data storage, while Bank...
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Circle Launches A New Rewards Program To Reward Users With Free Crypto
Circle recently announced that the company has launched a new program to reward users with free crypto. The program is called Circle Invest. Circle Invest, an...
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Lolli Raises $2.25M To Help Regular Consumers Earn Crypto From Shopping
Lolli announced today that it had raised a seed round of $2.25M. Investors include Bain Capital DCC and few other well known cryptocurrency investment firms....
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Cardano Undergoing Reconstruction As Michael Parsons Resigns
Michael Parsons has recently resigned from his post as the head of Cardano Foundation. The Announcement CEO of IOHK and Creator of Cardano (ADA)Charles Hoskinson,...
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Yahoo! Taiwan Teams Up With Contentos To Bring Blockchain Knowledge To The Masses
Yahoo! Taiwan has recently announced a partnership with Contentos (COS), a decentralized global content ecosystem and ERC20 token, to spread the word of blockchain to...
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DAppPlay Launches TronPay Crypto Wallet
DAppPlay has recently launched a new Chrome extension called Tronpay Wallet. It allows users to send and receive TRX. The Extension Becoming a piece of...
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Galaxy Digital Partners With Rise Wealth Technologies
Galaxy Digital, a crypto-focused investment bank, has recently partnered with Rise Wealth Technologies, innovator of machine learning and algorithmic trading systems. Rise Rise utilized a...
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Goldman Sachs Launches Derivatives For Bitcoins
One of the largest financial institutions in the world, Goldman Sachs, is launching it’s own type of derivatives contracts of bitcoin for a select clientele,...
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Vitalik Buterin Reveals Plans for Ethereum 2.0
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin addresses the future of Ethereum during his keynote address at DevCon 4 in Prague. The segment showcases the history and ideas...
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Winklevoss Brothers Sue Charlie Shrem For $32 Million in Bitcoin
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are suing early bitcoin investor and entrepreneur Charlie Shrem for thousands of bitcoins they allege he owes them from there previous...
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Tether Confirms New Bank and Claims They Have USD 1.8 Billion
The company behind the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, Tether has stated it has a bank account with Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd and...
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Binance Successful Launch In Africa Gains 40000 Traders During its First Week
Global demand of cryptocurrency continues to rise and the biggest crypto exchange continues to address those needs. Binance just recently launched a new exchange in...
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Ethereum’s Most Important Upgrade May Be Delayed Until Next Year
Etheruem’s planned Constantinople hard fork was originally announced to release sometime during this. Unfortunately it seems they’ve run into a bit of an issue and...
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Fidelity Investments Launches Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
The forth largest asset manager in the world, Fidelity Investments announced on Monday it has launched a new company that offers cryptocurrency services to its...
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Pundi X Showcases The Very First Blockchain Powered Phone
Pundi X recently announced the very first blockchain-powered phone called the XPhone. The company aims to integrate blockchain technology with real life. The XPhone Based...
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Tron Rumored to Partner up with China’s Largest Internet Search Provider Baidu
As of recently reports have been spreading around about Tron (TRX) has partnered with China’s largest internet search provider Baidu. Partnership The news was originally...
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Microsoft Plans To Use Blockchain Solution for Dencentralized Identities
Microsoft recently announced a blockchain solution for decentralized identities (DID) that is designed for protection of a consumers digital identity. Dencentralized Identities From a recently...
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Vitalik Buterin and Nouriel Roubini Plan For A Future Debate
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, and global economist Nouriel Roubini, also known as Dr.Doom, have announced they chance of a live debate about cryptocurrencies. The Setup...
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Poppy Payment System Making TRX Available For Stores Worldwide
Poppy introduces a way for stores worldwide to have access of TRX as acceptable form of payment for goods. Payment System Poppy is a platform...
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Binance Coin Can Now Be Used To Purchase Real Estate
During a tweet released recently, CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao announced that Binance Coin (BNB) is now being accepted by the Propy Inc: a real...
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West Virginia Introduces Blockchain Smartphone Voting in 2018 Midterms
West Virginia Officials are introducing a blockchain-enabled mobile voting app to cast absentee ballots for the midterms. A Boston-based startup named Voatz developed this application...
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World Trade Organization Reports Ripple Could Change The Worlds Financial System
The World Trade Organization has recently release a report saying blockchain technology, specifically Ripple, could lead towards a dramatic and disruptive transformation on the global...
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Airports May Accept Crypto Due to Binances New Investment
Australian government has recently given the green light on a deal that will allow BInance, a cryptocurrency exchange giant, invest over $2.5 million into an...
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Soulja Boy Tweets New Song About Bitcoin
Famously known rapper Soulja Boy just recently dropped his latest piece “Young Drako” with a new track named “Bitcoin” about the artist crypto trading skills....
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Fortnite Players Targeted by Crypto Thieves with Malicious Bitcoin Malware
Crypto thieves have recently begun to target Fortnite players with a malicious malware designed to steal data and Bitcoin wallets. This recently discovered scam targets...
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Vitalik Buterin Announces Eventual Detachment from Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin, creator of the world’s second largest cryptocurrency has recently announced in a tweet of his future detachment from Ethereum. Buterin has stated that...
