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• CoinCheck Announces Compensation to 260,000 NEM Holders Following Major Hack

  27-01-2018 21:05
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  Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has today announced a plan to compensate approximately 260,000 NEM holders for $523 million XEM that was illegally removed from Coincheck. The cause of the hack is currently under investigation, according to a notice on the company’s website. Similar events in other currencies including JPY have not been confirmed. On Jan.
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• LetBet Pioneers in Blockchain to Make Online Gambling Safe and Legal in Your Neighbourhood

  27-01-2018 20:51 via newsbtc.com
  The global online gambling market will surpass $50 billion in 2018, creating a borderless economy the size of wealthy Luxembourg.  You can safely bet that many governments would like to be collecting taxes on this rapidly expanding market, which has doubled in size since 2011.
  As long as corruption is high in the bookie-run gambling market, some governments will ban gambling, pushing gamblers into high-risk illegal gambling markets that often shut down overnight and keep players’ winn
  
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• CPChain – The Next Generation of Internet of Things to be Launched

  27-01-2018 20:29 via newsbtc.com
  Cyber-Physical Chain (CPChain) is the first decentralized infrastructure of the next-generation Internet of Things (IoT), leading to the formation of a trusted and new distribution IoT systems. The platform has been given enhanced scalability and security, tackling real-time issues faced by blockchain, and providing comprehensive solutions for data collection, sharing and application in the IoT industry. The ecosystem is enabled for multi-party data transactions and IoT-big-data-based Artificial
  
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• Industry Firm Blockchains, LLC Scoops Up 67,000 Acres in Nevada

  27-01-2018 19:38
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  Google, Tesla and Switch will be their new neighbors. You may never have heard of Blockchains, LLC till now, but they are soon going to be on the fintech map. They’re expanding and have chosen a 67,000-acre plot of land in Northern Nevada’s up-and-coming Emerald City. The company, which focuses on the distributed ledger technology for decentralized
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• Discover CEO Explains Why Credit Cardholders Can’t Buy Bitcoin

  27-01-2018 18:00
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  On cryptocurrency exchanges and brokerages, traders are not permitted to use their Discover credit and debit cards to purchase or sell bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency in the market. False Statements In an interview with Bloomberg, Discover CEO David Nelms stated that for financial institutions to process payments for cryptocurrency traders and investors, they are
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• (+) Good News and Low Prices

  27-01-2018 17:15
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• CoinCheck’s $530 Million Cryptocurrency Hack Was Inevitable

  27-01-2018 16:38
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  Yesterday, on January 26, CoinCheck executives officially stated in a press conference that $530 million worth of XEM, the native cryptocurrency of the NEM network, was stolen by an unknown group of hackers. Poor Security Measures During the press conference, CoinCheck executives revealed several details about the hack and specifically the infrastructure of the CoinCheck
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• New Infographic Shows 36,000% Growth of Ripple

  27-01-2018 16:02
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• OneGram as a Future of Crypto-Market

  27-01-2018 15:56
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• ‘We Are Disturbed’: SEC and CFTC Chairmen Issue Stark Warning to Cryptocurrency Industry

  27-01-2018 14:58
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  The chairmen of two US regulatory agencies have written a joint statement expressing their concerns over the present state of the cryptocurrency markets. Writing in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief Jay Clayton and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) head J. Christopher Giancarlo expressed their dis
  
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• A Haven for Blockchain: The Case for Wyoming

  27-01-2018 13:31
  Three bills in the state legislature, combined with zero taxes and cheap power, should make Wyoming a competitive location for blockchain businesses.
  
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• The Opportunity for Interoperable Chains of Chains

  27-01-2018 11:50
  Just THE blockchain? A world of blockchains for blockchains is coming, and it might be closer than you think.
  
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• TaaS Partners with EGT International to Fuel Crypto Distribution among Online Publishing Sites

  27-01-2018 11:47
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• ETicket4 Launch Its Pre ICO and Offers Qualitatively New Dimensions in the Ticket Industry

  27-01-2018 11:34
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• Fairmeet Has Formally Reached Strategic Cooperation Agreement with a First-Tier Licensor of Disney China

  27-01-2018 11:30
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• Major Cryptocurrencies Recover, Bitcoin and Ethereum Post 5% Gains

  27-01-2018 11:29
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  After recording a minor correction on January 26, major cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano increased by more than 5 percent. NEM, which declined significantly in value after leading Japanese cryptocurrency exchange CoinCheck announced a $530 million hack into its NEM hot wallet, also recorded a 5.6 percent increase in price. Bitcoin and Ethereum Since
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• Mycelium Wallet Partners with Changelly

  27-01-2018 11:24
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• EncrypGen (DNA) gets Listed On KuCoin

  27-01-2018 11:18
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• Million Dollar Changes: Tips from First Cryptomarketplace like Amazon

  27-01-2018 09:26
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  This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. The first crypto marketplace empowered by blockchain – Storiqa – unveils necessary changes which lead to dramatic growth of counter. Every market has its life cycles and it is
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• Mining Malware Abuses Google Ads and YouTube

  27-01-2018 08:00 via newsbtc.com
  Internet monopolies are easy to manipulate it seems. Especially if they are ad revenue driven and don’t really care who or what is advertised. Both Google and Facebook have been a hotbed for scams, phishing websites and malware recently, especially those involving crypto mining.
  Cyber security researchers Trend Micro have discovered a surge in Coinhive web miner detections due to a malvertising campaign abusing Google’s advertising platform. According to the report they team discover
  
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• Altcoin Analysis: NEO, STELLAR LUMENS, EOS, LTC and NEM

  27-01-2018 07:36 via newsbtc.com
  Other than NEM, the middle BB is acting as a good support line in most altcoins. Because we were expecting Lumens and EOS to appreciate, we can see the big role the middle BB had in shoring prices.
  I anticipate more buy pressure as the week comes to a close but my main focus will be on LTC and let’s see what happens to that double bottoms.
  Let’s dissect these charts:
  NEM Under-Valuation despite Close below Minor Support Trend Line
  XEMUSD 4HR Chart for January 27, 2018
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• The leading altcoin of the moment – RaiBlocks

  27-01-2018 04:31 via newsbtc.com
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  Looking at the top 25 cryptos during today’s Asian trading session a clear winner has once again emerged. Markets have failed to gain momentum over the past couple of days and have largely been trading sideways. The top ten by market capacity are all in the red and only RaiBlocks is showing solid gains.
  According to Coinmarketcap XRB is up almost 22% in the past 24 hours. After a week of down trending from a high of $20 it has made a comeback from a reversal at $13 yesterday a
  
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• World Economic Forum: is Bitcoin Too Volatile to be Used as Currency?

  27-01-2018 01:00 via newsbtc.com
  In Davos at this year’s World Economic Forum, Bitcoin has continued to be a polarizing subject, attracting both criticism and praise from business figures, industry experts, and world leaders.
  Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert J. Shiller had the following to say about the cryptocurrency: “I tend to think of Bitcoin as an interesting experiment, not a permanent feature of our lives. We’re over-emphasizing Bitcoin, we should broaden it out to blockchain, which will have o
  
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• Numbers or Not, Coincheck Isn't Mt. Gox

  27-01-2018 00:05
  Though the Coincheck theft may superficially resemble 2014's Mt. Gox hack, the impact on cryptocurrencies is not nearly as significant.
  
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• Numbers or Not, Coincheck Isn't Another Mt. Gox

  27-01-2018 00:05
  Though the Coincheck theft may superficially resemble 2014's Mt. Gox hack, the impact on cryptocurrencies is not nearly as significant.
  
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