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• Cryptocurrency Markets Post Recovery in Weekend Trading Respite

  03-02-2018 23:07
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  Cryptocurrency markets are finally showing signs of life after enduring a difficult start to the year that wiped $120 billion from the market in recent days, dragging it down from $590 to $470 billion. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was up almost 8 percent to just under $9,000 over the past twenty-four hours, according to
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• Lisk Price Jumps 20% On Huobi Exchange Listing

  03-02-2018 20:23
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  Lisk, which jumped 65% after listing on bitFlyer on Wednesday, posted a 20% boost yesterday after Huobi.pro also listed the altcoin. Lisk has clearly benefited after securing two exchange listings in one week. While Wednesday, Jan. 31, was brutal for the cryptocurrency markets, as bitcoin’s price fell below $10,000 and the cryptocurrency market cap entered sub-$500 million
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• fidentiax and iXledger Announce Initiatives to Benefit Stakeholders of Both Marketplace

  03-02-2018 19:13
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• Those ‘Crypto Genius’ Ads Cost James Altucher $2.7 Million

  03-02-2018 17:49
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  “The face of bitcoin” — that’s how one recent article described James Altucher, the self-proclaimed “crypto genius” behind those online advertisements that seem to have stalked you since the first time you typed “Bitcoin” into Google. Altucher’s ads follow cryptocurrency enthusiasts everywhere. Twitter? Yes. YouTube? You betcha. Facebook? The
  
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• Zcash Touts Nuclear Waste-Fueled Random Number Generator

  03-02-2018 16:58
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  Just days after the IMF chief warned that cryptocurrency mining was an environmental hazard, Zcash enthusiasts said, ‘hold my beer.’ The developers at the Powers of Tau Ceremony, a ritual coined by a couple of Zcash engineers, incorporated a radioactive artifact from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown — more specifically from the Chernobyl Unit 4 nuclear
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• The Future of Copyright: The Global Copyright Register Explained

  03-02-2018 15:45
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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. Copytrack, based in Germany, is an existing business and leading the market of global copyright enforcement. Their system for image search and copyright enforcement is used by 6,000
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• Litecoin to Complement Bitcoin as Payments Currency: Founder Charlie Lee

  03-02-2018 15:32
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  Cryptocurrency-fueled scams seem to keep Litecoin founder Charlie Lee up at night, based on a report in Business Insider. Lee, who is an alum of both Google and Coinbase, spoke about the speculative nature of bitcoin and other cryptocurrency investing, saying that it’s not “bad” but instead a “natural progression,” adding that he sees nothing
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• Bitcoin at $1 Million by 2020: McAfee Doubles Down on Bullish Bet

  03-02-2018 13:56
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  John McAfee, whose fame exists rather heavily due to the software company he founded in the late 1980s, took to Twitter yet again on February 2, 2018, to reaffirm that he was indeed bullish on bitcoin. In an attempt to predict bitcoin’s price at the end of this decade, McAfee had previously stated that it
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• Ripple's XRP Worst Hit By January Market Decline

  03-02-2018 13:40
  Large-cap cryptocurrencies may have had a stellar 2017, but 2018 hasn't been so kind – with several being worst hit.
  
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• With the Creation of Nijigen Business World, Fairmeet Helps Coca-Cola Connect to the Latest Generation of Consumer Market

  03-02-2018 13:33
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• DomRaider Group Unveils the First Version of Their Blockchain Based Auction Solution under the New Brand Name Auctionity

  03-02-2018 13:28
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• Crypto Rich and Paranoid: Threats Prompt Radical Security in Bitcoin Land

  03-02-2018 13:15
  Cryptocurrency users who got rich in the run-up are now targets for robbers and kidnappers, not just hackers. That’s prompting a security overhaul.
  
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• Hada DBank: The First Blockchain-Based Islamic Bank

  03-02-2018 13:14
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• Venezuela Reveals Petro Will Be an ERC-20 Token With a Private Presale

  03-02-2018 12:45
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  As previously reported by CCN, Venezuela is set to issue its Petro cryptocurrency through a token sale. Out of the 100 million Petros Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro ordered, about 38.4 million will go to institutional investors in a month-long presale, set to begin March 1. This presale, according to Bloomberg, will be private, obscuring the
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• Top P2P Cryptocurrency Token Etherecash Gets Listed on QRYPTOS, Following Successful Crowdsale

  03-02-2018 12:42
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• Payment System VISO Raised $1 Million to Launch a Cryptocurrency Wallet, Cards and a Smart Terminals Network

  03-02-2018 12:36
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• Interest Mounts as Grain Announces ICO

  03-02-2018 12:28
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• RightMesh Completes $18M Private Token Allocation Round

  03-02-2018 12:24
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• Founder of ACChain Ms. Wan Jia to Present “ACChain Digiverse” at Davos

  03-02-2018 12:13
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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. Guiyang Blockchain Financial Co. Ltd CEO and Founder Ms. Wan Jai has been invited to present the ACChain digital asset smart-ecosystem at the prestigious 2018 in this year
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• Galaxy eSolutions, Announces Token Sale for Refurbished Electronics Ecosystem

  03-02-2018 12:08
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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. Galaxy eSolution, the global refurbished electronics ecosystem, has announced the development plans for the token sale of their cutting-edge, blockchain services. Scheduled to run from February 18th to
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• Bankera Acquires Pacific Private Bank Ltd, Well on the Way to Deliver Blockchain Era Banking

  03-02-2018 12:03
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• ImmVRse: A Hybrid Decentralized Marketplace Aiming to Disrupt Virtual Reality Industry

  03-02-2018 11:55
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• International Digital Asset Exchange Council Formally Launched by Decentralized Fintech Enthusiasts for Development and Global Acceptance of Blockchain 3.0

  03-02-2018 11:50
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• ARK Releases Script Update of Their All-In-One Blockchain Platform

  03-02-2018 11:48
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• Taipei Taps IOTA Blockchain Tech for Smart City Upgrade

  03-02-2018 10:16
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  Taipei City is raising its fintech profile and will be powered by IOTA’s distributed ledger technology. Taiwan’s capital is partnering with Berlin nonprofit IOTA Foundation for its IoT-driven Tangle technology as well as BiiLabs, a blockchain startup, for its transformation into an app-driven smart city, one that IOTA’s co-founder Dominik Schiener says will affect voter fraud.
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• Morning Asian trading roundup: the leading altcoin is Dentacoin

  03-02-2018 06:25 via newsbtc.com
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  The carnage on the crypto markets has continued this morning. Asian trading is bleak and everyone is selling, it looks like the mass media is winning the battle and reveling in a falling cryptocurrencies. Or it could be a prelude to Chinese New Year, markets fall every year during these months though this time around it is a harder fall from a higher height. Looking through the charts for a winning altcoin is not easy when everything is red.
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• Pineapple Fund’s $5 Million Bitcoin Donation Boosts Medicine Foundation

  03-02-2018 02:14
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  Cryptocurrency philanthropy is spreading. The Pineapple Fund, whose founders remain anonymous, has given $5 million worth of bitcoin to the Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) over two separate donations. The funds, which were deposited into the nonprofit’s BitPay account and which are reportedly being converted to US dollars, are being directed toward &ld
  
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• In This Storm, Be Hopeful; Lightning is on the Horizon

  03-02-2018 01:30 via newsbtc.com
  Right after the bitcoin network has cleared up its massive backlog of transactions, we’ve been hit by a huge price correction. However, there is still much to be hopeful about; the development and testing of the Lightning Network is coming along quite nicely.
  What is the Lightning Network?
  The LN, put simply, will allow for instantaneous, near fee-less transactions of Bitcoin utilizing an off-chain network. If you’re familiar with the cryptocurrency’s transaction times and fees
  
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• Banco Santander to Debut International Payment System on Ripple

  03-02-2018 00:30 via newsbtc.com
  Banco Santander has set a Q1 2018 launch date for the introduction of same-day, mobile, international payments for customers, which will operate using blockchain technology on Ripple’s distributed ledger. For banks, the benefit of using Ripple is that it can enable the transfer of data and value in a more accurate and much faster way — as little as four seconds, compared to three days with the current model SWIFT.
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