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• Betrium’s Last Days of ICO – Hurry Up to Get a Chance to Win the Jackpot

  13-02-2018 23:58 via newsbtc.com
  Betrium, the worldwide bookmaker & betting exchange, has successfully raised 982 ETH so far in its pre-ICO, ending on February 14, 2018. Only a day left to get a chance to win the jackpot by participating in its on-going Betrium ICO and invest in the platform’s further development. The pre-ICO will end on 14th February 2018 at 19:00 EST. It is the last call for interested participants to hurry up to be part of exciting opportunity.
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• Arizona Law Would Define When ICOs Are Securities

  13-02-2018 22:30
  Two new bills introduced to the Arizona legislature would create legal definitions for cryptocurrencies and blockchain if passed.
  
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• Freelancers, Attention: “Bitcoin” Is The Most Valuable Skill

  13-02-2018 22:20 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin and all things cryptocurrency have found themselves at the top of a list of most highly demanded skills for freelancers in 2018. Leading freelance marketplace, Upwork, recently surveyed their users and found that skills relating to digital currency were the fastest-growing sector of freelancer talents on their platform. The results were also dominated by emerging technologies. Along with Bitcoin, AI and AR related skills were noted as growing rapidly. Evidently, the appetite for those wi
  
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• Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers

  13-02-2018 21:29
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  Privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero has declared war on ASIC manufacturers. On Sunday, a group of Monero developers published a development update addressing what has become a recurring question among altcoins that can currently be mined profitably with GPU hardware — how to respond to the threat that Bitmain or another mining rig manufacturer will develop an
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• Keith Teare Joins MediChain as an Advisor – a Headline-Worthy News in the Blockchain ICO Market

  13-02-2018 21:28 via newsbtc.com
  All eyes are on MediChain now as Keith Teare, a globally-recognized serial entrepreneur with big ideas and an impressive record of winning high returns for the investors joins the MediChain Advisory Board. The recent addition of Teare in MediChain’s team is being seen as one of the greatest achievements of the company, since the executive chairman of Accelerated Digital Ventures has previously advised on the successful ICOBox, Crypterium, FluzFluz and EnergiMine ICOs.
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• Salon Offers Readers Choice Between Ads and Mining Monero

  13-02-2018 21:15
  Salon announced this week that it would allow users to run a cryptominer instead of viewing ads as part of its revenue-generating efforts.
  
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• Malware Hijacks Millions of Android Devices to Mine Monero

  13-02-2018 20:18
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  Cybercriminals are increasingly hijacking other people’s devices to mine Monero (XMR), in a trend now called cryptojakcing. According to Malwarebytes, a “drive-by” mining campaign recently redirected millions of Android users to a website that hijacked their devices to mine the privacy-centric cryptocurrency using Coinhive . The campaign worked by redirecting users to a page that
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• CryptoUK: Seven Crypto Companies Form UK Cryptocurrency Trading Body

  13-02-2018 20:07 via newsbtc.com
  Seven of the largest crypto companies are forming a UK cryptocurrency trade body named CryptoUK, bringing the first self-regulation to the booming industry. This news comes just days after Brian Quintenz, a commissioner with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, advised the crypto industry to form such a group to help regulate itself.
  CryptoUK, with members including exchange and trading platforms such as Coinbase, eToro and CryptoCompare, said it had produced the first c
  
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• Telegram Founder: Crypto Mining Malware Attack Isn't Due to App Flaw

  13-02-2018 20:00
  A cybersecurity firm says Telegram has been exploited for crypto mining by hackers, but the messaging app's founder says it is not to blame.
  
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• The Taxman Cometh

  13-02-2018 19:51
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  Tax season is ramping up in the United States and Uncle Sam is looking to get his cut from the cryptocurrency pie; that is a slice of your profits. Last year was hot for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and most all altcoins. With amazing percentage gains across the board, there were many investors who took profits.
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• Hacker Launches ICO

  13-02-2018 19:24
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• Cryptokitties is Coming to Mobile: Will Ethereum Handle the Extra Traffic?

  13-02-2018 19:17 via newsbtc.com
  The blockchain-based game that caused the Ethereum network to grind to halt in December last year could be about to draw in a lot more users. This is because CryptoKitties is getting launched as a Chinese-language iOS application. The mobile edition is expected to be available on February 16 in Greater China and Singapore. The game’s production studio, Axiom Zen, are unsure how successful the new version will be, more so because they were in no way expecting the game to reach the popularit
  
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• Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings Issues Fresh Alert on Tether

  13-02-2018 18:58
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  Controversial “stablecoin” Tether is under the gun again, as Weiss Ratings recently released a report detailing the red flags associated with the project. According to the alert, the largest issue facing Tether is the lack of a completed audit that accounts for the assets in circulation. During December and January, over one billion new Tethers
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• BitConnect Again? DavorCoin Price Dives After Lending Site Shutdown

  13-02-2018 18:20
  The price of Davorcoin has fallen from over $170 to below $0.10 in the past month.
  
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• NY Fed Economists Talk Bitcoin’s Role in a Centralized World

  13-02-2018 18:05
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  New York Fed Economists Michael Lee and Antoine Martin aren’t entirely dismissive of bitcoin, which only seems to make matters worse. In a Q&A, which is posted on the New York Fed’s website, the economists question bitcoin’s utility, arguing it will never be as easy to use as the current central bank-backed fiat money, pointing
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• How Corporate Coins Can Lead to Big Profits

  13-02-2018 18:00
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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 past month has seen a flood of headlines in the media suggesting that the bitcoin bubble has burst, just like the DotCom bubble of 2000…. But investors
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• (+) Skepticism Grows Over BitGrail’s Supposed $167 Million Hack

  13-02-2018 17:16
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• Ethereum Classic Price Surges Amid Choppy Markets

  13-02-2018 17:04
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  The Ethereum Classic price posted a top 35-best 20 percent increase on Tuesday, defying the bearish trend of the overall market and lifting ETC to its highest mark since January. Ethereum Classic Price Surges Amid Choppy Markets “If you’re not watching Ethereum Classic, you’re doing it wrong.” Thus tweeted Barry Silbert, founder of the Digital
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• Regulate Bitcoin? 'Not The ECB's Responsibility,' Says Mario Draghi

  13-02-2018 17:00
  Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has said it's not his institution's job to regulate cryptocurrencies.
  
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• Crypto Startup LoopX Disappears After Raising Millions In Token Sales

  13-02-2018 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LoopX, a cryptocurrency startup that raised millions of dollars through several initial coin offerings (ICOs), has disappeared with the funds in what appears to be the latest exit scam. LoopX, which promised “the most advanced trading-algorithm in the cryptocurrency market,” has suddenly vanished, shutting down its website and deleting its social media fingerprint. According to […]
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• Public Blockchain On-Chain Scaling ‘Degrades Decentralization’: Microsoft Researcher

  13-02-2018 16:07
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  A team of Microsoft blockchain researchers has concluded that on-chain scaling — a method employed by Bitcoin Cash and other cryptocurrencies — is antithetical to decentralization and will not provide a network with the ability to operate at “world-scale.” On-Chain Scaling Not Compatible with Decentralization: Microsoft For the past year, Microso
  
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• A Porsche Speedster Is Being Turned Into Tokens

  13-02-2018 16:00
  TEND, an ethereum-powered marketplace for tokenized luxury goods has partnered with a Porsche dealer to offer its first tokenized car.
  
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• Get Paid to Toke with the First Cannabis Social Network on the Blockchain

  13-02-2018 15:55
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• Microsoft Is Developing Identity Manager Based on Public Blockchain

  13-02-2018 15:53
  Individuals will be able to control every aspect of their digital identity with this decentralized platform.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Struggles to Break Through Resistance at $9,000

  13-02-2018 15:09
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  The cryptocurrency market recovery hit a wall on Tuesday, forcing the Bitcoin price back down to $8,500 and all major coins and tokens into decline as well. There was no clear trigger for the pullback, which brought an end to the market’s longest rally since December. Altogether, the cryptocurrency market cap declined by $18 billion,
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• South Korea Mulls BitLicense-Style Rules for Crypto Exchanges

  13-02-2018 15:00
  South Korea is considering adopting a system similar to New York's "BitLicense" for the regulation of cryptocurrency exchanges, a report states.
  
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• 'V' Recovery? ETC Posts Big Gains In Sideways Market

  13-02-2018 14:35
  The price of ethereum classic's cryptocurrency is on a tear, reporting double-digit gains Tuesday amid an otherwise sidways market.
  
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• Coincheck Resumes Yen Withdrawals, Lawsuit on Its Way

  13-02-2018 14:27
  Ten traders are jointly suing the cryptocurrency exchange as it froze the withdrawals.
  
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• Coincheck Clients Withdraw $372 Million; NEM Theft Refunds are Coming

  13-02-2018 14:17
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  After removing a temporary freeze on withdrawals today, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck said it has completed transfers worth 40.1 billion JPY ($372 million) in withdrawal requests by customers. Weeks after suffering the ignominy of being the victim of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency theft, ever, Coincheck has kept its promise to lift the temporary suspension on
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• Real Estate ICOs Are Moving In, But Investors Aren't Floored

  13-02-2018 14:00
  A new rush of entrepreneurs, this time armed with crypto tokens, think they can reinvent real estate for more efficient equity investment.
  
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• The Diversified Blockchain Investment of 2018

  13-02-2018 13:22 via newsbtc.com
  Cryptocurrencies exploded in 2017, minting billionaires and transforming entire industries, and now the standard investor can get involved.
  Cryptocurrencies are minting new millionaires faster than any other asset class in history. Blockchain, the backbone of cryptocurrency and expected to become the biggest market disrupter we have ever seen, is creating incredible wealth for some investors and generating massive returns.
  A $1,000 investment in Bitcoin in 2010 would have earned you $35 million
  
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• Cryptocurrencies and Market Abuse Risks: It’s Time for Self-Regulation

  13-02-2018 13:21
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  This opinion article is penned by Roy Keidar, Adv., special counsel at Israeli law firm Yigal Arnon and co & Stephane Blemus, legal counsel at Kalexius law firm, and PhD candidate on blockchain regulation at Paris Sorbonne University, France. The views expressed are those of the authors alone and should not be attributed to CCN. This
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• $600 Fraud? Fake ICO White Papers Draw Scrutiny in China

  13-02-2018 13:00
  A report from China's Beijing News says copywriters in China are offering to fabricate ICO white papers for a fee.
  
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• $600 Fraud? Fake ICO White Papers Are Drawing Scrutiny

  13-02-2018 13:00
  A report from China's Beijing News says copywriters in China are offering to fabricate ICO white papers for a fee.
  
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• Coinbase Introduces a PayPal-like Merchant Solution for Cryptocurrencies

  13-02-2018 12:30 via newsbtc.com
  Making cryptocurrency payments more convenient to use is a difficult task. Consumers often struggle to find platforms or shops accepting this form of payment. Store owners are not too convinced whether or not such payments offer them any benefits. Coinbase has come up with a solution which may resolve some of the concerns. Their new merchant service is very similar to PayPal and provides a lot of convenience.
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• Cleaning the Esports Betting Industry – Luckbox’s Game Changer ICO

  13-02-2018 12:29
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• How to Promote Your ICO through Telegram?

  13-02-2018 12:21
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• Microsoft Eyes Role for Bitcoin, Ethereum in Decentralized ID

  13-02-2018 12:15
  Software giant Microsoft has said it will trial decentralized identities built on public blockchains within its Microsoft Authenticator application.
  
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• The Man behind BDX – An Interview with BDX Co-Founder Dennis Uitz

  13-02-2018 12:14
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• Preventive Measures: UK Crypto Companies to Form a Self Regulatory Body

  13-02-2018 12:14
  Coinbase, eToro and CryptoCompare are among the members of the new body. ICOs are excluded.
  
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• Indonesia-Based Car Rental Company Frasindo Join the Cryptocurrency World with Launch of FRASCOIN and CARCOIN

  13-02-2018 12:09
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• World’s First Chatbot Trading Platform for Cryptocurrency, Exenium Starts Initial Token Offering with Lucrative Bonus for Early Adopters

  13-02-2018 12:05
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• Multi-Crypto Wallet Provider MoneyPot Now Supports Ultra-Decentralized Crypto Aidos Kuneen (ADK)

  13-02-2018 12:01
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• ARK Releases Technical Update — Introducing API V2

  13-02-2018 11:51
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• There Has Been An Awakening. Have You Felt It? [Part 3]

  13-02-2018 11:48
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  This is the first opinion piece in a four-part series that explores the advent of bitcoin as a store of value and the implications of valuing the cryptocurrency in fiat. Read the first part here and the second here. Fees: The Third Bottleneck Just like price, transaction fees can very easily scare away people from entering … Continued
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• Educational Cryptocurrency Resource Unhashed Launches New Website

  13-02-2018 11:48
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• Crypto Bridge Network Opens Their Pre-Sale Token Generation Event to U.S. Investors for the Creation of New Crypto Bridge ATM Network

  13-02-2018 11:45
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• Bull Resistance? Bitcoin Price Needs Break Above $9K

  13-02-2018 11:45
  Bitcoin bulls risk losing control unless prices see a convincing break above $9,000 soon, the technical charts suggest.
  
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• Bitcoin Price on Neutral Ground: Bulls Need Break Above $9K

  13-02-2018 11:45
  Bitcoin bulls risk losing control unless prices see a convincing break above $9,000 soon, the technical charts suggest.
  
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• Start a New Side Hustle With Ditch-it and Earn Up to $50k Extra a Year in Crypto

  13-02-2018 11:44 via newsbtc.com
  Want to earn a little extra money on the side, without compromising your current schedule? Ditch-it, a new app is here to help you get started quickly, and that too without many of the startup costs generally associated with traditional businesses.
  Ditch-It is a decentralized local mobile marketplace on the blockchain that enables users to locally buy and sell the things they love for Electroneum cryptocurrency. The platform, to encourage individuals and businesses to have alternative sources of
  
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