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• Bolivar to Bitcoin Trading Surpasses a Record $1 Million per Day

  19-04-2018 23:55
  Venezuela’s economic situation has been steadily declining in the past few years, bringing Venezuelans to turn to cryptocurrencies. According to VeneBloc data, the bolivar-to-bitcoin market recently reached a new record, as the equivalent of $1.009 million in bolivars were exchanged for bitcoin on April 17. VeneBloc tracks transactions made on peer-to-peer exchange LocalBitcoins on the … Continued
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• Ether Investment Firm Begins Trading on Stock Exchange

  19-04-2018 23:45
  Ether Capital is seeking to become a major player in the ethereum ecosystem by investing in startups and holding large amounts of the token.
  
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• Ether Investment Firm Begins Trading on Canadian Stock Exchange

  19-04-2018 23:45
  Ether Capital is seeking to become a major player in the ethereum ecosystem by investing in startups and holding large amounts of the token.
  
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• Chilean Banks vs Crypto Exchanges: Will Citizens Have Access to Technology?

  19-04-2018 23:42 via cointelegraph.com
  Following Chilean exchange Buda’s decision to fight the banking blockade, the CEO has questioned these banks’ decision making. #FOLLOW_UP
  
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• Morgan Stanley: Bitcoin Miners Will Only Profit When Price is Above $8,600

  19-04-2018 23:08 via newsbtc.com
  The key price point for Bitcoin mining profitability is $8,600, according to Morgan Stanley Equity Analyst Charlie Chan and his team. As per their simulation, if the coin can’t recover $8,600 soon, many Bitcoin miners will likely find it unprofitable to keep creating the cryptocurrency.
  Bitcoin Mining Profitability
  As of today, Bitcoin is trading at almost $8,250 according to Coinmarketcap. The coin is less than half the value it was in late-December, but has improved from e
  
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• Wall Street Veteran Likens Cryptocurrencies to Candy Crush Game Currency

  19-04-2018 22:52
  Richard Bernstein isn’t building any bridges with the cryptocurrency community. The head of the Wall Street research firm that bears his name said in a note to clients today that there’s little difference between cryptocurrencies and the virtual currencies you earn with internet games like Candy Crush, according to a report on Bloomberg. CryptoKitties might not … Continued
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• Smart Contract Pioneer Nick Szabo: Don't Ditch Decentralization

  19-04-2018 22:30
  One of the few cypherpunks in a room full dominated by financial services, Szabo urged blockchain developers not to forget about decentralization.
  
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• Thai SEC Tech Consultant ‘Hopes’ Authorities Will Reconsider Digital Asset Tax For ICOs

  19-04-2018 22:29 via cointelegraph.com
  Thai SEC tech consultant admits necessity of reviewing crypto tax framework as crypto business owners react negatively to proposed capital gains tax. #NEWS
  
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• NEO, EOS, Litecoin, IOTA and Stellar: Technical Analysis April 20, 2018

  19-04-2018 22:19 via newsbtc.com
  We need to see some fundamentals to jolt altcoin price action today. Should there be further gains say in Bitcoin and EOS, they are lagging behind, prices could explode. As statistics shows, Stellar Lumens is spearheading this week’s gain with an impressive 66 percent gain while IOTA is following closely at 43 percent. Even though I still maintain my bullish skew, buying Litecoin, EOS and NEO might present superior returns in the short to medium term.
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• Saxo Bank: Cryptocurrencies Could See ‘Springboard’ Bull Market In Q2 2018

  19-04-2018 22:13 via cointelegraph.com
  Saxo Bank says influx of institutional capital into crypto “could lead cryptocurrencies to a positive quarter.” #NEWS
  
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• UK Member Of Parliament Says Blockchain Will have ‘Monumental Impact’

  19-04-2018 21:58 via cointelegraph.com
  UK government publishes pro-Blockchain speech by Member of Parliament Matt Hancock: Blockchain will have “monumental impact.” #NEWS
  
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• Wink & a Bitcoin: Roger Ver Offers Reddit $100k to Appoint New Moderator to Bitcoin Forum

  19-04-2018 21:55
  Early cryptocurrency investor and ardent Bitcoin Cash supporter Roger Ver is known for using his social media presence to stir the pot, and he lived up to that reputation this week. Ver, who owns Bitcoin.com and has signed on to the “Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin” movement, offered to pay Reddit a bribe if the social
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• Industry Groups Join Forces to Speak Out Against Over-Regulation by SEC

  19-04-2018 21:30 via newsbtc.com
  Seeking exemptions from federal oversight that they believe will slow growth of the cryptocurrency space, industry groups are forming in attempts to lobby agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for limited interference. The groups are worried that policies in Washington could slow the innovation of blockchain-based technologies that underpin cryptocurrencies, as well as the coins themselves, according to people familiar with the matter.Fighting Back Against Over-Regulation
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• Savedroid: Worst Prank in Crypto History or a Reckless Publicity Stunt?

  19-04-2018 21:22
  Or maybe a nasty hack turned into the worst crisis management in history: its up to you to decide
  
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• Telegram Digital Resistance: The Open Network And Russia’s Ban

  19-04-2018 21:14 via cointelegraph.com
  How cryptocurrency world’s preferred messaging app tackles Russia’s ban #IN_DEPTH
  
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• Walmart Wants to Store Payment Data On a Blockchain

  19-04-2018 21:00
  A pair of Walmart patent applications discuss encrypting payment information using a blockchain.
  
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• Cryptocurrencies: Is It Really a Land without Sheriffs?

  19-04-2018 20:49
  In this opinion piece, Janis Graubins, co-Founder of Identity and Access Management company Notakey, follows the trial of a suspicious cryptocurrency wallet address and explains if and how illicit activity can be combated. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you
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• Mastercard - Denouncing Cryptocurrencies While Embracing Blockchain

  19-04-2018 20:48 via cointelegraph.com
  Mastercard embracing Blockchain technology while staying clear of cryptocurrencies. #FOLLOW_UP
  
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• The Next Chapter Of Blockchain Is Market Consolidation: Expert Take

  19-04-2018 20:17 via cointelegraph.com
  In the next few months, the established champions will help galvanize public adoption. #EXPERT_TAKE
  
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• Blythe Masters: Business Blockchain Won't Be 'Winner-Takes-All'

  19-04-2018 20:05
  At the Synchronize 2018 conference in New York City, enterprise blockchains heavyweights made it clear they want to build ethereum-like platforms.
  
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• Silicon Valley VCs Ask US Regulators to Go Easy on ICO Regulations

  19-04-2018 20:01
  A duo of heavy-hitting Silicon Valley venture capital firms has asked US regulators to take an industry-friendly approach to initial coin offering (ICO) regulations. The Wall Street Journal reports that representatives from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures met with high-ranking officials at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 28. The VC
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• Survey: 60% of Britons Not in Favour of a Bank of England-Backed Cryptocurrency

  19-04-2018 19:45 via newsbtc.com
  A new survey has found that a majority of Britons would not support a cryptocurrency that was backed by the Bank of England (BoE).
  Britons Think Bitcoin Will Decrease or Collapse in Six Months
  The survey, conducted by market research and polling company D-CYFOR, found that 60 percent of those surveyed indicated that they would not be in favour of a BoE-backed digital currency. Notably, though, the research also found that 93 percent of Britons have now heard of bitcoin, due in part to the rapid
  
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• The First Publicly Traded Company Focused Solely on Ethereum Begins Trading

  19-04-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Canadian corporation Ether Capital (NEO:ETHC), the first publicly traded company focused solely on the Ethereum network, has announced in a press release that their shares will begin trading on Thursday, April 19th.  Ether Capital has completed the process of delisting its common shares from the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), and will now be listing […]
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• Hedge Fund Pantera CEO Says BTC ‘Highly Likely’ To Go Past $20K High Within A Year

  19-04-2018 19:22 via cointelegraph.com
  Blockchain hedge fund Pantera CEO says $6.5k is the lowest BTC will go in the recent bear market, predicts BTC to exceed its record high “within a year” #NEWS
  
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• Insurance Giant Allianz Is Testing a Token to Move Money Internally

  19-04-2018 19:00
  Allianz is testing a blockchain token to move money between its global affiliates.
  
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• Social Snafu: Twitter Verifies a Scam Verge Cryptocurrency Account

  19-04-2018 18:54
  The official Verge account, meanwhile, has yet to get its blue badge. A fraudulent Twitter account is making the rounds in the cryptocurrency market, with anonymous cryptocurrency Verge one of its latest victims. Getting verified is a status symbol on Jack Dorsey’s social media site, but the scams that are being left unchecked, so to speak,
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• Kraken CEO Refuses to Comply with New York Attorney General’s New Enquiry

  19-04-2018 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has said that it won’t comply with the New York Attorney General’s request for information. The San Francisco-based exchange was one of 13 cryptocurrency exchanges that received a letter from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday as part of his new enquiry into the exchanges. These included Coinbase’s GDAX, Gemini, […]
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• Kraken Ceo Will Not Comply with ‘Insulting’ New York Crypto Probe

  19-04-2018 18:45
  Firms operating outside New York are not liable to answer notices issued by New York’s Attorney General.
  
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• Disgraced CEO of Mt. Gox Appointed CTO at London Trust Media

  19-04-2018 18:45 via newsbtc.com
  Mark Karpelès, former CEO of hacked bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was held in jail for nearly a year in Japan as he faces a criminal trial for charges of embezzlement, data manipulation, and breach of trust. Nevertheless, Karpelès was appointed CTO of Denver-based VPN service provider London Trust Media.
  Former CEO of Mt. Gox Finds CTO Job After Jail in Japan
  As the head executive of Mt. Gox at the time of the hack, Mark Karpelès is seen by many as responsible for losing 85
  
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• Rare Bits Raises US$6M Series A For Crypto Assets, Collectibles Marketplace

  19-04-2018 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  San Francisco-based startup Rare Bits has raised US$6 million in a Series A funding round for its online marketplace for unique crypto assets and collectibles. The round was led by Spark Capital with participation from First Round Capital, Craft Ventures, SV Angel, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, Greenoaks MD Neil Mehta, Aditya Agarwal, Ruchi Sangvhi, Justin […]
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• Gem Unveils All-In-One Crypto Investment App

  19-04-2018 18:00
  Blockchain startup Gem has created a one-stop shop crypto services platform comprised of a portfolio tracker, a wallet and a 'discovery tool.'
  
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• BlockShow 2018 to Disrupt Europe with Its Largest Conference Ever

  19-04-2018 17:56 via crypto-news.net
  Roughly two months after the big and successful event in Singapore, BlockShow team comes back to announce BlockShow Europe 2018 – the brand’s third big conference dedicated to discovering the hottest innovations, trends and sensations currently happening in both European and Global Blockchain scenes.
  This time the event will be held on May 28-29; organizing team decided not to move too far from the previous location, having chosen Berlin as a place for the upcoming conference.
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• ‘Insulting’: Kraken CEO Refuses to Comply with New York’s Crypto Exchange Probe

  19-04-2018 17:44
  Kraken CEO Jesse Powell had strong words for New York regulators who sought to compel the San Francisco-based exchange to participate in its new Virtual Market Integrity Initiative, which demands that trading platforms be more transparent. Earlier this week, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman began an inquiry into the operations of popular cryptocurrency exchanges.
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• Major Investors Met with SEC to Discuss Crypto Exemption

  19-04-2018 17:05
  VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures reportedly met with the SEC in March to request that tokens be exempted from SEC oversight.
  
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• Meet Crowdholding at BlockShow Conference in Berlin!

  19-04-2018 16:58
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• Cryptocurrency Regulation Back on G20 Agenda in Washington Meet Today

  19-04-2018 16:54
  The G20, the group of the world’s 20 largest economies, had begun discussions this year to build a regulatory plan for the cryptocurrency market and those talks are set to continue this week. CCN, in partnership with Criptomoedas Fácil, was the only specialized press from the crypto/blockchain industry present at the event in Buenos Aires and
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• Celebrating the First Anniversary of iExec’s ICO

  19-04-2018 16:52
  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. On April 19, 2017, French-Chinese company, iExec, successfully closed a record breaking crowdsale of its cryptocurrency. iExec offer a new blockchain based solution to decentralized Cloud Computing. One
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• LITEX Creates Fully Decentralized Cryptocurrency Payment Ecosystem

  19-04-2018 16:45
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• Bitnymex – The Most Advanced Trading Platform

  19-04-2018 16:34
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• Vexanium, A Marketing Platform to Benefit Both Retailers and Users

  19-04-2018 16:29
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• World’s 4th Largest Crypto Exchange Huobi Expands To London As ‘Entry Point’ To EU Market

  19-04-2018 16:18 via cointelegraph.com
  Major crypto exchange Huobi plans to open EU office in “not Malta, not Switzerland”,but London. #NEWS
  
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• AirSwap’s Cryptocurrency Platform Launches in April, Merit of Decentralization

  19-04-2018 16:16 via newsbtc.com
  AirSwap, a New York and Hong Kong-based decentralized cryptocurrency platform, has announced its marketplace is going live on April 25, 2018.
  Decentralized Platform AirSwap Goes Live on April 25, 2018
  Decentralized cryptocurrency marketplace AirSwap is ready to go live after having refined its protocol, built the initial platform, and launched its token on October, 10, 2017. The company’s vision of decentralization through peer-to-peer is set to go live on April 25, 2018.
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• AirSwap’s Cryptocurrency Exchange Launches in April, Merit of Decentralization

  19-04-2018 16:16 via newsbtc.com
  AirSwap, a New York and Hong Kong-based decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its platform is going live on April 25, 2018.
  Decentralized Exchange AirSwap Goes Live on April 25, 2018
  Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange AirSwap is ready to go live after having refined its protocol, built the initial platform, and launched its token on February 1, 2018. The company’s vision of decentralization through peer-to-peer is set to go live on April 25, 2018.
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• GIFcoin Successfully Concludes Stage 3 of Token Pre-sale, Heads for the Moon

  19-04-2018 16:10 via newsbtc.com
  Have you heard of GIFcoin? If not, it is high time you did before the “most transparent ICO of 2018” comes to an end.
  Under severe conditions of a bearish crypto market, the crowdsale of GIFcoin — the world’s first Gambling Investment Fund, is performing exceptionally well. The GIFcoin ICO is in its 4th Stage where potential investors can cash in on an attractive 20% bonus.
  The cryptocurrency industry is riddled with uncertainties since the beginning of this year as the v
  
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• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Pledges 2018 Blockchain Standards Release

  19-04-2018 16:00
  The 450-plus member Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is set to release its common blockchain standards for business users before the end of 2018.
  
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• Sharing Economy, Explained

  19-04-2018 15:52 via cointelegraph.com
  The sharing economy is already transforming lifestyles and bringing together communities – but how can Blockchain make it better? #EXPLAINED
  
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• Gotcha? Savedroid Says ‘Exit Scam’ Stunt is Lesson to Crypto Community

  19-04-2018 15:37
  It turns out that Savedroid’s “exit scam” was actually a bizarre publicity stunt. As CCN reported, the German startup — which had raised as much as $50 million through its initial coin offering (ICO) and external funding rounds — appeared on Wednesday to have initiated an exit scam. The Savedroid website was replaced by the
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• Japanese Police Arrest 12 in $1.8 Million Fake Fiat/Bitcoin Fraud

  19-04-2018 15:05
  A joint investigation between Tokyo and Hyogo police into an alleged fraud involving a bitcoin worth ¥190 million has led to the arrests of 12 individuals in total. First reported by the Japan Times last week, the alleged scam involved a Tokyo-based marketing firm executive – in his 40s – falling prey to a group
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• Bitcoin Holds $8,000 Price Point Amid Warnings Fast Growth Could See Lows Return

  19-04-2018 15:03 via cointelegraph.com
  Be careful what you wish for: Bitcoin should grow slow to avoid major downside, says analysis. #NEWS
  
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• $6.3 Billion: 2018 ICO Funding Has Passed 2017's Total

  19-04-2018 15:00
  Even without Telegram, ICOs are on pace to raise much more in 2018 than last year.
  
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