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• “It Never Was a Security”: Ethereum Under The Regulatory Spotlight

  05-05-2018 23:27 via cointelegraph.com
  US regulators looking at Ethereum and whether it should actually be classed a security
  
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• ‘Big Bitcoin Heist’ Suspect Regrets Fleeing Iceland after Jailbreak

  05-05-2018 21:47
  Sindri Thor Stefansson, a 31-year-old man who escaped from prison in Iceland and was rearrested two weeks ago in the Netherlands, has expressed regret for the jailbreak and his decision to flee the country, where he was a suspect in a crime dubbed the Big Bitcoin Heist. Stefansson confessed his feelings about the jailbreak during
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• What Is Zebi Cryptocurrency? – The Merkle - The Merkle

  05-05-2018 21:02 via themerkle.com
  What Is Zebi Cryptocurrency? – The Merkle
  The Merkle
  India's annual digital data consumption is on the rise, and many experts predict that by 2020, the South Asian nation will consume around 3 zebibytes of information per year (1 zebibyte is approximately one trillion gigabytes). However, amidst all of ...and more »
  
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• EOSIO Announces Dawn 4.0 Update, Full Release Slated For June

  05-05-2018 20:17 via cointelegraph.com
  With the full release set to take place June, EOSIO Dawn 4.0 update goes live May 5
  
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• Kasireddy: Fund Recovery Ethereum's 'Defining Moment'

  05-05-2018 20:03
  Developer Preethi Kasireddy believes what the ethereum community decides to do in terms of fund recovery will be the network's "defining moment."
  
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• Fund Recovery Is Ethereum's "Defining Moment," Developer Kasireddy Says

  05-05-2018 20:03
  Developer Preethi Kasireddy believes what the ethereum community decides to do in terms of fund recovery will be the network's "defining moment."
  
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• Bitcoin Mining in Space: An Interview With Miner One’s CEO

  05-05-2018 19:36
  A company made history on Monday by launching a Bitcoin mining rig called Space Miner One into the stratosphere, where it confirmed transactions and mined Bitcoin over 100,000 feet from the surface of the planet. Attached to a weather balloon, the Space Miner One rig drifted through the lower atmosphere before returning to Earth on
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• Brian Kelly: Three Reasons Why Bitcoin Will Continue to Surge in Short-Term

  05-05-2018 17:56
  Brian Kelly, a long-time contributor to CNBC’s Fast Money and the founder of BKCM, has laid out three major factors that could fuel the next big rally of bitcoin, now that the bitcoin price has officially crossed the $10,000 mark. Three Factors According to Kelly, three major factors that will inevitably lead the bitcoin price
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• BTC Tantalizingly Close To Smashing $10K Globally, Already There On Asian Markets

  05-05-2018 16:26 via cointelegraph.com
  Crypto markets are rocketing: BTC is brushing $10k, ETH is over $821, and total market cap at $470 bln
  
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• Why Cryptocurrency Miners Are Trading Bitcoin Futures

  05-05-2018 16:00
  Bitcoin futures, which failed to generate the investor interest some had hoped for when CME Group Inc. and CBOE Global Markets Inc. first offered them in December, are finding support from an unlikely quarter – cryptocurrency miners, according to MarketWatch. Miners are using futures to hedge their bests amidst the rising cost of mining bitcoin.
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• Bitcoin at $9,900, What’s Next For Bitcoin Price After $10,000?

  05-05-2018 15:14
  The bitcoin price is less than $100 away from surpassing $10,000 after demonstrating a strong week of momentum and volume. In Hong Kong and South Korea, the bitcoin price has already reached $10,000. What’s Next After $10,000? For many months prior to November 2017, the $10,000 threshold was considered an important psychological support level for
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• Are Blockchain Solutions Really Expelling Brokers?

  05-05-2018 15:00 via newsbtc.com
  Blockchain businesses, like many other startups in the digital world, choose to boast of expelling middlemen and intermediaries. But sometimes intermediaries add real value to their industries. And sometimes they outlive their usefulness and create unnecessary economic distortion and inefficiency. More often than not, intermediaries in disrupted industries occupy an ambiguous zone between these two poles.
  Uber, for example, has disrupted the taxi industry in London by connecting ride-hailers and
  
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• Huobi Labs Announces a $1 billion fund for Blockchain companies

  05-05-2018 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A strategic partnership has been announced between Tianya and Huobi labs. With the latter introducing a $1 billion fund for new businesses seeking to enter the field of blockchain technology. Huobi Labs is an incubator company for the larger cryptocurrency exchange, Huobi. Offering startups initial funding, industry resources, and advice, including exclusive access to a bespoke […]
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• How Does Content Streaming on Blockchain Work?

  05-05-2018 14:05 via newsbtc.com
  Streaming content is quickly supplanting traditional cable and television as the primary way people watch video content. According to a Pew Research Center survey, a whopping 61% of respondents aged 18-29 primarily use online streaming services to watch television. Emarketer estimated that there were 22.2 million cord-cutters aged 18 and older in the U.S. in 2017, a 33.2% increase over 2016 figures.
  Streaming content is the wave of the future. SuccessLife is using blockchain to take the streamin
  
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• College Students Use Free Electricity on Campus to Mine Bitcoin

  05-05-2018 13:56 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin mining has become harder to turn a profit as scarcity and increased complexity to solve algorithms requires added skill, computing power, and electricity. As large companies steadily take over the cryptocurrency mining activity, enthusiasts get creative to reduce expenses to make it worth it.
  Bitcoin Mining Gets Popular on College Campuses for Its Free Electricity
  Alex Gilarde, a senior at Fairleigh Dickison University, started mining cryptocurrencies in 2012, when it was still relativel
  
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• Pro-BTC Wall St Analyst Urges Not To Buy Crypto Now, Despite Recent Rally

  05-05-2018 13:54 via cointelegraph.com
  Wall Street’s first brokerage analyst to cover BTC extensively urges investors to think twice before entering the crypto markets, despite recent bullish signs
  
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• South Korea Has No Choice but to Legalize ICOs, and It May Happen Soon

  05-05-2018 13:20
  The South Korean government has no other choice but to legalize initial coin offerings (ICO) and representative Hong Eui-rak of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea has obtained the support of 10 lawmakers to challenge the current ban on domestic ICOs. Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunities The economy of South Korea has only recently started to improve
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• Venezuela to Launch Petro-funded Youth Bank, Maduro Claims

  05-05-2018 13:12
  Venezuela will open a youth bank funded by the government’s state-backed petro cryptocurrency, the country’s president said on Thursday. Nicolas Maduro announced the initiative during a youth rally held in the state of Aragua, and regional news outlet Telesur reports that he committed to funding the project with 20 million units of its recently-launched petro
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• ORS GROUP to Empower Crypto Asset Management Company Bluebit Capital with AI-Based Trading Algorithms

  05-05-2018 12:45
  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. London – May 4: ORS GROUP, the international Artificial Intelligence leading software company, has today announced its sales agreement with Bluebit Capital Partners, a crypto asset manager. ORS will
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• Online.io Announces Details of Roadmap for 2018-2019

  05-05-2018 12:05
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• Code Is Law - But It's Not the Only Law for Blockchains

  05-05-2018 11:35
  It's the combination of internal and external rules that ultimately dictates how blockchain-based platforms will operate, says Primavera De Filippi.
  
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• Trinity Protocol Establishing Strategic Cooperation with Hyperdragons

  05-05-2018 11:30
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• Inwecrypto Establishing Strategic Cooperation with Decentraland

  05-05-2018 11:27
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• Ripple Hit with Lawsuit While Binance Expands XRP Listings

  05-05-2018 10:26 via newsbtc.com
  It has been a tumultuous week for San Francisco based Ripple Labs which now finds itself embroiled in another law suit. This time a disgruntled investor has taken up legal action claiming the blockchain firm has violated federal securities laws.
  Digital Coins Created ‘Out of Thin Air’
  According to Thursday’s class action suit which is currently being discussed on Reddit, the company failed to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before offering its digital
  
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• Asian Cryptocurrency Trading Update: Litecoin Lifted as Rumors of Lee Leaving Emerge

  05-05-2018 06:46 via newsbtc.com
  FOMO Moments
  Entering the weekend crypto markets have remained bullish and are continuing to climb. Total market capitalization has crossed $450 billion and is marching upwards for the time being. Bitcoin has crept towards the critical $10k barrier but has failed to break it rising 2% on the day to trade at $9,800. Altcoins are largely mixed during Asian trade this morning with most of the top ten in the green but many of the others retracting slightly. One showing the biggest gains in the top 2
  
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• South Korean Wealth Management Firm: Cryptocurrency Can be a Safe Haven Asset

  05-05-2018 04:00
  Jeong Ki-wook, a former executive at Cisco and the founder of TrustVerse, a South Korea-based wealth management platform, said that cryptocurrency assets like bitcoin and ethereum can evolve into safe haven assets in the long-term. Reaching Stability In an interview with ZDNet Korea, Jeong said that cryptocurrencies have the potential to become safe haven assets
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• Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Stellar, Litecoin, Cardano, IOTA, EOS: Price Analysis, May 04

  05-05-2018 03:26 via cointelegraph.com
  Cryptocurrency trading at Goldman Sachs, new investors joining the crypto craze and other reasons for the prices to go up. See the latest price analysis on top 9 cryptocurrencies to find out more
  
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• Former US Federal Reserve Governor Says Federal Digital Currency Deserves Consideration

  05-05-2018 03:16 via cointelegraph.com
  Former Fed governor says that creation of ‘FedCoin’ deserves consideration, while central banks should treat digital currencies as more than a novelty
  
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• Online Art Auctioneer To Launch Art Authentication Service Based On Blockchain

  05-05-2018 03:10 via cointelegraph.com
  Online auctioneer house Paddle8 and Swiss tech company The Native are launching a blockchain-based art authentication service
  
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• PwC Purchases Stake In Blockchain-Service Provider VeChain, Will Integrate Platform

  05-05-2018 02:14 via cointelegraph.com
  Audit giant PwC moves toward blockchain integration by acquiring a minority stake in a Chinese blockchain-based startup VeChain
  
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• (Buy Tron) IOTA, Stellar Lumens, Tron, Litecoin, EOS: Technical Analysis for May 5, 2018

  05-05-2018 02:01 via newsbtc.com
  Yesterday’s market was generally slow but while we are seeing flat outs in Stellar Lumens for example, EOS and Tron might have a comeback in the weekend. In my view, buying TRX or Tron can be a good strategy now that there are unsubstantiated rumors of potential listing at GDAX, Circle or CoinBase. Either way, news of such jolted Tron pushing it up from our previous support at eight cents.
  Let look at these charts:
  EOSUSD (EOS)
  EOS 4HR Chart by Trading View
  Could EOS Evolution looking to s
  
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• Global Blockchain Adoption Still Low, Gartner Survey Finds

  05-05-2018 01:00
  Adoption and interest in blockchain technology by global information company information officers is low, says Gartner in its 2018 CIO Survey, although executives from telecom, insurance and financial services have shown keenness in planning to adopt the decentralized technology. Although financial services and insurance companies have been front-runners to blockchain activity across the world, Gartner … Continued
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• Norwegian Crypto Exchange Loses Case Against Nordea Bank For Closing Its Account

  05-05-2018 00:11 via cointelegraph.com
  Norwegian crypto exchange Bitmynt loses case against Nordea for closing its account, founder says he will appeal
  
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• When Not If: For Ethereum Believers, Scaling Is Just a Matter of Time

  05-05-2018 00:00
  An ethereum conference in Canada this week showcased the depth and variety of projects seeking to scale the world's second largest blockchain.
  
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