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• Rising Hong Kong Startup Criticized for Selling Majority Stake to Invest in Cryptocurrency

  25-07-2018 23:33
  Hong Kong’s fifth-largest bike sharing startup has sold 60 percent of its stake to invest in the cryptocurrency market, or two ERC20 tokens to be exact. $1 Million in Tokens Ketch’up Bike, a top five bike sharing company in Hong Kong that oversees more than 1,000 bicycles, has sold a majority stake in its venture
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• AMD Sees Q2 Drop in GPU Sales to Crypto Miners

  25-07-2018 23:33
  GPU sales for cryptocurrency mining fell quarter-over-quarter, AMD announced in its Q2 report on Wednesday.
  
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• Binance Teams Up with Malta to Create the Blockchain Charity Foundation

  25-07-2018 23:08 via newsbtc.com
  Breaking new ground, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, has teamed up with the Maltese President’s Trust to create the Blockchain Charity Foundation.
  It will use the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies to “empower vulnerable communities and enhance transparency in charitable work.” The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed with Helen Hai, a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Maltese
  
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• US Lawmakers Want FinCEN Mandate to Explicitly Cover Crypto

  25-07-2018 23:00
  A new bill facing the U.S. Congress would have FinCEN more closely examine the cryptocurrency space, according to public documents.
  
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• Wall Street Traded $572 Million in Bitcoin Futures During Tuesday’s Bull Run

  25-07-2018 22:35
  The bitcoin price is rallying, and this time, it looks like Wall Street has shown up to the party. On Tuesday, bitcoin brief briefly broached the $8,500 threshold on Bitfinex for the first time since mid-May, and while it has since pulled back several hundred dollars from that two-month high, it has nevertheless risen 10
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• MetaMask Browser Extension Pulled From Google Chrome Store for 5 Hours, ‘Unsure’ of Cause

  25-07-2018 22:25 via cointelegraph.com
  MetaMask, an Ethereum network browser extension, got pulled from the Google Chrome Web Store for 5 hours for as of yet unknown reasons
  
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• EU Parliament Issues Report on Cryptocurrencies

  25-07-2018 22:00 via crypto-news.net
  In light of the recent Bitcoin price rally, the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs issued a report outlining their expectations of the future for the cryptocurrency industry. The committee considers that if central banks would get involved in the market and begin issuing centralized digital currencies, traditional coins like Bitcoin could be derailed.
  The authors believe that “the arrival of permissioned cryptocurrencies promoted by banks, even by central banks,
  
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• FCoin Is Launching FT1808 Warrant Tomorrow

  25-07-2018 21:38
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• Rogue Employee Mined 500K Bitcoins in 2011, Qiwi CEO Says

  25-07-2018 21:30
  An employee at Qiwi reportedly mined roughly 500,000 bitcoins in 2011 by hijacking the company's payment terminals, CEO Sergey Solonin said Wednesday.
  
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• ‘Dark Horse’ U.S. Presidential Candidate Accepts Bitcoin Donations

  25-07-2018 21:30
  Andrew Yang, a “dark horse” U.S. presidential candidate running as a Democrat, tweeted that he is accepting donations in bitcoin, Ether and other cryptocurrencies for his 2020 presidential bid. Yang is a successful entrepreneur who founded an organization called Venture for America, an entrepreneurial fellowship. He authored a book called “The War on Normal People”
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• Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Litecoin, Cardano, Stellar, IOTA, TRON: Price Analysis, July 25

  25-07-2018 21:20 via cointelegraph.com
  The potential approval of a Bitcoin ETF by the U.S. SEC would be a boost to the crypto markets, but not to the extent of last year’s rally. What will the price action be until then? Let’s look at the charts
  
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• Coinbase Announces E-Gift Card Partnership in Europe and Australia

  25-07-2018 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  Popular cryptocurrency brokerage Coinbase has today announced a partnership with an e-gift card buying service. Users of the platform from Europe and Australia will be able to buy vouchers to use at many different retailers using their exchange balances.
  Coinbase Striving to Bring Greater Usability to Cryptos
  From today, Coinbase will be partnered with e-gift card supplier WeGift. This agreement will allow EU and Australian users of the crypto brokerage platform to buy e-gift cards at a number o
  
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• Why Major Cryptocurrency Investors Are Betting Heavily Against ... - Forbes

  25-07-2018 20:46 via forbes.com
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  Ethereum's currency has dropped steeply this year, but some major crypto investors think it has more room to fall, and they're betting aggressively against it.and more »
  
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• Ex-Programmer of Russian Payments Firm Qiwi Used Company Equipment to Mine 500K Bitcoins, CEO Claims

  25-07-2018 20:15 via cointelegraph.com
  The CEO of Russian payments company Qiwi has claimed that one of his former employees used the company’s equipment to mine 500K bitcoins back in 2011
  
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• No Escape: Augur Burns Key to Network ‘Killswitch’

  25-07-2018 20:01
  In an official tweet, Augur team has announced that they destroyed their access to the fail-safe kill switch. Happy two weeks! 🎉 Ownership of the escape hatch has been transferred to the 0x000..0001 address. — Augur (@AugurProject) July 24, 2018 Augur had implemented a kill switch mechanism in their smart contract which allowed their developers
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• CFTC Chair Says Regulator Is 'Behind' on Blockchain

  25-07-2018 20:00
  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is "falling behind" in understanding blockchain technology, chairman Christopher Giancarlo said.
  
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• How Much Would You Be Able to Get for Your Data?

  25-07-2018 19:43
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• Crypto Asset Brokerage Co-Founded by Uber Ex-CTO to Launch Zero-Fee Trading App in 2018

  25-07-2018 19:27 via cointelegraph.com
  A licensed U.S. multi-exchange crypto asset brokerage dubbed ‘Voyager’ has revealed plans to launch a zero-fee mobile trading app in Q4 this year
  
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• Bitmain Publishes Hashrate Stats, Claims Just 4% of Total Bitcoin Mining Power

  25-07-2018 19:09
  Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain said that it will begin publishing regular reports on the size of its in-house mining operation as part of a wider transparency push it has been making prior to going public later this year. Bitmain Publishes In-House Bitcoin Mining Stats Those statistics, which are current as of July 22, are sure
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• OSA Token Sale Has Finally Begun!

  25-07-2018 18:47
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• Asset Management Network RigoBlock Announces Ethfinex Partnership

  25-07-2018 18:32
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• Bitcoin Price Awaits Possible Spoiler Ahead of July Futures Close

  25-07-2018 18:30
  Bitcoin has historically performed poorly leading up to CME futures expiry, a correlation traders might not want to ignore.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Intraday Analysis: BTCUSD Likely to Retest $8,500

  25-07-2018 18:10
  A $300 drop sounds problematic in a traditional market, but the sentiment is not the same when it comes to Bitcoin. The digital currency, in the past week, rose over 39% against the U.S. Dollar to eventually establish 8511-fiat as its new weekly high. The upside is credited to serious sellers exiting the market, leaving
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• MetaMask Google Plugin Suddenly Removed from Chrome Web Store

  25-07-2018 18:02 via newsbtc.com
  The popular Google Chrome plugin MetaMask has suddenly disappeared from the browser’s web store. For now, the MetaMask team have no leads as to why this has occurred.
  MetaMask Inexplicably Vanishes from Chrome Web Store
  It has emerged today that the popular browser plugin MetaMask has been removed from the Google Chrome web store. There is no word from either the MetaMask team or Google as to why this is the case.
  The news was announced via the MetaMask official Twitter account in the last
  
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• Uber, E*Trade Vets to Launch No-Fee Crypto Exchange

  25-07-2018 17:50
  A new cryptocurrency exchange is set to launch with no-feed trading – and it's got some notable backers behind it.
  
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• Mediex – Moving Towards Better Healthcare

  25-07-2018 17:49
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• Japan: Self-Regulatory Crypto Exchange Association Considers Margin Trade Limits to Stem Losses

  25-07-2018 17:35 via cointelegraph.com
  Japan’s self-regulatory body says reducing margin trade borrowing on domestic crypto exchanges to 4 times the investment would secure traders
  
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• Coinbase Now Lets You Pay for Your Shopping with a Crypto E-Gift Card

  25-07-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is giving its users a new way of purchasing goods and services, after announcing a new partnership with an e-gift card company. Announced today, the San Francisco-based exchange is teaming up with London-based WeGift, an online gift card platform, permitting customers to spend their cryptocurrency on e-gift cards. Accordingly, users will be […]
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• Latest Trade.io Partnership Is with Loyalty Point Management Company

  25-07-2018 17:08
  Trade.io launched its cryptocurrency exchange in beta earlier this week.
  
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• Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Doubles Down on $20,000 Bitcoin Price Bet

  25-07-2018 17:04
  Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has doubled down on his prediction that the bitcoin price will reach $20,000 before the end of the year, arguing that the flagship cryptocurrency is “battle-tested” and capable of weathering market uncertainty. Ohanian, who now runs venture capital firm Initialized Capital, defended his bitcoin price call in a recent interview with
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• Tron Foundation Officially Completes Acquisition of BitTorrent

  25-07-2018 17:00
  File sharing software provider BitTorrent announced Tuesday that its acquisition by the Tron Foundation is now officially complete.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Gains: Tokens and Small Coins Start to Rebound as Crypto Volume Explodes

  25-07-2018 16:09
  The daily trading volume of the crypto market has increased from around $9 billion to $19 billion within a period of two weeks, by more than two-fold. Tokens Perform Well Bitcoin has remained relatively stable in the $8,200 region after reaching a monthly peak at $8,500, recording a slight drop from its high point. The
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• Bitcoin Holds Recent Gains Amid a Checkered Market Outlook

  25-07-2018 16:05 via cointelegraph.com
  Having led the week’s impressive uptick, Bitcoin its consolidating newly won gains, while other leading crypto assets are seeing mixed red and green
  
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• China's Answer to Reddit Is Launching a Crypto Token

  25-07-2018 15:30
  One of the oldest social networking platforms in China is launching its own crypto token in an apparent bid to boost declining user activity.
  
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• Coinbase/Bitcoin Cash Insider Trading Probe: No Action to Be Taken

  25-07-2018 15:28
  However, Coinbase still has a class-action lawsuit to contend with.
  
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• Catalonian Government to Develop Plan for Blockchain Technology Integration

  25-07-2018 15:27 via cointelegraph.com
  Catalonia’s government will work on a strategy to implement blockchain across all public administrative activities
  
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• Bitmain Receives Extra $1 Billion Funding Ahead of IPO

  25-07-2018 15:24
  The extra funding follows a recently completed Series B funding round, where the company received over $300 million.
  
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• Indian Law Commission Recognizes Cryptocurrency as an ‘Electronic Payment’: Report

  25-07-2018 15:22
  The cryptocurrency ecosystem in India may have just found a lifeline, albeit an unlikely one. According to a legal report released in July 2018, the country’s lawmakers are considering legalizing the multi-million dollar sports betting industry – naming cryptocurrencies as a legally acceptable payment method akin to credit and debit cards. India Explores Cryptocurrencies in
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• Skrill’s New Cryptocurrency Offering is Now Live in Over 30 Countries

  25-07-2018 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Skrill, a leading digital wallet and online payment provider part of the Paysafe Group, has launched a new cryptocurrency offering, now letting users from more than 30 countries instantly buy and sell cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, BCH, Ether and Litecoin, using any one of the 40+ national currencies available in the Skrill wallet, the company said […]
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• Startup Launches ‘Complete Redesign’ of Blockchain to Address Scalability Concerns

  25-07-2018 15:00 via cointelegraph.com
  A company claiming that scalability concerns are stopping cryptocurrencies from becoming the money of the future says its “fully functional” blockchain could be the answer #SPONSORED
  
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• Chinese Research Institute Report Finds Blockchain Can Enhance Financial Services

  25-07-2018 14:49 via cointelegraph.com
  A joint report from China’s IT Ministry and Internet service provider Tencent Holdings finds that blockchain tech can enhance the transparency of financial services
  
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• GRAFT to Release the First Supernode that Provides Real-time Authorizations for Cryptocurrency Payments

  25-07-2018 14:32
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• The History of BRAVO Pay

  25-07-2018 14:25
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• ‘Big Four’ Firm EY Acquires Crypto-Assets Tax Tool to Audit Blockchains

  25-07-2018 14:19
  As it seeks to expand its blockchain-related services and capabilities across the globe, accounting giant Ernst & Young has acquired crypto-related technology assets developed by the San Francisco, California-based Elevated Consciousness. This includes the Andy Crypto-Asset Accounting and Tax (CAAT) technology, a tool which links with multiple cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges thus enhancing the visibility
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• Crypto Startup Introduces Alternative Mining Method for Entry Level PCs

  25-07-2018 14:00 via newsbtc.com
  Cryptocurrency mining, while also being an integral part of many blockchain networks, has become a source of profit and business for exclusive crypto firms. The recently-founded HoneyMiner startup is attempting to make mining more accessible to a wider array of consumers, by providing users, like you or I, with an innovative new platform.
  HoneyMiner: The New Way To Mine Cryptos
  HoneyMiner provides an easy-to-use software for retail consumers looking to get into mining, allowing users of the Wind
  
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• Crypto Security Startup BitGo to Custody Zcash

  25-07-2018 14:00
  Cryptocurrency security startup BitGo says it is adding privacy coin zcash to its supported crypto assets.
  
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• Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Upholds BTC $20K, ETH $1.5K 2018 Forecasts

  25-07-2018 13:43 via cointelegraph.com
  Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian is upholding his $20,000 Bitcoin (BTC) and $1,500 Ethereum (ETH) forecasts for 2018.
  
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• Bitcoin Seeks Bargain Buyers As Price Retreats Back Toward $8K

  25-07-2018 13:30
  Bitcoin price pullback could find bargain hunters at key support levels.
  
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• Coinbase Takes on Cryptocurrency Gift Cards With Limited Rollout

  25-07-2018 13:22 via cointelegraph.com
  Coinbase has jumped on the cryptocurrency gift card bandwagon, with users across the EU and Australia now able to spend their crypto balances on e-gift cards
  
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• Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain Eyes $1 Billion Pre-IPO Financing: Report

  25-07-2018 13:05
  Already the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency company, Chinese bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain is reportedly enticing investors toward a new $1 billion financing round ahead of its anticipated public listing in Hong Kong. According to regional news resource Toutiao, Bitmain is looking at a new round of financing – its biggest yet – near the
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