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• Swamp not Drained? 64% of US Voters Fear Politicians Will Misuse Crypto Donations

  30-10-2018 23:33
  Mistrust of politicians is nothing new, but the perception that bitcoin and other crypto tokens are unregulated has heightened the suspicions of eligible US voters. According to a survey conducted by blockchain research firm Clovr, 64 percent of respondents across the US political landscape were fearful of politicians coming up with ways to illegally take advantage
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• Survey: 60% of US Voters Support Bitcoin Donations in Federal Elections

  30-10-2018 23:00 via newsbtc.com
  A poll conducted by IT firm Clovr has found that 60 percent of participants who are eligible voters are in favor of legalizing cryptocurrency donations in federal elections in the U.S.
  A number of states have already restricted or ruled against such donations and the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) accepts cryptocurrency as in-kind contributions limited to $100.
  60 Percent of Eligible Voters Want Crypto Donations Under Same Rules as US Dollars
  Clovr surveyed 1,023 registered U.S. voters
  
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• Microsoft Azure Blockchain Signs Nasdaq Financial Framework

  30-10-2018 22:49
  Microsoft Azure claims to support a rapidly growing number of distributed ledger technologies.
  
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• Oyster Protocol Founder Exit Scams, Steals $300,000 from ICO Smart Contract

  30-10-2018 22:30
  Oyster Protocol is a hybrid IOTA/Ethereum smart contract platform designed to help websites garner revenue. Instead of traditional advertising, users of websites contribute their computing resources, enabling the website owner to garner Oyster Pearls (PRL) by securing and contributing to services offered by Oyster. PRL — which is an ERC-20 token and runs on Ethereum
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• LocalBitcoins Seller Pleads Guilty to Operating Unlicensed Business

  30-10-2018 22:00 via newsbtc.com
  A LocalBitcoins seller pleaded guilty of operating an illegal money transfer business in a Southern California federal court earlier today.
  The defendant admitted to buying thousands of Bitcoin over a 16-month period and selling them through the popular peer-to-peer marketplace without the correct licence to do so.
  Bitcoin Dealer Agrees to Forfeit Over $820,000
  According to a news release from the Southern California Department of Justice, a San Diego man has pleaded guilty of operating an
  
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• Bitcoin Price Intraday Analysis: BTC/USD Expecting More Losses

  30-10-2018 21:29
  Bitcoin on Tuesday remained calmer compared to the action noted at the beginning of this week. The bitcoin-to-dollar exchange rate moved sideways above its newfound support at 6212-fiat as volume dipped once again. The pair is now more than a percent down from its yesterday’s high at 6288-fiat, trading at 6211-fiat at this moment. The
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• Unocoin Founder Recounts His Arrest Following Indian Crackdown on Bitcoin ATMs

  30-10-2018 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  Just one week ago, Indian officials arrested the co-founder of an Indian cryptocurrency exchange, Unocoin, for operating a Bitcoin ATM kiosk which the police called “illegal”. One of Unocoin’s co-founders has now given a recount of his arrest in a recent interview.
  The Unocoin co-founder’s arrests were largely publicized and was seen by many as the Indian government’s way of flexing their muscles against the cryptocurrency industry, which they have been at war
  
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• Daily Crypto Roundup 10/30/2018

  30-10-2018 20:52
  Today in Crypto is news of Coinbase raising even more funds, an interview with Blockstream’s Allen Piscitello, more Roger Ver drama, Bittrex news, and regulatory insights. Let’s dive into today’s news!
  Coinbase Raises $300 Million Following IPO Rumors
  News this morning from Coinbase shows them raising $300 million in its first funding round since 2017.
  The funds raised will be used “to accelerate adoption, expand their crypto offerings, build new utility applications for
  
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• Better, Faster, Cheaper: Ripple Exec Claims XRP is ‘Bitcoin 2.0’

  30-10-2018 20:46
  Ripple’s New Chief Market Strategiest, Cory Johnson, is certainly a known quantity in the traditional financial world. He co-founded TheStreet.com with CNBC’s Jim Cramer – that guy who’s always freaking out over charts and events on Wall Street – and worked with a number of different start-ups over the years before eventually finding himself at
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• Data Shows Millions Leaving Crypto Wallets Tied to Long-Troubled Exchange

  30-10-2018 20:15
  Binance has frozen accounts that received more than 93,000 ether (over $18.9 million) from wallets indirectly linked to troubled Russian exchange WEX.
  
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• Coincheck Resumes New Account Openings, Customers Deposits

  30-10-2018 20:00 via newsbtc.com
  Coincheck, the Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange victim of a $500 million worth theft, has resumed new account openings, customer deposits, and purchasing of some digital currencies.
  The operator had suspended some services following the late January incident in order to protect customers’ assets and investigate the cause of hacking.
  Coincheck Exchange Resumes Trading of BTC, ETC, LTC, BCH, New Accounts Exclusive for Japan Residents
  The theft of $500 million worth of NEM in early 2018 ca
  
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• New Bank of America Patent Hints at Plan to Store Cryptocurrency Keys

  30-10-2018 19:32
  A new Bank of America patent outlines a "hardened storage device" that can protect private keys from theft.
  
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• Bank of America Patent Hints at Plan to Store Cryptocurrency Keys

  30-10-2018 19:32
  A new Bank of America patent outlines a "hardened storage device" that can protect private keys from theft.
  
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• More Drama With Roger Ver/Jimmy Song $1 Million Bet

  30-10-2018 19:17
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  Notable Bitcoin maximalist Jimmy Song went live with Tone Vays on YouTube today discussing further drama about a bet made last month.
  The bet saw Roger Ver (a head figure for Bitcoin Cash) betting Jimmy Song on the future prices of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. Ver challenged that the price of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) would be higher than the price of Bitcoin (BTC) in ten years.
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  Today, Tone Vays and Jimmy Song discussed recent develo
  
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• Bitcoin’s ‘Patient Zero’: Crypto is an Intellectual Experiment That May Fail [But Probably Won’t]

  30-10-2018 19:15
  Crypto is a robust intellectual experiment that could fail, but it probably won’t. That’s the assessment of Argentine tech entrepreneur Wences Casares, the founder of Xapo, a bitcoin wallet provider based in Palo Alto, California. “We are living through a really interesting intellectual experiment,” Casares told Bloomberg TV (video below). “And it’s going on right in
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• (MM) The Truth About the Pittsburgh Shooting – Freedom of Speech Reminds Us What We Don’t Want to Hear

  30-10-2018 18:44
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• Clarity: The Global Business Advisory Platform For Small Business

  30-10-2018 18:39
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• Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen Is 'Not A Fan' of Bitcoin

  30-10-2018 18:35
  Janet Yellen pointed to transaction speeds and market volatility as reasons she's not bullish on bitcoin.
  
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• Cloudbet Celebrates 5 Years as Bitcoin Gambling Pioneer

  30-10-2018 18:31
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• The US Government Maintains a Fork of Bitcoin

  30-10-2018 18:21
  The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other government bodies play a role in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. For starters, SHA-256 and most other hashing algorithms using in cryptocurrencies have been reviewed and tested by the Institute in the past. Independent cryptographers are frequently consulted by government agencies and scientists. The NSA
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• Coinchase Introduces ‘Break and Return’ Insurance: The Money Back Guarantee for Blockchain

  30-10-2018 18:18
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• Coinbase Bear Market Revenue Projected to Beat Last Year’s Bull Run

  30-10-2018 18:00 via newsbtc.com
  Coinbase achieved staggering annual revenue results during 2017 largely due to Bitcoin’s bull run and cryptocurrency catching the attention of the mainstream public for the first time.
  However, the 2018 bear market may end up being even more profitable for the cryptocurrency giant. Earlier today, the exchange also revealed that it will add an extra $300 million of investment at a valuation of more than $8 billion to speed up the adoption of cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
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• Yellen: Bitcoin Not a Store of Value, ‘Anything But’ a Useful Currency

  30-10-2018 17:28
  Janet Yellen, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, has doubled down on her longstanding criticisms of bitcoin and other cryptocurrency assets. Speaking on Monday at the 2018 Canada FinTech Forum in Montreal, the Obama appointee, who led the Fed from 2014 to 2018 following a four-year tenure as vice chair, alleged that bitcoin’s decentralized
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• Built By Champions, Powered By Blockchain: Champion Shave

  30-10-2018 17:28
  This is a sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. Established in 2016, Champion Shave is committed to bringing the Champion Shave feeling to men around the world. For the last two years, the company, owned by star athletes
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• The Godfather of Ethereum ICOs Wants to Let Investors Take Their Money Back

  30-10-2018 17:05
  Fabian Vogelsteller has proposed a method for safer ICOs, by allowing investors to withdraw funds.
  
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• Untraceable Cryptocurrency Can Help Us Bypass Sanctions: Iranian General

  30-10-2018 16:40
  An Iranian general has strongly hinted that the country could soon turn to cryptocurrencies as a way to evade international financial sanctions. Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, on Monday spoke about the ‘great opportunities’ presented by cryptocurrencies in the latest indication that Tehran is developing a state cryptocurrency. As
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• Civic Joins Rivetz, ElevenPaths Partnership to Provide Blockchain-Powered Identity Verification Solutions

  30-10-2018 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Blockchain identity startup Civic has joined a partnership previously formed between crypto cybersecurity company Rivetz and Telefónica’s cybersecurity unit ElevenPaths to deliver blockchain-powered identity solutions to mobile users. Civic is an identity protection and management startup founded in 2015 by South African Internet entrepreneur Vinny Lingham. The company raised US$33 million in funding during its […]
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• WeTrust Spring to Match 100% of ETH Donations Through Giving Tuesday, Announces 14 Partnerships

  30-10-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A fundraising platform has announced that it will match 100 per cent of every Ethereum donation as part of Giving Tuesday through to November 27. It has also revealed its inaugural partnerships with 14 charitable organisations. WeTrust Spring is a fundraising platform that gives social entrepreneurs and nonprofits a platform to raise funds through Ether. […]
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• Interview: Blockstream’s Allen Piscitello on Liquid, the Lightning Network, and Bitcoin Core

  30-10-2018 15:50
  Allen Piscitello, Blockstream’s Director of Product Management whose main professional focus has been on the Liquid Network, has agreed to answer to a few of Vlad Costea’s questions. This interview is part of Crypto Insider’s celebration of Bitcoin’s tenth anniversary, as Satoshi Nakamoto has famously published the Bitcoin Whitepaper on October 31st 2008.
  Conceptually, it’s fascinating to observe how far Bitcoin has come: we’ve reached the point where sidechai
  
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• Cryptocurrency Derivatives in the UK at Risk of Ban, Taskforce to Have Final Say

  30-10-2018 15:41
  Cryptocurrency derivatives including futures, options and contracts for differences could potentially be prohibited in the United Kingdom in the near future. According to a statement issued by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UK’s financial watchdog, consultations will be held between now and the first quarter of next year where a ban on crypto derivatives will
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• Bitcoin Turns Ten: A Blast To The Past

  30-10-2018 15:30 via newsbtc.com
  Just shy of 10 years ago, on October 31st, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the now-world-renowned Bitcoin project, sat down to release a technical paper on what is arguably the most important innovation in human history.
  Bitcoin Origins
  As you may (or may not remember), this paper, titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” highlighted the world’s first decentralized network and a viable form of digital cash that was seemingly poised to us
  
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• ASQ Protocol Airdrop Is Over with a Lucky Winner Successful in His Treasure Hunt

  30-10-2018 15:14
  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. ASQ Protocol is proud to announce that the airdrop campaign ended on October 5, 2018, with a lucky winner finding the precious wallet with ASQ tokens worth of
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• 9 Months after $530 Million Hack, Crypto Exchange Coincheck is Accepting New Users

  30-10-2018 15:06
  Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, the victim of the largest theft in the crypto industry’s history, has reopened new user registrations and limited trading services. Coincheck Opens Registration, Limited Crypto Trading The Tokyo-based cryptocurrency trading platform, which lost a record $530 million in NEM tokens (XEM) after an attacker breached its hot wallet in January, made
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• ETH, LTC, DASH and NEO Just Erased Their 2018 Price Gains

  30-10-2018 15:00
  Ether, litecoin, dash and neo are now down year-over-year and trading at their lowest total in over 12 months.
  
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• Unocoin Founder: Comparing Bitcoin Kiosk to a Bank ATM Landed Us in Trouble

  30-10-2018 14:04
  About a week since the seizure of what was to be the first Bitcoin ATM in India, one of the co-founders of the firm that installed the cryptocurrency vending machine, Unocoin, has speculated that the debacle could have been avoided with better branding. Speaking to Quartz India, the co-founder of Unocoin, Sathvik Vishwanath, has claimed
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• Binance Boss Talks Crypto and Blockchain at Forbes Global CEO Conference

  30-10-2018 14:00 via newsbtc.com
  The Forbes Global CEO Conference has just started in Bangkok, Thailand, and participants have already entered various discussions. As always, the aim is to solve, but also present, various problems, and share their views of where the world of technology, business, and entrepreneurship is going next. One of the 400 attendants was Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange called Binance.
  Forbes Global CEO Conference is an annual event that invites numerous attendants from all corners of t
  
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• This New Ethereum Software Client Is Built With Enterprises in Mind

  30-10-2018 13:59
  Unlike other enterprise versions of ethereum, ConsenSys' new Pantheon has a less-restrictive software license and uses Java as a programming language.
  
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• A-Nex Poised to Announce ICO Featuring Unhackable Cryptocurrency Technology for Internet Security

  30-10-2018 13:54
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• Can we stop cryptocurrency hacks?

  30-10-2018 13:50
  Blockchain’s promise of transforming numerous industries is inevitable. It will enhance some and disrupt others. The technology, which is the backbone of most cryptocurrencies, is expected to disrupt the global financial system due to decentralization, the elimination of the middleman (banks), the cutting of fees taken by these middlemen, the borderless potential, and the ownership of those assets directed between peers. Despite the benefits, however, crypto hacks remain a problem that can
  
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• The Horror Trail Leads You to €50,000 and a Trip for Two to Bali!

  30-10-2018 13:39
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• Newsflash: Crypto Giant Coinbase Worth $8 Billion, Will List ‘Hundreds’ of Tokens

  30-10-2018 13:34
  Coinbase, long one of the largest companies in the crypto industry, now ranks among the world’s most valuable tech startups following the conclusion of a new funding round. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange operator announced on Tuesday that it had closed a $300 million Series E funding round led by Tiger Global Management. The funding
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• Coinbase Hits $8 Billion Valuation After $300 Million Raise

  30-10-2018 13:34
  U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has just announced $300 million in new funding via a Series E round.
  
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• Coinbase raises $300 million following IPO rumors

  30-10-2018 13:15
  In a blog post released this morning, Coinbase has announced that it has raised $300 million in its latest funding round at a valuation of $8 billion.
  The equity raise, led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Y Combinator Continuity, Wellington Management, Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain and others, is its first since 2017.
  The announcement noted that the company will be using the funds to accelerate adoption, expand their crypto offerings, build new utility applications for the s
  
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• No, Bitcoin is Not Going to Melt the Planet

  30-10-2018 13:00 via newsbtc.com
  As Bitcoin adoption increases, a new study published Monday by Nature Climate Change warns that energy-demanding Bitcoin transactions would easily sling the global temperature past the 2-degree threshold set under the Paris Climate Agreement. But, is it true that Bitcoin is this energy inefficient that the mainstream media portrays?
  While Bitcoin’s precipitous rise has been stunning, many are still ignorant of the Bitcoin phenomenon saying it is still too arduous, complex and even too libe
  
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• Parity to Help Zcash (the Currency) Gain Independence From Zcash (the Startup)

  30-10-2018 12:59
  The Zcash Foundation is partnering with an ethereum startup on a project that could boost interoperability across the crypto ecosystem.
  
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• Australian Crypto Startup Invites Steve Wozniak to ‘Digital Currency [Holiday] Town’

  30-10-2018 12:45
  An Australian travel tech startup has invited Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to Agnes Water and Town of 1770, the country’s first digital currency towns. Brisbane-based TravelbyBit extended the invitation after the American inventor expressed his interests to travel the world using nothing but bitcoin, as reported by local publication Micky. The company, which enables businesses
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• UK Financial Watchdog Mulls Ban on High Risk Crypto Derivatives

  30-10-2018 12:00 via newsbtc.com
  The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is eyeing a potential ban on the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives, the Financial Times reported.
  The UK financial watchdog said that it would begin discussions in the first quarter of the next year on whether it would go ahead with the proposed ban on crypto-based difference, futures, and options. The agency affirmed that it still believes cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value and investors should be prepared to lose a lot of money if they venture
  
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• Bitcoin Price Faces Drop to $6.1K After Range Breakdown

  30-10-2018 12:00
  The bear grip on bitcoin has likely strengthened following yesterday's drop to two-week lows.
  
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• The Future of Bitcoin Cash Hangs in the Balance: Will the Hard Fork Happen?

  30-10-2018 11:37
  The possibility of a Bitcoin Cash hard fork on November 15th is imminent. Will it happen?
  
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• Singapore’s National Energy Provider Launches Blockchain Marketplace for Green Energy

  30-10-2018 11:35
  Singapore’s national electricity and gas provider has launched blockchain-powered trading of renewable energy certificates in a new marketplace. The blockchain is designed and built in-house by the company’s own team of digital energy experts to “ensure the security, integrity and traceability” of every renewable energy certificate (REC) transaction, Singapore Power (SP) said in a press
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