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• Crypto 101: Beginner’s Guide to Cross-Chain Atomic Swaps

  03-11-2018 23:05
  Atomic swaps mean the ability to exchange digital assets across different blockchain networks without the involvement of central parties. This has piqued the interest of the crypto-community since early 2017. Atomic swaps are inherently different from decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges because they represent a novel cryptographic protocol. Here two parties seamlessly and securely exchange bitcoin or other digital
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• Brazil Tax Authority Orders Crypto Exchanges to Provide Monthly Reports

  03-11-2018 22:30 via newsbtc.com
  Brazil’s tax regulator, the Department of Federal Revenue, is requiring local cryptocurrency exchanges to report their operations on a monthly basis in order to verify tax compliance and improve the country’s fight against money laundering and corruption.
  Brazillian Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Report Monthly Trading Data to Authorities
  Citing the examples of Australia and South Korea, the Brazillian authorities announced they will require monthly reports from local digital currency e
  
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• This Electric Bike Runs on Lightning Network Bitcoin Micropayments

  03-11-2018 22:16
  Matthias Steinig, a German developer whose focus seems to be on the development of Lightning Network-enabled technologies to serve consumers, has created two projects to date which are notable and Lightning-related. The first is an e-commerce solution which supports Lightning transactions in the traditional web store format. A demonstration of it is live here. The
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• Accenture & JP Morgan Executives Talk on Fortune Blockchain Panel

  03-11-2018 22:00 via crypto-news.net
  Fortune Magazine organized a blockchain panel during their Global Forum 2018 event. Alex Tapscott, Julie Sweet, and Christine Moy were invited as speakers. Fortune recently wrote an article regarding the advice that these people give to the business owner delegates attending the event. In that article, you can find a short video, but if you want to watch the whole thing, we tracked down the entire 30-minute session, and we’ve embedded it right here.They talk about more than just how t
  
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• Op-Ed: Goldman Sachs Embezzlement Scandal Shows Value of Crypto

  03-11-2018 20:59
  According to a report in the New York Times, Goldman Sachs bankers have been successfully brought to heel regarding their part in a massive multi-billion dollar embezzlement scheme in league with former Malaysian PM Najib Razak, who used proceeds from the scandal to purchase luxury items and fund an extravagant lifestyle. There’s nothing overly special
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• Bitcoin Cash Surges 12% Prior to Hard Fork as Coinbase Announces Support

  03-11-2018 20:05
  Over the last 24 hours, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has increased by around 12 percent from $425 to $477 prior to its hard fork. On November 2, CCN reported that Bitcoin.com and Binance decided to support the version of Bitcoin Cash set forth by ABC, the original developers of the BCH software that forked the Bitcoin
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• Binance Announce Support of Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork

  03-11-2018 20:00 via newsbtc.com
  Binance, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges on the planet, has announced full support of the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork scheduled for November 15.
  More Companies Announce Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Policies
  Just days after Ledger, one of the largest hardware wallet providers globally, announced their own policy on the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork, cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance has stated that it will be supporting both sides of the split. The news comes via a post on the fir
  
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• Hong Kong FinTech Week: An Interview With Ken LO

  03-11-2018 19:00
  Hong Kong’s Fintech Week 2018 was the world’s first cross-border fintech event held in Hong Kong and Schengen, China which attracted more than 8,000 attendees from 50 countries and many of the world’s leading startups, investors, regulators, and academics. In an interview with Crypto Insider, Ken Lo, CEO of Branding China Group encouraged to welcome the Unstoppable Crypto Train. How do you compare the blockchain world in Asia to that of Europe and North America?
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• Overstock’s Medici Ventures & Rwanada Government Partner for Blockchain Property Rights Platform

  03-11-2018 18:29
  Medici Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock, one of the most cryptocurrency friendly businesses in the world, whose CEO has frequently promoted the use of bitcoin and other cryptos. Medici is specifically geared toward blockchain businesses, development, and technology, and on Thursday it signed a second Memorandum of Understanding with the Rwandan Government
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• Overstock Crypto Venture, Rwanada Government Partner for Blockchain Property Rights Platform

  03-11-2018 18:29
  Medici Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock, one of the most cryptocurrency friendly businesses in the world, whose CEO has frequently promoted the use of bitcoin and other cryptos. Medici is specifically geared toward blockchain businesses, development, and technology, and on Thursday it signed a second Memorandum of Understanding with the Rwandan Government
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• CryptoKitties Raises $15m from Venrock, Google, Samsung, and More

  03-11-2018 16:55 via newsbtc.com
  Blockchain-based virtual game CryptoKitties has raised US$15M in financing led by Venrock, with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Samsung NEXT. Funds raised will be used to establish a U.S. subsidiary, hire leading executives in the U.S. and Canada, and develop its infrastructure.
  High-Profile Investors Line Up to Back Consumer Blockchain Success CryptoKitties With $15m
  The $15 million raised by Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties, included other high-profile investo
  
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• Op-Ed: ‘Tis the Season — to Evaluate Bitcoin’s Price Performance

  03-11-2018 16:05
  By Rafael Delfin, Head of Research at Brave New Coin, a leading provider of high-value cryptocurrency market data and insights, since 2012. October 31st, 2018 marked the 10-year anniversary of the publication of Bitcoin’s white paper. While it was initially circulated among a small and obscure cryptography mailing list, one decade later, the implementation of
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• DigiByte to Be Listed on CoinField™ Exchange and moonGo™ App

  03-11-2018 14:37
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• BitMart Exchange Announces Listing LEXIT, the First Marketplace for IP and M&A

  03-11-2018 14:30
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• GIN Platform Launches a New Product – the Cloud Node

  03-11-2018 14:22
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• Digitex Futures Presents Its First Ever Live Demo at Malta Blockchain Summit

  03-11-2018 14:18
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• Giacomo Zucco on The B Foundation

  03-11-2018 14:07
  Italian Bitcoin maximalist Giacomo Zucco is on of the masterminds behind one of the most important projects in cryptocurrency: The B Foundation. Launched in September 2018 during the Baltic Honey Badger Conference from Riga, the initiative seeks to raise funds in order to educate and support the next generation of developers.
  Unlike the defunct Bitcoin Foundation, this new project doesn’t aim to represent Bitcoin and has no lobbying purposes in relation to governments or trans-national cor
  
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• Not Just Crypto: India’s Payment System Protectionism is Hurting Legacy Firms, Too

  03-11-2018 12:37
  Reuters reports that Mastercard has formally complained to the US government that the Indian government is deliberately promoting domestic payment networks over international ones like Mastercard and that the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has actively used nationalism in promotion of payment processing network RuPay. According to the report, Mastercard and Visa are not the dominant
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• MasterCard Indian Government of Protectionism in Favor of Native RuPay

  03-11-2018 12:37
  Reuters reports that Mastercard has formally complained to the US government that the Indian government is deliberately promoting domestic payment networks over international ones like Mastercard and that the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has actively used nationalism in promotion of payment processing network RuPay. According to the report, Mastercard and Visa are not the dominant
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• Bitcoin Brought Us a New World We Could Have Only Imagined

  03-11-2018 12:15
  It's been 10 years since bitcoin's white paper appeared and opened up a whole new world of possibilities, says BitGo's Mike Belshe.
  
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• South Korean Court Rules Bank’s Action to End Banking Services to Crypto Exchange Illegal

  03-11-2018 11:30
  A court in South Korea has ruled that the decision by a commercial bank to stop offering banking services to a cryptocurrency exchange was unlawful and must therefore be rescinded. According to the Central District Court’s 50th Civil Affairs Division, the move by South Korean commercial bank Nonghyup to cease offering deposit and withdrawal services
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• Night of the Living HODLers: Halloween 2018's Best Crypto Costumes

  03-11-2018 11:30
  CoinDesk looks back at some of the best crypto costumes worn for Halloween 2018.
  
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• Cryptocurrency will DEFY Brexit earthquakes and provide HUGE boost to UK, say experts - Express.co.uk

  03-11-2018 08:00 via express.co.uk
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  Cryptocurrency will DEFY Brexit earthquakes and provide HUGE boost to UK, say experts
  Express.co.uk
  In August, Chancellor Philip Hammond forecasted massive economic damage from crashing out of the European Union without a deal, warning of a 87.7 percent hit to GDP and an £80 billion black hole in public finances. The Bank of England has also ...and more »
  
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• TriForce Tokens Holding Token Sale for Blockchain Ecosystem Development

  03-11-2018 07:58
  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. Games development marketplace TriForce Tokens continues to disrupt the gaming ecosystem with the development of its blockchain platform which is scheduled for deployment in 2019. A token sale
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• UNLV professor breaks down research on blockchain, new cryptocurrency technology - KLAS-TV

  03-11-2018 05:12 via lasvegasnow.com
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  UNLV professor breaks down research on blockchain, new cryptocurrency technology
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  LAS VEGAS - As the world begins to learn about blockchain, a local professor is up to speed because he's been doing research on the new technology for about two years. For the second time in a matter of two weeks, Las Vegas is hosting a digital ...
  
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• Cryptocurrency Market Update: BAT Pumped by Coinbase Pro Listing - newsBTC

  03-11-2018 03:21 via newsbtc.com
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  Cryptocurrency Market Update: BAT Pumped by Coinbase Pro Listing
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  As we enter the weekend crypto markets are slowly recovering. Trading in Asia has pushed total market capitalization back over $205 billion and things are generally heading upwards today, albeit leisurely. Bitcoin has made no movements over the past 24 ...and more »
  
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• Cryptocurrency Market Update: BAT Pumped by Coinbase Pro Listing

  03-11-2018 03:14 via newsbtc.com
  FOMO Moments
  Markets are creeping up as the weekend starts; BAT flying, Bitcoin Cash and Stellar rising.
  As we enter the weekend crypto markets are slowly recovering. Trading in Asia has pushed total market capitalization back over $205 billion and things are generally heading upwards today, albeit leisurely.
  Bitcoin has made no movements over the past 24 hours and is still holding the $6,400 support level. From a half month stay at $6,500 BTC dropped to $6,300 and has bounced back to its curren
  
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• Weekly Altcoin Wrap Up: ADA/USD Lead Price Revival as LTC/USD Reverse Oct 29 Losses

  03-11-2018 03:00 via newsbtc.com
  After days of lower lows and horizontal consolidation, altcoins are ending the week on a high. ADA/USD is up three percent in the day and could breach key price levels over the weekend. At the same time, LTC/USD bulls did manage to reverse Oct 29 losses while EOS/USD prices could race to $7 if today close higher igniting buys.
  Let’s have a look at these charts:
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• Ukraine’s New Policy to Legalize Crypto, Considering Full Scale Adoption

  03-11-2018 02:45
  In an official statement, the Ukranian government confirmed its plans to establish regulatory frameworks to legalize crypto in the region. As a part of an initiative to consider and acknowledge cryptocurrency as an emerging technology, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry in Ukraine released a new state policy to oversee various cryptocurrency-related sectors which will
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• How Bitcoin AND Stablecoins Can Dominate the Future of Cryptocurrency - Ethereum World News (blog)

  03-11-2018 02:27 via ethereumworldnews.com
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  How Bitcoin AND Stablecoins Can Dominate the Future of Cryptocurrency
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  Cryptocurrency, Stablecoins, Bitcoin (BTC)–As stablecoins, the new industry of cryptocurrency that is focused on price stability, continues to gain traction relative to Bitcoin and the altcoin market, competition is going to mount over the viability of ...
  One of the hottest things in cryptocurrency right now: stablecoinsmessenger-inquirerall 9 news articles &ra
  
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• Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says His Son is an Ethereum Miner

  03-11-2018 01:27
  Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai have a lot more in common than just their jobs. Both tech billionaires have crypto-savvy young sons who mine ethereum. Pichai said his 11-year-old son mines ethereum on a home computer that Pichai built himself, according to Business Insider. He made the amusing revelation at the New York Times DealBook
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• Op-Ed: Why Bitcoin Users Should Ditch Apple and Google for Purism

  03-11-2018 00:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Major tech companies have received increased scrutiny in 2018, especially when it comes to how they’re handling user data. Internet users are becoming turned off by how much Facebook and Google know about them, and Apple has taken the opportunity to remind everyone they’re more interested in selling hardware than tracking your online activity. Much […]
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• Tron [TRX/USD] Technical Analysis: Cryptocurrency seems to come out of the bear's shadow; bullish silver lining ahead? - AMBCrypto

  03-11-2018 00:30 via ambcrypto.com
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  Tron [TRX/USD] Technical Analysis: Cryptocurrency seems to come out of the bear's shadow; bullish silver lining ahead?
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  The cryptocurrency market seems to have come out of the bear's hold with many coins being blessed by the bull today, November 2. Popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin [BTC], Ethereum [ETH] and Tron [TRX] all saw bullish spikes, which were curbed ...and more »
  
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• ‘Godfather of ETFs’: Regulators Won’t Approve Bitcoin ETF Anytime Soon

  03-11-2018 00:29
  Reggie Browne, who is a senior managing director of the ETF group at Cantor Fitzgerald, isn’t holding his breath for a bitcoin ETF. Despite the determination of crypto asset managers jumping through hoops to satisfy US regulators, Browne, who earned the nickname as “the Godfather of ETFs” from Forbes for his influence over the $4.7
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• Dash Text Launches in Venezuela, Opening SMS Payments

  03-11-2018 00:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dash Text launched in Venezuela today, allowing users without smartphones to send and receive Dash using SMS enabled cell phones on the Movistar and Digitel networks. Dash Text was created through a partnership with BlockCypher. Rumors have it that Dash is becoming more popular in Venezuela. I have yet to see convincing proof of that. […]
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