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• Interview: Power Ledger’s Jemma Green on Using Blockchain to ‘Power the World’

  10-11-2018 23:03
  Power Ledger, whose mission is to deliver peer-to-peer electricity to people through the blockchain, has been knocking it out of the park this year in terms of global recognition. The Australia-based company has thrust the blockchain into the spotlight, scoring a recent win in Sir Richard Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) on Necker Island. In
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• The SEC’s November 5 Deadline for Bitcoin ETF Proposals Passes

  10-11-2018 22:15 via crypto-news.net
  The November 5 deadline set by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in relation to public comments on nine Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposals has passed with the Commission now focused on ending their review process and coming to a final decision.
  Under ReviewThe SEC had originally rejected the proposals back in August citing issues with the underlying Bitcoin futures markets and stating that the spot Bitcoin market is still prone to manipulation. The Commission declared t
  
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• Why Did BAT Lose 28% of its Value Overnight After Coinbase Listing?

  10-11-2018 21:46
  Since November 8, within a 48-hour period, Basic Attention Token (BAT) lost 28 percent of its value following a high profile Coinbase listing. On Friday, as CCN reported, BAT declined by around 20 percent against the US dollar. In the last 24 hours, BAT dropped by yet another eight percent, recording a 28 percent decline
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• Fusion Whisky and Adelphi Distillery Launch Whisky on the Blockchain

  10-11-2018 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  Fusion Whisky and the Adelphi Distillery have announced the launch of The Winter Queen – their latest product to use blockchain technology to track its provenance.
  The Winter Queen Marries 17th Century Royalty with 21st Century Tech
  It is not only finance that blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt. Other industries are rapidly making moves to explore the innovation’s implications. One of these is the whisky distillation and distribution sector.
  Fusion Whisky have joined
  
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• Op-Ed: Smart Order Routing Reduces Cryptocurrency Exchange Fragmentation Issues

  10-11-2018 20:31
  The lack of suitable institutional-grade platforms is undoubtedly one of the greatest obstacles to institutional money flowing into the burgeoning field of cryptocurrencies. However, the fact that this type of platform has not emerged so far is somewhat understandable. Not only are cryptocurrency markets a lot less mature than traditional finance markets, the specific characteristics
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• $20 Trillion US Debt Will Inevitably Lead to Big Crypto Boom: Prominent Investors

  10-11-2018 19:06
  ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees has said that the growing debt of the US, which hovers at around $21.7 trillion as of November, will inevitably cause a big spike in crypto. “When the next global financial crisis occurs, and the world realizes organizations with $20 trillion in debt can’t possibly ever pay it back and thus
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• Swedish Man Sent to Prison for Mailing Bomb to Bitcoin Firm CryptoPay

  10-11-2018 18:00 via newsbtc.com
  A Swedish man suspected in a case involving a bomb being mailed to a Bitcoin firm has been convicted of attempted murder and is facing up to seven years in prison.
  Swedish Bitcoin Bomber Convicted of Attempted Murder
  According to the Associated Press, Michael Salonen, age 43, has been sentences to up to seven years in prison by the Stockholm District Court. 
  Salonen has been convicted of attempted murder, after the individual mailed a letter bomb to London-based Bitcoin firm CryptoPay. Salo
  
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• Crypto Market Recovers From Pullback But Bitcoin Momentum is Weak

  10-11-2018 17:05
  The cryptocurrency market has started to recover gradually from a major pullback, which occurred following a substantial 40 percent increase in Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and a surge in the price of several other major cryptocurrencies. Over the last 24 hours, the valuation of the cryptocurrency market has increased from $211 billion to $213 billion, by
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• Bitmain Releases Antminer S15: How it Stacks Up Against Competitors

  10-11-2018 14:17
  Bitmain has released (and already sold out of) its Antminer S15 model traditional ASIC Bitcoin miner. At a price of $1,475 per unit and a per-customer limit of two, it is comparably one of the better bargains as mining hardware goes. It clocks up to 23 terahash per second, meaning that 3-4 units would be
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• Sexual Assault Survivor Uses Crypto to Crowdfund Anonymously

  10-11-2018 13:20
  Cryptocurrency is helping women who've suffered sexual harassment or assault gain financial independence while protecting their privacy.
  
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• Crypto Exchanges Should Take a Hard Look at IP Address-Masking Services

  10-11-2018 13:00
  Cryptocurrency exchanges will likely have to reckon with VPN access as part of any regulatory or law enforcement actions for market manipulation.
  
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• Credits Filed Patents

  10-11-2018 11:37
  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. Credits team has made an analysis of the current patent and other intellectual property issues related to blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies and decided to protect the company’s blockchain developments.
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• NCrypto Unveils One-Stop Blockchain Service Platform, Token Sale

  10-11-2018 11:31
  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. Estonia-based blockchain startup, NCrypto Networks OU, has announced the service launch of its complete cryptocurrency ecosystem solutions platform. Developed to help overcome the complexity involved in storing, spending,
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• How Has Binance Been More Successful Than Coinbase Within a Year?

  10-11-2018 11:31 via newsbtc.com
  Trading volume across the cryptocurrency market has remained on a downward path all this year. But that hasn’t affected the growth rate of Binance, currently the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange by volume.
  The Malta-based organization expects to earn circa $1 billion in profits despite the market slump in 2018. That is almost $650 million higher than the annual profit projections of Coinbase, around $456 million by the end of this year. While the market awaits a more precise p
  
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• BBVA and Co-Lenders Complete $150 Million Syndicated Loan on a Blockchain

  10-11-2018 11:26
  Two European and one Japanese bank one have completed the first blockchain-based syndicated loan. Together with France’s BNP Paribas and Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Spain’s banking behemoth BBVA utilized a private blockchain network in arranging a syndicated loan amounting to US$150 million for grid operator Red Electrica. Initially reported by the Financial Times, legal
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• BitMax.io Introduces Innovative Reverse-Mining to Incentivize Trading and Bolsters Exchange Liquidity

  10-11-2018 11:24
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• Dividend-Yielding Cryptocurrency to Strengthen the ICO Ecosystem

  10-11-2018 11:05
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• Digitex Preparing for First Live Demo at Malta Blockchain Moot

  10-11-2018 10:44
  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. Cryptocurrency futures trading is becoming a big deal in investment circles. After the launch of the first Bitcoin futures program, exchange projects are now looking to attract new
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• Cryptocurrency Exchange Giant Binance Launches Research Division

  10-11-2018 09:45
  Binance announced around midnight Chinese time yesterday that it is branching beyond being an enterprise-quality consumer token exchange with the launch of Binance Research, an investigative subproject which relays in-depth, objective information on upcoming tokens – presumably, tokens listed on the exchange. Binance Research is a new pillar of the Binance ecosystem, focused on the
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• Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Advocates for More Cryptocurrency Regulations

  10-11-2018 08:17
  The Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, Wissanu Krea-ngam, has called for the enhancement of cryptocurrency regulations in the country. Speaking during the fourth regional Counter-Terrorism Financing Summit which took place in Bangkok, Wissanu argued that there was a need for more domestic and international legal measures to be put in place to prevent the misuse
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• XRP/USD, BTC/USD Price Analysis: Ripple Bullish as Bitcoin Steady above $6,000

  10-11-2018 03:15 via newsbtc.com
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  As the industry grow, regulation is important even if Bitcoin and other blockchain projects agitate for complete decentralization and decoupling from government influence. But when reality sets in and advocates realize that the industry can’t get away with fiat if liquidity and volatility is to reign then the importance of Business Growth and Transformation bill (PACTE) which President Macron is working hard for will even be clearer. If everything goes as plan and the l
  
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• Bitcoin ETF Could Attract Billions in New Investment: VanEck

  10-11-2018 03:10
  A bitcoin ETF could attract billions of dollars in new investments, so the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should treat pending proposals as an opportunity to regulate the crypto market, said crypto exchange-traded fund advocate Gabor Gurbacs. Gurbacs, the director of Digital Assets Strategy at VanEck, made this claim during an interview with CNBC Africa’s
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• IOT/USD, EOS/USD, ADA/USD, XLM/USD, LTC/USD Price Analysis

  10-11-2018 03:00 via newsbtc.com
  After days of lower lows and dry fundamentals, Stellar Lumens—XLM/USD, Cardano—ADA/USD and IOTA—IOT/USD pairs are trading within a bullish breakout patterns and likely to print higher as the week close. But still, we shall maintain a bullish outlook on EOS/USD and LTC/USD aware that if the latter find support at $50, odds are prices will rise above $60 igniting buy pressure.
  Let’s have a look at these charts:
  EOS/USD Price AnalysisIn the midst of relentless sell pressure,
  
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• NEO Super: Next-Generation Blockchain or Crypto Scam?

  10-11-2018 02:05
  Several reports from the NEO underground have been grumbling about a fork of NEO calling itself “NEO Super.” The venture launched, seemingly apropos of nothing at all, and boasts only one real project, a wallet service that some community members fear could very likely be an effort to scam NEO users out of their private
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• Hate Pays: Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Has Raised Surprising Amount of Bitcoin

  10-11-2018 01:03
  The Daily Stormer is a “white nationalist” blog replete with meme culture, poor grammar, and the expected, constant barrage of sexist and racist remarks. Over the years it has continually had its domains yanked, hosting revoked, and, of course, most normal funding services like PayPal refuse to allow it to do business on their platforms.
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• Early Bitcoin Pioneer Speculates Who Nakamoto Is, Gives $100 Million in Asset Away

  10-11-2018 01:00 via newsbtc.com
  Jeff Garzik, an early pioneer of Bitcoin, has revealed that he’s given away over $100 million worth of the asset, but has no regrets about it.
  Giving Money to Something He Believes In
  Garzik has been in the space since 2010 after reading a blog post about Bitcoin. Writing code for it, he soon became the third-biggest contributor to Bitcoin after Satoshi Nakamoto and Gavin Andresen.
  However, in a report with Bloomberg, the Bitcoin pioneer notes that the currency is not what he thought
  
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• Crypto Community Responds to Fake Satoshi’s “F**k You” Email to Roger Ver

  10-11-2018 00:00 via newsbtc.com
  Two of Bitcoin Cash’s most high-profile supporters have fallen out over the pending BCH hard fork. Craig “Fake Satoshi” Wright sent an abusive email to Roger Ver earlier this week. Yesterday, Ver responded.
  Ver Supports Bitcoin ABC, But Thinks the Whole Fork Dispute Could Resolve Itself
  In a video posted to the Bitcoin.com YouTube channel, one of cryptocurrency’s earliest proponents and investors, Roger Ver, has responded to an email sent from self-proclaimed Satoshi, Cra
  
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