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A Twitter Bird With Plate Metal Patchwork and Red eyes. A Twitter bot bearing the name Neonazi BTC Tracker tracks and monitors Bitcoin donations made to The Daily Stormer.

Twitter Bot Tracks Neo-Nazi Bitcoin Transactions

September 7, 2017 by Liam J Kelly at Bitcoin, News

A Twitter bot bearing the name Neonazi BTC Tracker tracks and monitors Bitcoin donations made to The Daily Stormer. Following the catastrophic conclusion to the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, has been scrounging for new media platforms. Shortly after the violent fallout,...

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Auckland University Professor: Government Must Regulate Bitcoin & Ethereum

September 6, 2017 by Joseph Young at Bitcoin, News, Regulation

In an interview with Interest.co.nz, Alex Sims, professor and head of the commercial law department at Auckland University, a prestigious education and research institution in New Zealand, stated that the government must legitimize Bitcoin and leading blockchain networks like Ethereum first before attempting to the facilitate the growth of its...

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Russia’s Savvy Move to Boost Mining Energy Power

September 5, 2017 by Michael Scott at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Mining, News

According to Vedomosti, the Russian-language business daily published in Moscow, major companies operating power plants in the country are leasing excess energy capacity to cryptocurrency miners. This move is being hailed as a boost for crypto miners who are seeing their electricity bills consume a significant proportion of their profits....

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Bitcoin and DASH Serve Victims of Hurricane Harvey

September 2, 2017 by Liam J Kelly at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Finance, News

Danny Sessoms, host of an Austin-based cryptocurrency radio broadcast, announced on August 27 that he would be accepting cryptocurrency to help victims of Hurricane Harvey. Sessoms has typically partnered with Unsung.org to deliver food to the homeless, but this time he charged his RV with relief stocks and drove to...

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South Korea’s Multi-Billion Dollar Messaging App Kakao Plans Bitcoin Integration

August 30, 2017 by Joseph Young at Bitcoin, Business, News

Kakao, which led a $3.3 billion merger with IT giant Daum to form Daum Kakao in 2014, is South Korea’s largest messaging and fintech platform. Kakaotalk, Kakao’s flagship messaging application, has a market penetration rate of over 90 percent, with sources including Forbes reporting that nearly 100 percent of households...

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Vietnamese Prime Minister Moves to Legalize Bitcoin

August 28, 2017 by Liam J Kelly at Bitcoin, News, Regulation

Vietnamese Prime minister approves plan to reevaluate the legal charter for the use of cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, in Vietnam. On August 25, VNA reported that Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has charged the country’s relevant ministries to reassess its status in regards to cryptocurrencies. This signifies a legislative turn...

Bitcoin-Accepting Merchants’ Cookies Threaten User Anonymity

August 23, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at Bitcoin, News, Tech

Researchers at Princeton University have published a paper that highlights the privacy issues of making cryptocurrency payments at online merchants that use browser cookies to collect user data. The paper’s findings suggest that bitcoin users lose much of the digital currency’s anonymity when shopping online. Transactions can be linked to...

The IRS Hopes to Combat Bitcoin Tax Evasion with Tracking Software

August 23, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at Bitcoin, Finance, News, Regulation

Bitcoin’s anonymity or rather, the lack thereof, has become a major talking point in the Bitcoin community and a focus of investigation for law enforcement agencies as well as, as it turns out, the taxman. According to a report by The Daily Beast, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has...

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Bitcoin Begins to be Taken Seriously by Big Financial Players

August 17, 2017 by Nuno Menezes at Bitcoin, Finance, News

The market cap of crypto hit $120 billion and bitcoin already seen its price go up more than 400 percent in 2017. Institutional investors are finding it harder to turn their back on the cryptocurrency. In finance, many of the debates revolve around digital currencies and Blockchain technology. Many investors...

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BTC-E Claim Illegal Seizure by US Law Enforcement, to Recover User Funds

August 16, 2017 by Joseph Young at Bitcoin, News, Regulation

BTC-E, the oldest bitcoin exchange in the market which was seized by the US law enforcement in July due to the involvement of Alexander Vinnik, the founder of the exchange, in some of the largest bitcoin exchange hacks including the Mt. Gox and Bitcoinica incidents, is planning to recover its...

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Bitfinex Closes its Exchange to US Consumers, Impractical Regulations

August 15, 2017 by Joseph Young at Bitcoin, Business, News

On August 11, digital assets exchange ShapeShift founder and CEO Erik Voorhees revealed that Bitfinex, the third largest cryptocurrency exchange behind Bittrex and South Korea’s Bithumb, has terminated its services in the US due to inefficient and impractical regulations. “Bitfinex is closing service to US customers. Yet another innovative exchange...

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Australian Government May Intensify ‘War on Cash’

August 11, 2017 by Joseph Young at Bitcoin, Finance, News, Regulation

Australia’s Black Economy Taskforce (BET) has called for a war on cash and has revealed 35 different methods of eliminating cash. The taskforce placed the blame on the consumers for encouraging the use of cash, which is being manipulated and utilized by criminals to fund large-scale fraudulent organizations. In an...

The Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: The Choices for Bitcoiners

July 30, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, Commentary, News

On August 1, the Bitcoin network will split with the emergence of Bitcoin Cash (BCH). This article will outline the choices you have if you hold bitcoin and some potential outcomes of the split. What is Bitcoin Cash? The project’s website states that Bitcoin Cash is peer-to-peer electronic cash for...

BTC-E’s Role in Mt. Gox Hack: Laundered $4 Billion Proceeds of Bitcoin Theft

July 28, 2017 by Joseph Young at Bitcoin, News, Regulation

WizSecurity’s report which revealed BTC-E’s long lasting involvement in the Mt. Gox hack came as a shock to the Bitcoin community and industry. The unsettled case of Mt. Gox is finally set to come to an end and BTC-E is at the epicenter of a series of thefts that led...

Bitmixer’s Exit and Darknet Market Chaos: How Monero Stands to Benefit

July 27, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News

The swift takedown of the darknet markets (DNMs) AlphaBay and Hansa, an announcement to exit the market from Bitmixer and the arrest of Alexander Vinnik for laundering $4 billion have all shown that fungibility is still an area for improvement for Bitcoin. As bitcoin shakes off its shady image, Monero...

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