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Report: UK Great with Blockchain Patents, but China Takes the AI Cake

January 22, 2019 by Neil at Adoption, Blockchain, Commentary, News, Regulation

It doesn’t take much expertise to know that two of the largest technological trends in modern times are blockchain technology and artificial intelligence (AI). While many countries all over the world are interested in how AI can apply to everything from the financial sector to the military sector; there are...

Is Valor Really Planning a “Hostile Takeover” of $14 Billion XRP?

January 22, 2019 by Alex Lielacher at Altcoins, Business, Commentary, Development, Finance, News

A report by media outlet Axios claims that an unknown startup named Valor Foundation is attempting to launch a hostile takeover of the cryptocurrency XRP. This would be the first hostile takeover attempt in the cryptocurrency space. Valor’s Alleged Takeover Plans Valor Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that aims to...

Bitcoin and Ether Market Update: January 9, 2020

Bitcoin and Ether Market Update: January 18, 2019

January 18, 2019 by Georgi Hristov at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, Cryptocurrency Market Outlook, Ethereum, Exchange, News, Price Analysis

The major cryptocurrencies are in green for the last 24 hours as market capitalization still holds above $122 billion at the time of press. BTC/USD Bitcoin closed the January 16 trading session with a little more than a $20 price increase and did not allow further decline below $3,600. The...

SEC Agrees to Re-Examine Bitwise ETF Decision

Bitwise Applies for a Physically Held Bitcoin ETF with the SEC

January 13, 2019 by Priyeshu Garg at Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, Investment, News, Regulation

Bitwise, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency index fund provider, has filed an initial registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, proposing a physically held Bitcoin ETF, the SEC announced on their website on January 10, 2019. Bitwise Files for a new Bitcoin ETF The crypto industry has entered the year with...

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Steemit Bans The Dark Overlord; Community Questions Censorship-Resistance

January 9, 2019 by Neil at Altcoins, Business, Commentary, News, Platform

While many have championed Steemit as a platform where no one can be censored, January 8, 2018, reports indicate that the decentralized social media platform has banned a hacker group who is threatening to publish documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Steemit: Decentralized and Censorable For the past several...

Russia Could Start a Bitcoin Bull Run as Early as February 2019

January 9, 2019 by Priyeshu Garg at Adoption, Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News, Regulation

A Russian economist believes that the impending U.S. sanctions against Russia will force the country to start diversifying its reserves with Bitcoin as early as February 2019, Micky reported on January 8, 2019. New Sanctions Could Trigger a Bull Market The bear market that has persisted in the crypto industry...

Gab’s Ban from Coinbase, Twitter, and Cash App finally Bring Censorship to the Cryptosphere

January 8, 2019 by Nuno Menezes at Bitcoin, Business, Commentary, Exchange, News, Platform

Coinbase has just banned Gab.com merchant account and the personal account of Andrew Torba, the Gab platform CEO. With this move, the popular exchange is raising the topic of censorship in the cryptocurrency industry. Today, the ever-growing power of centralized exchanges in the cryptocurrency industry is becoming more of a...

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Crypto ETFs Could Become a Reality in Japan; but Is there Substantial Interest?

January 7, 2019 by Priyeshu Garg at Adoption, Altcoins, Business, Commentary, Exchange, Finance, News, Regulation

Japan's primary financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), could approve crypto exchange-traded-funds despite abandoning plans to allow Bitcoin futures, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on January 7, 2019. Increasing Interest in Cryptocurrency EFTs in Japan Despite giving up on their plans to allow listing a Bitcoin...

Monero (XMR) “Accidentally” Accepted at Fortnite Merch Store, CEO Says

January 7, 2019 by Priyeshu Garg at Adoption, Altcoins, Business, Commentary, Entertainment, News

The highly-publicized acceptance of Monero at the official merch store of Fortnite, the world's most popular game, was an "accident," the founder of Epic Games, Fortnite's parent company, revealed on Twitter on January 6, 2019. Accepting Monero Was a Mistake Around New Year's Day, rumors began to circulate that Retail...

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McKinsey Reports Blockchain’s Potentials, Limitations, and Future

January 7, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Business, Commentary, News

Blockchain technology has attracted significant attention since it was brought into the limelight a decade ago by Bitcoin (BTC) and the innovation has gradually been gaining traction in several industries across the globe, however, distributed ledger technology (DLT) is yet to become the game-changer, reported McKinsey & Company, an American...

2019 Could Bring Amenable Regulations and Growth to the Cryptocurrency Industry

January 6, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, News, Regulation

While 2017 successfully popularized bitcoin, altcoins and initial coin offerings (ICOs) due to the surge of the prices of all cryptoassets, 2018 brought back the proverbial rocket ship to earth via stricter regulations and blanket bans. With more and more regulators looking to implement amenable policies for the cryptospace,...

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South Africa Prepares to Tackle Cryptocurrency Challenges with Working Group

January 4, 2019 by Nuno Menezes at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, News, Regulation

The South African government established a group of specialists to investigate digital currency and blockchain technology to devise a regulatory framework for the emerging industry. Finding the Appropriate Regulatory Framework Following many of the governments around the world, South Africa has recently gathered a working group to research digital currencies...

Blockchain Shouldn’t Be an Enemy to the U.S. Federal Reserve

January 4, 2019 by Priyeshu Garg at Adoption, Altcoins, Blockchain, Commentary, Finance, News, Regulation

Despite most central banks being reluctant to turn to blockchain technology, major institutions such as the U.S. Federal Reserve should figure out the implications of such distributed ledger technologies and how to adapt to them, economist Eswar Prasad argued in a Financial Times article on January 1, 2019. Blockchain Could...

V. Shankar of Gateway: “Bitcoin Has Finally Proven It’s not a Viable Investment”

January 3, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, News

In late 2017 when the price of bitcoin and other digital assets embarked on a journey to the moon and FOMO swept across the crypto space, Viswanathan Shankar, the CEO of Gateway Partners Limited, a Cayman-based private equity firm that invests in growth opportunities across a number of continents reportedly...

HitBTC Freezes Customer Accounts before Proof of Keys Event

January 3, 2019 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, Exchange, News

Digital currency exchange HitBTC has reportedly been freezing account withdrawals on January 1, 2019, just ahead of the launch of the much anticipated annual Proof of Keys event, the exchange's users have complained on Reddit. John McAfee’s Warning about HitBTC Comes to Light HitBTC, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, has been...

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