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Korean Authority Slaps Exchanges With Licensing Requirements

The South Korean government is conducting on-site inspections of crypto exchanges following the release of its emergency measures for cryptocurrency regulation. The regulators have also notified the country’s largest exchanges that they are sub...

PR: Money Metals Exchange – Investors Can Now Buy and Sell Precious Metals Using Various Crypto-Currencies

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Doing a 180 – Goldman Sachs Goes Crypto

The Year of Bitcoin continues to get more interesting, as reports surfaced today that legacy bank Goldman Sachs will open a cryptocurrency trading desk by mid 2018. It’s a momentous occasion for many reasons, but not least of which is the infl...

Bitcoin Crashes! Bitcoin’s Dead! Bitcoin’s Over! Or Is It? A Brief History of Deaths

The price of bitcoin (BTC) has dropped more than 25 percent in four days, and it looks headed for even worse territory as of this writing. Veterans have braced for its eventuality. However, there are many newly onboarded, and they’re only used to the...

Gaming Company Veltyco Tapping into Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

UK Gaming company Veltyco Group announced today that it has “commenced discussions with blockchain and cryptocurrency providers” about potential partnerships. Afterwards, its stock price leaped 20% at the open on London’s AIM growth...

Tether Won’t Redeem Americans, Terrorists and Other Bad Actors

Living in a country known for having some of the toughest financial regulators in the world has its advantages and disadvantages. While it may deter the more cautious international scammers from targeting you it can also hurt your ability to conduct...

Wikileaks Founder Responds to Banking Blockade 2.0: “Use Cryptocurrencies”

This week the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, told his 600,000 Twitter followers that the website that exposes government corruption is suffering another “banking blockade.” According to Assange U.S. intelligence is making it difficult for Wiki...

PR: IQeon Platform Transforms the Way We Approach Gaming Industry

Markets Update: Bitcoin Price Continues to Feel Bearish Sentiment

The price of bitcoin (BTC) has been suffering from a bearish decline since it reached $19,600 USD across global markets and had touched a low of $15,299 on December 21. Over the past two days, most of the other alternative digital asset markets were...

Championing Decentralized Exchanges, Now Might Be the Perfect Time for Bisq

Removing the potential for a single point of failure, decentralizing gives way to three enduring principles upon which cryptocurrency rests: security, privacy, and censorship resistance. Perhaps the bitcoin community has deviated too far from these p...

Cheated Cryptocurrency Investors Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands

Blockchain transactions are irreversible: that’s one of the strengths of digital currencies such as bitcoin. But when funds are stolen, it means there’s no recourse for getting them back. Hacks and scams are endemic to the cryptocurrency space, and w...

These Are The Five Cheapest US States for Bitcoin Mining

For cryptocurrency miners seeking to set up a profitable operation, every kilowatt hour counts. As little as a cent per KWh can make all the difference between a mining farm being viable or infeasible. U.S. bitcoin miners have received a helping hand...

Rule Change Could Allow Listing Bitcoin Futures as Exchange Traded Funds

A potentially giant step toward approval for listing bitcoin futures as exchange traded funds (ETFs) was taken this week when the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Arca, owned by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), filed a petition for a rule change regard...

Two Weeks After Losing $60 Million in Bitcoin, Nicehash Are Back

In early December, mining pool Nicehash was forced to close after allegedly being hacked, losing almost 4,450 BTC in the process. At the time, those bitcoins were worth around $60 million and they have appreciated substantially since then. Miners who...