Ripple & Trump Making New Ground

The new Chief Market Strategist at Ripple, Cory Johnson has been working at the company for just under a year now, however, in a recent interview with BreakerMag the crypto-San Francisco based company is in regular discussions with Trump’s administration.

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Welcome To The Daily 2 – The All New Video Series By Crypto Daily

Introducing The Daily 2, the all new video series by Crypto Daily and proclaimed crypto evangelist, Brian Wilson. Don’t miss a thing, be sure to subscribe to The Crypto Daily Official YouTube channel which can be found here.

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Don’t Underestimate China’s Power In Bitcoin

There has been a wealth of news of late about China and the Chinese authorities new position on cryptocurrency. In the shortest possible terms, the government want to totally ban cryptocurrency trading and investment and wish to stamp out the Bitcoin culture that has slowly built up in China.

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Adobe Flash Player Updates Could Contain Crypto Malware

Palo Alto Networks warned this week that fake Adobe Flash Player updates carrying cryptocurrency mining malware are on the increase. In its latest blog post, the cybersecurity company reveals that it has uncovered more of the fake Flash updates during its work and research than ever before.

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How Monero Are Improving Human Rights With XMR

 Listen Here – https://soundcloud. com/cryptodaily/how-monero-are-improving-human-rights-with-xmr Monero is considered to be the privacy coin, the currency of choice for absolute privacy. Now, privacy doesn’t necessarily mean security and we should remember that 2018 has seen a tonne of ‘Monero mining’ hacks, calling into question some of the projects integrity.

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Funny New Advert Shows Bitcoin Is on Google’s Mind

Google, which currently sits on the fence with regard to cryptocurrency, took an opportunity to throw shade at digital coins like bitcoin core and bitcoin cash during an advert for its new call-screening feature.

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What is Transaction Mining: Way to Boost New Exchange Volumes

Recently, exchanges like BitMex and BitForex showed exorbitant volumes after launching a strategy known as “transaction mining”.

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Guess Who’s Hiding The Most Bitcoin

There are conspiracy theories and speculation all over the crypto space on who holds the most Bitcoin that is currently in circulation. Big mining firms, exchanges, and funds are mainly called Whales as they hold on to the most Bitcoin and have been called responsible for the big amounts of Bitcoin around today.

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Blockchain Business in Crypto Valley Has Doubled Since Last Year: Report

The number of blockchain-related companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has doubled in the last year, according to a new study published by CV VC. The Zug-based firm, in partnership with Strategy& (PwC’s global consulting arm) and inacta, compiled information about the top 50 blockchain and digital asset companies between the two countries.

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Japanese Internet Monolith GMO to Launch Yen-Pegged Stablecoin

GMO Internet Group is working to launch a stablecoin by 2019. In an announcement released on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, the Japanese IT conglomerate said it is putting all gears in place to begin building its stablecoin, called the GMO Japanese Yen (GJY).

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David Vs. Goliath: Companies Like MicroBt Look To Challenge Bitmain’s Dominance

Bitmain is well-known across the cryptocurrency community for dominating the mining hardware market. Some think the Chinese giant might be losing its edge, and a growing number of competitors are emerging to challenge the company.

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With the CBAC, East Meets West in Search of Adoption and Innovation

The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.

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Is Litecoin Cloud Mining a Worthwhile Option in 2018?

Litecoin cloud mining may still seem like an attractive proposition for crypto enthusiasts in a bear market. Is it worth it? Our verdict is in. The post Is Litecoin Cloud Mining a Worthwhile Option in 2018? appeared first on CoinCentral.

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Honeycomb Helps Journalists and Publishers Harness Mobile Mining

Blockchain startup Honeycomb, was pitched as one of the “smartest, most clever” startups in a technology feature in 2018’s Online News Association Conference (ONA18). NiemanLab, part of journalism standards organization Nieman Foundation, questioned if a startup like Honeycomb could convince users to mine cryptocurrency with their mobiles and donate it to news organizations.

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Federal Election Committee Asked to Consider Crypto Mining for Political Contributions

OsiaNetwork LLC has reached out to the Federal Election Committee (FEC) in the hopes that it will allow computer sharing for crypto mining for campaign donations. Osia says it would like to be the platform in which volunteers share their computer power to mine cryptocurrencies, which are then donated to political campaigns of their choice.

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In Search of Stability: An Overview of the Budding Stablecoin Ecosystem

Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.

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How Long Can Siacoin Outrun ASIC Manufacturers?

Some people really don’t like Jihan Wu. Bitmain, which produces the inexpensive, industrial-grade chips that spoiled the home mining game, is now unwelcome in yet another crypto community. Siacoin, an online network for distributed storage, announced a protocol upgrade to “brick” the Bitmain and Innosilicon hardware which currently threaten to dominate Sia mining.

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Monero Releases Malware Response Group and Successfully Patches Burn Bug

Monero has officially released its Malware Response Workgroup website yesterday. In an effort to help protect Monero’s community, the website aims to provide resources to educate about the types of malware that may take advantage of users.

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Giga Watt Breaks New Ground, Looks Beyond Mining

The new construction, a 5 MW site hosting three pods, will be marketed as a Giga Watt mining solution for larger B2B customers, rather than focusing on new entrants into the industry, as was the previous strategy.

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Study Reveals Growing Sophistication in Malicious Mining of Cryptocurrency

Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.

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Innosilicon’s Impending ASIC Miner Could Challenge Bitmain’s Dominance

As controversies surrounding Bitmain’s looming IPO spell uncertainty for the future well-being of the mining goliath, competitors are fast to move in on the manufacturer’s territory.

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Google mysteriously removes cryptocurrency wallets from Play Store

Google removed at least three major cryptocurrency wallets from its Play Store overnight. While the reason for their removal is not immediately clear, Bitcoin. com CEO Roger Ver is blaming Google’s new cryptocurrency mining policy.

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To Sell or Not to Sell: That Is No Longer The Question For Miners

Today, cryptocurrency mining operators could benefit from taking out loans while using their mined coins as collateral to cover their expenses and persevere during the current bear market.   Miners Can’t Hodl…or Can They? Large-scale miners have enormous fixed costs, which they must pay regardless of the price their mined coins are currently worth.

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[promoted] Hashtoro Propels Cryptocurrency Cloud Mining

As an emerging cog in the global digital economy, cloud mining offers a tool for enthusiasts to mine cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin without having to acquire hardware or other oft-required elements.

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Ukrainians Advised to Pay 19.5% Tax on Crypto Incomes

In the absence of dedicated regulation, Ukrainians are expected to pay the regular 19. 5% income tax rate on their profits from crypto-related activities like trading and mining, a high-ranking official from the Finance Ministry in Kiev explained.

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Washington Mining Enclave to Be Hit with Increased Power Costs

Low energy prices from the local hydroelectric plant attracted many cryptocurrency miners to Grant County, Washington. But it seems like the gravy train may soon hit the buffers as authorities announced a series of price hikes.

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Bitcoin mining could revive ghost towns in the Pacific Northwest

The town of Ocean Falls in British Columbia, Canada once thrived its paper mill.  Like many small towns across The United States and Canada, Ocean Falls relied on a mill or factory to keep their economy afloat and slowly began to deteriorate into a ghost town once these precious industrial hubs were closed or moved.

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Bitmain’s AntPool quietly activates controversial hack for faster Bitcoin mining

It looks like one of Bitcoin’s premier mining pools, AntPool, has activated AsicBoost on its mining operations. AsicBoost purportedly increases mining efficiency by up to 20 percent, making its usage very controversial.

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Canadian Ghost Town Gambles on Bitcoin for a New Chance at Life

With a population of fewer than 100 people, the small Canadian mill town of Ocean Falls sits dormant in British Colombia. Some think the Bitcoin mining boom could help reverse their economic fortunes.

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Bitmain Subsidiary BTC.Com To Launch Ethereum (ETH) Mining Pool

While prices may be down in the gutter, the mining industry is still growing at a rapid pace, with firms like Bitmain, Canaan, EBang, and others doing their best to excel in the face of an overall market downtrend.

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The Relevance of Cloud Mining Investment

Cloud mining is definitely a valid source of investment. And in the statement below I’ll try to prove why. Cloud mining permits users to purchase mining power of the equipment set in remote data centers, rather than utilize their own machines.

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New Research Claims Satoshi Mined Far Fewer Bitcoins Than Previously Thought

Based on five-year-old research, Bitcoin enthusiasts and critics alike have often held that Satoshi Nakamoto originally mined some 1,000,000 bitcoin in the early days of the network.

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Mining Like a Viking: How the Fjords of Norway Offer a Greener Alternative

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Nvidia Admits Defeat And Drops Out Of Cryptocurrency Mining Manufacturing

Nvidia are one of the world’s largest producers of graphics card and computer chip hardware. Initially established to build products for gaming and video, Nvidia are one of the few companies who have found a demand for their products within the cryptocurrency mining community.

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Markets Are Down, But Most Exchanges Are Doing Just Fine

As the old maxim asserts: those who made the most money in the gold rush were those who sold shovels. With our own digital gold rush in a downturn, however, the shovels aren’t selling so well, as mining companies themselves are struggling to move hardware because miners are struggling to turn a profit.

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Second Hand Rigs Are Dumped as the Solo Mining Dream Dies

In the summer of 2017, rising cryptocurrency prices led to a run on high performance graphics cards. Coveted cards with a high hashrate were snapped up like proverbial hot cakes, leaving gamers, scientific researchers, and anyone else who relied on flagship GPUs priced out as the cryptocurrency frenzy escalated.

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Monero (XMR) Coinhive Miner Rakes In Over $120,000 A Month

Many individuals fall under the false impression that crypto mining operations are solely operated by large corporations with data centers that can be likened to a mansion. However, this is far from the case, as there are methods of mining that can be used to garner cryptocurrencies, like Monero, through any old computer system.

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UK Bank Freezes Crypto Investors Accounts, Seizes Holdings for Further Investigation

UK Bank Freezes Crypto Investors Accounts and Seizes Holdings for Further Investigation A victim, which News. Bitcoin. com named, John claims to have had his crypto accounts frozen and locked out of by UK bank.

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Norwegian Bitcoin Mining Firm Receives Bomb Threat for Ruining Peace and Quiet

Kryptovault Cryptocurrency Mining Operation Receives Bomb Threat A recent reporting by news outlet, Vakdalposten, covered what seems like a bomb threat directed towards crypto mining firm, Kryptovault.

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Nvidia’s GPU Miner Sales Decline in Q2 2018, Overestimates Revenue by 82%

Nvidia’s GPU Sale Substantially Declines In the Second Quarter Of 2018 Crypto mining has become less lucrative as evident from declining sales of crypto miners. Mining equipment manufacturers like Nvidia and Bitmain are watching this happen first hand as profits declines.

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SEC to Investigate Riot Blockchain’s Coinsquare Stake & Crypto Mining Accounting

SEC Expands Inquiry About Riot Blockchain According to Reports It looks like the investigations about Riot Blockchain, the biotech company turned into crypto miner, are continuing. The latest news comes from a 10-Q quarterly report filed by the U.

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How Bitcoin Mining Could Become An Activity For The Crypto Bourgeois

Bitcoin mining was once an activity for techies. An activity that made the most of powerful computing rigs in order to mine and develop a currency which could be used to hide away from the ruling class.

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Trouble on the Horizon? What Last Weekend’s Ruckus Means for Bitmain’s IPO

Over the weekend, information surfaced that could suggest that mining giant Bitmain may be facing an uphill battle as it looks to launch an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

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Op Ed: Evaluating the Promise of Cardano: Has Ethereum Met Its Match?

This month, we celebrate Ethereum’s third birthday and reflect upon the many milestones that have occured in the industry since the dawn of the original smart contract blockchain.

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Cryptocurrency Mining Becoming Popular on University Campuses, Brings with it Energy and Security Concerns

Cryptocurrency mining has become an exciting and enticing proposition for many people. While the enterprise affords many opportunities to acquire valuable virtual currencies, the process also brings with it some unpleasant consequences.

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Canaan Avalon6 Bitcoin Miner: Quality Crypto Mining ASIC Equipment?

The production of ASIC mining rigs has always been somewhat controversial. Because the miners using ASIC are considered by some blockchains to be “cheating,” many companies have to constantly come out with new versions of their own ASIC tech in order to dodge the bans and patches on major cryptocurrency blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. […]

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Crypto Startup Taps Larry King in Shared Effort to Combat Climate Change

In a message on GEAR Token’s website, iconic political talk show host Larry King says that global climate change is threatening humanity’s existence and is “a potentially catastrophic issue from the combustion of fossil fuels .

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Splitt Introduces Advanced Cryptocurrency Cloud Server for More Profitable and Safe Crypto Mining

Splitt, a recently launched cloud server cryptocurrency mining service, is now making crypto mining user-friendly and safe like never before. Available currently in fifteen cities around the world, Splitt’s Cryptocurrency Cloud Server is steadily gaining popularity amongst the amateurs as well as experts looking to mine cryptocurrencies on a larger scale. The global crypto mining space […]

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Op Ed: Exploring the SEC’s New “Sufficiently Decentralized” Test

The regulators have awoken. SEC Director William Hinman introduced novel concepts to the securities law analysis such that sellers of digital assets may have an escape valve.

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