Bitcoin Miners Brace For Another Difficulty Spike In January After 2025 Record

Bitcoin’s network has become slightly harder to mine, with the latest difficulty rising to a little over 148 trillion. Block times are currently averaging about 9. 95 minutes, a little below the network’s 10-minute goal, prompting the adjustment to slow mining slightly.

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Crypto Whales Are Moving Fast – BlockchainFX Is Overtaking Bitcoin Hyper and Little Pepe This Halloween

Whales are rotating from Bitcoin Hyper and Little Pepe into BlockchainFX as BFX presale demand surges, real platform utility grows and the CANDY40 bonus drives entries.

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Bitcoin Makes A Small Pull-Back As Crypto Community Anticipates An Imminent Recovery

Bitcoin’s price has pulled back right after the crypto’s charts drew the Golden Cross, something that has left some people confused. Many crypto experts have been all bullish and expressing a lot of optimism for Bitcoin’s impending bull run.

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Police bust potential Bitcoin money laundering scheme in Brazil

Brazilian police have arrested a man on suspicion that he was running a drug trafficking ring and laundering funds using Bitcoin. According to a local report, law enforcement officials found a clandestine drug laboratory containing Bitcoin mining equipment in Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, and arrested the unnamed man yesterday.

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Why Bitcoin Can Only Go Up From Here

Bitcoin price hit a new ATH this year reaching $5,600. The next stop looks to be $6,000. HODLers are daring to dream… But, let’s keep a little perspective. All major coins are still a (very) long way off their all-time-highs.

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A Putin-opposing politician has raised more than $3M in Bitcoin

Despite a recent survey showing that most Russians actually know very little about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, it appears that one politician is a little more au fait with the technology. The man who is thought to be Vladimir Putin‘s main opponent, Alexei Navalny, has received over $3 million (591 BTC) worth of donations in Bitcoin over the last three years, CoinDesk reports.

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Op Ed: We Just Launched the First Cryptocurrency-to-Tax Payment Partnership

Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Looks Primed For New 2019 Highs

Bitcoin price completed its fifteenth week of 2019 overnight and once again the bulls managed to print a higher high on the candle close we take a look at what this means going in to the week ahead.

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Weather Channel Knocked Off Air by Bitcoin Ransomware

The Weather Channel briefly went off air this Thursday as it experienced a ransomware attack for about one hour. FBI stated the network experienced a ransomware attack with little further...

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Crypto Chronology: Watch the Rise and Dominance of Binance Unfold

The story of what Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has been able to accomplish a little under two years has been nothing short of incredible. Having launched in July of 2017 amidst stiff competition from well-established rivals and a feverishly bullish market driven by Bitcoin hype, rather than pose a challenge for Zhao, the combination was.

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Top Bitcoin Exchanges Come Together In An Effort To Retrieve BitHumb’s Stolen Crypto Funds

Top Crypto Exchanges Come Together In An Effort To Retrieve BitHumb’s Stolen Funds As many of our regular readers may recall, late last month, leading South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb fell victim to a hacking scandal which saw the company lose a little over USD $18 million worth of assets. However, as soon as this […]

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Is Bitcoin Price Action Repeating Itself? Real or Fakeout?

For the last 14 months, the crypto market has been getting decimated with little signs positivity. However, that vibe has recently changed, the question is, will it continue on its current uptrend or is this just a momentary bull trap that’s attempting to suck investors in? What the market feels like right now is very […] The post Is Bitcoin Price Action Repeating Itself? Real or Fakeout? appeared first on NullTX.

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Flailing Japanese Brokerage Giant Monex Courts Bitcoin for its Survival

By CCN. com: One of Japan’s largest online brokerages, Monex, may soon allow retail investors to buy bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on its platform. Monex claims the move into cryptocurrency will help claw back its diminishing market share.

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The Struggle to Buy Bitcoin in Crypto-Starved Botswana

The rise of Bitcoin has coincided with improvements in technology allowing anyone to trade online. Meanwhile, in landlocked Botswana, geographical constraints have done little to prevent BTC from being traded locally, even in the absence of an established locally-operated cryptocurrency exchange.

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Use the Bitcoin Cash Notary to Back Up Important Documents

Proving ownership of copyrighted material through traditional means such as applying for a patent is expensive and involves third parties in most jurisdictions around the world. The Bitcoin. com Notary tool is an alternative that can do that at very little cost and without the need to reveal the information you want to protect.

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Crypto Market Wrap: Consolidation Continues, When Can We Expect a Breakout?

Crypto markets lethargic on lazy Sunday; Bitcoin Cash. Litecoin and IOTA falling back again, BNB holding. Market Wrap There has been little movement on crypto markets over the weekend. Gains have largely held though there have been more sellers than buyers for most of the coins.

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The Little Coin That Could: Bitcoin Is More Popular Than Elon Musk and SpaceX

It’s official: Bitcoin is more popular than Elon Musk. Well, sort of, at least. New data from online traffic has shown that, during the last seven days, Bitcoin searches are far more common than the ones about Elon Musk or the launch of his SpaceX program. Bitcoin is popular, Elon Musk is not (ok, he […]

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Bitcoin and Ethereum Trading Volume Reaches Crypto Bull Run Peak Levels

At the start of April, Bitcoin rallied nearly $1,000 in a matter of a little more than an hour. The powerful movement was enough to drag the entire crypto market with it, including the likes of Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin.

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How Mobile Browsers Are Driving the Next Wave of Cryptocurrency Adoption

You may not have noticed, but crypto’s first killer app is already here. It’s called the mobile browser. Until recently, mobile internet browsers were little more than a means to connect to the web on the go.

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Litecoin Price Heads Below $80 Following Major Dip

When the Bitcoin price goes in the deep red without any real reason, the altcoins will be quick to follow. Although traders and investors do not like to see things heading down this path, there is little one can do about it at the current pace.

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‘In Crypto We Trust’: Circle CEO Pumps Blockchain at IMF Meeting

There is little doubt that digital payments tools – including bitcoin and other cryptocurrency projects – are transforming the way consumers make transactions. However, even the best digital technologies will fail if users don’t trust them.

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Chinese Bitcoin Miners Suffer in Iran Despite Cheap Power

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Many Chinese cryptominers have migrated to places with cheap electricity and favorable policies as a result of the escalated government crackdown on cryptocurrency and its production process.

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Facebook Coin Seeks $1 Billion in Funding; Is it Really the ‘Biggest Boon for Crypto Ever?’

Crypto entrepreneur and hedge fund manager Jeremy Gardner says Facebook’s impending cryptocurrency is not a threat to the bitcoin community. In fact, he believes it’s a huge positive for crypto. Speaking at the ELEV8 conference, Gardner said: “This may be the biggest boom for crypto ever… I can only see it being a net positive in the short term.

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Popular bitcoin wallet Electrum faces sophisticated denial-of-service attack

The servers of Electrum, a popular Bitcoin wallet, were under heavy denial-of-service (DoS) attacks Sunday night; The total amount stolen could be in the “millions of dollars” so far. The company advised its users to limit the use of the platform until the issue is resolved, but provided little information on the investigation that’s underway.

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Artificial Intelligence Helps Korean Police Bust $19 Million Bitcoin Ponzi

A special South Korean investigative agency in Seoul has successfully used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to unravel a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded 56,000 people of more than $18. 7 million.

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“It’s A Lion’s Den” – P2P Traders Discuss Challenges of Operating on Localbitcoins

Despite many cryptocurrency users having made their first purchases using Localbitcoins, little attention is paid to the experiences of the traders who operate on the platform. News. Bitcoin. com reached out to several Localbitcoins traders to find out about the challenges facing peer-to-peer crypto brokers.

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Bitcoin, The Alternative to the Modern Monetary Theory

The problem is not too much money printing, the problem is too little debasement because inflation remains very low. So argued Nouriel Roubini, a left leaning economist who effectively in... The post Bitcoin, The Alternative to the Modern Monetary Theory appeared first on Trustnodes.

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SEC Officials Publish Framework for Determining Legal Status of Digital Assets

There is a little more clarity regarding the legal status of digital assets as two SEC officials have published a framework that helps in determining whether an asset qualifies as such on April 3, 2019.

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Market Update: Bitcoin (BTC) Seems To Find Calmness Just Above $5,000 After Blasting Past $5,200

The last two days have been nothing but a dream come true for Bitcoin (BTC) holders and backers. Starting from Tuesday, Bitcoin has surged from a little over $4,000 to hit a high of $5,200 early today.

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Trump Nominates Allison Herren Lee as SEC Commissioner, Will She Give Bitcoin ETF?

President Donald Trump has finally nominated the fifth Securities and Exchanges Commissioner (SEC), the publicly little known Allison Herren Lee (pictured above), the White House said. She is expected to.

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No Resistance to $6,000 Say Bitcoin Bulls, Is Another Pump Coming?

Following yesterday’s epic two hour Bitcoin surge, markets have held these levels today as new support and resistance zones are formed. A number of crypto analysts and industry observers claim that BTC will not stop there and has very little resistance all the way up to $6,000.

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In Fourth Report, QuadrigaCX Court Monitor Recommends Bankruptcy Proceedings

QuadrigaCX monitor Ernst & Young suspects that the beleaguered exchange’s late CEO, Gerald Cotten, may have been financing personal expenditures with company funds, and it is now recommending that the assets in Cotten’s estate be placed under a preservation order.

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How Bitcoin May Surge off of Billions of Dollars From IPOs Like Lyft, Uber

After multiple private funding rounds over half a decade, the San Francisco-headquartered Lyft, the world’s second largest ridesharing startup, took to the Nasdaq on Friday after months of media hype.

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Crypto Market Wrap: Altcoins Leading as Bitcoin Dominance Drops to 50%

Crypto markets making steady gains; Dash, Monero, and Tezos moving well,  Bitcoin down to 50% dominance. Market Wrap Crypto markets are holding steady and even showing signs of further gains this Monday morning.

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Down the Bitcoin March Memory Lane when BTC Surpassed $1 Billion in Market Cap for the First Time

In the present time, this week we saw popular South Korean exchange Bithumb being hacked that lost millions of EOS in a suspected insider job. A little known Singaporean cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx was also hacked for cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and number of other tokens. Another case has been of CoinBene that involved a […]

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Analysis Shows Lightning Network Suffers From Trust Issues Exacerbated by Rising Fees

Over the last two years, the Lightning Network has been touted as the scaling solution for the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network. However, the solution has been heavily criticized for its lack of security, and on March 28, Bitcoin Unlimited’s chief scientist Peter Rizun wrote an interesting evaluation of the Lightning Network’s “dirty little secret.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Validates Its Short-term Bullish Prospect, Long-term Prospect Remains Elusive

In the last couple of hours, Bitcoin has extended its mid-week rally, hitting a little over $4,100. This move marks a 5-week high and sees the coin breakout of its recently established resistance position of $4,080.

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These Cryptocurrency Data Sites Aim to Be More Accurate Than Coinmarketcap

The true size of the cryptocurrency market may be as little as 5 percent of its officially reported total. Coinmarketcap (CMC), the leading market data website, has been accused of unquestioningly publishing crypto exchange figures, despite compelling evidence of manipulation by many trading venues including a glut of Asian platforms.

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Op Ed: Answering 10 Common Questions About Cryptocurrency and Taxes

Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.

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Cloudbet Lowers Bet Limit to 10 Satoshi

Cloudbet has lowered its sports betting limits to just 10 Satoshi, giving a whole new audience the chance to bet small but dream big. Cloudbet, the leading bitcoin sportsbook, today announced that it has lowered its minimum sports bet limit to an astonishing 10 Satoshi.

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Bitcoin Stabilizes above $4,000 Mark, Suggesting Next Move Might Be North: BTCManager’s Week in Review March 25, 2019

The price of bitcoin managed to remain above the $4,000 mark, suggesting that this psychological important resistance line has now become a support level, which means the next move may be another leg higher.

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You are probably thinking, that should be Bitcoin (BTC), right? Well, it’s possible considering its network effect. However, there are lots of factors that could play in the favor of little Digibyte (DGB), and transform it into a mega crypto that could dominate them all.

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Dogecoin Price Gives up Little Ground as Bitcoin Remains Bearish

In theory, this would be an excellent time for altcoins to mount a very strong comeback while Bitcoin remains bearish. However, ensuring such gains materialize is often a very different matter. The Dogecoin price puts up a valiant effort in this regard, although it too notes minor losses.

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New Crypto Market Research Reveals True Bitcoin (BTC) Dominance Could Be 80% with Liquidity Metric

The metrics of Bitcoin are complicated, but there are a few factors that any investor understands – price, circulating supply, and market cap. Market dominance is a little more complex, but it is just the percentage of the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies with how much of the portion BTC holds. However, Bitcoinist recently […]

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: Slow Upward Drift Tests Market Supply

A slow, grinding upward drift has been the name of the game for bitcoin’s market over the last few weeks. The upward drift is bringing us slowly to a level that was previously rejected violently:Figure 1: BTC-USD, Daily Candles, Upward DriftOur third rejection of the red resistance level shown above brought the market into a test of macro support in the mid-$3,000s.

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WSJ Falsely Overstates ‘$9 Million’ ShapeShift Money Laundering Claim: Analysis

Blockchain investigation and cybersecurity firm CipherBlade has done its own research, the results of which seem to exonerate crypto exchange ShapeShift from a scathing report in The Wall Street Journal.

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Pomp to Interview Michael Novogratz: Bitcoin Bull and Influencer Talk Crypto Market

Pomp who is the co-founder together with a Partner at Morgan Creek Digital will be talking to Michael Novogratz on Wednesday at around 9:30a EST. An interview that many individuals within the crypto space are looking forward to.

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Understanding Bitcoin During 2019 Bear Market: A Little Knowledge in a Lot of Areas

The widely-followed and respected bitcoin analyst and financial economics student Misir Mahmudov has said “most educated people fail to appreciate bitcoin because they only specialize in one field,” then goes on to argue that true understanding is really grasped if you can understand basic computer science and economics concepts. Most educated people fail to appreciate […]

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After QuadrigaCX: New Regulations for Canadian Exchanges Are in the Works

As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.

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