Why Ohio’s State Treasurer Backs Decision to Accept BTC For Tax Payments

As tax season is rapidly approaching, some states, like Ohio, have decided to set a new standard for the rest of the country to follow. Back in November, Ohio became the first state in the U. дальше »

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There May Be (Some) Tax Relief Options if You Sold Your Bitcoin at a Loss

For investors whose first time investing in bitcoin was in 2018 or after late 2017, there is a high likelihood that they have incurred substantial losses for the fiscal year of 2018 if they haven’t sold yet. дальше »

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Can Dogecoin Rise as the Real Digital Cash?

Tis the silly season, but as silly as the question might appear, could it actually happen? We ask because dogecoin is apparently now transferring nearly half a billion dollars worth... The post Can Dogecoin Rise as the Real Digital Cash? appeared first on Trustnodes. дальше »

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Tether’s Billion Dollar Reserves May Not Equate to ‘One-to-One Backing’ or ‘No Misconduct’

Bloomberg reported that Tether “has the billions it promised,” suggesting that USDT could be backed one-to-one by dollars. That said, the reserves do not necessarily prove Tether’s innocence in a laundry list of other misconduct. дальше »

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RusGas Could Be Making Millions in a New Cryptocurrency Scam

MonitorChain recently uncovered a potential scam in the cryptocurrency industry which could be enabling fraudsters to make millions of dollars at the expense of investors. The scam could be an exit strategy which is driving the price of the underlying security to nearly nothing. дальше »

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Nydia Zhang of the Social Alpha Foundation: Using the Blockchain for Good

As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking. дальше »

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A CBC Casper Tutorial

In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view. дальше »

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Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception. дальше »

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Investment Funds Network Calastone Set to Move Its Settlements System to Blockchain in 2019

CoinSpeaker Investment Funds Network Calastone Set to Move Its Settlements System to Blockchain in 2019 Calastone, an investment funds transaction network, said that they will shift their entire system to blockchain in May, a move that could slash costs for the sector by billions of dollars a year. дальше »

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Crypto Nostradamus, Litecoin’s Charlie Lee, Predicted The Market Crash Back In December 2017

Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee Predicted The Crypto Market Crash Back In December 2017 Charlie Lee, Litecoin’s creator, could have predicted the cryptocurrency market crash that affected the whole ecosystem during 2018. дальше »

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A First: U.S. Treasury Makes Bitcoin Addresses Focal Point in Sanctions

For the first time, the U. S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals. дальше »

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Could Reach as Low as $2,500 Says Reputable Crypto Trader Stephen Innes

Bitcoin, the largest virtual currency in the market could reach $2,500 dollars in the near future. This is what Stephen Innes, OANDA Asia Pacific Head of Trading says. During a conversation with Bloomberg on November 26, he explained that $2,500 is the target he has for Bitcoin by January 2019. During 2018, Bitcoin and other […] дальше »

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Could Central Bank Digital Currencies Be Better Than Virtual Currencies? Or Ride And Die Bitcoin?

Virtual currencies have been growing during the last years. Bitcoin has reached $20,000 dollars and several experts believe that it could be able to replace gold. However, there are some analysts that suggest that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) could replace virtual currencies as we know them. Just a few weeks ago, Christine Lagarde, the […] дальше »

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Hoskinson: Satoshi Did “An Amazing Thing”...But There Are Lessons to Learn

Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin. дальше »

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Bitcoin Begins Recovery After Bloodbath, XRP Holds Onto Lead Over Ether: The Weekly Price Review

It’s been a week that many investors wish they could erase, one that began with much promise but ended in despair. The week’s highlight was the Bitcoin Cash hard fork which took place on Thursday. дальше »

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Canadian Court Takes Custody of Crypto Exchange’s Frozen Funds

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently moved to take custody of a large sum of assets from a crypto exchange currently frozen in accounts at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). дальше »

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Op Ed: Anatomy of the Tether Attack: Are Stablecoins Vulnerable?

“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992. дальше »

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What Will a Financial Crisis Mean For The Cryptocurrency Market?

The founder and leader of the world’s biggest asset management firm thinks a global financial crisis is on the horizon. Larry Fink and BlackRock manage over 6 trillion dollars in assets and he thinks the rising US debt along a combination of climbing interest rates and inflation could spell disaster in the near future. дальше »

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VanEck’s Chief Strategist Eyes Multi-Billion Dollar Investment in Bitcoin ETF

The launch of the first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) could witness the space attracting as little as a few billion dollars, predicted Gabor Gurbacs. The director of Digital Assets Strategy at VanEck made the bullish prediction during an interview with CNBC Crypto Trader hosted by Ran Neuner, while explaining the possible outcomes from a successful. дальше »

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Mike Novogratz Says 2019 Institutional FOMO Will Drive Bitcoin (BTC) Price to New All-Time Highs

Michael Novogratz, one of the most important figures in the cryptocurrency space and supporter of blockchain technology, said that Bitcoin could see new all time highs in 2019. According to Financial News, Novogratz said that Bitcoin could reach $20,000 dollars or even more in 2019 fueled by institutional investors. During 2017, Bitcoin moved from $950 […] дальше »

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Brands pour billions of dollars into Facebook advertising, but the social media giant isn’t going to last forever. So, where will those dollars go in the future? The only viable choice is creativity. дальше »

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10 Reasons Why Top Cryptocurrency Bitcoin Cannot be Considered a Bubble

Bitcoin (BTC) and other virtual currencies have experienced an important bull run during 2017. At the end of the last year, Bitcoin reached $20,000 after starting the year close to $950 dollars. Because of this reason, several experts and financial analysts called Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies a bubble that could explode at any moment. Some of […] дальше »

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Winklevoss Twins Sue Charlie Shrem For Allegedly Stealing 5,000 Bitcoin

The Winklevoss twins have filed a lawsuit against bitcoin investor Charlie Shrem, alleging that Shrem “stole” 5,000 bitcoins from them in 2012. According to a recent report released by the New York Times, Charlie Shrem has made several large purchases over the past year, including multiple real estate properties, luxury cars, powerboats and a $2 million house. дальше »

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A Week of Satoshi Pt.4: Big Bitcoin Moments (2013 – 2018)

The period 2013 to 2018 was, in many ways, Bitcoin’s coming-of-age. It featured everything from exchange hacks worth tens of millions of dollars, law enforcement busting a seedy darknet website offering illegal goods and services for bitcoin, to newfound regulatory spotlighting all around the world, and an all-time high market price that not even the most optimistic bitcoin believer could. дальше »

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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive

As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency. дальше »

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Three Years Later, Ethereum’s Hottest DApps Are (Still) ICOs and Cats

With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts. Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain. дальше »

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A New Australian Dollar-Backed Stablecoin Slated to Launch on Stellar

Utility billing and payment services provider Novatti is launching a new Australian dollar (AUD)-backed stablecoin known as the Novatti AUD Utility Token on the Stellar Network. дальше »

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Can Digital Asset Regulation Help Countries Improve The Crypto Market

Digital Asset Regulation Can Help Countries Improve The Market Ripple released an article in which they talk about how digital asset regulation could improve the crypto and financial market. Back in 2014, the popular cryptocurrency exchange Mt Gox went bankrupt after being attacked and losing more than $460 million dollars of Bitcoins. At that moment, […] дальше »

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With New Exchange Listings and Demand, New Stablecoins See Pegs Broken

Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs. дальше »

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As Tether’s Peg Slips, Bitcoin Price Is Distorted Across Market

Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market. дальше »

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How Big Could Tron Go If China’s Giant IT Firm Baidu is Confirmed As Its Partner ?

A few hours ago, Tron’s Justin Sun said something that has since robbed many crypto analysts and market enthusiasts their good sleep. Justin announced that Tron will soon be partnering with one of the world’s largest entities by revenue –he termed the figure as “tens of billions of dollars. дальше »

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Tron (TRX)’s Justin Sun Tweets Of Partnership with an Unmentioned Industry Giant, Could it be Alibaba?

Justin Sun has in a recent tweet set the crypto community ablaze as he mentioned in his tweet that the Tron project had bagged yet another partnership with “tens of billions of dollars” investment. дальше »

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Signs That The Bitcoin Bulls Are Ready To Break Out

Here are a few of the most significant signs that the bulls are getting ready to break out and stampede on the markets. Five years ago, the industry didn’t have as many investors as we see today and most mainstream media wouldn’t have given any crypto related news the light of day. дальше »

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Famed Endowment Manager Invests Yale’s Money in Crypto Funds.

On October 5, 2018, an article published by Bloomberg stated that Yale University’s Investment Office, under the stewardship of famed manager David Swensen, has put an allocation toward Paradigm, a new cryptocurrency fund that has raised $400 million dollars. дальше »

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Circle Poised to Acquire Equity Crowdfunding Platform SeedInvest

Cryptocurrency startup Circle is venturing deeper into crypto trading. The Boston-based company is now ready to buy equity crowdfunding firm SeedInvest. If approved by regulators, the move could allow Circle to help match investors with fledgling companies trying to raise money via initial coin offerings (ICOs). дальше »

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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. дальше »

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Bitmain IPO Prospectus Reveals Offering May Be a Gamble for Investors

Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018. дальше »

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Mining Crypto and Evading Sanctions in North Korea

Cybersecurity and anti-money laundering experts believe that North Korea could be using cryptocurrencies to acquire USD. The country is likely developing its own cryptocurrency and private blockchain. дальше »

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How North Korea Could Be Mixing Bitcoin To Get Hold Of USD

According to Cryptoglobe, two US based finance experts, Lourdes C. Miranda and Ross Delston have told Asia Times that they believe North Korea (DPRK) could be mixing cryptocurrencies in order to get hold of US Dollars, in a move designed to totally undermine US economic sanctions. дальше »

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Stellar (XLM) Creator Jed McCaleb Could Hurt XRP By Selling Off His Ripple Tokens

Jed McCaleb Could Harm XRP By Selling Off His Tokens Jed McCaleb, Ripple’s Co-Founder seems to be selling his XRP possessions, something that could increase the pressure on XRP. Mr. McCaleb has increased the sales of his billions of dollars held in XRP, the third most valuable virtual currency in the market. Jed McCaleb left […] дальше »

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‘Free tech’ economy creates harmful monopolies and alters our self-expression

When Adam Smith, champion of capitalism, wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, he could not have foreseen that someday many of the world’s biggest companies would be giving away their services for free. дальше »

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Why Bitcoin (BTC)’s Price Is A False Indicator Of Actual Value

Chart for BTC/USD (1W) Bitcoin (BTC) is currently trading just above $6,400. The average cost for mining one Bitcoin (BTC) lies slightly below this level between $5,800 and $6,200. This is the reason the price has managed to stay above those levels for now despite the fact that the volume is so low that a couple of million dollars could swing the price either way. дальше »

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U.S. SEC Suspends Trading for Two Swedish-Based Crypto ETNs

Two securities, one that tracks bitcoin and another that tracks the cryptocurrency ether, have been temporarily halted by a U. S. regulatory watchdog due to investor confusion. дальше »

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You Can Now Pay With Bitcoin Via Lightning at CoinGate’s 4,000 Merchants

CoinGate, a bitcoin payment processor, has launched bitcoin Lightning Network payments on its platform, bringing the option to accept Lightning payments to its 4,000 clients. дальше »

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$800M BTC Wallet Reactivates: Tens of Millions to Exchanges

Speculation has been swirling around a BTC wallet held dormant for over four years that is suddenly showing movement. That it contains something on the order of nearly one billion dollars worth of bitcoin core (BTC) has the ecosystem in both investigative mode and panic, as it could signal a giant dump at the very […] The post $800M BTC Wallet Reactivates: Tens of Millions to Exchanges appeared first on Bitcoin News. дальше »

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New study claims $98,000 Bitcoin could be on the way

A new study by Satis Group, an ICO advisory firm, has shown that a possible $98,000 bull run could be in the cards in the near future.  According to the report put forth by Satis Group, by 2028 the overall cryptocurrency market cap will be 3. дальше »

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Bitcoin Could Make Credit Cards Obsolete

According to some financial experts, Bitcoin transaction fees are lower. In addition, Bitcoin bypasses the unnecessary and expensive financial institutions within which credit cards depend. Therefore, experts believe that Bitcoin’s advantages will encourage merchants to replace credit cards with Bitcoin. дальше »

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Coinberry Traders Keep Control of Keys With BRD Crypto Wallet Integration

Cryptocurrency trading service Coinberry has partnered with BRD, a secure bitcoin wallet service, in a deal that promises to bring BRD's Canadian users onto Coinberry's no-fee trading platform. дальше »

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Factors that Reduced Crypto Market Capitalization by more than 270% in 2018

There has been hope that the cryptocurrency market capitalization could hit the one trillion dollars make in 2018 and even surpass it due to the bubble in the cryptocurrency market in Dec last year and in middle of Jan 2018. дальше »

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What’s on Crypto Halving Line Forecast Says Bitcoin at $10 Million by 2023

Could Bitcoin Reach $10 Million Dollars In 2023? According to a Bitcoin chart that has been circulating on the internet in the last days, shows that Bitcoin could be reaching $10 million dollars in 2023. дальше »

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