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Altcoin

Monero Becomes First Crypto Company To Implement “Bulletproofs”

What’s that? A new technology designed to enhance blockchain features by making the technology more scalable is up for testing phase soon. This ...

By CoinBeatOctober 18, 20180

Altcoin

Ethereum Upgrade Testing Failure Could Mean Delays

An initial test of Ethereum’s upcoming software upgrade Constantinople recently failed to deliver the desired results leaving a wave of repercussions within the ...

By CoinBeatOctober 16, 20180

Blockchain

Adhara Secures $15 Million In Funding To Bring Blockchain To Central Banks

Adhara, a blockchain startup featuring a powerhouse of former banking experts recently secured a whopping $15 million in new funding from New York-based ...

By CoinBeatOctober 16, 20180

Altcoin

The Seven Deadliest Hacks of 2018’s Third Quarter

In the Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report of Q3 2018, CipherTrace reported a growing number of cryptocurrency thefts, including several heists in the $20-$60 ...

By CoinBeatOctober 15, 20180

Altcoin

Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Services are Fertile Ground for Criminal Activity: Global Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Funding Efforts

According to CipherTrace’s Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report of Q3 2018, cryptocurrency products and services have a high potential for abuse by criminals. As the crypto ...

By CoinBeatOctober 15, 20180

Altcoin

Crypto Theft at an All Time High: 2018’s Crypto Hacks Are Reported to Have Stolen Almost $1 Billion

In its quarterly Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report, CipherTrace reported that almost $1 billion has been stolen or crypto hacked so far this year. ...

By CoinBeatOctober 15, 20180

Altcoin

An Unprecedented High: The Global Phenomenon of Crypto Hedge Fund Launches

Prior to 2017, there were only a small number of specialized funds investing in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Since the start of 2017, ...

By CoinBeatOctober 15, 20180

Altcoin

Rojava, the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, is Investigating Crypto Solutions with Multiple Applications

Rojava has recently emerged from six years of war and is now under economic sanctions from surrounding countries. With sanctions threatening to undermine ...

By CoinBeatOctober 15, 20180

Blockchain

Deloitte Give 5 Things That Must Happen For Blockchain To See Widespread Adoption

Blockchain, cryptocurrency, bitcoin. You’ve heard at least one of these keywords in the last decade or so. Blockchain being perhaps one of the ...

By CoinBeatOctober 15, 20180

Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin Takes A Jab At Doctor Doom Crypto-Hating Economist

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, recently threw shade a well-known economist & crypto nay-sayer Nouriel Roubini. This came in response to a ...

By CoinBeatOctober 12, 20180

Altcoin

Chinese Central Bank Seeks Blockchain Experts

In an announcement that shocked many, The People’s Bank Of China or the PBoC recently announced that they’re on the hunt for blockchain ...

By CoinBeatOctober 12, 20180

Altcoin

Whales of Bitcoin: Making a Splash in the Market or Swimming Below the Surface?

According to Bloomberg, the 15% plunge in bitcoin’s value during August 2018 was rumored to have been fueled by a mysterious $2 billion ...

By CoinBeatOctober 12, 20180

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Owners Have a Higher Level of Trust in Bitcoin than in the Federal Government

A recent survey indicated that less than 20% of bitcoin owners trusted the federal government more than the bitcoin network. A recent study ...

By CoinBeatOctober 12, 20180

Altcoin

The Pundi X Blockchain Phone Makes the World’s First Blockchain Call

According to an announcement by Pitt Huang, CTO and co-founder of Pundi X, the world’s first blockchain phone call has been made. ...

By CoinBeatOctober 11, 20180

Blockchain

Blockchain-encrypted emCash to run Dubai

Dubai has developed a blockchain-encrypted, state digital technology called emCash. emCash will now be used by residents to make payments for school fees, ...

By CoinBeatOctober 11, 20180

Blockchain

Singapore Central Bank To Assist Crypto Startups

The current chief of Singapore’ Central Bank Ravi Menon, recently announced that country will be supporting local crypto startups & exchanges with banking ...

By CoinBeatOctober 11, 20180

Education

How To Solve Hacks Like The 51% Attack – Fine Miners!

The most notorious and feared kinds of crypto attacks may have quite the poetic solution. That’s what Horizen, the victims who suffered such ...

By CoinBeatOctober 11, 20180

Blockchain

United Arab Emirates: Planning Underway to Allow ICOs as a Corporate Funding Option

The United Arab Emirates (UAE’s) financial regulator, the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), has announced plans to introduce new rules that would permit ...

By CoinBeatOctober 10, 20180

Blockchain

Swensen Goes Crypto for Yale’s Endowment Investments

David Swensen is Yale’s chief investment officer. According to CNBC, Swensen has invested for the university in Andreessen Horowitz’s $300 million crypto fund, which ...

By CoinBeatOctober 10, 20180

Breaking News

European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to Prepare a Report on ICO Rules by the End of the Year

The Chairman of ESMA, Steven Maijoor, is of the opinion that some initial coin offerings (ICOs) resemble financial instruments, which for their purposes, ...

By CoinBeatOctober 10, 20180

Bitcoin

High Revenues But Lower Profits – The Plight of Bitcoin Miners In 2018

Back in 2017 mining was all the rage. You got yourself a mad setup, and let it do the work and reaped the ...

By CoinBeatOctober 10, 20180

Blockchain

SEC Asks Public for Additional Comment on Rejected Bitcoin ETFs by 26 October

After nine different bitcoin exchange-traded fund rule change proposals were rejected, the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was requested to provide ...

By CoinBeatOctober 10, 20180

Bitcoin

Celebrities Clamoring for Cryptocurrency Connotation: Soulja Boy the Latest Voice

Cryptocurrencies have garnered much fascination since their inception. Most recently this preoccupation with cryptocurrency and the quickly evolving crypto industry may be seen ...

By CoinBeatOctober 10, 20180

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund Applications to Cause Bitcoin Prices to Explode According to Neuner

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is “about to explode” said Ran Neuner, crypto analyst and the host of the Consumer News and Business ...

By CoinBeatOctober 10, 20180

Blockchain

Cryptocurrencies Opening The Way For More Fan Involvement In Football Club Matters

International bidders are showing heightened interest in Hull City, a Yorkshire-based championship football team, and according to UK media are attempting a ‘takeover’ ...

By CoinBeatOctober 10, 20180

Altcoin

Japenese IT Company “GMO” To Launch Yen Backed Stablecoin

More stablecoins are on the horizon! The latest company to jump on the fiat backed crypto bandwagon are GMO, a Japanese IT tycoon ...

By CoinBeatOctober 9, 20180

Blockchain

Will Ethereum Survive Without the Input of Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin?

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum network may be in the process of “detaching himself” from his creation and possibly trying to allay ...

By CoinBeatOctober 9, 20180

Blockchain

South Africa and Crypto – SARS and SARB

South Africa is a large financial hub on the African continent and therefore has the ability to lead the way forward in terms ...

By CoinBeatOctober 9, 20180

Exchange

Binance to Donate All Listing Fees to Charity

Changpeng Zhao is a Chinese-Canadian business executive and the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance. On Monday, October 8 he announced that ...

By CoinBeatOctober 9, 20180

Blockchain

Americans Divided in Opinion on the Role of Cryptocurrencies: Uncertainty as the Predominant Issue

A recent survey of over 1,000 Americans by Clovr, a company focused on fostering the mainstream adoption of blockchain, was undertaken to try ...

By CoinBeatOctober 9, 20180

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