Bitfinex Reimburses First Bitcoin Exchange Hack Victims
By Charles Bovaird Bitfinex has reimbursed its first wave of customers. Announced 1st September, the Hong Kong bitcoin exchange revealed it had purchased more
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Ad-Blocking Browser Brave Launches Bitcoin Micropayments
By Michael del Castillo Web browser developer Brave Software has a new weapon in its arsenal against third-party advertisements. While
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Baidu Ban Makes Bitcoin’s Fate Unknown in Its Largest Market
By Olusegun Ogundeji The ban of all bitcoin and virtual currency-related advertising from the online portals of China’s largest search engine, Baidu, has
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Bitcoin Tipping Platform Zapchain to Shut Down
By Pete Rizzo Another bitcoin-based content monetization startup has announced it will shut down. Social network Zapchain, launched in 2014 as
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Best Places to Bet Bitcoins on Trump and Hillary
By Justin OConnell It’s going to be a wild one, so buckle up. There are still numerous events forthcoming before
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The Vault: Could This Technical Fix Block Bitcoin Hackers?
By Jacob Donnelly Cryptsy, Shapeshift, Gatecoin, Bitfinex. What do all these exchanges have in common? More than 130,000 BTC ($73,818,875 at today’s
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Bitmain to Release New Bitcoin Miner in Bid to Attract Hobbyists
By Jacob Donnelly One ambitious bitcoin company is seeking to make mining a hobbyist activity again. China-based Bitmain let slip today it
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Why the Winklevoss Brothers Are Still Waiting for a Bitcoin ETF
By Michael del Castillo The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust may be inching closer to becoming the first bitcoin ETF listed on
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Bitfury Research Shines Light on Bitcoin Privacy Weaknesses
By Pete Rizzo A new Bitfury white paper aims to advance the study of how bitcoins sent using certain privacy-enhancing
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What is Bitcoin Maximalism?
By Justin OConnell 2016 has perhaps seen a proliferation of new schools of thought under the crypto-currency genre, particularly thanks
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Unknown Bidder Buys $1.6 Million in Bitcoin at US Government Auction
By Pete Rizzo A winning bidder claimed 2,700 BTC (worth $1.58m) at an auction held by the US Marshals Service
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Amazon-Owned Twitch Re-adds Bitcoin Payments Using Coinbase
By Joseph Young Twitch, an Amazon-owned live streaming video platform which integrated Bitcoin back in August 2014, has began to
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Isilines Accepts Bitcoin Payments For International Bus Travel
By JP Buntinx International bus travel is becoming a popular trend these days. Isilines, a French bus travel company and
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Bitcoin Ponzi Schemer Hints at Dealings With Mt Gox CEO
By Stan Higgins Convicted Ponzi scheme operator Trendon Shavers is now insinuating the major unidentified debtor cited in his defense
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No, the EBA’s Bitcoin Regulation Proposals Aren’t All Bad
Jacek Czarnecki is an attorney at Warsaw-based law firm Wardynski & Partners, where he specializes in areas including FinTech, digital
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Stealing bitcoins with badges: How Silk Road’s dirty cops got caught
By Cyrus Farivar and Joe Mullin DEA Special Agent Carl Force wanted his money—real cash, not just numbers on a screen—and he
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Bitfinex Announces 5% Bounty for Information Leading to Recovery of Stolen BTCs
By Gautham In the beginning of this month, the Bitcoin industry witnessed one of the biggest hacking incidents of this
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Bitcoin’s technology has a surprising fan: IBM
by Stephen Shankland Bitcoin has a bad rap as the preferred currency of drug dealers. But that isn’t stopping IBM
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Bank Group Calls for Broader Oversight of EU Bitcoin Services
By Stan Higgins The European Banking Association (EBA) has called for more details regarding the European Union’s (EU) plan to
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Bitfinex Exchange to Resume Bitcoin Trading Today
By Stan Higgins Bitfinex has announced it will resume trading and withdrawals just over a week after it was robbed
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Bitcoin Payments Are More Secure Than EMV Chip Based Cards
By Gautham The ongoing competition between fiat based electronic payments and digital currency payments doesn’t have a winner yet. The
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U.S. to auction $1.6 million of bitcoin from various cases
By Nate Raymond The U.S. government said on Monday it plans to auction over 2,700 bitcoins that were forfeited during
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Number of Fake Bitcoin Wallet Apps On Apple App Store Keeps Growing
By JP Buntinx Apple App Store as of late. Even though the technology giant is allegedly putting these apps through
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Hacked bitcoin firm plans to spread losses across all users
By Luke Graham The bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has said it is considering sharing losses among all its users after
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Deteriorating UK Economy Signals Time for Plan Bitcoin
By JP Buntinx Things are only getting worse for the United Kingdom, by the look of things. As many people
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Bitcoin Drops Nearly 20% as Exchange Hack Amplifies Price Decline
Charles Bovaird The price of bitcoin fell sharply today exacerbating an already ongoing decline as global market participants reacted to news
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UnitedPharmacies Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments
By JP Buntinx Adding use cases for Bitcoin is the best way to grow the ecosystem as a whole. While
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