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Bitcoin Investment Trust Shares Down 80 Percent, Investors Cite Low Prices, High Fees
The “lone” Bitcoin (BTC) investment trust in the U.S., Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC),  has seen its net asset value ...
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Coinbase Valued at $8 Billion Following Hedge Fund Investment: Report
Tiger Global, a U.K. hedge fund that invests mainly in global consumer brands, is reportedly considering a $500 million investment ...
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ICOs Sold Almost as Much as They Raised According to New BitMEX Research
ICOs have managed to sell almost as much Ethereum (ETH) in terms of US dollars as they have raised, new ...
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Chrome Extensions Will Soon Protect Against Miners and Hackers
Technology & Security Google has announced a number of upcoming changes concerning the development of new extensions for Chrome. Users ...
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Brazil Gives Investment Funds Green Light to [Indirectly] Buy Bitcoin
Brazil’s securities regulator, Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), has reportedly authorized investment funds to indirectly put their money in the ...
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Charles Schwab Exec Joins Coinbase Board
Chris Dodds, who serves on the board of directors of the Charles Schwab Corporation, has joined cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's board ...
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Huobi is Getting Ready to Launch and Transfer Operations to Its Public Blockchain
Blockchain technology has been around for a while now. Even so, the technology is still considered to be in its ...
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Binance Labs Invests ‘Millions’ in Decentralized Digital Content Monetization Startup
Binance Labs has reportedly invested millions of dollars in decentralized digital content ecosystem Contentos, according to a press release published ...
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Bitcoin Price Manipulated by Cryptocurrency Trading Bots: WSJ
Bots that manipulate bitcoin price are not new, and they aren’t going away, according to The Wall Street Journal. The ...
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Boston Federal Reserve Exec Talks Blockchain at Forbes Event
The VP of the Boston Federal Reserve bank discussed crypto and blockchain at the launch of Forbes 30 Under 30 ...
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Block.one Claims It’s the Most Used and Highest Performing Blockchain
After raising $4 billion through a record-breaking token sale, the Block.one team now claims that they have solved the scalability ...
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BCH Roundup: Merchant Adoption, Wallet Services, and Hackathons
News Another busy week has passed for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents as there continues to be an influx of bitcoin ...
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St. Louis Fed VP: A Private Crypto Could Solve the ‘Triffin Dilemma’
Cryptocurrencies could serve as a possible solution to disparities currently faced by the U.S. dollar, an economist with the Federal ...
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John McAfee-Linked Bitcoin Mining Firm Hit with Class-Action Lawsuit
MGT Capital Investments, a bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency investing firm formerly associated with John McAfee, has been hit with a ...
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BitMEX Appoints Hong Kong Regulator to Position of Chief Operating Officer
In an effort to help them navigate the global regulatory landscape, BitMEX, one of the planet’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has ...
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Blockchain Market Could Hit $7 Bln, Will Give Boost to Amazon, Microsoft
The Bank of America (BoA) has estimated that blockchain could be a $7 billion market and provide a major boost ...
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1Broker Seized, Will More Crypto Exchanges be Targeted by US Gov’t?
1Broker, a Marshall Islands-based securities dealer and bitcoin trading platform, was recently taken down by the US authorities. The FBI ...
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Bitcoin Value Indicator Says Price ‘Still Overbought’ But Bottom ‘Near’
The Bitcoin price bottom is “near,” but the largest cryptocurrency still shows signs of being “overbought,” new research released October ...
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‘Bitcoin Bug’ Exploited on Crypto Fork as Attacker Prints 235 Million Pigeoncoins
A severe bug discovered just weeks ago in bitcoin's code has been exploited – albeit on a lesser-known cryptocurrency. The ...
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Venezuela Formally Releases Petro, Will It Aid the Country’s Economic Recovery?
Venezuela’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, will be released to the global markets this Monday, marking one of the first cryptocurrencies ...
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Shapeshift CEO Responds to Wall Street Journal Laundering Claims
News Reporters at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) tied innovative ecosystem cryptocurrency exchange Shapeshift to money laundering. “How Dirty Money ...
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Crypto Markets Remain Shaky, NEM Continues Rising for the Second Day
Tuesday, October 2: crypto markets are seeing mixed signals, with up and down fluctuations for the last few hours and ...
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Can Blockchain Solve Brexit Border Woes? UK Finance Minister Believes So
Phillip Hammond, the U.K. finance minister, stated yesterday that blockchain technology could help smooth trade across the Irish border after ...
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Puerto Rico’s Noble Bank Reportedly Loses Clients Tether, Bitfinex, Seeks Buyer
Puerto Rico’s Noble Bank International, which is known for reportedly opening accounts for USD-backed token Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex, ...
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Brave CEO Tells Senate that U.S. Needs GDPR-Style Data Privacy Rules
The chief executive of cryptocurrency-funded web browser Brave has penned a letter to the U.S. Senate calling for legislators to ...
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South Korea’s Democratic Party Lawmaker Urges Authorities to ‘Open Up the Road’ to ICOs
A member of South Korea’s National Assembly has called on the state to “open up the road” to Initial Coin ...
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Mining Giant Bitmain Acquires Bitcoin Cash Wallet Startup
Crypto mining behemoth Bitmain announced Monday it has acquired the startup behind an open-source bitcoin cash wallet called Telescope. The ...
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CFTC Chairman: Two-Thirds of Fiat Currency ‘Not Worth Paper It’s Written On’
The head of the US regulator Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sees Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies helping consumers escape fiat ...
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Zebpay’s Sandeep Goenka Reiterates his Bullish Call for Bitcoin
Sandeep Goenka recently closed down his Bitcoin exchange in India, but he remains optimistic towards the digital currency that began ...
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54% of Cryptocurrency Exchanges Have Security Holes
Exchanges Traders hope and expect the exchange they’re trading on takes security seriously. But while all crypto platforms pay lip ...
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Venezuela’s Controversial Petro Sale Starting November, Maduro Claims
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has appeared on national television to announce the official launch of the national cryptocurrency Petro, according ...
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French Official Arrested for Allegedly Selling State Secrets for Bitcoin
A French security official with the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI) was indicted last week and taken into ...
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Blockchain-Based Ad Startup to Refund Contributors if Development Milestones Aren’t Met
A digital advertising startup with the goal of “building a better internet” for web users, publishers and advertisers is embarking ...
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Venture Capital Investment in Blockchain and Crypto Up 280% in 2018, Report Shows
“Traditional” venture capital (VC) investment in blockchain and crypto firms has almost tripled in the first three quarters of 2018, ...
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Italian Banking Association Completes First Test of Blockchain-Based Interbank System
The Italian Banking Association (ABI) has revealed they successfully passed the initial phase of testing their blockchain-powered interbank system, Italian ...
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Cryptocurrency is ‘Here to Stay’: CFTC Chairman Giancarlo
Bitcoin may never replace the greenback, but the flagship cryptocurrency could achieve significant adoption in the two-thirds of countries without ...
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Coinbase Adds Charles Schwab Advisor to Board of Directors
Coinbase's leadership expansion continued Tuesday as it added Charles Schwab advisor Chris Dodds to its board of directors and tapped ...
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Ukrainian Legislator Urges Parliament to Cut Crypto Taxes Until 2030
A Ukrainian legislator has urged parliament during a speech on Monday, October 1 to review his alternative bill on cryptocurrencies ...
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Popular Discussion Board 4chan Now Accepts Cryptocurrencies for Passes
News This week cryptocurrency enthusiasts were pleased to hear that the infamous imageboard 4chan now accepts four different digital assets ...
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Tether, Bitfinex Reportedly Deserting ‘Unprofitable’ Noble Bank
Noble Bank, the “non-fractional reserves” institution which was once the primary reserve bank for Tether (USDT), is facing competition from ...
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Will Bitcoin Drop in Price? or is ETF Hype Rising Again
The premium on Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), a publicly tradable Bitcoin instrument operated by Grayscale Investment, a $2 billion cryptocurrency ...
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South Korea’s Policy Chief Calls for Legalization of ICOs
The chairman of Korea's National Policy Committee has called for the legalization of initial coin offerings (ICOs), provided that a ...
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