Business 3 weeks ago

Was Tether used to prop up BTC? US wants to know

With Bitcoin Core (BTC) continuing its descent into irrelevance, the highs of near $20,000 from the end of last year feel more distant than ever. But the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has cast fresh ...

Business 4 weeks ago

Tokyo police arrest 8 linked to $68M crypto pyramid scheme

Police in Tokyo have arrested eight individuals in connection with a BTC pyramid scheme alleged to have swindled as much as $68.4 million from its victims, according to local press reports. According to the Asahi ...

Tech 4 weeks ago

新BCH矿池MEMPOOL忠于“矿工选择”，支持BITCOIN SV

比特币现金（BCH）矿池Mempool正式投入运营 上周六，Mempool宣布其矿池同时在比特币现金网络以及比特币上对矿工“即时开放”。 ...

Tech 1 month ago

New BCH mining pool Mempool stays true to ‘miners choice’ philosophy and supports Bitcoin SV

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) mining pool Mempool is in business. On Saturday,  Mempool announced the “immediate availability” of its mining pool for miners not just on the Bitcoin BCH network, but also on BTC. For BCH. ...

Editorial 1 month ago

Welcome to the distributed collaborative entity: Terra firma societies are possible with crypto, and it’s not a fantasy

If all goes well, construction begins late next year. EYRC Architects and Tom Wiscombe Architecture already have renderings. Roughly 100 square miles. 67,000 acres in Storey County, Nevada, USA. Desert. Population roughly 4,000. $300 million ...

Business 2 months ago

NY court orders crypto scammer to pay $3 million

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ordered the perpetrator of a BTC Ponzi scheme to pay about $3 million in penalties and restitution. In a press release, the U.S. ...

Business 2 months ago

1Broker reopens platform to allow withdrawals

1Broker, a BTC futures trading firm, announced that it would be reopening withdrawals as of Thursday. The announcement comes several weeks after the firm was accused of acting as an unregistered security-based swap dealer, as ...

Editorial 2 months ago

BTC cult gets creepier at Baltic Honeybadger 2018 Conference

For the second year, Rīga, Latvia was host to the Baltic Honeybadger conference (BH). Billed as “the first major event in Latvia dedicated to Bitcoin and the technologies built around it,” the website read, their ...

Tech 3 months ago

Ebang E11 miners boast of up to 44 TH/s; Squire taps Samsung for next-gen ASIC chips

One of Bitmain’s biggest rivals, Ebang Communication, has announced three new crypto mining rigs, which reportedly feature hashrate speeds of up to 44 trillion hashes per second (TH/s). The China-based ASIC mining chip maker revealed ...

Editorial 3 months ago

All hell breaks loose: Bitcoin BCH vs. BTC debate

Get those Bitcoin Core (BTC) supporters and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents out on a leisurely cruise from Barcelona, on to Monte Carlo, France, Italy, to Ibiza and back again to Barca over five days, and ...

Business 3 months ago

Monetary Authority of Singapore warns investors of yet another crypto scam

Another day, yet another crypto scam—this time, in the form of a website, which, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), falsely represents comments from MAS chairman and the country’s Deputy Prime Minister, Tharman ...

Business 3 months ago

Crypto market daily report – September 14, 2018

Thursday saw a strong recovery in the crypto markets as almost all currencies showed strong gains with BTC easily topping the $6,500 level and even flirted with the $6,600 mark on Friday at press time. ...