The Latest Crypto News From The Interwebs - 13th July 05:00
New Study Says 80 Percent of ICOs Conducted in 2017 Were Scams
Via Cointelegraph By Ana Alexandre Fri Jul 13 04:02:00 BST 2018
A new report shows that more than 80 percent of ICOs conducted in 2017 were identified as frauds.....
Tagged with #Bitcoin-Scams #ICO #Report
Bitcoin Price Defends $6K As Upside Potential Builds
Via Sebastian Sinclair Fri Jul 13 04:00:09 BST 2018
A charting pattern suggests the bitcoin price might be able to successfully defend $6,000, despite a tug-of-wars between bulls and bears of late......
Tagged with #Markets #Bitcoin #Markets-News #Prices #Subfeatured #Bitcoin-Markets
The Billion-Dollar Quest to Eliminate Smart Contract Bugs
Via Kai Sedgwick Fri Jul 13 03:30:35 BST 2018
You can’t have software without bugs. Every major piece of code is subject to extensive debugging, which is an inevitable part of the development process. But when that code controls digital assets worth millions of dollars, ensuring it’s free of critical errors isn’t just desirable – it’s imperative. As this week’s Bancor hack and this […]
Tagged with #Technology #Bancor #bug #C# #Cardano #Developer #EOS #flaw #N-Technology #Parity #Smart-Contract
Tether Appoints BMO Anti-Money Laundering Manager as Chief Compliance Officer
Via Cointelegraph By Ana Alexandre Fri Jul 13 03:19:00 BST 2018
Tether has appointed a former Bank of Montreal anti-money laundering manager to lead its regulatory compliance program.....
Tagged with #Altcoin #Tether #Banks #Cryptocurrencies
Police Seize $1.5 Million in Crypto During FIFA Gambling Crackdown
Via Muyao Shen Fri Jul 13 03:00:40 BST 2018
A Chinese city has recently cracked a cryptocurrency-traded gambling case and confiscated over $1.5 million worth of cryptocurrencies......
Tagged with #News #Gambling #Soccer #Republished #China-News #Cryptocurrency-crimes #FIFA
Watch Out Bears, Crypto’s Only Getting Started: Coinbase CTO
Via Lester Coleman Fri Jul 13 02:27:08 BST 2018
hile 63% of the world’s adults own smartphones, only 8% of those in the U.S. and less than 1% worldwide own cryptocurrency, indicating there is a potential user base that is 60 times larger than the existing user base. Some agreed that.....
Tagged with #Bitcoin-Opinion #News #Balaji-Srinivasan #coinbase #Twitter
Cash Shuffle’s BCH Mixer Moves Forward with Steady Testing
Via Jamie Redman Fri Jul 13 02:05:18 BST 2018
Back in December, a new privacy protocol was released for bitcoin cash users called Cash Shuffle. The application has seen steady development since its inception and this week Cash Shuffle developers say that the platform’s alpha testing has been successful and the team has seen lots of testers. After the application’s code is polished up […]
Tagged with #Privacy #Anonymity #App #BCH #BCH-Proponents #bitcoin-cash #Cash-Shuffle #CoinJoin #Development #Digital-Assets #Jonald-Fyookball
New York State Regulators Approve New Power Rate Structure for Crypto Miners
Via Cointelegraph By Ana Alexandre Fri Jul 13 01:55:00 BST 2018
The state of New York has endorsed a new electricity structure for crypto miners who are interested in conducting operations there, allowing them to negotiate contracts.....
Tagged with #Bitcoin #USA #Cryptocurrencies #Mining #Energy #New-York
Buffett Trolled Again: Punter Bets Millions Bitcoin Price Will Soar Above Berkshire Stock
Via Mark Emem Fri Jul 13 01:32:22 BST 2018
the real deal is staking millions in cold, hard cash. Perhaps peeved by Warren Buffett’s constant bashing of bitcoin, an unidentified crypto bull in Australia is betting millions of dollars that the bitcoin price.....
Tagged with #Bitcoin-Opinion #Bitcoin-Price-News #News #berkshire-hathaway #Warren-Buffett #William-Hill-Australia
Canadian Cryptocurrency Exchange Coinsquare Plots Asian Expansion
Via Josiah Wilmoth Fri Jul 13 00:37:32 BST 2018
repares to go public later this year. The exchange, headquartered in Toronto, announced this week that it had formed a partnership with DLTa21, a “global blockchain investment bank,” to launch a centralized cryptocurrency exchange in Japan. Coinsquare, which operates Canada’s third-largest cryptocurrency.....
Tagged with #Bitcoin-Exchange #News #canada #coinbase #CoinSquare #DLTa21 #DLTa21X #japan
Australian Bank Bans Use of Home Equity Loans for Crypto Trading
Via Cointelegraph By Ana Alexandre Fri Jul 13 00:28:00 BST 2018
The Australian Bank of Queensland has barred the use lines of credit from home equity loans in purchasing cryptocurrencies.....
Tagged with #Bitcoin-Regulation #Australia #Banks #Cryptocurrencies #Investments
Mainstream Media Claims Bitcoin Burns More Energy Than Ireland – Does It?
Via Lubomir Tassev Fri Jul 13 00:05:18 BST 2018
A mainstream media assertion made recently implies that cryptocurrency is quite costly in terms of energy consumption. “Bitcoin has been alarming people for years,” the report notes, pointing to the amount of electricity used for its mining – almost as much as a small nation needs. But is that really so? Also read: Japanese Internet […]
Tagged with #Mining #Bitcoin #Bitcoin-mining #BTC #consumption #crypto-miners #crypto-mining #Electricity #electricity-prices #electricity-rates #Energy
New Bitcoin Scam Targets Embarrassed Porn Viewers
Via Conor Maloney Thu Jul 12 23:43:43 BST 2018
nd extort $1,900 — and they only take bitcoin. Via malware, the scammers claim to have compromising footage of viewers taken from the would-be victim’s webcam while pornographic videos were playing. The scam email sent to victims begins by revealing to them.....
Tagged with #Bitcoin-Crime #News #Emin-Gun-Sirer
Toyota, Ford, and General Motors (GM) All Exploring Blockchain Technology
Via Chelsea Roh Thu Jul 12 23:31:58 BST 2018
Automobile blockchain: Various companies around the world began jumping on the blockchain bonanza last year when cryptocurrency spread like a wildfire in the media and grew in popularity. Everyone tried to see how this new technology could benefit their current systems or even ride the blockchain ‘buzzword’ for a while. Long Island Iced Tea Inc, an iced tea company and tea distributor, jumped on board and changed their name to Long Blockchain Inc to gain some stock momentum as NASDAQ was threatening to de-list them. Another area that began looking into the distributed ledger
Tagged with #Blockchain #Automobile-blockchain #blockchain #blockchain-app #blockchain-companies #blockchain-explained #blockchain-explorer #blockchain-for-dummies #blockchain-info #blockchain-ledger #blockchain-news
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