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⁠Lightning Network, Explained Did you just say not all transactions should be recorded on Blockchain?

⁠Massive Hedge Fund Likely to Begin Trading Bitcoin Here come the hedge funds; Man Group intent on gaining exposure to Bitcoin if all goes well with CME’s planned futures market.

⁠Siri for Crypto: a Chatbot That Helps With Trades and Transactions A new crypto project is taking all the hassle out of trading with Artificial Intelligence.

⁠Oman Blockchain Symposium Indicates Adoption Growth Visited by government officials and industry insiders, the event featured keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops and notably for the Blockchain world, several…

⁠Bitcoin Is Back Above $7K, Bitcoin Cash Slumps After a rocky weekend for BTC because of the Bitcoin Cash SegWit2X debacle, it appears that Bitcoin is back, settling over $7K, and BCH is slumping back toward $1K.

⁠It’s Not Bitcoin Classic, Or Bitcoin Cash. It’s Bitcoin Clashic! Welcome to the future of money…Bitcoin Clashic. No use cases, no services, no projects and no wallets…but nevertheless the future of money.

⁠Software Firm SAP Accepts 27 New Members To Its Blockchain Program The new members of the initiative were announced at the SAP TechEd event in Barcelona, Spain on Nov. 14, 2017. The program aims to integrate Blockchain…

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⁠WAX Token Sale Set to Disrupt the $50 Bln Virtual Asset Trading Industry Many experts agree that this could well be the last big sale of 2017. What makes WAX so special in today’s cluttered and noisy token sale market?…

⁠Why Financial Regulators Should Study Cryptocurrencies? Why financial regulators should study cryptocurrencies? Check up a few opinions from Asia.

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⁠Blockchain Digital Identification in Canada Coming in 2018 Canada is pioneering a Blockchain based identity storage solution that allows consumers to have complete control over who accesses their private information.

⁠Buyer Beware: Cryptocurrency ‘Pump and Dump’ Schemes Coordinated In Telegram The Russian app Telegram has a number of channels with thousands of followers dedicated to ‘pump and dump’ schemes in order to take money from…

⁠Singaporeans Turn to Bitcoin Mining, Phenomenal Increase in Mining Rig Sales One Singapore-based mining rig manufacturer reports a sharp increase in sales in recent months as the demand for cryptocurrency mining compute…

⁠Monetary Authority of Singapore Issues Guidelines on ICOs Digital tokens sold through the Blockchain-based ICOs could be considered as securities under certain conditions based on the provisions of the country’s Securit…

⁠UK Financial Authority Warns Investors Against Cryptocurrency Derivatives In a statement posted on its website in mid-November 2017, the FCA issued its warning to investors against investing in crypto-based CFDs due to…

⁠DBS Bank Has Its Own Kodak Moment With Bitcoin There has been another call of ‘Ponzi Scheme’ by a large bank leveled at Bitcoin, but should it sort out transactions, and scaling, then it could become useful for them. “B…

⁠OKCoin Sells Bitcoin For $15k In Apparent Error, Goes Offline Strange events are occurring at Chinese exchange OKCoin, which has since gone offline.

⁠Bitcoin Eyes $7k As Square Tests Bitcoin Payments More good news for Bitcoin as Square increases adoption with in-app payments.

⁠Brazilian Central Bank Ramps Up Blockchain R&D Efforts The central bank is reportedly building with “just about every Blockchain platform it can get its hands on.” The platforms are Ethereum, JP Morgan’s Quorum, Hyperle…

⁠Central Bank of Iran Plans Comprehensive Review of Cryptocurrency Policy In a press conference in mid-November 2017, Central Bank of Iran Deputy Director of New Technologies, Naser Hakimi, announced that the central ban…

⁠CME Group’s Regulated Futures Market May Enable Retail Giants to Accept Bitcoin Mega-retailers have long been concerned about the risk of dealing with Bitcoin. Now that a regulated futures market is about to emerge, the…

⁠Ukrainian Top Lawmaker Wants to Exempt Crypto Income and Profits from Taxation If a recently filed bill goes past the parliament, digital currency incomes and profits in Ukraine will be exempted from taxation, including…

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⁠How a Coin Makes it to an Exchange, Starting From Bottom With the boom if ICOs and altcoins, as well as the numerous forks, it is a real game of Russian roulette for exchanges to decide on what coins to offer.

⁠North Korean Hackers Attack Cryptocurrency Users And Service Providers Based on its latest report as of mid-November 2017, KISA has monitored a 370% increase in malware attacks in 2017 as compared from the figures in 20…

⁠Dutch Financial Regulator Warns Investing in Initial Coin Offerings Very Risky In his statement, AFM chairperson Merel van Vroonhoven said that there is great promise shown by Blockchain technology for financial service…

⁠Virtual Currency Exchanges and US Customers Beware, IRS is Coming: Expert Blog No, Bitcoin isn’t anonymous enough to avoid the IRS. Also, taxes are even more complicated than you might think.

⁠Indecisive Government Causes Bitcoin to Land in India's Supreme Court Governments move slowly, and when they don’t act quickly enough, it leaves a vacuum. Now India’s courts have to decide how to regulate Bitcoin.