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⁠CryptoKitties Sales Hit $12 Million, Could be Ethereum’s Killer App After All While trading virtual kittens is fun, the success of Ethereum-based Cryptokitties game shows that real-world assets can be tokenized and tran…

⁠CBOE Launches Bitcoin Futures, Site Immediately Crashes CBOE’s much-anticipated Bitcoin futures market opened today but the company’s servers almost immediately crashed, site is returning a 404 error due to higher than…

⁠Jim Cramer: Bitcoin Is Monopoly Money, Will Get Annihilated Jim Cramer, the outspoken host of ‘Mad Money,’ has called Bitcoin ‘Monopoly Money,’ and has suggested that the futures market will ‘annihilate’ the cryptocurre…

⁠Deutsche Bank: Bitcoin Crash Among 2018 Financial Worries The economy is up, but according to Deutsche Bank Chief International Economist Torsten Slok, the major risks for the global economy in 2018 include a crash of B…

⁠Bitcoin Platinum Created By South Korean Teenager As a Scam, Local Market Erupts South Korean Teenager Creates Bitcoin Platinum Scam to Try Short the Bitcoin Market

⁠Hypnosis the Answer to Forgotten Wallet Passwords? A Russian hypnotist claims to have helped users recover lost Bitcoin wallet passwords.

⁠ICOs Have Entered Intensive Care There is no doubt ICOs are entering a period of intensive care but should emerge fitter and stronger in the second half of 2018.

⁠Litecoin Set to Approach $200 in Monster Rally The price of Litecoin is quickly heading for $200 USD, marking LTC the sixth largest market capitalization at almost $9 bln.

⁠ICOs, Bitcoin's Growth and the Blockchain Community: An Interview Ivan on Tech How you can go about getting others involved in the community by giving away some Bitcoin - interview with Ivan Liljeqvist

⁠IRS Bitcoin Hunt Ramps Up, But Tax Amnesty Could Follow: Expert Blog How does government get data on cryptocurrency holders?

⁠Happy Bitcoin-Mitzvah A young investor turned used Bar Mitzvah money to make his first fortune in Bitcoin and Ethereum.

⁠Crypto Stimulus How can cryptocurrency payments stimulate the economy by helping businesses and consumers?

⁠Governments Using Crypto as a Reason to Spy on Us Are governments trying to use cryptocurrencies as another reason to spy on us?

⁠Cameron Winklevoss Predicts That Bitcoin Will Reach Multi-Trillion Value In his interview with CNBC in early December 2017, Cameron Winklevoss said that Bitcoin is gold 2.0 as it has the capability to disrupt gold.

⁠Bitcoin Has Less Environmental Impact Than Fiat Currencies The risks of environmental impact because of Bitcoin mining have been widely touted, but a recent report indicates that the actual damage from Bitcoin mining ma…

⁠South Korea Bitcoin Frenzy: Everyone is Rushing to Invest in Cryptocurrencies Hundreds of thousands of South Korean investors have started to invest in Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market, as the popularity of Bitcoin…

⁠Craigslist Enable Sellers to Accept Bitcoin, More Merchants Adopt Cryptocurrencies Craiglist, the world’s 106th largest web-based platform and ads marketplace, has enabled merchants to accept Bitcoin.

⁠Tom Peterffy Believes Bitcoin Could Wreck Might Go to $100K Before Crashing The great Wall Street Divide over whether Bitcoin is a miracle or a bubble continues to grow, with Interactive Brokerage founder Tom Peterffy e…

⁠NYSE Chairman Voices Regret for Not Launching Bitcoin Futures Trading First Sprecher admitted that their failure to follow up on their Bitcoin index project could be just plain stupidity and he may regret his indecision…

⁠ICO Explores Completely Uncharted Waters of Sports Betting Blockchain and smart contracts can revolutionize sports and other forms of betting. Here’s how.

⁠Price Analysis, December 09: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Litecoin, Dash What is up with the crypto market right before the futures trading opening?

⁠Apple Patent Filing Hints at Blockchain Use Based on the public application to US Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday where Blockchain technology was used to certify timestamps as a program combined with Public Key…

⁠IOTA Interview: “Trust Systems Are Absolutely Pivotal” Today After IOTA’s recent run up in market cap, Cointelegraph sat down with IOTA’s co-founders in order to understand more about the company.

⁠Australian Exchanges Now Required to Register with AML Regulatory Body The move is aimed at imposing restrictions on digital currencies, particularly Bitcoin, due to their continuous growth and adoption in the mainstrea…

⁠Parcel Bomber in Germany Demands €10 Mln Ransom in Bitcoin The bomber sent a message to a pharmacy next to the Potsdam Christmas market through the global delivery company DHL to demand the Bitcoin ransom.

⁠IBM Develops Preprocessing Block, Makes Machine Learning Faster Tenfold According to IBM Zurich mathematician Thomas Parnell, they have developed a generic solution to the AI learning process with 10 times (10x) speedup…

⁠Analyst: Suspicious Bitcoin Mempool Activity, Transaction Fees Spike to $16 The transaction fees of Bitcoin have started to increase, as the size of the mempool surpassed 120 mln bytes.

⁠Gold Dealer APMEX Now Accepting Bitcoin, Cites Customer Desire for Anonymity It’s now possible to buy real gold with digital gold, should customers desire, as gold dealer APMEX begins accepting Bitcoin.

⁠Traditional Investors Reveal Their Opinions on Bitcoin as Price Holds Near Record Levels Leading investors give their opinions on digital currency and whether it is a bubble or a vital emerging asset class.

⁠Bitcoin, Other Cryptocurrencies Will Play Key Role in Society Says Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Yang who started the first web directory, Yahoo!, compared the volatility and technology of Bitcoin to the “early days of the Interne…