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⁠JPMorgan Switches Tact, Backs Bitcoin as New Gold Analysts at JPMorgan, the same company run by Bitcoin berater Jamie Dimon, now see Bitcoin becoming a reliable long-term way to store wealth.

⁠UBS Files Patent For Blockchain Validation UBS has filed a patent application in the US for a Blockchain-technology based system for validating users and transactions.

⁠Happy $12k! Bitcoin Prices Break Another Record In Epic Week What bubble burst? Bitcoin checks out $12,000 before correcting (just a little).

⁠New App to Signal Start of Bitcoin Crash Developers have made an app that uses AI to monitor and warn of major Bitcoin price changes.

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⁠Keiser - Bitcoin like 'Moses' for Gold RT host Max Keiser believes Bitcoin will revolutionize the way we trade gold.

⁠Blow Bitcoin, Don’t Destabilize Government: AD Newspaper A Dutch newspaper, AD, implores citizens to get rid of their Bitcoin fortunes by spending it to ensure stability of the government.

⁠Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Forked: Investor To Release Bitcoin God Bitcoin God (GOD) is set to fork off from the Core chain Dec. 25 in a “symbolic” move.

⁠PayPal Co-founder Says Blockchain Good, Bitcoin Not So Sure PayPal Co-founder Max Levchin believes that Blockchain technology is revolutionary, but isn’t so sure on Bitcoin.

⁠Russian Government Advances Plan to Test Blockchain Technology-Based Local Voting Systems In its public statement released on Dec. 4, 2017, the Russian government said that it has already developed a pilot system for th…

⁠Hedge Funds May Use Futures To Trade Against Bitcoin The introduction of Bitcoin futures into the market by a number of sources may provide the greatest short opportunity of this generation.

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⁠Western Union Blocks Cryptocurrency-Related Transactions In a post by a Reddit user in early December 2017, the company advised the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken that it is not processing a transaction related to digit…

⁠How Mainstream Media Inaccurately Explain Bitcoin Price Movements How mainstream media wrongly explains the price trends of Bitcoin.

⁠Bitcoin Can Pay Your Traffic Fines in South Africa A South African fines administrator in South Africa has started allowing their clients pay outstanding traffic fines with Bitcoin.

⁠PBoC Governor Believes Bitcoin Will Die, But Chinese Market Disagrees Although Pan Gongsheng, a deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, believes Bitcoin will decline in the long-term, Chinese Bitcoin investors th…

⁠Largest US Options Exchange CBOE to Enable Bitcoin Futures Trading by December 10 The world’s largest options exchange, CBOE, will list Bitcoin futures on December 10, increasing the liquidity of Bitcoin.

⁠Winklevoss Twins Become First Official Bitcoin Billionaires Winklevoss twins show there is more than one way to become a billionaire. They invested part of proceeds against Zuckerberg in Bitcoin, reaped a fortune.

⁠Gameflip Moving Digital Gaming Goods Network Onto Blockchain Because the gaming market is growing exponentially it has become ripe for a decentralized force to take hold. With use of the Blockchain, Gameflip is hoping t…

⁠CryptoKitties Becomes Largest Ethereum-Based Decentralized Application CryptoKitties has surpassed decentralized cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta to become the largest app on the Ethereum network.

⁠Another First: SEC Filed Emergency Order to Freeze Assets of Fraudulent ICO The US Securities and Exchange Commission is taking the threat of fraudulent ICOs seriously, today filing first-ever charges against scam ICO.

⁠Simon Dixon: “Bitcoin And Crypto Is So Many Different Things to So Many Different People” Simon Dixon talked to Cointelegraph about banking exodus towards Blockchain, his own excitement about fintech, and geographical d…

⁠Bitcoin Mining Uses More Power Than Most African Countries Bitcoin mining uses more power than most African countries.

⁠The Road From IPO to ICO Needs Some Common Ground The two-year-old company NAGA leveraged its IPO success and has already raised $17 mln from its ongoing ICO to build an ecosystem for trading virtual assets and traditio…

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⁠Crackdown On Bitcoin In UK Over Money Laundering, Tax Evasion The UK Treasury has announced plans to regulate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in line with EU regulations.

⁠Putin On The Naughty List? Russian Santa to Issue Cryptocurrency The Russian version of Santa Claus (Ded Moroz) may issue his own cryptocurrency, according to local reports.