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Bitcoin To Bust In Wake Of China Mining Regs?

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Regulation

Bitcoin Price Seems Mute To China’s Mining Crackdown

Bitcoin is up as much as 25 percent since the news came during the past week that China might look to ban...

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Bitcoin

China May Move To Ban Bitcoin Mining

China could move to ban mining for bitcoin, based on a draft list of industrial activities the country’s state planner wants to...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Kraken Buys Trading Startup For $100M+; SEC Wants To Monitor Blockchain Via Big Data

Kraken has bought a trading startup called Crypto Facilities in a deal described as a “nine-figure” acquisition, CoinDesk reported. Through the deal,...

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Innovation

Bitcoin And Dented Radishes: This Week’s Hype Penalty Box Nominees

“Hype” is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “to promote or publicize (a product or idea) intensively, often exaggerating its importance or benefits.”...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: NY Woman Pleads Guilty To Bitcoin Bank Fraud For ISIS; Bitcoin Miners Could Call It Quits

A New York woman has pleaded guilty and faces up to 20 years in prison for helping ISIS by carrying out an...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: SWIFT India Teams With Blockchain Startup; Giga Watt Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

SWIFT India, a joint venture between SWIFT SCRL and several banks, plans to test distributed ledger technology (DLT) in partnership with blockchain...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Rising Electric Rates Challenge Bitcoin Mining Profits; Bitwala Plans Blockchain Account With solarisBank

Bitwala is teaming up with Germany-based solarisBank to roll out a blockchain bank account, CoinDesk reported. While the service is targeted for...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: $100M Canadian Mining Farm Could Go Dark In A Heat Wave

Medicine Hat, a city in Canada, reportedly has plans in place to shut off the power to the Hut 8 crypto mining should...

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Bitcoin

In China, Bitmain Looks Toward $1B In Funding Amid Crypto Slide

The headlines swirl around China and cryptos and a crackdown on trading, and even discussing them on social media. But a sanguine...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: EU Finance Ministers Examine Crypto Reg; Data On 130M Hotel Guests Sold For Crypto

The personal information of 130 million hotel guests might be sold on the dark web for eight bitcoins, which are currently worth...

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Bitcoin

On Bitcoin, Altcoins, Bubbles And A (Possible) Burst

Cryptos are down roughly 69 percent from this year’s peak, and the let down may not let up. Beyond bitcoin, and the...

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IPO

Crypto Chip Maker Bitmain Eyes $18B IPO

Bitmain, the world’s largest producer of cryptocurrency mining chips, is planning to file for an initial public offering (IPO) in September, which...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Chinese TV Mines Bitcoin; Bitcoin ATM Growth Slows In July

The Telangana state government in India is teaming up with Tech Mahindra to create a “blockchain district” in Hyderabad, CoinDesk reported. The...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Fed Chairman Thinks Cryptos Are Insignificant, Billionaire Marc Lasry Says Bitcoin Could Top $40k

Coinbase says that it hasn’t received approval from two U.S. watchdogs for three acquisitions, Cryptovest reported. The firm reportedly told Bloomberg that it...

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Bitcoin

Did Bitcoin’s Founder Leave A Code In A Crypto String?

While block hashes don’t always generate tons of internet chatter, TheNextWeb has reported that a peculiar string has caught the attention of crypto...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mined With Supply And Demand Top Of Mind

It didn’t get to $10,000. That might be the headline news about bitcoin. But then again, it wasn’t $6,000 either. Nor even...

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Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin And The Break-Even Conundrum

Profits in cryptos: Easy come, maybe; easy go, certainly. News came this week that bitcoin mining just ain’t what it used to...

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Security & Fraud

Iceland Needs To Do More To Fight Money Laundering, Terrorism Financing

Iceland’s efforts over the last decade to focus on crimes that were associated with the financial crisis around the globe has hurt its...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Trump Bans Petro Crypto; N.Y. Town Outlaws Crypto Mining

Bitcoin may soon climb to $9,000 again, CoinDesk reported. Still, the cryptocurrency has some ways to go. It fell to a five-and-half...

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Sizzle/Fizzle

Fizzle Of The Week: Bitcoin — The Bad Neighbor

Bitcoin mining, like its real-world counterpart, uses a lot of power. Exactly how much constitutes “a lot” is a bit of a...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Gun Sellers Turn To Crypto, Bitcoin Makes Divorces Even Messier

It was a good day for bitcoin, CNBC reported. In late morning trading on Monday (Feb. 26), the cryptocurrency jumped to nearly...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Miner Faces Suit For $5 Billion In Bitcoin

The man who had claimed to be the founder of bitcoin is being sued for allegedly stealing $5 billion of bitcoin from...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s Bitmain Rakes In $4B In Profits

Bitcoin investors may be losing money, but the companies that support this burgeoning market aren’t. Bitmain, a Chinese company that makes bitcoin...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Coincheck’s Investors Take Their Money, Iceland’s Big Mining Electricity Bill

While investors are worried that the price of bitcoin might be artificially held high, a head of a cryptocurrency firm is not...

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Bitcoin

Russian Scientists Get Busted Trying To Use Supercomputer For Bitcoin Mining

Russian scientists working at a secret Russian nuclear warhead plant have been placed under arrest for purported crypto mining. According to a...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: The Cost Of Bitcoin Mining, Diamonds Are Crypto’s Best Friend

Even in the face of government regulation, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are bullish on cryptocurrency, Bloomberg reported. “These technologies can’t flourish and grow...