This Week in Bitcoin: Kraken, Korea and a Whole Lotta Crazy

This week in bitcoin was all about Korea, although every week in bitcoin is all about Korea. Markets dropping? Blame Korea. Markets soaring? Credit Korea. Zero fee trading sends a pointless altcoin pumping? You bet it comes from Korea. While real news, fake news, and news whose legitimacy is a matter of dispute emanated from … Read more

Pineapple Will Match up to $4M in Bitcoin to Test Curing PTSD With Psychedelic Drug

The bitcoin charity Pineapple Fund has already donated $1 million to aid in the testing of MDMA as a treatment for PTSD. It is now challenging the cryptocurrency community to donate more, and pledged to match donations up to $4 million. Also Read: Pineapple Fund Donates $5 Million in Bitcoin as Seed Capital for the … Read more

Venezuela Urges 10 Other Countries to Adopt Its Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency

Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has called for 10 other countries to adopt his planned oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro. This move follows the country’s parliament declaring the issuance of this new currency illegal. Also read: South Korea Urges 23 Countries, EU, and IMF to Collaborate on Curbing Crypto Trading Maduro’s Proposal Maduro held a meeting of the … Read more

What Is NEM?

There are many different blockchain and cryptocurrency projects worth keeping an eye on. For novice enthusiasts, all of this information can quickly become overwhelming. To them, a project like New Economy Movement – or NEM – may make little sense on paper. However, there is a good reason why this project’s currency has been surging in value … Read more

A Crowdsale to Watch: Scorum Sports Media Platform

Scorum is a breakthrough sports media platform built on the Graphene Framework that will reshape the fan experience for sports lovers all over the world. The platform already has prototypes of its integrated services and will open a crowdsale on January 14. With over 1 billion fans making over 8.5 billion visits to sports websites … Read more

GDAX Will Resume Bitcoin Cash Trading on January 17

Bitcoin Cash enthusiasts were quite pleased when Coinbase and GDAX announced support for BCH a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, the good feelings didn’t last all that long, mainly because the trading of BCH was halted pretty quickly afterward. It seems there is also an investigation ongoing into how some people managed to manipulate orders across GDAX. Thankfully, the trading … Read more

Cryptocurrency IrishCoin up 3,525% in Overnight Trading

A legacy cryptocoin that we’ve covered since it’s inception, IrishCoin has stood the test of time in crypto terms since 2014. The team have been working diligently in the background over the years to keep the coin alive whilst stalwarts like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple have dominated the crypto scene over the past year or … Read more

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