Month: February 2018

Bitpay Bans Payments to Merchants of Explicit Content, Cloud-Mining and Gambling

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Bitcoin was originally created to free people’s money from the control and censorship of regulators, banks and governments. Companies in the ecosystem are supposed to be infused with this ethos, but as they strive to become more mainstream some, like Bitpay apparently, adopt the more prevailing standards in the business world. Also Read: Nasdaq-Listed “Blockchain” … Read more

Poland Refutes Reports of Its Interest in Venezuela’s Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency

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Poland’s Ministry of Finance has refuted reports that it is interested in the petro, the Venezuelan ”oil-backed” currency. Earlier this month, Venezuela reportedly claimed that a handful of countries have expressed interest in receiving the petro for commerce with Venezuela such as Norway, Denmark, Brazil, Vietnam, Poland, and others. Also read: Indians Look to Buy Bitcoin … Read more

People Who Don’t Understand Cryptocurrency Should Probably Stop Writing About It

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It’s only February, but the award for most inaccurate cryptocurrency article of the year is already in the bag. The Financial Post, which bills itself as “Canada’s most trusted source of financial news” has published an editorial that reads like something straight from The Onion. This isn’t satire though – it’s a serious piece authored … Read more

PR: Unicorn Go Ltd. and ITO Center Create the UnicornGO Collection Game

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The founders of ITO CENTER announced the resale of the in-game crypto-currency of Candy Coin, which will be used in the UnicornGO collection game on the Ethereum and Universa platform, and is already available for purchase on the project website at a price of 0.001 ETH for 1 Candy Coin. UnicornGO is a modern version … Read more