The Bank of England might have “its own Bitcoin-style digital currency” this year already, according to the country’s legacy media. The more than three hundred year old bank set up a research unit back in 2015 to investigate linking a state-backed crypto to sterling, and there appears to be a breakthrough. Also read: EU Central […]
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On December 27th BANKEX has successfully completed their TokenSale, selling BKX tokens for about $66 million. The remaining tokens will only be available for purchase by institutional investors interested in asset tokenization technologies. A total of 400 000 000 BKX tokens were emitted of which 80 000 000 was allocated for the public sale, 140 000 000 reserved for institutional investors, the rest were reserved and allocated for the Team (50 000 000), Advisers (40 000 000), the Option Pool (50 000 000) and The BANKEX FOUNDATION (40 000 000). Fintech company BANKEX entered the ranks of TOP-20 ICOs ofPowered by WPeMatico
Indian Finance Ministry condemns Bitcoin, says it is Ponzi-scheme-like, with flawed arguments. #REGULATIONS
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2017 Initial Coin Offerings
The ICO market has exploded in 2017. Once a relatively unknown funding method, the total number of ICOs in the first half of 2017 surpasses the whole number of funds raised in 2016.
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The Venezuelan government has published a decree outlining the operation of Venezuela’s national cryptocurrency, the Petro. It details the government’s plans for the new currency, including its issuance, mining, and trading. In addition, the Petro will be backed by 5 billion barrels of crude oil. Also read: Russian Regulators Draft Law to Restrict Crypto Mining, Payments, […]
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One of the greatest things about having true wealth is offering a helping hand to those less fortunate. A new venture, Pineapple Fund, is showing the luckiest members of the bitcoin community how can this be done best. Also Read: Paxful to Help Fund 100 Schools in Africa #BuiltWithBitcoin Pineapple Seeds Pine, the anonymous bitcoin […]
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On December 30th, 2016 the price of bitcoin (BTC) was $960 USD, and since then the price had risen 1,941 percent 350 days later to an all-time high of $19,600 across global exchanges. Now the price rests at roughly $13-14K but a lot more has changed this year besides the significant price rises of bitcoin […]
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Cryptocurrency law can be maddeningly vague. From taxation to commodities, the US constitution is characterized by ill-defined and occasionally contradictory statutes regarding digital currencies. Law reform moves at a glacial pace, leaving the status of cryptocurrencies often unlegislated. For cryptocurrency users trying to navigate murky legal waters, this ambiguity can be frustrating. A new website […]
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Anyone who took a look into Experience Points (XP) over the summer is undoubtedly wondering how the project grew from the tiny $350,000 market cap over 1000 times to what it is currently trading at. XP is currently trading at a price of about 1/5 of a penny, and sits at rank 61 on Coinmarketcap. Experience Points, which first launched in 2016 and was relaunched this past summer, is reminiscent of the types of coins launched in 2014 and 2015. Like older coins, the only real distinction XP provides is the mining algorithm, distribution rates rates, and total supply. XP does providePowered by WPeMatico
CLOAK is one of the few strongly privacy driven cryptocurrencies out there. And privacy is the last human right we have forgotten to fight for. CLOAK is also incredible, because it rewards every single coin holder that wishes to participate in maintaining the CLOAK transaction system called ENIGMA – something none of the top cryptocurrencies do for their users. Before the following description of CLOAK, in advance big news has to be announced. The source of ENIGMA will be open-source on 31st of December 2017. So everybody will be able to review the source code based on over three yearsPowered by WPeMatico