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

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

Capital One Refuses to Let Customers Buy Cryptocurrency From Any Exchange

Various banks all over the world prevent their customers from buying or selling cryptocurrency. That is not a positive development, as people should be free to spend their money as they please. Unfortunately, that is not how the world works right now. Capital One is the latest bank on a growing list of banks blocking cryptocurrency-related … Read more

Russian Ministry of Finance Proposes Legalization of Cryptocurrency Trading

The cryptocurrency situation in Russia has always raised a lot of questions which can’t be answered. Whether crypto trading will be officially allowed or subject to jail time remains to be determined at this point. Russian media sources claim the Ministry of Finance has drafted a new bill to legalize cryptocurrency trading on organized trading platforms. It’s a rather … Read more

Baidu Unveils Its New Blockchain-as-a-Service Platform

In the world of technology, blockchain and artificial intelligence will play an increasingly important role moving forward. Although the skeptics will claim that neither technology is mature enough to be used on a large scale, Baidu thinks otherwise. The company has come up with a blockchain-as-a-service platform that will rival other companies providing similar services. This … Read more