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Japan’s SBI Holdings Claims 40% Stake in Hardware Wallet Company

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This week the Japanese financial services management group SBI Holdings has announced that it has acquired 40 percent of the Taiwanese digital currency hardware wallet startup Coolbitx. Over the past few months, SBI has been entrenched within the virtual currency industry as the bank plans to incorporate multiple types of cryptocurrency business models.    Also … Read more

How to Create Custom Bitcoin Cash Addresses With Vanitygen

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Earlier this week the creators of cashaddress.github.io announced the stable release of ‘Vanitygen Cash,’ a vanity-themed BCH address maker. Vanitygen Cash is a fork of the original Vanitygen protocol originally designed for BTC but here it has been created for the Bitcoin Cash network. Also read: Highly Organized Crime Blamed for $2mil Bitcoin Mining Burglaries Vanity … Read more

Patent Data Reveals the Banking Sector’s Strange Relationship with Bitcoin

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Banks and bitcoin are odd bedfellows, but they do share some things in common. To its proponents, bitcoin is the future of money, but it still takes “traditional” money to purchase cryptocurrency, and right now, banks control the conduits. If these oligarchs have their way, they’ll also have a controlling stake in the crypto sphere … Read more

Cryptocurrency Exchanges Slash Withdrawal Fees

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In the past week, three of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges have cut bitcoin withdrawal fees by up to half. While the average price of sending bitcoin has been falling for weeks, these savings had yet to be passed on to exchange customers. Now Binance, Bitfinex, and Kraken have all reduced their fees amidst a … Read more

Paypal Files Patent for Expedited Cryptocurrency Transaction System

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A recent patent filing reveals that Paypal might be considering expanding its exposure to the cryptocurrency ecosystem with a new system for speedy transactions. We shouldn’t however expect a Paypal Lightning Network or anything close to that any time soon. There is currently a global race to file patents for everything crypto or “blockchain” related … Read more

D-Wave to Commercialize Public Cloud Quantum Computing by Mid-2018

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Quantum computing is one of the more interesting developments in the world of technology to date. It offers unparalleled computing power, yet it also poses a threat to public cryptography. As such, it will impact various cryptocurrencies in the future. D-Wave is now looking to bring quantum computing to the masses, which will be something well … Read more

Will Regulation Spark A New Crypto-Boom?

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Regulation is quickly becoming a hot topic in the crypto-world. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article The unregulated, “Wild West” environment of the crypto market left investors wide open to fraudsters, scammers, and shady firms out to make a quick buck. The technology of blockchain and Bitcoin is here to stay. But to bring value … Read more

Three innovations that will revolutionize Search Engines

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Google is the centralized market leader of web search services, and have accumulated a monopolistic level of power in their field. To advertisers and partners they are gatekeepers. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article Like centralised banking systems with fiat currencies, they define and control the value of information, in addition to the distribution and … Read more

Transaction Batching: Good for Fees, Bad for Privacy

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Over the past few weeks, many people have noticed that bitcoin core network fees and transactions times have been a lot better than two months ago when fees reached highs of 1,000 satoshis per byte or $30-40 per transaction. Many people are wondering why these issues have subsided, and some people believe it is due … Read more