BitFlyer Receives Regulatory Approval to Operate in the European Union

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Europe has always been a relatively tepid market when it comes to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It almost seems as if there is a genuine disinterest in what this new form of money can mean for Europeans. That situation may soon come to change, as Japan’s bitFlyer exchange is expanding to Europe. More competition among European … Read more

CasinoCoin Foundation to be a featured partner of the Isle of Man Government at ICE 2018

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24 January 2018 (Isle of Man) – CasinoCoin (CSC), the open source, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency designed specifically for the regulated online gambling industry, will be a featured partner at the Isle of Man (IOM) Department for Enterprise exhibition stand at the ICE Totally Gaming conference – one of the largest and most important gaming exhibitions of … Read more

People Are Paying Thousands of Dollars for Crypto Celebrities on the Blockchain

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Anything can be placed on the blockchain with a little ingenuity – even Hollywood celebrities. Cryptocelebrities is this week’s Cryptokitties, a smart contract-based trading game which profits from digital scarcity. Only one copy of each celebrity is released, compelling traders to spend thousands of dollars to snap up ‘celebs’ like Satoshi Nakamoto and Emma Watson. … Read more

Belgian Student Completes the DNA Storage Bitcoin Challenge

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It does not happen all that often that the medical sector and Bitcoin come together in a meaningful way. A PhD student at Belgium’s University of Antwerp successfully completed the DNA Storage Bitcoin challenge. By successfully cracking a DNA sequence a week before deadline, Sander Wuyts has won one Bitcoin. At today’s value, that is close to US$11,000 … Read more

Analyst: IOTA Sharply Overvalued Due to “Overwhelming Evidence of Serious Flaws”

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Analysts have found that IOTA is trading well above any real value it might have. The project is said to have no real product market fit and the network is centralized and unstable. Additionally, the approach taken by the IOTA team, like knowingly allowing critical vulnerabilities to exist in the software, presents many reasons to be … Read more