Big Chinese Bitcoin Miners Are Turning to Canada

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The bitcoin mining industry in China appears to be expanding to favorable locations around the world right now. Quebec is one such location where the Chinese have taken refuge, and many more might be on the way. Also Read: Chinese Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain Establishes Branch in Zug, Switzerland Cold Power Just a couple of … Read more

Belfrics Granted ‘Sandbox License’ to Open Cryptocurrency Exchange in Bahrain

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The Central Bank of Bahrain has awarded bitcoin technology provider, Belfrics Global, a sandbox license to open and operate a cryptocurrency exchange in the Arabian Gulf nation. As such, Belfrics is reported to have become the first company to receive an official mandate to open a cryptocurrency exchange in the Middle Eastern/North African region. Also … Read more

NEO DevCon San Francisco Is Almost Upon Us!

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Developer conferences have become a popular aspect of cryptocurrency as of late. Although most people have no coding skills whatsoever, it is still well worth their time to attend such an event. Especially when it comes to emerging altcoins such as NEO, there is plenty of information to take away from conferences. Speaking of which, NEO … Read more

Paul Krugman Is Excited to See Bitcoin Have Issues

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Yesterday on January 11 the American economist and professor of economics, Paul Krugman, seemed pretty excited about The North American Bitcoin Conference not being able to accept bitcoin for tickets. Krugman tweeted our recent article to his 4 million followers gloating that bitcoin is “too clunky and expensive.” Also read: South Korea Urges 23 Countries, … Read more

Ethereum Classic – A Sleeping Giant

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Ethereum Classic (ETC), a fork of Ethereum (ETH), has been overlooked for a long time since most eyes were focused on the main Ethereum blockchain. However, this might come to an end quite soon as the number of ETH transactions are rising sharply and the network is starting to have difficulties to process them. As … Read more

No, South Korea Is Not Banning Cryptocurrency Trading

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It is not the first time mainstream media outlets haven’t fully grasped a situation affecting the cryptocurrency world. Depending on which source you believe, the South Korean government is either doing nothing or wants to ban all cryptocurrency trading. The truth of the matter is somewhere in the middle, as there is no intention to ban … Read more

Vitalik Buterin and OmiseGo

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OmiseGo is Vitalik Buterin’s favourite token model Vitalik recently posted on his twitter account three main reasons why OmiseGo, right now, is his favourite token model. OmiseGo is not a medium-of-exchange token; it has a clear valuation model (expected discounted future transaction fees minus node operation cost); and it requires running node to get returns, … Read more

What Is EtherBTC?

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Over the past few years, we have seen many altcoins come and go. Throughout 2017, it became apparent that most ERC20 tokens were the new altcoins. As such, we have seen multiple attempts to seemingly combine the best of both Bitcoin and Ethereum in one package. EtherBTC is the latest such project, although it remains to be seen if there … Read more