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Africa: A Continent Waiting for Cryptocurrency

Distribution of cryptocurrencies is non-uniform across the globe. While in some countries, like the US, some European and Asian nations, bitcoin and altcoins have garnered significant support in local communities, other regions are almost crypto-deserted. For that reason, any crypto-related startup in such realms may boom and thrive. However, obstacles placed before such innovative startups […]

Roundtabled Consensus, Ukrainian Breakthrough, and Peaks of Ethereum: Cryptospace News for February 21-27

The week was marked by cryptocalypse in Russia, which had uncovered bitcoin’s cunning plans to demolish the country’s financial system; continuing scalability debates; a Ukrainian breakthrough in blockchain applications; and many more. Bitcoin Price During last seven days, bitcoin did its best to keep with the best traditions of volatility. It managed to solidify its […]

Miners and Developers are not Subject to FinCEN Regulations According to FinCEN Regulations

The recent post by American lawyer Daniel Friedberg launched an extended discussion in the community, with mostly negative stance towards its basic idea. As a reminder, Friedberg stated that in case Bitcoin goes through a hard-fork, one of two resulting currencies will be different from the initial Bitcoin; and as names of the originators of […]

UN Report on Digital Currencies Calls to Balance Regulation and Innovation

Last week, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribean (ECLAC) released a

Nations of the Commonwealth are Offered to Legalize Bitcoin, Still Anonymity Is An Issue

The governments of the Commonwealth’s of Nations (formerly known as the British Commonwealth) Working Group on Virtual Currencies published a report calling all 53 member states to initiate a discussion on legalization of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

The Great Vaults of China: What’s Inside For Bitcoin Ecosystem?

It’s not a secret that China is bitcoin world’s leader in many regards. Since the major cryptocurrency glut in 2013, Chinese companies started getting increasingly involved in virtual money, including mining and various financial services. Currently there are about 20 major companies involved in cryptocurrency operations, with about 800,000 customer base, not to mention smaller […]

Ukraine vs. UK: European Blockchain Leadership in East and West

While in days gone by the UK and Ukraine had nothing in common but a couple of letters in their names, nowadays the situation has drastically changed. Both countries are beyond any doubt Europe’s most prominent countries in terms of integrating innovative financial technologies in their economies. However, while Great Britain is the obvious fintech […]

BitcoinPenguin: More Gamblers Jump to Bitcoin Every Day

While casino business is a well-established industry, yet nowadays many governments restrict their citizens’ right to gamble and impose harsh regulations on casinos and all kinds of betting. Some countries even prohibit gambling completely. As the internet was expanding, the online casinos started to rise. However, the traditional online gambling had (and still has) some […]

CoinoIndex – Dow Jones for cryptocurrencies

For the past number of years cryptocurrencies have come and gone. Thousands of cryptocurrencies, commonly referred to as alternate currencies or simply “alt coins” have been created, and many have already perished into the deep hole of crypto scams, abandoned projects and forgotten dreams and ambitions. After the dust settled the community was left with […]

DECENT Is Going to Change the Media with Blockchain

Content, its monetization, and protection from unauthorized copying, provided it’s important for the author, are quite important issues faced both by individual creative people and major media groups.

How could blockchain be a gameboard

Bitcoin based games are hardly any news in our day. A big portion of these games are just online casinos that use cryptocurrencies as their underlying payment method. Others are MMORPG typed games which based their internal economics on Bitcoin. Last but not least, there’s a plethora of classical skill games one can play for […]

Bitcoin gets integrated in Russia in a perverted way

Special Read in Russian The news of probable, yet in fact inevitable, ban of Bitcoin in Russia may sadden some enthusiasts all over the world, but the real reasons for that are far from being obvious, although in the first instance it might not seem so. Actually, cryptocurrency banning is a part of a general […]