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

01-25-2018 • Bitcoin News

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 celebrit

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Australia Bound? Brisbane Airport Accepts Cryptocurrencies in a World-First

01-25-2018 • Cryptocoins News

Brisbane airport will soon be accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies at various retail establishments for travelers arriving or departing the airport's terminals.

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SEC on 'High Alert' for ICOs that Violate Federal Securities Laws

01-23-2018 • Cryptocoins News

Clayton explained that the "most disturbing" scenario involved lawyers who helped startups structure naked securities offerings as ICOs, depriving investors of "substantive and procedural investor protection requirements."

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WTF Is the Lightning Network and Will It Save Bitcoin?

01-23-2018 • Motherboard.vice.com

A primer on Bitcoin's latest advance...Even after crashing last week, Bitcoin is still valuable as hell. But, like, why? The question of what Bitcoin is actually good for is becoming more urgent as its price, and the stakes, keep rising. If the answe

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The Prepper's Guide to Cybersecurity

01-23-2018 • The Organic Prepper - Cat Ellis

How savvy are you about cybersecurity? Technology is ever-changing, and that alone can make it overwhelming. If you have put off learning how to protect your computer, however, I urge you change that ASAP. Preppers get a lot of information and produc

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Wharton Dean: Dimon Mindset Is Wrong,

01-21-2018 • zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

Cryptos Mean "The End Of Money As We've Known It"

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China's mobile payments volume could exceed global credit card volume in 2018

01-18-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

Digital payments in China are processed by scanning QR codes at the point of sales which link to the customer's bank account in China.

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Security News This Week: Google Pulls 60 Malicious Apps With Millions of Downloads from Play Store

01-15-2018 • https://www.wired.com

The fallout of the widespread Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities continued this week. WIRED took an in-depth look at the parallel sagas that caused four research teams to independently discover the bugs within months of each other. Dozens

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State Cryptocurrency 'Petro' is Illegal, Declares Venezuela's Congress

01-10-2018 • https://www.ccn.com

Venezuela's parliament, notably run by the opposition, has outlawed President Nicolas Maduro's much-vaulted oil-backed national cryptocurrency, the petro.

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Bittrex Stops Creating New Ethereum Deposit Addresses Due to Network Congestion

01-08-2018 • https://www.ccn.com

Bittrex, the third largest cryptocurrency exchange in the global market behind Binance and Bithumb, has temporarily paused Ethereum deposits due to the current congestion on the Ethereum blockchain network.

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Zuckerberg Vows to Study Cryptocurrency to Fix [Decentralize] Facebook

01-05-2018 • https://www.ccn.com

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has revealed his intention to study decentralized technologies, specifically cryptocurrencies, as a part of his pledge to 'fix' Facebook in 2018.

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How Branding Is Fueling The Cryptocurrency Craze

01-03-2018 • https://www.fastcodesign.com

The creators of many new currencies are shrewdly marketing their coins by tying them to everything from weed and porn to Donald Trump.

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The Bank of England is Entertaining its Own Official Cryptocurrency

01-03-2018 • https://www.ccn.com

As originally reported by The Telegraph, the Bank of England may approve the creation of a state-sponsored cryptocurrency within the year. Just last year, the bank announced it had commissioned a theoretical currency, RS Coin, which could be used by

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Venezuela oil-backed cryptocurrency to launch in days, government says

12-29-2017 • https://www.cnbc.com

Venezuela's cryptocurrency will launch within days and be backed by 5.3 billion barrels of oil worth $267 billion

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Central Banks Are Considering Digital Currency To Speed Payments

12-28-2017 • https://www.technocracy.news

There are two key thoughts here: 1) blockchains will be centralized, not distributed and anonymous and 2) all central banks are involved. If central banks take this path, it spells the end of public crypto-currencies and the establishment of global T

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Central Banks Are Considering Digital Currency To Speed Payments

12-28-2017 • technocracy.news By Steven Sheer

There are two key thoughts here: 1) blockchains will be centralized, not distributed and anonymous and 2) all central banks are involved. If central banks take this path, it spells the end of public crypto-currencies and the establishment of global T

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Hard Fork, Take Two: SegWit2x Will Return Dec. 28, Says Founder

12-27-2017 • https://cointelegraph.com

The controversial SegWit2x Bitcoin (BTC) hard fork will go ahead on Dec. 28, according to the project's official website.

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The 'Digital Shekel': Israel is Working on a State Cryptocurrency

12-26-2017 • https://www.ccn.com

Israeli authorities are reportedly considering issuing a cryptocurrency that would be identical in value to the shekel, Israel's fiat currency.

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What is Hashgraph and how will it replace The Blockchain!?

12-22-2017 • youtube.com

What is Hashgraph?, Homework

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Hashgraph The Future of Decentralized Technology

12-22-2017 • hashgraph.com

Hashgraph is data structure and consensus algorithm that is:

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What is Hashgraph and how will it replace The Blockchain!?

12-22-2017 • youtube.com

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The End of Dollar Hegemony and the Crypto Craze

12-18-2017 • https://www.youtube.com

Dollar hegemony as the world reserve currency is unwinding and coming to an end. While major monetary changes are ahead, the direction that things will go is still far from certain. We know that government and central banks want to get rid of cash be

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2018: The Year of the Cryptocurrency Craze

12-18-2017 • https://www.wired.com

Every successful new technology undergoes a Cambrian Era-style explosion of growth in which we try to use it for everything. Email, search, social networking--each passed through its "this will solve all our problems!" phase before we figured ou

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Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart (The Entire Company)

12-18-2017 • http://www.dcclothesline.com

Would you rather own 100% of Wal-Mart or every Bitcoin in existence? At one point such a question would have been completely absurd, but now things have changed. As I write this article, Wal-Mart has a market cap of 287.68 billion dollars.