Coinbase ? the largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange ? partnered with payments platform PayPal to enable instant, free crypto-to-cash withdrawals for US customers. This means customers can now move the crypto balances in their Coinbase accounts to
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Bitcoin Bomb Threats Target Educational Institutions, Businesses and Govt. Buildings in US, Canada
Hundreds of government buildings, schools and businesses in the United States and Canada were on Thursday targets of extortionists who threatened to detonate explosives unless they were paid thousands of dollars in bitcoin. In most of the emailed bom
What Crypto Winter? It's Perfectly Sunny for Luno with 40 New Jobs Open
Bitcoin tumbled to a 15-month low today. Ethereum has all-but petered out. Heavyweights like ConsenSys are laying off staff, and many ICO startups are running out of cash before launching their products. You have to admit, things don't look parti
Crypto Market Risks Dip Below $100 Billion After Dropping $15 Billion in Bad Week
In the past seven days, the valuation of the crypto market has dropped from $117 billion to $102 billion, by just over $15 billion. Major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP) performed poorly against the U.S. dollar,
Crypto VC Funding Deals are Falling Apart Due to Bear Market — Bad Time For Startups
According to Barry Silbert, the founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), many venture capital funding deals in the crypto sector have fallen apart in the past few months as a result of the 12-month bear market. Silbert, who oversees the opera
Bitcoin Price Driven More by Speculation Than Utility: BitPay CEO
BitPay CEO Stephen Pair has stated that speculation drives a substantial part of bitcoin’s current valuation, while the actual use of the crypto market leader as a currency is responsible for only a relatively small fraction of its price. Speak
Tron DApp Usage Jumps 48% — More Than 1 Million Transactions Last Week
The TRON Foundation launched its TRC20 exchange this week. It is a place for people to exchange tokens issued on the TRON platform. The TRC20 exchange is located at TRX.market. The TRC10 token exchange is still on Tronscan, the primary block explorer
AT&T Wants to Create a Blockchain ‘Map’ of Your Social Media History
Telecom giant AT&T has filed a blockchain-oriented patent application to ” map? social media histories. Titled ” Blockchain-Based Social Media History Maps,? and published on Thursday, it describes a system of tracking social media hi
Cameroon Separatists Create Cryptocurrency Called AmbaCoin
A separatist government in Cameroon’s semi-autonomous English-speaking southern region of Ambazonia has announced the launch of a new sovereign cryptocurrency called AmbaCoin (AMBA). Operating on the ERC-20 standard, AmbaCoin is being touted as
Billion-Dollar Crypto Fund Says 25% of ICOs in its Fund Could be Securities
In a newsletter to clients sent on Thursday, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead revealed that one in four initial coin offering (ICO) projects the firm has invested in could be considered as securities under U.S. regulations. Morehead wrote: ” Wh