Coinbase crossed $1 billion in revenue last year, Recode has learned from industry sources, a tremendous rise fueled by layman interest in both bitcoin and competing virtual currencies that users can buy and sell through the app.

In a newly published paper on the use of bitcoin for illegal activity, researchers from the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney and …

Kyle’s note: I don’t think this guy has a good point. There have been many examples of people talking about governments shutting down bitcoin without explaining how they’ll be able to do it, which is an extremely important aspect of a supposed shutdown. Just putting this here so I can talk about it on the show really.

Kyle’s note: Same note as the above story.

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Cryptocurrencies could lead to significant losses in tax revenue.

Research by Ernst & Young indicates that hackers stole about $400 million from 372 initial coin offerings over the last two years.

Pavel Durov – the founder of Telegram Chat Messenger – has warned crypto investors to look out for scams that use the Telegram brand name. The young entrepreneur tweeted his caution after hearing of multiple fake websites created to trap those curious about the billion-dollar token sale.

Bitcoin miners are eyeing the farming county, but it’s not easy for the local authority to say “welcome” to all.

India Business News: MUMBAI: A surge in volumes is understood to be the trigger behind the freezing of accounts of bitcoin exchanges across the country.

Kyle’s note: This is more information on yesterday’s top story. Exchanges seem mostly unaffected at this point.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Softening its tough stance on crypto trading for now, South Korea said Tuesday it would adopt a system requiring that transactions that until now were an

Kyle’s note: This news about real-name trading is actually old, but it was reconfirmed today. A Reuters report from today also indicated a full ban on domestic cryptocurrency exchanges is still on the table.

outputs.today tracks the number of outputs per transaction occurring on the Bitcoin blockchain every day.

Kyle’s note: Tracking outputs per day rather than transactions is probably a better indicator of the activity on the network.

It’s great for big transactions. The challenge is handling smaller ones.

However, around one fifth of US residents are considering buying into the popular cryptocurrency.

We address common misconceptions about the incentives that make this technology work.

So, long story short, I started trading a year ago, been margin longing the whole run from 1k to 19k ( sometimes closing the top, sometimes…

Check the fee efficiency of your last transaction!

Bitcoin briefly fell Tuesday below the psychologically key $10,000 for the second time in a week.

“…Gold is sound money and limited in supply but it doesn’t move well. The dollar moves well but is not limited in supply. Bitcoin moves well and is limited in supply which is why it has been outcompeting both since its creation in 2009.”

A former Goldman Sachs banker plans to launch a digital currency platform that will make it easier for investors to short one cryptocurrency against another, potentially bringing the nascent market one step closer to the financial mainstream.

The Nasdaq is assessing how to offer crypto-currency futures in a way that none of its competitors does, its president told CNBC.

A panel of fund managers have given their tips on where to find pockets of value in the market — and what assets investors should avoid.

Jeff Currie, Goldman Sachs head of commodities research, makes the case that bitcoin is a commodity and how it factors into his best commodity calls for 2018.

UBS believes that bitcoin is a speculative investment and is not advising its clients to invest in the digital currency, the bank’s chairman told CNBC Tuesday.

Heavy investor trading in blockchain and cannabis stocks in December helped push TD Ameritrade Holding Corp’s (AMTD.O) quarterly profit higher, the online broker’s chief executive said on Tuesday.

50 Cent took a chance on bitcoin long before anyone knew what cryptocurrency even was … and it’s paid off.

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When it comes to spending the digital currency Bitcoin, it seems Berliners have been on trend longer than the rest of Europe.

Find out how you can earn bitcoin with these free apps that pay out as much as 400 Satoshi every 15 minutes.

Belgian PhD student Sander Wuyts wins a Bitcoin by sequencing DNA and decoding the encrypted key, solving Nick Goldman’s DNA Storage Challenge.

Tokyo, Japan – January 22, 2018 – GMO Internet’s (https://www.gmo.jp/en/ ) new cryptocurrency mining business, which has been launched through its European legal entity, is currently developing cutting-edge 7 nm*1 process technologies for chips to be used in the mining process. We are currently jointly working on research and development with our alliance partner who possesses semiconductor design technology to realize next-generation mining board, a high-performance computer for mining.

Starting today, we are winding down support for Bitcoin payments. Over the next three months we will work with affected Stripe users to ensure a smooth transition.

Prices for bitcoin and other digital currencies on Jan. 8 lost more than $100 billion in collective market value. The move can be traced to one address: A Long Island City apartment that is the home of Brandon Chez, a 31-year-old computer programmer behind website coinmarketcap.com.

BitFlyer Inc., one of the world’s first cryptocurrency trading platforms, is embracing the regulation that the market fears is coming its way.

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Opendime is a tiny USB flash drive that can be loaded with bitcoin by the first user and given to another user, who is, in turn, able to pass it along to a …

Security is one of the hottest topics in today’s ever-evolving digital world. A steady flow of debate continues to take place at tech forums worldwide on …

Tech giant Microsoft and blockchain alliance Hyperledger have joined blockchain-based digital identity initiative, the ID2020 Alliance.

Don’t wait until the fees are super high again. Move to segwit and take advantage of extra witness space in the blocks!

Last Monday we published a paper that introduces MuSig, a multi-signature scheme based on Schnorr signatures. This post will dive into its construction and a…

Interest in merkelized scriptPubKeys (e.g. MAST) is driven by two main areas: efficiency and privacy. Efficiency because unexecuted forks of a script can avoid ever hitting the chain, and privacy because hiding unexecuted code leaves scripts indistinguishable to the extent that their only differences are in the unexecuted parts.

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(This post is an updated re-post of a previous post in RSK blog) In a nutshell, storage rent is a fee users pay in order to have their accounts, contracts and memory live on the network at any time, so their data can be accessed fast and at a low cost. Storage rent does not fulfill any purpose in…

This is the day everything is coming back to normal 3.66$ bitcoin transaction fee. Now you can spend your bitcoins and buy that European molly without having to do a 15$ transaction!

Fake cryptocurrency advertised on forums is used to lure targets into installing what researchers say could be a test for new ransomware delivery techniques and tactics.

Cryptocurrency miners have begun using two older and already patched vulnerabilities to compromise servers to mine the Monero digital currency.

UK’s Top Law Firms at Risk After 1m+ Credentials Found on Dark Web. Spear-phishing, CEO fraud and data theft could follow, says RepKnight

David Ray Wallace, 46, of Alabaster, and Dana Marie Leslie, of Pelham, were taken into custody Monday. The Shelby County Drug Enforcement Task Force assisted narcotics investigators and SWAT with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, as well as U.S. Postal Inspector investigators.

What happens when an identity thief steals your child’s data?

U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R.-Fl) and Robert Menendez (D.-NJ) have denounced Venezuela’s planned cryptocurrency in a new letter.

There are no bad users, only bad UX. Forcing individuals to manually generate an 81-char seed consisting of a-z + 9 is fairly arduous, to say the least.

Bitcoin God arrived last month. Bitcoin Pizza was delivered in January. Bitcoin Private’s issuance date is… still a secret.

Blockchainify all the celebrities! A new cryptocurrency is being traded in the form of collectible virtual celebrities. Because not everyone likes kitties.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is scrutinizing public companies that change their name or business model in a bid to capitalize upon the hype surrounding blockchain technology, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said on Monday.

A state senator in the U.S. state of Virginia has filed new legislation that would mandate an impact study on cryptocurrencies.

The Bank of Ghana says activities in digital currency are currently not licensed under the Payments System Act 2003 (Act 662). It said while it has taken notice of recent developments in the use, holding, and trading of virtual or digital currencies (also known as cryptocurrencies), such as Bitcoin in Ghana, it is not legal tender and it is not regulated.