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Kyle’s note: Bitcoin Cash vs Bitcoin causing so much confusion that Coinbase can’t even get it right in their blog post.

Kyle’s note: I don’t think this is a good idea. I’ll write on this topic soon. Adding this because it’s related to the BitcoinCash/Bcash confusion at Coinbase.

The recent announcement of ShapeShift integration into the (link: http://Bitcoin.com) Bitcoin.com wallet had a mistake. It is not “Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Core.” It is Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin. I apologize this comms mistake happened, we’re correcting everywhere.

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Kyle’s note: This is hilarious because Salon is a liberal/progressive site and they’re supporting a very capitalist, free-market technology in Monero. Also this doesn’t seem like it will be a viable alternative to ads.

Don’t expect more payments companies to start offering access to Bitcoin unless you ask for it.

Kyle’s note: As I wrote recently for Forbes, the demand is in speculating on cryptoassets, not using cryptocurrencies for payments.

Adena Freidman discusses the viability of a bitcoin ETF.

Less than 100 people out of the 250,000 individuals who have already filed federal taxes this year through company Credit Karma reported a cryptocurrency transaction to U.S. tax authorities, the company said on Tuesday.

Criminals are laundering “billions” using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to E.U. law enforcement agency Europol. Although director Rob Wainwright used the statistics to call for more industry and regulatory action to combat it, some commentators noted the amount is small compared to that laundered

A U.S. man has spent years trying to untangle the legal mess he found himself in after his 26-year-old son, an early miner of Bitcoins, died in a plane crash

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From animated lambos and dancing bikini clad aliens, to Vicente Fox and tie-wearing entrepreneurs looking to go head to head with big banks, Mexico’s fintech revolution isn’t getting the attention that it deserves

At the largest bitcoin convention in New York City, where an attendee asked for a discount on tickets that went to charity, everything is perfect, and nothing can ever go wrong.

We know that freelancers are preparing for the future of work faster than their counterparts who work for one employer. Sixty-five percent of independent workers claimed to be staying on top of career prep as jobs and skills evolve and machine learning gets more sophisticated, according to Upwork and the Freelancers Union. Among the skills …
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Washington state has some of the cheapest power in the U.S. making it a magnet for bitcoin miners, who generate new units of cryptocurrencies—a process that requires vast amounts of electricity.

A Rockland County man tried to get a $30,000 refund for cryptocurrency from Coinbase. But when he had trouble, he called Lynda Baquero and the Better Get Baquero team.

Coincheck Inc. users withdrew 40.1 billion yen ($373 million) from the cryptocurrency exchange on Tuesday, the first day customers were allowed to pull out in the wake of the cyber-theft of about $500 million last month.

A group of cryptocurrency traders will file a lawsuit against Coincheck Inc on Thursday over last month’s theft of $530 million (£382 million) in digital money from the Tokyo-based exchange, a lawyer representing the claimants said.

Exclusive interview with Francesco Firano, whose crypto exchange BitGrail lost hosted tokens last week, worth about $187 mln at th… | News | Cointelegraph

The nine blockchain startups on the Forbes Fintech 50 list for 2018 are building infrastructure—to support both public cryptocurrency markets and initiatives that could transform how current financial transactions are executed and recorded.

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Hackers have been able to exploit a vulnerability in the Telegram messaging app’s desktop client to earn units of cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash, according to Kaspersky Lab.

There doesn’t appear to be an end in sight for the cryptojacking scourge affecting all facets of the web right now.

A Raleigh man has pleaded guilty to making and selling Xanax pills on encrypted websites.

Android users have been exposed to drive-by cryptomining in one of the largest campaigns that we have detected so far.

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If you want to lose your liberty in a hurry, there’s no better way to do it than a DAICO. What’s a “DAICO,” I hear you ask? Well, it’s a new kind of automatic, Ethereum-based investment scheme that allegedly combines “the best aspects of DAOs” - “distributed autonomous organizations,” a long-winded neologism for “software that…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should give past initial coin offering (ICO) organizers the chance to seek remediation in light of possible violations, according to a petition filed with the agency last month.

Self-proclaimed fans of a popular Chinese boy band have built an initial coin offering (ICO) around their idols, though controversy has emerged over the project’s legitimacy.

The South Korean government is positively considering an introduction of cryptocurrency exchange approval system. It has changed its stance over regulations on digital currency exchanges from completely shutting down the exchanges to safely managing them. However, it is highly likely to make a final decision on the issue after holding local elections in June.

The purchase data of buyers and sellers of the virtual currency can then be traced through either the Aadhaar ID or the PAN of the user.

Regulators seem to recognize the need for restraint.

Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies will be front and center at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday.

It is not the European Central Bank’s job to regulate Bitcoin, its President Mario Draghi said on Tuesday, while warning the public about the risks associated with the volatile cryptocurrency.

By Joshua FruthNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - Digital currency technologies generated widespread public and investor interest in 2017, with new cryptocurrency products capable of streamlining and decentralizing global commerce. Unfortunately, these technologies also create new money laundering tools that allow countries like Iran, North Korea, and Russia to evade international sanctions. This is especially true of so-called “privacy coins,” which offer personal anonymity and covert transactions to their users.

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday cryptocurrencies likely won’t threaten legal tenders like the yen any time soon as they are mostly used for speculative trading, rather than as payments and settlement means.