CoinMarketCap removed Korean exchanges from coin price averages. They need to remove no-fee exchanges like Bithumb from the “Markets with Fees” volume numbers.

Encrypted messaging startup Telegram plans to launch its own blockchain platform and native cryptocurrency, powering payments on its chat app and beyond…

Bitcoin sank on Monday after website CoinMarketCap removed prices from South Korean exchanges from its calculations of digital currency rates without any warning, resulting in a steep drop in all virtual coins they track.

To sum up the parts that are probably the most interesting,

on an internet-connected device, when you open a website that exploits this, if Electrum (pre-3.0.4) is running at that time,

Microsoft has stopped supporting Bitcoin as a payment method for Microsoft products, Bleeping Computer has learned.

On December 14, 2017, BitPay announced a first step toward enforcing the payment protocol: All orders of the BitPay Card will require payments from Payment …

The New York Stock Exchange asked SEC regulators to list five exchange-traded funds that track bitcoin futures on one of its markets.

South Korean financial authorities on Monday said they are inspecting six local banks that offer virtual currency accounts to institutions, amid concerns the increasing use of such assets could lead to a surge in crime.

 ATT BTC Users: TorGuard now accepts mainnet Lightning Network BTC payments. Ask support for details! #bitcoin #lightning

You can now trade your testnet Lightning coins for testnet altcoins! Check out using @Bitlumio to swap your (link: https://htlc.me) htlc.me freebie testnet coins onto a testnet @BitGo web wallet. 

The first smart contract platform secured by the Bitcoin Network will bring one billion people to the financial system, says RSK.

I wasn’t able to reach the two names you sent me yesterday until now. Just to close the loop, here’s what I heard from them: 

Following the widespread success of our Bitcoin-based USD Tether, issued via the Omni Layer Protocol, we have today launched and issued both US Dollars and Euros as Ethereum-based Tether, compatible with the ERC20 standard.

Wells Fargo has joined Merrill Lynch in banning brokers from selling the Bitcoin Investment Trust Fund and bitcoin futures.

Note: I couldn’t find the original source, so I’m not sure if this story is legit.

Bitcoin mining could be on its last legs in China. The country’s top internet-finance regulator, the Leading Group of Internet Financial Risks Remediation, issued a notice asking local governments to “guide” bitcoin-mining operations to make an “orderly exit” from the business, according to a leaked document online. Citing government sources, Bloomberg and Reuters earlier reported…

Bitcoin is too volatile to serve as a ‘real currency,’ PayPal CEO Dan Schulman tells TheStreet….PYPL

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency published last week a new guideline containing updated procedures for searching travelers’ electronic devices at US borders.

A cybersecurity company said it has found software that appears to install code for mining cryptocurrency and sends any mined coins to a server at a North Korean university, the latest sign that North Korea may be searching for new ways to infuse its economy with cash. 

The pattern emerging after four weeks of trading in the first U.S. bitcoin futures market shows small investors are betting the digital currency’s price will rise, while hedge funds and other large traders are betting it will fall.

The Ledger came with a recovery sheet which had a 24 word recovery seed, to see the seed I had to scratch off the silver foil/paint that was…

One of the hardest things in managing a venture capital portfolio is managing your big winners. A big winner can dwarf the rest of the entire portfolio and you end up sitting on enormous paper profits that you can’t get liquid on. I realize that this seems like a great problem to have, and it is, but it is still a challenging situation.

Shares of Seagate Technologies surged 11% Monday after a Seeking Alpha report suggested the hard-disk and memory card maker could own over $7 billion…

SIOUX CITY — Don’t bank on Bitcoin to get rich.

A Hong Kong-based company whose stock benefited from cryptocurrency fever to jump more than 900 percent last year had trading in its shares suspended by U.S. regulators over concerns that investors are being misled about the company’s business.

Brendan Bernstein is a founding member of Tetras Capital Partners, LLC, an investment manager focused on investing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain assets.

Hedge funds grew from a boutique investment area serving wealthy individuals and families to a full-blown institutional phenomenon after Yale and CalPERS gave credence to the category. Cryptocurrencies are on the same path, awaiting that institutional first-mover.

Bitcoin futures sizzle. Riding the bitcoin wave, with CNBC’s Melissa Lee and the Options Action traders.

Mark was a sophomore at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he began mining cryptocurrencies more or less by accident. In November 2016, he stumbled on NiceHash, an online marketplace for individuals to mine cryptocurrency for willing buyers. His desktop computer, boosted with a graphics card, was enough to get started. Thinking he might make some…

The number of reported major IT/hacking events attributed to ransomware by health care institutions increased by 89 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to cyber defense firm Cryptonite’s 2017 Healthcare Cyber Research Report, which used data reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

A new attack called CoffeeMiner can exploit public Wi-Fi services to secretly mine cryptocurrencies.

A cryptocurrency built for watching live-streaming porn is turning out to be a buzzkill.
Four investors in the digital currency, called Fantasy Market, claimed…

BlackBerry Mobile site the latest target of cryptocurrency mining hackers - SiliconANGLE

AMSTERDAM — January 4, 2018 — The Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full-service Blockchain technology company, and its world-class global development team today detailed a new solution to help…

Recently leaked computer vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre offer yet another reminder of how hard the digital age makes it to keep private information – even cryptocurrency private keys – safe.

David Silver is the founder of Silver Miller, one of the preeminent plaintiffs’ law firms in crypto litigation. Silver Miller prosecutes cases against wayward cryptocurrency exchanges and misleadingly presented crypto-investment offerings. The firm is focused on representing victims of financial fraud.

Our European BitPay Card issuer Wave Crest Holdings, Ltd. received direction from Visa® to immediately close all accounts of its prepaid Visa® debit card programs.

Xapo’s card issuer has been instructed by Visa® to shut down their Visa® card programs effective January 4th 2018. Xapo is hard at work to find alternatives so

In order to control speculation and protect the interests of our investors, ViaBTC will officially close cloud mining Market (https://pool.viabtc.com/contract/market/) at UTC time 12:00 Jan 10th, 2018. 

Wow! Absurd! TRON’s “paper” is mostly copied from other projects, or is super basic p2p passed off as original. Zero references.

Sure, fine, maybe it’s a bubble. OK it’s definitely a bubble, but that’s a good thing, a bubble brings attention and investment in infrastructure, which..

As block size increases, uncle(orphan) rates increase, especially since ETH has such a short block time, hurting profitability for miners, smaller miners more.

PSA: If you are NOT running your ETH node on a high end server and it falls behind, you will probably not be able to catch up. The node count will definitely be dropping soon.

Several of our engineers, myself included, have spent a substantial portion of the past year working on building low level Ethereum infrastructure at BitGo. We’ve encountered a plethora of challenges…

Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency again. The decentralized app platform was briefly dethroned by banking-oriented Ripple in January.

Market cap of joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin surges above $2bn

A state legislator in Vermont has proposed a bill to create a new regulatory framework for the use of blockchain technology.

KOLKATA: A city-based lawyer has filed a public interest litigation with Calcutta High Court demanding a proper framework for cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin in the country, in the absence of which digital currencies were enjoying a free run in the underworld.

Israel’s central bank said on Monday it would not recognise virtual currencies such as bitcoin as actual currency and that it was difficult to devise regulations to monitor the risks of such activity to the country’s banks and their clients.

Hello! I’m back with another update to the Pineapple Fund. With Christmas and New Years out of the way, PF is ramping up and looking to finish…

Venezuela’s President Maduro is planning to introduce what he calls a “cryptocurrency”, backed by the country’s oil, gas and other natural resources. But it isn’t really a cryptocurrency at all - and it isn’t about helping the starving people of Venezuela, either.

A model to think about the progression from Bitcoin agnostic to a crypto buyer. I think most people will recognize themselves in one or more stages.

2017 has seen its spate of both good and bad stories for all sides of the cryptocurrency space. Whether you believe in dutch tulips or you worship at the …