On a recent episode of The Crypto Show, longtime Bitcoin angel investor and Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver, who has been referred to as “Bitcoin Jesus” due to his early adoption and advocacy of the technology, shared his thoughts on Bitcoin Cash, which is a cryptocurrency that forked off from the Bitcoin network in August of this year.

During the interview, Ver discussed the need for cheaper transactions on the Bitcoin network, the possible reasoning behind bitcoin’s continued price rise, and the fact that he now holds more of his cryptocurrency wealth in Bitcoin Cash than Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency).

BtcDrak, the most active pseudonymous Bitcoin Core contributor to date, is making a move into the mining hardware industry. The developer, who besides having contributed to the Bitcoin Core repository also maintains the bitcoincore.org website and the Bitcoin Core Community Slack channel, has helped set up ASIC chip manufacturing company Halong Mining over the past year. The startup has now produced an initial batch of mining hardware and plans to ship to consumers in early 2018.

The scam, which ran from 2015, resulted in 3,900 investors losing $38 million between them.

Paris-based asset manager Tobam plans bitcoin mutual fund.
Institutional interest in the cryptocurrency is rising but investing in the unregulated asset remains difficult.

More than $3.3 million has been stolen as part of an elaborate scam that took advantage of bitcoin users seeking to claim their share of the newly created cryptocurrency bitcoin gold.

In this piece we revisit “The DAO” and the events following its failure.  We analyse what happened to the various buckets of funds inside The DAO, on both sides of the chainsplit which it caused.  We identify US$140 million of unclaimed funds still inside what is left of The DAO.

im going to share with you guys what i know so far. coinpouch became insolvent of verge sometime last night. earlier today, a community member shared their coinpouch wallet address with another member of the community, and they traced the theft back to this address: https://verge-blockchain.info/address/DM5Esw71BnTdJzX1FWpNLvdnrLuCS91v4N as you can see the coins are still sitting there, just over 126million of them.

Company paid hackers $100,000 to delete info, keep quiet
Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and another exec ousted

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) has joined the ranks of those warning about the virtual currency bitcoin as an investment.

According to local publication The Bell, Russia’s richest people, including Roman Abramovich, Alexander Abramov, and Alexander Frolov are going to invest in cryptoprojects via Target Global, the foundation managing over $500 million.

The Old Mutual Gold & Silver Fund, which manages $220 million of mostly precious metal equities, is jumping on the bitcoin wagon.

Fundstrat raises its mid-2018 price target for bitcoin to $11,500 from $6,000, representing nearly 40 percent upside to its current level.
“In our view, this move to $5,600 cleaned up weak hands and we no longer feel caution is warranted. … We recommend steady buying of Bitcoin at these levels,” strategist Tom Lee writes.

Hiromi Yamaoka believes cryptocurrencies are ‘too far off’ from making a serious impact

It finally clicked for me today….mass adoption is actually happening as we speak.
I used to think mass adoption meant I can pay with BTC everywhere I go. And I still think that we’ll get there eventually - but that’s not a requirement for mass adoption. It never was.

The online retailer is planning to add to its holdings of virtual currency

Xunlei best performing stock in Nasdaq Composite since Oct. 12
Shares rally on launch of Wanke cryptocurrency project

The veteran investor provides a global roundup, with a preference for Asian stocks

“Mad Money” host Jim Cramer pushed back against the theory that stocks are overvalued and pinpointed other areas of the market that are.
From bitcoin to junk bonds, plenty of other assets have inflated in value, Cramer said.
In fact, stock market values are some of the only ones that make sense to the “Mad Money” host.

No investor or serious analyst has been able to provide a fundamentals-based valuation model for bitcoin

Former Major League Baseball star Jose Canseco is apparently a big believer in blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

The hacker also demanded a ransom in bitcoin, and a left a message on the RT website reading “I’m sorry to modify the home page, I’m good hacker, I just want to help you fix these vulnerability.”

I asked a branch manager in Brooklyn. He said never heard any plans. Schwab is super play it safe

“Fast Money” trader Guy Adami takes a poll on whether people prefer stocks or bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s ongoing meteoric price rise has received the bulk of recent press attention with a lot of discussion around whether or not it’s a bubble waiting to burst.

However, most the coverage has missed out one of the more interesting and unintended consequences of this price increase. That is the surge in global electricity consumption used to “mine” more Bitcoins.

Hear the words “mining” and “Sweden” and you’d be forgiven for immediately thinking of the country’s famous iron ore mines. But these days Sweden is turning heads by breaking ground with an entirely new kind of mining.

IS BITCOIN the world’s biggest bubble? A Melbourne IT worker is one of many enthusiasts sick of listening to the doubters.

There have been various proposals for sidechains — and all have different security models. The most important question to ask when evaluating a sidechain’s proposal is ‘Who is the custodian of the bitcoin while I am transacting on the sidechain?’

This topic is monstrously complex, but I hope this post was useful in giving you a big-picture idea of why scalability matters in blockchain, and how it might be solved.

As a way to eliminate bugs in high-risk code, a style of software programming known as formal verification is making its way into the blockchain world.

How many are trading? How many own a crypto? That’s the important number… not that this doesn’t mean something obviously but participating mean more and I’m curious of that ratio.

BitPay has recently announced that it will discontinue its Copay bitcoin wallet Chrome app, due to Google’s decision about Chrome apps’ end-of-life in 2018. As a consequence, multisig wallets with…

Individual users can now access USD wires for deposits and withdrawals
Euro wires added for both corporate and individual accounts
First Euro trading pair, /t/BTC:EUR, now live.

According to Nbox, Ruja Ignatova (right) was arrested by authorities as she tried to enter Germany.

Nbox claims Ignatova was arrested at Munich airport, following an investigation triggered by an unnamed German bank.

In an unprecedented foray into cryptocurrencies, Angus Taylor, the Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation, awarded the government’s second largest grant in its Smart Cities and Suburbs program to the first Australian company to list itself on digital currency exchanges on Friday.

In cryptocurrencies, the “store of value” is simply everyone’s agreement that there is value here. There is no asset. And that is what a bubble looks like.

The rift between bitcoin and its offshoot bitcoin cash isn’t just ideological – it’s hazardous.

The initial version of the Casper proof-of-stake protocol upgrade from Ethereum developer Vlad Zamfir has been released.

A subsidiary of global banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo is taking steps to reimagine what the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market might one day look like on a public blockchain.

Ben Lawsky, the former New York Superintendent of Financial Services who spearheaded the BitLicense regulatory framework while in office, has joined startup Ripple’s board of directors.

Malaysia has begun work on a regulatory structure for digital currencies such as bitcoin, its central bank governor said on Wednesday, aimed at further securing Malaysia against money-laundering and terrorism financing.

Regulators in the Philippines are considering new rules for cryptocurrency exchanges and initial coin offerings (ICOs).

The Eastern European country is currently awaiting a sign-off on a new package of laws by president Aleksandr Lukashenko. Once this is in effect, Bitcoin and altcoins could stand to become a bonafide part of the Belarusian economic landscape.

Globitex, a new bitcoin exchange co-founded by former Bitcoin Foundation Executive Director Jon Matonis, is announcing that its parent Globitex Holding (Latvia) group company NexPay UAB has been granted an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license by the Bank of Lithuania, a regulatory authority in the European Union, to carry out payment services and e-money issuance in the EU.

In Washington we need more adult supervision and behavior, and less of whatever is happening now.

A service launched by China’s internet giant Baidu can make you money if you are willing to share your desktop computer’s spare computing power for faster downloads, smoother online videos and maybe even mining bitcoin.

The fight between /r/Bitcoin and /r/btc features another plot twist. Yesterday /u/censorship_notifier committed a post, where he finally acknowledged the most recent vote manipulation attack against…

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