After decades of supporting tech startups, growth stage investor IVP will be looking to help supply a new gold rush with its sixteenth fund: cryptocurrency.

It’ll take more than the flick of a wand to carry out, but MimbleWimble developers now seem set on creating a new cryptocurrency.

Segwit2x is not about increasing the block size, it’s about removing “Core’s” access and control of the Bitcoin repo.

With this, at minimum, Vaultoro moves to the neutral column as there are no plans for segwit2x to include full replay protection so they will reject the HF.

Yet the two have been moving in near unison for the past two months. Bitcoin and copper both rallied strongly from mid-July to early September. Then when bitcoin tumbled as Chinese regulators moved to clamp down on the trading of cryptocurrencies, the copper rally also went into reverse.

Following its emergence as a global leader in bitcoin and cryptocurrency volume, local exchange startup Korbit has announced that PC and mobile gaming firm Nexon has signed a stock trading agreement that would see it acquire Korbit’s management rights.

Jordan Belfort served time in prison for financial crimes. His story is based off of the 2013 movie ‘The Wolf of Wall Street.’ Belfort is out with a new book 'Way of the Wolf’ and joined TheStreet to discuss financial fraud and bitcoin.

He is said to aim to raise $500 million after Fortress losses
‘Largest bubble of our lifetimes,’ he says of digital currency

Changelly is an instant cryptocurrency exchange operating since 2015. We are trusted by 500K customers and partnered with a range of reputable crypto services like Jaxx, Coinomi, Coinmarketcap etc. We provide our customers with smooth and cost-savvy methods to exchange their coins. From now on, we fully support the SegWit technology to improve the Bitcoin network capacity and reduce the network fees.

Sirin Labs, the company behind the $16,000 (£12,000) luxury Solarin phone, has announced that it intends to raise around $100 million (£74 million) to fund the development of a smartphone and a PC that will run on the blockchain.

Many of the new cryptocurrency funds that have sprung up call themselves hedge funds, but few have the infrastructure or level of experience to qualify as such, neither have they attracted many sophisticated institutional investors or shown signs they are doing much to hedge their long positions.

I create the issue over a week ago and have reached out to them on Twitter but had no reply. Now I’m posting it here to hopefully pressure them into actually doing something.

Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya was early in both Facebook and bitcoin and continues to back both.
“The idea that the government can put curbs on this is actually pretty specious,” he said in response to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s criticism of bitcoin.

I was emailing with my friend Harry this past week and we started talking about crypto and the inevitability of a massive crash. I am certain the big crash will happen. I don’t know when it will happen and I think it may be some time before it does. But better safe than sorry. So I’m going to write some thoughts about how to survive it.

Apart from just a boost to the two firms’ bottom lines, though, this marks one of the first times cryptocurrencies have had a significant impact on the business of publicly traded companies – and the results seem positive. That said, the tempered reactions of both companies to the growth demonstrate something more could be festering under the surface.

The lawyers were initially upbeat about the prospects of the creditors receiving the full value from their sold 200k bitcoins. But after more investigation their advice is now that it looks like the bitcoin creditors could be paid only the original valuation amount at around $483 per bitcoin, and the value above that would be passed into the company liquidation.

‘Bitcoin is very nascent right now,’ CME president says
CME is ceding territory to crosstown Chicago rival CBOE

Two candidates jockeying for Colorado’s 2018 gubernatorial election threw their support behind cryptocurrencies during a debate over the weekend.

A mock rollout of cryptocurrency is likely to begin shortly to test if it can be introduced without jeopardising the economy, the Times of Malta has learnt.

Coinflash, featured on the Product Hunt website this week, will round each of your credit and debit card purchases to the nearest dollar, tally the total difference, and automatically invest that amount into a cryptocurrency of your choice through a Coinbase account.

A new white paper has been published detailing a potentially transformative protocol for initial coin offerings (ICOs).