The aggregate value of all cryptocurrencies hit a record high of over $200 billion on Wednesday, according to industry website Coinmarketcap, putting their reported market value at more than that of U.S. banking giant Citigroup (C.N).

To curb the use of cryptocurrencies in India, a government panel is said to have advised closing cryptocurrency dealers in India, ETNow reported on Thursday quoting agencies.

The only major Wall Street strategist with an official price forecast for bitcoin turned “cautious” as the digital currency soared above $7,000 to record highs.

We are “cautious short-term on bitcoin,” Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee said in a Thursday report. He said bitcoin has gained far more than fundamentals warrant right now.

Standpoint Research’s Ronnie Moas, who says bitcoin’s market cap will one day catch up to gold at $8 trillion, is raising his 2018 price target for the digital currency to $11,000 from $7,500.

President Trump’s opioid commission recommended more careful scrutiny of the mail to help fight the amount of fetnanyl coming into the United States.

bitcoin followed by coinbase are in the 4th/5th spot in Canada

Some of China’s top bitcoin exchanges are now shifting to the over-the-counter (OTC) market in the wake of a crackdown by regulators in the country.

Answering worried cryptocurrency enthusiasts on Twitter, Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin has suggested BitConnect is likely a “ponzi” scheme.

“Simplicity is a blockchain programming language that is so simple, it fits on a t-shirt,” O'Connor told Bitcoin Magazine. “It is critical that smart contracts behave in ways that all participants expect, and applying formal verification to Simplicity allows us to achieve that.”

A hacker is trying to extort a Canadian university, threatening to dump student information unless university top brass pay 30,000 CAD (23,000 USD).

After Nov. 24, we will consider which of 1MB and 2MB to name as bitcoin based on market feedback and adoption.

Jihan’s team continue contribute to BCH and make it become another bitcoin with flexible block size.Who need B2X?

One investment bank underwriting the public listing of Canadian crypto VC firm NextBlock Global is pulling out, and Forbes has uncovered previous misrepresentations by CEO Alex Tapscott.

A lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in California against the founders and promoters of the controversial Tezos blockchain project.

The bitcoin cryptocurrency was designed to be better than traditional payment systems. However, it has become a hyper-inflated asset, failing to serve as a faster and more sophisticated payment system, according to analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

A bill has been submitted to the Ukrainian parliament to amend the country’s tax code to exempt cryptocurrency income and profits from taxation, including from buying, selling, transacting, and mining.

A young Kenyan goes from doing odd jobs on the farm to growing virtual coins, as cryptocurrencies spread across the continent.

Quote from Moneromooo in irc just now… “The multisig branch just lost its DO NOT MERGE tag. If anyone wants to test/review, feel even freer.”

They mentioned it in their slack as well.

A MAHF should shun replay protection, and instead try to replay everything. With >51% hashrate, this is easy to do. Miners can defeat full nodes, and upgrade the network via Hard Fork, if and only if investors are on their side. Miners’ expected profits are maximized if they follow the advice of futures markets as a source of robust, decentralized, and accurate advice.

A hashrate-majority can easily defeat a UASF. Moreover, they can do so without inviting retaliation, because upgrades do not generalize from the particular to the universal. The UASF is not only ineffective, but it can also result in loss-of-funds.

While the word “fork” would appear to be synonymous with “split”, they are in fact completely different and mutually exclusive. Splits are bad for blockchains, because they “un-blockchain” them.

Wall Street has a new toy — and regulators are warning that some pieces of the popular product can cause your portfolio to choke.

Millions of new investors have entered the realm of cryptocurrencies.
Many are unaware of the security holes.
Six experts gave their advice on the best way to protect your cryptocurrency investments from hacks.

The UK brokerage platform of Citibank, Citigroup’s © consumer division, is now offering clients access to Ether exchange traded notes (ETNs), according to XBT Group, a Sweden-based company that is providing the cryptocurrency investing platform.

The Tor Project has released a security update for the Tor Browser on Mac and Linux to fix a vulnerability that leaks users’ real IP addresses.