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Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now seamlessly store, send, and receive ether from within the Blockchain wallet. By adding ether as a new currency, we’re providing users with a new diverse way to interact with the digital economy.

The first major cybercrime incident on Ethereum was in June 2016. A bug in “The DAO” smart contract was exploited and $74 million out of $150 million invested was drained by the attacker. This year, $1.6 billion has been invested in ICOs on ethereum but the cyber criminals have also generated more than $150 million in revenues. Meaning, 10% of Ethereum holdings marked for ICO investment lies in the hands of criminals. Chainalysis estimates that there have been approximately 30,000 victims of cybercrime on Ethereum losing on average $7,500 each.

Australia joins China and Japan in trying to regulate digital currency exchanges.
The Australian government will regulate exchanges as part of a law to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing.
A bitcoin expert welcomes the move, saying it will encourage wider use of digital currencies.

Are your Bitcoins more “safe” when you directly own through a major company such as Coinbase?

Surprisingly, although Coinbase has insurance, coverage is extremely limited and not much better than that of Xapo (which has zero insurance).

Safety, security, and basic Bitcoin insurance matters are discussed relative to Coinbase, Xapo and Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust.

As Jeff himself advocated for several times, this is just the removal of people who haven’t been active in the project for years. No need to read too much into such things…

Adam Back, Blockstream Corp.’s chief executive officer, discusses how the company plans to make Bitcoin more accessible via satellite signal. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Technology.”

Bitcoin Cash’s price rose above the $400 mark today, breaking the rangebound market trend of the past several days.

One of the world’s largest bitcoin mines is located in the SanShangLiang industrial park on the outskirts of the city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region that’s part of China. It’s 400 miles from China’s capital, Beijing, and 35 miles from the the city of Baotou. The mine is just off the highway, near the intersection of Latitutde 3rd Road and Longitude 3rd Road. It sits amidst abandoned, half-built factories—victims of an earlier coal mining boom that fizzled out, leaving Ordos and its outlying areas littered with the shells of unfinished buildings.

Breadwallet, the popular decentralized iOS wallet and a venture funded startup, has today announced the close of a new funding round, bringing its total investment to $7 million USD. Coinciding with the round closure, the company has established its headquarters in Switzerland.

Attracting attention in parts of the web this week were headlines that captured the strange place on the fringes of modern banking where astrology, finance and computer games intersect. A Goldman Sachs analyst had predicted the price of bitcoin — currently above $4,000 — would surge in a frenzy of speculation, before going on to halve.

Fisco, a Japanese financial information company, announced this week a unit of the company has issued a bitcoin bond.
The bitcoin bond “brings digital currencies into the world of high finance,” said Dan Doney, chief executive officer of Securrency.
The development of bitcoin options, futures and now bonds could help the often volatile digital currency become a better-established asset class.

A federal grand jury in Fresno indicted six people suspected of selling illegal drugs on the “dark web,” in which sales of drugs and contraband over the internet are meant to be untraceable by law enforcement.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unikrn, a U.S. sports betting digital platform backed by some of the biggest names in media, entertainment and sports, will launch the sale of $100 million in cryptocurrency next month, the company’s co-founder and chief executive officer, Rahul Sood, told Reuters in an interview earlier this week.

The team behind the decentralized exchange protocol 0x has raised $24 million in an initial coin offering (ICO).

The price of bitcoin continues to surge, defying critics to set a new all-time high of $4,500 today.

But even though bitcoin’s price has soared in recent weeks, there will always be bears who see the market through a profoundly darker lens. One of the best-known among the bears, investor Peter Schiff, is now making his case in even stronger terms for why bitcoin has advanced ever farther into bubble territory.

Onecoin promoters have been fined 2.6 million euros in Italy after the country’s antitrust authority found them engaging in a pyramid scheme and misleading promotions. The fines follow the authority’s previous suspensions of Onecoin activities, which have failed to stop its promotion in the country.