Miami Bitcoin Conference Stops Accepting Bitcoin Due to Fees and Congestion

Next week the popular cryptocurrency event, The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) will be hosted in downtown Miami at the James L Knight Center, January 18-19. However, bitcoin proponents got some unfortunate news this week as the event organizers have announced they have stopped accepting bitcoin payments for conference tickets due to network fees and … Read more

Decentralization and Transparency in Lotteries: Fire Lotto Launches Lottery Platform

We are witnessing a healthy growth of decentralized blockchain-based lotteries and other fair games being launched, particularly on the Ethereum blockchain. The main idea is the same and that is to make lotteries popular, make its code open-source and render the whole system transparent along with respectable odds to win. The lottery industry is worth … Read more

Bittrex Will Delist TRIG as Parent Company Blocksafe Prepares for Public Trading

It doesn’t happen all that often that exchange-traded cryptocurrencies turn into public stocks all of a sudden. In fact, this may have never happened before in the nine-year history of cryptocurrencies. Blocksafe is setting a very interesting precedent in this regard; that much is evident. The company is being removed from Bittrex because its shares will … Read more

Michael Novogratz $400 Million Bet: Form Giant Crypto Merchant Bank

Billionaire investor Michael Novogratz pulled back from bitcoin toward the end of last year, citing market volatility, and ultimately scrapped his much-anticipated crypto hedge fund as a result. He’s since returned with a market-defining announcement of plans to open a full service crypto merchant bank, which some are describing as the ecosystem’s Goldman Sachs, and … Read more

Should NewYorkCoin Be Trusted?

Over the past few years, we have seen multiple cryptocurrencies which were only meant to work within a specific area. Auroracoin is by far the most notorious example, and it ultimately failed to gain any real traction. NewYorkCoin, also known as NYCoin, is the latest attempt to achieve a similar goal. However, this project raises a lot of … Read more