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Gibraltar Launches Regulation to Protect Value and Reputation

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A mechanism tailored to protect customers of cryptocurrency businesses in Gibraltar, and its own reputation, went into effect on January 1. The regulation targets blockchain technology – companies storing and transmitting value must now be licensed by the Financial Services Commission (GFSC).  Also read: Malta Bitcoin Schizophrenia: Government and Banks Send Mixed Signals Gibraltar – … Read more

South Korea Expected to End Anonymous Crypto Trading by January 20

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The South Korean government has been working on a system to enforce real-name identity verification on cryptocurrency traders. This system is expected to be implemented around January 20, thus ending the current practice which allows for anonymous crypto trading. Also read: Russian Regulators Draft Law to Restrict Crypto Mining, Payments, and Token Sales Government’s Real-Name System … Read more

Bitcoin Adoption in Africa Hinders EAC Plans for a Unified Currency

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Due to a declining economy and eroding national currencies, the East African Community (EAC), an intergovernmental central bank organization composed of six countries in eastern Africa have plans to adopt a unified currency. However, the growing popularity of bitcoin and other digital currencies are hindering the East African central bank’s abilities to establish a harmonized … Read more

Jimmy Song Uses Andreas Antonopoulos Model, Open Sources Forthcoming Book

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Jimmy Song, well-known bitcoin core developer, has embarked on writing a book for technical publisher O’Reilly. Programming Bitcoin is different with respect to not only the subject matter but also the way it is being constructed. Using the successful model outlined by world renowned educator Andreas Antonopoulos, he will expose each chapter to the ecosystem, … Read more

Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies See Big Gains After New Year’s Day

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The second day of the new year sees cryptocurrency markets come back after another holiday slump over the past few days. Bitcoin core markets are up 4 percent, averaging between $14,600-14,800 across global exchanges. However many other digital assets are seeing more significant gains as ethereum and bitcoin cash markets have risen 13-18 percent during … Read more

Humaniq opens sandbox and ecosystem access to partners

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London – January 02, 2018  – Humaniq opens access to its unique API to partners as part of the plan for further development of provided services and diversification within the Humaniq ecosystem. Open API provides access to key user data, such as transactions between user cryptowallets and other operations with the HMQ token. Moreover, it makes … Read more

PR: The Segwit 2x Fork Has Been Successfully Launched on December 28th

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On December 28th, one of the main hard forks took place in Bitcoin history, Segwit2X, which revealed acute problems in the work of crypto-exchanges, wallets, and decentralization in general. Why ordinary users are left with less and less choice and how to solve this problem? The post PR: The Segwit 2x Fork Has Been Successfully … Read more

Bitcoin Cash Used to Pay for Music Records, Gift Cards, Plastic Surgery

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With BTC transactions taking forever to complete and fees higher than ever, the adoption of bitcoin cash by small businesses and big miners is going strong. The latest examples of this include paying for everything from plastic surgery to music records.    Also Read: After Ripple’s Rise BTC Dominance Falls Below 40% Genesis Mining Cloud-based … Read more