Zerolink Invites Users to Test its Anonymous Bitcoin Coinjoin Mixer

Zerolink, a bitcoin-based privacy solution, has announced plans for a large-scale anonymity test. To ensure the pilot’s success, the platform’s creator is seeking volunteers to help trial the first “fully anonymous usage of bitcoin”. Using the mantra “anonymity likes company”, Zerolink has issued a call to arms for 100 transaction testers, who’ll be compensated for … Read more

Thomson Reuters Adds Bitcoin Cash to Eikon Platform

Over 300,000 financial professionals working in asset management, hedge funds or other institutions now have access to bitcoin cash data directly via their Thomson Reuters Eikon platform. Also Read: Trading Bitcoin for an Altcoin Won’t Shield You From the IRS Anymore Toronto-headquartered multinational mass media and information firm, Thomson Reuters Corporation (NYSE: TRI), has added … Read more

Russian Crypto News Outlet Shook Down by the Ukrainian Security Service

According to the owner of the Russian cryptocurrency news outlet Forklog, Anatoly Kaplan, his media firm is being harassed by Ukrainian law enforcement officials. On December 15, agents from the Ukrainian Security Service (SSU) searched both Kaplan’s apartment and the Forklog offices in Odessa for an alleged association with U.S. nationals committing criminal activities. Also … Read more

Bitcoin Fees Have Become Infeasible

In 2013, one bitcoin cost $20. In 2017, it costs $20 to send one bitcoin. With record highs, thriving adoption, and media attention, this should be a celebratory time for bitcoin believers. And yet it’s hard to shake the feeling that something isn’t quite right. How did we reach a point where the world’s bank … Read more

The Most Pointless Cryptocurrency Tokens Ever Invented

Just as Satoshi’s vision wasn’t 1,000 bitcoin forks, the vision of ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin wasn’t to decentralize the parenting industry. This year, an avalanche of ridiculous ERC20 tokens have been issued that take vaporware to the next level. From bananas on the blockchain to smart contract-based tombstones, these are the most pointless cryptocurrency tokens … Read more

PR: Peer to Peer Crypto Exchange Cointal.com Restores the Cryptocurrency’s Freedom: Performance Summary + Bitcoin Cash Added

We can be very grateful for the exchange platforms’ appearance ; the expansion that the cryptoworld is now knowing can only be withstood with strong and reliable teams. But the rules are the rules, and except for Bitcoin, there hasn’t been any other way to trade other cryptocoins except on exchanges, and with very limited … Read more

Kik Ditches Ethereum “The Dial-Up” Cryptocurrency

Ethereum is often promoted as the ultimate solution for decentralized apps, with some even claiming that it will be the substrate for developing all software in the future. This grand vision is in conflict with current reality however where ethereum now can’t even hold onto one of its biggest mainstream adopters, Kik. Also Read: Israeli … Read more

Trading Column `The Writing On The Wall´ – Strategies for 2018; Hodl or Diversify?

This is a weekly trading tips series called ’Writing On The Wall’, in which our game theory guide, Eric Wall, tries to decipher market signals. This week, strategies for 2018; 2017 has been an absolutely insane year for crypto. For traders, it’s been packed with an endless myriad of opportunities and little time to properly … Read more