Bitcoin Price Watch: Currency Backtracks by $100

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Bitcoin has taken a small tumble since yesterday’s figure of $6,800. At press time, the price has fallen by about $100 and bitcoin sits at just over $6,700. The fall may have occurred for several reasons, one being the recent hack of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Verge. The attack was noticed by a bitcointalk.org user, who claimed … Read more

Google Eliminates All Nefarious Cryptocurrency Mining Chrome Extensions

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Technology giants have made it perfectly clear that they want nothing to do with cryptocurrencies. Google, Twitter, and a few other companies ban cryptocurrency-related advertisements as of right now. Google is taking things one step further by officially banning cryptocurrency mining extensions altogether. Another Strong Signal from Google Mining has always played a critical role in … Read more

Price of Verge Holds Above $0.50 Despite Major Attack

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The past day for Verge (XVG) represents yet another fiasco for the highly controversial Dogecoin fork. Hackers have managed to mine an XVG block every second through a timestamp exploitation coupled with a 51% attack. To make matters worse, hasty developer responses have actually rendered the network even more incapable through an ineffective hard fork. … Read more

Emin Gün Sirer Discusses Cryptocurrency Academics and Proof-of-Stake

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At the Satoshi’s Vision Conference in Tokyo, our Bitcoin.com video host Mike Malley chatted with the Cornell CS professor Emin Gün Sirer about on-chain scaling and the Bitcoin Cash network.   Also Read: ABC Developer Amaury Séchet on the Future of Bitcoin Cash The Academic Side of Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency Solutions Emin Gün Sirer is … Read more

BitKan Secures $10M in Series B Funding to Expand Overseas

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A lot of cryptocurrency companies are looking to expand their global presences. That is much easier said than done, especially given the current regulatory climate affecting this industry. BitKan, one of China’s leading cryptocurrency service providers, recently secured $10 million in Series B funding to accelerate its growth. BitKan is on a Roll Growing a … Read more

DNotes Global, Inc. Announces Release of DNotes 2.0

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DNotes Global, Inc. today announced the production release of its DNotes 2.0 digital currency. The launch comes in the wake of a pre-release on March 18, 2018, and a successful period of alpha testing. The upgraded coin is designed to replace the first-generation DNotes that were first developed in 2014, with new features and benefits … Read more