Kyle’s note: Bitcoin Cash vs Bitcoin causing so much confusion that Coinbase can’t even get it right in their blog post.
Kyle’s note: I don’t think this is a good idea. I’ll write on this topic soon. Adding this because it’s related to the BitcoinCash/Bcash confusion at Coinbase.
ShapeShift Refers to Bitcoin as "Bitcoin Core"
The recent announcement of ShapeShift integration into the (link: http://Bitcoin.com) Bitcoin.com wallet had a mistake. It is not “Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Core.” It is Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin. I apologize this comms mistake happened, we’re correcting everywhere.
Kyle’s note: This is hilarious because Salon is a liberal/progressive site and they’re supporting a very capitalist, free-market technology in Monero. Also this doesn’t seem like it will be a viable alternative to ads.
Don’t expect more payments companies to start offering access to Bitcoin unless you ask for it.
Kyle’s note: As I wrote recently for Forbes, the demand is in speculating on cryptoassets, not using cryptocurrencies for payments.
Adena Freidman discusses the viability of a bitcoin ETF.
Less than 100 people out of the 250,000 individuals who have already filed federal taxes this year through company Credit Karma reported a cryptocurrency transaction to U.S. tax authorities, the company said on Tuesday.
No bitcoin price and Wall Street stories from today.
Washington state has some of the cheapest power in the U.S. making it a magnet for bitcoin miners, who generate new units of cryptocurrencies—a process that requires vast amounts of electricity.
A Rockland County man tried to get a $30,000 refund for cryptocurrency from Coinbase. But when he had trouble, he called Lynda Baquero and the Better Get Baquero team.
Coincheck Inc. users withdrew 40.1 billion yen ($373 million) from the cryptocurrency exchange on Tuesday, the first day customers were allowed to pull out in the wake of the cyber-theft of about $500 million last month.
A group of cryptocurrency traders will file a lawsuit against Coincheck Inc on Thursday over last month’s theft of $530 million (£382 million) in digital money from the Tokyo-based exchange, a lawyer representing the claimants said.
Antoine Le Calvez on Twitter: "The UTXO set size has been decreasing for 25 straight days thanks to low fees. That's 300MB less to store for each full node. Source: https://t.co/6aM0yOGeFH… https://t.co/x5FEopWyMy"
Hackers have been able to exploit a vulnerability in the Telegram messaging app’s desktop client to earn units of cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash, according to Kaspersky Lab.
There doesn’t appear to be an end in sight for the cryptojacking scourge affecting all facets of the web right now.
A Raleigh man has pleaded guilty to making and selling Xanax pills on encrypted websites.
A pretty cool academic paper on the prevalence and social function/utility of freebies on darknet markets.
Regulators seem to recognize the need for restraint.
Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies will be front and center at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday.
It is not the European Central Bank’s job to regulate Bitcoin, its President Mario Draghi said on Tuesday, while warning the public about the risks associated with the volatile cryptocurrency.
By Joshua FruthNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - Digital currency technologies generated widespread public and investor interest in 2017, with new cryptocurrency products capable of streamlining and decentralizing global commerce. Unfortunately, these technologies also create new money laundering tools that allow countries like Iran, North Korea, and Russia to evade international sanctions. This is especially true of so-called “privacy coins,” which offer personal anonymity and covert transactions to their users.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday cryptocurrencies likely won’t threaten legal tenders like the yen any time soon as they are mostly used for speculative trading, rather than as payments and settlement means.