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Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global digital currency markets, and the technology's use case as an asset class. While the bitcoin network’s capacity challenges have been generating substantial visibility, the digital currency enjoyed robust trading volume this week, with market participants transacting more than 28m BTC in the seven days through […]

As the scaling debate escalates, bitcoin's competing developer teams are laying out long-term roadmaps for the network.

A New Jersey pastor and former credit union executive has been indicted for allegedly taking bribes tied to the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Coin.mx.

What makes a currency “real?” Is it any given government or just the imagination of the people who chose which currency they want to use? In Japan, the Cabinet has recognized that virtual currencies, including but not limited to Bitcoin are in fact similar to real money and the implications for Japan and the countries […]

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Coin Center research director Peter Van Valkenburgh discusses bitcoin's involvement in a new string of ransomware attacks.

Bitcoin price corrected over-night. At the time of writing decline has resumed and Gavin Andresen better call a truce in his personal stand-off with the Core developers or risk splitting off a Classic(TM) altcoin. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and […]

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Bitcoin price corrected over-night. At the time of writing decline has resumed and Gavin Andresen better call a truce in his personal stand-off with the Core developers or risk splitting off a Classic(TM) altcoin. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and […]

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Bitcoin and blockchain technology were heralded as innovations by members of the US government at a conference this week.

Bitcoin Core Contributor Peter Todd was recently interviewed on episode 34 of The Bitcoin Game, and the longtime Bitcoin developer and...

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Electrum, Bitcoin's popular lightweight wallet, launched a new version of its software this week. Apart from a desktop client, Electrum 2.6...

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ZeroNet, a serverless P2P network that uses Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent technology, may be the first real, usable prototype of a...

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Recently noted Bitcoin developer and commentator, Peter Todd, interviewed Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of ethereum. Their conversation ran the gamut, but some of the most interesting ground they covered were the public and private applications of blockchain tech. As Todd put it, 2016 is shaping up to be the “year of enterprise” for blockchain technology. […]

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Bitcoin Press Releases: BTCPOP, the world’s only Bitcoin bank, is back on our fintech radars! This time with some new features and some added improvements. BTCPOP has responded to its users’ feedback and has refined some of the features that were already accessible on the website; bug errors have been fixed and user guides for every […]

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Bitcoin Press Releases: New York-based PH Miners Inc. ( www.phminers.com ) has announced the launch of two powerful miners for leading cryptocurrencies bitcoin and litecoin, allowing users to easily process transactions and track the release of new digital coins. Bitcoin has risen dramatically in value in recent times after being worth relatively little when it first […]

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Bitcoin Press Releases: New York-based PH Miners Inc. ( www.phminers.com ) has announced the launch of two powerful miners for leading cryptocurrencies bitcoin and litecoin, allowing users to easily process transactions and track the release of new digital coins. Bitcoin has risen dramatically in value in recent times after being worth relatively little when it first […]

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Keza, a New York-based startup, launched an iOS app that allows users to invest bitcoin in stocks and fixed incomes, according to Nasdaq. There are moderate, conservative and aggressive portfolios. The company has raised $357,000 and is backed by Digital Currency Group and Jason Calacanis of HOF Capital. The riskier the portfolio, the greater the […]

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Japan's national Diet proposed changes to current legislation today to include a definition for virtual currencies under domestic law.

Over the weekend a conference took place billed as “Satoshi Roundtable.” For one, Satoshi was not there. And for two, even though the conference was comprised largely of self-identifying libertarians or “anarcho-capitalists,” the symbolism of the event – a Roundtable – couldn’t be any more loaded. The symbolism of a Round Table has evolved throughout […]

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Prasos, the leading Bitcoin brokerage in Finland, has announced the acquisition of the Bitcoin exchange service Coinmotion. Coinmotion of Helsinki “aims to provide a seamless platform for using Bitcoin to both consumers and vendors.” With the strategic acquisition, Prasos is positioning its service scope to be able to extend its offerings to ” regular people who want […]

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Good morning! Here's what you need to know on Friday.

1. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country's nuclear weapons made ready for use at a moment's notice, the country's official state news agency reported Friday. Kim also said his country will ready its military so it is prepared to carry out pre-emptive attacks.

2. The pound could slump into a "currency crisis" if Britain votes to leave the European Union on June 23. In a note, foreign exchange firm Caxton FX, notes that the effects of Brexit would set off a major downward spiral in sterling.

3. Russia and Syria are indiscriminately bombing Syrian civilians to drive the refugee crisis and "weaponise migration," a Nato commander has claimed. He said the air attacks formed part of a deliberate strategy to "get them [refugees] on the road" and "make them a problem for someone else."

4. China's defence budget this year is likely to rise at its slowest pace since 2010, in line with the decelerating economy, by a much lower figure than had been expected, although it probably does not represent the true spending number. 

5. Donald Trump rejected criticism from 2012 nominee Mitt Romney at a debate on Thursday as establishment Republicans tried to muster some unity behind a last-ditch anti-Trump effort. The Fox News-sponsored debate began as a free-for-all fracas with tension mounting over Trump's rise.

6. Bitcoin payments are failing around the world as the digital currency platform that supports it struggles to cope with a surge in demand, according to Re/code. Bitcoin was created in 2008 and aims to provide a radical alternative to traditional finance.

7. BHP Billiton's credit rating has been cut by Moody's as the industry battles weak commodity prices and softer demand, just a month after Standard & Poor's also downgraded the global mining giant.

8. Brazilian GDP fell 3.8 percent in 2015, the government said Thursday, in the steepest drop-off of economic growth for the Latin American giant in 25 years. President Dilma Rousseff's government is struggling to combat both worsening recession and 10.67 percent inflation. 

9. Europe will set Greece a deadline of May 12 to register all migrants in an orderly fashion or face more border controls, Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told a German newspaper on Friday. Greece has been the main gateway for nearly a million migrants over the past year.

10. Here's the inside story of how Jeremy Corbyn took control of the Labour party despite being nominated almost by accident.

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