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It has been confirmed by the New York Times that Goldman Sachs will indeed enter the Bitcoin trading space. For the time being, they will not be physically trading Bitcoin, but the trading of Bitcoin contracts was approved by Goldman’s board of directors. It is confirmed that they are looking towards buying and selling Bitcoin if they can get...

While the rumors about ZRX being listed on Coinbase have been around for quite a while, there seem to be some new developments. The rumors are not new, this has been going on since December 2017 and since then it comes back from time to time. The CEO of Coinbase retweeted posts about 0X in the past and they have recently added ERC-20...

In a single Tweet, the co-founder of ETH, Vitalik Buterin, announced that Sharding is coming. He links to his reddit post, which gives a partial proof of concept of a fork choice rule-based mechanism on how sharding can be implemented on top of the ETH main chain, and his github, which shows the written code. He points out that...

Charity organization, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) a humanitarian and developmental assistance provider to children and mothers in developing countries is asking not for money, but for people to donate part of their computer's power to let them mine cryptocurrency. UNICEF Australia calls this, The Hopepage. For these donations, you would be able to set what percentage of computer processing...

CoinMarketCap (CMC), the popular data source for total market cap and price changes in crypto assets celebrated its 5 year anniversary today. Since its launch in 2013, the website has established itself as the go-to place for all things crypto price related. To celebrate its 5th anniversary, the company has unveiled a new logo, an updated website, and a...

Bitfinex, one of the largest cryptocurrency platforms in the world has announced the launch of Verge (XVG) and Stellar Lumens (XLM) on its trading platform. Trading went live Tuesday, May 1st at 11:30 AM UTC. Both XVG and XLM can be traded against BTC, ETH, USD, EUR, GBP, and JPY on the Bitfinex platform. With the exciting news and partnerships that the...

On April 30, 2018, Forbes reported Japan’s Financial Services Authority (FSA), is putting pressure on cryptocurrency exchanges from trading privacy altcoins such as Dash (DASH), Zcash (ZEC), and Monero (XMR). Claims by the FSA state privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are difficult and sometimes impossible to track which is increasing their popularity with criminals and hackers. Unlike coins such as Bitcoin, privacy-focused cryptocurrencies...

Christopher Giancarlo, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner, was interviewed by Michelle Lee on CNBC, on April 30th, about the current state of regulation for Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies. In his 6 minute interview he talks about how current regulations do not properly apply to Bitcoin because Bitcoin cannot be classified as strictly a virtual asset, currency, or a...

Hong Kong's Financial Services and Treasury (FSTB) has released a report on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment. This report comes amongst a pressing city-wide debate on whether the authorities are adequately combatting financial crime. Many people feel as though they are not as the number of suspicious transactions has quadrupled in the past 6 years, all the...

Today was the day that the long-anticipated ICO platform by ICON was released; ICONest. ICONest is a service designed to simplify creating and developing dApp projects. Next to the fact ICON already announced a new wallet and a token swap,  the team has also announced a partnership with the Loop project and six ICO'S that will be released on ICOnest. Blue Whale,...