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One week ago, Earth Day was celebrated across the globe. Earth Day serves as a day to reflect on our contributions to our planet, good and bad, and learn how we can treat it better. It is important that the crypto community is aware of the environmental impacts of the space. Not all members of the community are aware of...

For the first time in history, a digital currency trading platform has surpassed a huge and renowned financial institution based on profits. This all happened in Q1 of 2018. Cryptocurrencies are gaining a lot of momentum again and more companies are starting to accept Bitcoin as a payment method. Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, recorded a profit of...

After seeing the market cap surge from 270 billion to 430 billion dollars the market saw a small correction. Adena Friedman, the CEO from NASDAQ spoke with CNBC today. She suggested that when regulations are in place and the market matures, she is open to NASDAQ becoming a cryptocurrency exchange. "I believe that digital currencies will continue to persist it's just a...

Bill Harris, former CEO of Intuit and co-founding CEO of PayPal has called Bitcoin a scam in an opinion piece published on Recode. “In my opinion, it’s a colossal pump and dump scheme, the likes of which the world has never seen.” The arguments Harris made were not original and fail to point out how Bitcoin is a scam. In his...

According to Bloomberg, the small Mediterranean island of Malta is a hotbed for cryptocurrency exchanges, boasting the largest trading volume in the world. This is partly due to Malta’s ambition to be one of the friendliest nations to cryptocurrency across the world. They want to provide a space where regulations are little, and exchanges can thrive. On top of this,...

Cannabis is a lucrative industry, so lucrative that it is set to hit $24.5 billion by 2021. In fact, nine states in the US have legalized marijuana for recreational use while twenty-two states have legalized marijuana for medical use. In this rapidly growing industry, one would think banks would be lining up to get in on the business. However, due to the fact...

It seems Japan’s 16 registered Cryptocurrency Exchanges have reached a formal agreement in the effort for self-regulation. A news report by the local news outlet, Asahi Shimbun on Tuesday 24th April, reported that the 16 exchanges registered with Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) have launched a body that will self-regulate. This body will be known as the ‘Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange...

Binance, the largest digital asset exchange by 24-hour volume, has recently added a feature where users can convert their crypto dust to Binance Coin (BNB). Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao hinted at the new feature being added in a tweet this morning. I hear the team has built a broom, who wants it? — CZ (@cz_binance) April 24, 2018   What is dust? “Dust” is...

On March 22nd Verge asked its community to donate an amount of $3 million in verge (XVG) with a promise to reveal a potential partnership. This request was bold of Verge, who claimed their mysterious potential partner “represents an enormous potential market with a global reach that will compete with multiple fiat currencies.” April 17th, 2018 that partnership was revealed to be Pornhub, a pornographic video sharing...

Tim Draper, founder of leading venture capital firms Draper Associates invested early in both Tesla, Hotmail, and Skype. Back in 2014, he bought 30,000 BTC during the U.S. Marshals Service Silk Road auction. Draper told CNBC back in December that he is still holding on to those coins. That is equivalent to 268 mln USD at today's price level. When asked during a...