On what grounds were the creators of India’s first Bitcoin “ATM” arrested this October? Earlier in October, the developers of India’s first Bitcoin (BTC) “ATM” were arrested in the city of Bangalore under criminal charges, in a case that has shaken the local startup community and cast a spotlight on the lack of clarity surrounding […]
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Jack Dorsey’s payment network Square continues expanding its Bitcoin popularity since it was introduced in February. U.S. financial services company Square revealed it generated $43 million in Bitcoin (BTC) revenue for Q3 2018 in its most recent shareholder letter Nov. 8. Presenting a digest of its total earnings and financial activities, Square, which introduced Bitcoin […]
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The blacklisting was accidental, the company says. On November 3, renowned Bitcoin advocate, Andreas Antonopoulos, took to Twitter to claim that URL shortening service, Bit.ly (Bitly), had blocked crypto-related links from his upcoming book. Cointelegraph has reached out to Bitly, and learned that the links “had been inadvertently blocked,” while the company has reportedly resolved […]
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Anthony Pompliano’s “Off the Chain” crypto podcast evidently soared to 4th place for podcasts tagged “investing” in the U.S. iTunes store, before being removed. The podcast hosted by Morgan Creek Digital partner and crypto analyst Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, “Off the Chain,” has apparently been removed from the U.S. iTunes store Nov. 5. The podcast reportedly […]
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Bitcoin Cash’s upcoming hard fork will form an initial focus for BitMEX’s new ForkMonitor, with the “focus” thereafter shifting to Bitcoin. The research arm of major Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency derivatives platform BitMEX announced it had launched a network monitoring tool for Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in a blog post Nov. 5. BitMEX described […]
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Crypto author and educator Andreas Antonopoulos has publicly asked for an explanation over Bit.ly’s apparent block of crypto-related links. Social media commentators are criticizing URL shortening service Bit.ly (Bitly) after a Twitter user warned Andreas Antonopoulos Nov. 3 that the service had blocked crypto-related links from his book. Antonopoulos, author of several well-known guides to […]
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This week in crypto, T.I. is sued for allegedly pumping and dumping a token, and Charlie Shrem is sued for alleged theft of 5,000 BTC. Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, […]
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Part two of Cointelegraph’s three-part series on the history of crypto regulations in China, as authorities redoubled their efforts to strike an elusively fatal blow to the industry. In the aftermath of September 2017’s historic ban on initial coin offerings (ICOs), and the banishment of domestic crypto trading platforms, a resourceful crypto community was […]
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U.S. rapper T.I., who launched the FLiK token with his business partner Ryan Felton, is now being sued for $5 million after the coin has broken to the wide. U.S. rapper T.I., also known as T.I.P., is being sued for $5 million by a group of people after his FLiK token has reportedly failed, according […]
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The Financial Markets Authority of New Zealand claims a local crypto platform is a scam because of its use of a certified company’s name and identity. The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) of New Zealand has added three new crypto-related websites to its list of online scams, an announcement by the FMA reveals Thursday, Nov. 1. […]
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