From a cryptocurrency company to an IPO – that is one very steep and difficult road for a company to walk through. However, the cryptocurrency mining company Argo Blockchain is now going to be listed on the London Stock Exchange, essentially becoming the first such company to be listed on LSE. Argo Blockchain just completed…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Bitcoin Loophole / Bitcoin News Trader. Bitcoin Loophole / Bitcoin News Trader is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK…
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Coinsource, the Bitcoin ATM operator, has just announced that it has added 17 new machines in Florida, surpassing the 200 machine milestone. With five machines already in Jacksonville, the network is expanding within the state to meet increasing consumer demand. Coinsource is the first ATM operator to reach over 200 machines and recently announced that…
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It may be a little surprising to know that Microsoft and Starbucks have teamed up on a new beverage-cryptocurrency product. Shortly after McDonalds announced that they will be offering the MacCoin to honour the 50th anniversary of the Big Mac, Starbucks is the other large consumer company that has recently joined the cryptocurrency payment solutions.…
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Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt the cryptocurrency world, and vice versa. A company name Zwoop, which is in fact an AI-powered e-commerce platform, is specially created to disrupt the online shopping experience for customers around the world through cryptocurrency payments. The idea behind Zwoop is a very massive and ambitious one, yet practical. Zwoop…
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Neufund, the blockchain-based equity fundraising platform, has just announced that it is partnering with European crypto exchange, BitBay, allowing investors to buy and sell equity tokens with fiat currencies. The security token market will reach a value of $10 trillion by 2020, according to a study conducted by Polymath. Tokenized securities will bring much needed…
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Usually it's criminal groups and organizations that perform serious cryptocurrency thefts. This time, however, is a Boston high-school valedictorian who committed a $2-million crypto crime. The name of the student is Joel Ortiz, who was named the valedictorian at his Massachusetts high-school, and who was also known for his proficiency in programming and high-tech skills,…
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SharesPost, a provider of private company liquidity solutions and private capital markets research, has announced a new partnership with Lightyear.io, a software company that develops applications and infrastructure for the Stellar ecosystem. The partnership entails adding the Stellar Decentralized Exchange, a decentralized digital asset exchange, to SharesPost’s Global Liquidity and Settlement System (GLASS) as an…
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bitJob, the peer-to-peer employment marketplace for students, introduces social mining by integrating blockchain technology with word of mouth referrals to create a seamless online job fair for networking and referrals. BitJob has created a decentralized tool and digital networking system where freelancers and students can earn rewards/money/coins for tagging and recommending friends and classmates for…
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The central question nowadays, except for the regulation issues, is whether cryptocurrencies are the answer to the economic problems so many countries are facing. In the summer of 2017, for example, when Bitcoin was trading for around $9,000 on major international exchanges, certain developing countries saw its price rising to almost $14,000. Now, the latest…
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