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Venezuela Notes Major Increase in Bitcoin and Ethereum Mining

Mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in Venezuela is still pretty difficult. More specifically, the local government isn't too keen on this concept by any...

How Bitcoin Fees Can Drastically Decrease With SegWit and Lightning

Earlier this week, bitcoin developer Jack Mallers introduced Zap, a Lightning-enabled wallet which enables users to send bitcoin micropayments, or extremely small bitcoin transactions...

SegWit2x and Other Hard Forks are not an Official Part of the Bitcoin Core Roadmap

Now that the Bitcoin network successfully locked in the activation of SegWit, it is time to look forward. There are many features still in...

Goldman Sachs Analyst Thinks Bitcoin is at a key Turning Point

Many cryptocurrency users are wondering where the fresh money is coming from. The overall market cap has grown quite a bit over the past...

Remittance Provider BitSpark Drops Bitcoin in favor of BitShares

Changes in the cryptocurrency world come in different forms and shapes. The remittance sector is benefiting from Bitcoin technology, to say the least. However,...

Russia aims to Build a 20-megawatt Bitcoin Mining Facility

The concept of mining Bitcoin has always attracted big money. With that big money come some interesting names, such as John McAfee. It now...

Fidelity Partners With Coinbase to Integrate Bitcoin Price Tracker

Institutionalized investors are paying more attention to Bitcoin than ever before. That is not entirely surprising by any means. Bitcoin is one of the...

South Korea’s New Cryptocurrency Regulation Bans MLMs Completely

Regulation related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is always a touchy subject. South Korea recently introduced a new "regulation act' related to Bitcoin. This was...

Austrian News Outlet Der Standard Sees a Bright Future for Bitcoin

Whenever a mainstream media outlet pays attention to Bitcoin, it is often in a negative manner. The article in Austria's Der Standard isn't negative,...

Japanese Retailer Marui Will Experiment With Bitcoin Payments

Getting more retailers and merchants to accept Bitcoin is always a good plan. Over in Japan, it seems to be a matter of time...

Kuna Bitcoin Agency Will Bring an Additional 150 Bitcoin ATMs to Ukraine

The Ukraine may prove to be quite an important area for Bitcoin over the coming years. Although the region isn't often mentioned in the...

Bitcoin Exchange Quoine Sued Over Rolling Back ETH/BTC Trades

Bitcoin exchanges are going through a rough time right now. More specifically, the BTC-E exchange is seemingly seized by US law enforcement agencies. It...