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Pennsylvania police, hunting for stolen laptops, say they stumbled on $40 million bitcoin scam – Washington Post


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Pennsylvania police, hunting for stolen laptops, say they stumbled on $40 million bitcoin scam
Washington Post
By his own admission, Price told investigators he had stolen millions of dollars in Bitcoins, the online currency powering illicit transactions online. The self-professed hacker claimed he’s pocketed nearly $40 million in online tender. If true it


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Pennsylvania police, hunting for stolen laptops, say they stumbled on $40 million bitcoin scam
Washington Post
By his own admission, Price told investigators he had stolen millions of dollars in Bitcoins, the online currency powering illicit transactions online. The self-professed hacker claimed he's pocketed nearly $40 million in online tender. If true it ...

Austria, Canada, and US See Growth in Number of Bitcoin ATMs

Austria, Canada, and US See Growth in Number of Bitcoin ATMsDespite uncertainty in the markets heading into June due to the potential future hard fork, the number of bitcoin ATMs in service worldwide has continued to grow at an exponential rate. During June, the total number of bitcoin ATMs installed globally rose by over 7 per cent, with the highest growth being seen in the […]

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Austria, Canada, and US See Growth in Number of Bitcoin ATMs

Despite uncertainty in the markets heading into June due to the potential future hard fork, the number of bitcoin ATMs in service worldwide has continued to grow at an exponential rate. During June, the total number of bitcoin ATMs installed globally rose by over 7 per cent, with the highest growth being seen in the US, Canadian, and Austrian markets.

Also Read: Global Bitcoin ATM Proliferation Nearly Doubled During May

The Number of Registered Operational Bitcoin ATMs Rose by 91 During June

Austria, Canada, and US See Growth in Number of Bitcoin ATMs

June saw a continuation of the recent exponential proliferation of bitcoin ATMs worldwide. According to Coinatmradar, June saw the total number of bitcoin of active ATMs rise by 7.4 per cent (91 additional units), with the highest growth recorded in the United States, Canada, and Austria.

55 new bitcoin ATMs are reported to have been installed in the United States last month, comprising the largest national growth during June. Major contributors to the US growth include the world’s largest bitcoin ATM operator, Coinsource – who opened 9 new terminals targeting major US cities, Florida based operator, Bitstop, who adding 8 new locations, and Rockitcoin – who installed 5 new locations also.

Canada saw a 9.2 percent rise in the total number of reported cryptocurrency ATMs, with 15 new terminals being installed during June. Instacoin comprised 60 percent of the growth, opening 9 new bitcoin ATMs predominantly concentrated in the Toronto area.

The Data Would Suggest That Bitcoin ATM Operators Have Not Been Perturbed by the Possibility of a Hard Fork

Austria, Canada, and US See Growth in Number of Bitcoin ATMs

Significant growth was also seen in the total number of Austrian bitcoin ATMs in operation, with 12 new locations being installed, a rise of 46 percent. Austrian operator, Cointed, was nearly entirely responsible for the growth, opening 11 new terminals during June.

New bitcoin ATMs were installed in several emerging cryptocurrency markets. Norway saw the opening of its first reported cryptocurrency ATM, with the number of active terminals in Taiwan rising from 1 to 3, and the Dominican Republic’s ATMs rising from 3 to 5.

According to Coinatmradar, 29 bitcoin ATM terminals were shut down last month. The closures include the removal of the sole reported cryptocurrency-ATMs in both Jamaica and South Africa.

The data would suggest that bitcoin ATM operators have not been perturbed by the possibility of an impending hard fork, with the number of terminals worldwide continuing to show exponential growth across June.

Do you think that the number of new bitcoin ATMs being installed worldwide will begin to slow or continue to propel growth in cryptocurrency ATMs? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!


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Bitcoin Split Is Nothing to Fear – Bloomberg

BloombergBitcoin Split Is Nothing to FearBloombergOver the last week, the price of Bitcoin crashed from around $2,400 to $1,800 on fears of a so-called hard fork, which is to say the digital currency would effectively split in two due to software upgra…


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Bitcoin Split Is Nothing to Fear
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Over the last week, the price of Bitcoin crashed from around $2,400 to $1,800 on fears of a so-called hard fork, which is to say the digital currency would effectively split in two due to software upgrades at the end of the month that would create ...

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All roads lead to Segwit

There are currently three proposals for activating Segwit on Bitcoin — Segwit2x, BIP 91 “Segsignal,” and BIP 148 “UASF.” The first two are intended only for use by miners and the third is primarily being run by users. We’ll take a look at each one in turn and show they all use a very similar approach to achieving their shared goal. We’ll also look at the differences between them and see what effects they can have on one another.

There are currently three proposals for activating Segwit on Bitcoin — Segwit2x, BIP 91 “Segsignal,” and BIP 148 “UASF.” The first two are intended only for use by miners and the third is primarily being run by users. We’ll take a look at each one in turn and show they all use a very similar approach to achieving their shared goal. We’ll also look at the differences between them and see what effects they can have on one another.

Ethereum Price Technical Analysis – ETH/USD Eyeing Upside Break

Key Highlights ETH price remained confined in a tiny range above the $220 support against the US Dollar. There is a short-term contracting triangle pattern with resistance near $236 forming on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via SimpleFX). On the downside, the triangle support is near $220 and the 100 hourly simple moving … Continue reading Ethereum Price Technical Analysis – ETH/USD Eyeing Upside Break

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Key Highlights ETH price remained confined in a tiny range above the $220 support against the US Dollar. There is a short-term contracting triangle pattern with resistance near $236 forming on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via SimpleFX). On the downside, the triangle support is near $220 and the 100 hourly simple moving … Continue reading Ethereum Price Technical Analysis – ETH/USD Eyeing Upside Break

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Ethereum Classic Price Technical Analysis – ETC/USD Remains Supported

Key Highlights Ethereum classic price remained above the $15.50 support against the US Dollar and eyeing for more gains. The last week’s highlighted ascending channel pattern with resistance near $18.00 on the hourly chart of ETC/USD (Data feed via Kraken) is still intact. The price is currently above the $16.00 level and the 100 hourly … Continue reading Ethereum Classic Price Technical Analysis – ETC/USD Remains Supported

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Key Highlights Ethereum classic price remained above the $15.50 support against the US Dollar and eyeing for more gains. The last week’s highlighted ascending channel pattern with resistance near $18.00 on the hourly chart of ETC/USD (Data feed via Kraken) is still intact. The price is currently above the $16.00 level and the 100 hourly … Continue reading Ethereum Classic Price Technical Analysis – ETC/USD Remains Supported

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Creditbit Price Technical Analysis – CRB/BTC Short-term Bearish

Key Highlights Creditbit price continued to face sellers and remained below the 0.00020BTC resistance against Bitcoin. There is a major descending channel pattern with resistance at 0.00017BTC forming on the 7-day chart of CRB/BTC (data feed from Coinmarketcap). On the downside, the price is just holding the 0.00016BTC support. Creditbit price was unable to recover … Continue reading Creditbit Price Technical Analysis – CRB/BTC Short-term Bearish

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Key Highlights Creditbit price continued to face sellers and remained below the 0.00020BTC resistance against Bitcoin. There is a major descending channel pattern with resistance at 0.00017BTC forming on the 7-day chart of CRB/BTC (data feed from Coinmarketcap). On the downside, the price is just holding the 0.00016BTC support. Creditbit price was unable to recover … Continue reading Creditbit Price Technical Analysis – CRB/BTC Short-term Bearish

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Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 07/24/2017 – Priming for a Breakout?

Bitcoin price is treading sideways for the time being as buyers are gathering more energy to push for a continuation of the rally.

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Bitcoin price is treading sideways for the time being as buyers are gathering more energy to push for a continuation of the rally.

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TokenStars Announces New ICO to Tokenize Celebrities’ Careers

The celebrity talent management industry is larger than many Fortune 500 companies and even many countries’ GDP (including EU countries), boasting over $40 billion in contracts under management. TokenStars’ new ICO aims to disrupt this market, which is currently dominated by a few key players, and share the newly-created value with community members. This is … Continue reading TokenStars Announces New ICO to Tokenize Celebrities’ Careers

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The celebrity talent management industry is larger than many Fortune 500 companies and even many countries’ GDP (including EU countries), boasting over $40 billion in contracts under management. TokenStars’ new ICO aims to disrupt this market, which is currently dominated by a few key players, and share the newly-created value with community members. This is … Continue reading TokenStars Announces New ICO to Tokenize Celebrities’ Careers

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MobileGo Price Technical Analysis for 07/24/2017 – Selloff Resumes!

MobileGo resumed its slide to its counterparts bitcoin, ethereum, and the dollar as new developments emerged and risks are lined up.

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MobileGo resumed its slide to its counterparts bitcoin, ethereum, and the dollar as new developments emerged and risks are lined up.

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BMCHAIN.io – Digital Reputation and the Account on Blockchain

bmchainOn June, 22 as a part of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference BMCHAIN platform has been announced. The project being developed by “Biznes Molodost” and “Analytics Insight” companies represents the decentralized platform for the biggest network of entrepreneurs in Russia and CIS. BMChain will unite the advantages of blockchain technologies for the development of social media resource allowing to monetize each participant’s activity. Starting from 2016 “Biznes Molodost” and “Analytics Insight” companies have been collaborated in the research of blockchain technology for efficiently solving the tasks inside BM community being at the moment the biggest network of entrepreneurs in Russia and

bmchain

On June, 22 as a part of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference BMCHAIN platform has been announced. The project being developed by “Biznes Molodost” and “Analytics Insight” companies represents the decentralized platform for the biggest network of entrepreneurs in Russia and CIS. BMChain will unite the advantages of blockchain technologies for the development of social media resource allowing to monetize each participant’s activity.

Starting from 2016 “Biznes Molodost” and “Analytics Insight” companies have been collaborated in the research of blockchain technology for efficiently solving the tasks inside BM community being at the moment the biggest network of entrepreneurs in Russia and CIS, including over 300 000 active participants from 13 countries. Having analyzed the opportunities for usage of existing blockchain solutions in IT infrastructures, the devteam came to conclusion that their application significantly reduced the cost of integration, maintenance and scaling of IT infrastructure for big social economic systems.

BMCHAIN ​​platform will be based on high-performance industrial blockchain which possibilities will significantly reduce the costs of financial and communication transactions within IT system and effectively solve the business tasks. According to the calculations, the average transaction cost for such major payment systems like VISA or MasterCard varies between 0.5 and 7 cents. The integration of blockchain with comparable capacity (24000 / sec) into the payment processing systems allows reducing the cost of one transaction by 2,500 times to an extremely low level of 0.0002 cents without compromising the reliability of operations.

Taking into account that breakthrough solution requires not only application of mathematics and cryptography, but also significant volume of researches in the area of social interaction, it’s of great importance to have the opportunities for modelling and practical verification of various schemes of economic stimulus which allow the participants of the platform to efficiently use their resources in order to reach stable positive results.

“Biznes Molodost” company succeeds in carrying out of social researches having one of the largest and most active entrepreneurs audiences in the world. The website of the project is visited by over 1 800 000 people per month with the total number of participants approaching to 2 millions. In February 2017 the world business-marathon called “Struggle”, held by Biznes Molodost, gathered 120 000 people and was nominated by The Guinness Book of Records.

The line of educational business products is in great demand not only among successful businessmen, but also among those who just start thinking about their enterprise launch. Business courses and tutorials have been already visited by over 240 000 people which continue to actively participate in other projects of the company.

Having expertise in teaching big groups of people to apply digital marketing tools and understanding blockchain advantages as well as its practical utility for people and businesses, “Biznes Molodost” is seeking to make blockchain integration and application extremely simple and understandable for ordinary users with no need to think through the technical peculiarities of the revolutionary technology.

The essential quality of blockchain technology planned to be applied in the own platform is inalterability of the information stored, which allows instantly and accurately evaluating the risks during the process of making transactions by the participants of the community, as well as realizing the efficient system of automated arbitration with minimal time and financial costs. According to the project founders properly organized architecture makes processing thousands of transactions per second absolutely free for the users with the guarantee of trustworthiness and verification. The operation doesn’t require manual control and is fully automated, which making such IT systems step to the new level of functionality and trustworthiness closed before.  

After the successful pilot project as a part of which one of the business training courses has been launched on BMCHAIN platform, the founders decided to start expanding the use of the system, which instruments would allow monetization and encouragement of each participant’s activity useful for the ecosystem. The service is planned to be integrated into the business processes of thousands of entrepreneurs in Russia with subsequent expansion into foreign markets.

The implemented functionality will allow thousands of people and entrepreneurs to share their experience, resources, capabilities and knowledge by writing posts, voting and commenting, thus getting a real value expressed in digital tokens of the system, easily convertible into other types of digital property and fiat currencies. Rewards can be received not only by the participants who demonstrate useful activity, but also by those who estimate their contribution.

At the same time the team of founders sets the goal to make the platform extremely simple and understandable for usage even for those who are not familiar with blockchain technology. «Users will be involved in the process in such a way that they begin to intuitively take advantage of blockchain and cryptocurrency» – the developers believe.

The effectiveness of the interaction with the system and the value of the user’s contribution in its development will be determined by the digital reputation. This coefficient is planned to be used for the calculation of the pool volume necessary for rewarding the users for their activity valuable both for the system and other participants. For the calculation of the system value the total reputation of all the community members will be taken into account. The other parameters will be calculated with the help of the own patented econometric software called “Midas” to ensure that the main quality parameter reaches its maximum value with minimal resource costs. Secure storage of significant data and files volumes will be provided by the decentralized IPFS file system.

The key peculiarities and uniqueness of the solution developed by us are features developed by the founders of the blockchain BMCHAIN ​​platform will allow almost monetary evaluation of every, even minimal, user’s action that increases the value of the entire system. Simply put, for each action, a post or a comment, users will receive a reward in the form of digital tokens (keys) that can be easily exchanged for other types of digital assets or ordinary currencies, and can be also used for purchasing products and services. At the same time, not only participants performing actions but also those who vote for them, will be able to receive the reward.

The main peculiarities and uniqueness of the solution we are developing, – says Roman Moiseyev, BMCHAIN platform co-founder, “are the focus on the real tasks and business processes existing now. The implementation of a number of existing projects based on the block system will make their operation cheaper, easier and more reliable. Entrepreneurs do not need to know all the parameters of the system, they need it to be simple, reliable and for less money – that’s the solution we create”.

It is expected that the platform development will allow effectively accumulate and exchange various types of digital assets, provided with goods, services, knowledge and other verifiable resources of participants in the system.

ICO of BMCHAIN.io platform is scheduled for the 3d quarter of 2017, with the reservation of BMT tokens starting from July 15th. Totally 10,000,000 tokens will be issued.

In order to popularize the blockchain technologies in the business environment, “Bizness Molodost” company will hold “Real-blockchain” conference, the first of which will be held in early August. As a part of the conference leading experts and specialists will share their experience with thousands of entrepreneurs, tell about the advantages of blockchain solutions and their effective implementation in the business process.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of any The Merkle employees. This is not investment or trading advice, always do your own independent research.

Singapore Startup Takes Bitcoin Into Real World With Visa – Bloomberg


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Singapore Startup Takes Bitcoin Into Real World With Visa
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Start your day with what’s moving markets in Asia. Sign up here to receive our newsletter. A recurring challenge for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is how to make them work in the real world. A Singapore-based startup says the answer is its Visa card.

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Singapore Startup Takes Bitcoin Into Real World With Visa
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Start your day with what's moving markets in Asia. Sign up here to receive our newsletter. A recurring challenge for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is how to make them work in the real world. A Singapore-based startup says the answer is its Visa card.

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London Stock Exchange Group Tests Blockchain for Private Shares

The London Stock Exchange Group has moved a step further in adopting blockchain technology. The group has joined forces with the tech giant, IBM to build the new platform. According to reports, the new platform will be used to digitally issue private shares in small and medium enterprises in Italy. The blockchain solution will be … Continue reading London Stock Exchange Group Tests Blockchain for Private Shares

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The London Stock Exchange Group has moved a step further in adopting blockchain technology. The group has joined forces with the tech giant, IBM to build the new platform. According to reports, the new platform will be used to digitally issue private shares in small and medium enterprises in Italy. The blockchain solution will be … Continue reading London Stock Exchange Group Tests Blockchain for Private Shares

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