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Bitcoin Losing Favor With Cybercrooks – Forbes

ForbesBitcoin Losing Favor With CybercrooksForbesBitcoin is losing favor with cybercrooks, a Congressional hearing on terrorism financing was told Thursday. Hackers are increasingly moving to Ethereum and other more moderately priced forms of cryptocur…


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Bitcoin Losing Favor With Cybercrooks
Forbes
Bitcoin is losing favor with cybercrooks, a Congressional hearing on terrorism financing was told Thursday. Hackers are increasingly moving to Ethereum and other more moderately priced forms of cryptocurrency as Bitcoin has become too volatile for ...

Mining a Bitcoin Costs About as Much as Buying One These Days – Fortune


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Mining a Bitcoin Costs About as Much as Buying One These Days
Fortune
“Mining” Bitcoin is a notoriously expensive business—recent calculations by the lighting company Elite Fixtures suggest that it costs a fortune to mine one Bitcoin in some countries, with the cost being as much as $26,170 in South Korea. Now analysts
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Mining a Bitcoin Costs About as Much as Buying One These Days
Fortune
“Mining” Bitcoin is a notoriously expensive business—recent calculations by the lighting company Elite Fixtures suggest that it costs a fortune to mine one Bitcoin in some countries, with the cost being as much as $26,170 in South Korea. Now analysts ...
Bitcoin struggles for stability, facing 10% drop for the weekMarketWatch
Bitcoin Prices Skid Toward $8000TheStreet.com
Fundstrat's Tom Lee Reports Bitcoin Mining Now Less Profitable Due To Falling BTC PricesCointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
Cryptovest
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Orderbook: Tokenizing Securities with its One of a Kind Awareness Protocol

Ethereum blockchain platform Ambisafe, are known for their decentralized tken exchange, Orderbook. Have created a unique piece of regulatory protocol (RAP) token, which users whitelist to track of who is allowed to buy, sell and trade each asset. As the cryptocurrency community have spoken, users want a safer place to invest. With such elaborate scams …

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Ethereum blockchain platform Ambisafe, are known for their decentralized tken exchange, Orderbook. Have created a unique piece of regulatory protocol (RAP) token, which users whitelist to track of who is allowed to buy, sell and trade each asset. As the cryptocurrency community have spoken, users want a safer place to invest. With such elaborate scams out there. Orderbook aims to solve this issues.

Additionally Token Generation Events have drawn the attention of regulators around the world, with different countries releasing their own guidance on how they are managed within separate regions, worldwide. As a result we see that a standardized regulatory procedures are far from being universal.

Stringent rules must be followed, the usual KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti Money Laundering), Project founders must be mindful, when it comes to these regulations as they place the trust back into the community.

Utilizing Smart Contracts

Using the Orderbook native RAP token to ensure none of these issues come to light. Orderbook is built upon the Ethereum network, utilizing smart contracts to clarify every users permission who attempts to push forward a transaction.

If a user who does not meet the proper parameters of the compliance levels inbuilt within the protocol, in an attempted to buy a token, the relevant smart contract compares their permission level against an internal database, and instantly restricts their account from completing the purchase.

The Regulation Aware Protocol does a lot more than give access for a creato to produce a token that meets a the wide array of requirements. Orderbook also comes with a vast majority of improvements to the general experience. Users will not be required to re-submit their data every time they join a new token sale. This key information is kept up to date within the Orderbook database, they will be able to interact seamlessly with any sale that matches the Orderbook level of compliance.

Orderbook has created the RAP tokens to be a diverse and well established instrument for a new generation of financial innovation. The team believe in the migration of financial markets to this new technology in the near future. Taking a big leap in the right direction, Orderbook is taking the right steps in making Blockchain a safer and more secure community.

The Latest

Currently, Orderbook is the only exchange that supports the necessary registries of a verified blockchain user. Using smart contracts to store data, as the technology progresses, the benefits of maintaining verified user database will become increasingly valuable. This will lead to the incorporation of RAP tokens within the Orderbook platform.

Once the token sale has finished, and the tokens have been released to participants. RAP tokens will be available to be traded for other currencies such as Ether, Bitcoin, any Fiat or any other listed cryptocurrency. Some TGE may even accept tokens from secondary market contributions.

Orderbook is one functional and beautiful web UI that allows to do all in one, With fast, secure and scammer-free. For every tradere, entrepreneur or financial institution that operates internationally this is a dream come true software.

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Bitcoin Investors ‘Have No Clue’ Thinks Visa’s Chief Financial Officer – Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)


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Bitcoin Investors ‘Have No Clue’ Thinks Visa’s Chief Financial Officer
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
Visa’s chief financial officer told mainstream media he thinks Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are used by “every crook and dirty politician” March 16. In an interview, Vasant Prabhu directly linked the assets to crime, saying that other people talking
Finance chief of Visa attacks bitcoin ‘bubble’Financial Times

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Bitcoin Investors 'Have No Clue' Thinks Visa's Chief Financial Officer
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
Visa's chief financial officer told mainstream media he thinks Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are used by “every crook and dirty politician” March 16. In an interview, Vasant Prabhu directly linked the assets to crime, saying that other people talking ...
Finance chief of Visa attacks bitcoin 'bubble'Financial Times

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Puerto Rico Creates Blockchain Advisory Council Reportedly To ‘Filter’ Legitimate Projects

The newly created Puerto Rican Blockchain advisory council will promote Blockchain for businesses while allegedly “filtering” out inauthentic Blockchain projects. #NEWS

The newly created Puerto Rican Blockchain advisory council will promote Blockchain for businesses while allegedly “filtering” out inauthentic Blockchain projects. #NEWS

Bitcoin isn’t an investment until buyers sweat the fees – Los Angeles Times


Los Angeles Times

Bitcoin isn’t an investment until buyers sweat the fees
Los Angeles Times
Workers look over racks of bitcoin data miners during construction of a data center in Virginia Beach, Va. (Steve Helber / Associated Press). If you want to know where cryptocurrencies are in their development, keep an eye on fees. When a new


Los Angeles Times

Bitcoin isn't an investment until buyers sweat the fees
Los Angeles Times
Workers look over racks of bitcoin data miners during construction of a data center in Virginia Beach, Va. (Steve Helber / Associated Press). If you want to know where cryptocurrencies are in their development, keep an eye on fees. When a new ...

Investors Are Bailing On Bitcoin – U.S. News & World Report


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Investors Are Bailing On Bitcoin
U.S. News & World Report
More than $60 billion of value disappeared from the global cryptocurrency market after Facebook and Google banned cryptocurrency-related ads. (Getty Images). It has been a rough week for bitcoin investors after Alphabet’s Google (GOOG, GOOGL) joined

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U.S. News & World Report

Investors Are Bailing On Bitcoin
U.S. News & World Report
More than $60 billion of value disappeared from the global cryptocurrency market after Facebook and Google banned cryptocurrency-related ads. (Getty Images). It has been a rough week for bitcoin investors after Alphabet's Google (GOOG, GOOGL) joined ...

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Airdrop Attack? Monero Fork Condemned as Privacy Threat

Giving away free money isn’t as simple as it sounds in crypto. In fact, an upcoming plan to do just that is being labeled an attack by some.

Giving away free money isn’t as simple as it sounds in crypto. In fact, an upcoming plan to do just that is being labeled an attack by some.

Bitcoin under shadow of ‘death cross’ chart pattern – MarketWatch


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Bitcoin under shadow of ‘death cross’ chart pattern
MarketWatch
A bearish chart pattern known as a “death cross” is close to appearing in bitcoin’s chart. The development is generating buzz Friday, and it’s illustrated in the above graphic — which is our Need to Know column’s chart of the day. The “death cross


MarketWatch

Bitcoin under shadow of 'death cross' chart pattern
MarketWatch
A bearish chart pattern known as a “death cross” is close to appearing in bitcoin's chart. The development is generating buzz Friday, and it's illustrated in the above graphic — which is our Need to Know column's chart of the day. The “death cross ...

Bitcoin struggles for stability, facing 10% drop for the week – MarketWatch

MarketWatchBitcoin struggles for stability, facing 10% drop for the weekMarketWatchBitcoin prices dipped slightly on Friday but were holding above $8,100 in a week marked by a sharp drop on concerns for tighter regulation. From exactly a week ago, some…


MarketWatch

Bitcoin struggles for stability, facing 10% drop for the week
MarketWatch
Bitcoin prices dipped slightly on Friday but were holding above $8,100 in a week marked by a sharp drop on concerns for tighter regulation. From exactly a week ago, some $39 billion has been wiped off the market cap of cryptocurrencies, which stood at ...
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