Hello newbie, It seems so good right ? The idea of it is very useful. Specially this generation because there's a lot of scammers everywhere specially when it comes about money.

I dont think it is better to stored bitcoin in this time because it has a lowest value from now.But if I had a chance to buy some bitcoin I will take that opportunity because I know and i believe it's lower price now is just a temporary.

I dont think that man will help itself to grow or to solve his problem or to easily earn money in bitcoin. This is a good parttime job or should I say this is not a stable job. When you invest all your money on it. It has a possiblity to lost all your investment or money.

I think you do first is make all your password a secret  (No one knows except you). Secondly  is dont trust any one to tell them how many token and what is the value of it to , Just keep it secret and most especially use a hard wallet that is surely secured.

I dont understand what are you gonna explain to this topic, I guess you'll to trying to say is tha " No information made in public" well , that's true, Because if you do your information in public then your whole life would be known by whole world.We must keep our identity.

It was already fresh news and I think it was true but that was sad because KOREA is one of the biggest community in crypto and I think it will lead again dumping the tokens because of this bad news.

Ayos sana pati LAZADA pwede rin sa coins.ph para sa mode of payment kasi kadalasan LAZADA ako umoorder ng mga item or accessories.

Yap, positibong mag kakaroon ulit ng next na bull run nitong taon sapagkat ito ung mga panahong maganda ang mga projects this year at alam nating this end of the year sila nag papalist sa exchange dahil magkakaroon ng yon nga mga bull run na mag pupump ng token nila.

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Korean Crypto Giant Bithumb Eyes Japan and Thailand for Expansion

South Korean exchange Bithumb has announced that it will open new offices in Japan and Thailand. According to local news outlet ZDNet, Bithumb is awaiting the approval of Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) and Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Bithumb explained that it chose Thailand because the e-commerce and fin-tech industry is extremely active in the country. Moreover, Thai regulators understand and welcome cryptocurrencies in order to promote “smart city business” – not only did the SEC publicly accept ICOs as the perfect way to support startups but also planned to regulate five of them last month. As a result of the crypto-friendly environment, Bithumb might start its operations in Thailand as early as October 2018.

Bithumb is banking that it can convince regulators in Japan to approve its cryptocurrency exchange application, even though its South Korea-based platform was hacked earlier this year
Japan, on the other hand, has been tightening its rules for crypto-related companies. In January 2018, Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck was hacked; the criminals were able to steal the money since funds were kept in a hot wallet. After a few months, Japanese cryptocurrency Monacoin also suffered a network attack by a miner. Thus, the FSA started cracking down on crypto exchanges that didn’t follow the rules set by the organization by issuing business improvement orders. Last month, an exchange was officially rejected by the FSA for not establishing a proper system.

However, Bithumb is optimistic that its application will be accepted and the new office will commence its service in Japan in February 2019. In fact, the exchange plans to expand its business further and is looking for new global partners.


Source: https://www.ccn.com/korean-crypto-giant-bithumb-eyes-japan-and-thailand-for-expansion/

Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain Opens 20,000 Sq. Foot Office in Silicon Valley


Bitmain, the cryptocurrency industry’s most valuable company, has just opened an office in Silicon Valley ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO) later this year.

The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that the China-based cryptocurrency mining hardware manufacturer has just moved into 20,000 square feet of office space in downtown San Jose, CA, filling the last vacancy in the city’s Riverpark Towers office building, which has become a hub for tech startups including Okta, Cohesity, and WeWork.

Bitmain’s expansion into Silicon Valley is not entirely surprising. The firm is now valued at $12 billion following the conclusion of last month’s $400 million funding round, making it not only the most valuable cryptocurrency company but also one of the world’s most valuable privately-held tech startups. According to reports, the firm believes it could achieve a valuation as high as $40 billion after going public in the near future.

And though decentralization may be the mantra of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, companies in the industry have still tended to center themselves around the same geographic locations as the wider tech industry.

In this case, though, the expansion may be designed to help Bitmain better manage its burgeoning digital empire. The company has been making a targeted expansion into North America, in part due to the industry’s uncertain future in China, opening mining centers in both Washington state and Quebec.

Bitmain has also begun making major investments in other tech startups, and a move into Silicon Valley would naturally benefit the firm’s VC arm.

As CCN reported earlier this year, Bitmain led a $110 million funding round for cryptocurrency startup Circle, which operates a cryptocurrency trading desk, exchange, and investing app. The company is also planning to create a USD-pegged “stablecoin.”

More recently, Bitmain invested $50 million in the Opera web browser, obtaining a controlling stake in the company. Though niche in Western markets, Opera is widely used in Africa, and the Norwegian firm had also acquired several mobile money platforms based on the continent. Shortly after Bitmain invested in Opera, the company announced that it would integrate a native Ethereum wallet into its web browser.

Just this week, Bitmain, along with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, headlined a funding round for blockchain startup Block.one, the creator of the EOS cryptocurrency. The size of the funding round was not announced publicly.


Source: https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-mining-giant-bitmain-opens-20000-sq-foot-office-in-silicon-valley/

Tech Giant Oracle Launches Blockchain Cloud Service Platform


Tech giant Oracle has formally launched its much-anticipated blockchain service, and many global organizations have already jumped aboard the platform.

News of Oracle’s new blockchain platform first came to light in May, as reported by CCN. At the time, Thomas Kurin, Oracle’s president of product development, mentioned how this upcoming platform would be integrated with other existing services.


After Years in The Making, The Platform is Ready for The World


Read more here : https://www.ccn.com/tech-giant-oracle-launches-blockchain-cloud-service-platform/

Hong Kong Monetary Authority to Launch Multi-Bank Blockchain Trade Finance Platform


Hong Kong’s de facto central bank will launch its own blockchain trade finance solution with 21 banks in August, Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday, July 15.

 

The joint venture between the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Chinese company Ping An Group’s fintech subsidiary OneConnect aims to substantially reduce paperwork, costs security risks for participants, FT reports.

 

A major aim of the 21-party scheme is to reduce the amount of time and bureaucracy involved in signing up new fledgling businesses to banking services by smoothing over transactions. 

 

Using blockchain, “some” transactions will process in just one day against up to fourteen days using current methods, as FT reports.

 

Originally announced in November 2017, the move marks the first example of a regulator “bringing banks together” to improve trade finance, as Ping An deputy chief executive Jessica Tan described it. As Cointelegraph reported in May, a previous trade finance deal from HSBC was a smaller-scale affair, involving an individual bank.

“Instead of individual banks trying to do this you have the regulator trying to bring the banks together,” Tan told FT.

 

Ping An has already developed blockchain-powered solutions for the Chinese domestic market, and hopes the same technology will see success over the border, according to FT. The company, China’s second-biggest insurer with assets worth 4.7 tln yuan ($704 bln), joined the distributed ledger technology-focussed R3 Consortium in 2016.


Source:  https://www.bitcoinglobalnews.com/single-post/2018/07/16/Hong-Kong-Monetary-Authority-to-Launch-Multi-Bank-Blockchain-Trade-Finance-Platform

Lost your bitcoin password? Call in the crypto-hunters


About $25bn worth of bitcoin is floating out there in the ether, lost or ‘probably lost’

Three-and-a-half years ago, Roger Ver, a bitcoin evangelist so vocal in his support for the cryptocurrency that he was nicknamed the Bitcoin Jesus, showed me how to set up my own online bitcoin wallet. He rounded off his demonstration by giving me £5 worth of the currency. One day, he said, my holdings would be worth more than £1,000.

I thought little more of it — until December last year when bitcoin’s price rocketed and investors raced to cash out. My fiver had ballooned to £400 but there was a problem: to access funds, bitcoin holders need their unique “private key”, a long alphanumeric password that serves a similar purpose to a bank-card PIN. And I had lost mine.

Because of bitcoin’s decentralised nature — the cryptocurrency is not issued or guaranteed by a bank — it is almost impossible to recover these digital keys. There is no customer hotline, no database that holds them, no way to reset them. So a misplaced scrap of paper, missing USB stick or damaged hard drive can cost bitcoin owners dearly.

According to data from the blockchain research company Chainalysis, 3.7 million bitcoin (about $25bn worth), is floating out there in the ether, either lost or “probably lost” — meaning it is in wallets that have been untouched for years, despite the price spike.

Up to two million of this is thought to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto, the currency’s creator, though some argue she or he could just be sitting on it for now. Of the remainder, some owners are locked out of enormous windfalls: according to Chainalysis, 300 wallets contain between 1,000 and 10,000 bitcoin each. I have it easy with my £400; imagine being unable to get your hands on between $6m and $66m.

It’s no surprise then that a marketplace has sprung up to help anguished souls break back into their treasure troves. There are numerous websites that offer to hack into wallets by “brute force”, using supercomputers to try endless combinations of passwords.

Alternatively, several so-called “crypto-hypnotists” promise to help unlock your subconscious mind so that you can remember where you wrote your password down. Most charge in crypto: South Carolina-based hypnotist Jason Miller demands half a bitcoin upfront, plus 5 per cent of the recovered amount, for three sessions, available over Skype.

Others opt for a more DIY approach. Youssef Sarhan, an Irish entrepreneur who bought several hundred dollars’ worth of bitcoin in 2013, taught himself code in order to write a program to test tens of millions of password combinations. To no avail, he tells me. Worth close to $10,000 in December, his returns would have been “not life-changing — but certainly year-changing”.

Graham Tonkin, chief growth officer at cryptocurrency intelligence firm Mosaic, expects this field of “forensic archaeology” to develop with new tools that we haven’t even thought of yet. More broadly, he notes the “massive growth” of another industry: custodians who will hold cryptocurrencies safely for you.

Many cryptocurrency exchanges now offer custody solutions — but they are juicy targets for hackers. Other more specialised third-party services, such as Vo1t, go to extreme lengths to ensure security for their customers. Think private keys written on paper, then split in two and placed in two separate vaults in bunkers guarded 24/7.

As institutional players begin to dip their toe in the cryptocurrency space, these services are becoming more popular. “The analogy here is with gold,” says Philip Gradwell, Chainalysis’ chief economist. “I don’t keep my gold bars under my bed. I would put them in a vault if I could.” This seems logical — although it appears to go against the mission of the original bitcoin purists, who hoped to create a system of exchange free from any middleman.

Without a simpler way to hold and ensure the safety of crypto assets, it’s hard to see how the digital currency will become more widely adopted for everyday payments. In the meantime, I’m going to have one last hunt for the notebook that might contain my password.


Source: https://www.bitcoinglobalnews.com/single-post/2018/07/18/Lost-your-bitcoin-password-Call-in-the-crypto-hunters

Indian Central Bank Justifies Its Crypto Stance – Outlines Key Areas of Concern


The Reserve Bank of India has justified its crypto banking ban to an industry group which has been trying to convince the central bank to ease crypto restrictions. In response, the central bank outlines key areas of concern and upholds its stance on crypto.


Read more here: https://news.bitcoin.com/indian-central-bank-crypto-stance-concern/

Shrimpy cryptocurrency portfolio management is a platform that helps investors curate a portfolio with automated investment strategies. With the company’s portfolio experience, the Shrimpy team published a study that gives an informative technical analysis comparing two types of cryptocurrency investment methods: rebalance against holding (hodl).

You can read more here: https://news.bitcoin.com/study-finds-cryptocurrency-rebalance-portfolios-outperform-hodling/

New York Approves New Electricity Rates for Crypto Miners

New York is seeking to foster growth in its cryptocurrency mining sector, with the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) approving new electricity rates for Massena Electric Department. The new provisions will facilitate “high-density load customers, as such cryptocurrency companies” accessing “individual services agreement tariff,” including “protect[ion] […] from increased supply costs.”



Read more here: https://news.bitcoin.com/new-york-approves-electricity-rates-crypto-miners/
By: Samuel Haig

The latest version of the Opera for Android will introduce a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. This means that Opera’s 322 million user base will all own a crypto-wallet. There will be no additional apps needed to use ETH, ERC-20 tokens or ERC-721 tokens. The developers plan to add support for additional cryptocurrencies such as BTC in the future. “Our hope is that this will accelerate the transition of cryptocurrencies from speculation and investment to being used for actual payments and transactions in our users’ daily lives.” - Charles Hamel, Opera Cryptocurrency wallet Product Lead



Read more here: https://www.bitcoinglobalnews.com/single-post/2018/07/12/Crypto-Market-Update-12-July-2018

$67 Million: Philippines Regulator Expects Windfall from Crypto Exchange Licensing

The administrator of a government-controlled economic zone in the Philippines is expecting to rake in $67 million by issuing licenses to cryptocurrency exchanges.

As reported previously by CCN, the Philippine government legalized the entry of cryptocurrency exchanges to operate in the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) – complete with tax benefits – in April this year. Crypto firms operating in the zone will also be allowed to offer initial coin offerings (ICOs) and engage in cryptocurrency mining, aside from operating cryptocurrency exchanges.

“We are about to license 10 platforms for cryptocurrency exchanges,” CEZA chief Raul Lambino said at the time. “They are Japanese, Hong Kong, Malaysians, Koreans…They can go into cryptocurrency mining, initial coin offerings, or they can go into exchange.”

Earlier this month, the CEZA revealed plans to issue 25 primary licenses to cryptocurrency exchanges. To gain a license, companies must invest at least $1 million in the zone over a two-year period among other requirements.

While details are scarce, each ‘principal license’ will be priced at $360,000 while a ‘regular license’ will cost $85,000, a report by the Philippine government news agency revealed without detailing the differences between the two licenses. Each recipient of a principal license will be allowed to issue four regular sub-licenses to traders and brokers.

Roquero expects the CEZA to generate 3.6 billion pesos, approx. $67 million, from the issuances of the 25 principal licenses and sublicenses alone. The economic zone authority is expected to generate further revenue with a 0.1 share in every single transaction conducted at these licensed exchanges.

So far, the authority has received a total of 70 applications from operators vying to gain a license. Six of those applicants have already paid for their licenses, the official added.

In a press release on its website on Tuesday, the CEZA announced it has granted a ‘principal license’ to Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency operator Golden Millennial Quickpay.

“The license was issued last week,” revealed CEZA senior deputy administrator Raymundo T. Roquero. “They were the first, [along with two other firms]. These are all Hong Kong-based, [while one] is from Bangkok, Thailand. These are offshore companies with a capital investment of $500,000. They have a committed investment to us of $1 million [each].”

Licensed exchanges within the economic zone will not be allowed to offer services to retail investors in the Philippines, however. To run a licensed crypto trading platform in the country, operators will have to be approved by the Bangko Sentral sn Pilipinas (BSP), the country’s central bank. The Philippines was among the earliest nations in the world to release regulations for the cryptocurrency sector, specifically bitcoin exchanges, in early 2017.

Last week, the central bank accredited two new cryptocurrency exchanges to raise the total number of regulated crypto trading platforms in the country to five.


Source: https://www.ccn.com/67-million-philippines-regulator-expects-windfall-from-crypto-exchange-licensing/

The Chinese government has openly funded blockchain projects in China, which were born and created in China. Its policy regarding cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects is nearly identical to its policy pertaining to Western social media platforms, search engines, and content sharing sites.

China banned Google, Facebook, and YouTube to allow Baidu, WeChat, and Youku to dominate the local market. Similar to that policy, China has expressed its support towards platforms like VeChain, Qtum, and up-and-coming blockchain projects that were created in China and are based within the country.

Analysts have speculated that the Chinese government had banned crypto trading to enforce strict capital controls, primarily to prevent the Chinese yuan from leaving the country. While the ban could be reversed if enough demand is created by local investors, it is unlikely that China will unban crypto trading in the near future, as its ban was never really about crypto but its strict capital controls.



Source: https://www.ccn.com/experts-fear-china-losing-90-control-over-bitcoin-market-forgetting-govt-ban/