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1  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-01-12]Russia’s Relationship with Bitcoin May See Brighter Days Ahead on: January 16, 2017, 01:16:15 AM
The state of bitcoin’s legality in Russia has been shaky over the past couple of years. Reports of bitcoin bans, jail sentences for holding cryptocurrencies, and other regulatory policy headlines have spread like wildfire. Throughout many of these stories Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister, Alexey Moiseev, has often shared very bi-polar messages concerning the cryptocurrency.


You can read the full article here: https://news.bitcoin.com/russias-relationship-bitcoin-brighter-days-ahead/
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Creating Altcoins is Easy, Maintaining One is Not on: January 15, 2017, 12:42:22 AM
Love them or hate them, there’s a lot of altcoins in the crypto-economy. In fact, in 2017 there are roughly more than 700 different kinds of cryptocurrency. All of them claim to offer something unique. However, many people believe there is nothing innovative about these altcoins due to how easy it is to create them, the sketchy developers behind many such projects, and the significant pre-mines associated with altcoins.

https://news.bitcoin.com/creating-altcoins-easy-maintaining-not/
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bitcoin Mining Power Growing Bigger But Greener on: January 14, 2017, 05:38:53 PM
Bitcoin has created a vast mining sector within the network’s economy that is growing exponentially. Mining bitcoin has spread the technology towards new thoughts concerning energy consumption, ways to utilize bitcoin mining’s heat source, greener energy solutions and more.

As it stands today, the Bitcoin mining sector is robust with computations faster than the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined. The global bitcoin mining economy consumes nearly $500 million in electrical and operational costs. Moreover, it’s estimated the bitcoin network could use as much electricity as Denmark by the year 2020. It’s safe to say securing the bitcoin network through mining is costly and consumes a lot of energy, but may offer a myriad of other benefits to the equation.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-mining-power-growing-bigger-but-greener/
4  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / The Lightning Network Alpha Release is Ready for Testing on: January 13, 2017, 12:43:37 PM
A recent blog post by developers of the Lightning Network, has announced an alpha release of the protocol’s daemon. The release called v0.1-alpha of the Lightning Network is said to be a milestone that enables the platform to be publicly tested by developers.

With roughly fifteen developers contributing to the v0.1-alpha Lightning release, the codebase is now available via the team’s Github repo. According to the team’s blog post, the daemon is a “full implementation of Lightning” with various capabilities.

https://news.bitcoin.com/lightning-network-alpha-release/
5  Economy / Speculation / Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Inspections Cause Price Drop and FUD on: January 11, 2017, 03:23:56 PM
News from China is once again spreading through the bitcoin world like wildfire. It appears China’s central bank the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is visiting with the top three Chinese exchanges and assessing the company’s operations. Per usual the price of bitcoin took a dive during the early hours of January 11 dropping another 15 percent to a low of US$790.

https://news.bitcoin.com/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-inspections-cause-price-drop-and-fud/
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Venezuelans Turn to Bitcoin to Escape Financial Hardships on: January 10, 2017, 01:33:52 PM
Venezuela has been suffering from significant economic decline and turbulent markets. Many worldwide and residents of the region blame the country’s socialist government and centrally planned economic choices. Over the past few months, it’s been reported quite frequently that Venezuelan citizens have been finding financial relief by utilizing the decentralized cryptocurrency bitcoin.

Bitcoin.com decided to reach out to Jorge Farias from the bitcoin company Cryptobuyer.io and the consulting agency Coincox to confirm these stories. Farias details how economic hardships are affecting Venezuelan residents and lots of them are in fact utilizing bitcoin.

https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuelans-bitcoin-financial-hardships/
7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Ark Invest Reveals New Data on Bitcoin Asset Classification on: January 09, 2017, 12:28:33 PM
Last summer executives from Ark Invest and Coinbase released a paper called “Bitcoin: Ringing the Bell for a New Asset Class,” which defines the cryptocurrency as a new asset class for the 21st century. The paper written by Ark Invest’s Chris Burniske and Coinbase Vice President Adam White has recently been updated to reflect 2016’s end of the year data.

https://news.bitcoin.com/ark-invest-new-data-bitcoin-asset/
8  Economy / Trading Discussion / An Introduction to Bitcoin Trading and Technical Charts on: January 08, 2017, 08:45:17 PM
Bitcoin trading is a popular market that has been growing in recent years. There are many who obtain bitcoin to hold for long periods of time. However many people trade their bitcoin regularly with intra-range strategies, day trading, leverage trading and more. Often times trading can sometimes be confusing, and there are many things to consider when participating within the exchange environment.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-trading-technical-charts/
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Charlie Shrem Speaks About His New Investment Fund on: January 08, 2017, 01:04:40 PM
Charlie Shrem, a well-known individual in the cryptocurrency space, recently returned to the industry after a year-long hiatus. Shrem has partnered with entrepreneur Jason Granger to create Intellisys Capital LLC, and Mainstreet Investment LP. The companies will manage a securities investment fund built on top of the Ethereum blockchain based on real world assets like real estate, as well as bitcoin and blockchain businesses.

Bitcoin.com chatted with the Mainstreet CTO Charlie Shrem about the new investment fund and his overall opinion of the current cryptocurrency environment. The former Bitinstant founder has a lot of experience within the digital asset realm with Bitinstant being one of the largest bitcoin brokerage services from 2011-2013. Shrem is excited to get back into the crypto-industry and gives our readers the nitty gritty in regards to his new investment fund project.

https://news.bitcoin.com/charlie-shrem-new-investment-fund/
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Markets Update: The New Year’s Cryptocurrency Rollercoaster on: January 07, 2017, 05:24:48 PM
It’s been quite a rollercoaster in the cryptocurrency markets the past few days. Bitcoin had a significant bull run during the first two days of the year followed by a major downturn after nearly reaching its all-time high. During this turbulent price volatility all cryptocurrency market capitalizations have been affected.

https://news.bitcoin.com/markets-update-cryptocurrency-rollercoaster/
11  Economy / Speculation / Price Reports and Tales From China-Dizzy Bitcoiners on: January 07, 2017, 12:55:44 PM
Once again the bitcoin community has been dizzy due to the significant price increase, the following correction, and rumors of China. After the sharp price rally, the discussion has turned to the Chinese central bank warning about the volatile cryptocurrency bitcoin.

https://news.bitcoin.com/price-reports-tales-china-dizzy-bitcoiners/
12  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Death & Bitcoin: How I Prepared My Family’s Digital Inheritance on: January 05, 2017, 05:11:17 PM
As a writer who earns bitcoin and saves as much as I can with a family of four, I’ve recently begun preparing my family’s digital inheritance. When I pass, my wife will take over all of my assets, and this includes bitcoin. Preparing another person to gain access to their bitcoin private keys before death is necessary.

https://news.bitcoin.com/death-bitcoin-digital-inheritance/
13  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bitcoin’s Quirky Genesis Block Turns Eight Years Old Today on: January 03, 2017, 07:04:25 PM
Today is the eighth anniversary of the bitcoin genesis block, and a lot has happened since the digital currency’s birth. The genesis block was the starting point for the bitcoin blockchain on its path to becoming a revolutionary network for peer-to-peer transfers of value.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoins-quirky-genesis-block-turns-eight-years-old-today/
14  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / The Bitcoin Constellation Is Bigger Than Most Realize on: January 02, 2017, 10:49:27 PM
When most people think of bitcoin, they look at the price and its billion dollar market capitalization. However, bitcoin’s ecosystem is bigger than most people can imagine with its constellation of significantly growing micro-economies.

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-bitcoin-constellation-is-bigger-than-most-realize/
15  Bitcoin / Project Development / Coming Up: Drop Zone a Hyper-Local Bitcoin-Based Market Service on: January 01, 2017, 01:03:06 PM
There have been many attempts to create a working decentralized marketplace using cryptocurrency for transactions. Projects like Bitbay, Syscoin, the NXT marketplace, and Openbazaar have gained attention over the past few years building this vision. However, another concept announced back in the spring of 2015 called Drop Zone remains in the background. The proof-of-concept may offer yet another method of operating a censorship resistant marketplaces in the future.

https://news.bitcoin.com/coming-up-drop-zone-a-hyper-local-bitcoin-based-market-service/
16  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / The Dankest Crypto-Memes of 2016 on: December 31, 2016, 02:04:42 PM
In the bitcoin space memes are a popular way of showing enthusiasm within the community. Memes give people a laugh and promote bitcoin adoption in an artistic and sometimes hilarious way. As the new year approaches, we gathered some of the dankest memes floating around social media this year representing everyone’s favorite digital asset.

2016 was filled with many memes from various bitcoin proponents and artists such as Phneep, Cryptograffiti, and many others. Even the infamous Rare Pepe was “blockchained” this year. Check out some of the hottest cryptocurrency visuals this year below.

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-dankest-crypto-memes-of-2016/
17  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Meet Tumblebit: The Unlinkable Payment Hub on: December 30, 2016, 12:25:08 AM
There are lots of development projects in the bitcoin space. One of them may help the cryptocurrency’s fungibility significantly. A proof-of-concept called Tumblebit has the bitcoin community excited because it may provide a trustless anonymous payment hub.

Privacy and fungibility is an essential foundation to many members of the bitcoin community. However, blockchain surveillance has increased quite a bit with many companies such as Elliptic, Chainalysis and more building tracking software. The firms are also working directly with law enforcement and governments worldwide who seek to learn how to monitor cryptocurrency transactions.

https://news.bitcoin.com/tumblebit-unlinkable-payment-hub/
18  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Smaller Pools Are Diversifying the Bitcoin Mining Industry on: December 20, 2016, 11:52:10 PM
Bitcoin mining has become an advanced competitive market alongside securing the network. Over the years the mining sector has changed significantly from home operations, mining pools, and large data facilities churning out blocks. While observing mining pools over the years, there’s been a few times where skeptics have believed mining was quite centralized. However, more recently mining pool distribution has divided significantly with the mining industry taking new form once again.

https://news.bitcoin.com/pools-diversifying-bitcoin-mining/
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / The Idiot-Proof Vault: A Simple Cold Storage Guide on: December 20, 2016, 12:51:45 AM
Keeping bitcoins safe is one of the most important responsibilities in the world of digital assets. As the price of bitcoin continues to climb, exchanges and wallet providers become more susceptible to theft. The best way to keep your bitcoins safe is storing them yourself offline in what’s called cold storage.

Creating Cold Storage Using a Paper Wallet 

https://news.bitcoin.com/idiot-proof-vault-cold-storage-guide/
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