Large scale DDoS attacks on Bitcoin.com and its subdomains started a few days ago and have heightened over the past 48 hours, in an apparent attempt at targeting the “big…
Alaska Introduces A Bill to Regulate and License Bitcoin Businesses
The State of Alaska has introduced a bill this week defining digital currency, as well as broadening its definition of money transmission to include it. A wide array of business…
Bitcoin Could Face Ethereum-Style Split
Loss of public trust and utility, branding issues, a market capitalization crash, and a collapse of trust in the entire crypto-currency space. A contentious Bitcoin hard fork, which represents…
Bitcoin’s Other Scaling Problem
Although many Bitcoiners subscribe to laissez-faire political and economic beliefs of the libertarian variety, some “invisible politics” has reared its ugly head in the ‘Bitcoin Community’ thanks to the…
Lunyr Announces Crowdsale for the First Decentralized World Knowledge Base on Ethereum
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Antpool Points 75% Hashpower at BU, While Exchanges Confirm Listing a Split
According to reports, the large mining pool Antpool which commands 16.6 percent of the global hashrate is currently switching it’s mining configurations to support Bitcoin Unlimited. Meanwhile, popular bitcoin…
On-Site Verification May Be Required to Withdraw From Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges
New regulatory guidelines in China may require citizens to verify their identities in person to deposit or withdraw 50,000 yuan when using a Chinese bitcoin trading platform. Also read: An…
New Academic Paper Suggests Bitcoin is Resistant to State Control
A new academic paper, entitled “Bitcoin: Order without Law in the Digital Age”, explores the “fundamental structure” of Bitcoin. The paper seeks to show “how its decentralized order contrasts…
iEx.ec Announces Token Crowdsale to Launch First Distributed Cloud Platform
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Bitcoin Block Size Growth Plan ‘BIP100’ Gets Update
Bitcoin developers Tom Harding, Dagur Valberg Johannsson and Jeff Garzik have updated the code to BIP100, a “dynamic maximum block size by miner vote” code proposal which has been in the…