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Users of the popular privacy-focused coin Monero have taken to Reddit in outrage over Changelly implementation of Know Your Customer regulations, publicly announcing the exchange should be boycotted. While KYC has become the common standard for anti-money laundering and customer risk management processes for many cryptocurrency exchanges, Changelly’s recent implementation has left many users frustrated […]

Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, is following the lead of other major tech companies by banning ads for digital currencies. As cryptocurrencies began soaring in popularity last year, ads for new projects started appearing across the internet. While many became familiar with the ridiculous “crypto expert” ads that promised the secrets to investment […]

Stratis has unveiled the alpha version of their C# Stratis Smart Contract, taking the company closer to its vision of being the business-friendly blockchain for smart contracts. Aiming to make blockchain easier for enterprises, Stratis is built in C# on the .NET framework — permitting developers to build smart contracts in one of the world’s […]

At press time, many cryptocurrencies are beginning to stabilize. This week marked another series of drops in the digital currency space, and investors are warned to remain cautious and trade responsibly. Stellar Lumens (XLM) Stellar Lumens is trading for about 33 cents. This marks a 3 cent drop since our previous price piece, when it […]

Canaan Creative, the world’s second-largest makers of Bitcoin mining rigs, submitted an application yesterday to go public in Hong Kong, according to various media reports. While the initial public offering (IPO) size and timing has yet to be announced to the public, a source told Bloomberg that the public offering could raise around $1 billion […]

The EOS development team is currently working at high speed ahead of the scheduled mainnet launch on the 2nd of June when EOS will migrate from the Ethereum network onto its own blockchain over the course of 40 days. The dev team has had unexpected assistance, however, from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who has taken […]

Bitcoin bulls now have a new opportunity to put their money where their sentiment is. On Tuesday, CFTC regulated derivatives exchange, LedgerX, launched a Bitcoin savings account, the latest in a slew of traditional banking products made available for the digital currency. LedgerX is an institutional trading platform that touts itself as the first federally […]

A truly innovative privacy coin, Zcash has announced it will be available to trade on the Gemini Exchange on May 22. The famed Winklevoss twins founded trading platform will be the first licensed Zcash exchange in the world. Zcash v. Bitcoin Although Zcash is a fork off of the Bitcoin source code, there are several […]

Amazon Web Services has announced a new collaboration with Ethereum development studio ConsenSys which will result in the launch of Kaleido, a blockchain business cloud designed to streamline and simplify the creation, deployment, and operation of private blockchain networks for enterprise organizations. The new blockchain service was announced at the recent Consensus 2018 Conference in […]

International remittance focused cryptocurrency Ripple has launched a new initiative designed to provide entrepreneurs and innovators with financial backing in order to develop solutions based on Ripple technology. The new Xpring project will encourage developers and entrepreneurs to contribute to the Ripple ecosystem and create services for XRP, which is currently the third-highest ranked cryptocurrency. […]