The Laxmicoin has set the date for its initial coin offering, or ICO, marking the possibility of India soon having its own cryptocurrency. The creators of the coin have tentatively marked March 1st, 2018 as the date on which it will become available, but this is subject to state approval. The coin,…

Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), Choe Heung-sik, said that the watchdog is not considering digital tokens, such as Bitcoin, as legitimate currency. Due to this, they have announced that they have no plans to supervise the transactions of the Cryptocurrency. The FSS does not…

The crypto currency ‘Bitcoin cash’ which split from bitcoin earlier in the year is now up 17% against the dollar. This jump comes from some positive news surrounding Bitcoin Cash. The wallet provider ‘Bitwalla’, which now has over 57,000 customers; announced yesterday that it is allowing their…

As a writer for CryptoDaily and advocate for cryptocurrency I deal with many Exchanges and Coinbase must have been the worst. I recently had problems with Bitstamp email notification system. Basically, it was taking more than an hour to send the email confirmation and cancelling the transaction.…

Bitcoin has been more volatile than usual lately and a lot of those swings have been due to rumours around a potential fork of Bitcoin. This would see it split into two distinct cryptocurrencies with different rules and management systems. Any existing Bitcoin investors would receive an equal amount…

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Ethereum developer Vlad Zamfir has released the first version of the Casper protocol upgrade. The code was published on Tuesday, November 21, following its initial presentation at Devcon3 earlier this month. Its aim is to fundamentally rework the creation and propagation of blocks on the Ethereum…

Wealth managers the world over are being overwhelmed with requests about Bitcoin, as reported by Bloomberg. The astonishing increase in value the cryptocurrency has experienced has led to a run on the investment, with an enormous number of investors looking to gain positions in this new asset class.…

Recent developments in Bitcoin’s progression in 2017 have left analysts speeding to revise any predictions that they had made in terms of Bitcoin’s downfall. Mike Novogratz, a long-term, billionaire investor in Bitcoin, strongly believes that Bitcoin’s growth has not peaked yet and that is will…

It’s been known for a while that the CBOE, or the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and the CME, or the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, have been planning on launching Bitcoin contracts. Both companies have now released some preliminary details about their upcoming futures trading products of the…

The cryptocurrency craze is spreading to Hollywood this week, as award-winning producer Christopher Woodrow announces plans to create ‘MovieCoin’, which will be used to fund big budget films and will appreciate in value if and when the films are successful. Woodrow, who produced Hollywood hits…

As Bitcoin continues to ride the wave of success in 2017, there have been many people and organisations warning of potential issues to come. The latest in this line is huge banking group BNP Paribas with their recent comments around the cryptocurrency. Lack of central bank could hamper Bitcoin In…

The general public, businesses and even traditional financial institutions are all taking an increasing interest in the world of crytocurrency. The benefits are becoming better understand and therefore it is growing in popularity. Not least as the early adopters – who seized early manifestations of…

Exsulcoin Thesis James Song the founder of Exsulcoin believes that blockchain technology can solve many of the critical challenges faced by refugees today. Especially with the creation of an online marketplace and community, matching refugees with supporters and driven by a suite of smart contracts…

SEC chairman Jay Clayton recently said, “I have yet to see an ICO that doesn’t have a sufficient number of hallmarks of a security.” If token issuance looks like a claim on the future value of an enterprise, that is true. The problem is, among the scams that have emerged from what can be called the…

There is ever-more fevered speculation about when the crypto-craze is going to hit a wall. Ethereum has risen 3,500% this year; Bitcoin is $8000, up more than 600% since January. Will they climb further? The bad news is that the power needs of miners have risen 43% just since October. The global…

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Recent news in the cryptocurrency world has seen former US presidential candidate Ron Paul give his backing to a company offering Bitcoin-based retirement investments. Still a high profile name, Paul’s backing for this type of investment activity has caused quite a stir in financial circles. Paul…

When Bitcoin Gold was first discussed prior to its launch, confusion ensued in the cryptocurrency community with users trying to determine what exactly it was that Bitcoin Gold meant by “pre-mining”. The confusion stemmed around the definition of the term and what it meant the new blockchain was…

This year has been a tumultuous one, especially for Bitcoin. Different groups within Bitcoin’s original community have not been able to even remotely agree on which protocol should be implemented in order to solve Bitcoin’s scalability problem. One particular group felt strongly that bigger blocks…

For anyone who has been paying attention to digital asset onramp Coinbase over the past year or so, it’s obvious that the company has fallen in love with Ethereum and Bitcoin is no longer the main area of focus. During the recent DFJ Summit , angel investor and This Week in Startups Host Jason…

Originally, companies who need to fund their development cryptocurrency projects did so by providing Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). For those who need to do this fundraising, a new trend is emerging: the hard fork. The forks imply a protocol change that results in an old and a new version of a…

The operator of the global stock exchange, Nasdaq, is exploring the possibility of storing asset ownership information on a blockchain. A recent patent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows the company’s outline of how it could utilise a distributed ledger to keep a record of who…

The central banks of Hong Kong and Singapore have revealed that numerous banks are signed up to their recently-announced blockchain-oriented trade network. The new technology and innovative ideas at the heart of this network make it an appealing prospect for forward-thinking financial institutions,…

Late on November 16th, Bitcoin broke the $8,000 level for the first time, capping out at $8,020 on Bifinex before receding to $7,900 at press time. It’s becoming repetetive to read about Bitcoin beating its previous high, but on this occasion it’s different – Bitcoin pulled off a massive head fake.…

According to Balaji Srinivasan, a prominent venture capital investor and Earn.com CEO, everyone below the age of 30 “will have never known a world without Bitcoin”. Earn.com is a Bitcoin-focused startup that has managed to raise more than a hundred million dollars in its early-stage funding. What…

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Many of the people investing in Bitcoin are not simply using it as a means of speculation, but as an alternative to more traditional, and in some cases, less stable and accessible currencies. According to a recent report by Bloomberg, around a third of customers at ‘La Maison du Bitcoin’ in Paris…

One of the first things people think they learn about Bitcoin is that it is some sort of system for completely anonymous payments on the Internet; however, the reality is that all transactions are logged on a public ledger for the whole world to see. Having said that, researchers have made strides…

2017 has seen cryptocurrencies really start to take off, with the price of one Bitcoin increasing by over 700% since January. Unfortunately, this has made the market a prime target for criminals, who are looking to ‘steal’ money by using unsuspecting victims’ internet connection and power. One of…

A pair of Russian builders may have stumbled on an environmentally friendly way to utilise the energy produced by Bitcoin mining. Ilya Frolov and Dmitry Tolmachyov, from Irkutsk in Siberia – which experiences average temperatures of between -6ºC and -18ºC from November to March – have built a small…

Bitcoin isn’t money, but similar and in many ways superior. This is repeatedly to be said, because the blockchain is a new technology and we don’t yet understand perfectly its full reach and usefulness. More companies are now accepting Bitcoin The biggest argument over whether Bitcoin has value or…

Late last week, Stash made their bitcoin wallet available for download on the Google Play Store. This is a wallet that is many years in the making, with its roots based in the Open Transactions project, which has been discussed as an extension to Bitcoin since 2010 . Stash Wallet has support for…

Why do you need a token for your biz? Every blockchain project has a team and a group of advisors. Understanding the capabilities of the team, their engagement in the project and their view is a critical in deciding the type of outside help needed for a successful project. Advisors are one way to…

Kaspersky Labs, a cybersecurity firm based in Russia, has warned cryptocurrency owners that due to a trojan known as CryptoShuffler, their coins are not even totally safe in private wallets. The trojan is managing to steal coins from users by replacing the wallet URL addresses on a user’s clipboard…

It’s been a difficult week for cryptocurrencies. While Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash have been stealing all of the limelight, Dash has experienced an incredible surge in the large 24 hours. Early on, the digital currency had a value of $319 each. In less than 12 hours, the price had surged to a…

At the current moment in time, the Bitcoin network is struggling under a backlog of well over 135,000 unconfirmed transactions that have caused fees to soar. This latest development comes just days after the planned SegWit2x scaling solution was cancelled, leaving larger blocks dead in the water.…

As we enter the final furlong of 2017, crypto-currencies present a paradox, best summed up by the hubristic words two weeks ago from the now-silent Saudi prince, Al-Waleed Bin Talal: “It just doesn’t make sense,” he lamented. “This thing is not regulated, it’s not under control, it’s not under the…

The whole of the cryptocurrency world is currently fussing over recent events regarding Bitcoin, and rightly so. The price drop of $1,000 per BTC and the pulled release of the planned SegWit2x hardfork has kept Bitcoin firmly in the public eye. In the meantime however, Ethereum has been making slow…

GigEcoin is the task rabbit for blockchain that rapidly changes the world financial system with value and growth. Working in the gig economy, whether it be navigating urban streets to deliver a package or waiting to find out what task will come your way next, is often an enjoyable thrill or a…