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‘How Bitcoin will help Indian Economy’: RBI Guv has Major Concerns About Cryptocurrency

Shaktikanta Das, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India expressed on Thursday, at an event organized by The Indian Express and Financial Times, that the central bank continues to…

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Bitcoin mining consumes 0.5% of all electricity used globally and 7 times Google’s total usage

Bitcoin mining consumes around 91 terawatt-hours of electricity annually. With increased competition, bitcoin mining has become an industry of its own, requiring specialized machines, servers, and huge data centers with…

Bitcoin Faces Biggest Test As El Salvador Makes It Official Currency, buying 400 bitcoins ahead of the roll-out

If the experiment is a success, other countries may follow El Salvador’s lead. Bitcoin is undergoing the biggest test in its 12-year history as El Salvador becomes the first country…

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Square Plans to Build a Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange, Says Jack Dorsey

Square’s new TBD division is working on a Bitcoin-centric decentralized exchange. Last month, Dorsey announced a new Bitcoin-centric division called TBD, and today he revealed what it’s going to be:…

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Best Websites To Learn Crypto Investing From!

Random thoughts about crypto investing and investing in general. Do your own research (DYOR) often sounds like something people say to protect themselves if their projections/forecast about a coin are…

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Globally, the governments are more clueless after solving Bitcoin frauds #StinkingFish

When a cop smells a fish and catches the miscreant, it’s great news. But what follows isn’t – the stink of fishes lying unused. From Ross Ulbricht to Aaron Shamo…

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South Korea’s Crypto-Exchange Hacked: New Hack, Old Lesson

Conrail has been hacked. The South Korean crypto-currency has reminded the world, yet again, of the loose ends in the so-called hack-proof technology that shapes blockchain and bitcoins. The cyber-intrusion…

Tech

Sex-crime, trafficking and Machine Learning: Avengers at last

Can you trace a stolen soap to a sex-trade victim? What if, with AI, we could connect dots lurking in some dark streets that come alive in shadows? Like retail…

Money

Stop the FUD, media: What FM said about bitcoin is what he said the same last year #Budget2018

Post budget, the media is going mad and is creating a lot of fud over bitcoin. No, the finance minister hasn’t called Bitcoin illegal and isn’t going to end the…

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“Cryptocurrencies will come to a bad end” : Warren Buffett

In terms of cryptocurrencies, generally, I can say with almost certainty that they will come to a bad ending. When it happens or how or anything else, I don’t know.…

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JPMorgan Chase CEO regrets calling Bitcoin a ‘fraud’

“The blockchain is real. You can have crypto yen and dollars and stuff like that. ICO’s you have to look at individually”, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in an…

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33% of South Korean salaried workers have invested in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin

Of those who invested in cryptocurrencies, more than 80% made money from it, and about 20% made an average return of 425% on their investment, according to the survey. The…