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News 4 December 2017

Venezuela to launch 'El Petro', a cryptocurrency backed by oil

“Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency,” backed by oil, gas, gold and diamond reserves - 'El Petro'

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News 28 November 2017

Bitcoin over $10,000, market cap equivalent to Master Card

Bitcoin created history, priced over $10,000. BTC Market cap is equivalent to Master Card.

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News 28 November 2017

Cryptocurrency is welcome in Iran

The Iranina Central Bank has announced, "it will be a regulatory framework instead of clear-cut regulations for cryptocurrency in Iran".

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News 28 November 2017

bitFlyer enters United States with Bitcoin exchange

bitFlyer, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange from Japan has officially landed in the US with BitLicense' from regulators in New York.

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News 21 November 2017

Geth v1.7.3 (Weir) is released

Geth, the command line interface for running a full ethereum node implemented in Go has released its latest version v1.7.3 (Weir) on November

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News 17 November 2017

Visa launches B2B test transaction for cross-border payments via blockchain

Visa B2B test transaction for cross-border payments via blockchain. Processing started ahead of commercial launch of Visa B2B connect in 2018. Open API for developer community.

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News 16 November 2017

American Express collaborates with Ripple for payments via blockchain

American Express has partnered with Ripple to speed up cross-border payments between the U.S. and the U.K. by using blockchain technology. In an

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News 14 November 2017

IOTA Foundation finally registered in Germany

The IOTA Foundation is official launched as a registered not-for-profit entity (“gemeinnützige Stiftung”) under German law. Founder of IOTA David Sønstebø said, "After more

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News 8 November 2017

Bitcoin Segwit 2X suspended

Most awaited and controversial upgrade for Bitcoin - Segwit 2X, has been suspended indefinetly in absense of sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade.

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News 7 November 2017

Alert! Parity multi-sig wallet discovered another vulnerability

Parity wallet, the multi-signature wallet which is considered to be the most secure way of interacting with the Ethereum blockchain seems to have discovered another

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News 6 November 2017

Alex Tapscott's 'NextBlock Global' finally aborted going public, returning investors money

Alex Tapscott, the co-auther of the book “Blockchain Revolution” has been accused of falsely adding names of blockchain stars as advisors in an investor document

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News 2 November 2017

Amazon in blockchain space, registered Ethereum and cryptocurrency domain

Amazon Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Amazon has registered three domain names on October 31, 2017 related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies. DomainNameWire (DNW)

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News 22 October 2017

EtherWorld's weekly: October 22, 2017

(Blockchain eNewspaper) World news South Korea to Step Up Supervision of Bitcoin Trading After IMF Calls for Reform JPMorgan launches payments network using blockchain technology

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News 18 October 2017

First Moscow ICO Conference coming up on November 7

The team of the famous Moscow Affiliate Conference & Party are organizing Moscow ICO Conference that will be held for the first time in Moscow

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News 15 October 2017

EtherWorld's weekly: October 15, 2017

(Blockchain eNewspaper) News Lufthansa partners up with Winding Tree to bring Blockchain to the travel industry IBM and Hyperledger have joined the Decentralized Identity Foundation