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Approximately $280m worth of the cryptocurrency Ethereum has been frozen in time and potentially lost forever after a critical bug was accidentally triggered.

Stanford University hosted the fourth edition of the Scaling Bitcoin conference over the weekend of November 45 Scaling Bitcoin 2017 Scaling the Edge.The annual conference, sometimes referred to as a workshop, has in its short history grown into somewhat of an institute within the Bitcoin space. It aims to be the main stage for Bitcoins technical and academic communities, with little room for commercial interests and perhaps even less for the scaling drama that has grown to be the norm onlin

For months on end, BTC-USD had a strong bullish rally that has been well confined between both a linear ascending channel and on a macro scale a parabolic curveFigure 1 BTC-USD, 1-Day Candles, Linear and Parabolic TrendlinesAfter a very strong, bullish rally, bitcoin managed to settle on a new all-time high in the $7,500s. This price peak bounced right off the upper linear ascending trendline shown in Figure 1. Historically, every time bitcoin has touched the upper ascending trendline, the ma

BTC Inc., parent group of BTC Studios, BTC Labs and BTC Media, and Genesis Mining, a cloud mining service provider, recently announced a partnership to launch Genesis Engineering, a Hong Kongbased joint venture focused on promoting and developing the cryptocurrency mining industry worldwide, with a special focus on emerging and underserved markets.We see opportunities in terms of excess capacity worldwide in such regions as the Americas and Eurasia, said David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media. Center

With the exponential growth of cryptocurrency businesses, investing can be complex. This complexity has no doubt hindered mass adoption and prompted the need for trusted user-friendly tools to attract more traditional investors.Specializing in blockchain and smart contract technology, the Canadian technology company Rublix is building a network that could make - not just cryptocurrency trading - but any trading less complex. They are launching the Rublix platform so that investors across the

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In October 2017, LendEDU, a marketplace for financing loans, credit cards and other financial products, polled 1,000 Americans asking a series of questions related to Ethereum, Ripple and initial coin offerings ICOs. They did this to gain insight into the average Americans perception of cryptocurrency. The poll was conducted by online polling company OnePoll, which acted as a third party and was able to provide an age and gender breakdown of respondents. The poll was answered by 1,000 America

Alex Tapscott, CEO of NextBlock Global, a venture capital company investing in blockchain technologies, announced in a press release yesterday that he is canceling their plans to go public through a reverse takeover RTO of Nobelium Tech Corp., a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange TSX. Tapscott said the young company had stumbled in falsely listing some crypto and blockchain experts as members of the firms advisory board. He is currently talking to NextBlock investors to work out how

Blockstream is introducing Simplicity, a new programming language for blockchain-based smart contracts, intended for inclusion in Blockstreams sidechains and eventually in Bitcoin. The new language was presented by its creator, Russell O'Connor, Infrastructure Tech Developer at Blockstream, at the ACM SIGSAC Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security PLAS 2017.Simplicity is a blockchain programming language that is so simple, it fits on a t-shirt, O'Connor told Bitc

Amazon has registered three different domain names, all of them related to blockchain and cryptocurrency.