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Bitcoin Plays a Role in Humanitarian Assistance

Bitcoin Plays a Role in Humanitarian Assistance

North Korea has always been notorious for its human rights violations. Recently, the totalitarian...

Why I Am Still Not Voting for Segwit? An open letter from Jiangzhuoer

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10 Years: Bitcoin Legend Road

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topics August 9, 2019 Beware of These Chinese Crypto Scams and Possible Exit Scams

Beware of These Chinese Crypto Scams and Possible Exit Scams

interview October 18, 2019 World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

headlines August 30, 2019 10 Years: Bitcoin Legend Road

interview October 18, 2019 World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

headlines August 30, 2019 10 Years: Bitcoin Legend Road

topics August 9, 2019 Beware of These Chinese Crypto Scams and Possible Exit Scams

Blockchain

China Authority’s Items of Blockchain Service Purchase

China Authority’s Items of Blockchain Service Purchase October 17, 2019

China’s authority has been rigorously stamping down on all things related to cryptocurrencies, while blockchain-related service is welcomed by Chinese government. We’d like to talk about blockchain-related service purchased by China’s authority and affiliated in...

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New Chinese Internet Tycoons Met with Vitalik in Blockchain Summit

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Bitcoin

2020 Halving’s Likely Impact on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash

2020 Halving’s Likely Impact on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash October 19, 2019

In seven months, the Bitcoin network will have its block reward halving. That is, based on the next which is estimated to happen on 14 May 2020, the Bitcoin block mining coin reward every 10 minutes will decrease from its 12.5 per block presently to 6.25 coins. ...

Date Set for Final Global Policy on Stablecoins

Chinese Crypto Exchanges Scramble to Burn Their Exchange Tokens

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Press-release

RRMine Organized a CEO Talk about Bitcoin Halving and Cloud Mining

RRMine Organized a CEO Talk about Bitcoin Halving and Cloud Mining October 17, 2019

RRMine(rrmine.com) organized a “CEO Talk” hosted by Global CEO-Tsou Yung-Cheng. These CEO-level elites are from the blockchain and bitcoin mining industry at the World Digital Mining Summit 2019. Mr. Tsou had in-depth exchanges with them for th...

2019 Bytom Global Developer Conference is Successfully Held in San Francisco

IRIS Hub Bug Bounty II Program for New Version Release

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Mining

Canaan Expects $1 Billion+ from Avalonminer Sales in 2020 as Buying Interest Increases

Canaan Expects $1 Billion+ from Avalonminer Sales in 2020 as Buying Interest Increases October 18, 2019

Canaan Creative, the world’s second largest bitcoin mining machine manufacturer, said it expects to sell 1 million bitcoin miners in 2020 as buying interest increases. Chen Feng, sales director of the Hangzhou, China-based company, said in a live streaming int...

Bitmain Jihan Wu: Bull Market may not Come after Bitcoin Halving, but Bitcoin Price will Keep Going up

Bitmain, Canaan Launch 70T Cryptocurrency Miners, Prepared for the Upcoming Bitcoin Halving

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Technologies

The Whitepaper of MOV – A Next-Gen Decentralized Cross-chain Layer 2 Value Exchange Protocol

The Whitepaper of MOV – A Next-Gen Decentralized Cross-chain Layer 2 Value Exchange Protocol September 27, 2019

Bytom blockchain is a blockchain project dedicated to bridging the atomic world and the byte world. Since its mainnet launch in April 2018, Bytom has made tremendous progress in implementing its application in real life, especially when it came to 2019. This M...

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Reviews

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Worldview of Bystack (II): The Island Effect in Blockchain

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Worldview of Bystack (I): The Three Dimensions of Asset

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Bitcoin Market Rejects China’s Mining Ban Fear

Recent news that China is planning to eliminate the crypto...

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Interview

World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

Poolin, just over a year old and already trending as a top two mining pool, is ...

MOV AMA – New Team, New Journey

MOV AMA – New Team, New Journey

On October 9th evening, Bytom Founder Chang Jia, Bytom CEO Lang Yu a...

Bitcoin Industry Artificially-Crippled for Years, Brought Competing Blockchains

Bitcoin Industry Artificially-Crippled for Years, Brought Competing Blockchains

In this interview, Jimmy Nguyen, the founding president of the Bitcoin Asso...

Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee: Take Some Profit When the Market Is Going Up

Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee: Take Some Profit When the Market Is Going Up

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