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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...

Bitcoin Community is Withering—It has Lost the Excellent Circle

Bitcoin Community is Withering—It has Lost the Excellent Circle

Background Though China has long been puzzled by its brain drain in the form of elite emigrati...

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

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

Note:Translated from Jiang Zhuo’er’s original post in Chinese. Recently, as the discussion ...

headlines February 20, 2019 Chinese Online Celebrity Introducing Bitcoin Gets Over 500K Viewership

Chinese Online Celebrity Introducing Bitcoin Gets Over 500K Viewership

topics September 3, 2018 Check the High-performance Bitmain Mining Rigs here

interview April 16, 2019 Ethereum Cofounder Gavin Wood Says PoW “Proof of Waste” and will Replace PoS if there’s Something Better

topics September 3, 2018 Check the High-performance Bitmain Mining Rigs here

Check the High-performance Bitmain Mining Rigs here

interview April 16, 2019 Ethereum Cofounder Gavin Wood Says PoW “Proof of Waste” and will Replace PoS if there’s Something Better

headlines February 20, 2019 Chinese Online Celebrity Introducing Bitcoin Gets Over 500K Viewership

interview April 16, 2019 Ethereum Cofounder Gavin Wood Says PoW “Proof of Waste” and will Replace PoS if there’s Something Better

Ethereum Cofounder Gavin Wood Says PoW “Proof of Waste” and will Replace PoS if there’s Something Better

headlines February 20, 2019 Chinese Online Celebrity Introducing Bitcoin Gets Over 500K Viewership

topics September 3, 2018 Check the High-performance Bitmain Mining Rigs here

Blockchain

China’s E-Commerce Giant JD.com Releases White Paper Outlining 5 Blockchain Use Cases

China’s E-Commerce Giant JD.com Releases White Paper Outlining 5 Blockchain Use Cases April 10, 2019

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com unveiled a white paper on April 9 detailing its blockchain exploration in 5 areas and the next big step into the industry. Dubbed JD Blockchain Technology Practice White Paper 2019, the white paper notes that the blockchain...

China’s Blockchain Agenda Could Happen Sooner Than You Think

Report: China Leads World in Blockchain Projects with 263 in Progress

Regulation Could be Driving Blockchain Events From Asia to Europe

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Bitcoin

Binance Coin(BNB) Is Approaching All-Time High As Market Cheers Binance’s Positive News

Binance Coin(BNB) Is Approaching All-Time High As Market Cheers Binance’s Positive News April 19, 2019

Binance Coin(BNB), the native cryptocurrency issued by the crypto exchange giant Binance, rallied over 10 percent, hitting a new three-month high on April 18 in the wake of a slew of positive news. The latest event is the crypto exchange on Thursday laun...

Mueller Report: Russia Used Bitcoin to Fund DNC Hacks

EOS Creator Daniel Larimer : Don’t Speculate On EOS RAM as It’s Getting More Abundant

Winklevoss Twins Reach Settlement With Charlie Shrem

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Press-release

CryptoKaiju Launches Their Second Batch of Ethereum Powered Vinyl Toys

CryptoKaiju Launches Their Second Batch of Ethereum Powered Vinyl Toys March 28, 2019

New generation launch follows last year’s sell-out Genesis collection which garnered international acclaim CryptoKaiju, the UK-based blockchain start-up which made waves around the world last year, has announced the release of its second-generation Bitcoi...

Fasttoken Publicizes its State Channels Ahead of Ethereum’s Offical Implementation

PlatON Announces Partnership with HashKey Group to Offer Key Management Service

PlatON Partners with Top University Researchers on Cryptography

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Mining

Chinese Listed Company Lost over $23 Million for Its Secret Crypto Mining Business

Chinese Listed Company Lost over $23 Million for Its Secret Crypto Mining Business April 19, 2019

Construction company turned crypto mining firm Huatie HengAn has recently been sold at the price of around 12 million yuan ($2 million), after witnessing its value plunge more than 90% from the initial 170 million Chinese yuan ($25 million) in less than one year. ...

WhatsMiner Release 72TH/s Bitcoin ASIC M20S, 20% More Powerful than Antminer S17 with Cheaper Price

Price War Start Against Mining Operators in Sichuan As Supply Far Exceeds Demand

China’s Proposed Ban on Bitcoin Mining Could Be a Boon for Smaller Miners in the ‘Gray Zone’

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Technologies

Many Chains, Many Tokens, and One Ecosystem— 8BTC Boost’s Dialogue with Cosmos

Many Chains, Many Tokens, and One Ecosystem— 8BTC Boost’s Dialogue with Cosmos April 16, 2019

Thousands of blockchain projects with their corresponding crypto token have popped up since the birth of bitcoin in 2008, raising the question of interoperability between independent blockchains. Cosmos, a highly anticipated blockchain project, aims to provide a solut...

Infographic: A Map of Bitcoin Forks

Beam CEO AMA on 8btc: Looking at Lightning, Aim to Make Beam into Top 5 Cryptocurrency

Why It is Impossible to Solve Blockchain Trilemma

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Reviews

Bitcoin Market Rejects China’s Mining Ban Fear

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

Olusegun Ogundeji

Linking Crypto to Growing Non-Cash Transactions in China and India

Global non-cash transactions grew by 10% between 2015 and 2...

Olusegun Ogundeji

Top 20 Richest Celebrity Supporters of Cryptocurrency

Infographic made by Tom Alford Whilst cryptocurrency ...

Slowmist: 3,619 ETH-based tokens are affected by fake deposit vulnerability

On 11 July, Slowmist disclose full detail of "fake deposi...

Ant Financial: 3 Dos and 3 Dont’s in Blockchain Development

8 July Shanghai- "The 5th Financial Technology Summit"...

Shanghai Closes All Token Trading and Executives Are Asked to Stay in Place

Cryptocurrency exchanges in Shanghai this week are asked t...

Mobile Wallet Bitkan Launches Bitcoin Cash OTC Trading Service

Bitcoin-focused data and trading services provider Bitkan ...

OKCoin Refutes Investing Client Funds Into “Wealth Management Products” Claims

One of China’s biggest digital currency exchanges has ref...

Olusegun Ogundeji

CCTV2 Covers BTC, BCC, ETH, XRP, LTC and Scaling Solutions BU VS Segwit

CCTV2 has launched a new series on the global investme...

Blockchain: The Internet of Value Offers a Trustworthy Global Platform that the Internet of Information Never Had

Growing up in the 21st century, you may have been warned th...

Will Bitcoin Cash Be a Litecoin Killer?

Update: Charlie Lee talks about Litecoin on CNBC and...

What Does the Chinese Community Think of Bitcoin Cash(BCC)?

Update: It seems inaccurate to call BCC futures as user...

Interview

Ethereum Cofounder Gavin Wood Says PoW “Proof of Waste” and will Replace PoS if there’s Something Better

Ethereum Cofounder Gavin Wood Says PoW “Proof of Waste” and will Replace PoS if there’s Something Better

Gavin Wood is one of the cofounders of Ethereum and founder of Ethereum clie...

Fetch.AI. CTO AMA on 8BTC: Take a Closer Look at IEO

Fetch.AI. CTO AMA on 8BTC: Take a Closer Look at IEO

While the traditional ICO (initial coin offering) seems to lose its steam th...

Exclusive Interview with COSMOS Founder Jae Kwon: “Crypto Market Will Inevitably Evolve Toward the Cosmos Model”

Exclusive Interview with COSMOS Founder Jae Kwon: “Crypto Market Will Inevitably Evolve Toward the Cosmos Model”

Following the launch of Cosmos Hub, the first in a series of proof-of-stake...

Grin Developers AMA on 8btc: Grin is trying to be a “Better Money”

Grin Developers AMA on 8btc: Grin is trying to be a “Better Money”

Grin, as the first implementation of privacy-oriented protocol Mimblewimble al...

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