Russian President Vladimir Putin obliged Russian government and the Bank of Russia to prepare legislation on ICO and cryptocurrencies by July 2018.
The Bitcoin Segwit2x fork will temporarily result in two bitcoin blockchains. Following the fork, Coinbase will continue referring to the current bitcoin blockchain as Bitcoin (BTC) and the forked blockchain as Bitcoin2x (B2X).
The research provides a glimpse of the regulation trends for business related to the cryptocurrency and blockchain in the years 2014-2016.
Ever since the initiation of the hard-fork resulting into a new cryptocurrency – Bitcoin Gold (BTG) – from the bitcoin blockchain, the BTG website has been constantly under DDoS attacks and has not resumed operations ever since.
When a group of Bitcoin users and companies split the world’s most popular cryptocurrency into two different versions on August 1st, 2017, it was an unprecedented event in the Bitcoin’s 9-year old history. Now just 84 days after that “hard fork,” yet another version of Bitcoin has been created named ‘Bitcoin Gold’.
Bitcoin continues to boom, with at least two digital currency hedge funds appearing every week and total value of all cryptocurrencies growing to more than $170 billion this year.
Seven of Japan’s bitcoin exchanges have announced their policies concerning Bitcoin Gold hard fork.
Bitcoin exchange Bittrex and the world’s most popular bitcoin wallet Coinbase issued official statements about new Bitcoin hard fork named Bitcoin Gold.
Following its sudden drop by nearly 10% on Wednesday, bitcoin price recovers, hitting the mark of $5.667 today.
Cryptocurrency market faced significant correction today.
Here’re the key highlights from this week’s two payment technology conferences – Sibos 2017 by SWIFT and Swell 2017 by Ripple.
Russia is to launch its national blockchain-based cryptocurrency named CryptoRuble. Datails still remain scarce, but some information has recently been revealed.
Software giant IBM, regional financial services company KlickEx Group, and Stellar, a non-profit organisation that supports an open source blockchain network, have unveiled a new regional cross-border payments solution using IBM’s blockchain technology.
Ethereum hard fork Byzantium is now operational, despite the recent talks of possible delays. The updated software is successfully running, Ether prices are relatively stable.
The Ethereum price is increasing and it promises that the second largest blockchain is completely prepared to the following codebase changing.