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Friday, November 30, 2018

OH launches cryptocurrency tax payment portal OhioCrypto.com; initially limited to businesses, enables bitcoin payments for employee withholding taxes, cigarette sales taxes, more; will ultimately accept payments from individuals - Link

11/27/2018 15:41 Comment

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Hacker exploits the Event-Stream JavaScript library to steal Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash from BitPay's Copay wallet; three months ago, the library's developer turned control over to another programmer, who released a version that required a library containing malicious code; BitPay has released a new version of Copay that does not use Event-Stream - Link

11/27/2018 15:44 Comment

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Leading VC firm Blockchain Capital has backed Securitize in a recent $12.5M Series A; Securitize is a primary issuance platform for asset-backed security tokens on the blockchain - Link

11/27/2018 15:57 Comment

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Blockchain journalism firm Civil has failed to pay out full compensation to journalists, reports Coindesk; Civil told journalists on the platform part of their income would be in the form of CVL, the company’s own cryptocurrency; Civil canceled the launch of CVL last month due to low interest in the digital currency; a number of journalists say it’s unclear if or when they will receive what they’re owed - Link

11/27/2018 16:07 Comment

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Blockchain startup Po.et has launched its proof-of-existence protocol on the Bitcoin mainnet; Po.et is a decentralized protocol for content ownership, discovery and monetization in media; Po.et uses protocols like Bitcoin and IPFS to anchor and store immutable hashes of content and metadata, known as “claims” - Link

11/27/2018 16:19 Comment

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Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) has partnered with the FIO Protocol to focus on cryptocurrency interoperability; the interwallet protocol that seeks to make the transfer of cryptos between wallets as simple and straightforward as making transfers on PayPal - Link

11/27/2018 16:27 Comment

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Karken has confirmed it has opened trading on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork Bitcoin Cash SV (BSV); in the blog post Kraken warned its users against investing in BCH SV since the new crypto "does not meet Kraken’s usual listing requirements" calling it an "extremely high-risk investment"; the exchange kept the intail ticker of BCH for Bitcoin Cash ABC; Kraken has recently been scored as the most secure cryptocurrency exchange by Group-IB - Link

11/19/2018 14:34 Comment

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Bitcoin Lightning network has reached 4,070 nodes and a ₿338.76 capacity; according to data from 1ML the network now houses 11,448 open payment channels; the average capacity for each node and payment channel comes in at ₿0.114 ($633) and ₿0.019 ($107) respectively, and with transaction fees at 1 satoshi (~ $0.000056); the average age of each node is just 137 days old - Link

Progress Report: Lightning Network Surpasses $1M BTC Capacity, 4,000 Nodes

11/19/2018 15:06 Comment

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Indie Square has announced the release of the Bitcoin lightningUnitySDK which allows developers to connect their BTCpay server running lightning LND to any Unity Game and accept Lightning payments; BTCPay is an open-sourced web service wrapping around a bitcoin daemon and lightning network daemon; this allows Unity game developers to create an In-App-Purchase or In-Game-Purchase - Link

11/19/2018 14:43 Comment

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What you might want to read

Cannabis on the blockchain; now that cannabis is big business, entrepreneurs are eager to bring tech to the weed industry, which means that cannabis is on the blockchain and machine learning has come for marijuana cultivation - The Verge

Fidelity’s third-generation leader opens up about cryptocurrencies Kathy Murphy; she is arguably the most powerful woman in investing; in a rare interview Murphy tells the story about how her behemoth family business become more interested in Bitcoin - Bloomberg

11/12/2018 08:10 Comment

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Interesting podcasts to listen to

Unconfirmed: The Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: Bitcoin ABC vs. Bitcoin SV: Bitcoin Magazine technical editor Aaron Van Wirdum breaks down what is going on with the Bitcoin Cash contentious hard fork: who is fighting, over what, and how this could play out, including the nuclear option of a proof of work algorithm change - Listen

The What Bitcoin Did Podcast: Jesse Powell is Building a Culture of Crypto Values at Kraken - Listen

Off the Chain: Juthica Chou: Crypto Derivatives 101; Juthica Chou is the founder of LedgerX. In this conversation, Anthony Pompliano and Juthica discuss working at Goldman Sachs, what options are and why they are important, how LedgerX became the only federally regulated crypto derivative platform - Listen

10/22/2018 12:45 Comment

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