CryptoCurrency News: Renewable-Energy Blockchain Project Moves Past Test Phase

Blockchain makes it easier to securely and efficiently manage the flow of electric power as sources are added to the grid, a transmission firm says.

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CryptoCurrency News: Wall Street Exec Sued for Role in Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Scheme

Investors in GAW Miners sued Stuart Fraser for his role at the defunct firm following a guilty plea of wire fraud by his longtime partner, Josh Garza.

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CryptoCurrency News: Is Your Ether Frozen? Parity Launches Support Website In Wake of Exploit

The multisig wallet provider has created a website where uses can check their ethereum addresses to see if their funds were affected by the exploit.

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CryptoCurrency News: Relief and Disbelief: Bitcoin Reacts to Sudden '2x' Suspension

Bitcoin's attempted '2x' software upgraded is cancelled – and some in the cryptocurrency's community think that's cause for celebration.

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CryptoCurrency News: Where to, Bitcoin? Price Sees $1,000 Spread As '2x' Averted

Up, down and in between: bitcoin sought direction on Wednesday as traders looked to price in a shift in the protocol's outlook.

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CryptoCurrency News: 'Dr. Doom' Roubini Joins Wall Street Chorus Calling Bitcoin a Bubble

Economist Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, predicts that bitcoin "will find its end" when more countries crack down on it.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC Chairman: ICO Trading Susceptible to Price Manipulation

The growing market for cryptographic tokens is at risk for market manipulation, according to SEC chairman Jay Clayton.

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CryptoCurrency News: 2x Called Off: Bitcoin Hard Fork Suspended for Lack of Consensus

The organizers of a controversial bitcoin software update are suspending an attempt to increase the block size by way of a hard fork. Known for its strong early support from bitcoin startups and mining pools, the plan, called Segwit2x, or simply 2x, was to trigger a block size increase at block 494,784, expected to occur […]

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CryptoCurrency News: Cryptocurrency Market a 'Good Bubble,' Says ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin

Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin has said the cryptocurrency market is a bubble, but that it's the "good kind of bubble."

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[FOREX NEWS] GBP/USD favors the downside amid political worries, BOE echoes

GBP/USD is finding it hard to hold onto the 1.31 handle and is flirting with this line. At current levels, cable is at the lower end of the wide range of 1.3030 to 1.3320 that characterized it recently. 1.3080 serves as a line of support, the last barrier before the bottom of the ranger. On [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: Litecoin Price Looks Northwards Amid Korean Volume Spike

Having spent a better part of the last month defending the key trend line support, litecoin clocked a three-week high of $63.71 yesterday.

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CryptoCurrency News: CoinDesk's Top 10 Token Traders and Analysts of 2017

Inspired by the notable influencers in the crypto space, CoinDesk has crunched the data to decide the Top 10 Analysts and Token Traders of 2017.

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CryptoCurrency News: Deloitte Report: Over 26,000 Blockchain Projects Began in 2016

More than 26,000 new projects related to blockchain were created on code repository GitHub last year, according to data collected by Deloitte.

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CryptoCurrency News: $7,500 and Rising: Bitcoin Price Looks Ready to Challenge Records

Having refused to succumb to bearish technical pressures yesterday, the world's largest cryptocurrency moved back above $7,500 this morning.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ethereum Security Lead: Hard Fork Required to Release Frozen Parity Funds

The security lead for the Ethereum Foundation has said a hard fork will be required to free up funds frozen in a hack yesterday.

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CryptoCurrency News: Secret Service Agent Gets Extra Jail Time Over Theft of Silk Road Bitcoin

A former U.S. Secret Service agent has been given an additional prison term for laundering funds seized from the now-defunct dark market Silk Road.

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[FOREX NEWS] AUD/USD bounces, but it is forming lower highs

The Australian dollar lost its high range in late October and seems to have stabilized at a new range. Support is found at 0.7625 and resistance is at 0.7730. Any drop to the downside was followed by a rise to the upside in recent days. This is the case today as well. After falling to [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: 'Young' ICOs: Nasdaq Exec Says Exchange Still the Place to Raise Capital

Nasdaq's vice chairman has said ICO's are still "very young" and that the stock exchange is still the best place for a company to raise funding.

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CryptoCurrency News: SIA Group, R3 Team Up for Blockchain Finance App Network

Technology infrastructure provider SIA Group and DLT consortium R3 have teamed up in an effort to get banks and corporates using blockchain apps.

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CryptoCurrency News: European Central Bank Member: We Aren't Ignoring Cryptocurrency

European Central Bank board member Benoît Cœuré says that the group is following bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but do not consider them threats.

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