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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Rises After Recent Crash; IRS Delivers New Rules For Crypto Investors

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Ransom is demanded in bitcoin, upon threat of releasing damaging information to family, friends, and co-workers. But now the hackers are asking for alternative crypto currencies to bitcoin in their ransom demands. This latest sextortion version is using a Litecoin wallet address instead of bitcoin to evade detection,” Johnson wrote.

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Bitcoin Daily: Tether’s Parent Co. Hit With $1T Lawsuit; Nearly $10B In Bitcoin Held In Crypto Exchanges

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In other news, $10 billion worth of bitcoin — or almost 7 percent — is currently held in the wallets of eight major cryptocurrency exchanges. And the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced that they have signed an operational agreement on the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Switzerland.

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Bitcoin Daily: Malaysia Will Start Regulating ICOs, Russia May Invest In Bitcoin To Take On Sanctions

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In other news, The Danish Tax Agency (known as the Skattestyrelsen in the Danish language) has received the go ahead in order to access the data of traders in digital currency exchanges, Coindesk reported. million between 2015 and 2017 through the Finnish bitcoin exchange. dollars, The Telegraph reported.

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Should Obama ‘Heed The Call’ On Bitcoin?

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Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle East, clean up the economy, create more jobs, fix the education system, lower taxes, etc., Promoting bitcoin. Of course, when the former commissioner, Bart Chilton, says bitcoin, he’s talking blockchain and all digital currencies. So, why digital currencies? Just like the Internet.

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NY Creates Cryptocurrency Task Force

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Cryptocurrencies , like bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple , are digital assets designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure transactions,” he said. Cryptocurrency, however, is more than just an asset that stores value.

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Blockchain Unchained: Paxos CEO Sees Expanded Role For Token-Based Digital Assets

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Although blockchain technology and Bitcoin, its best-known inhabitant, have been around for 10 years, the world is just now entering a seismic transition from holding account-based assets to a system that uses token-based digital assets. Hamstringing American Innovation. s ability as a country to effectively innovate.

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Bitcoin’s Resplendent Week

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Milan, Italy was the host of a formal bitcoin conference to address scaling and a protest conference that addressed, well, everything that the formal conference didn’t. Scaling of bitcoin is a thorny issue and one that caused some dissension at the Scaling Bitcoin conference that took place on October 8 and 9.

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