Remember everybody used to bite Nickel,
Now everybody doin’ Bitcoin
Yes, Bitcoins gets a mention in the new album of Eminem “Kamikaze” where Royce da 5’9” said the aforementioned words. This is the tenth album by the top rapper. The mention of bitcoin clearly shows the significance of bitcoin. He says everybody is doing bitcoin and is not something to get rich quick or to buy bad things online.
Localbitcoins.com is a very popular P2P website where users can buy and sell bitcoins. And this has not made banks happy, especially the ones in the UK. HSBC and Barclays have frozen bank accounts of users that are trading on localbitcoins.com.
Last week, Binance announced acquisition of Trust wallet and since Coinbase does not want to be left behind, it has announced today that it has acquired Toshi and the Toshi wallet now becomes Coinbase Wallet. This is define future of the decentralized web and make that future accessible to anyone.
Charts are now available in the CEX.io application for both iOS and android phones. If you know how to read a chart, you can make better and more informed trading decisions.
People always complain about cryptocurrency exchanges. No exchange is perfect but there is one exchange that is in the lime light lately and getting a lot of ‘smack’ from people. It’s HitBTC. Several have been complaining about inability to withdraw their funds from the exchange. One user had to be wait for full four months and several tickets just to get his funds withdrawn from the exchange.
If you live in Baltic and fan of cryptocurrency, CopPay has got you covered. You will now be able to pay for Samsung products using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Dash, Nem, and Steem. CopPay is also being accepted in the local restaurants and other retailers as well. CopPay has also initiated a referral program to accelerate cryptofication all over Europe.
ElectrumG Bitcoin Gold wallet is now available for download, which is basically an electrum wallet for the BTG. This allows the users to manage their funds without downloading Bitcoin Gold blockchain that runs into many gigabytes. So think of it like your typical android wallet but made for desktop – you don’t have to download blockchain – simply use seed or private keys to send funds.
Purse.io, a website which lets you shop on Amazon on Bitcoin has added option for Bitcoin Cash. There was a rumor about Purse adding BCH support last year as well but looks like it took them some additional time to get it working.
DNS servers of Bitcoin Gold were hacked yesterday and the official website, bitcoingold.org is redirecting to “Juice Wrld – Lucid Dreams” YouTube video. The official forum, forum.bitcoingold.org is also redirecting to the video but direct links to forum topics are not redirecting to video and are inaccessible.
