Category: Bitcoin News

The names of Bitfinex and Tether founders, Giancarlo Devasini and Philip Potter in Paradise papers may come as surprise to many. This massive leak has list of 120,000 companies and people who have taken services of offshore service providers operating in tax havens. These Paradise papers say that Appleby helped Philip Potter and Giancarlo Devasini in setting up Tether in British Virgin Island back in 2014. This leak is the world’s second bigger data leak which is shadowed only by Panama Papers leak that happened in 2016.

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China has made Bitcoin mining illegal and is sending notices to Bitcoin mining farms. The notice says Sichuan Electric power company will soon stop supplying power to the Bitcoin mining farms. In the notice, they say that a lot of power is consumed by the mining machines. The report comes from caijing, a Chinese portal to which one Bitcoin miner commented that the bitcoin mining was being done using discarded water that is let go without producing electricity. This is the chief reason why the price of electricity is so low.

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LegerHQ has just tweeted and confirmed that they will be supporting Bitcoin Gold on November 13. The new bitcoin will be launching today at 7PM UTC at block height 491407. Right now, testnet support is already operational and bitcoin gold team has confirmed on their official twitter account that everything is working as expected. The Bitcoin Gold will be added to your account automatically and no action is required from your end.

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Bitcoin Gold is a fork of Bitcoin but unlike latter, a normal person can mine BTG with their computer. For best results, you will need a computer with Nvidia or AMD graphics card. The Bitcoin Gold makes use of Equihash algorithm which is also used by Zcash and ZenCash which are two very popular crypto currencies. Due to that, we have a range of tools that can mine Bitcoin Gold easily.

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Bittrex which is one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world has made it official that it will be supporting the Segwit2x (B2X) coins. So if you have bitcoin on bittrex during the Segwit2x hard fork block 494784 in mid-November, you will be getting equivalent amount of coins in 1:1 basis. For instance, if you have 1 btc, you get one B2X coin. Deposits and withdrawals will be disabled 24 hours prior to Segwit2x fork. All incoming withdrawals will not be credited and bitcoin wallet will remain closed until hard fork has completed. You will still be able to trade.

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India is on the verge of imposing a Chinese-style crypto currency ban for bitcoins and altcoins. Bitcoin, which is around 0.49 million rupees in India is growing in popularity at an amazing rate and being used for terrorist activities and black money, as said in this article by economic times. This ban will directly affect bitcoin dealers like unocoin, bitxoxo, zebpay and so on. It is not clear whether the ban will affect crypto currency exchanges or not but it looks like it will.

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Claim your free bitcoin gold. Everybody knows about the free BTG but there is scarce information on how to claim bitcoin gold. This new cryptocurrency was forked out of bitcoin’s blockchain on 24^th October 2017 from block height of 491407 and to be eligible, you must know the private keys of your bitcoin wallet or use a wallet that automatically credits it for you. In this article, we will be making use of an android wallet to claim bitcoin gold.

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Coinbase, the most popular bitcoin exchange in USA has issued a statement about the upcoming bitcoin forks, Segwit2x (Bitcoin2x) and Bitcoin Gold (BTG). Segwit2x fork date is November 16^th 2017 while the Bitcoin Gold fork occurred on October 23^rd 2017. Due to lack of information about Bitcoin Gold, Coinbase has decided not to support it so you won’t get free BTG for your bitcoins. However, you will get free Bitcoin2x coins for the upcoming Segwit2x fork.

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Japan is responsible for 63 percent of total bitcoin trading. It is also home to lot of companies that do ICO but rumors are brewing that Japan could be next big country to ban ICO (initial coin offering). Company launches an ICO to raise funds from the public and it is touted as the best method to raise funds from the potential investors. Japan was the first country to support bitcoin as legal tender but the country is signaling to follow a different approach for ICOs.

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Anyone interested in buying Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency might have stumbled upon dozens of similar guides. In practice, buying bitcoins can be a confusing process. There are so many questions before you can even get started: Where can you buy bitcoins? Is it legal? Is it safe? Where can you get a good price? And many more. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

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