Bitpanda which is a popular crypto currency exchange in Europe has announced that if blockchain split happens after August 1st, 2017, they would not support Bitcoin Cash. They added that they do not support the contentious hard fork attempts and hence won’t credit its users with BCC coins according to your Bitcoin balance. In the future, it may be possible, that they add BCC as a trading pair, although this is yet to be decided.
Popular crypto exchange Bittrex has issued statement about Bitcoin Cash. The company says that Bittrex will be monitoring this situation closely on whether to include Bitcoin Cash trading on their network on not. It will be closing deposits and withdrawals of bitcoin 24 hours prior to BCC UAHF time on August 1st 12:20pm UTC. That being said, trading will remain active during this time.
Stellar Labs are having a twitter war with Poloniex. It is about their ongoing program where they used to be giving free Lumens currency to people who already hold bitcoin. Under their scheme, users who hold bitcoin in kraken, BTC38, Poloniex, deribit, Bit-Z, NaoBTC and Yuanbag. Poloniex said that it was not clear to them why Stellar included their name on their website as participants in 6/27 giveaway. This was done without their consent and they did not agree to participate nor did they possess the Stellar Labs for this giveway.
Bitpanda, a bitcoin exchange has partnered with Austrain post office to offer bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum and dash at 1800 post office branches all over Austria. If you an Austrian, you will be able to buy the popular crypto currencies with euros at all the post office branches easily.
Cryptobuyer is a latin American cryto currency startup that has now become the first company to install bitcoin ATM inside a commercial bank. Jorge Luis Farias is the CEO of the company who has played integral part in joining hands with popular South American banks in setting up physical ATMs inside banks. Right now, cryptobuyer has installed two of these.
Darknet criminals known as “All Base service” are demanding bitcoin fee to stop spamming. The company specializes in sending out spam email campaigns for a bitcoin fee. Spam services are getting increasingly popular in which the recipients get lot of spam emails and later the “All base service” ask for an amount in crypto currency to get them removed from their hit list.
A Lativian automobile company called Dartz has churned out a new Black Alligator SUV at the Gumball 2017 3000 rally. The company says their car will be offered to those who can buy it using bitcoin or ethereum. We hope that the acceptance of bitcoin and ethereum will be more than just a mere sales gimmick.
Ronnie Moas who is a Standpoint Research founder has predeicted that the bitcoin price will climb to 5000 dollars in next year and then will hit 25000-50000 within 10 years. This means that the bitcoin price will double in 2018 and then show multifold increase every other year.
