There are almost unlimited potential uses of cryptocurrencies: fat protocols, incentivized collective action, work sharing. Anything people now give away for free - open source code, blogs, videos - could benefit from the right currency enhancement.

Decimated has been listed as one of the top ICOs of 2019 by Inwara and allegedly has a community of more than 33,000 users. The Founder of Fracture Labs can now announce that the Decimated token ‘DIO’ is becoming listed on the exchange ZBX.

Reg A+ is a spinoff of 2012’s JOBS act that was designed to encourage investment and growth in small-and-medium-sized businesses – the kind of businesses that don’t necessarily want to go all the way to a full IPO, with all the SEC filing and regulatory requirements that involves.

Blockchain Summit Frankfurt is about “total” Blockchain. An audience all together with one common interest, no other side topics and no co-located events to boost numbers and dilute your audience.

The greatest difference between traditional and crypto AML is technological. Unlike the traditional financial sector, compliance officers can track almost the whole history of cryptocurrency movement. In this respect, blockchain is an important source of data for a compliance officer that the traditional financial sector fails to deliver.

The integration has major implications for this nascent project’s growth prospects and future trajectory. TOMO is already compatible with leading cryptocurrency storage solutions like MyEtherWallet and MetaMask, along with the team’s homegrown TomoMaster and TomoWallet applications.

Pledgecamp uses smart contracts to hold its pledger’s funds in escrow, instead of the creator getting all the money upfront. Funds are released based on the backers, who vote based on if the development plan is on track.

Without a doubt, Stellar has one of the strongest communities around its token in the crypto space. They encourage people to use their product and build useful tools with it. Let’s take a look at how they do it.

‘How do I store my…?’, is one of the most asked questions in the cryptosphere. One that is posed by newcomers, veteran traders, institutions and everyone in between — an important question too.

When trading crypto on leverage it is important to understand that you are taking on more risk than you otherwise would. This increased risk is traded for the possibility to achieve increased rewards. It is important to pick a secure exchange with low fees to give you the best possible chance of success. 

In this article I will try to explain bitcoin’s intrinsic value, and debunk some popular myths and misconceptions about bitcoin, both as a security and as a currency, starting with the most prevalent of all misconceptions regarding bitcoin: the tulip comparison.

It’s no secret that in today’s marketplace, holding a side gig in addition to your regular nine-to-five job is not uncommon. Whether you’re walking dogs on the weekends or helping your neighbor mow their lawn, picking up a second job is a great way to earn more cash as well as expand your professional network within your own community.

Given the collapse of the ICO market, attention has naturally turned to what had been promoted as the “compliant” alternative to ICOs, namely digital security offerings, or DSOs. I, for one, predict that in a few years’ time, all publicly traded securities will utilize some form of distributed ledger technology and involve tokenization.

The January Monthly Review provides an overview of the current exchange landscape as well as a monthly evaluation of how spot volumes vs futures volumes have developed historically, including both crypto exchanges (BitMEX and BitflyerFX) and traditional exchanges (CBOE and CME).

Unfortunately a lot of people who bought into the FOMO from this short bull rally just took a hit. If you look at my previous posts from this past week, you will see that I mentioned being extremely cautious on these types of runs, and not to just jump in hastily.

One of things we love the most about the crypto markets is that they never shut down, they are 24/7 unlike the traditional markets. But with that and the extreme volatility within these markets you have to fly by the seat of your pants!

In other words, the hype and nonsense is going back to wherever such things come from, and as it recedes, like a melting glacier spurred on by coal burning bitcoin mining rigs, we may, if we are fortunate, spot glimpses of green shoots, possibly even a few leaves...

We are currently looking slightly bearish, and could potentially see a pull back down into the mid $3800's again. This is where the current uncertainty lies.

It might seem to you that blockchain technology and the field of journalism are as distant from each other as two galaxies, however, their association is able to breathe new life into the media and present great opportunities.

Weekly is looking pretty bull for the first time in awhile. There is a lot of chatter going on right now that we are seeing the reversal here, breaking out and holding above 4k could signal a bull rally.

There’s nothing like a good debate to get everyone to think about and solidify their positions, so I’d like to say a few things in defense of the existence and value of STOs.

If you are reading this then you've may have already answered The Call to Adventure some time in the past, or are considering answering it now. This is the point where you found out about blockchain technology, through one form or another, whether that was an advert on the metro, or a conversation with somebody who told you about it.

COUNTER, a start-up founded by McKinsey alum Yaniv Neu-Ner, has raised $650K to build a Crypto exchange which never holds custody of tokens. Neu-Ner mentioned that the team wanted to create a crypto exchange that is 10X more secure than the existing exchanges while keeping the user experience familiar.

The local presence gives NEO a significant foothold in the US market. The Seattle area is famed as the birthplace of such tech giants as Microsoft, Amazon, and Expedia, and home to Facebook, Google and Twitter engineering offices, among many others.

Late yesterday afternoon we began seeing a renewed bull push, setting a new 2019 high bitcoin price this morning of $3848 with a slight retracement on Binance. Volume has increased significantly, and depending on the various time frames RSI is above and/or pushing to the 70 level.

Estonia has become one of the most dynamic and modern economies. This success is due to a commitment to low red tape, the rule of law and investment in technology. Estonian politicians understood early on that opportunities in cryptocurrency area are vast and business activity is plentiful.

An accurate and impartial exchange rating system is long overdue. We were surprised when we looked around the crypto industry and saw that there wasn’t a professional and dedicated system designed to protect people from bad exchanges. When we saw this lack, we decided to draw on our experience rating ICOs/STOs and develop a similar system for exchanges.

See for yourself: according to the most recent and reputable statistics, more than a half of all crypto exchanges are vulnerable to cyber attacks. This is not a new problem; online platforms have always drawn fraudsters like bees to honey.

Winding Tree is a travel distribution platform that incorporates blockchain-based and open-source technology to bring much-needed innovation in the space. The company has just announced a new partnership with Airport Hotel Basel to communicate and educate the people in the industry about blockchain and open-source technology.

Could we be witnessing the beginning of the market turn around? You never know with these markets though... Tread carefully here and remember the extreme volatility that we are dealing with in these markets.

Malta has been the ‘quickest to draw’ in terms of regulating blockchain and cryptocurrency related activities and businesses under the recently enacted Malta Digital Innovation Authority Act, Innovative Technology Arrangements and Services Act, and the Virtual Financial Assets Act that combine into a legal framework that is welcoming to blockchain and cryptocurrency enterprises.

Since the $3380 dip and retracement we've seen some tests below $3400 but not with any strength yet. If a further dip and hold below this $3400 support zone happens, we could see it push down and set new 2019 lows.

English was not always the language of science, of medicine, of business, but at this particular point in our history as humans, English is the de facto language, or lingua franca, of choice, and we see billions of dollars going into educating people in the English language.

This article will guide ICO members through the elements that make up a secure ICO project. It’s also intended for investors as a form of checklist to verify how secure a project actually is. Any project should at least consider the elements listed in this article.

Going into the weekend we have continued roller coaster movement channeled within that $3400-$3500 zone, with a low of $3401.20 set on Binance last night around 5:30 PM PST. We have continued tight MACD lines on 12H and daily bitcoin price charts. It will be an interesting weekend, and to see how this week closes.

In 1992, when Aladdin’s romantic magic carpet ride stole the hearts of audience members around the world, were people really that concerned with identity theft and fraud? Certainly, the concept of pretending to be someone you’re not long out-dates this Disney classic. But when we compare the societal shift that has occurred in the last 27 years, the discourse around ‘identity theft’ has changed greatly.

Yesterday we saw continued bullish activity pushing up to a 24H high of $3489.20 testing the resistance zone on Binance. However, last night we had a strong reversal back down to the $3400 support zone setting a 24H low of $3418.80.

Lessons from mistakes of past ICOs CANNOT save you in the future because the times are changing and the errors that people would make or have made are very different. What was right in 2017 was no longer right in 2018; what was right in 2018 is so wrong now.

Sweden and the Nordics is home to an innovative start-up environment and a strong blockchain and crypto community. The Stockholm Blockchain Forum taking place on April 11th has now confirmed Jimmy Zhao from the recently launched crypto exchange ZBX to speak at the event.

We've had a slight bullish spike test and rejection off of the pressure/resistance level this morning, setting a new 24H high of $3470 on Binance. Currently we're looking slightly bullish for the day with the RSI pushing back up to the 50 level, and a nice MACD cross on the 4H chart.

We had continued bear action last night setting another new 24H 2019 low of $3349.92 on Binance with a retracement back into the mid $3400s. These appear to be hard tests at breaking out below that $3400 support zone. There very much still could be a continued push down to the $3000 bitcoin price level.

The Crypto Assets Conference deals with the following topics, among others: How are crypto assets regulated and taxed? What developments are there in Germany and Europe? Which business models are behind the dozens of blockchain start-ups? What effects will Security Tokens (STO) have on traditional IPOs? How will Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) evolve?

The first real estate deal transacted in cryptocurrency was concluded in Israel in 2012: the villa in question was sold for 5000 BTC. And now apartments, houses, and even castles go to the other users of digital assets all over the world. It is unlikely that the happy buyers and sellers realize the part they could play in the popularity of the blockchain.

The last time we were at this price was the week of 08/20/2017. In reviewing the bitcoin price charts and data we have, if we were to break out and hold below $3400, there is no support until back at that 3k zone, or specifically the 2018 low of $3156.26. Next after that is the 2017 low of $2817 on Binance.

In partnership with leading blockchain investment and advisory group NKB, WXY Group, as the turn-key global marketing and consulting firm service for blockchain and crypto projects, is bringing its highly successful ELEVEN Global Meet Up Series world tour to London on 25 January

It's looking like it is winding up to test these support/resistance levels again. In breaking out below that support zone we could see another drop back down in that $3400 zone. Overall volume has also been low this week so far. Only time and patience will tell.

PumaPay CEO Yoav Dror shares his take on the new vision for PumaPay as the next generation payment system that will satisfy the needs of businesses and individuals alike. While sharing the current state of development of the project, Yoav Dror shares the innovative steps in development that the PumaPay team has set out for this year, along with a detailed Roadmap.

Founder Dushan Spalevich believes this rebranding will allow iBlock TV to reach a broader audience. With less of a focus on the utility token based ICOs, iBlock TV can provide their audience with information on security tokens, blockchain technology innovations, and other topics of relevance for the cryptocurrency community.

Every country wants to ensure they have a good due-diligence system in place for crypto assets and exchanges. Why? Because when it comes to the extreme cases of terrorism, money laundering on a massive scale, or fraud on a massive scale, other countries will be looking to see if the country that allowed the transaction - think through crypto assets or a crypto exchange - did everything they could to stop it.

The whole ICO space right now is operating in a pendulum model and investors were all initially looking at high growth and quick money, which is why they got in to trouble. Right now, the market is moving towards more stability, and less profit expectations, which means that the prices might not give you massive growth but they're going to give the investor a sense of safety, i.e., there is a lower amount of risk. 

The seesaw action continues on! Volume is down and we have seen two bear/bull spikes this morning, setting a 24H low of $3530.39 at 02:00 AM PST, and a 24H high of $3633.00 at 08:00 AM PST this morning on Binance.

Due to the implementation of new regulations in the space, and countless scam projects, people's confidence in the futuristic technology and currency has diminished. Bitcoin and the blockchain, however, are not going anywhere; 2019 is gearing up to be a huge year in the industry. We talked to some experts about the direction the industry is heading in the upcoming year, and what we can expect.

In looking at the weekly bitcoin price chart here, we're coming up into the tip of the pyramid and it's getting tighter. We are either going to breakout above the downward trend line or bounce hard off of it. It is going to be interesting to see what happens here in the coming days and week.

We'll have to plan and think about how the blockchain is going to be integrated into the business, or which business processes are going to be replaced or enhanced with the help of the blockchain. The big question is, how will it extend or expand the business’s advantage?

2019 is going to be the biggest year yet for travel, with wanderlust taking millennials and GenZ across international waters as they tightly grip their iPhones, remaining true to their technological upbringing. Surely, blockchain has a place in their digital nature that can compound their travel experience with access to the connected world.

The one-day matchmaking event features up to 16 carefully selected Projects  (with a minimum ranking of 4.0 on a scale of five and average ranking of 4.5 on aggregated ICO ranking sites) with 80+ top investors and funds experienced in the digital currency sector.

Offering their thoughts on the direction for cryptocurrencies in the future, experts such as Nick Szabo and David Chaum enlightened audiences with their views towards the technology’s solutions, but also on its shortcomings.

It's looking like another pump and dump setup. Maybe a whale didn't like the market hovering down in that $3400 zone and wanted to reset their positions. Or perhaps there is divergent thinking on which direction the markets should be moving causing this?

There is a lot of talk out there about setting a new 2019 low. We very well could. Just to recap the $3500 support zone is a crucial zone right now. If it breaks out and holds below $3500 it can go back towards the previous lows. The 2018 low that was set on Binance of $3156.26 or possibly even further down to that 2017 low of $2817.

In order to achieve the agreed-upon global 2030 Agenda, it is high time we embraced both more innovative and nuanced ways of thinking and new technology that is not susceptible to corruption and bureaucracy, which will withstand changes in political tradition by going to the citizens directly. The solution, in fact, is staring us right in the face: blockchain is the answer and the way forward. 

VR and blockchain technology potentially make an interesting mix. But is it truly viable? Or is it yet another pipe dream destined to crash and burn? I spoke to Michael Katseli, CEO of Xmod Inc.

Looking at the charts you will see the extreme volatility we contend with in these markets. You will also see the tell-tale signs of market manipulation, and the pump and dump setup I was cautioning about over the past couple of days.

For the novice investor in cryptoassets, it may seem that investing in crypto means buying either bitcoin or ethereum. The reality, however, is that there is a heterogeneous investment universe of cryptoassets, with each of these assets offering unique characteristics, such as the underlying business model and design of the token model.

There are many factors which can influence the outcome of your mining profitability. The most significant elements are the cryptocurrency’s price, the mining algorithm, the hardware used for mining, and the total hash rate of the network.

As always with the volatility in these markets, they can change on a whim with a wild bitcoin price swing in either direction like a whipsaw. Looks like the bear is pulling it back a bit at the moment. We'll see how it plays out the rest of the day!

We could see some channeling here or another spike/drop. Could we have a push to the $4160 level, or could we have a drop back to the $3800 level? Only time will tell. What do you think?

As many in the industry know, the reality of the situation is, it's not the next feature that's going to make the difference. It's the core problem or the underlying need that a startup is solving that makes the difference. Talking about the core problems, sharing that narrative to gain support - yes, capital, but also community, developers and industry partners - is where thought leadership comes into play. This is how the blockchain industry starts to evolve.

So today we had a pretty big bull breakout on BTC that broke through the 4k pressure/resistance zone, and set a new 24H high of $4027.71 on Binance! We have had a slight retracement back down and are currently holding slightly above $3900. This is a crucial zone that we need to push through and hold.

We've got continued push and pull action both on BTC and ETH this morning. BTC just set a new 24H low of $3703.57 with the high at $3800, and ETH set a 24H low of $143.11 and the High of $154.80 on Binance.

Ethereum made a good push over the last few days and since 01/01/19 has regained its second place footing based on market cap. The ETH/XRP battle continues on! Overall on the major digital assets it looks like both in gains and volume, ETH was leading the pack in yesterday's bull push.

Looking at the charts this morning, volume increased, and we caught a little bull spike above $3800 on Binance, setting a new 24H high of $3839.63 and 24H low of $3642. Currently we're experiencing a retracement. This $3800 level on Binance is a strong support/pressure zone. Breaking out and holding above it, one could expect a push higher closer to our $4000 bitcoin price marker again.

So in looking at the charts this morning, we've had a 24H low of $3630.33, with a 24H high of $3756.94 set on Binance. We've been channeling between $3600 - $3800, with continued tight bands on the MACD crossing on the bearish side.

We're currently closing out 2018 with continued channeling in the $3700 - $3800 zone on Binance. Volume has decreased significantly, and we continue to have tight MACD bands and RSI is holding at the 50 level. The short time frame charts definitely show the crazy bitcoin price swings we've had these last couple of weeks not to mention the roller coaster ride we've been on this past year in these markets!

So we had another wild bull spike this morning, with a new 24H high currently set at $3869.00, and a slight uptick in volume as well on Binance. We had a strong bounce off the $3500 support zone yesterday afternoon with the 24H low of $3535 at 3:00 PM PST. We are in strong bearish markets, with another slight bull uptick.

One recent example of a customer seeking justice by trying to expose an exchange that allegedly wronged him is the case of Bitcointalk user ni23457. He states that the ChangeNOW exchange has been withholding his funds for months now, without a valid reason. After scouring the internet for information about the platform and its leaders, the user pointed out to its connection to other crypto businesses.

Contentworks, a leading content marketing agency for the finance sector will be an official media partner for Nakamoto’s Den it was announced yesterday. The investment blockchain conference will take place in Limassol Cyprus from 19th-20th February 2019 at the Carob Mill and will welcome some of the brightest minds in the blockchain space from educators, investors and innovators to start-ups and established companies looking to secure investment from leading capital firms.

We are very bearish as we have been on the daily, weekly, and monthly bitcoin price charts, and it looks like we could see a continued drop to the $3400 level. From there the next marker would be the $3200 zone, heading back towards that $3156.26 2018 low that was set on 12/14.

Unfortunately, until regulations come into play we will continue to see these wild manipulated swings. Sure the manipulators are making big money from their actions, but don't you think that they would make more by getting the masses to come to the markets? For this to happen we need to get stability, and a more gradual/natural movement in the markets.

The bear markets won the tug of war this last 24H! We had what appears to be a very apparent fake bull rally/classic pump & dump. Looking back at yesterday's post, you will see that on the 23rd @ 16:00 PM PST we saw a bull surge take place setting that bitcoin price high of $4198. The sad thing is that exactly 24H later yesterday/Christmas Eve @ 16:00 PM PST we saw a sudden and drastic drop ending with a new 24H low of $3646.41 on Binance.

As the appeal of this new technology becomes more apparent, it is no wonder that traditional finance is slowly but surely making its way into the crypto sphere. Naturally, this refers to the lending industry as well. Simply put, crypto lending is the practice of lending digital assets via crypto exchanges or various lending platforms with an interest rate.

We're starting the new week bullish, but as we all know the volatility in these markets can go either way at any time. As we pointed out, and as you can see in the charts with the support/pressure line drawn. Breaking out and holding above that $4160 level would be significant, setting the stage for the next bullish markers we are looking at. The bear and bull tug of war continues on.

There are no crystal balls. If there were, we wouldn’t be here doing this. All of the technical & fundamental analysis is one's best guess on where the markets can or will most likely go. It is a combination of this analysis and gut instincts that make exceptional traders. There are going to be winners and losers.

Our Bull Rally continues to push on! We set a new 24H high this morning on Binance of $4065, with a current slight retracement. The overall outlook on the daily is still showing strong bull support, and we’ve been testing $4000 solidly. So, if this bull action continues, looking at the weekly charts on Binance, the next marker to break out above and hold solidly would be the $4160 level, and then $4350.

In the last 24 hours we have seen a nice strong bull rally for bitcoin (BTC). We set a new 24H high this morning on Binance of $3912.73. Volume swelled yet again during this period. Looking at the weekly charts holding here definitely puts us into the $3500-$4500 zone.

Barrett: As more professional investors start to look at the market, they have different criteria for investing than the easy-money crowd. This is the traditional model. For instance, they look for real businesses, real cashflows, great, experienced teams and solid models, rather than blue-sky ideas. This benefits the market. It means we will have more successful businesses instead of the 95% failure rate quoted.

The main aim and vision of Nakamoto's Den (ND), is to bring together digital start-up companies, established international companies, investors, VC funds, family wealth funds, blockchain influencers and industry leaders.

Sweden and the Nordics is home to an innovative start-up environment and a strong blockchain and crypto community. On April 11 of 2019, the Swedish blockchain community is opening its arms and welcoming blockchain luminaries from across to world to the Stockholm Blockchain Forum by Techbook. 

As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer we are left with a situation where necessity can be the driving factor behind innovation and change. Those of you familiar with Maslow’s Pyramid will know about his take on the various layers of human existence he identifies as hierarchical. These levels from the bottom up are physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.

These classes will be presented independently from the university and will be free for students to attend. Although targeted at university students, they will also be open to the general public, so that anybody who is curious about the crypto economy can learn from a trusted source.

The price of aeternity (Ticker symbol: AE) hit a high of $5.00 (0.00050797 BTC) at a 24 hour trading volume of $43,217,000 on May 5th, 2018. The picture looks much different today and predominantly on the back of Crypto Winter - a slump in crypto prices experienced across the board. At the time of writing (December 14th), the AE price of $0.363470 (0.00010949 BTC) at a 24 hour trading volume of $3,375,236 - doesn’t seem to be a fair gauge of the hard work the dev team of Aeternity is putting in and the progress made thus far.

Today, we are witnessing the dawn of the global era of tokenization. It has silently but surely started impacting various aspects of our lives, whether we choose to accept it or not. One area that stands to benefit immensely from this formidable form of new-age disruption is the world of Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets. This year is quickly shaping up to be the year we put real-world assets into fractional ownership on the blockchain, using smart contracts.

What is Exchange 3.0 and how did we evolve from the "Age of Mt. Gox" (Exchange 1.0), to today’s "Age of CEX/DEX" (Exchange 2.0), to the coming "Age of fair trading" (Exchange 3.0)?

QASH went from a high of $2.33 (0.00017012 BTC) at a 24 hour trading volume in access of 50 million USD on January 14th, 2018 to a low of $0.137746 (0.00002247 BTC) at a 24 hour trading volume of about 608,000 USD on August 15th, 2018. It is by any standard a huge drop, but the same could be said of most other crypto prices out there. Is this the beginning of the end for QASH (pronounced CASH)? I don’t think so and will explain why.

The EQS COCKPIT's newswire service now distributes corporate news to specialist media for blockchain and cryptocurrencies. EQS Group customers with projects in the two industries can now quickly and efficiently target all relevant key journalists covering these emerging business areas.

Although the crypto community and the art world might seem like an unlikely pair, this unique relationship is in full blossom. As explained by Art Basel back in the early 90s, many artists were too involved in the internet culture and then became disappointed by the space; “they saw the internet’s early promise of a decentralized, transparent, democratic space invaded by corporations and mass surveillance.” Now, blockchain holds the promise to bring those values back.

From February, 28th to March, 2nd, European Blockchain Investment Congress will be gathering top blockchain professionals, market leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and blockchain-based startups to provide outstanding learning, discussion and networking experience first ever in such scope in Europe.

Every month, ICOEthics publishes a list of how many known scams are being promoted on the top ICO rating websites. December's list went live today.

A way of measuring a cryptocurrency’s value is through its market cap. However, another way of determining its real value is by observing its blockchain activity as it shows which crypto is actually used by traders.

Crypto-banking could revolutionize the crypto-sector as its secure wallets, smart contracts, dApps, and distributed ledger technology provide features that go above and beyond basic wallet services. These banks are essentially decentralized versions of traditional banks and are powered by blockchain technology.

CryptoCompare, the global cryptocurrency market data provider, today announces the launch of its new API service in response to customer demand for more complex and highly scalable cryptocurrency data solutions.

Napoleon AM will thus become the first asset manager in Europe funded by an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) and incorporated under French law. It will be specialized in quantitative strategies through liquid instruments and among the first AM to focus on offering investment strategies opening access to crypto (bitcoin or ether) exposure.

In less than four years, founder Da Hongfei have helped create one of the most successful and well recognized projects in the emerging blockchain industry. According to data collected by NewEconoLabs, a Chinese community of open source developers, there are over 1.8 million NEO wallet addresses and the blockchain has processed over 22 million transactions since its inception. The NEO token ecosystem is currently the 18th largest by market capitalization.

This is what happened: FAKE TEAM / Stealing people's identity and apparently getting help from ICOBench to promote their SCAM.

How does it work? The Solo Pro is composed of 3 physical supports, all with the same public address, the 'account number'. If you lose or if you are the victim of the theft or the destruction of one of the supports, you do not lose anything because only 2 of the 3 supports are necessary to recover the private key, and thus to have access to the crypto-assets.

In Switzerland, a project was recently launched, with the goal of helping cryptocurrencies adoption: it's a deck of playing cards, but not any deck. Instead of playing poker or blackjack with spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs, you're now playing with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and NEO.

We’re now moving into a new era in the crypto/blockchain space. The silly money has gotten smarter, and the smart money has gotten smarter still. ICOs with whitepapers promising the world, but delivering far less, and in some cases nothing, are really going to struggle. Now, it’s time to put up or shut up.

The ICO market more than doubled in 2018 compared with the previous year, but with only 7% of tokens managing to get listed on established crypto exchanges and 55% failing to meet their fundraising targets in Q2 alone – what is preventing this sector from meeting its potential?

It is important that the crypto community identify and dissociate from the ‘bad apples’ in our midst. We looked into this and were also shocked to learn that ICOmarks (ICOmarks.com) - an outfit that claims to “research” new ICOs - also falls horribly short of the mark. We discuss this and more in this blog post.

EtherMania was soft launched and within the first 24 hours had over 1,000 hits and 300 users sign up to the game to win the main prize. The team made the game to bring an educative element to Cryptocurrency trading where people with zero knowledge could better understand how to use Cryptocurrencies for trading and learn about the fundamentals and the risks involved in real world trading. 

Launching today, Blockchain Bytes is the premium forum for business leaders, decision makers, entrepreneurs and investors within the blockchain industry to network, learn and grow. The stellar offering from EAK Digital will bring the best and brightest in blockchain together at some of the world’s best restaurants to meet, debate, share information and make new friends.

The first thing you will notice is low trading volumes. Some tokens are generally held in crypto wallets and are hardly moving on the market. For example, for the last month the daily trading volume of TRAK token was barely over $2,000. There were a few days when the volume was 0. According to CoinSchedule, this ICO collected $50 million.

This year's annual DECENTRALIZED conference, powered by the University of Nicosia (UNIC), was held in Athens, Greece, following last year’s tremendously successful inaugural summit in Cyprus. DECENTRALIZED focuses on the business, technical, political and societal implications of blockchain technologies, across several key industries, along with analysis of the long-term implications of the blockchain, decentralization and cryptocurrency.

The concept is simple: leading industry companies will host their own 'decentralized' events, all across the city. One of the them is TNW's very own Hard Fork Pitch Battle, taking place on December 12 at 4:30pm. Applications are now open!

Any user on the blockchain network can pay cryptographic tokens, or coins, to rent the computing resources of personal computers, or data centers, whatever their location to accomplish the workload of tasks that can range from image rendering to analyzing space signals. Those offering their computing resources to the network are rewarded with cryptocurrencies in return. Tasks that used to need days or even weeks to be accomplished can be solved in minutes.

Cointelligence's founder and CEO On Yavin was interviewed by Erhan Korhaliller of EAK TV at Decentralized 2018. This video is a great opportunity to learn more about what Cointelligence is doing and why.

Smart contracts are means for exchanging money, shares, properties, or any form of asset in a transparent, secure, conflict-free way while omitting the need for intermediation by a middleman. Throughout this article, we will review the most widely used smart contract platforms that have proven to be efficient and reliable across various business applications.

ELSOL, the leading brand publishing company in South Korea, has decided to tackle the inefficiencies in the advertising industry by launching INFLEUM, its blockchain-based platform aimed at decentralizing brand publishing and helping startups promote their businesses in a profitable way.

The cryptocurrency world is never boring. There was a lot of talk at Decentralized 2018 in Athens about the recent $25B market crash and the BCH hard fork. Who better to talk about this, and Bitcoin.com's upcoming exchange, than the CEO of Bitcoin.com, Roger Ver?

Just as in the FIAT world, consumers are going to require easy and secure access to their wallets. Payment methods will need to be quick and non-cumbersome. Therefore, the crypto wallet must be versatile, secure, and easily accessible. Accessing the wallet and fulfilling transactions will need to take seconds, not minutes. The transaction needs to be as quick as a credit card swipe, or a tap on an NFC device.

Even though the security token market is evolving at a rather fast pace, the industry is still in its very early days. As such, there are numerous grey areas lying in both the market presented to token buyers, as well as the business models adopted by entrepreneurs and business owners looking to raise capital via regulated blockchain-based means.

I recently had the chance to sit down with Justas Pikelis, the co-founder of Monetha. We had a lengthy conversation about what Monetha is doing, and what contributed to the success of their ICO. I think you'll find his insights into ICO marketing and community building very interesting, especially if you are considering your own ICO, STO, or TGE in the near future.

Do you hear the masses clamoring for a cold-storage wallet built into their phones? The average person outside of the crypto community doesn’t even know what cold storage is! For that matter, when was the last time you heard anyone say “You know what? I feel like spending $1000 on a phone from a company I’ve never heard of, based on technology I’m not familiar with, and with scant details on the features I actually care about.”

Much like a mainstream journalist, the AI quickly latched onto the idea of “Bitcoin” and didn’t seem to realize that there were other cryptocurrencies out there. But eventually, we got some real gems out of our neural network.

Derivatives are financial securities that are based or tied into another asset, and take the form of a contract between two parties. The price of the derivative depends on the price of the base asset. The advantages of trading derivatives, as opposed to actual cryptocurrencies, are becoming increasingly clear. So, what are the advantages of trading derivatives instead of popularly traded cryptocurrencies?

Issues within the global remittance industry today are running rampant, blocking migrants and those on the receiving end of money transfers from reaping the once-promised benefits of the service system. An absurdly high number of intermediaries, along with their fluctuating commissions, are robbing developing countries of their earned profits across borders, while heavy regulations on international financial exchanges through remittance services are laying an extra blanket of pressure over the entire transaction process.

The month of November will bring to you the World Blockchain Summit’s debut into ‘The Venice of the North”, Amsterdam, at the Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel on 9th November 2018. A few weeks back, Dubai saw the success of the World Blockchain Summit that hosted more than 900+ attendees including governments, enterprises, investors, innovators, corporates, and emerging startups from all around the world. 

You get people that are involved in the crypto space and then you get the Crypto People. Members of the first group are only interested in cryptos because it can help them to Lambo and moon land. Their involvement in cryptos are driven by questions like: “When Lambo? When moon? When will xyz token be listed on abc exchange?” And questions similar in nature to those - all questions primarily interested in monetary gain and the sooner the better.

Exchanges are currently the most important players in the crypto field. They manage millions in crypto and fiat currency every day, and control the assets of a myriad of users. Their power and influence on the market is seemingly too much sometimes. Exchanges represent to this day the centralized authority that Bitcoin, and the other cryptocurrencies that followed, tried so hard to remove. How can we contain their influence?

Location-based advertising is the new way of advertising and can be expected to account for a growing proportion of marketing spending. The increasing number of connected devices lowers the entry barrier and makes the collection of location data easier. It’s therefore not unusual that more and more location-based data startups pop-up. Here’s an overview of blockchain-based location data startups, presented in a question-and-answer format.

Look to your left. Now look to your right. It’s official, freelancers have officially taken over. Where are they coming from, though? How are they being recruited, vetted, and hired so swiftly and securely? Freelancers haven’t just taken over the workforce, they’ve taken over the blockchain, which is their gateway to unlimited employment opportunities and instant payment for a job well done.

Africa has struggled with issues related to political corruption. Earlier this year, Sierra Leone—with the help of Swiss firm Agora—became the first country to use the blockchain to ensure transparent and fair elections. In August, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula Chebukati announced that Kenya would also embrace blockchain to provide real-time election results and restore faith in the system.

This conference should be attended by individuals that have an interest in cryptocurrencies whether they be from the cryptocurrency community itself, the banks, the exchanges or the trading platforms or acting as their professional advisers, both in the UK and Europe. It will also be of interest to public officials, regulators, relevant associations and experts on financial crime.

A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency whose value is "pegged" to assets with stable value including fiat currencies (e.g. USD, EUR, etc) and precious metals. Gold-backed cryptocurrencies are special forms of stablecoins, the value of which are pegged to that of gold. Combining the innovative capabilities of the blockchain technology with gold offers a convenient solution to the highly volatile cryptocurrency market.

Twitter often becomes the social network of loud statements and verbal battles for notorious people. This time, Twitter became the base for two clashing paradigms: the traditional financial system - Nouriel Roubini, and the newest blockchain economy - Vitalik Buterin. The crypto-community expects a heated debate with a prize of 1 million USD, but the place and time have not yet been decided by the opponents.

The buzz around the Malta Blockchain Summit is palpable. It’s no surprise that the Expo floor has been sold out for some time now. Due to the high demand for a sought-after-stand we’ve added a special section to accommodate extra booths. In addition to a slew of carefully curated exhibitors, a line-up of some of the most influential movers and shakers in the crypto-world have signed on as speakers.

While in Barcelona for Crypto Economy World, our founder and CEO On Yavin was interviewed by Dushan Spalevich for ICO TV. In this quick interview, On not only talks about how our ICO listing and rating system helps ICO founders learn how to improve their projects, but also our future plans for connecting the ICOs with our coin list, to help investors better see the ROI for investing in these projects.

One beautiful morning, I was rudely awakened by the shocking information on my email that my expert status has been revoked for “working in several agencies”. This was truly surprising for me as I had joined ICObench based on my expertise precisely from with “working in several agencies” - how else can one gain diverse and massive experience?

Use this simple guide to understand what a cryptocurrency wallet is, how it works, how to find the most popular cryptocurrency wallets, and the most secure ones available on the market today. We will help you choose the most suitable wallet to serve your needs.

A Directed Acyclic Graph, or DAG, can be best explained as an infinitely connected series of nodes. Put simply, there is no blockchain in the conventional sense - there is a chain of sorts, but no blocks - and instead its design looks more like a messy graph. IOTA are apt to nickname their DAG architecture ‘The Tangle’ for this very reason.

A crypto airdrop offers an attractive opportunity to earn some free tokens from your favorite project. But not all ICO airdrops are equal and some may offer better rewards, while conversely, some may be frauds.

You know that Cointelligence rates ICOs, but what does that really mean? We've compiled a report on the statistics behind our ICO ratings. What metrics do we use, and how do ICOs meet or fail them? Our hope is that this information can help ICOs and potential investors have a better experience.

We’re not like the strict professor at university who likes giving low grades, we just believe in fairness and it would be wrong to deceive the investors by giving false ratings to ICO projects.

ICO drops are a good way to get started with cryptocurrency. You can practically invest in a project, without actually investing money into it. Basically, a crypto airdrop is an event, in which a project gives out free tokens to community members. This is seen as a good marketing strategy, because it attracts more participants to a project and allows them to have a stake in it.

I’ve researched deeper on the phenomenon of ICO “experts” cropping overnight and came up with amusing findings. Most of today’s top ICO experts are average people who decided to start advising ICOs within the past year or two.

In partnership with ​CryptoFriends​, the ​Malta Blockchain Summit​ will host Blockchain Hackathon and two-day ICO pitching session. The ​Malta Blockchain Hackathon​ will be held from October 31st to November 2nd. If you are a developer with your eyes set on making it in the blockchain industry then this is for you.

These disgusting images should not have been allowed to be added to the platform, but this goes to show that either Telegram does not screen their user created content, or they simply do not care. 

For your Average Joe (or Jane), cryptocurrency is just seems too confusing and complicated. In their minds, a digital currency should be easy to send to anyone with an email address or even just a mobile phone number.

You’re curious about the tools that you may require to get the free tokens. In the following few paragraphs, we’ll explain all the tools that may be involved in an ICO airdrop.

Triphop is launching a blockchain program that will incentivize hotel guests to share their trips on social media. In return guests will receive benefits ranging from room upgrades to possession of Triphop’s very own token, the Tripcoin.

Almost anyone can set themselves up as an ICO marketer these days. A little knowledge in cryptocurrency isn’t hard to gain. You can start by offering a consultation, then produce some content and throw in a little community and reputation management for good measure. None of these elements are wrong, they are necessary and good, but they are not the real secrets to ICO marketing.

Is the Klondike Gold rush over, and will we ever see the likes of 1,000x again (or for that matter the giant gains of firms like Pantera)? Answer: Probably not.

Decentralized financial services are providing a more secure means to lending and borrowing. Using blockchain technology, P2P network exchanges are excluding intermediaries and utilizing self-executing smart contracts that offer a more efficient process for borrowing and lending. Borrowers benefit greatly from these innovative financial technologies as marketplace lending platforms are generally more credit inclusive and have a higher likelihood of approval.

CryptoKitties, the furry tradable cats, were all the rage in 2018, making headlines in various top media. The rise of CryptoKitties shows a shift in society from collecting material objects, such as baseball cards or snowglobes, to collecting the intangible. In such a digital world, it only makes sense that various objects of our daily life are migrating into the virtual world. So what’s next in the digital collectible world?

I recently had the pleasure of talking to a professional hacker, called Mr. X. (Actually, not his real name, but perhaps you already guessed that). Mr. X is employed to rain down terror and havoc on the defenses of banks and exchanges in order to find their vulnerabilities. When he succeeds, as a good citizen he reports the breech, and it’s repaired, hopefully.

What happens when millions of ‘ordinary people’ come face to face with crypto? What happens when crypto is no longer something special just for financial wizards and geeks, but families use cryptocurrencies to book their holidays, or even pay for pizzas?

Blockchain technology is advancing just in time to offer the first truly private, incorruptible means of communication when it is most sorely needed. In order to understand this amazing potential, let’s take a look at why traditional communication methods have collapsed and how blockchain can uniquely meet those challenges.

Once upon a time, there was a race of giants who controlled just about everything in Fairytaleland. They did this through something called money, which was actually just pieces of paper with pictures printed on it, but the giants – who were called The Bankers – convinced everyone that money was a good thing.

The term stablecoin refers to any cryptocurrency coin or token pegged to an asset with a relatively stable price, such as fiat currencies or gold. A stablecoin can be under control of a central entity, such as Tether (USDT), or a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), such as Dai, a stablecoin which is issued on the Ethereum network. Nubits is another stablecoin which is partly controlled by a DAO, but is also under control by a central authority, representing a hybrid issuance model.

Stablecoins are backed by something, right? There’s some asset which stands behind them and makes them akin to a national currency, which is backed by gold bars in a vault somewhere, right?

Part of the problem with crypto is that it is unrelated to anything ‘in the real world.’ Tokenized offerings are a brilliant way of raising funds, and – if successful – their tokens can then be used by investors within the ecosystem of the ICO. Outside of that they can be traded on the exchanges for other coins, but the whole market is still prone to alarming shifts in value.

In 2016, a photo of Mark Zuckerberg covering his laptop’s camera with tape went viral and left us all wondering if we should be as paranoid and do the same. More interestingly, though, is that today we are trying to protect ourselves from Facebook.

Due diligence isn't just in the hands of would-be ICO investors. It falls on all of us. Journalists. ICO raters. Crypto experts. Bloggers. We all have a responsibility to research what we're talking about, to dig deeper when something doesn't seem to be right, and to call-out the lies, scams, and corruption that we see.

Now I must stress that what follows comes from a random trawl, but I think it proves that the ‘The Man’ isn’t in control of everything. And remember, none of these picks are advice to invest!

Look at most ICOs, and you’ll see that blockchain and smart contracts are always somewhere in the marketingspeak. Blockchain is the magic JuJu which has to be sprinkled around the offering to ensure uptake, apparently.

It seems that schisms will always happen, and now we have the schism which occurred at block 478,559, when there was a permanent divergence from the previous version of the blockchain, and nodes running previous versions ceased to be accepted by the newest version. Welcome to the world, Bitcoin Cash!

There is a great buzz around cryptocurrencies, which is causing more and more individuals to explore this new industry with the hopes of getting involved in some way. Yet, with fees so high for making cryptocurrency purchases it is no wonder the industry as a whole is still struggling with onboarding new cryptocurrency investors and users.

Salangin: PayFair's primary asset - after the platform itself - is the community. The feedback the community has given us has impacted how the platform operates and looks; their input will always be in our mind.

Have you heard the plot of the new blockbuster thriller with Dom Fuse in the lead role as a CIA operative embedded in the crypto world? He’s the tough-talking all-action hero who is called in to the shadowy department, within a department, within a top secret corner of CIA Langley.

It was one of those moments where we get to witness the next big thing, knowing that the world will never be the same again. Like if you were taking a walk along the beach at Kitty Hawk when the Wright brothers first flew.

Right now the cryptosphere is largely still ruled by the brains and hearts of entrepreneurs. People create projects because they really love the idea they want to broach to the world, and they then use their intelligence to make the best of their offer. The machines will take over sooner or later however because that's just the way it is.

We collect and generate truth - also known as data - at such an incredible rate that no one can actually measure it, but who believes what we collect?

To those that don’t have backgrounds in conventional finance, dark pools are either two words that have never come up next to each other in the same sentence or a commonly misunderstood part of healthy markets.

Terra has secured 32M$ funding to implement their stable coin. Let's review Terra's 19-page whitepaper, which is very technical from an economic and scientific point of view. However, this level of technicality ends at economics, as both technical implementation and blockchain logic is missing from the paper entirely.

Native English speakers always make things fancy and more complex than they need to, whereas someone using English as a second language has to keep it simple.

On the 3rd of June, ZenCash suffered from a 51% attack where more than $500,000 in double spend transactions was lost. The attacker managed to manipulate blocks which allowed him to double spend on two massive transactions of respectively 13,000 and 6,600 ZEN. According to estimates via the website 51Crypto.app, the attacker only had to spend $30,000 to pull off the 51% attack.

Why are we looking at the failure rates for planes and medical drugs? Because I wanted to see if there was a context to view the failure of ICOs - and let's be realistic here, the numbers of ICOs failing doesn't make for a pretty picture. According to figures from Tokendata, of 902 ICOs so far this year, 142 failed at the ICO stage, while 276 crashed and burned within the first 4 months of the successful ICO. Bitcoin News confirms this with the 2017 failure rate running at 46%.

Obviously, security tokens will attract an enormous share of Wall Street's money during 2019. This expected shift has urged many venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to invest in the establishment of security token exchanges during the past couple of years. Throughout this article, we will take a look at security token exchanges that are expected to launch in 2019 and 2018's fourth quarter.

The cart is often put in front of the horse with ICOs. It’s quite understandable that the development team are focused on their amazing solution, but hey guys, pause a moment and tell us what the problem is! That way the solution horse will pull your problem cart all the way to the success of your ICO.

The brave new world of crypto is exactly mirroring the sad old world of conventional finance, and the whole Internet-as-a-men’s-club approach.

If you searched far and wide for a brilliant example of how NOT to do an ICO, you couldn’t find better than the sad story of the petro.

At some point did the template for the ‘perfect’ ICO whitepaper get standardized? Judging by the increasingly formulaic nature of whitepapers, the answer must surely be ‘Yes.’ Enterprises strive to tell us what is special and unique about their offering, but do this in a way so formulaic that it often seems simply cut and pasted from the last job done by the website agency.

As a teenager did you ever get passionate about a favorite band or singer? You must remember that feeling of wanting to tell the whole world how wonderful they are. But then when the world started listening too, you experienced that slight feeling of disappointment: Now that all the grey and ordinary people have tuned into your passion, and suddenly you don't feel so passionate!

Becoming familiar with the most common ICO templates, and what they look like in their unmodified forms, is a valuable tool in your scam-prevention arsenal. One common red flag is when the ICO has not changed the default images that come with the scheme. Let us demonstrate.

For companies that host their blog on Medium, users only spend a short amount of time on the company’s website. Instead of staying to read blog articles, users are sent off to another website. If a user arrived to a company’s website via a Google organic search, sending the user to another website may actually hurt that website’s ranking.

With airdrops, it seems like everyone is a winner;  the owners of the ICO project will generate demand for their coin/token, and individuals who receive the airdropped tokens will get coins/tokens for free, which may turn out to be worth a fortune, when they get listed on exchanges. But, is there any downside to airdrops?

If you look at the stats, Instagram marketing is indeed worth the hassle. This photo and video sharing app has over 1 billion monthly active users up from 800 million in September 2017. It is expected to cross 2 billion active users by 2023 showing the upward trajectory and positive sentiment for this totally cool social media site. The largest user group is between 25 and 34-years old too; a generation that readily embraces new technology and is happy to engage with companies online.

Most people in the cryptocurrency industry seem to have given up on the goal of decentralization - specifically within the ICO and tokenization space. It would seem instead they mostly have ideas and plans and seek to launch in ICO space because it’s the new and cool thing to do, and simply by creating a cryptocurrency project they can get all sorts of people willing to invest in their plans.

We have noticed something unusual with Ubex Token Sale recently and as part of our vision in Cointelligence to open the blockchain and crypto industry to the masses and lead an open, transparent, and fair trade, we felt the need to share this with the community.

A lot of people have excitedly asked for their invitation to Q. But others think that this is just another get-rich-quick scheme with no substance. We liked Udi Wertheimer’s response so much that we got his permission to repost it here.

Many ICOs are focused on launching private sales rather than public sales. There are many reasons behind this choice. Running a marketing campaign for an ICO can be costly, with some ICOs easily spending $500,000 or more.

Bulgaria to host international crypto conference ‘Evolution of Money’: Sterlin Lujan for the first time on stage in Sofia.

The history of international trade and its current conditions shows that only large companies could receive all of the benefits and leave the smaller ones on the side of the large road. That's about to change.

While there have been many instances where the legitimacy and security of blockchain have been rightfully questioned, there are companies that are taking this into account, and are adamantly proactive about it.

Cryptocurrency is gaining popularity at an almost exponential rate. Cointelligence is providing its readers with a simple guide that walks them through the process of buying bitcoin and storing it securely on one of the world's most secure online wallets.

Neufund, the Berlin-based equity fundraising platform regulated under German jurisdiction, that allows for any type of financial asset to be tokenized and liquidized, announces the first companies to officially conduct security offerings through its blockchain technology

EOS air drops have become the main topic of discussions across almost all online cryptocurrency communities. EOS air drops represent an easy means for getting some free money. Moreover, the EOS air drop model is expected to gradually replace the Ethereum based ICO fundraising model. Cointelligence is offering you a simple guide that will introduce you to the new era of EOS air drops.

Here at Cointelligence, we feel that there is a growing need in the entire crypto community for an impartial and accurate ICO rating and STO rating system. The rating system must be one that is not influenced by ICO/STO makers and advisors or bribes. Moreover, the rating system must be as accurate as possible in order to gain trust from the crypto community.

High-profile advertising bans present a unique challenge for ICOs. Now, ICO Community Managers have risen to prominence.

Grimcoin (GRIM) is one of the coins to look for in 2018. The coin currently offer a 525% yearly interest for coin holders after shifting to a proof-of-stake (PoS) algorithm.

All information about the events, conferences, meetups, and parties at Blockchain Week NYC 2018 in one place.

Hilton Kyiv Hotel, Ukraine, will be the home of the Next Block Conference on May 18th. This exciting blockchain event will feature CEOs and industry leaders of blockchain projects, ICOs, and cryptocurrencies. The event will be foregrounded by FTV Coin Deluxe Party, which is expected to be 2018's most breathtaking crypto party all over Eastern Europe.

The bullish wave grew stronger during last week's trading sessions taking ethereum price above $600. As per our technical analysis, the price of ether will most probably continue rising to test the resistance around $713.24 during the upcoming week.

Bitcoin price gained around 10% during last week's trading sessions, reaching around $8,800 early during Sunday. As per our technical analysis, bitcoin price will most probably breach the resistance around $8,866 and continue rising towards $9,845.60 during the upcoming week.

The IRS is serious about collecting taxes on cryptocurrency. Don't get caught unawares at tax season! Learn more about how to calculate your gains and report on your crypto trading activity.

Slice is creating an opportunity for high value investors in the crypto market to invest in real estate in Manhattan with their crypto assets.

A new bullish wave has started during last week's trading sessions, igniting a rise of around 16.5% in bitcoin price. As per our technical analysis, bitcoin price will most probably continue rising towards $8,866 during the upcoming week.

A strong bullish wave is currently evident across the ETHUSD market. As per our technical analysis, ethereum price will most probably continue rising to break through the resistance around $545.08 and head towards the next resistance around $713.11 during the upcoming week.

We are presenting you with a basic guide that will help you understand the basic steps needed to run your own ICO project. We will walk you through the process of planning your project, creating your website, writing your whitepaper, and creating your Ethereum based token.

According to textbook macroeconomics, to be money an asset should be a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. Using the price of a Lamborghini, let's explore if bitcoin is a currency.

Blockchain is still in its infancy, and even though many current projects are implementing the technology, they are still in the early stages of development. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin currently do not have many productive applications and yet, development is remarkable and every day startups come to market with new and promising ideas.

Bancor's protocol has been developed to omit the need for cryptocurrency exchanges. Via the Bancor wallet, users will be able to convert between various Ethereum based coins/tokens directly without having to rely on cryptocurrency exchanges.

Ethereum price rose slightly last week to temporarily break through the resistance around $412.78, before dropping again below this strong resistance level. Even though ethereum price has been moving through a fixed range ($358-$412.78) during the past week, our technical analysis is in favor of rise towards $446.67 during the upcoming week.

Cointelligence is presenting you a concise step-by-step guide to help you invest in the best ICO projects. We will walk you through how to spot the most promising ICO projects, doing your due diligence, purchasing the tokens, and finally selling your purchased tokens for profit. It is worth mentioning that ICO tokens represent a highly volatile form of investment assets, so trade safely and never invest an amount that exceeds what you can afford to lose.

Bitcoin price began recovering last week recording a week high of around $7,509, before dropping again below $7,000 later during the week's trading sessions. As per our technical analysis, bitcoin price is expected to soar towards the resistance level around $7,500, break through it, and continue rising towards the next resistance around $7,886.40

Clinicoin is the brainchild of Mosio which has more than ten years of experience under its belt in the mobile messaging sector. Mosio will utilize Clinicoin's blockchain based platform to mitigate problems associated with patient engagement for medical researchers, healthcare organizations, and software companies.  

Via a novel technology relying on distributed management of control rights, tokens and coins belonging to different blockchains can be mapped directly onto FUSION's blockchain. As such, FUSION's wallets can be used to store coins and tokens existing on multiple blockchains, unlike conventional multi-coin wallets which can only store tokens and coins based on the same algorithm or protocol.

Ethereum price dropped by more than 25% during the past week. As per our technical analysis, ethereum price will most probably break through the support level around $385.20, and fall towards the next support level around $273.50 during the current week.

A group of entrepreneurs and developers have gotten together to apply the blockchain technology onto the most difficult market to penetrate; the real-estate market. Slice is an innovative blockchain powered project that aims to revolutionize the real-estate investment industry.

Bitcoin price lost more than one fifth of its value during the past week. As per our technical analysis, bitcoin price will most probably continue on dropping towards $6,000 during the upcoming week, after breaking through the support level around $6,674.30 (76.4% Fibonacci retracement).

Security tokens and utility tokens represent the two main categories of ICO tokens. It is important to delineate the difference between the two categories, namely because security tokens should be issued in compliance with federal legislation regulating conventional securities. Throughout this article, we will present you with the basic characteristics of the two main categories of ICO tokens.

As an investor, you're all on your own when it comes to busting fraudulent ICOs to avoid wasting your coins on scams, and star-crossed projects. Throughout this article, we will help you examine ICO projects to ensure they're real, legitimate business opportunities that one can consider investing in.

Bitcoin price is still plummeting. As per our technical analysis, we expect to see an upwards price correction attempt push bitcoin price near $8,655 early during the current week. Afterwards, bitcoin price will break out of the symmetrical triangle pattern and continue on dropping towards the support level around $7,240.

FashionTV is building a blockchain based platform to help models break into the fashion industry without having to pay high commissions to intermediaries such as talent agencies. FashionTV's new cryptocurrency, FTV Coin Deluxe, will help each model receive her work compensation while keeping the commissions as minimal as possible. FTV Coin Deluxe will also offer its holders the exclusive opportunity to access a myriad of indulgent goods and extravagant services that harmonize with their palatial lifestyle via a blockchain based marketplace.

Ethereum price continued dropping during last week's trading sessions, after a brief upwards price correction attempt that took the price to a week high of $590. As per our technical analysis, ethereum price is likely to continue dropping towards $385.20, which an important support level that can trigger an upwards price correction attempt.

Graft is a new cryptocurrency that aims at creating a decentralized debit/credit card payment system. Graft will simplify the usage of multiple cryptocurrencies as payment options at points-of-sale.

Steemit is by far the most successful blockchain based social network. The Steemit economy depends on three currencies: steem (STEEM), steem dollars (SBD), and steem power. Steemit is one of the few properly working crypto projects that have seen a huge adoption rate, even from outside the crypto space.

After dropping by around 14% throughout the past week, bitcoin price began recovering on Sunday. An upwards price correction attempt is now evident and will most probably continue on for a few days, before the market's bears can take the upper hand again. As per our technical analysis, we can expect bitcoin price to reach $9,250, provided that the resistance around $8,655 is successfully broken during the upcoming few days.

Ethereum price dropped by around 25.4% during the previous week. An upwards price correction attempt began building up on Sunday. As per our technical analysis, this upwards price correction attempt will be mostly brief and will last no more than a few days. Ethereum price is likely to continue dropping after the price correction attempt faces resistance around $610.

Bitcoin price has been moving across a fixed range between $8,504.20 and $9,453.10 since last Friday. As per our technical analysis, bitcoin price is likely to drop down near $8,500, after bouncing off the resistance around $9,453.10 (61.8% Fibonacci retracement).   

Bitcoin cash price has been moving across a relatively fixed range ($965 and $1,093) during the past 72 hours. As per our technical analysis, bitcoin cash price will most probably drop again to test the support level around the 76.4% Fibonacci retracement ($1,093.03) during the upcoming 24 hours, before an upwards price correction attempt can become evident and push the price upwards to higher levels again.

Ethereum price lost around 20% of its market value during the past week. The market has been moving along a steep downwards sloping resistance level that can take ethereum price down to $621, or even $580, before the current bearish wave can be reversed.

Ethereum price continued dropping reaching a day low of $735 earlier during Thursday's trading sessions. Our technical analysis predicts that ethereum price will most probably continue dropping near $716.30 before the current bearish wave can be reversed.

Bitcoin price took a nosedive recording a low of $10,400 during Wednesday's trading sessions. An upwards price correction attempt is currently just building up and may take the price up to test the resistance around $10,831.5, before the market's bears can take the upper hand again.

A major bearish wave began controlling the market during Tuesday's later sessions, pulling bitcoin cash price downwards to a day low of $1,139 early on Wednesday. BCH price is likely to continue dropping towards $1,093.04, before the downtrend can reverse or even slow down.

Ethereum price fell by around 7% during Tuesday's trading sessions. The bearish wave continued pulling price downwards to $776.10 early during Wednesday's sessions. As per our technical analysis, the price of ether will most probably drop down near $716.30 before the market's bulls can take the upper hand and reverse this strong bearish rally.

After plummeting to a low of $10,870 and completing another Elliott 8 wave cycle, bitcoin price began rising during Tuesday's trading sessions. The downtrend which was evident for around 16 hours has been reversed after testing the support level around the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement ($10,831.60). As per our technical analysis, bitcoin price will mostly rise towards the resistance around the 76.4% Fibonacci retracement ($11,197.10) during the next 24 hours or so.

Bitcoin cash price broke out of the ascending triangle pattern in a downwards direction and will most probably continue on dropping to test the support level around $1,194.30 (38.2%  Fibonacci retracement). As per our technical analysis, the downwards trend will most probably be reversed and bitcoin cash will start rising towards $1,300 during the next 24 hours or so.

Ethereum price failed to consolidate above the resistance around the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement during Monday's trading sessions, falling down to a day low of $838 on Tuesday. As per our technical analysis, ethereum price will most probably rise during the next 24 hours to attempt testing the resistance around the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement ($860.34).

Bitcoin price has been rising since Sunday's late trading sessions up to $11,623 on Monday, at the time of writing of this analysis. The market's bulls are pushing the price upwards to complete Elliott's sequence 5th wave (3rd impulse wave). As per our technical analysis, bitcoin price is likely to continue on rising towards the resistance around $11,788.

Bitcoin cash price rose to $1,294 during Monday's early trading sessions. The market is about to break out of an ascending triangle pattern in a downwards direction. According to our technical analysis, bitcoin cash price will most probably drop during the upcoming 24 hours to attempt testing the support level around $1,194.31 (50% Fibonacci retracement).

Ethereum price soared to $863, rising from Sunday's day low of $834.46. The market seems to be moving along a new descending channel, so we will mostly see ethereum price drop down again near $830, before the market's bulls can take the upper hand again.

Bitcoin price bounced off the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement, before reaching a high of $10,831. The market seems to be heading North along a new ascending channel. Also, the second impulse wave of a new Elliott wave cycle is building up and will most probably push the price upwards towards the resistance around $11,788 during the next few days.

Bitcoin cash price managed to temporarily break through the resistance around the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level, recording a high of $1,306 during Thursday's early sessions. A new ascending triangle is now evident on the chart, so bitcoin cash price will most probably fall again below this crucial resistance level. Thereafter, an upward trend will most probably become evident after bouncing off the newly observed rising support level around $1,240.

Ethereum price dropped slightly below the rising support level, which has been evident since February 6th, during Wednesday's trading sessions. However, the market's bulls took the upper hand again during Thursday's early trading sessions pushing the price up to $870. Currently, the market seems indecisive, so the price may drop near $812, before rising again to test the resistance around $893.59.

Bitcoin price dropped down near the level of the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement ($10,413.60) during Wednesday's early trading sessions. After a brief downwards price correction attempt, bitcoin price is likely to rise again and test the next resistance level which lies around $11,788, as evidenced by the formation of a new Elliott wave cycle.

Bitcoin cash price failed to breach the resistance around 23.6% Fibonacci retracement during Tuesday's trading sessions. As per our technical analysis, bitcoin cash price will continue dropping towards $1,130, before an upwards trend become evident again.

Ethereum price has been moving sideways since it failed to test the resistance around $893.59 during Tuesday's trading sessions. Currently, the market is testing the rising support level that has been evident since February 6th. As per our technical analysis, ethereum price will most probably bounce off the rising support level and will attempt retesting the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement again during the next 24 hours.

Bitcoin price soared to $10,888, after the resistance around the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level was successfully breached during Monday's trading sessions. Our technical analysis predicts continuation of the new bullish wave so we can see bitcoin price reach $11,788, which corresponds to the neckline level of the inverse head and shoulders pattern we identified earlier this week.

A new upwards trend is just beginning to control the market, after the bearish wave was successfully reversed during Monday's late trading sessions. Our technical analysis is in favor of continuation of the new bullish wave, so we can see the resistance around the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement ($1,278.14) breached during the upcoming 24 hours.

Ethereum price continued on rising along the new uptrend line that has been evident since last Friday. The market's bulls managed to take the price up to $892 during Tuesday's trading sessions. The resistance around the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement is currently being tested. As per our technical analysis, ethereum price will most probably breach this resistance level and rise above $893.59 during the next 24 hours. However, a downwards price correction attempt might become evident prior to a strong upwards trend that will push ethereum price upwards near the $900 price mark.

The bearish wave, which has been evident during the past week, has been successfully reversed. Bitcoin price rose successfully to a high of $10,409 during Monday's trading sessions. Our technical analysis is in favor of continuation of the new bullish wave, so we can see bitcoin price rise towards $11,788, before the current week is over.

The market's bears have managed to pull bitcoin price down to $9,565. An inverse head and shoulders pattern is about to complete forming on the 4 hour BTCUSD chart. Our technical analysis predicts reversal of the current downtrend near the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level ($9,563.40). A rise above the neckline level ($11,788) will be mostly followed by an even steeper rise in bitcoin price.

A user apparently tried to buy $20 trillion worth of bitcoin when a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange witnessed a bug and the price of a single Bitcoin went to $0. Seven users tried to abuse this bug in the system, however, all of their transactions were cancelled later on.

Bitcoin is the world's first ever cryptocurrency, which has witnessed enormous growth during the past couple of years. A group of researchers analyzed the possibility of making short-term predictions of bitcoin's exchange rate against the US dollar.

Bitcoins have become a powerful trading asset, currently worth over $10,000. It has attracted all kinds of investors from all over the world. Unsurprisingly, it has also caught the attention of criminals, who exploit its decentralized and relatively anonymous nature for their own benefits.

Iran’s ICT Minister stated that their central bank is working on an in-country developed cryptocurrency which will soon be tested by the ICT ministry. This past week, Venezuela rolled out the new cryptocurrency called the Petro (PTR).

Can Coinsquare's march towards an IPO inject good faith into the relationship between regulators and crypto traders?

Another company has decided to gain in on the crypto hype by announcing the launch of a blockchain based platform to revolutionize the skincare industry. EpigenCare uses epigenetic techniques and the blockchain technology to create personalized skincare products.

Enigma is an off-chain, peer-to-peer network that provides various parties with the ability to jointly store and perform computations on data while keeping it completely private via the use of secret contracts. Guy Zyskind, CEO and co-founder of Enigma, helped us produce an overview of secret contracts and how they work.

The FCC notified a bitcoin miner that he has to stop his mining operations as it is disrupting T-mobile's signals in the vicinity. The FCC's “direction finding techniques” revealed the cause of this interference to be an Antminer S5 mining rig.

Hardforking is an interesting concept in the world of blockchains. Bitcoin's blockchain has gone through many hardforking processes lately. Developers carry out hardforks to create interesting new coins with new characteristics. Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Bitcoin Diamond (BCD), Super Bitcoin (SBTC), and Bitcoin Private (BTCP) are the most important hardforks to date.

Dogecoin, the coin designed and released in order to satirize the industry, is unironically getting a hard fork later this year.

Steven Seagal has decided to help market a new cryptocurrency known as Bitcoiin2Gen (B2G). The team behind the new coin claims its inspiration is "to make a superior or more advanced version of the original Bitcoin."

The latest Bitcoin Core client update has been released for public editing on February 15th. The 0.16.0 release includes full SegWit support, in addition to a myriad of other upgrades.

HealthCombix has just partnered with NuCypher to launch a blockchain based system that will improve information sharing in the healthcare industry. The ICO is expected to take place by the end of this year, or in the beginning of 2019.

Bitcoin started dropping after recording a high of $11,788 on Tuesday. The market seems indecisive at this point and volatility is very high. The bullish wave, which was evident during the past couple of weeks, is starting to reverse. Bitcoin price might drop down to $9,563.40, before the market's bulls can take the upper hand again.

Well-known figures in the cryptocurrency space are set to advise the world's first "accredited" blockchain educational institution, as it attempts to fill the blockchain talent void.

SegWit technology has come to major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, offering savings on Bitcoin transaction fees and processing times.

The Litecoin blockchain was successfully hardforked for the first time ever, leading to the creation of a new cryptocurrency "Litecoin Cash". The new coin has no affiliation with Litecoin's team and is only a fork of their code and blockchain.

Bitcoin price rose steadily during the past 48 hours, recording a high of $11,660 earlier on Tuesday. The bullish wave, which has been evident since February 6th, is getting stronger. Our technical analysis is in favor of continuation of this upwards trend, so that we can see the resistance around $13,087.30 (38.2% Fibonacci retracement) tested before the end of the current week.

The CFTC has announced that it is going to reward individuals who can blow the whistle on major "pump-and-dump" cryptocurrency schemes. Such schemes represent the main domains of scams in the world of crypto.

Bankera is more than just a traditional cryptocurrency exchange, or a wallet service. Bankera has just acquired the Pacific Private Bank (PPB) in an attempt to become a worldwide all-in-one banking solution.

A sudden twist has just occurred in the South Korean cryptocurrency regulation episode, as a government official, who was responsible for formulating cryptocurrency regulations, was found dead at his home.

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's founder, ignited a wave of controversy when he tweeted a few days ago that cryptocurrencies could lose all their value at any time.

Bitcoin price continued rising during Monday's trading sessions, recording a high of $11,208. It seems that the market's bullish momentum is getting stronger as price has consolidated above $11,000. Our technical analysis predicts continuation of the current bullish wave, so we can see the resistance around the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement ($13,087.30) tested during the current week.

An anonymous whale has just invested more than $400 million to buy around 9,600 bitcoins. The news of this purchase is all over the social media and is reflecting how investors are confident that bitcoin has big potential in 2018.

The blockchain technology is revolutionizing every walk of life, even the education sector. ODEM.IO is the latest blockchain based company that aims to provide a revolutionary education platform, facilitating easy learning..

Next to the well-known ERC20 standard, other standards exist which try to improve the original standard. ERC223 is focused on security seeking to solve an ERC20 critical bug which has caused the loss of millions of dollars. ERC777 focuses on a wider set of transaction event handling functions and mass adoption

The National Bank of Poland paid influential YouTubers more than $22,000 to slam cryptocurrency investing and use.

Coinbase blamed Visa for dozens of double charges against their users, something which Visa denied. Now, the credit giant is taking responsibility, but why did this happen now?

QYKBAR is a new startup that has announced a blockchain-based service. It will basically provide its customers with a cloud based bar, which will allow them to consume their drinks in any of the affiliated bars and pay with crypto.

GRAFT is building a blockchain based network geared specifically to Point of Sale (POS) transactions with cryptocurrencies. GRAFT has successfully raised $6 million by selling 22 million tokens via the company's ICO.

Hackers have deployed a malware attack on Bitmessage, a Peer-to-Peer communications protocol. In order to protect users wallets and cryptocurrency funds, they are encouraged to download an updated version of the software, as well as change their passwords and keys.

Customers are on the verge of revolution, as Coinbase issues multiple unauthorized charges against users. This has sent some wallet holders into overdraft and debt

Bitcoin price continued rising reaching a high of $9,826 earlier on Thursday. A brief downwards price correction attempt is expected to take price down near $9,100, before the market's bulls would be able to take the upper hand again pushing price towards the 50% Fibonacci retracement ($10,941.60).

A team of researchers studied the value of technical analysis in predicting bitcoin's future price movements. Simple trading techniques that rely on the moving averages (MAs) were found to be significant in predicting the future of bitcoin price.

There is a significant relationship between bitcoin price movements and Google Trends data for keywords relevant to bitcoin . This is true too for other major cryptocurrencies such as ethereum and ripple.

Internet of Services or ‘IOS’ is a new blockchain paradigm innovated to particularly solve the scalability issue associated with most cryptocurrencies. IOS is an under-progress blockchain platform, which was developed by a team from Singapore. IOS was launched last year in December and is said to have the potential to process up to 100,000 secure transactions per second.

The growing popularity of cryptocurrency mining has sent the prices of GPUs to the moon. This is hindering the search for extra-terrestrials, due to the fact that scientists rely on GPUs to be able to listen out for broadcasts by extra-terrestrials.

Even though bitcoin price recorded a low of $8,313 on Tuesday, it began rising throughout Wednesday's trading sessions recording a high of $9,318 so far. Our technical analysis is in favor of continuation of the bullish wave, so we can see bitcoin price rise towards the 50% Fibonacci retracement ($10,941.60) within the next few days.

ICOs helped many companies in raising significant capital last year. The market overtook IPOs as the preferred way to aggregate investments. Globitex is another company that has successfully conducted an ICO, raising more than $12 million.

Stargram Coin is a cryptocurrency dedicated to the entertainment industry. Stars within the industry are able to issue a token through stargram’s global coin, under their own name. It can be purchased by fans who can use it as a form of payment.

Hayver has innovated a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program based on the blockchain technology. Addicts are incentivized with duitcoin for being sober and actively participating in the rehabilitation program.

Bitcoin price rose to record a high of $9,000 during Monday's trading sessions, before dropping down to a day low of $8,313 on Tuesday. As bitcoin price continues to record higher highs and higher lows, we are most likely going to see it continue rising and consolidate above $8,800.

The blockchain is revolutionizing every walk of life and now, it is even impacting the most important component of our society: mothers. The unique idea came from an existing social platform "Mom.life" that allowed mothers from different parts of the world to interact with each other. Mothers are rewarded with bloom tokens for their contributions to the network.

Cryptocurrency-related ads are popping up on Facebook even though the social media giant banned them. A simple misspelling was all what advertisers had to do to evade the ban.

Bitcoin price soared to a high of $8,860 during Monday's trading sessions. Right after breaking through the resistance around 61.8% Fibonacci retracement ($8,796.10), bitcoin price fell below this crucial price level. Our technical analysis predicts that bitcoin price will most probably test this resistance level again and rise towards $10,000, before the end of the current week.

Leo Chen, a former Microsoft scientist, will be joining LightChain's team of researchers and technical developers. LightChain is the world’s first ever double-tier chain and is dedicated to the development of a new blockchain.

Nuclear scientists at The Federal Nuclear Center in Russia used the facility's supercomputer to illicitly mine bitcoin. The “bungling miners” are now facing a criminal case after getting arrested by competent authorities.

Bitcoin price dropped briefly, after the resistance around the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement ($8,796.1) was tested. Thereafter, bitcoin price rose to $8,404 during Sunday's early trading sessions. Our technical analysis predicts continuation of the upwards trend, so that we can see bitcoin price rise towards $10,941.8 (50% Fibonacci retracement) during the upcoming week.

The cryptocurrency market is known for its volatility, and this volatility is often linked to the ever changing regulatory environment of the industry. We bring you a brief overview of how major economic powers from all over the world are reacting to this seemingly new industry.

South Korea's new policies towards cryptocurrencies were mostly influenced by North Korean criminal activities in the world of crypto. For example, it is strongly believed that North Korean hackers were mostly responsible for stealing $530 million worth of crypto from the Japanese exchange Coincheck.

Morehead is the founder/CEO of an investment and hedge fund firm called Pantera Capital, who believes that bitcoin price will recover, even though it has just tanked to its lowest level since the beginning of the new year.

An Italian cryptocurrency exchange has announced insolvency after $170 million worth of nano tokens were lost from the exchange. The owner of exchange, tweeted that the exchange cannot repay the investors as it only holds $40 million of nano.

Monaco Estate is the latest company that will be accepting cryptocurrency as payment for their services. Investors will enjoy at 10% bonus by purchasing some of the 3,000 tokens available during the presale on May 1, 2018.

Christopher Harvey, Head of Equity Strategy at Wells Fargo, sees a correlation between bitcoin and equity markets. Harvey believes the crypto markets will be less risky when regulatory measures are established. Wells Fargo predicts that cryptocurrency and equity markets should trade in correlation for the next several months.

Litecoin is to get its first hard fork later this month, as Litecoin Cash seeks to shorten transaction times and reduce fees.

On April 12th, Shanghai will host over 800 delegates, 50 innovative companies, and 300 institutional investors to the Second Annual Global Fintech and Blockchain China Summit. The summit will focus on real life applications of blockchain technologies.

Bitcoin price soared to a high of $8,488 during Wednesday's trading sessions. Mostly, bitcoin price will continue rising towards the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement ($8,796.10) during the next 48 hours, which will resist further advancement towards the North. Following a brief downwards price correction attempt, bitcoin price will mostly rise again to attempt breaching the resistance around $8,796.10.

Credium's blockchain based solution will enable various credit entities to accurately exchange their credit assets via a decentralized marketplace. This is expected to revolutionize how assets move within the ecosystem of the credit industry.

China has just banned its citizens from using foreign exchanges to trade cryptocurrencies. Some observers think that China's recent moves against crypto is clearing the way for its own cryptocurrency, or the "crypto yuan".

Dfinity is a relatively new cryptocurrency that was designed to rival ethereum and improve on its speed and capacity to handle transactions. It better integrates AI with the wisdom of the crowd to govern the blockchain.

The blockchain technology will be used for the first time to track cobalt's journey from its artisanal mines in Democratic Republic of Congo all the way through to its various products that are used in smartphones and electric cars.

Bitcoin price is steadily rising, as the bearish wave has lost its driving momentum. Price has successfully soared above $8,000, after a day high of $7,880 was recorded during Tuesday's trading sessions. Our technical analysis is in favor of continuation of the new bullish wave, so we can see the resistance around the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement ($8,796.10) tested during the next 48 hours.

Acronis, the provider of data protection solutions, has just announced the launch of Acronis Ransomware Protection tool for Windows. Anyone can use the new tool, which protects against various forms of ransomware including Wannacry cryptoworms.

The publicly listed company Seven Stars Cloud (SSC) has announced that it will be collaborating with Guangzhou Yongkai Industrial Co. Ltd to upgrade the existing Quantum Global Settlement Network. The updated network will support banking settlements of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.

The drop in bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, is the product of many factors, which might allow us to anticipate future fluctuations in price.

Bitcoin price dropped to record a low of $6,000 during Tuesday's trading sessions, after which signs of reversal of the bearish wave became apparent on the 4 hour BTCUSD chart. Technical analysis of the charts signals reversal of the bearish wave that has been controlling the market during the past few weeks. We expect to see bitcoin price start rising again towards the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement ($8,796.10) within the next few days.

The market's bears are continuing to pull bitcoin price to lower levels, recording a low of $7,809 during Sunday's trading sessions. Our technical analysis suggests that the bearish wave will continue on controlling the market, so we can expect to see the support level around the 76.4% Fibonacci retracement ($6,141.30) tested during the upcoming few days.

On this webinar, Moshe Hogeg, the founder of Sirin Labs, offered advice to those looking to run a successful ICO. Throughout this article, we will present some of the most important points discussed by Moshe throughout this webinar.

The Global Blockchain Investment Bank (GBIB) has just announced that it is fully operational in the US. GBIB's team is comprised of professional bankers who worked for top notch international banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and CICC. GBIB is aiming at becoming the "Goldman Sachs of cryptocurrencies."

Bitcoin price fell below the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement to record a low of $7,960 on Friday. Our technical analysis is in favor of continuation of the current bearish wave, so that the support around the 76.4% Fibonacci retracement ($6,141.30) is tested within the next few days.

Silver Management Group now offers Cost Basis support for Bitcoin and altcoins to its investors. This will increase the effectiveness of trades and make the whole process more transparent. Silver Management Group provides business and technology solutions for the investment industry.

Ripple hit nearly $4 just one month ago and was the second biggest coin by market cap in the world. Now it feels the sting of a brutal January for the entire crypto ecosystem.

Bytom unifies multiple assets into a single blockchain and makes it possible to trade across different blockchain protocols.

Facebook joins the litany of institutions and authorities that are restricting the non-regulated activities surrounding cryptocurrencies, as the world's most popular social network has just banned ads related to ICOs and cryptocurrencies in general.

Cointelligence interviewed Juliet Annerino, the founder of ReputationCheck, a new blockchain based project that is aimed at facilitating anonymous collection of reputation reports. ReputationCheck will help combat sexual harassment.

To secure the blockchains of altcoins, VeriBlock will be offering a security layer that relies on Bitcoin's blockchain. This layer will work on the basis of the Proof-of-Proof (PoP) algorithm, which basically utilizes the blockchain of a superior cryptocurrency to secure the blockchain of another.

Even though cryptocurrencies have been making headlines during the past year, British investors have no idea how bitcoin can be bought. A recent survey concluded that UK investors cite security risks and market instability as reasons why they don't consider investing in cryptocurrencies.

With tether unraveling, GOLDX joins the dual efforts of finding a true stablecoin and bringing gold trading to the cryptocurrency boom.

Bitcoin price dropped down to record a day low of $9,860 on Tuesday, after breaching the support around the 50% Fibonacci retracement level, which corresponds to $10,941.8. Even if price correction attempts push price to higher levels  for a few hours, the bearish momentum will mostly continue pulling price downwards to test the support level around the 61.8% Fib. retracement within the next couple of days.

The Internet Education Foundation (IEF) conducted a survey on January 25th, in which 886 Americans were polled. The survey concluded that around 44% of Americans would feel "uncomfortable" if they had to accept bitcoin payments. The focus of the survey was on how the recent technological innovation is being accepted by American citizens. The survey mainly discussed issues related to the famous trends of 2017, which are: fake news, democracy, digital security, and cryptocurrency.

ImmVRse is building a platform for VR content creators. The lack of a proper platform for VR content has inhibited the industry's growth. ImmVRse is creating a blockchain based platform that will enable participants to use the ERC20 compliant, IMV tokens for interacting with the platform's application.

The blockchain revolution is here and people are looking for ways to get into the mining business. Look no further, for Newifi 3 is here to help you gather crypto tokens just by sharing your free bandwidth. Newifi 3 is a modern router with all the latest security features which enables you to easily share your free bandwidth.

The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) ordered Coincheck to improve their operational procedures, after more than 500 million NEM coins were stolen from the exchange's platform last Friday.

Bitcoin cash price seems to be forming a short-term bottom around $1,480, but buyers need to gain momentum above $1,700 for a sustained recovery toward the North.

Amy Jay and Danny Aston, the owners of Aston Digital Currencies Ltd. and data processing firm, Butler Hosting, might be the first to experience an armed robbery of bitcoin in the UK.

Nordea Bank, a retail bank headquartered in Denmark, banned its employees from owning bitcoin. The ban will force all employee's on the bank's payroll to stop buying bitcoin by February 28th.

Huobi, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, launches an unconventional token to stabilize the platform. The huobi tokens were not launched through an ICO and have sold also to users of the exchange's platform.

Tether, the famous dollar-pegged cryptocurrency has dissolved its partnership with Friedman LLP. The latter provided their services to verify the bank statements of Tether. This made Tether a more transparent organization. However, the latest falling out will lead to unforeseeable troubles for Tether.

A cryptocurrency, which is backed by gold, would invite a large number of traders into the crypto market. The latest project of Australia's largest gold mine would take the crypto market to a whole new level. This would be an interesting project, as it has far-reaching consequences for Australian citizens.

A new partnership, between major e-commerce platform, WeMakePrice, and exchange, Bithumb, marks a prominent step in the cryptocurrency adoption in South Korea.

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) is the latest hard fork that is planned to take place on Bitcoin's blockchain in the near future. BTCP will provide more privacy to its users. The transactions will still be stored on a public ledger, however, the meta data of users will not be stored onto it.

The Lightning Network (LN) is an innovative solution that can solve Bitcoin's scalability problems. Since its launch in January, the LN has been growing steadily. Not only can it greatly reduce transactions' confirmation times, but it can also render Bitcoin suitable once again for micropayments. Moreover, the LN can facilitate exchange of value across two different blockchains without having to rely on any centralized entities.

The current price action is positive and it seems like bitcoin price may retest the $12,000 level after completing a short-term correction.

The SEC and CFTC have decided to launch a joint effort against cryptocurrency related scams. 2017 has been the year of digital tokens and billions have been made via digital currency related activities. The new effort is being hailed by the community and everyone appreciates the SEC's and CFTC's determination to bust fraudsters.

The fix of Bitcoin's slow transaction time and high transaction costs is the Lightning Network. It was launched last week and is growing steadily.

An anonymous reporter uses Benford's Law to determine whether tether is affecting or manipulating the bitcoin price.

Bitcoin price movement during the past week reflects market indecisiveness, as bitcoin price has moved sideways during most of the week's trading sessions. Our technical analysis is in favorable of a downwards movement that can take bitcoin price to test the support level around $10,941.80 (50% Fibonacci ) retracement during next week's trading sessions.

After awarding bitcoin a C+ rating, Weiss was targeted by a DDoS attack. Weiss ratings is a group that formally rates various investment assets, currencies, and financial institutions. The group had rated cryptocurrencies for the first time before being the target of the attack..

DIDs represent an important innovation because they give us the ability to establish digital identifiers that are persistent, secure, and globally resolvable, yet their creation does not require a central authority or intermediary.

Investors of the now defunct BitConnect are demanding compensation for their losses. The plaintiffs are claiming that they were promised profits but BitConnect failed to meet its promises. BitConnect shut down on January 17th, but it seems like its troubles are yet to be over.

Venezuela offers inexpensive electricity, which makes mining bitcoin very profitable. However, government crack downs have threatened the bitcoin mining community in the country.

After WaveCrest discontinued its debit card for Bitcoin and altcoins, users can choose from alternatives. These options include epayments, Wagecan, and Worldcore. Epayments is the least expensive and provides the most extensive services.

Coincheck, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in Japan, was hacked. In the attack, $534 million worth of NEM coins were stolen in what is considered the biggest cryptcurrency exchange cyberattack since the Mt. Gox's incident.

Hashgraph is a blockchain-alternative that achieves high scalability without sacrificing security. It has been proven to handle hundreds of thousands of tx/s in a single network and is expected to do millions of tx/s with sharding. Hashgraph makes use of “Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)”. A very secure version of BFT.

Cointelligence and Cryptoracle.io are hosting a conference call with Moshe Hogeg, Founder and Co-CEO of Sirin Labs. Here, we will talk about what it takes to launch such a successful ICO, the writing of white papers, and the development of next generation technology.

Looking at the current price formation, the price could break the $1,486 low to retest January’s low of $1,351. The market sentiment is pretty bearish, and it seems like sellers are in control below $1,600.

Zhao Dong, the Chinese early bitcoin adopter, has just confirmed that Bitfinex and Tether have around $3 billion in their bank accounts, based in Tokyo. While this stands to debunk all the recent rumors that has been questioning the integrity and transparency of USDT, rumors of Dong's conflicts of interest are revealed.

There was something to cheer for bitcoin buyers as the price moved higher above the $10,000 level. A crucial bottom was formed at $9,902 from where the price started an upside move.

The US CFTC has started an investigation against My Big Coin and frozen the assets of its owners. The department has pointed out in its investigation that the owners and misrepresented the facts and misused the funds raised from the investors. The owners used the funds of the investors to cover their personal expenses.

Benebit has just turned to dust, to become the most prominent exit scam in the world of cryptocurrency ICOs to date. The scam artists behind Benebit managed to walk out with at least $2.7 million.

Wepower, a blockchain company, and Elering, a power company, have collaborated to create a new way of using blockchain technology to catalyze the mass adoption of various green energy sources.

Promising transparency, regular audits, and stable banking partners, TrueUSD might offer the stability the public is looking for in order to invest in a cryptocurrency they can trust.

Bitflyer, the Tokyo based bitcoin exchange, has just been licensed in EU, to become the first and only exchange to be officially recognized by authorities in Japan, the US, and Europe.

Ether price began stabilizing after plummeting for a few days. Our technical analysis is in favor of an uptrend during the upcoming few days, provided that ether price

HashChain, the first Canadian cryptocurrency mining company to be listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, has just announced that it is planning to split its shares on a 2:1 basis. The planned split share is expected to increase the company's liquidity and boost earnings on the long run.

Anonymous cryptocurrency trading has been just banned in South Korea. Now, one has to have their exact name on their bank account to match the name associated with their accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges.

After Belarus, Estonia and a number of other countries, Poland has also decided to hop on to the cryptocurrency hype train. The European country has decided to launch a digital token that is pegged to its national currency. Researchers hope that this will pave way for a faster and securer digital alternative of their fiat currency. In order to be able to successfully launch the digital coin, the researchers and development will have to gain the approval of the government.

IRA Bitcoin LLC is offering US citizens the opportunity to use their IRA or 401k retirement funds to invest in cryptocurrencies.

Israel sees an opportunity to tax ICOs and extend its startup haven to the industry while other countries tighten the screws on cryptocurrency.

Etherzero (ETZ), Ethereum's new hardfork has received a lot of criticism lately. Even though some are skeptical that the new coins is nothing but a scam, others truly believe that ETC is a promising new coin that can help mitigate some of Ethereum's problems.

Blockchain, the famous UK-based cryptocurrency exchange has announced that it will start providing its services to users in the US. With more options for cryptocurrency exchanges being made available to users, the healthy competition may encourage exchanges to offer users improved services in order to keep their customer base.

Hackers managed to control one of the top online seed generators for some time, which enabled them to phish the seeds created by thousands of IOTA users. Later on, they used these seeds to move users' funds, following a widespread DDoS attack on IOTA's fullnodes.

South Korea has announced taxation requirements for cryptocurrency exchanges but markets fail to react to the news.

Ripple price started an upside correction from the $0.8570 swing low against the US dollar. However, XRPUSD is currently facing a strong resistance near $1.73, and the 50 period simple moving average (50 SMA) on the 4 hour XRPUSD chart is also representing a significant resistance level.

Demand for Ledger's hardware wallets jumped 33-fold in 2017 to over a million orders. Investors are banking that will climb higher in 2018.

Reversal of the bearish wave that controlled the market for around two weeks has been confirmed. Analysis of the charts denotes that the bitcoin price will most probably rise to attempt testing the resistance around the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement ($13,087.40) during the upcoming 48 hours.

A user on Reddit has just announced that he successfully used the Lightning Network to buy an AR300 VPN Router from TorGuard. The user, btc_throwaway1337, presented proof of the LN transaction in his post on Reddit.

A national petition against cryptocurrency regulation has already received over 215,000 signatures and is currently awaiting an official response from the government.

The South Korean Fair Trade Commission chairman says regulation for cryptocurrency exchanges is impossible to enforce within the current legal framework of the country. With many governmental officials openly working towards regulating the industry, many are wondering how this will be done.

Bitcoin price is moving sideways as the market's bulls are failing to push price above the $11,900 mark, which is beginning to act as a minor resistance level. However, support around the $10,942 price level is preventing any further drop.

Despite bitcoin's obvious popularity in India, the government's regulation prohibits businesses and retailers from introducing bitcoin to the country's mainstream economic sector.

Blockchain.info has launched limited Bitcoin selling Thursday, with its CEO confirming buying and selling in various cryptocurrencies will appear "in a few weeks."

Bitcoin price began rising throughout Thursday's trading sessions to record a high of $11,904. Following a downtrend that has been controlling the market for around two weeks, technical analysis of the charts shows signs of reversal of the bearish wave.

SPiCE VC is banking that token ICOs will only get bigger, but wants to provide guidance making sure new tokens can be safe with regulations

The Chinese government's latest plans to crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry suggest that they hope to completely eradicate the practice within the country's borders.

In 2018/2019, there still exists some cryptocurrencies that you can mine with your CPU, or with a simple graphic card (GPU). The list includes coins that belong to the CryptoNote family and some other newer altcoins.

Despite South Korea’s recent increased regulations, the government has confirmed that they don’t plan on instating a cryptocurrency ban.

After a downwards trend has been affecting the market during the past few days, bitcoin's price rose to record a high for the day at $11,318 during Wednesday's trading sessions. As the 50% Fibonacci is continuing to hold support quite well, conditions are favorable to see bitcoin's price start rising again.

The curtains have just come crashing down on BitConnect, the cryptocurrency exchange and lending platform, as the platform's administrators have just announced cessation of all business operations associated with the company. Many experts in the cryptocurrency community expected this collapse, especially that BitConnect seemed like a ponzi scheme from the very beginning.

Some advertising networks and video streaming sites are secretly using the processing power of their users' machines to mine altcoins, namely monero and zcash. All what it takes to get your machine infected with a silent cryptocurrency miner is to click on a pop-up ad. It is that simple.

The Chinese government is continuing to exercise aggressive policies against cryptocurrency related activities, especially trading and mining, within the Chinese border. Not only have the Chinese authorities shut down all cryptocurrency exchanges located in China, but they have also issued a warning for all mining businesses to halt all cryptocurrency mining operations taking place on Chinese soil.

Bitcoin has dropped below $10,000 for the first time ever since November 2017. Bitcoin's bearish wave was also associated with a downtrend that hit almost all major altcoins. The dip comes after a week of consistent price drops amid new government initiatives against cryptocurrency trading in South Korea and China.

This past weekend, bitcoin miners have confirmed that they collectively mined 16.80 million of the limited supply of 21 million coins. As such, there is only 4.20 million bitcoins left before the network reaches its 21 million supply cap.

Atomic swaps, or atomic cross-chain trading, is a decentralized cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency trading method that relies on smart contracts, without having to trust any intermediary, or third party. The Komodo project is currently the most prominent project in the "atomic swaps" arena, yet it is still under development.

In 2017, the cryptocurrency market capital grew from $15 billion to over $700 billion. Consequently, trading cryptocurrencies has never been more tempting. Even though trading cryptocurrencies might seem like a great investment, you have to keep your head above water, or else the market's volatility can hit your hard.

Ethereum price plummeted throughout today's trading sessions to record a low of $966.64. Even though the 50% Fibonacci retracement seems to be supporting price quite well around the $962.86 price level, we cannot confirm reversal of the downtrend sometime soon via analysis of the charts.

During the past two days, there was a sharp increase in selling pressure on bitcoins from the $14,300 swing high against the US dollar. The price failed to overcome strong offers near $14,300 and a bearish trend line on the hourly chart of BTCUSD is evident pulling price below the support around $12,750.

Too many concepts are translated into blockchain projects. We present several blockchain decision models and paths to guide you on deciding whether to use blockchain or not. In short, a blockchain is useful when transparency in needed, and to prevent fraud among trust-less parties.

The head of Singapore's Central Bank thinks the cryptocurrency economy will eventually crash, yet he is keeping his fingers crossed that the blockchain technology would still exist, when this happens. This negative statement is much less damning than the official attitude of government officials of many countries around the world including Denmark, China, Russia and others.

Bitcoin price has been dropping throughout the past week, yet our technical analysis predicts reversal of this bearish market trend during the upcoming week attempting to test the resistance around the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level, which corresponds to the $15,781.1 price level.

Recent polls show signs of a dangerous new trend in bitcoin purchases. Of those polled, almost 20% purchased bitcoin using credit cards. Many of these bitcoiners were worried about whether their return on investment would cover the interest charges incurred from their credit card.

A complete guide to everything you need to know about Ripple. Here, we explore the history of Ripple, top wallets, how to buy and sell XRP, and much more. Ripple was mainly launched in an attempt to substitute the SWIFT based transfer system, with a decentralized, blockchain based, global system for monetary transfers.

As Kraken became evidently unable to handle the large number of users trading on its platform, they successfully upgraded the platform to keep up with the increased number of traders using the exchange. This followed a downtime of around 48 hours that negatively affected thousands of traders on Kraken's platform.

Ripple has cancelled its partnership with R3, following the recent unprecedented surge of Ripple's price. The partnership was expected to give Ripple access to R3's Consortium of banks. The cancellation was justified by Ripple's executive, Brad Garlinghouse, who stated that R3 knowingly deceived Ripple regarding the contract, as R3 knew that a number of banks that were important to Ripple were about to leave the R3 Consortium

ICOs have taken the financial industry by surprise as billions of dollars have been gathered through them. However, ICOs have their limitations. To solve these problems, Buterin has designed a new approach, which is a combination of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and the Initial Coin Offering (ICO).

Despite certain actions taken or planned, it is important to clarify that there is no outright South Korea cryptocurrency ban on exchange of bitcoin or any other coin — yet.

Novogratz has recently stated that he’s willing to stake his entire cryptocurrency net worth of $400 million, and team up with Bradmer Pharmaceuticals, in order to establish a cryptocurrency retail bank, which was described by observers as the Goldman Sachs' equivalent of the cryptocurrency economy.

Microsoft stopped accepting bitcoin payments a week ago. However, the ban on bitcoin lasted only a week, after which bitcoin payments were resumed. The company cited “instability” as the reason behind the short-lived ban.

The Chinese government has advised cryptocurrency miners in the country that they should plan on ceasing mining operations by January 10th. This comes after China's blanket ban on cryptocurrencies in September, 2017.

Goldman Sachs recently acknowledged the value of bitcoin, following a long dispute over its utility in everyday life. Despite the encouraging acknowledgment, the report cautions investors against expecting the same growth that was experienced particularly by bitcoin in 2017.

Ripple's digital token, XRP is only one of its many products. Most of the company's focus is on developing solutions for banks and financial institutions in order to be able to replace the SWIFT system with RippleNet.

Binance moved to Tokyo after China banned crypto trading, and is becoming the busiest exchange in the world just five months after launching its services. Following a period of downtime due to software update procedures, 240,000 new account were created on Binance's platform, according to the exchange's CEO.

A complete guide to all you need to know about Zcash. Here, we explore the history of Zcash, the best wallets, how to buy and sell Zcash, and much more. Zcash is by far one of the cryptocurrencies that promote totally anonymous transactions.

Red & Yellow becomes first higher education institute in Africa to accept cryptocurrency. The South African business school decided to accept bitcoin payments for its tuition fees.

The South Korean government has urged financial regulators all over the world including those from the United States, China, South Africa, and Russia, as well as several organizations and central banks, to join their endeavor in curbing cryptocurrency trading.

Australia, like other countries, is struggling to tax cryptocurrency and keep track of transactions on popular coin exchanges. Australian tax experts are unlikely to treat cryptocurrencies as currencies. Instead, cryptocurrencies are treated as financial assets, akin to stocks and bonds. Prior to July 1, 2017, cryptocurrencies were subjected to GST - Australia's goods and services tax.

The popular chat app, Telegram, is orchestrating the world’s single largest ICO presale, which is likely to raise millions of dollars. The messaging service will issue their very own tokens, called the 'gram'. Users will be able to spend their tokens on various services offered by the Telegram app.

Renren, the Chinese social network, has canceled their plans to launch an ICO after meeting with Chinese regulators. According to the company’s whitepaper, Renren intended to launch an ICO, dubbed RRcoin. Renren has chosen not to comment on whether or not their decision was influenced by Chinese regulators. In addition, the Bank of China has not yet commented on the matter.

Long Island Iced Tea Corp has been just re-branded to 'Long Blockchain Corporation' (LBC), following the company board's decision to pursue prospects in the blockchain industry. The company plans on installing the mining gear in the Nordic country to mine bitcoin.

BitMEX has recently sold all of its users’ bitcoin cash holdings for bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash was created back in August as result of a Bitcoin hard fork. BitMex compensated users at a ratio of 1 BCH to 0.1707 BTC.

Kodak has just announced launching its very own cryptocurrency, KodakCoin, which is intended to power Kodak's new platform, the KodakOne platform. Photographers will be able to register their images and license them for appropriate use. In response to the news, Kodak’s stock doubled and closed at $6.80 on Tuesday.

European bitcoin users were hit hard last week, when Wavecrest announced termination of all services associated with bitcoin debit card providers Xapo, Bitwala, Bitpay, and TenX. This came a consequence to Visa's decision to terminate all business relationships with Wavecrest, the debit card issuer.

Tether has already released the USDT, a digital currency backed by the US dollar, and has recently revealed the EURT, a digital currency backed by the euro. Both the USDT and EURT will be used with the ERC20 standard compatibility.

Ethereum's price has just exceeded the $1,000 mark. Even more, its price reached $1,800 on some South Korean exchanges, namely due to the new policies issued by the South Korean government which support the growing cryptoeconomy. The latest policies could also perhaps have contributed to the high price of most cryptocurrencies in South Korea, as compared to the rest of the world.

Venezuela is another country choosing to issue a cryptocurrency, as the Venezuelan President has just announced that the country will issue a digital token, called 'petro', that will be backed by the country's oil reserves. Venezuela plans on launching the new tokens in January 2018. Belarus and Estonia are some of the other countries that have decided to use digital tokens in their economy

Ripple's market capital increased by around 4,000% in 2017, and its number of transactions have increased at an exponential rate. However, Ripple’s infrastructure is not strong enough to handle the increase in traffic which it is witnessing during the last couple of months. On December 29th, a number of users temporarily lost their XRP coins. They eventually got their tokens back, and it turns out that the tokens had vanished into thin air for some time.

All bitcoin debit card providers, including Bitwala, Bitpay, Wirex, and Tenpay, have halted all operations of their issued debit cards. It is important to understand that Wirex, TenX, and Bitwala are just providers of the debit card services. However, the cards are issued by WaveCrest, with the permission of the global Fintech company, Visa, which decided to to stop the operations of all non-US digital token debit cards.

The new SegWit2x hard fork, SegWIt2x 2.0, team has no relation to the people of the New York Agreement (NYA), who initially decided on performing SegWit2x. The team’s GitHub page is less than a month old and the proclaimed leader of the team has a half empty LinkedIn profile. The team performed the hard fork on block number 501,451 on the 28th of December, but the users can only access the new coins after the 15th of January. It is hard to believe that the team will be able to fulfill all of the promises it is making.

Bitcoin's scalability problems have become very prominent, as transaction fees have exceeded $37, rising from $2 in October 2017. Even though Bitcoin was developed to facilitate microtransactions, it is currently unsuitable for such forms of payments. Consequently, many merchants have recently decided to stop accepting bitcoin payments, including Steam, the online video game store.

Monero's transactions are totally anonymous, so it is impossible to track senders or receivers of payments across Monero's network, thanks to the CryptoNote algorithm that was used to code monero. Monero is the only altcoin that is accepted as a payment method on Darknet's marketplaces, due to the high levels of anonymity and privacy associated with its transactions.

DASH is one of the top cryptocurrencies promoting totally anonymous transactions. This open source, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency has a market capital that is among the top 10 cryptocurrencies. In contrast to Bitcoin's network where a block is created every ten minutes, a block is created every two and a half minute on DASH's blockchain. DASH solves many of Bitcoin's problems, especially slowness of confirmation of transactions.

Ripple's price has exceeded $3 and its market capital has exceeded for the first time that of ethereum and bitcoin cash. Ripple's market capital is now the second biggest cryptocurrency market capital, accounting for more than $141 billion. As such, ripple has surpassed bitcoin cash and ethereum in terms of market capitalization.

Throughout 2017, the US Dollar witnessed the worst performance since 2003. Oppositely, decentralized cryptocurrencies, led by bitcoin, flourished prominently during the past year, which reflects the public's heightened interest in the economic model of blockchain based currencies. Some researchers believe that the mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies is a contributing factor to the decline of fiat currencies, especially the US Dollar.

Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions might finally add some utility to increasingly impractical Bitcoin payments. Alex Bosworth, a prominent software developer, was able to pay his phone bill via a bitcoin transaction that utilized the "Lightning Network" (LN). This is by far the first transaction ever to utilize the LN, which is considered to be the solution to bitcoin's scaling problems.

Analysts believe that Japan could experience a GDP boost of 0.3% thanks to the country’s progressive attitude towards cryptocurrencies. In April 2017, Japan announced a progressive attitude towards bitcoin, and other altcoins, when the Payment Services Act officially legalized cryptocurrency trading. This led to a massive expansion in the Japanese cryptocurrency trading volume.

The privacy coin, Verge, has reportedly been leaking its users’ IP addresses, potentially exposing their real-life identities. Several media outlets recently noted that XVG is perhaps not as anonymous as it claims to be, and cautioned investors to not put too much trust in it. This precaution turned out to be invaluable, as a new website now claims to be listing several IP addresses linked to XVG transactions.

Ethereum’s price topped $914.83 during Wednesday's trading sessions, with the coin's initial advance beginning at around midnight. The recent surge has boosted Ethereum’s market cap to $86,339,498,573. Ether has posted 17% advance in the last 24 hours. The reason behind the boost is the increased volume of trading in Asia. All notable exchanges, including Coinbene, Binance, and Bithumb, have reported increased volume of trading.

In an eventful year, the crypto industry has risen against several stumbling blocks as they have turned out to become platforms for publicity and awareness. However the industry capacity suggests more eventful seasons ahead as disruption continues.

A Tangle is a novel technology concept that can mitigate most of the problems associated with blockchain based cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies relying on a "Tangle" have no transaction fees, miners or blocks. Examples of Tangle based cryptocurrencies include IOTA and Byteball. With Byteball you can make safe contracts that will be executed exactly as agreed upon. IOTA is ideal for micropayments and "machine-to-machine" payments.

Cryptocurrency prices can be affected by many factors including news, pump and dump schemes, deliberate actions and others; however, demand levels are by the most powerful influential affecting prices of various coins.

The popular exchange platform, Coinbase, has been rumored to soon add cryptocurrencies such as Stratis, Dash, and Ripple to its platform.

A new undercover cryptocurrency mining bot is infecting devices via a malicious video link that is sent through Facebook Messenger.

After abandoning the Segwit2X fork in mid-November, the project has been rebooted and scheduled to fork on December 28.

A security firm was able to use basic tools to hack into five popular South Korean cryptocurrency exchange platforms.

Charlie Lee, the developer behind litecoin, has given away and sold all his litecoin to avoid a conflict of interest.

Bitcoin Cash investors, exchanges, developers, and businesses are all eagerly preparing for the Change the Address Day which will change the cryptocurrency’s protocol address.

Like most other cryptocurrencies, litecoin has had a stellar year in terms of growth, however, it’s latest price increase can perhaps be attributed to a surprising catalyst: eSports.

The Estonian Government has announced that they’re currently building their own state-backed cryptocurrency as well as a crypto asset market.

After falling victim to a devastating hacking campaign for the second time this year, the cryptocurrency exchange, Youbit, has shut down.

The European bank, Swissquote, has recently announced that investors can now invest in up to four different altcoins on their trading platforms.

A South Korean newspaper recently confirmed that North Korean hackers were behind increasingly damaging attacks directed at South Korean cryptocurrency exchange platforms.

Most traditional financial institutions have declared a Bitcoin Crash as one of the top 20 possible financial threats in 2018, however, the regulatory body FSOC argues otherwise.

Coinbase president, Asiff Hirji, recently appeared in an interview with CNBC and hinted at some exciting new developments for the cryptocurrency exchange.

The latest bitcoin network development, the Lightning Network, promises to solve several issues currently encountered on the main bitcoin network, including scalability and long and costly transactions.

The country’s biggest crypto exchanges including Coinone, Bithumb, and Korbit have all confirmed that they are willing to comply with the newly imposed strict regulations.

The card issuing giant is one of the many companies looking to utilize blockchain technology to process payments quicker and more conveniently.

The wallet service provider, Trezor, recently underwent form firmware updates which include several useful upgrades such as support for more tokens as well as shorter addresses.

The island has passed a bill that provides comprehensive regulation for cryptocurrency and blockchain-based companies.

Some subtle policy changes in the tax bill could perhaps would dire consequences for cryptocurrency investors.

A Chinese whale investor bought four rare F1 cars worth over £4 million using his litecoin holdings.

The online retailing giant is currently investigating the possibility of allowing customers to pay for their goods using cryptocurrency.

The US regulator has issued a warning to all cryptocurrency investors by stating that the industry is fraught with risks and offers no investor protection.

American consumers have been resorting to increasingly dangerous methods to be able to invest in Bitcoin, including taking out mortgages, equity loans, and using credit cards.

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Bittrex has been subject to increasing scrutiny following several accusations ranging from pump and dump scams to withholding user funds.

Following the successful launch of their bitcoin futures contract, CBOE executive Ed Tilly, recently hinted that the platform could soon introduce additional cryptocurrency-related services and products.

One of the world’s largest banks announced that they will be using the Ethereum network to simplify its compliance system.

Bitcoin has entered the Wall Street world with a fanfare and has since CBOE’s Futures launch grown with 16% in the last 24 hours.

Despite the fact that CBOE’s Bitcoin Futures crashed an hour after launching, Twitter was abuzz with excitement regarding Bitcoin’s latest move in the financial mainstream.

The popular football player, Lionel Messi, will be endorsing blockchain-based tech devices manufactured by Sirin Labs, bringing blockchain to the mainstream even more.

The Russian Central Bank has confirmed that all cryptocurrency exchange platforms will cease operations in 2018.

The country’s central bank announced that they will prevent fintech firms from using cryptocurrency-based transactions on their platforms.

The exchange platform, Cboe, announced that they will launch Bitcoin futures by December 10.

Cryptocurrency’s first ever fad, crypto kitties, have taken over the Ethereum network, posing some serious threats to its scalability and network capabilities.

According to a Pastebin user, a critical flaw in several wallet apps could expose users’ private keys which could compromise their security.

The mining rig uses the Tesla supercharge system and could cut down miners’ electricity costs.

The Venezuelan cryptocurrency, petro, will be backed by tangible assets such as oil, gas, and diamond and gold reserves.

The Canadian Central Bank recently announced that they are in the process of investigating the possibility of launching a bank-backed cryptocurrency.

According to US Senate Bill S.1241, US citizens who do not declare their cryptocurrency holdings can be prosecuted.

Following several months of silence, Bitfinex and Tether have finally responded to mismanagement accusations via Media Blitz.

The cryptocurrency is working with several device manufacturers to create a platform where devices can automatically buy their required data.

According to new studies, ICOs launched in European countries accounted for more than half of the total raised capital in the last few years.

The major cryptocurrency exchange cautioned users to be wary of so-called “pump and dump” scams.

Researchers confirmed that 66% of cryptocurrency related apps available on the Google Play Store, did not use encryption.

Bitcoin Cash’s development team announced that they intend to increase the block sizes on their network by next year.

Two of the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms crashed earlier this week due to unprecedented on the platforms following the Bitcoin price climb.

Swissquote Holding SA recently launched their very first Bitcoin Certificate on the SIX Swiss exchange platform.

A hacker managed to compromise Bitcoin Gold’s Github page.

The Belarusian president is expected to pass a law which would legalize cryptocurrencies in the Eastern European country.

Despite the canceled SegWit2X fork, four more forks will take place in the next few months.

The wallet scam, mybtgwallet, has duped users out of a total of $3.3 million.

Bitcoin will become accepted as securities according to the country’s regulating agency.

The team from the China-based cryptocurrency project, NEO, has received criticism for their misleading project.

The Bitstamp CEO recently revealed that the European cryptocurrency trading platform will list Bitcoin Cash.

The mining company Golden Alliance announced that their ICO will issue investors with Gold Coins.

An unknown user has successfully gotten $600,000 worth of Bitcoin Cash from a Segwit Wallet.

ICOs have become a great way to raise millions and minutes, and prominent publicly listed companies are hoping to get in on the action.

Bitcoin Futures will be active on CME Group’s platform as of 10 December 2017.

The single largest ATM provider has announced that they will implement support for Bitcoin.

With Bitcoin’s upcoming forks, pre-mined initial fork offerings (IFOs) may well become the trendiest new way to fund a budding cryptocurrency.

The popular cryptocurrency exchange just revealed that intends to dump all their users’ Bitcoin Cash holdings.

The two cryptocurrency giants could soon up their anonymity by implementing Confidential Transactions.

American Express’s New Blockchain corridor will speed up payments between the US and the UK significantly.

The card issuing giant is one of the many companies looking to utilize blockchain technology to process payments quicker and more conveniently.

The world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund just announced that they would implement support for Bitcoin futures soon.

The launch of the Bitcoin Gold network has left several users with mixed feelings and confusion.

The Russian Federation has received over 40 application from cryptocurrency mining firms based in the EU and China.

Considering all the costs involved in setting up your ICO, startup owners have been looking to outsourcing their ICO to ensure its success.

The cryptocurrency announced that they intend to implement their new network on 12 November.

After Mt. Gox has concluded its bankruptcy proceedings, former CEO, Mark Karpeles will likely walk away with nearly $1 billion.

The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) recently outlined their concerns about ICOs.

A recent paper published by Korean researchers claimed that Bitcoin’s security protocols could become exploited by technology that is being developed.

The latest study suggested that Millennials are more likely to invest in cryptocurrency than any other age group.

Bram Cohen from BitTorrent created a cryptocurrency which uses fewer resources.

The popular sports platform’s fans have been accusing it of running a mining script without their consent.

Goldman Sachs’ chief technician stated that Bitcoin will soon reach up to $8 000.

The latest blockchain technology, Graphene, promises to be quicker and more efficient than current technology.

America's most sought-after tertiary education institutions are readily offering their students courses in blockchain technology.

Following the regime’s ban on all cryptocurrency, they are now strictly monitoring the Bitcoin over-the-counter market.

A new mining malware has been hijacking Australians CPUs to mine cryptocurrency.

Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has spoken out against BitConnect as being a ponzi scheme.

New studies have revealed that mining a single Bitcoin requires more electricity than a household’s average weekly consumption.