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

Keeping in mind that bitcoin is just not currently practical, Kain Warwick, CEO of Blueshyft, came up with Havven. Havven is a crypto monetary system that backs itself. It is an ingenious method to solve the biggest problem that is being faced by the crypto market, which is, volatility.

According to SEC's ex-chairman, Harvey Pitt, startups are taking advantage of investors’ lack of adequate digital coin related knowledge. Their investments are based on the fact that “prices seem to be going up”. Pitt further commented that the next year will bring more regulations from the SEC.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is preparing to move into the virtual token space. The exchange is seeking approval from the SEC to list bitcoin ETFs on its NYSE Arca market. A public document, dated December 19th, details that the exchange has appealed for a rule change in order to launch two bitcoin-tied...

In a rough turn of events, the cryptocurrency market went through a severe plunge. When the dust settled, roughly $190 billion worth of market cap was wiped out. Bitcoin and other tokens have suffered significant losses.

Belarus has legalized the cryptocurrency industry. President Alexandar Lukashenko has signed a decree that will make all the cryptocurrency transactions tax-free for the next five years. Belarus will become a tempting location to mine and control cryptocurrencies with these latest provisions.

With Goldman Sachs setting up a trading market for bitcoin, Wall Street finally seems to be welcoming digital currencies. The multinational finance firm will launch the trading desk by the end of June 2018, as reported by Bloomberg.

Bitcoin futures is a new derivative-based technique to trade bitcoin based on future estimations. Following the release of bitcoin futures, someone has bet $1 million that bitcoin cash will reach a value of $50,000 by December, 2018.

The main motive behind the creation of TON is to aid those who live under oppressive regimes. The new platform will probably be an extension of Telegram, a famous messaging application.

Apple Inc. has turned in a new patent application, which uses the blockchain technology to create and verify timestamps. The system operates within a prospective system, according to U.S Patent and Trademark Office.