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Bitcoin regained its glory of a few weeks ago when it recently surpassed the USD$6000 mark once again.

After nearly 20 years, Korea has finally upgraded from its old online banking security protocols to a new blockchain-powered one. Chain ID is Korea’s newest standard for secure online identification.

As sanctions increase against North Korea, the country has been suspected of running malware on computers across the world to mine Ethereum, Monero, and Zcash.

The French regulatory authorities released UNICORN this past week, an initiative dedicated to researched blockchain fundraising and ICOs.

arlier this month, the Blockchain-based startup Templum launched a regulated US exchange for ICOs, also called Templum, in partnership with the broker-dealer Liquid M Capital.

During an event hosted by Quartz and Retro Report Lubin said, “of course it’s a bubble.” However, according to him, “bubble bursting” is a silly concept as it is not necessarily a bad thing for technology.

This Tuesday, over 675,000 Breitbart mailing list subscribers received an email encouraging them to invest in risky cryptocurrencies supported by the advice that “the cryptocurrency market is RED HOT.”

On Wednesday, the New York City-based decentralized newsmaking platform, Civil, announced to have raised $5 million in funding. The firm plans on setting aside half of the funds as capital, while utilizing the other half to develop its services.

On Monday, a parliamentary audit was conducted of the Bank of Korea, the Central Bank of the Republic of Korea, by the country's National Assembly. During the hearing, the head of the bank refused to classify cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ether, as currencies and declared them to be commodities...

The culprit behind the sudden drop in value is the creation of Bitcoin Gold, which occurred on the 23rd of October. Bitcoin Gold is the newest cryptocurrency and has been developed using the same technology that was used to develop Bitcoin.