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Bitcoin Tracker: The Unbanked-Profit Dilemma

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Can the unbanked benefit from bitcoin, or are they merely the experimental subjects of bitcoin adherents, lobbyists and scientists? This week’s Bitcoin Tracker takes a look at the recent bitcoin projects that are in the news and that are targeting the unbanked. Vogel also wanted to clarify regulations surrounding bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Coinsource

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The price of bitcoin has continued its December climb this week. Bitcoin is at its highest value since early Feb. 11), bitcoin rose to a weekly peak of $788.49 The current value of bitcoin at the time of writing was $777.14. —. The current value of bitcoin at the time of writing was $777.14. —. Founded in Feb.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Challengers And Backlogs

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It’s been a varied week for bitcoin. First, some positive news: Bitcoin’s upward pricing trend continues, more or less. It opened this morning with a value of $742 and peaked at $744 (about as close as bitcoin has come to its year high since it hit $768 back in June). The reputation of bitcoin precedes it.

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Bitcoin For Night Owls

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Now You Can Trade Bitcoin Any Time. The Winklevoss twins want to trade bitcoin, and they want to do it now. Growing impatient waiting for their ETF fund to be listed and to boost bitcoin trading, the cofounders of the Gemini Trust Company, a digital currency exchange based in the U.S., on Tuesday (Sept.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Another Tough Week

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This past week proved once again that it’s tough to be a bitcoin fan. In another blow to bitcoin legitimacy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied the second bitcoin-based ETF bid up for consideration in the month of March — the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s Well, as long-term as bitcoin value can be.

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Bitcoin Daily: Scrabble Adds ‘Bitcoin,’ Experts Uncover 2.5M Crypto-Jacking Instances

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Scrabble has added the word ‘bitcoin’ to the list of words that players can officially use in its popular board game, CNBC reported. According to its dictionary, bitcoin is defined as “a digital currency.”. That, according to the outlet, marks a spike of 86 percent in malware that mines digital currency.

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

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31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money.

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