News , Opinion , Regulation | February 14, 2020 By: Vamshi Vangapally, founder of BearTax It is tax season in the United States and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has made it clear that it will be keeping an eye on crypto tax reporting compliance in 2020.Since late 2019, the IRS has moved towards making…
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BTC News Review: Twitter adopts Bitcoin – emoji BSV goes back to genesis Ripple dumps more XRP
An interesting week in the crypto-verse where news you should be aware of including; price action, BSV hardfork, why MasterCard dumped Libra and much more.Read on to find the latest and don’t lose track of this ultra fast-moving industry. Bitcoin keeps rising There’s no stopping BTC now, it seems.This week, Bitcoin rose above $10,000, gaining…
Eth2 Misconceptions: Top 5 – Trenton Van Epps – Medium
Feb 10 ·7 min read this might be you You’ve probably heard that Ethereum 2.0 is launching this year.Perhaps you saw some talks from Devcon V, or saw the new testnet block explorers from Etherscan , Bitfly or Alethio .And, yes, it is launching! However, a slew of misconceptions have emerged amidst the disillusionment of…
Blockchain Litigation Year In Review (Part 2): Lessons From 2019 And What’s Ahead For 2020
It began as an obscure experiment in unregulated virtual currency.Initially undistinguished from Bitcoin, blockchain evolved to become one of the pillars of web 3.0, enabling new means of trust, transparency, security and tokenization.Since its introduction more than a decade ago, Blockchain has shown promise across industries.Cryptocurrency is now but one of blockchain’s many applications, albeit,…
From Star Trek to Wikipedia: Crashing Bitcoin SV Fails to Impress
2.0.0.0.2 Jamie Redman Bitcoin SV Nodes Crash While Wikipedia Founder Criticizes the Beliefs of BSV Supporters On February 10, a few days after the Bitcoin SV âGenesisâ hard fork, Arthur van Pelt tweeted about the number of nodes on the BSV network dropping like a rock.âSix days after the BSV Genesis downgrade, it appears more…
AI-Managed Bitcoin Trading Accounts Show Significant ROI – (BTC Media Sponsor)
Published Feb 27, 2020 1:09PM EST Bitcoin Magazine is the proud host of the Bitcoin 2020 conference being held in San Francisco on March 27th and 28th, 2020. Welcome to Bitcoin 2020, a one-of-a-kind festival celebrating the dawn of a new technological paradigm and the counterculture behind it. Bitcoin is about more than just money;…
Reddit No Longer Cares About The Price Of Bitcoin And That’s Bad
Back in 2014, at a bitcoin and cryptocurrency conference I attended in Dublin, Reddit’s r/bitcoin forum was mentioned many times on stage and even more by the audience.This was three years before bitcoin was thrust into the global limelight by its epic 2017 bull run that saw the bitcoin price soar from under $1,000 in…
From a Slice of Pizza to Flight Tickets – the Evolution of Crypto Purchases
Share Bitcoin’s whitepaper, which was published in 2008 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, laid the foundation for decentralized payments.Over time, the interest in decentralized currencies and payment systems grew and so did the value of Bitcoin. Parallel to Bitcoin’s surge in value, alternative cryptocurrencies have emerged with a greatly improved scalability.New services, such as crypto…
Moonday Mornings: $4B OneCoin cryptocurrency scam to be made into TV drama
Moonday Mornings: $4B OneCoin cryptocurrency scam to be made into TV drama Another cryptocurrency scammer jailed, and more…Story by Shares Welcome to Moonday Mornings, fellow Hard Forkers. You know the drill, let’s take a look at this weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines.1.OneCoin investigative podcast to be made into TV drama If you didn’t get…
Why Coinfloor killed everything except Bitcoin – bigX digital asset exchange – Medium
So it was with some confusion and not a little shock that the market reacted when the company announced on 17 December 2019 it was dropping trading in everything bar Bitcoin.Bitcoin has long been used as a shorthand for the entire cryptocurrency industry.Speak to anyone not acquainted with cryptocurrency about your passion and you’ll find…