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Lightning Bank Ledgers? Bitfury and Ripple Demo New Twist on Bitcoin Tech

Bitcoin's much-anticipated Lightning Network is now compatible with seven different payment networks. Today, blockchain services firm Bitfury and payments network provider Ripple are releasing new code that makes it possible to...

South Africa Tops Bitcoin Google Searches Worldwide in Adoption Spike

South Africa  has topped the world for Google searches for ‘Bitcoin,’ over the last month according to data from Google Trends. Journalist and commentator Kyle Torpey...

Bitcoin as a Commodity is Great for Traders, Not so Great for Investors

Bloomberg reports that historically, commodities have not performed well as an asset class. Equities have drastically outpaced commodities in terms of long-term investment gains. However,...

Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon Collaborate on Scalable Smart Contracts

On August 9th, the OmiseGo (OMG) project sent the following tweet: ✔@omise_go Yes, @omise_go = first Plasma.io project CC @jcp @VitalikButerin 7:43 PM - Aug 9, 2017 Still in working draft...

Japan Might Be Driving Factor For Recent Bitcoin Price Rally: Reasons & Trends

Over the past few months, through previous coverages, Cointelegraph emphasized the importance of the Japanese Bitcoin industry to the Bitcoin exchange market in Asia. Earlier...

Satoshi Cycle: Interest in Bitcoin Raises Price, Which Raises Interest

As Bitcoin price rises,  it comes out of the shadows with more people googling the digital currency, and from that rise in interest the...