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ForkLog 39 16.12.2016

Ukrainian Stock Exchange to Launch Bitcoin Futures Trading

Ukrainian Exchange JSC has announced imminent launch of Bitcoin futures trading, starting from Monday, December 19.

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ForkLog 105 11.12.2016

Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies in Our Lives: ForkLog Readers Poll Results

Several weeks ago, ForkLog announced a readers poll, with 1,038 users participating. Our editorial board has summarized the readers’ answers, so that everyone could decide for themselves as to the degree of cryptocurrency integration in our lives.

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ForkLog 70 09.11.2016

Bitcoin Price Skyrockets as Donald Trump Wins the White House

As predicted by numerous experts before, Donald Trump’s presidential election win caused bitcoin price to rise. The recent hours’ events have fully confirmed the predictions.

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ForkLog 94 01.11.2016

Ukraine’s Internet Party Leader Declares Bitcoin Savings Worth $3 Million

Dmytro Golubov, Ukraine’s Member of Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and leader of the Internet Party, has revealed he owns about $3 mln in Bitcoins.

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ForkLog 56 31.10.2016

Ukrainian MP Reveals Bitcoin Savings

In his recent e-declaration Ukrainian member of parliament Alexey Mushak revealed possession of 465 BTC (around $310,000) of savings among other things.

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ForkLog 132 21.10.2016

Zero Confirmation: Fees Increase in Bitcoin Network

In recent months many bitcoin users have been complaining about their transaction taking hours to get confirmed. Indeed, this happens quite often, and some users think that increasing a transaction fee could save the day. But is this really a remedy?

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ForkLog 123 18.10.2016

Russian Billionaire Interested in Industrial Scale Bitcoin Mining

According to Forbes sources, Suleiman Kerimov, CEO of Nafta Moscow, is considering launching a massive cryptocurrency-related project.

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ForkLog 94 16.10.2016

How Big Businesses Get Patent Rights on Blockchain

Inviolability of private property and rights thereto is one of the foundations of modern developed society. And patents are one of the ways to protect this inviolability. Big companies tend to patent any invention or technology that could bring profits without giving too much consideration to the ethical side of the things.

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ForkLog 67 16.10.2016

Russia Could Be the First Country to Pass a Cryptocurrency Law

Russia may become the world’s first country to pass a cryptocurrency regulation law, according to the State Duma’s anticorruption and security committee deputy chairman Andrei Lugovoi.

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ForkLog 80 13.10.2016

SEC Takes Its Times With Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust Decision

The US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) wants more time to examine Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) established by the Winklevoss brothers, owners of the Gemini exchange.

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ForkLog 110 10.10.2016

Lord Voldemort Offers a Bitcoin Scalability Solution

Andrew Poelstra of Blockstream has presented a new Bitcoin network scalability solution dubbed Mimblewimble on the first day of Scaling Bitcoin conference in Milan.

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ForkLog 142 19.09.2016

Trustless Banknotes: A Neoclassical Solution for Blocksize Debate

Bitcoin’s blocksize debate is about the technical contradiction between the speed of transactions and the network’s centralization. One of the parties, which we may conventionally dub “entrepreneurs”, is interested in the network’s scaling, while the other party, the so called “idealists”, is resisting further centralization. Each of these parties has its arguments, but is there […]

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