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Almost all the services promoted with comment spam are service affiliates dropping their referral links to get commissions when webmasters and comment readers sign up through their links. Normally, we don't pay attention to spammy automated…

This is a guest post by Bonpay, a cryptocurrency payments processor and a Bitcoin debit card provider (cards currently on hold). All views expressed belong to the author of the post. Crypto enthusiasts continue to persuade the world that…

Looking for the next cryptocurrency to explode? You're on the right page. We'll give you an answer that is simple, universal, and evergreen, but you might dislike it if you are greedy. The next cryptocurrency to explode is Bitcoin, BTC.…

Bitcoin dot com, a website controlled by Roger Ver who is a proponent of the Bitcoin Cash fork (we reviewed bitcoin dot com site here) has been in the center of weird news lately. First, screenshots of the site started circulating where…

A reddit user has reported that he was asked for an ID by the P2P Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins. The message says that the user has a "high transaction volume" and therefore has to provide an ID. The company blog has no announcements…

Altcoin.io came out with some interesting news, and once again proved it's definitely a service exchange worth following. Make sure you sign up with them to get alerted when they go live. Here's what they are preparing and what it…

Revolut is a banking app that lets you buy Bitcoin, transfer money, operate a prepaid debit card, buy insurance products and a lot more. It's been pretty popular, having onboarded 1.7 million users and processed $10B worth of transactions…

This week in Canada has been marked by another blow delivered to Bitcoin from the traditional banking system. Several large banks have disallowed purchases of Bitcoin using the cards they've issued. In particular, these two large banks…

Many have been following the growth of this service by now, but it's just gone live in the USA which is great news. HodlHodl is pretty much a LocalBitcoins alternative that does the same but in a more decentralized way. That is, HodlHodl…

Mark Karpeles, the ex-CEO of MtGox (the infamously hacked pioneer cryptocurrency exchange) did an AMA on Reddit recently. While the whole thread is interesting for those that either follow the story or want to recover their lost coin…

We wrote in our 2018 forecast for Bitcoin that decentralized exchanges (also abbreviated "DEX") would be one of the factors shaping the future. First quarter into the year 2018 we still stand on that, and it seems that Q2 will be bringing…

On our quest to keep track of working Bitcoin debit cards we've been getting a lot of comments with suggestions, both on site and on the Google sheets table with all the Bitcoin debit cards. One of them mentioned Amon.tech and we took a…