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Looks like a long-time Bitcoin sceptic Nouriel Roubini might soon debate with Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin: https://twitter.com/Nouriel/status/1050939934352248832 Moderated, possibly by Kevin Pham: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1051104238695272449 ...sponsored by Bitmex:…

This new scam is using vanity of crypto bloggers to promote itself. In short - it's a fake ICO, has nothing to do with WalMart, the domains are freshly registered and you should stay away from such scams. On October 9-10 2018 many cryptocurrency blogs and news sites (including CoinVigilance) got…

Bitpay, a US based crypto debit card provider, has announced that its' European customers that use prepaid Bitcoin cards have until October 31st to withdraw their balances and download their transactions. If you are looking for a Bitpay alternative for Europe - Wirex is your #1 option. It's a…

We've come across rebiddy - an aspiring start-up that should bring cashbacks into crypto shopping. The team is not running an ICO or releasing tokens, they focus on development of their product. We've talked to Ivan Golovko, co-founder and CMO of rebiddy (Twitter, LinkedIn) and Nikita Fomichev,…

Last week MinexPay distributed news about their partnership with ČSOB bank: https://medium.com/minecoin-blog/čsob-bank-partnership-the-roadmap-and-cards-shipping-update-8cc5a7372822 Turns out the bank itself is not aware of the partnership. This is the tweet the ČSOB bank reps have just…

Today I've had several unknown people contact me on Telegram and ask for help in withdrawing their Bitcoins from an exchange. This sounds way too suspicious to even consider to be legit, - these are all scammers or even chat bots serving scammers. I decided to talk to one of them, to see how…

In a desperate attempt to remain relevant the legacy media outlet Wall Street Journal awkwardly tries to exploit the cryptocurrency hype. WSJ reporter Steven Russolillo creates his own shitcoin - the WSJCoin, $WSJ. Shortly after his boss orders him to forget about it. The End.

After more than a year-long saga (1, 2, 3, 4) of delaying their cards release to the public, Crypto.com (formerly known as Monaco) has announced their next plans lately. Their MCO Visa cards will be shipped to Singapore first. Then they plan to distribute around 100K cards in Singapore over the…

UPDATE: This information appears to be false. Looks like MinexPay published a misleading announcement. https://twitter.com/CSOB_CZ/status/1049263516727873538 Following this CSOB tweet MinexPay were forced to release another announcement - we've analyzed it and put together a post with exact…

It's the end of the month which means we're analyzing Google search trends related to the query "Bitcoin". Click here to read the previous trends analysis for the month of August. Now that Bitcoin price has not fallen below 6K and started dancing a bit closer to 7K it seems that people started…

NAGA just released their prepaid crypto debit card, which is amazing news for crypto adoption! It's live, it's working and it can be ordered HERE. NAGA Card features: - Contactless MasterCard - IBAN Account connected to the NAGA ecosystem (trading, card, gaming etc.) - Multi-currency in USD,…