Crunch Report | South Korea Announces New Cryptocurrency Regulations

South Korea announces new cryptocurrency regulations coinciding with the drop in bitcoin prices, YouTube gets pulled from Fire TV and SoftBank will now own about 15 percent of Uber. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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Finally, a way to get actual sexual pleasure from your Bitcoin investments

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Are you ready to take the thrill of cryptocurrencies to the next level?

Camsoda, the adult entertainment platform, has just unveiled BitCast, which allows you to pair an interactive sex toy with your investments in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Yowza.

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You can choose to pair it with a variety of penile, vaginal, and anal toys. Then, as the value of your cryptocurrency of choice rises or falls, the vibration increases or decreases accordingly in real time. It’s the perfect way to wring even more pleasure from your cryptocurrency obsession. 

Daryn Parker, CamSoda’s VP, said in a statement, “With people constantly tracking their cryptocurrency investments, we saw an opportunity to offer them simultaneous sexual pleasure derived exclusively from price fluctuations.” Read more…

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Cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta gets hacked and replaced by a fake site that steals your money

Popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta got hacked in spectacular fashion Wednesday, with many users unknowingly sending their tokens to the hacker instead of the exchange.
At least 308 ETH ($266,789) were stolen, as well as a large number of toke…

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2018 will be the year of Bitcoin’s rivals

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Bitcoin has had an absolutely insane year. At one point, its price was up nearly 2,000%, from about $1,000 in January to $19,922 mid-December. It exploded in the media and it caught the attention of pretty much everyone – from Wall St. billionaires to the average Joe just trying to make a quick buck.

Now, however, it’s time for Bitcoin to pass the baton. 

I’m not talking about the price; estimating where the price of Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency will go is pure guesswork. But in terms of development, Bitcoin’s progress in 2017 can easily be summed up in three words: Next to noneRead more…

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Open Garden wants to give you tokens for sharing your Internet connection

 Open Garden launched its mesh networking platform at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012. Since then, the company has gone through a few iterations and found unexpected success in its Firechat offline messaging service. Now, it’s ready for the next step in its evolution. The company now wants to make it easier for anybody with an Android phone to share their WiFi connections with anyone who is… Read More

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Bitcoin’s competitors are also at all-time highs — and rising fast

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It’s a good day for someone who believes in cryptocurrencies that aren’t Bitcoin.

Don’t get me wrong — Bitcoin is doing just fine. At $17,459, it’s grown more than 5 percent in the last 24 hours.

But Ethereum and Litecoin, as well as numerous other cryptocurrencies, are doing even better. Ethereum rose 21 percent in the last 24 hours and is currently trading at $630, while Litecoin grew a whopping 83% in that same period and is trading at $327, according to CoinMarketCap. Both cryptocurrencies are trading at an all-time high right now. 

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Beware: There’s a fake Ethereum wallet app in Apple’s App Store

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A fake version of popular wallet for cryptocurrency Ethereum, MyEtherWallet, is currently being sold in Apple’s App Store. 

The app is created by a developer called Nam Le, with no ties to the makers of the original MyEtherWallet, which currently exists only as a browser app. 

On Sunday, MyEtherWallet confirmed on Twitter that they’re not the makers of the appTechCrunch first reported the news on Monday. 

This is NOT US. We have file reports and emailed and reported. Would appreciate the communities assistance in getting these scamtards out of our lives.

PS: We are #Foss4Lyfe https://t.co/SmI8cqNvxA

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Apple let a knockoff version of one of the world’s biggest crypto wallets into the App Store

 An app masquerading as MyEtherWallet.com, one of the internet’s most popular services for storing ETH and other crypto coins, has made its way to the top of the iOS App Store charts. The app rose to the number three spot in Finance category of the App Store this weekend as part of a bitcoin frenzy that saw bitcoin exchange Coinbase top Apple’s free download list in the U.S.. In… Read More

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