A Korean operator (23) of a big child porn website got busted last year, 337 people around the world have been arrested since. Thanks to bitcoin.
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Why is bitcoin deflationary?
Why is bitcoin called deflationary? Why is it getting more expensive? Explained from an economic view and in terms you can understand.
Coinbase ruled to report information of 14,000 users to tax authority
In a federal ruling on tuesday a judge in San Francisco ordered Coinbase, one of the leading crypto-currency exchanges in the US, to supply the IRS with the information of around 14,000 traders in crypto-curency. The IRS filed the appeal after only 800 to 900 US citizens allegedly reported capital…
Long debated Bitcoin hard fork called off
The hard fork that was planned to happen around November 16 is called off by the lead developers of the SegWit2x movement. The news follows a period of uncertainty over the future of the Bitcoin blockchain because of a long running divide within the community. The hard fork was intended…