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Our weekly overview highlights the most interesting tidings of this week. Bitcoin Price Bitcoin has been stable for the better part of the week, with its price fluctuating between $418 and $423. However, Friday night it abruptly dropped to $414. Later on, it returned to $417. Some experts believe that price stability is caused by […]

These days the Finnish bitcoin scene mostly remains in the shadows, with only occasional news and a few startups being known to community. However, thanks to favourable bitcoin regulation and early bitcoin adoption, the homeland of Nokia can be also a great starting point for cryptobusinesses. We tried to figure out what’s happening in this […]

Part One covered general features and peculiarities of bitcoin in comparison to national currencies of a cashless economy. Part Two covers bitcoin’s perspectives under conditions of negative percent rate policy (NIRP).

Publications specialized in covering crypto-industry use the term ‘cashless economy’ in the context of convergence between modern-day national currencies and bitcoin. While bitcoin hasn’t been a coin or a banknote for a single day in the first place, national currencies are only starting to abandon those ‘barbarian’ forms. Digitized national currencies require a certain degree […]

The enormous hype around Ethereum these days has hardly been a surprise. With its market cap steadily being second to Bitcoin’s, and mind-boggling price surge of nearly +1,200% during only first three months of 2016, the project and its native token have become even more popular than good old Bitcoin.

Andrei Lugovoy, deputy chairman of the Russian parliament’s committee on security and anti-corruption stated he stands against complete ban of cryptocurrencies in Russia, as the country’s ministry of finance and investigative committee demand.

This week’s overview features further increase of bitcoin price, its continuing involvement in routine life, Ukraine’s blockchainization, and development of cryptocurrency projects.

Charity and nonprofit organizations, contrary to traditional entities, gradually embrace cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology. This move has more or less evident justification. Blockchain technology may revolutionize the way various charitable efforts work, and change it for the better.