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What Wall Street Said About Bitcoin in 2017

To short or to long? Is bitcoin in a bubble? We summarized the various views from prominent figures in the finance world and the academia.

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Payment Provider Bitrefill Runs Successful Lightning Transaction Test

This may have been the first real consumer transaction using the Lightning network.

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Ripple Approaching $2 as XRP Price Doubles in Weekly Trading

Ripple's token XRP nearly doubled within one week, becoming now the third largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

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From $900 to $20,000: Bitcoin's Historic 2017 Price Run Revisited

Bitcoin's price started the year off by crossing $1,000, culminating with a run that brought it close to $20,000.

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Bitcoin or Blockchain? Bet That Both Will Thrive in 2018

Competing technologies? Not so much argues Symbiont executive Caitlin Long who believes the best of both bitcoin and blockchain will prevail in 2018.

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Crypto Exchange Poloniex to Impose Customer ID Requirements

Cryptocurrency exchange service Poloniex is taking steps to ramp up the information it gathers on customers.

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Bitcoin Among Year's Top Searches, Google Data Says

New data from Google suggests internet users searched for information on bitcoin at a rate that outpaced some of the top news stories this year.

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Singapore Court Dismisses Summary Judgment for $43 Million Bitcoin Dispute

The Singapore court dismisses B2C2's application for summary judgment for B2C2's lawsuit against Singapore cryptocurrency exchange Quoine.

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Privacy on the Blockchain: Where Are We Headed?

Privacy may be an issue with major blockchains today, but 2017 saw innovations by leaps and bounds, argues VC Arianna Simpson.

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Bitcoin's Real Bottleneck

Bitcoin's markets may be booming but it's the network's rare development talent that may be most valuable.

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