On August 1, 2017 12:20PM UTC, the Bitcoin network is scheduled to experience a hard fork with the emergence of Bitcoin Cash Fake Bitcoin (BCH). We are less than 22 hours away from this Bitcoin hard fork altcoin and meanwhile the BTC price remains stable above $2750 :-)
Welcome to my Cryptocurrencies Markets Overview for Monday, July 31, 2017.
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Latest Crypto News - July 31, 2017
Bitcoin Price Picks up Steam Toward US$2,800 and Beyond
Even though the week has only just started, things are already shaping up in an interesting manner. Bitcoin is the only currency in the top 10 to gain any value over the past 24 hours, whereas everything else is taking a backseat. Interestingly enough, the total cryptocurrency market cap has remained virtually unchanged.
Read more: themerkle.com
FBI Has Gained Control Of Our Wallets: Bitcoin Exchange BTC-e
Troubled cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e has said its downtime was due to “FBI agents entering its data center.” In a post in Russian on BitcoinTalk Monday, BTC-e, which has been down for almost a week, said it had struggled for six days to get answers from its hosting provider.
Read more: cointelegraph.com
Zurich-Based Bank Offers Bitcoin And Crypto Asset Management Services
Falcon Private Bank has become the first Swiss bank to offer customers bitcoin and crypto asset management services, in cooperation with Bitcoin Suisse AG, an asset manager and financial service provider specializing in crypto-assets. The bank allows customers to buy, hold and sell bitcoin.
Read more: cryptocoinsnews.com
Why Bitcoin Price Remains Stable Few Hours Before SegWit Activation
Only hours remain before the widely-expected Bitcoin network’s SegWit activation and its anticipated fork. Expectations were very high of some panic-motivated reactions ahead of the Aug. 1, 2017 deadline.
Read more: cointelegraph.com
Will Bitcoin Cash Impact the Bitcoin Price? Traders Split on Possible Fork
As if a years-long debate over the network's technical roadmap wasn't dramatic enough, Tuesday could see yet another twist in bitcoin's scaling debate. That's when a group of miners and developers say they will go as far as to create an alternative network to prove bigger blocks are the best solution for increasing network capacity.
Read more: coindesk.com
BTC-e Pledges to Return Customer Bitcoin Days After Police Seize Domain
A forum account long associated with the operators of the BTC-e digital currency exchange has posted new statements days after international law enforcement officials moved to shutter the service.
Read more: coindesk.com
Slow Withdrawals Leave Coinbase Users Annoyed
While some companies have chosen to back Bitcoin Cash, others have expressed less faith in the new altcoin. Coinbase is one company that has no plans to support Bitcoin Cash, and that has been causing some problems even before the fork.
Read more: themerkle.com
The Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: The Choices for Bitcoiners
On August 1, the Bitcoin network will split with the emergence of Bitcoin Cash (BCH). This article will outline the choices you have if you hold bitcoin and some potential outcomes of the split.
Read more: btcmanager.com
Before and after getting into Bitcoin:
The "01010100" in the B01010100C is the binary code for "T", so BTC :)
