Listen to the 18 August 2018 Bitcoin News Radio Show below. In this edition of the BitcoinNews.com daily radio show, we start with a market analysis, and then discuss how each Bitcoin is worth 60 billion Bolivar Fuerte in Venezuela.

Some states in the US are beginning to make surety bonds a requirement for businesses dealing in cryptocurrency trading. The purpose of these surety bonds is to protect investors and clients, to some extent, from the loss of funds.

Over the last year, SHA-256 mining, the process that’s used to find blocks on both the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Core (BTC) networks, alongside a slew of other cryptocurrencies, has grown exponentially.

This article talks about SIRIN LABS's upcoming $1000 blockchain smartphone, the Finney (named after computer scientist Hal Finney, the second-ever user of Bitcoin), and gives five reasons to be excited about this ambitious project.

Earlier this year in July, products that have been resembling ‘Ponzi Schemes’ have been ‘topping the charts’ amongst decentralised applications (dapps) which are running on the globes second biggest blockchain. For those of you who don’t know Ponzi schemes are: “A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return with little risk to investors.

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Jacob Burrell Campos, a Mexican resident, for his Bitcoin dealing operation that spanned across international borders.

Vocal cryptocurrency skeptic Paul Krugman is offering a more complete picture of his views on Bitcoin and blockchain. At ChainXChange, a recent blockchain conference in Las Vegas, Krugman joined Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee and Ripple’s chief marketing strategist Cory Johnson on a panel focused on the future of money.

Playboy has entered litigation in order to get its blockchain payment services up and running, and Joseph Lubin sees crypto bubbles as bringing more developers into the space

Market momentum builds amongst top altcoins, but Bitcoin slips below $6,500 and Ethereum fails to hold $300 support

The outcome of a recent inspection of 21 domestic cryptocurrency exchanges by the South Korean government has just been released. The inspections were conducted in June and July as a follow up to previous inspections in January and March of this year.