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Amidst recent limitations imposed by Australian banks on cryptocurrency payments, key players within the blockchain industry are mobilizing to resist these constraints. origin »
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The enterprise DLT startup now sees a vast range of opportunities, both within the industry where its founder spent most of her career and outside it.
2018-8-6 15:30 | |
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When the SEC announced its rejection of the Winklevosses’ latest bitcoin ETF filing, the industry found itself reckoning with a problem on repeat: striving toward the goal of approval, another Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) proposal faced the SEC’s death knell.
2018-8-4 22:49 | |
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SmartChain Media is an interactive media company that aims to revolutionize the entertainment industry by leveraging innovative blockchain technology. Our web platform and mobile app is called iProdoos, which will represent the evolution of entertainment, crowdfunding, and streaming content based on Web 3.
2018-8-3 19:47 | |
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2019 promises to be the year of the decentralised exchange. With big players like Binance already tapping into decentralised exchange projects, we expect that through 2019, a rapid growth will occur within the industry, in line with the blockchain ideology that overall, decentralisation rules.
2018-8-3 15:30 | |
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According to reports out today, local authorities in Queensland are alleged to be piloting a programme that could see the adoption of a number of cryptocurrencies within the state. The currencies in question include Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dash and NEM.
2018-8-3 14:00 | |
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Despite the SEC declining the Winklevoss Twins’ ETF proposal, the discussion of such a fund is still a hot topic within the cryptocurrency community. CNBC Africa’s “Crypto Trader” show, hosted by Ran NeuNer of OnChain Capital, recently spoke with BitMEX’s CEO regarding what an ETF means for this nascent industry.
2018-8-2 00:54 | |
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The Queensland government in Australia is backing a cryptocurrency point-of-sale system that officials believe will help boost tourism throughout the area. Thus far, they have given over $8 million in Australian dollars ($6 million USD) to roughly 70 different companies that will work to inspire innovation and create new ideas within the region’s travel space.
2018-8-2 00:27 | |
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The first edition of India’s largest blockchain conference is set for August 3 and 4, 2018 at the Novotel & HICC Complex, Hyderabad. The International Blockchain Congress brings together the industry experts, innovators, and regulators that work within the ecosystem to hold relevant conversations and set the agenda for blockchain technology development in the world’s sixth largest economy.
2018-8-2 22:30 | |
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a common theme within the capital markets industry and as the cryptocurrency ecosystem matures, M&A announcements are expected to follow the same trend. The news today is that Binance, one of the world’s largest virtual currency operators, has acquired cryptocurrency wallet provider Trust Wallet in an effort to give control.
2018-7-31 21:35 | |
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The world’s largest blockchain conference explores the promise of blockchain technology, trends and investments. Keynote is excited to announce the program agenda for their next endeavour, the world’s largest two-day blockchain coming to London this September.
2018-7-31 20:30 | |
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As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.
2018-7-31 15:58 | |
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The world of cryptocurrency is in a constant state of flux. As a result, the process of sorting through untold amounts of background information and data can be a laborious, time-consuming endeavor.
2018-7-30 16:47 | |
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ETF’s are back in the news this week with the Winklevoss twins of Gemini getting rejected again, while investment firm Direxion was delayed till September on a final decision.
2018-7-30 18:41 | |
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After five long months of working with South Carolina officials, Genesis Mining has been dropped from the cease and desist order it received back in March 2018 from the South Carolina Securities Division.
2018-7-28 02:37 | |
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Scienceroot is an innovative science startup, which is developing an ecosystem directed at satisfying the needs of all scientists. Researchers and scholars worldwide will soon have the possibility to collaborate, secure funding for their work, and in the end, publish their results through a more efficient, intuitive, and transparent platform, while also obtaining benefits and rewards for their work and involvement within the Scienceroot community.
2018-7-27 17:15 | |
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Cryptocurrency fraud and crime is rife in South Korea. This year alone with have seen countless reports of fraud and hacks taking place within the country in instances that could have otherwise been stopped with adequate regulation.
2018-7-27 00:30 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Hyperbridge is developing decentralized protocols for the deployment of next generation applications within industry specific "micro-economies". This will be facilitated through BlockHub, our protocol-drive platform, which serves to unite producers and consumers.
2018-7-26 17:02 | |
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The 1,041,748 Bitcoin traded on BitMEX shattered its previous record of 800,000 Bitcoin traded within 24 hours. The landmark moment for the cryptocurrency industry comes as the Bitcoin price continues its upturn to more than $8,000 USD.
2018-7-26 15:41 | |
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A report dubbed, “Legal Framework: Gambling and Sports Betting Including Cricket India”, revealed that the Indian committee has been looking into legalizing sports betting platforms, while possibly allowing the use of cryptocurrencies as a payment method.
2018-7-26 22:41 | |
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Chinese mining company Bitmain has announced it is exploring new policies that will boost the company’s transparency and communication with the cryptocurrency community.
2018-7-26 19:33 | |
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Whilst the future for cryptocurrency in China is uncertain, there are still plenty of research authorities working in the country that are designed to explore and interpret cryptocurrencies. Within this, one such authority, the Chinese Centre for Information Industry Development (CCID) has released a number of rankings for cryptocurrencies from May this year, with the most recent update to the ranking taking place this week.
2018-7-25 14:00 | |
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As expected, Google have entered a bit of a blockchain rampage, forcing themselves into the blockchain industry with as much impact as possible. As a tech giant and a world leader, Google have no choice but to get involved within this sort of work, otherwise eventually, customers would fall out of love with them.
2018-7-25 06:00 | |
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Bitwise Asset Management is the latest venture to apply for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF). Called the Bitwise HOLD 10 Cryptocurrency Index Fund, the ETF will track the returns of the company’s HOLD 10 Index, a “market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies” that captures roughly 80 percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization.
2018-7-25 02:18 | |
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Sansox is a complete solution provider within the water treatment industry. With its technology municipalities around the world can now treat their water to affordable price by paying with the AQUA token.
2018-7-24 10:34 | |
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However, over the years there have been a lot of fraudulent individuals and operations within the mining industry claiming to be something their not. Just because someone shows a picture of a cryptocurrency mining facility or a new bitcoin mining rig that outperforms the competition doesn’t make it real. We recently wrote about some sketchy
2018-7-22 19:54 | |
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Swiss regulators are currently making a greater effort to provide clear regulations for the banking industry to ensure that cryptocurrency-related projects can remain fully functional within the country.
2018-7-21 17:11 | |
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The proposal was introduced by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) after the SBV announced that cryptocurrency use within Vietnam was not a “lawful means of payment” this past October.
2018-7-21 01:52 | |
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Swiss regulators are currently making a greater effort to provide clear regulations for the banking industry to ensure that cryptocurrency-related projects can remain fully functional within the country.
2018-7-20 20:26 | |
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Hundreds of companies are exploring use cases within the blockchain industry. It is evident there are a lot of potential use cases to explore, even though very few of them will impact the real world.
2018-7-20 20:00 | |
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Coinfloor, a cryptocurrency exchange that operates multiple subsidiary exchanges, is joining hands with Trading Technologies International, Inc. , a leading trading software provider.
2018-7-19 22:24 | |
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There are over 600 million Africans living without electricity despite an abundance of sunshine and hundreds of thousands of solar projects on the drawing board.
2018-7-17 17:41 | |
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As the crypto market continues to meld into the realm of traditional finance, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute is taking notice — so much so that the organization is adding cryptocurrency and blockchain sections to its 2019 certification exams.
2018-7-16 20:42 | |
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As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba.
2018-7-16 19:45 | |
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The advent of smart contracts has long drawn interest for its potential to revolutionize business agreements. There’s just one problem, and it’s one that has affected many spheres of the cryptocurrency space: a knowledge gap.
2018-7-13 19:12 | |
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2018 has seen the cryptocurrency market suffer from a spate of exchange hacks and exit scams as fraudulent activity within the industry seem to be increasing The post Physical Bitcoin Attacks and Burglaries on the Rise appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-7-13 10:59 | |
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Still only nine years old, Bitcoin continues to be a major topic of discussion within the global business industry. Bloomberg’s Noah Smith believes that the future of the top-ranked cryptocurrency has three possible outcomes.
2018-7-13 04:00 | |
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New York realtors looking to avoid hiccups in their commission payouts can now turn to blockchain-based smart contracts. The first real estate commission split was brokered earlier this summer in Manhattan’s ritzy SoHo neighborhood by New York-based Bapple Realty.
2018-7-13 15:39 | |
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Tech giants IBM seem to be entering the blockchain industry through every door possible. As a company that has made its living through innovation at the cutting edge of technological design, IBM do need to take a hold of the blockchain and run with it.
2018-7-12 13:30 | |
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Blockchain will contribute almost $1 billion to the telecoms sector alone within the next five years, MarketWatch reports Wednesday, July 11. a new research forecasts this week. According to a global market research store Research and Markets, blockchain technology in telecoms will explode from a $46.6 million industry in 2018 to one worth $993.8 million
2018-7-12 21:43 | |
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The saga surrounding the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) cryptocurrency ban continues to take the crypto-sphere by storm. One minute the ban seems well embedded and the whole industry is grinding to a halt and the next, India are set to reverse all mention of the RBI’s decision.
2018-7-11 16:00 | |
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BrikBit Digital Shares is a blockchain-based ecosystem that develops and manages entire operations for the Real Estate industry. Within the BrikBit ecosystem all shareholders involved in the Real Estate projects will be able to use the potentiality of blockchain technology to automate, disintermediate and make more transparent both typical and implicit processes during all steps of a Real Estate enterprise, such as fund collection, design, creation and management.
2018-7-11 15:25 | |
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Although it appears that exchange hacks are becoming the new normal within the crypto industry, this could have been prevented if the smart contracts were properly tested for vulnerabilities. Yo Kwon, CEO and Founder of Hosho, the world’s leading blockchain security firm, has provided commentary on the breach and the importance of smart contract auditing […]
2018-7-11 10:06 | |
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Security Cryptocurrency analysts are increasingly arguing that the lack of custody services provided by leading players from within the finance industry pose a significant barrier to institutional investors seeking exposure to the cryptocurrency markets.
2018-7-10 10:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency analysts are increasingly arguing that the lack of custody services provided by leading players from within the finance industry pose a significant barrier to institutional investors seeking exposure to the cryptocurrency markets.
2018-7-10 08:05 | |
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The Institutes RiskBlock™ Alliance is joining forces with Accenture in a move that will see both companies expand the use of blockchain technology within the insurance sector.
2018-7-10 00:28 | |
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The Maltese Parliament has passed a series of pro-blockchain bills into law, heralding the launch of a new concrete legal framework for blockchain industry within the island nation. The post Maltese Parliament Passes Pro-Blockchain Laws, Establishing Malta as “Blockchain Island” appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-7-6 03:00 | |
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Iceland will soon have a vibrant data centre operations industry in the country. This latest technology infrastructure expansion within the Nordic nation is the result of the pioneering efforts of bitcoin users who leveraged the supportive geothermal and hydropower conditions in Iceland to build expansive data centres to decode blockchain technologies.
2018-7-5 22:40 | |
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Cryptocurrency mining profits are on the way down, resulting in declining demand for hardware, such as high-end graphics cards. Sources suggest that GPUs could drop by as much as 20% within the upcoming month.
2018-7-3 10:00 | |
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The inclusion of Russia's largest bank in the digital ruble pilot could accelerate the adoption of digital currency, impacting financial systems. The post Russia’s largest bank joins digital ruble pilot program appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
As MiCA regulations impact stablecoins in the EU, questions arise about USDT's compliance and potential market effects. The post Tether grapples with new FUD as MiCA regulations take effect on Dec. 30 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have released the final version of its broker rules to digital assets services providers, which includes provisions on requiring DeFi protocols to conduct Know-Your-Customer (KYC) procedures.
Montenegro approves Do Kwon extradition to the US for charges linked to TerraUSD's collapse, following a Supreme Court ruling. The post Do Kwon to be extradited to US, Montenegro’s justice minister confirms appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Montenegro approves Do Kwon’s extradition to the US over crypto fraud charges, rejecting South Korea’s request for extradition. The post Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon Will be Extradited to the United States appeared first on BeInCrypto.
Bitwise's ETF targets firms with over 1,000 BTC, using Bitcoin treasury size over market capitalization for portfolio weighting. The post Bitwise files ETF for firms holding over 1,000 BTC appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The crypto market is ending the year on a strong note as a record $18 billion worth of options contracts are set to expire. Options allow traders to speculate or hedge against price movements. A call option grants the right to buy an asset at a specific price, while a put option provides the right […] The post Record $18 billion in crypto options set for year-end expiry appeared first on CryptoSlate.