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🤝 Western Union wants to acquire MoneyGram, according to a person familiar with the matter.
via Bloomberg
🇰🇷 Binance Korea will integrate Coinfirm’s real-time anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring solution.
via Cointelegraph
🇨🇭 FINMA has green-lighted two Zurich-based banks to offer cryptocurrency services.
via Bitcoin[dot]com
🇻🇪 The U.S. has put a $5 million bounty on Venezuela’s crypto chief.
via Modern Consensus
💵 Square Crypto has awarded a grant to the Bitcoin Lightning Network watchtower.
via Decrypt
♎️ Payments on the Libra network can boost Facebook’s ads business, Zuckerberg believes.
via CoinDesk
🇰🇷 South Korea plans to introduce Bitcoin profits taxation as soon as next year.
via Bitcoin[dot]com
💸 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered BitClave to return investor funds.
via Cointelegraph
📈 The volume of Bitcoin options traded on the CME reached a new all-time high.
via Decrypt
🇺🇸 The U.S. stock market is overpriced by 16%, according to an Oxford-based think-tank.
via Bloomberg
➕ “Traders post margin in XBT [Bitcoin], and earn or lose Bitcoin as the ETH/USD rate changes.”
via Cointelegraph
👁🗨 Google announced a massive advertiser identity verification campaign.
via Modern Consensus
💲 Cryptocurrency lender dYdX processed $1.1 billion in loans over the past 12 months.
via Bitcoin[dot]com
✔️ Nearly 80% of U.S. investors surveyed by Investing[dot]com see the coronavirus market downturn as an opportunity to invest.
via ccn
🇰🇷 South Korean travel unicorn is integrating a cryptocurrency rewards program.
via Decrypt
🇺🇸 The White House and Congress have agreed on a USD 2 trillion stimulus deal.
via The Block
👨⚖️ A federal court judge has granted a temporary injunction against Telegram.
via Modern Consensus
🔍 Privacy-focused Brave has launched in-browser cryptocurrency trading via Binance.
via Bitcoin.com
👨⚖️ The U.S. government is fighting a motion to dismiss the case against OneCoin’s former attorney Mark Scott.
via Cointelegraph
🎙 CNBC crypto show host has started a fund for startups hit by coronavirus.
via Decrypt
🇮🇳 The government of India will inspect cryptocurrency businesses in the country.
via Bitcoin.com
🇰🇷 South Korea’s government will grant up to US$3.2 million to local blockchain startups.
via Cointelegraph
🚘 Giant automaker Toyota has unveiled Blockchain Lab to study the tech’s industry-wide use cases.
via CoinDesk
📈 Crypto lending firm BlockFi has raised Bitcoin and Ether interest rates.
via Decrypt
💵 MakerDAO now allows the centralized USDC stablecoin to be used as collateral.
via Modern Consensus
💸 Cryptocurrency exchange INX is eyeing April for its $130 million IPO.
via CoinDesk
🇮🇳 India’s central bank is set to challenge the Supreme Court’s ruling.
via Bitcoin.com
💼 Bitcoin mining equipment maker Canaan has been sued for allegedly violating the U.S. security laws.
via The Block
🇹🇭 Huobi Thailand has launched a cryptocurrency exchange.
via Decrypt
👮♂️ Last year, Japan’s police made 537 arrests for money laundering.
via Cointelegraph
🏴 The deputy governor of the Bank of England believes that cryptocurrency could kill bank lending.
via Bitcoin.com
🇹🇷 Binance has partnered with Akbank, one of the largest banks in Turkey.
via Decrypt
🖥 Huobi has launched the public testnet of its open-source decentralized finance (DeFi) blockchain.
via Cointelegraph
🗳 Kaspersky has started trialing its new blockchain-based voting machine called Polys.
via Modern Consensus
🤑 An allegedly fraudulent investment scheme operated out of Kyiv, Ukraine, made $70 million last year, according to a whistleblower.
via The Guardian
🇨🇳 Ant Financial has started piloting its enterprise blockchain platform.
via Cointelegraph
🇨🇭 Switzerland-based cryptocurrency bank SEBA went live.
via The Block
📱 HTC Exodus 1 blockchain phone got Binance Edition upgrade.
via Decrypt
🗓 CME will launch options on its Bitcoin futures contract in January.
via CoinDesk
🌃 Blockchain technology will drive digital cities, according to a recent report.
via Modern Consensus
💎 Coinbase, a major U.S.-based digital asset trading platform, has announced it will provide custodial support for Telegram Open Network’s GRAM cryptocurrency.
via Cointelegraph
🇺🇸 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected Bitwise’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal.
via Decrypt
♎️ A group of blockchain developers plans to fork Libra and create its corporate control-free version.
via Modern Consensus
🇨🇳 Now that the wet season is over in Sichuan, Chinese miners are migrating north to access cheap thermal and wind power.
via Bitcoin.com
👮♀️ A Singaporean has been indicted in the U.S. on charges of stealing cloud computing power on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google to mine cryptocurrency.
via ccn
♎️ Libra nodes have gone live on the pre-mainnet, according to the project’s roadmap.
via Cointelegraph
🇺🇸 Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the Federal Reserve to consider a digital national currency.
via CoinDesk
💵 Coinbase now offers rewards for users holding its USDC stablecoin.
via Decrypt
🇨🇭 Switzerland-based exchange SIX has listed a BTCETH exchange-traded product (ETP).
via The Block
🇮🇳 South Korea’s largest Bitcoin exchange Bithumb is trying to convince the government of India to allow cryptocurrency trading.
via ccn
🏦 Today, central banks from all over the world will quiz Facebook over its upcoming Libra stablecoin.
via The Block
🇩🇪 Deutsche Bank has joined J.P. Morgan’s blockchain-based network.
via Cointelegraph
🖥 Bitcoin exchange Hodl Hodl has open-sourced the code for its smart contracts.
via CoinDesk
🇪🇺 French Finance Minister and ECB board member have called for the EU to establish its own digital currency.
via Modern Consensus
🇺🇸 The U.S. has sanctioned North Korea for cryptocurrency hacks, among other reasons.
via Decrypt
💵 Paxos Trust has partnered with Binance to launch a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin (BUSD).
via Modern Consensus
🐋 In a recent move, whales have transferred over USD 1 billion worth of Bitcoin to a single wallet.
via Decrypt
🇯🇵 The blockchain arm of a Japanese messaging giant LINE has been granted a cryptocurrency exchange operating license from the country’s Financial Services Agency (FSA).
via Cointelegraph
🇨🇳 There are signs that Chinese locals are increasingly moving funds into Bitcoin due to the ongoing trade war with the U.S.
via CoinDesk
🇲🇹 The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is set to closely monitor cryptocurrency activity in order to prevent money laundering.
via The Block
🏦 Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could solve the “competition issues” in the cryptocurrency sector.
via The Block
🇩🇪 BaFIN has approved a $280 million Ethereum-based token sale.
via CoinDesk
👨⚖️ Bitfinex and Tether have doubled down on their previous claim regarding the absence of New York residents among their clientele.
via Cointelegraph
🇮🇷 Iran has legalized cryptocurrency mining activities.
via ccn
🗓 Tron’s Justin Sun had to postpone his charity lunch with Warren Buffett due to health issues.
via Decrypt
🇬🇧 Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) regulatory sandbox program graduate has launched a regulated digital securities platform.
via The Block
🇩🇪 The exchange operated by Deutsche Boerse has listed its first blockchain company.
via Cointelegraph
🏦 The chief of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has stated that central banks may need to issue their own digital currencies in the near future.
via CoinDesk
🇮🇷 Iranian authorities have seized as many as 1,000 Bitcoin mining rigs.
via ccn
💻 Reddit will soon let its users tip with cryptocurrency without using bots.
via Decrypt
🇯🇵 Blockstream is launching a Bitcoin over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk in Japan.
via Decrypt
🔎 The Brave browser has been auto-filling affiliate links into users’ address bars, apologized calling it a “mistake.”
via Modern Consensus
🎥 The former president of Warner Bros. is set to make a movie out of the Winklevoss brothers’ Bitcoin success story.
via Cointelegraph
👓 Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has added support for privacy coins Zcash and Dash.
via CoinDesk
🌎 The World Health Organization has stated asymptomatic carriers of coronavirus rarely infect others.
via CNBC
🇫🇷 Societe Generale has piloted tokenized bonds, settled in the French central bank-issued digital euro.
via The Block
✅ Amazon has patented a blockchain-powered system for the verification of product authenticity.
via CoinDesk
🇨🇳 China has passed a law that will protect cryptocurrency inheritance.
via Bitcoin[dot]com
💵 Tether has integrated the OMG Network Plasma sidechain, formerly known as OmiseGo.
via Cointelegraph
🙅🏽♀️ Over 60 percent of Bitcoin supply has not been moved in over a year, according to Glassnode.
via Decrypt
🌍 The World Economic Forum’s Global Blockchain Council is set to ratify the “Blockchain Bill of Rights.”
via Modern Consensus
🇨🇳 There is no deadline for the launch of digital yuan, People’s Bank of China (PBOC) governor says.
via The Block
🇮🇳 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has clarified that there are no crypto restrictions on banks.
via Cointelegraph
🖥 Goldman Sachs is hosting a call on what current economic policies in the U.S. mean for Bitcoin.
via Bitcoin[dot]com
🇦🇷 Argentina has started a crackdown on local Bitcoin trading.
via Decrypt
🇸🇬 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has exempted Ripple, Coinbase, and Binance from having to obtain a financial license under the Payment Services Act (PSA).
via Cointelegraph
🏦 HSBC has put $10 billion of paper-based private placement records on R3’s Corda blockchain.
via CoinDesk
💳 Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is launching a Visa debit card.
via Decrypt
🇰🇷 Major South Korean bank is eyeing the launch of a cryptocurrency custody service.
via Cointelegraph
💵 Blockchain data firm Coin Metrics has raised $6 million in a Series A round.
via The Block
🇺🇸 Bank of America has officially declared that the U.S. economy is in the recession.
via ccn
💵 Tether (USDT), the world’s biggest stablecoin, has launched on the Bitcoin Cash network.
via Bitcoin.com
🖥 Derivatives trading platform Huobi DM has announced a new partial liquidation feature.
via Modern Consensus
🇮🇹 Italy-based bank Banca Sella will launch a Bitcoin trading service for its 1.2 million customers amid the coronavirus lockdown.
via Cointelegraph
🎥 The European Union “doesn’t understand how the Internet works,” a senior research scientist at MIT says.
via Decrypt
⭕️ USDC stablecoin issuer Circle has released a toolbox of APIs for business customers.
via The Block
💸 Cryptocurrency lending platform BlockFi has added support for wire transfers through Silvergate Bank.
via Cointelegraph
🤝 Blockchain[dot]com has entered the retail lending market.
via CoinDesk
⏹ Cryptocurrency broker Robinhood’s services were unavailable again yesterday.
via The Block
🇧🇪 The Belgian government will auction off over US$125,000 worth of seized Bitcoin.
via Decrypt
🇮🇳 The Supreme Court of India has lifted the cryptocurrency ban imposed by the country’s central bank.
via Bitcoin.com
♎️ Facebook’s Libra project considers supporting several government-backed national currencies.
via Decrypt
➖ Bitfinex is set to delist 46 cryptocurrency trading pairs.
via The Block
🇺🇦 The Ukrainian National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) outlined how cryptocurrency must be reported on yearly income declarations.
via Cointelegraph
💻 HTC’s new router will enable users to run a full Bitcoin node.
via CoinDesk
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🎯 Major cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and OKEx have recently suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
via Decrypt
🇺🇦 “The digital currency can help reduce the amount of paper money in circulation. For many countries, this is an urgent task, since the shadow economy is often ‘fed’ with paper money,” believes the National Bank of Ukraine.
via Cointelegraph
🇭🇰 The government of Hong Kong is set to airdrop about $9 billion in free money to its residents.
via Bitcoin.com
👁 Coinbase confirmed it had tested Clearview AI’s facial recognition software.
via CoinDesk
🥋 Steven Seagal will pay more than $300,000 to settle the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges.
via Modern Consensus
🇨🇳 China’s Communist Party wants its members to pledge loyalty on blockchain.
via CoinDesk
💵 Binance received a USD 250,000 “long-term payment” to list STX for one year.
via Cointelegraph
🔚 Bitmain co-founder has reportedly been ousted from the company.
via ccn
➕ Deloitte has added privacy-enhancing technology to its enterprise blockchain solution.
via The Block
📱 Samsung Galaxy phones will add support for TRX via the Blockchain Keystore app.
via Decrypt
🇯🇵 Cryptocurrency donations are legal in Japan, according to the country’s minister of internal affairs.
via The Block
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein has approved the “Token and Trustworthy Technology Service Providers Act.”
via Bitcoin.com
💵 The widow of QuadrigaCX founder is handing over US$9 million in assets to the victims of the infamous, now-defunct exchange.
via Cointelegraph
🏀 The NBA’s Sacramento Kings will develop a token for fan rewards.
via CoinDesk
🔚 Ethereum micro-tipping platform TipJar has shut down.
via Decrypt
♎️ Facebook’s Libra is a “wake-up call” for central banks, according to an executive of the European Central Bank (ECB).
via The Block
➕ Major U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has added support for XLM and LINK for the residents of New York.
via CoinDesk
📈 The number of blockchain wallet users has reached over 40 million at the end of the first half of 2019, data from Statista shows.
via Bitcoin.com
💰 According to the big four accounting firm KPMG’s latest survey, U.S. consumers are “increasingly willing” to use digital tokens as a means of payment.
via Decrypt
📉 Bitcoin drops 75% of the time before futures expire, findings from Arcane Research revealed.
via Cointelegraph
🗓 Binance Futures is set to go live tomorrow, with all users getting a 50% discount on trading fees for the first 90 days.
via The Block
🏦 Spain-based banking behemoth Santander has issued a USD 20 million bond on a public Ethereum blockchain.
via CoinDesk
🇫🇷 France intends to impose a ban on the development of Facebook’s Libra project in Europe.
via Cointelegraph
⚡️ Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has resumed growth in terms of the number of network nodes and payments channels.
via Decrypt
🔝 The interest in tokenized assets is on the rise, according to a recent survey by eToro.
via Modern Consensus
💵 Investor in Bakkt has backed a USD 200 million venture capital fund focused on the Algorand blockchain.
via The Block
👨⚖️ Magistrate Judge has recommended ruling in favor of the estate of Dave Kleiman in the ongoing lawsuit against Craig Wright.
via CoinDesk
🇧🇷 The central bank of Brazil has adopted IMF (International Monetary Fund) guidelines for cryptocurrency classification.
via Cointelegraph
🏴 The governor of the Bank of England has expressed an opinion that digital currency possibly can replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
via Modern Consensus
🇦🇺 An Australian woman has pleaded guilty to stealing over USD 450,000 worth of XRP.
via Decrypt
🇫🇷 France is set to approve first cryptocurrency businesses under its new regulatory framework.
via The Block
💵 Stablecoin issuer Tether accidentally created and then deleted USD 5 billion worth of USDT.
via CoinDesk
🗓 Cryptocurrency derivatives and clearing platform LedgerX is giving retail investors the chance to bet on Bitcoin price reaching $100,000 by 2020.
via Cointelegraph
🇺🇸 The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted to approve the Blockchain Promotion Act of 2019.
via Modern Consensus
🗣 Polkadot has announced a new experimental network.
via Decrypt
⭕️ Opera has released the first iOS browser with a built-in cryptocurrency wallet.
via official blog
🇬🇧 A London-based financial derivatives dealer has launched three new cryptocurrency indexes.
via Finance Magnates
🇩🇪 The CDU and CSU Union plans to integrate the blockchain technology into public services.
via Cointelegraph
👩⚖️ The Mt.Gox founder has been hit with a lawsuit over an alleged fraudulent misrepresentation.
via CoinDesk
🇸🇨 Seychelles’ national stock exchange is set to list the “world’s first” regulated security token.
via Bloomberg