Japan’s financial watchdog formally approved the Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA), an organization that includes all 16 domestic cryptocurrency exchanges, to self-regulate and police domestic cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Chinese arbitration court has ruled that Bitcoin is protected as property. The defendant refused to return the crypto assets to the plaintiff, claiming the contract should be invalid due to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) ban on cryptocurrency trading and ICOs. The arbitrator stated, however, that the nature of the case does not fall under the bans outlined by the PBOC.
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Chinese Arbitrator Reaffirms That Bitcoin Can Be Held, Privately Transferred as Property
A Chinese arbitration court has ruled that “there is no law or regulation that explicitly prohibits parties from holding bitcoin or private transactions in bitcoin.”
Forbes Middle East didn’t fact check its recent cover story and devoted it to a man impersonating as one of the original Monero core team members. Source »
If this is not the first time you hear about ICO projects, then you will understand exactly what is about to be discussed. How often do you see ICO projects that are ready to change our familiar world by staging a technological revolution? Unfortunately, this does not happen often, and not because of the existence of serious technological developments in ICO projects but rather because of simple speculation over the value of a startup.
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decenter.org
The Crowd of ICO Projects: PR Move and No Revolution
Some projects with noble goals and dubious applications of blockchain.
A well-known provider of cybersecurity solutions Group IB is preparing to release its report on trends in high-tech cybercrime. According to the summary received by the media, the document contains evidence of 14 different attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges since January of last year. Group IB argues that the state-sponsored North Korean group Lazarus is responsible for most of the criminal activities.
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decenter.org
The North Korean Lazarus Cyber Criminal Syndicate: The Most Profitable Hacker Group in the World
Hacking is thriving in North Korea and the crypto industry is still at risk.
“We do need to get the other carriers on the platform. Without that network, we don’t have a product. That is the reality of the situation,” said Marvin Erdly, head of TradeLens—a blockchain supply chain product jointly developed by IBM and Maersk.
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IBM and Maersk Struggle to Sign Partners to Shipping Blockchain
Since Maersk and IBM launched TradeLens 10 months ago, only one other carrier has joined the network. As those involved admit, that's not enough.
A Belgium-based investment company NXMH has acquired the largest European cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp. The terms of the acquisition are currently unknown.
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Russia and Venezuela are dominating LocalBitcoins volumes. Source »
Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) has officially implemented its network hard fork called Sapling.
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CCN
Privacy Coin Zcash Completes “Sapling” Network Upgrade
Privacy-focused Zcash, currently worth just over $110 per coin, has completed a network upgrade dubbed “Sapling” that it says will vastly improve transaction speed as well as reduce the actual size of transactions themselves. Zcash hopes
In 2017, Bitcoin's overwhelming volatility caused retail sites such as Steam to stop accepting Bitcoin as a payment option. This is partly affected how Bitcoin was perceived as an asset, such as stocks or gold, and not as money. Who can benefit from the transition to mutual settlements in Bitcoins and how to make employers pay their employees in cryptocurrencies?
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Salaries Paid in Bitcoin: For Whom, Why, and What For?
Would using Bitcoin as a universal means of salary payments solve many of the issues associated with rate fluctuations?
It is one thing when individual economists criticize cryptocurrencies and blockchains, as they can simply be lying, handing out lies as their own points of view. It is different when frankly fantastic statements are heard from regulators.
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decenter.org
Why Don't the Regulators See the Success of ICOs, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies?
The ICOs are growing, but the regulators do not see their successes, blindfolding themselves and marching straight towards a dead end.
eToro, a registered securities broker with 10 million users, announced it would list Binance’s BNB token. The move brings the total number of cryptocurrencies available on the platform to 13.
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You Can Now Buy Binance’s Cryptocurrency Token on eToro
Social trading platform eToro has partnered with crypto exchange Binance to list the Binance Coin (BNB) cryptocurrency on its platform.
According to a recent survey conducted by Clovr, 60% of respondents in the U.S. believe that cryptocurrency-based contributions to political campaigns should be treated the same as fiat currencies.
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Crypto and Politics
The funding of political campaigns in the U.S. has been a controversial and contentious issue for almost 190 years, dating back to the 1829 campaign of President Andrew Jackson. Now, cryptocurrency proponents are waging their own campaigns to allow digital…
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It was 10 years ago—Halloween 2008—that Satoshi Nakamoto published the famous paper that would give birth to Bitcoin.
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Bloomberg.com
Bitcoin’s Halloween Birth 10 Years Ago Led to Unimaginable Gains
Happy Anniversary to Bitcoin!
According to a document reviewed by Bloomberg, Coinbase is projecting to bring in $1.3 billion in revenue and $456 million in profits in 2018.
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Coinbase to Bring in $1.3 Billion in Revenue Despite Crypto’s Massive Slump
In the last year, the cumulative value of all major cryptocurrencies has tumbled by more than 70 percent. But that doesn’t mean no one’s making money in crypto anymore.
Goldman Sachs is onboarding clients for its Bitcoin derivatives product but is not looking into a similar contract for Ether.
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Goldman Sachs has customers getting ready to trade its bitcoin derivative, but it’s not rushing to push more products
Goldman Sachs, the white-shoe New York investment bank, has been a darling of the cryptocurrency world, with many observers waiting with bated breath for the firm to make a big splash into the market. But it doesn’t look like the firm is in any rush to roll…
Recently, the Zcash team announced the activation of the Sapling hard fork, which occurred at block 419,200. The new version of the network provides improved performance with 90 percent less time to create a transaction and 97 percent less memory consumption. One of the main reasons for such a drastic reduction in resource consumption is associated with the central element of the Zcash architecture, the hidden addresses.
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decenter.org
Zcash Is Implementing a Hard Fork, Thus Becoming Even More Anonymous
Zcash has undergone a hard fork and become even more anonymous.