Germany’s financial regulator, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), is making efforts to coordinate the activities of European financial watchdogs towards legislative regulation of initial coin offerings (ICOs).

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Of the top 10 relayers, three (Radar Relay, LedgerDex, and Bamboo Relay) exclusively accept ZRX for trading fees. That amounts to ~22% of the total relayer trading volume. Source »

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⌚️ Asian cryptocurrency traders are amassing Bitcoin Cash in anticipation of the upcoming hard fork.
via CoinDesk

♻️ Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex will start offering pre-fork trading of Bitcoin Cash tokens “to prevent any risk of manipulation and hence to maintain a healthy market.”
via Bitfinex

💵 The total number of Bitcoin ATMs installed around the world has reached 3,990.
via Ethereum World News

🇯🇵 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) will use Ripple (XRP) to create a new cross-border payments service to Brazil.
via Cointelegraph

🕌 An Indian cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme has deceived a number of Muslim investors by promising Halal investments and positioning itself as a Sharia-compliant investment program.
via ccn

What was SegWit2x? Why should block sizes be limited? What is the “real Bitcoin?” What are the interdependent consensus constituents, and how do consensus changes succeed or fail?

Find out what Andreas Antonopoulos has to say.

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According to unconfirmed information, Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu has reportedly lost executive power in a board reshuffle.

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How does one set up and run a masternode? What are the real numbers for different architecture configurations? How much would it all cost? Click the link below to find out:
https://minter.link/masternode-costs

The first “Bitcoin felon” and founder of the BitInstant exchange, Charlie Shrem, is again accused of fraud. This time, the Winklevoss twins are the plaintiffs, who are confident that the crypto entrepreneur stole 5,000 Bitcoins from them, which is about $32 million at the current rate. The publication of The New York Times describes the events that took place in 2012 when Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss turned to Shrem for buying Bitcoins. The brothers claim that throughout cooperation, Shrem appropriated 5,000 Bitcoins.

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💵 The profits Bitmain posted in its IPO prospectus turned out to be considerably smaller than what it had told investors in the earlier funding rounds.
via The Block

🇨🇳 China’s government officials have shut down crypto miners in two provinces for “strict” tax inspections. Bitmain, a mining giant which is also eyeing an IPO, recently deployed 90,000 S9 Antminer rigs to one of those regions.
via ccn

🇯🇵 Japanese IT giant GMO has reported a loss of about USD 5.6 million for its cryptocurrency mining business in Q3 2018.
via CoinDesk

🏢 Hedge funds aren’t giving up on cryptocurrencies just yet. Buying into equity-like digital tokens may be “like getting in on Bitcoin at the beginning,” as some of them believe.
via Bloomberg

👨🏻‍💻 This year’s Forbes 30-Under-30 list features four young crypto entrepreneurs aged between 25 and 28.
via ccn

Lawyers representing Ripple in an ongoing securities lawsuit are trying to move the case to a U.S. federal court. The move would potentially allow the company to prove definitively that its XRP token is not a security under U.S. law.

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An interesting read on Binance’s path to becoming one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges in terms of daily trading volume and also on the platform’s short- and long-term prospects.

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The upcoming hard fork of the Bitcoin Cash network scheduled for November 15 will prove to be a difficult test for the community of the fourth-largest coin on the market. Many fear that the system will break up into two competing chains as a result of the update, each of which will offer its own version of the further development of the network. What is the essence of the conflict? What to expect from the upcoming update of the Bitcoin Cash network?

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Nowadays, cryptocurrencies are far from their best indicators, because the rate of Bitcoin is at around $5,600. Many users have already lost about 80% of the market value of assets, some digital coins have disappeared. But perhaps this development of the industry is exactly what we need for a big step forward.

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💵 Binance has announced that it will list USDC as its second regulated stablecoin.
https://goo.gl/vgHL4o

😱 Google’s G Suite and Target’s actual Twitter accounts have been taken over by hackers in the past day, promoting a scammy “giveaway” of 10,000 BTC.
https://goo.gl/bdSPqd

🦅 The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued its 14th BitLicense to New York Digital Investment Group.
https://goo.gl/FnryRq

📚 CoinDesk has launched the crypto-economics explorer, a new tool for visualizing crypto.
https://goo.gl/7FjsPi

🗣 Happy Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Day! In the meantime, check out an interview with Calvin Ayre, one of the central figures behind Bitcoin Cash SV.
https://goo.gl/41gzF5

Bitcoin continued its slump after losing 12% on Wednesday: bloom.bg/2DFSYwD

Bitcoin Cash SV is currently trading at a weighted price of $82 on Poloniex, which is ~27% of Bitcoin Cash ABC’s price.

The Bitcoin Cash network’s hard fork has happened.
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The November 8 SEC v. EtherDelta case stirred up the crypto community, as they will likely have to part with many of the illusions that the U.S. authorities are just “merely reflecting on the cryptocurrency phenomenon, but are in no way intent on imposing serious restrictions on it.” A recent statement by Asher Tan, the founder of an Australian cryptocurrency exchange CoinJar, that “in the U.S., blockchain projects are designed in such a way that they do not allow the American government to interfere in their activities” looks naïve in this case.

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted by the European Union in 2016 and entered into force on May 25 of this year. It strengthened the protection of personal information of EU citizens and has extraterritorial effect, that is, its requirements apply not only to companies registered in the EU but also to those that process personal data of the EU residents and citizens, regardless of their location.

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⛓ The Bitcoin Cash network has split. What do we know about the two competing chains so far?
via CoinDesk

🕵🏻‍♂️ The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a probe into the company associated with Erik Voorhees, a famous CEO of crypto exchange ShapeShift.
via Cointelegraph

💰 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has become the latest member to join the crypto billionaire club.
via Forbes

📉 Nvidia’s Q3 earnings report that was released today has sent the company’s stock price down by more than 18%. Graphics processing units manufacturer continues to feel the weak demand for hardware used for mining cryptocurrencies.
via The Block

🇫🇷 France’s financial markets regulator estimates the global ICO industry has raised $21.9 billion since 2014.
via Bitcoin.com

Famous crypto lawyer Jake Chervinsky’s Twitter thread on recent SEC’s clampdown on EtherDelta and its founder: https://goo.gl/qGtwAz

European Central Bank (ECB) executive board member Benoit Coeure said this week that 69 percent of central banks are already exploring the concept of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

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