In a recent cleverly executed phishing attack, hackers managed to swindle the users of a popular Electrum wallet out of over $880,000 worth of Bitcoin.

The company warned its clients not to download the wallet from any source other than its official website.

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”For billions living under authoritarianism, it [Bitcoin] can be an alternative money system and an escape from economic control. And for all of us, it preserves the peer-to-peer virtues of cash in an increasingly digital financial world.”

WhalePanda tweeted that this column on the importance of the first cryptocurrency for freedom is probably the best Bitcoin article published on mainstream media he’s ever read.

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This week’s #CryptoCaselawMinute features:
• A new case from Argentina regarding crypto theft;
• A “double escrow” Bitcoin purchase that went south;
• A Federal Trade Commission injunction extending to crypto assets.

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Despite that the bearish trend brought down the majority of cryptocurrency rates, the leading market players in 2018 were provided with new opportunities. So, while traders and investors nervously watched cryptocurrency charts, crypto companies and blockchain projects struck 115 partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, and takeovers to further improve their organizations, products, and services. As a result, the year 2019 promises to be a challenging but exciting, during which we will see a rapid growth of the entire crypto industry. DeCenter considered the most memorable crypto deals of the past year and the degree of their influence on the digital assets market.

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Despite the disappointment of users in the ICO model and the organization and implementation of blockchain projects, 2018 is still going down in history as the time of the birth of the crypto gaming industry. The industry, as the name implies, combines digital tokens and various games. We collected the essential things that formed the game market.

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🔑 Today—ten years after Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network by creating the “genesis block”—the Proof of Keys campaign started, encouraging users to gain control over their private keys.
via The Block

🦅 New York has become the first U.S. state to establish a digital currency task force.
via Cointelegraph

🇪🇺 The E.U.-based trading platform that is set to launch next Monday will enable its customers to purchase tokens representing shares in Nasdaq-listed tech firms.
via Bitcoin.com

🔮 In 2019, the blockchain technology will become “more useful” and “boring,” according to a forecast by MIT Technology Review.
via MIT Technology Review

🔝 CoinDesk released its annual ranking of the most influential people in the crypto industry, naming Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao as a leader.
via CoinDesk

CoinDesk published an exclusive guest article outlining key events that will shape the cryptocurrency regulatory landscape in 2019.

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It is most convenient to divide any history into different periods. At school, we were taught that world history consists of periods extending over several hundred years—from primitive society to modern times. We are accustomed to dividing the history of states into periods of 25, 50, or 100 years. And the history of the contemporary world economy is calculated in periods of 10–20 years. Each such period is usually associated with well-known figures who played an essential role at the time. These are kings, politicians, great generals, scientists. The history of cryptocurrency and blockchain in the world chronicle is just beginning, and we are still viewing it under a microscope as almost every event is perceived as a historical moment. And the time intervals are still tiny. But there are already plenty of actors in its history.

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💰 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, is giving a fresh start to its own token sale platform called Launchpad.
via The Block

🌐 The BitTorrent client is set to launch its native digital token, BitTorrent (BTT), which will run on top of the Tron network. The company will also hold an initial coin offering (ICO) campaign to distribute the cryptocurrency.
via CoinDesk

🤝 In 2018, a peer-to-peer payments technology company Circle saw an astounding $24 billion in the over-the-counter (OTC) trading volume.
via ccn

💵 Starting February, online retailer Overstock will pay “a portion of its Ohio state business taxes” in Bitcoin.
via Cointelegraph

❌ Having been launched in 2017, 144 initial coin offering (ICO) projects failed just a year after.
via Bitcoin.com

What will you remember the year 2018 for? Just do not say that it will be for the $700 billion worth decline of the crypto market. Last year, the crypto industry received enough criticism, thus “paying” for the record achievements it reached back in December 2017. But for its ten-year history, it seems to be doing quite well. By turning away from the industry now, one is risking becoming a parent who did not witness their child taking its first steps. We decided to recall the main “steps” taken by the crypto market in 2018.

http://dcntr.org/2018-look-back

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💠 Ethereum Core developers discussed an update to the network’s hashing algorithm that would reduce the incentive to mine Ether with ASIC devices.
via The Block

🇯🇵 Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is considering allowing Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF).
via Bloomberg

👩‍⚖️ U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken received about three times more law enforcement requests in 2018 compared to the preceding year.
via ccn

📃 The state of Colorado submitted a new bill on crypto regulation, proposing to make cryptocurrencies exempt from certain state securities laws.
via Bitcoin.com

💵 The state of Texas may oblige the issuers of stablecoins to obtain specific licenses, updated guidance from the state Department of Banking says.
via CoinDesk

This year’s first #CryptoCaselawMinute features
• Kleiman v. Wright,
• Lagemann v. Spense,
• and a new case from Chile.

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A Look Back at 2018: DeCenter Interviews

We’ve hand-picked the most fascinating interviews we did last year. Here they are:

Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin—one of the most well-known forks of Bitcoin—shared his opinion as to which Bitcoin is the real one.
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Elina Sidorenko, the “Iron Lady” of Russian crypto regulation, shed light on the complex relationship between cryptocurrencies and regulators and explained why she thinks Pavel Durov is a cool guy.
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Marketer at blockchain startups anonymously told us how to promote initial coin offering (ICO) projects.
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Oleg Ivanov, founder of CryptoBazar, revealed the secrets blockchain investors might possess and gave some hints on how to work with them.
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Thought only youngsters would understand crypto? A retired man from the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, who also happens to be a Minter network delegator, told us why the elder generation is also interested in the distributed ledger technology.
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🇪🇺 The front runner for the European Central Bank’s presidency said cryptocurrencies will go down in history as “a load of nonsense.”
via Bloomberg

🇮🇳 The Indian government has put a halt to its plans of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
via ccn

💵 The Ethereum Foundation awarded a $5 million grant to Parity Technologies.
via Cointelegraph

💧 Telecommunications giant China Mobile is developing a blockchain-powered household product.
via CoinDesk

🇦🇺 An Australian federal court has frozen assets of former BitConnect Director John Bigatton.
via The Block

A China-based Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Canaan is reportedly considering the United States as a place for conducting its initial public offering (IPO), sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

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The Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain has recently suffered a 51-percent attack, with the amount of funds involved nearing $1.1 million worth of the network’s native cryptocurrency.

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📈 A considerable number of the over-the-counter (OTC) trading desks across the crypto world have seen increased buying pressure at the beginning of the year.
via The Block

🇯🇵 Japan’s Financial Service Agency (FSA) is planning to close a legal loophole that allows unregistered investment firms to raise funds in cryptocurrency.
via CoinDesk

🐦 “If a crypto can’t be 51% attacked, it is permissioned and centralized,” said Litecoin’s creator Charlie Lee in one of his recent tweets.
via Cointelegraph

🏦 The total number of banks participating in the Ripple ecosystem has crossed 200.
via ccn

🇻🇪 The Venezuelan government has required crypto operators in the country to pay taxes in cryptocurrency.
via Bitcoin.com

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has recommended that the European Commission establish whether there is a need for unified cryptocurrency regulation across the European Union.

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Earlier this week, multiple reports were stating that the Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s primary financial regulatory agency, was weighing approval of cryptocurrency-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

In a comment for Cointelegraph Japan today, the authority’s representatives have denied such claims.

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The U.S.-based law firms Silver Miller and Levi & Korsinsky have filed a class-action lawsuit against the developers of altcoin Nano, demanding a “rescue fork” that would “fairly compensate the class of victims.”

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