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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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DeCenter has compiled a list of documentaries about Bitcoin and the blockchain technology. We tried to select only the best and relevant movies.

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As noted by the renowned financial analyst Joseph Young, an independent study of coding can serve as an alternative to expensive training in American colleges for many millennials. DeCenter has collected eight of the best free digital learning programs on cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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💵 The soon-to-arrive CoinFLEX trading platform will enable its customers to trade in physically-delivered futures contracts for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether.
via The Block

📲 Last year, hackers managed to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency by successfully carrying out SIM swapping attacks.
via Motherboard

🤝 The USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, which was established by a peer-to-peer payments technology company Circle and a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, is now supported by approximately 100 businesses.
via CircleBlog

🇻🇪 Venezuela has filed a complaint against the USA with the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming—among other things—that sanctions against its national cryptocurrency Petro are “discriminatory.”
via CoinDesk

👥 During the Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss said they are still committed to making a Bitcoin ETF a reality.
via Bloomberg

The seven-day average for the number of daily Bitcoin transactions has reached a 1-year high.
Source: https://goo.gl/TrcLw7

Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan, co-founders of a Chinese Bitcoin mining behemoth Bitmain, will quit their posts as co-CEOs but still have a determining voice in the company’s more important decisions.

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Facing fierce competition from one of its main rivals—Binance—Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., is aiming to shift its institutional efforts toward cryptocurrency-dedicated funds and firms instead of Wall Street giants; the move goes against the strategy that the company followed last year.

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One of the main complaints against investors in cryptocurrencies, as well as against crypto exchanges from the regulators, is that the KYC (Know-Your-Customer) procedure is often violated. That is, it is often unclear to the authorities who is hiding behind a Bitcoin address or a digital wallet. And if in the case of the oldest cryptocurrency, at least according to the U.S. regulators, it is still possible to figure out who is sending the funds, then there are serious concerns about the blockchains of other cryptocurrencies—namely that it will not be possible to verify the transaction participants. But just how rational is requiring the cryptocurrency community to comply with KYC?

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