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📃 Wyoming legislators introduced a bill, which, if passed, would classify digital assets as property within existing laws.
via Forbes

📈 The volume of on-chain transactions on the Ethereum network reached an all-time high in December 2018.
via Cointelegraph

💵 Japanese financial services provider SBI Group has invested $15 million in a Swiss startup that makes a one-of-its-kind cryptocurrency hardware wallet.
via CoinDesk

🔄 HBUS, the partner exchange of Singapore-based Huobi Group, underwent rebranding in an attempt to grow its U.S. clientele.
via The Block

🗣 Cryptocurrencies fail fundamental tests of financial services, according to a senior adviser to the governor of Bank of England.
via Bloomberg

• Coinbase has acquired 13 companies since it was founded
• The exchange’s venture arm, Coinbase Ventures, has made investments in 27 startups

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According to the 2018 Cryptocurrency Exchange Annual Report prepared by blockchain research organization TokenInsight, the share of decentralized exchanges (DEX) in the global cryptocurrency exchange market accounts for 19 percent.

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Despite the dramatic decrease of the first cryptocurrency’s price, daily Bitcoin transactions on darknet markets doubled throughout 2018.

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Online sources that provide legal services are already testing smart contracts, and some experts predict that cryptocurrencies will oust the mediation of lawyers in the same way that they are ousting payment operators and banks. Let’s try and answer this: Why is it not too late for lawyers to side with blockchain?

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Cryptocurrency news outlet Cointelegraph put together an article analyzing transaction throughputs of various blockchains and checking whether the actual figures live up to those claimed by developers.

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🏦 A new study from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) argues that the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus algorithm is not viable in the long-term and needs to be replaced.
via The Block

🤝 Dutch international bank ING has signed a deal with enterprise blockchain consortium R3 for access to the latter’s commercial blockchain platform.
via CoinDesk

💵 For the first time in its history, the London Stock Exchange sold trading technology to a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange.
via Cointelegraph

🖊 Deloitte’s former blockchain boss, Eric Piscini, confirmed a partnership with a J.P. Morgan portfolio company aiming to bring supply chains to the blockchain.
via Forbes

🌏 The largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is rolling out institutional investor services across Asia.
via Bloomberg

Sindri Stefanson, a man from Iceland who masterminded a notorious $800,000 mining rig theft, has been sentenced to more than four years in jail.

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In a recent interview with CNN, Mark Karpeles—a former chief executive officer of the infamous, now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox—discussed his Japanese incarceration experience, marking it the one he wouldn’t wish even on “humanity’s worst enemy.”

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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is seeking a public listing in the U.S. through a reverse merger with an OTC-listed holding company Blockchain Industries (ticker BCII).

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On January 6, the Nasdaq-based DX.Exchange cryptocurrency exchange announced the launch of its platform, where it will be possible to acquire shares of multinational corporations such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Netflix, and Tesla. Users of the platform will be able to trade tokenized shares of various companies using crypto deposits. Why is there a need for tokenization of shares and how will this method of exchange simplify the systems and expand the possibilities for interaction between the cryptocurrency and classical industries?

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On January 10, 2009, Hal Finney posted on Twitter that he had launched the Bitcoin software. Bitcoin enthusiasts celebrated the anniversary of this tweet before, but this year, with a decade of Bitcoin, a real retweeting campaign has gone on the platform. Hal Finney, the first Bitcoin transaction recipient and one of the most active Bitcoin developers in the past, died in 2014 after a five-year-long illness. DeCenter tells his story.

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🗓 The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has withdrawn its request for a rule change by the SEC that would provide for the listing of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).
via CoinDesk

🗣 Ernst & Young’s (EY) global blockchain director dubbed the bear market that the cryptocurrency industry experienced in 2018 “the single most predictable in years.”
via The Block

🔜 According to a source familiar with the matter, Telegram Open Network’s (TON) development team plans to roll out the main network as soon as March this year.
via Cointelegraph

🇺🇸 The American state of Pennsylvania has ruled that cryptocurrency businesses do not fall under the definition of a “money transmitter.”
via Bitcoin.com

✅ An Andreessen Horowitz-backed cryptocurrency custodian solution for institutional investors has launched after raising $17 million.
via The Block

Nasdaq Inc. and Citigroup Inc. are among firms that are investing $20 million in Symbiont.io Inc., a startup that’s applying blockchain technology to capital markets.

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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced the launch of the cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk.

According to the company’s official blog, the service will allow users to trade larger amounts of many cryptocurrencies listed on the platform, with transactions being settled via their Binance accounts.

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According to people familiar with the matter, Mike Novogratz’s cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital is reportedly raising $250 million to build a fund that would offer dollar-denominated loans to crypto firms in need.

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On January 16, during the Gaidar Forum in Moscow, the head of Sberbank, German Gref, made a loud statement. In his opinion, digitalization is the surest “medicine” that can effectively counteract corruption-related crimes in Russia. Gref’s interest in this aspect of digitalization, such as the distributed ledger technology, has been known for a long time. Can blockchain really be the remedy for dishonest politicians?

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The State Duma proposed to introduce a crypto ruble, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has taken the initiative to introduce “regulatory sandboxes,” Japan is tightening the rules for ICO registration and intends to imprison the former Mt.Gox CEO for fraud, and the G20 countries have signed a declaration according to which they should solve cryptocurrency regulation- and taxation-related problems in 2019. DeCenter talked about these and other news with Maria Agranovskaya, a Managing Partner at GRAD Legal and Financial Advisory Services.

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✅ Online retailer Overstock’s security token trading platform called tZERO has started trading.
via CoinDesk

❓ According to a new report from cryptocurrency data startup Messari, the market capitalization and circulating supply of Ripple’s XRP may be overstated by billions of U.S. dollars.
via Cointelegraph

🦅 The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) granted a cryptocurrency broker Robinhood and a Bitcoin ATM provider LibertyX the BitLicense.
via CoinDesk

🇬🇪 The Eastern European state of Georgia has become a haven for cryptocurrency businesses over the past couple of years.
via The New York Times

📊 Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has presented an enhanced cryptocurrency data feed.
via The Block

American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has added resources aimed to assist customers in the United States in paying taxes on their cryptocurrency trades.

Apart from adding a specific educational guideline, the platform has also integrated with popular tax software TurboTax.

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