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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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“The joke-currency of the Maduro regime used to continue cheating the people”—this is how Juan Guaido, Venezuela’s self-proclaimed Interim President that has already been recognized by the U.S., described El Petro, the country’s national cryptocurrency allegedly backed by major natural resources.

What awaits the world’s first state-supported digital currency should the opposition come to power?

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This week’s #CryptoCaselawMinute brings you a case related to stolen Tether (USDT), a brief in the Tezos securities litigation, and opinion on choosing a proper jurisdiction to file a lawsuit in.

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On February 11, BitTorrent together with TRON will launch the first large-scale airdrop, during which the holders of the TRX tokens will receive the new BTT tokens for free. According to experts, this campaign will play a vital role in the further development of both BitTorrent and TRON, thus maintaining the interest of traders and investors in both companies and their cryptocurrencies. DeCenter figured out how precisely this event will go through and how many BTT coins will be issued.

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Mobile payments using a QR code generated on a smartphone are one of the most popular technologies among users all over the world. Today, many countries are actively integrating payment systems of foreign companies to increase the flow of tourists. Payment methods that are based on the principles of exclusion of fiat assets, such as the Chinese Alipay and WeChat Pay, spread their influence and introduce a trend for electronic money. Problems arise, however, with the state regulators since the payment technologies use national currencies in their networks. If mobile or NFC payments used cryptocurrencies, many of these issues could be avoided.

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📁 NYSE Arca filed a request to rule changes for Bitwise Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal.
via CoinDesk

🇨🇭 A recent study revealed that the number of blockchain companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein’s Crypto Valley increased by 20% in the fourth quarter of 2018.
via The Block

👨‍⚖️ A messaging app company Kik is preparing to prove in court that it didn’t issue an unregistered security in its 2017 initial coin offering (ICO).
via ccn

🇨🇳 China’s Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID) released its latest ranking of major cryptocurrencies.
via Cointelegraph

💸 On average, Bitcoin is worth less than the cost to mine it, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co analysts say.
via Bloomberg

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are designing a cryptocurrency that would significantly minimize the data that users need to join the network and verify transactions—by up to 99 percent compared to today’s popular cryptocurrencies.

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Cointelegraph has prepared an article summarizing this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting that was traditionally held in Davos, Switzerland. In particular, the piece presents key takeaways regarding the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries.

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Four leading South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges—Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Upbit—have teamed up to put up a fight against potential cases of money laundering and a number of other illegal activities.

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Over the past two years, the word “crypto” has acquired a powerful morphological significance. By putting it before any word, we get a new device, a new product, or a new technology that immediately attracts considerable interest. But the magic of this word has little effect on serious sectors of the global economy. Maybe the problem is the “raw nature” of the technology? Or it just does not have enough fuel for a good start? In light of such events, many specialists are trying to present the situation in their own view. One of the statements is, “Bitcoin network problems can only be solved by abandoning the PoW protocol.”

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The end of the previous week could have brought more clarity to crypto investors and enthusiasts on the possibility of the Bitcoin ETF approval. The U.S. government shutdown that has started at the end of December, however, led to the temporary suspension in the work of a number of federal agencies. The absence of a decision on a Bitcoin ETF application led to a moderate decrease in demand for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in light of investors’ fears that crypto markets were in search of a new “bottom.” But not everything is so pessimistic as it may seem at first glance. Last week, there was a lot of exciting news making one look boldly into the future and maintain confidence in the increase of Bitcoin price in the coming months.

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💸 The first Binance Launchpad platform’s project this year, BitTorrent (BTT) concluded its $7.2 million public token sale in less than 20 minutes.
via The Block

💰 A new report from Chainalysis suggests that two hacker groups were behind the thefts totaling $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency.
via Cointelegraph

🇮🇳 The Indian government is reportedly finalizing its regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry.
via Bitcoin.com

🇮🇷 The Central Bank of Iran is reportedly set to forbid the use of “unapproved” cryptocurrencies for making payments in the country.
via CoinDesk

👩‍⚖️ The owner of Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail that suffered a hack last year has been sentenced to return funds to affected customers.
via Cointelegraph

​​In one of his recent articles, Bitcoin Magazine’s Aaron van Wirdum breaks down what a technology called Taproot is and how it works.

Introduced in mid-January last year by one of Bitcoin’s most respected developers Gregory Maxwell, Taproot aims to expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract capabilities and increase privacy without hurting scalability.

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Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin:
“Fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoin & Litecoin. Now that the scaling debate is behind us, the next battleground will be on fungibility and privacy. I am now focused on making Litecoin more fungible by adding Confidential Transactions.”

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The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) and the United Arab Emirates Central Bank (UAECB) have announced a joint digital currency project trial.

The cryptocurrency will be used in blockchain-based financial settlements between the two countries.

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The issue of the development of cryptocurrency turnover in Russia rests with the regulation of this sector, as in most countries of the world. Except for some states, such as China, government regulators tend to be a wait and see attitude toward digital assets. The vagueness of cryptocurrency regulation is what can be said about both the United States and the European Union. But the new law proposed by the Ministry of Economic Development makes Russia one step closer to regulating the cryptocurrency industry and successful application of digital currencies in practice.

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The PoS and DPoS consensus algorithms are already used by such cryptocurrencies as Cardano, Dash, Qtum, EOS, Lisk, and Tron, and four of them are in the top 15 by market capitalization. With Ethereum that is preparing for a major upgrade and Tezos that is running atop Liquid Proof-of-Stake, the total market capitalization of such projects would have stood at $18.6 billion on January 24. Michael J. Casey, the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, believes that PoS will bring in new cryptocurrency businesses and financial models—in particular, staking-as-a-service that in its essence would be similar to interest income in the traditional banking model.

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🗓 American investment giant Fidelity that oversees more than $7.2 trillion in client assets will reportedly launch its Bitcoin custody offering as soon as March.
via Bloomberg

🔍 Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini passed a security compliance and data protection audit that was conducted by a “Big Four” firm Deloitte.
via Cointelegraph

📉 Graphics processing units manufacturer AMD expects that decreasing demand from cryptocurrency miners may negatively affect its revenue next quarter.
via CoinDesk

🔓 According to a recent report from blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace, in 2018, the amount of stolen cryptocurrency funds increased by more than 300% compared to the previous year.
via ccn

🗞 Media company Cheddar has partnered with the Brave browser to present users with limited-time free access to its premium content.
via The Block

SWIFT, a global provider of secure financial messaging services, has revealed plans to integrate technology from R3, the company behind the Corda platform.

Speaking at the Paris Fintech Forum, SWIFT CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt has said that the formal announcement will come later today.

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Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has successfully piloted a blockchain-powered solution for improving electricity surplus management.

“Fujitsu has now devised a system in which electricity consumers can efficiently exchange among themselves the electricity surpluses they have produced through their own electricity generation or power savings,” the company’s press release reads.

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