South Korea’s primary financial watchdog, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), will not lift the ban on domestic initial coin offerings (ICOs). The reason behind such a decision lies in the fact that some projects have been violating rules.

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Almost all IOTA tokens (worth $11 million) that were allegedly stolen last year from over 85 victims have been found. As of now, the police are holding the funds as evidence in an ongoing investigation.

Dominik Schiener, the co-founder of IOTA, said the company thought that a hacker group was involved, but in the end, the mastermind behind the theft was a single individual who appeared to have a normal job and be well-educated.

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The World Economic Forum (WEF), which took place on January 22 to 25 in Swiss Davos, left different impressions. On January 28, the British Financial Times wrote that if at the event a year ago, blockchain and Bitcoin were the favorite words of the participants, then this year, they have been forgotten. This, however, is not the case.

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Peter Bel—former editor with Cointelegraph, now founder and managing partner of the ICO PR agency Byzantium—told DeCenter about a formula for successful ICO projects, his crypto preferences, and why it’s a good sign if there are things that a blockchain project has in common with zipper manufacturer YKK.

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💳 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, has enabled its users to purchase cryptocurrency with credit cards.
via CoinDesk

📁 CBOE, VanEck, and SolidX have re-applied with the U.S. SEC for a rule change that would allow for the listing of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
via The Block

📈 The number of cryptocurrency exchanges that are currently utilizing Nasdaq’s proprietary surveillance technology has reached seven.
via Forbes

🦅 One more Bitcoin ATM operator has been granted a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).
via Cointelegraph

👩‍⚖️ The Florida appeals court has overturned the decision that was based on the fact that Bitcoin was not considered legal tender in the country.
via Bitcoin.com

American investment behemoth Fidelity, which oversees a whopping $7.2 trillion in client assets, has announced on its official blog that its cryptocurrency trading and custody offering entered the final testing phase.

We are currently serving a select set of eligible clients as we continue to build our initial solutions. […] Our initial clients are an important part of our final testing and process refinement periods, which will eventually enable us to provide these services to a broader set of eligible institutions.

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Major Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX seeks creditor protection, as per filing submitted in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. The company asks for an advisory, assurance, tax, and transaction services provider EY to be appointed an independent third party that would monitor its proceedings.

The announcement comes after the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) froze a substantial part of the exchange’s funds last year.

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In this week’s #CryptoCaselawMinute, Stephen D. Palley and Nelson M. Rosario take a look at the allegations involving the dark web, a lawsuit involving harassment, and an appeal in a case dating back to 2013.

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The use of cold storage requires more intermediate steps to transfer funds to another user or an exchange; therefore, online wallets and even exchanges are more popular when it comes to storing crypto savings. Nevertheless, there are ways to spend or sell Bitcoins without taking them out of cold storage, and many companies are actively developing user-friendly and easy-to-use offline wallets and “cold trading” solutions. At the same time, it is impossible to “get everything,” and even if we combine convenience and safety—features that are rarely offered as a bundle—we still have to make trade-offs. In that case, we will be sacrificing the basic and even ideological characteristics of cryptocurrencies.

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What do miners do in the midst of crypto winter? Here are some tips:
• Do not sell your equipment
• Keep profitability in mind, or invest your own funds in future profitability, at a level that will not ruin you if the things go south
• Do not stray off the chosen path and do not lose your will to conquer mining peaks!

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📃 The Wyoming Senate has passed a bill that is recognizing cryptocurrency as money.
via The Block

🔍 Ethereum core developers have settled on moving forward with an audit before implementing ProgPow.
via CoinDesk

🇺🇸 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking sources for blockchain data and its analysis.
via Bitcoin.com

💵 According to a recent analysis, computer hardware producer Nvidia might have underreported approximately $1.35 billion in cryptocurrency-related revenue.
via Cointelegraph

👨‍⚖️ A new, $16 billion claim against the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox has reportedly been filed.
via Cointelegraph

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Cboe Global Markets Inc. slapped the Akuna Securities LLC with a fine to the tune of $1.3 million.

The exchange believes that the trading firm was trying to affect an auction tied to VIX, Cboe’s stock volatility index. Akuna agreed to pay, neither admitting to nor denying the allegations.

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A recent survey from Internet giant Tencent has shown that there is no unanimous opinion on the future of digital currency and the distributed ledger technology among Chinese economists.

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A U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has acquired a regulated crypto futures provider Crypto Facilities to make a major move into the European market.

The deal reportedly amounted to more than $100 million.

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The participants in the men’s pair rowing event at the 2008 Summer Olympics and now Bitcoin billionaires Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have recently begun to show media activity. What is hiding behind this, what do these “whales” intend to achieve for the cryptocurrency industry, and where can their strategy lead the crypto market?

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The first month of 2019 brought the crypto market a bit less reason for optimism than was expected in the community, but there are still reasons to rejoice. More and more organizations are successfully using the blockchain tech in their daily activities, market players and investors are eagerly awaiting the Bitcoin ETF approval, and the number of ATMs for converting cryptocurrencies has increased by 700% worldwide in three years. All of this points to the possible emergence of reasons for active purchase of Bitcoin, Ether, and other assets—not even the top ones—and the accelerated increase in their value in the coming months due to the influx of not only retail investors but also owners of large capital wishing to make money on the “crypto fever.” Although it will probably no longer resemble the madness of the fall and winter of 2017, it will have a smooth and confident character.

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🔝 The Forbes Fintech 50 list for 2019 includes six blockchain companies.
via Forbes

🤝 Social media network Facebook has reportedly finalized its first blockchain-related acquisition.
via Cheddar

🇻🇪 Venezuela’s government has issued a 63-article decree on cryptocurrency regulation, under which all crypto-related businesses will have to register with the local regulator.
via Cointelegraph

👩‍⚖️ A cryptocurrency thief has been indicted for stealing identities and funds in New York’s first SIM swapping prosecution.
via CoinDesk

🇵🇾 Bitfury Group has partnered with a South Korean R&D firm Commons Foundation to launch a Bitcoin mining operations network in Paraguay.
via The Block

Google has been quietly developing Blockchain ETL, a suite of tools for analyzing Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum transaction data. The project is now extending its support to more digital assets, such as Litecoin, Zcash, Dash, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, and Dogecoin.

“In the future, moving more economic activity on chain won’t just require a consensus level of trust. It will require having some trust in knowing about who it is you’re actually interacting with,” says Allen Day, leading developer advocate.

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Coinbase, one of the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchanges by daily trading volume, announced PayPal withdrawal support for its customers residing in the European Union and European Free Trade Association countries.

Previously, Coinbase had integrated support for PayPal in 2016 but had to suspend it due to technical difficulties. Last month, the company finally enabled its U.S. clients to make fiat currency withdrawals to PayPal.

The trading platform also intends to expand PayPal support to other jurisdictions as soon as this year.

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According to leaked data revealed by an unidentified party, Nobuaki Kobayashi—the trustee of infamous, now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox—reportedly sold large amounts of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash on trading platform BitPoint, totaling approximately $312.5 million at today’s exchange rate.

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For almost nine months now, Fabian Vogelsteller—the creator of the Ethereum browser Mist and Ethereum Wallet, who formerly was a leading developer of dApps and proposed the ERC 20 and ERC 725 token standards—has been devoting the majority of his time to a project of his own, the LUKSO blockchain for “digital twins” of fashionable items.

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