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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🔐 Over-the-counter (OTC) traders report that cryptocurrency exchange Gemini is limiting access to GUSD stablecoin redemption.
via CoinDesk

🇮🇷 Four Iranian banks have reportedly partnered with a blockchain startup to launch a gold-backed cryptocurrency called PayMon.
via Cointelegraph

💵 In 2018, there was $251 million worth of cryptocurrency-denominated loans and borrows routed via open protocols and settled on public blockchains, a recent analysis shows.
via The Block

👨‍⚖️ Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Canada has granted cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX a 30-day stay of proceedings and protection from creditors.
via Bloomberg

📄 Cryptocurrency project Decred released an official proposal for its own Decentralized Exchange (DEX).
via Forbes

What is the Lightning Torch experiment that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey participated in, and what is its global footprint? https://goo.gl/nuAj8c

Coinbase has announced adding support for Bitcoin in the Coinbase Wallet, its cryptocurrency custody product. The Wallet will now support both newer SegWit addresses with lower transaction fees and Legacy addresses for backward compatibility in all applications.

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Opera has enabled its Android users to purchase Ether (ETH), Ethereum network’s native digital token, directly from a browser-based wallet. At launch, the feature is available only to customers in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

Charles Hamel, the company’s product lead for crypto, said: “We think that the next important phase for crypto will come from usage and that for it to reach wider adoption, it has to be easy to buy and easy to use. We believe that the browser will be the entry point for these use cases.”

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An op-ed on the most burning issues of blockchain assets regulation in 2019.

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Are hardware wallets really secure enough? Is the complexity of the setup and execution part of the risk model? What are the most likely ways that you will lose your Bitcoin? What is the best way to store your mnemonic seed and passphrase? These are the questions that Andreas Antonopoulos answers in his latest Bitcoin Q&A session.

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💵 According to The Block’s estimates, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, raked in $446 million in profits in 2018.
via The Block

📈 Bitcoin trading volumes have reached a new all-time high in a long-suffering state of Venezuela.
via TrustNodes

📲 Digital wallet Abra has introduced a new Bitcoin investment option for stocks and ETFs.
via Bitcoin.com

🤝 The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA) has become the latest member to join blockchain consortium R3.
via Cointelegraph

🗓 Fintech company Apex Clearing is set to launch its own cryptocurrency custody product dubbed Apex Crypto.
via The Block

A recent report from Canadian financial services firm Canaccord Genuity Group reveals that increased rivalry among Bitcoin mining chip manufacturers has led to decreasing centralization of the network: https://goo.gl/ivJgJF

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, plans to roll out the Binance Chain test network in the next couple of weeks.

The project is powered by the Tendermint engine and will use the Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus algorithm.

The platform will also transform Binance Coin (BNB), which is currently an ERC-20 token, into the native gas of a newly created blockchain.

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The Food and Drug Administration of the Chinese Chongqing Yuzhong District is set to implement the blockchain technology in a project aimed to strengthen the food and drug quality assurance supervision and anti-counterfeiting measures.

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2019 is the year of building cryptocurrency infrastructure. While the longest winter in the history of the cryptocurrency market continues breaking the record of 2011, the crypto community is striving in many ways to resemble Wall Street. The U.S. stock market, which is the largest in the world, has become the standard in the development of new cryptocurrency asset storage systems. But to what extent does the market need crypto custody services?

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Opponents of cryptocurrencies often claim that crypto coins are massively being used in money laundering, drug trafficking, weapons sales, financial crimes, and terrorist financing. The media regularly publish articles about new hacker attacks on crypto exchanges or money laundering through Bitcoins. We figured out what is behind such infamy and what the scale of the problem really is.

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