South Korea-based digital asset trading platform Coinbin is filing for bankruptcy. The firm recently reported losses amounting to over $26 million. As per the company’s chief executive officer, the move has been caused by “a rise in debt following an employee’s embezzlement.”

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A country is not only thousands of square kilometers and millions of citizens. A state can be big or very small, like Monaco. With an area of ​​just over two square kilometers, this doesn’t bother the residents at all, but on the contrary, the state attracts tourists with its bountiful entertainment. The Monaco Grand Prix and the Monte Carlo casino are the main sources of wealth and prosperity of the country, which help it develop no worse than other, larger states. Will a super new microstate be able to achieve the same success and prosperity? And what if this is a state on blockchain, considering that the territorial issues have already been practically resolved? A new country has literally sprouted under the nose of Europe. DeCenter figured out whether a 21st century Libertalia could become a reality.

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My Crypto Heroes is the most popular game on the Ethereum platform from Japanese developers. In the top rankings of decentralized applications, MCH (briefly “my crypto heroes”) is second only to CryptoKitties. But My Crypto Heroes belongs to the genre of role-playing computer games, which means that MCH is most famous in its gaming segment.

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📱 At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung representative revealed the names of tokens that will be supported in the company’s new flagship phone Galaxy S10.
via Cointelegraph

🏙 In a record deal, Inveniam Capital Partners is going to lead an Ethereum blockchain-based tokenization of a $66 million building.
via CoinDesk

🤝 Online lending startup SoFi plans to launch cryptocurrency trading in partnership with Coinbase.
via ccn

🇨🇭 A 125-year-old Swiss-based private bank has announced a partnership with cryptocurrency banking startup.
via Bitcoin.com

🇺🇬 The Binance Charity Foundation has launched a blockchain-powered donation pilot for its Lunch for Children program in Uganda.
via Forbes

Accenture, a global management consulting and professional services firm, has announced a blockchain-enabled application that will allow consumers to track and tip producers that adhere to environmentally-conscious policies.

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As we reported earlier, Coinbase, one of the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchanges, acquired blockchain analysis startup Neutrino in an attempt to better identify undesirable activity on its platform. Yesterday, the firm sent The Block an official response regarding the acquisition.

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The Supreme Court of India has given the country’s government four weeks to outline a cryptocurrency regulatory framework proposal. Should officials fail to meet the set deadline, the Court will make an independent ruling.

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Actifit Fitness Tracker, or just Actifit, is an application of a rare category for decentralized fitness and health programs. Actifit follows human activity and pays out its own AFIT tokens for steps taken. We figured out how the app works and how it differs from classic fitness trackers.

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How does the Blockstream satellite project work? What do you need in order to participate? What is it useful for? These are the questions that Andreas Antonopoulos answers in his latest Bitcoin Q&A session.

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💵 Payment processing company Square sold more than $166 million worth of Bitcoin in 2018, with a large percentage coming from Q4.
via The Block

🤝 Peer-to-peer payments technology firm Circle has partnered with Nice Actimize, a financial surveillance provider company.
via Bitcoin.com

💰 London Stock Exchange has led a $20 million funding round for capital markets blockchain startup Nivaura.
via Forbes

👋🏻 Coinhive, the in-browser Monero mining firm, will cease operations from March 8.
via Cointelegraph

💳 Switzerland-based Pangea Blockchain Fund has secured $22 million in a seed round backed by famous crypto entrepreneur Roger Ver.
via CoinDesk

Figure, a startup that uses the blockchain technology to provide online home equity loans, has raised $65 million, with the amount of funds raised by the firm totaling $120 million. The company is currently lending $1.5 million per day, the figure that company’s CEO expects to double every few months.

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Coin Metrics, a cryptocurrency data provider startup, has raised $1.9 million of venture funding in a round led by Castle Island Ventures with participation from Fidelity Investments, Highland Capital Partners, and Dragonfly Capital.

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According to The New York Times, Facebook is reportedly negotiating with cryptocurrency exchanges about the possibility of listing its coin. The largest social media network’s employees are supposedly telling exchange representatives that they plan to roll out a working product in the first half of this year.

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Some still consider cryptocurrencies “suspicious” assets, citing the opinion of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). But it is impossible not to notice that the FATF shows great concern in connection with cryptocurrencies due to the fact that they interfere with the execution of U.S. sanctions against a number of states. The cryptocurrencies themselves, which work on the blockchain, provide transparency of transactions, the one that SWIFT—an organization that is a supporter of financial purity of banks’ operations in the world—is afraid of. The largest percentage of financial crimes is attributed to the U.S. dollar, given its long history as the main global currency. The blockchain of cryptocurrencies makes such financial crimes less likely. DeCenter figured who the financial future stands with—cryptocurrencies or cash.

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EOS Lynx is the first wallet application that was created on the EOS platform. As of today, the program is one of the most popular among all of the alternatives available for download. The application itself allows users to keep all their tokens in one storage on the platform and send them to the balances of games, exchanges, and other devices on EOS. We downloaded it and found out how EOS Lynx works.

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✅ The Constantinople hard fork upgrade has gone live on the Ethereum network.
via The Block

➕ Coinbase, one of the leading U.S.-based digital asset trading platforms, has added support for Ripple’s XRP token to its retail platform and mobile apps.
via Cointelegraph

🏦 J.P. Morgan Chase has been quietly testing the zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) privacy technology.
via CoinDesk

💵 U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is offering “USD 100,000 (fiat or crypto) as a reward for the tip(s) that best lead to the discovery of the missing” QuadrigaCX crypto assets.
via official blog

🇯🇵 According to a recent study, cryptocurrency amounts to less than 2% of all money laundering cases in Japan.
via Bitcoin.com

China’s Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID) released its latest ranking of major cryptocurrencies, ranking EOS first and TRON second. More info: https://ct.com/7cwx

In its (possibly) first investment in the cryptocurrency industry, a Singapore-based government-owned wealth fund GIC Private Limited backed Coinbase’s $300 million fundraise last year.

The fund has over $100 billion in assets in over 40 countries across various asset classes.

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This week we have a partnership that fell apart, a follow-up lawsuit to a previous mining-related lawsuit, and a case where Bittrex is gonna have to cough up the deets on a user.

Meet the latest #CryptoCaselawMinute!

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A popular idea among crypto enthusiasts is that large institutional investors will soon come to the market in droves of dozens, invest billions of dollars, and take the industry to the moon. This “soon” has been lasting for several years and is always being postponed. But, in February, a significant event occurred for the first time, as two U.S. pension funds invested in cryptocurrencies. What is the significance of a new venture fund for the crypto market? Does its appearance mean that institutional investors did not lose interest in the industry against the background of a prolonged bear market? DeCenter tried to figure it out.

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Auctionity 360, or AY 360, is an application for tracking lots and participating in public auctions from the cryptocurrency firm Auctionity, which is owned by the blockchain-based company DomRaider. The French company launched its website last year, and it has become quite a popular platform for holding auctions in European countries, so, for convenience, Auctionity has developed apps for smartphones that are available for download on Android and iOS.

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