Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, is looking to hire an experienced lawyer specializing in blockchain and payment technologies for a Lead Commercial Counsel position.
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Facebook seeking lawyer with blockchain experience
Facebook is looking for an experienced lawyer specialising in blockchain and payment technologies for Lead Commercial Counsel. They will be engaged in Facebook’s new blockchain applications’ development and responsible for drafting and negotiating contracts…
Market-leading Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain intends to deploy 200,000 machines in China this summer due to the low cost of hydroelectric power in the regions.
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Bitmain Set to Deploy $80 Million Worth of Bitcoin Miners, Sources Say
Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of crypto mining equipment, is scaling up its capacity to mine bitcoin itself.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) has announced that it will not release futures for Bitcoin with new maturities into its product line at least until the beginning of April. What does this mean, and what are the implications of this solution for the crypto market? DeCenter will review the issue.
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The Case of Cboe and Bitcoin Futures, or Who Will Actually Promote Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin futures have been delayed again, and the market is in for a new round of evolution as a result.
DLive is a popular video streaming application, the essence of which is to provide a platform for organizing multimedia broadcasts. Unlike similar streaming platforms such as YouTube or Twitch, DLive is based on the Lino blockchain, where data is stored, and content is monetized.
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DLive: Review of a Blockchain Video Streaming Application That Rewards All Users
DLive is a video streaming application that allows users to earn on the content they broadcast.
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💵 After raising over $180 million in funding, institutional trading platform Bakkt has reportedly reached a $740 million valuation.
via The Block
👮♀️ Former chief executive officer of AriseBank has pleaded guilty to securities fraud related to an initial coin offering and now faces as much as 20 years in prison.
via Cointelegraph
🇯🇵 Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings is entering the cryptocurrency mining chips and systems manufacturing market.
via CoinDesk
👨⚖️ Alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik has appealed for extradition to Russia.
via Cointelegraph
🔍 Mt. Gox rehabilitation trustee has reviewed the claims filed by the exchange’s creditors.
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💵 After raising over $180 million in funding, institutional trading platform Bakkt has reportedly reached a $740 million valuation.
via The Block
👮♀️ Former chief executive officer of AriseBank has pleaded guilty to securities fraud related to an initial coin offering and now faces as much as 20 years in prison.
via Cointelegraph
🇯🇵 Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings is entering the cryptocurrency mining chips and systems manufacturing market.
via CoinDesk
👨⚖️ Alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik has appealed for extradition to Russia.
via Cointelegraph
🔍 Mt. Gox rehabilitation trustee has reviewed the claims filed by the exchange’s creditors.
via Bitcoin.com
After announcing the launch of a cryptocurrency savings account with six-percent annual interest two weeks ago, the BlockFi lending firm has recently made changes to the terms.
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Crypto Lender BlockFi Cuts Interest Rates Paid to Largest Account Holders - CoinDesk
Just weeks after launching the product, BlockFi has cut the interest rate paid to large customers on its crypto deposit account.
This week’s #CryptoCaselawMinute has two cases relevant to cryptocurrency mining and one case dealing with credit card transactions.
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Crypto Caselaw Minute #28–3/21/19
Mining, mining, mining everywhere! This week’s Crypto Caselaw Minute has some landlord tenant issues brought about by crypto mining, some…
The tokenization of assets has been a hotly debated topic in the crypto industry over the last two years. Everything is up for tokenization, from stocks to real estate and even art objects. We tried to figure out whether this is a new way of making money or a step toward revolutionary changes in the market.
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Tokenization of Assets: Hype or Market Democratization?
The crypto market is on the move to tokenizing anything and everything, but can it be done?
Yllo Messenger is a decentralized peer-to-peer application from the Russian crypto platform of the same name, which is a whole ecosystem and includes a platform for creating users’ own tokens, a Yllo Wallet crypto wallet, and a messenger. DeCenter reviewed the work of the messaging program, with which users can make cryptocurrency transactions and receive rewards in LightToken (XLT) coins for high activity.
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Yllo Messenger: Review of the Application That Rewards Users with Cryptocurrency for Messaging
The Yllo messenger is a promising chat that rewards its users for activity.
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🎫 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, is changing the sale format of Binance Launchpad to a lottery system.
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🤝 UPS has teamed up with a blockchain startup to provide better B2B services.
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🏦 A Citigroup job ad suggests blockchain initiatives are heating up at the bank.
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🌎 Agustin Carstens, general manager at the Bank for International Settlements, has warned about the risks posed by central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
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🇺🇸 Cryptocurrency adoption could be inevitable, according to the mayor of Chicago.
via Forbes
🎫 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, is changing the sale format of Binance Launchpad to a lottery system.
via official website
🤝 UPS has teamed up with a blockchain startup to provide better B2B services.
via CoinDesk
🏦 A Citigroup job ad suggests blockchain initiatives are heating up at the bank.
via The Block
🌎 Agustin Carstens, general manager at the Bank for International Settlements, has warned about the risks posed by central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
via Bloomberg
🇺🇸 Cryptocurrency adoption could be inevitable, according to the mayor of Chicago.
via Forbes
Founder of the Sponsy project, which positioned itself as a “decentralized sponsorship platform,” is now selling the business for $60,000 on eBay.
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Founder tries to sell failed crypto project on eBay
A “blockchain” business that never sold a single token in its initial coin offering is now for sale on eBay. For $60,000, a lucky buyer may get a project that “has everything in place to conduct a successful ICO/STO campaign.” The founder of the Sponsy project…
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, which previously acquired a local cryptocurrency exchange called Everybody’s Bitcoin, has completed registration of its digital asset trading platform Rakuten Wallet, which is set to launch next month.
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E-Commerce Firm Rakuten Readies Cryptocurrency Exchange for April Launch After Name Change
Rakuten Wallet, the successor of embattled Everybody’s Bitcoin, will go live once the current platform closes at the end of March.
eToro, a popular Israeli trading platform and social network for investors and traders, has announced the acquisition of a smart contracts development company Firmo.
The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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eToro Acquires Smart Contract Startup for Tokenized Asset Boost - CoinDesk
Social investing platform eToro has acquired Firmo, a smart contract firm that enables derivatives to be tokenized "on any major blockchain."
We can mark the end of the “winter period” in the cryptocurrency market, which began in 2018. The value of assets on the exchanges is starting to move steadily upward, and the level of $4,000 for Bitcoin may be the last significant resistance before the take-off. News in recent months, as well as the willingness of big capital and tech corporations of world renown, such as IBM and J.P. Morgan, to apply their accumulated experience with the blockchain and create their own cryptocurrencies, are contributing to this. At the same time, official representatives recognize the inevitability of Bitcoin adoption. DeCenter analyzed how these and other events of the past week influenced cryptocurrency rates.
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Bitcoin Is Ready to Break All Barriers Standing in the Way of Its Growth
The crypto winter is over, and the market is shaking off the hoar in expectation of growth.
Bloom is an application from the blockchain platform of the same name, which is an end-to-end encryption-based protocol that is designed to assess financial risk, conduct credit scoring, and store user data. Bloom allows lenders to serve billions of people who currently cannot open a bank account or have a credit rating.
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Bloom: Review of an Application for Assessing Financial Risks, Credit Scoring, and User Data Storage
Bloom is the app for the unbanked that provides reliable user data and creditworthiness assessment.
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🔋 Former Enron Corp. chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling reportedly plans to start a blockchain-based energy-finance venture.
via The Block
⌚️ The initial public offering (IPO) listing application filed by Bitmain, a market-leading Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer, has expired.
via ccn
📈 According to a new report, blockchain spending in the U.S. will increase to $41 billion by 2025.
via Cointelegraph
⚫️ eToro has added Tron as a trading option to its platform.
via official blog
🔵 Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx plans to develop a decentralized exchange (DEX) on its own blockchain.
via CoinDesk
🔋 Former Enron Corp. chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling reportedly plans to start a blockchain-based energy-finance venture.
via The Block
⌚️ The initial public offering (IPO) listing application filed by Bitmain, a market-leading Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer, has expired.
via ccn
📈 According to a new report, blockchain spending in the U.S. will increase to $41 billion by 2025.
via Cointelegraph
⚫️ eToro has added Tron as a trading option to its platform.
via official blog
🔵 Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx plans to develop a decentralized exchange (DEX) on its own blockchain.
via CoinDesk
A team of developers has created a wallet dubbed Wuabit that will allow its users to access cryptocurrency services from within a popular messaging application WhatsApp. The team also plans to look at providing similar functionality for Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and Viber.
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Wuabit bringing a cryptocurrency wallet to WhatsApp next month | Modern Consensus | Cryptocurrency and blockchain news and opinions
The wallet would give 1.5 billion WhatsApp users access to a simple-to-use cryptocurrency wallet | Wuabit will bring its cryptocurrency wallet for WhatsApp messaging service in public beta next month, Britain’s Express reports. With a reported 1.5 billion…
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world leader in luxury goods, is set to launch a blockchain platform for verifying the authenticity of upscale market items.
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Louis Vuitton Owner LVMH Is Launching a Blockchain to Track Luxury Goods
LVMH, parent company of Louis Vuitton, is about to launch a blockchain for proving the authenticity of luxury goods, sources say.
Reports are mounting that most of the trading volume on the world’s largest digital asset exchanges is questionable, and in light of that, cryptocurrency data startup Messari is introducing the Real 10 Volume metrics, which will only “factor in data from exchanges that accurately report volumes.”
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Messari rolls out “Real 10” volume metrics after study reveals 95% of bitcoin trading volumes are fake
Messari, the crypto information and data services firm, is taking a step today to help users get a better sense of trading activity on the myriad crypto exchanges, days after California cryptocurrency index and beta fund provider Bitwise released a study…
On March 12, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Leader of the United States House of Representatives, gave a speech in which he argued for the need to introduce blockchain into the legislative branch of government. Patrick Byrne, the head of Overstock, also noted that he is negotiating with the U.S. authorities on the introduction of blockchain, as this technology will reduce corruption and improve the efficiency of officials. DeCenter analyzed how it might work out.
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Blockchain Will Determine the Standard of Living in Many Countries for the Next 100 Years
Blockchain is not all crypto and volatility, but also a technology for improving living standards.
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🤝 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has partnered with risk management firm IdentityMind for KYC and AML compliance.
via CoinDesk
📈 Cryptocurrency market data resource CoinMarketCap has admitted that trading volumes it displays may be fake.
via Bloomberg
📹 Social media platform YouTube reportedly ran a malicious advertisement for Bitcoin wallet Electrum by mistake.
via Cointelegraph
💻 Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has suffered a hack.
via The Block
📊 Weiss Crypto Ratings has published a report outlining its crypto industry outlook and rankings of 122 cryptocurrencies.
via Bitcoin.com
🤝 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has partnered with risk management firm IdentityMind for KYC and AML compliance.
via CoinDesk
📈 Cryptocurrency market data resource CoinMarketCap has admitted that trading volumes it displays may be fake.
via Bloomberg
📹 Social media platform YouTube reportedly ran a malicious advertisement for Bitcoin wallet Electrum by mistake.
via Cointelegraph
💻 Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has suffered a hack.
via The Block
📊 Weiss Crypto Ratings has published a report outlining its crypto industry outlook and rankings of 122 cryptocurrencies.
via Bitcoin.com