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📑 VanEck and SolidX have withdrawn their application to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) from the SEC.
via The Block
🇯🇵 Japanese messaging giant LINE has officially launched a cryptocurrency exchange for its 80 million users.
via CoinDesk
👁🗨 Binance is set to add lending support for privacy coins as soon as this week.
via Cointelegraph
🇦🇷 Huobi Group has announced the launch of its new division in Argentina.
via Decrypt
🚀 Blockchain satellite startup SpaceChain has won a grant from the European Space Agency (ESA).
via CoinDesk
📑 VanEck and SolidX have withdrawn their application to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) from the SEC.
via The Block
🇯🇵 Japanese messaging giant LINE has officially launched a cryptocurrency exchange for its 80 million users.
via CoinDesk
👁🗨 Binance is set to add lending support for privacy coins as soon as this week.
via Cointelegraph
🇦🇷 Huobi Group has announced the launch of its new division in Argentina.
via Decrypt
🚀 Blockchain satellite startup SpaceChain has won a grant from the European Space Agency (ESA).
via CoinDesk
Citibank, IBM, and Ubisoft have struck a partnership with a Singapore-government-backed blockchain accelerator.
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Citibank, IBM partner with government-backed blockchain accelerator
Banking major Citi, tech giant IBM and French video game company Ubisoft have joined as corporate partners of the Singapore government-backed blockchain
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#MBANK enters another testing phase:
– Orders will be limited to a minimum of 100 BIP
– If not filled, they will be returned in 24 hours
– The price corridor will be set at 1–32 U.S. cents
We will release the update as soon as today. After fiat gateways have connected to this version, users will be able to pay with bank cards.
The goal is to provide maximum freedom when exchanging Bitcoin for BIP—e.g., appealing rate, high speed and reliability, and lack of fees.
We are also announcing the upcoming launch of a referral program.
– Orders will be limited to a minimum of 100 BIP
– If not filled, they will be returned in 24 hours
– The price corridor will be set at 1–32 U.S. cents
We will release the update as soon as today. After fiat gateways have connected to this version, users will be able to pay with bank cards.
The goal is to provide maximum freedom when exchanging Bitcoin for BIP—e.g., appealing rate, high speed and reliability, and lack of fees.
We are also announcing the upcoming launch of a referral program.
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🇺🇸 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against ICOBox and its founder over a USD 14 million initial coin offering.
via Decrypt
👨⚖️ An early Ethereum blockchain backer and former paid adviser to tZero has been charged with extortion.
via CoinDesk
🇨🇭 Arab Bank Switzerland has started offering trading and custody services for Bitcoin and Ether.
via The Block
🇦🇪 The Ministry of Health and Prevention of the United Arab Emirates has launched a blockchain-powered system.
via Cointelegraph
🇵🇭 A crypto-friendly economic zone in the Philippines is changing due to a case involving one of its licensed cryptocurrency trading platforms.
via Bitcoin.com
🇺🇸 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against ICOBox and its founder over a USD 14 million initial coin offering.
via Decrypt
👨⚖️ An early Ethereum blockchain backer and former paid adviser to tZero has been charged with extortion.
via CoinDesk
🇨🇭 Arab Bank Switzerland has started offering trading and custody services for Bitcoin and Ether.
via The Block
🇦🇪 The Ministry of Health and Prevention of the United Arab Emirates has launched a blockchain-powered system.
via Cointelegraph
🇵🇭 A crypto-friendly economic zone in the Philippines is changing due to a case involving one of its licensed cryptocurrency trading platforms.
via Bitcoin.com
Abra will start selling cryptocurrency for cash at 6,000 outlets across the Philippines.
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Abra to Add Cash-to-Crypto Outlets at All Philippines 7-Elevens
Investment app provider Abra is to sell cryptocurrency for cash at 6,000 outlets across the Philippines, including all 7-Eleven stores.
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📑 Bitwise Asset Management met with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to convince the authority on its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund proposal.
via The Block
🏦 “It’s faster than SWIFT, cheaper, and definitely more efficient.”
via CoinDesk
👨⚖️ Ripple’s legal representatives have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over an alleged sale of unregistered securities.
via Cointelegraph
🇺🇸 The NDAA has called for research into military applications for the blockchain technology.
via Decrypt
🇰🇵 North Korea is reportedly planning to develop a cryptocurrency of its own to bypass economic sanctions imposed by the U.S.
via Bitcoin.com
📑 Bitwise Asset Management met with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to convince the authority on its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund proposal.
via The Block
🏦 “It’s faster than SWIFT, cheaper, and definitely more efficient.”
via CoinDesk
👨⚖️ Ripple’s legal representatives have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over an alleged sale of unregistered securities.
via Cointelegraph
🇺🇸 The NDAA has called for research into military applications for the blockchain technology.
via Decrypt
🇰🇵 North Korea is reportedly planning to develop a cryptocurrency of its own to bypass economic sanctions imposed by the U.S.
via Bitcoin.com
Major U.S.-based digital asset trading platform Coinbase considers adding support for a number of new cryptocurrencies.
Source: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-continues-to-explore-support-for-new-digital-assets-70419575eac4
Source: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-continues-to-explore-support-for-new-digital-assets-70419575eac4
CME Group has announced that it will launch Bitcoin options contracts in the first quarter of 2020.
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CME Group to launch bitcoin options in Q1 2020
Derivatives exchange giant CME Group has announced that it will launch bitcoin options contracts in Q1 2020. The Block reported the news earlier this
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🇺🇸 Binance U.S. has gone live, offering trading in seven cryptocurrencies at the start.
via Decrypt
🇨🇳 The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has refuted claims that it was considering to release its own digital currency as soon as this November.
via CoinDesk
📈 In the first seven hours since the launch of Bitcoin futures contract on the Bakkt platform, the trading volume amounted to 18 BTC.
via Cointelegraph
🤝 Facebook has completed the acquisition of a chatbot maker for its upcoming Calibra wallet.
via The Block
🚀 Blockchain was among the fastest-growing technologies this past winter, according to a consulting giant Deloitte.
via Modern Consensus
🇺🇸 Binance U.S. has gone live, offering trading in seven cryptocurrencies at the start.
via Decrypt
🇨🇳 The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has refuted claims that it was considering to release its own digital currency as soon as this November.
via CoinDesk
📈 In the first seven hours since the launch of Bitcoin futures contract on the Bakkt platform, the trading volume amounted to 18 BTC.
via Cointelegraph
🤝 Facebook has completed the acquisition of a chatbot maker for its upcoming Calibra wallet.
via The Block
🚀 Blockchain was among the fastest-growing technologies this past winter, according to a consulting giant Deloitte.
via Modern Consensus
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What is money, and what is not?
In a definition derived from its natural evolution, money is just a type of goods that a certain community considers as a convenient way of settling credit claims, solving coincidence of wants problems. Every time you make a trade, you actually barter one thing for another: one side gets a product or service while the other, a credit claim that can be paid in anything, but this particular society chooses one type of goods that suits everyone. History has known money as gold, shells, nails, and even cigarettes. There is no special authority that can tell a community what money to use as people just tend to choose what helps them satisfy their needs best. “Moneyness” is really defined by the common will of everybody to trade their stuff for this very type of money, believing that they will use it in the future deals with other members.
If you look at the best economies—and the rules that hold for them apply to anything we innovate in the crypto space—you’ll see that there is no money with a constant number of units. Money is a living thing if you like, and it adapts to the needs of the community: it can be mined (gold coins) or printed (gold-backed paper money), switched to new standards (current USD) or even abandoned if not needed anymore (e.g., Soviet Ruble). But money is never limited in its number as this would immediately ruin the whole concept of self-adjustable market trades. If you pay someone with Bitcoin—the king in promoting the message of “strictly limited supply, hurry up to own one”—you get a feeling that you overpay as you tend to think that the price may rise. You don’t really spend shares of collectible baseball cards, cars, wine, or artworks to cover everyday needs like a morning coffee and bagel. That’s clearly an absurd thing to do unless you think that somehow you will recoup the amount spent. Every time you stop and think for a second, “Do I really want to spend my BTC or should I HODL?” you create a traffic jam in the economy just like people on the road who can’t choose where to make a turn. And the economy of the modern world is more likely to be somewhat of a highway, asking for tens of transactions per day from an average developed economy citizen.
Bitcoin is clearly an investment, in many ways pumped by the idea of HODL, and it appeals to those who dream about getting super-rich just because they are early adopters. There is no mass adoption, and there will never be one. The liquidity BTC has today all across the globe can’t move the needle through as people don’t spend their investments and hedges against unstable banking systems on everyday needs.
At this point, you may be thinking, “OK, Bitcoin is my safe bet on the future, and what about stable coins, unleashing all the DLT cons, can we think about USDT in terms of money?”
Let’s assume that unlike collectibles, USDT can be printed and burned in any amounts to keep the exchange rate close to USD. That’s why it’s called a stable coin, right? No. USDT, USDC, DAI, and others do just one thing: they are stabilizing against USD to serve the needs of those who a. For some reason, consume USD-priced goods and services or b. Need to hedge against their local currencies. Are there really many people in the world outside the U.S. who think of prices in USD? Here in the E.U., where I reside, a dollar is something people hear and see in movies and TV series. Nobody really cares here about #1 crurrency of the world. So it leads me to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a global stable coin. And use cases are just way too different: to troubled Venezuela USDT is again an investment or hedge, and to 90% of people on the planet it’s just a unit of account that they will convert to their local money. Once again it’s slowing the pace of the trades: "Should I pay in the euro or USDT? What’s the exchange rate? Why is it not fixed? Maybe it is time to swap everything for fiat?" As you can see, there is not so much stability for the most of us, but stable coins clearly help everyone in USD-denominated economies.
In a definition derived from its natural evolution, money is just a type of goods that a certain community considers as a convenient way of settling credit claims, solving coincidence of wants problems. Every time you make a trade, you actually barter one thing for another: one side gets a product or service while the other, a credit claim that can be paid in anything, but this particular society chooses one type of goods that suits everyone. History has known money as gold, shells, nails, and even cigarettes. There is no special authority that can tell a community what money to use as people just tend to choose what helps them satisfy their needs best. “Moneyness” is really defined by the common will of everybody to trade their stuff for this very type of money, believing that they will use it in the future deals with other members.
If you look at the best economies—and the rules that hold for them apply to anything we innovate in the crypto space—you’ll see that there is no money with a constant number of units. Money is a living thing if you like, and it adapts to the needs of the community: it can be mined (gold coins) or printed (gold-backed paper money), switched to new standards (current USD) or even abandoned if not needed anymore (e.g., Soviet Ruble). But money is never limited in its number as this would immediately ruin the whole concept of self-adjustable market trades. If you pay someone with Bitcoin—the king in promoting the message of “strictly limited supply, hurry up to own one”—you get a feeling that you overpay as you tend to think that the price may rise. You don’t really spend shares of collectible baseball cards, cars, wine, or artworks to cover everyday needs like a morning coffee and bagel. That’s clearly an absurd thing to do unless you think that somehow you will recoup the amount spent. Every time you stop and think for a second, “Do I really want to spend my BTC or should I HODL?” you create a traffic jam in the economy just like people on the road who can’t choose where to make a turn. And the economy of the modern world is more likely to be somewhat of a highway, asking for tens of transactions per day from an average developed economy citizen.
Bitcoin is clearly an investment, in many ways pumped by the idea of HODL, and it appeals to those who dream about getting super-rich just because they are early adopters. There is no mass adoption, and there will never be one. The liquidity BTC has today all across the globe can’t move the needle through as people don’t spend their investments and hedges against unstable banking systems on everyday needs.
At this point, you may be thinking, “OK, Bitcoin is my safe bet on the future, and what about stable coins, unleashing all the DLT cons, can we think about USDT in terms of money?”
Let’s assume that unlike collectibles, USDT can be printed and burned in any amounts to keep the exchange rate close to USD. That’s why it’s called a stable coin, right? No. USDT, USDC, DAI, and others do just one thing: they are stabilizing against USD to serve the needs of those who a. For some reason, consume USD-priced goods and services or b. Need to hedge against their local currencies. Are there really many people in the world outside the U.S. who think of prices in USD? Here in the E.U., where I reside, a dollar is something people hear and see in movies and TV series. Nobody really cares here about #1 crurrency of the world. So it leads me to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a global stable coin. And use cases are just way too different: to troubled Venezuela USDT is again an investment or hedge, and to 90% of people on the planet it’s just a unit of account that they will convert to their local money. Once again it’s slowing the pace of the trades: "Should I pay in the euro or USDT? What’s the exchange rate? Why is it not fixed? Maybe it is time to swap everything for fiat?" As you can see, there is not so much stability for the most of us, but stable coins clearly help everyone in USD-denominated economies.
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And here I would like to ask some questions in plain English: Who is managing USDT and its clones (any sort of the Fed there?); What are the rules (on-chain or not?); Does pegging really work? Too many blind spots for something that should be straightforward. Money has a pretty simple set of rules do deliver moneyness, and not to be limited to unit of account (USDT) or to store of value (Bitcoin).
So if Bitcoin is not money, and USDT is limited to those who trade in U.S. dollars (mostly countries with doomed political or economic regimes), what is the answer?
I have mine and will be back in a few days, but I am eager to hear your opinions.
So if Bitcoin is not money, and USDT is limited to those who trade in U.S. dollars (mostly countries with doomed political or economic regimes), what is the answer?
I have mine and will be back in a few days, but I am eager to hear your opinions.
Major cryptocurrency exchange OKEx is reportedly preparing to launch a margin trading feature for the Tether (USDT) futures contract as soon as October this year.
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Crypto exchange OKEx eyeing launch of Tether margin futures in October - The Block
Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has been preparing to launch Tether (USDT) margin futures next month. An OKEx spokeswoman told The Block on Monday that the
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💵 China-based tech giant Tencent has led a USD 20 million Series A round for a blockchain supply chain startup.
via The Block
🇩🇪 Germany’s second-largest stock exchange operator has launched a regulated crypto trading platform.
via Bitcoin.com
🇫🇷 By 2020, as many as thirty retailers in France will be accepting payments in Bitcoin.
via Cointelegraph
📲 Kik is shutting down its messaging application as a consequence of the SEC legal action.
via CoinDesk
➕ Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has added support for Tezos’ XTZ token.
via Decrypt
💵 China-based tech giant Tencent has led a USD 20 million Series A round for a blockchain supply chain startup.
via The Block
🇩🇪 Germany’s second-largest stock exchange operator has launched a regulated crypto trading platform.
via Bitcoin.com
🇫🇷 By 2020, as many as thirty retailers in France will be accepting payments in Bitcoin.
via Cointelegraph
📲 Kik is shutting down its messaging application as a consequence of the SEC legal action.
via CoinDesk
➕ Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has added support for Tezos’ XTZ token.
via Decrypt
Binance has reportedly been awarded an information security accreditation after having met the requirements of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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Crypto Exchange Binance Awarded ISO Security Accreditation
The crypto exchange says it's been awarded an information security accreditation after audits found it met ISO standards.
Institutional cryptocurrency custody provider KNØX has launched earlier today. It will reportedly be providing its clientele with insurance coverage amounting to up to 100%.
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Fidelity-backed crypto custody provider KNØX launches today, claiming to provide up to 100% insurance via Marsh - The Block
A new Canada-based cryptocurrency custody provider has entered the marketplace, claiming to provide up to 100% insurance coverage for clients’ assets.
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A new Telegram coding competition is starting today. The task is to build smart contracts for a blockchain platform.
1. Build one or more smart contracts as described in TON Contest.txt below.
2. Suggest improvements for FunC or TON VM (optional).
3. Find issues and suggest fixes for TON Testnet (optional).
The prize fund for these 3 tasks is up to $400,000.
The contest ends on October, 15 at 23:00 CET.
We’ll publish how to submit your code in this channel soon.
1. Build one or more smart contracts as described in TON Contest.txt below.
2. Suggest improvements for FunC or TON VM (optional).
3. Find issues and suggest fixes for TON Testnet (optional).
The prize fund for these 3 tasks is up to $400,000.
The contest ends on October, 15 at 23:00 CET.
We’ll publish how to submit your code in this channel soon.
Telegram
Telegram Contests
The details of the $200,000-400,000 blockchain competition.
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BIP’s Market Price
The only appropriate approach towards calculating the market price of BIP is when you can use it to buy other money, goods, or services instantly. By “instantly,” we mean a couple of seconds per automatic exchange operation—think of Bitcoins, gallons of gas, or Big Macs.
Right now, you can go to Monster or 1001 and buy Bitcoin and Ether with BIP without having to “stay in line” or get anyone’s permission. That is the definition of the market price: someone is willing to sell, and you are willing to buy.
All other prices—including the official rate that has been voted for and the one observed at MBank—are just benchmarks with their own additional conditions. MBank is set to enable projects to sell their custom coins accepting various payment methods, and the official price is needed for autonomous atomic swaps.
The team is engaged in the most complex objectives, i.e., it works on the ecosystem where any project could put their money to work in the most convenient way, including automated interaction with other blockchains. We do not and never will aim to create exchanges or exchange services of our own, impact the price, have market makers under control, or be involved in any manipulation.
Someone with relevant experience in the fields outlined above can pitch their project and apply for a grant. We are absolutely certain that proper trade-focused software can improve the processes for both developers and users.
The only appropriate approach towards calculating the market price of BIP is when you can use it to buy other money, goods, or services instantly. By “instantly,” we mean a couple of seconds per automatic exchange operation—think of Bitcoins, gallons of gas, or Big Macs.
Right now, you can go to Monster or 1001 and buy Bitcoin and Ether with BIP without having to “stay in line” or get anyone’s permission. That is the definition of the market price: someone is willing to sell, and you are willing to buy.
All other prices—including the official rate that has been voted for and the one observed at MBank—are just benchmarks with their own additional conditions. MBank is set to enable projects to sell their custom coins accepting various payment methods, and the official price is needed for autonomous atomic swaps.
The team is engaged in the most complex objectives, i.e., it works on the ecosystem where any project could put their money to work in the most convenient way, including automated interaction with other blockchains. We do not and never will aim to create exchanges or exchange services of our own, impact the price, have market makers under control, or be involved in any manipulation.
Someone with relevant experience in the fields outlined above can pitch their project and apply for a grant. We are absolutely certain that proper trade-focused software can improve the processes for both developers and users.
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💵 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, has added another channel to its fiat gateway.
via The Block
🗓 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has postponed a decision on Wilshire Phoenix’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund proposal.
via CoinDesk
👮 The British police are auctioning off GBP 500,000 worth of confiscated Bitcoin.
via Cointelegraph
👩⚖️ Tether and Bitfinex have won a stay of N.Y. Attorney General’s fraud lawsuit.
via Modern Consensus
🚀 Two years since its USD 257 million initial coin offering, Filecoin is finally preparing for launch.
via Decrypt
💵 Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, has added another channel to its fiat gateway.
via The Block
🗓 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has postponed a decision on Wilshire Phoenix’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund proposal.
via CoinDesk
👮 The British police are auctioning off GBP 500,000 worth of confiscated Bitcoin.
via Cointelegraph
👩⚖️ Tether and Bitfinex have won a stay of N.Y. Attorney General’s fraud lawsuit.
via Modern Consensus
🚀 Two years since its USD 257 million initial coin offering, Filecoin is finally preparing for launch.
via Decrypt