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🇪🇺 European Central Bank (ECB) head Christine Lagarde plans to lead the institution “ahead of the curve” in the field of digital currency.
via Bitcoin.com

🇨🇭 The government of Switzerland has postponed the idea of issuing a digital Swiss franc.
via Cointelegraph

🗣 According to State Street Corporation, 94% of large asset managers plan to invest in cryptocurrency by 2020.
via Modern Consensus

🖥 Three-quarters of Internet of Things (IoT) adopters in the U.S. also work with blockchain technology, a recent survey by Gartner finds.
via Decrypt

❌ Major Chinese social media network Weibo has blocked TRON founder Justin Sun’s official account.
via ccn

VeChain Foundation’s buyback address has been compromised. The amount of tokens stolen is 1.1 billion (approximately US$6,600,000).

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QuadrigaCX creditors need proof that the exchange’s CEO had died.

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💠 Fidelity Digital Assets Services (FDAS) may support Ethereum in 2020, provided there is customer demand.
via The Block

👩‍⚖️ The New York Attorney General’s office offered further details on its decision to investigate Bitfinex and Tether.
via Decrypt

🇻🇪 The president of Venezuela has announced an upcoming airdrop of the Petro cryptocurrency to all eligible citizens.
via Bitcoin.com

👮 Founder of Bitmain rival MicroBT has been arrested for alleged embezzlement.
via CoinDesk

🗓 Binance will support the Algorand v2.0.2 upgrade.
via Cointelegraph

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💶 The European Central Bank developed a proof-of-concept exploring anonymity in central bank digital currency.
via The Block

🇪🇺 Fidelity Investments is expanding its cryptocurrency services to E.U. customers.
via Bitcoin.com

🤝 Circle sold its Circle Trade over-the-counter (OTC) desk to the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange.
via Modern Consensus

📇 The number of available blockchain vacancies is going up while fewer people are applying, the job search engine Indeed revealed.
via Decrypt

👮 A Chinese cryptocurrency fitness application has reportedly been placed under investigation.
via Cointelegraph

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🇫🇷 French financial markets regulator has approved the first public initial coin offering in the country.
via Bitcoin.com

💪🏻 CoinDesk has released its year-to-year list of the most influential people in the cryptocurrency field.
via CoinDesk

💎 The world’s largest diamond mining firm Alrosa has partnered with Tencent on a new blockchain e-commerce project.
via Cointelegraph

💻 Ethereum is still in the lead in terms of decentralized application developer activity, according to the latest report from DappRadar.
via Decrypt

🌳 TRON founder Justin Sun vowed to donate US$1 million to help Greta Thunberg’s initiative to stop climate change.
via ccn

Starting today, we will be publishing speeches of Minter Demo Day #MDD participants.

In the first presentation, Daniil Lashin reveals details of the upcoming Minter 1.1 upgrade.

Each module of the new blockchain version has been, if not rebuilt from scratch, significantly optimized and improved.

In this report:
– Maximum supply of custom coins
– GasCoin in checks
– Wallets with multi-signatures
– History storage on the nodes and events storage optimization
– Elimination of custom coin liquidation and introduction of the minimum reserve
– Reduction of the load on the nodes
– Rewards optimization
– Console-based node management tool

🖥 Presentation
🛠 Testnet Minter 1.1 (Texasnet)

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🇨🇳 China’s digital yuan will not be a speculative currency “like Bitcoin,” according to a People’s Bank of China (PBOC) official.
via Bitcoin.com

🦅 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will make a ruling on Wilshire Phoenix’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal by February next year.
via Cointelegraph

🤝 Institutional Bitcoin trading platform Bakkt has appointed new CEO and President.
via CoinDesk

💭 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is going to revisit the term “accredited investor.”
via Modern Consensus

📈 DeFi is driving Ethereum decentralization, per ConsenSys researchers.
via Decrypt

@egordeev: “A clear and simple example of how you can use blockchain in real life:
- You have an office
- There is a vending machine in there
- Every day, employees are credited with coins they can use to pay for coffee, snacks, stuff like that. Not everyone has a startup business and can spend investor money on a kitchen with endless food and drink; many pay for those things
- There is an office coin (token), and it will work only on the company’s devices. But it has a real value, and if one of the employees wants something beyond the limit, they can buy more of it. Or vice versa: sell to top up a mobile phone or pay for gas. Or transfer it to a colleague, of course
- Each charge is in the chain and can be tracked, if necessary—e.g., for statistics, reporting purposes

Below is a video that shows how it works.

Now imagine that instead of a vending machine, there are gated parking lots connected to the blockchain (each tenant has a limit); paid WiFi access points at an airport, hotel, or park (you scan, pay, and get the amount of time you’ve bought); interactive billboards (type the text, send it, and your better half sees the message), etc.

All of this can be done on a simple Raspberry Pi board and a fast Minter blockchain.

First, people will pay machines via the blockchain, and over time, machines will be paying other machines for people as they simply don’t know what Visa or a bank account is. What they need is a specific payment status, not ‘please contact your bank.’”

Engineer: @webcounters
Credits: @BTCSecure

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⛓ Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin proposed a way to speed up the Proof-of-Stake transition.
via Decrypt

🔎 China-based Internet giant Tencent is reportedly forming a digital currency research team.
via CoinDesk

💻 Thomson Reuters is launching a cryptocurrency tax tool.
via Bitcoin.com

⛔️ Coinbase has announced it will shut down Earndotcom to focus exclusively on Coinbase Earn.
via The Block

📹 Crypto YouTubers have accused the platform of censorship.
via Cointelegraph

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👨‍⚖️ The man alleged to have looted the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is set to plead guilty.
via Modern Consensus

🇺🇿 The government of Uzbekistan has banned its citizens from purchasing cryptocurrency.
via Cointelegraph

🥇 Someone redeemed a 100-Bitcoin Casascius bar worth over US$700,000.
via Bitcoin.com

📈 Bloomberg Markets editor has strongly criticized the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow model.
via ccn

🔒 The NULS altcoin team could have accidentally frozen funds following a hack.
via Decrypt

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💎 A federal judge has denied the SEC’s request to see all of the Telegram’s bank statements.
via Modern Consensus

🇹🇭 Thailand’s oldest bank has partnered with Ripple to enable cross-border payments via QR codes.
via The Block

🚔 Interpol has taken action against cryptocurrency mining malware that has already infected over 20,000 routers across Asia.
via CoinDesk

👨‍⚖️ A federal grand jury has charged Ethereum Foundation’s Virgil Griffith with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
via Cointelegraph

🇪🇺 The European Central Bank (ECB) is looking to equip a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as a tool to fight a potential decline in the use of cash.
via Decrypt

China-based cryptocurrency mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain has quit an operation partnership for its Texas mining farm.

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Tether has swapped 15 million USDT from the Ethereum blockchain to Blockstream’s Liquid.

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💎 Telegram will need five to seven weeks to collect the information requested by the SEC.
via The Block

👋🏻 The plaintiffs have withdrawn a class-action lawsuit alleging Tether and Bitfinex’s Bitcoin manipulation.
via CoinDesk

🦅 The SEC is seeking US$16 million in penalties from the ICOBox token sale platform.
via Cointelegraph

👩‍⚖️ Ethereum Foundation’s Virgil Griffith has been released on a US$1 million bail pending trial.
via Modern Consensus

🇰🇵 Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab issued a statement outlining North Korea-based hacker group Lazarus’ advances in cryptocurrency-aimed attacks.
via Decrypt

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed his vision for the new decade, writing about Decentralizing Opportunity yet not mentioning Libra.

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Develop games and loyalty systems. They are the real deal!

@egordeev: “I gather that many are mistaken in thinking that the Internet of Money necessarily implies digitized national money used to pay for everything and everywhere. The same ideas were taking hold in the ’90s when everyone expected all content to be professional and to copy newspapers, compact disks, and other off-line containers.

In reality, the Internet of Money represents relationship systems established by the communities—e.g., in-game coins and loyalty points. Without such kinds of money, efficient growth becomes merely impossible as every system itself programs the corresponding terms of use. Think of it: you do not spend U.S. dollars within World of Warcraft, nor do airlines deposit pure cash to your account (hint: even in case they do, you lose up to 90% of all opportunities; my effective cashback through points reaches 5% from all purchases).

That is why what I am betting on today is not the swap of U.S. dollars or Indian rupees to the blockchain, which will ultimately lead to fierce resistance on the part of governments (cases of Libra and TON), but the development of private money in projects. The more efficient the systems, the faster the national money will be digitized as there simply will be no other option left. People transition from cash to cards, from cards to Apple/Android Pay, from contactless payments to QR codes, and so on.

In-game coins and loyalty points are a ‘Trojan horse’ strategy blockchains can adopt. The gaming industry rakes in the largest revenues among the broader entertainment market, superseding all others combined. Loyalty is what every business needs, and as we all know, marketing costs per returning customer are ten times lower. In both cases, thanks to blockchain, the following model is perfectly implemented: one can be assured that millions of people will receive their funds and be later able to use them inside the system or transfer them to their friends. Maximum security, highest uptime possible, protection from balance tampering, extremely low infrastructure costs. Both coins and points have already become part of contemporary IT systems, so you will not have to persuade anyone on the benefits of the transition to decentralized ledgers, and even more so, to digitize anything.

Now, let us take a look from a regulatory perspective. Watchdog agencies are indifferent to where you store user coins and points—be it MySQL or Minter blockchain—their main concern is whether you pay corporate taxes. Just like with the common digital assets that have been in use for a few decades now.

I am confident that the years 2020 and 2021 will first give a head start to these two directions as demand for solutions is colossal—all users want to entertain themselves, and all users want to benefit from taking part in the systems. Consider the idea that loyalty gamification is one of the most efficient formats of audience engagement and retention (raise your coefficients as you level up), and vice versa: special loyalty programs for players (invite your friends) allow businesses to get products similar in functionality yet diverse in terms of potential use cases and applications.

There is no need to exaggerate and try to give everyone in the world a Bitcoin so as to create a single free market of money. What is needed, though, is attending to seizable problems facing projects and businesses. By solving them, we will acquire grateful users; those who will stop running from crypto like the plague and thinking of it as ‘something out of thin air.’ Once they can buy WoW armor or flight tickets, no one will care about how it is called—people will only want it to continue to work just as cool.”

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👩‍⚖️ A federal district judge has ordered Craig Wright to prove a “mysterious bonded courier” is delivering the keys to US$9 billion worth of Bitcoin held in Tulip Trusts by February 3.
via Modern Consensus

💎 The SEC has produced evidence that Telegram kept selling tokens after ICO.
via CoinDesk

🖥 Block.One released EOS.io 2.0, the software underlying the EOS blockchain.
via Cointelegraph

💵 Blockchain-based remittance services startup Lightnet has raised US$31 million in Series A funding.
via The Block

📝 Bloomberg published its cryptocurrency outlook for the year 2020.
via ccn

The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) intends to set the 2x cap as maximum leverage for cryptocurrency margin traders in the country.

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