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Market Shrugs, Price Nightmares and 20 Crypto Jokes
14.12.2019
Let’s see what happened this week in the Cryptoverse. Matic and some other Binance IEOs rallied, but then Matic droped a nightmarish 66%, seeing even Binance investigating it; Tezos entered the Top 10 club; Zcash prepared for Blossom, but then XRP became the only green one; BTC dev says that...
Dapps in 2020, Where Are We Heading
14.12.2019
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Man Using a TV Studio’s Electricity to Mine Ethereum Has the Last Laugh
13.12.2019
An unexpected winner appears to have emerged in one of the most bizarre crypto mining stories of the year – one with a twist in the tale!
The story, as reported by media outlet Xataka, begins at the studios of local authority-run television station in Andalucía, Spain, named Canal Málaga.
Canal...
QuadrigaCX Users Want to Dig Former CEO Out, Literally + More News
13.12.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto exchanges news
Lawyers representing users of the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX are asking the Royal...
Cosmos Price Soars 12% in a Week, Second Best Performer in Top 20
13.12.2019
Today and in the past week, Cosmos (ATOM) is one of the best performing digital assets in the top 20, and is registering gains against BTC, ETH and the USD.
At pixel time (14:34 UTC), ATOM, ranked 16th by market capitalization, trades at c. USD 4.05 and is up by 2% in a day and by 12% in a week...
This is What Happens When Millionaire Bill Pulte Buys 11 Bitcoins
13.12.2019
Bill Pulte. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, CNBC
“I recently bought 11 bitcoins,” (USD 79,000) is a sentence many of us would so gladly utter and which Bill Pulte, a Detroit millionaire and grandson of the late founder of U.S. home construction and real estate development giant PulteGroup...
Most Central of All Banks Releases 12 Design Elements For a Wholesale Token
13.12.2019
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), hosted by the central bank of central banks, the BIS, has released a report which informs developers and market participants how wholesale digital tokens might look like.
Today, wholesale payments between financial institutions...
Exit Scam Fears as Major Darknet Site ICO Promises 700% Growth in 6 Months
13.12.2019
Russia’s biggest darknet community, Hydra, has released a white paper as it prepares to issue an initial coin offering (ICO) that it says will see token growth skyrocket by 700% by June next year.
Hydra’s white paper takes the form of an investment memorandum (link here, although the memo can only...
Mark Cuban: Don't Convince Me, Convince Your Neighbor About Bitcoin
13.12.2019
Mark Cuban. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, TMZSports
Crypto supporters need to show their neighbors its value, not rely on the academic discussions to bring the consumers in, believes billionaire Mark Cuban, an American businessman and investor, and the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks....
Bitcoin and Altcoins Recovery Still Might Fail In Near Term
13.12.2019
This week, we saw a downside extension in bitcoin price below the USD 7,400 and USD 7,350 support levels. BTC/USD even traded below the USD 7,200 support before it found support near USD 7,150. The price is currently (09:00 UTC) recovering, but there are many hurdles near USD 7,250, USD 7,350...
Tezos Flips Stellar, Enters Top 10, Going for Bitcoin SV
13.12.2019
Tezos (XTZ), a blockchain looking to establish itself as a smart contract platform with self-amendment and on-chain governance, just entered the top 10 coins club after raising 297% in a year.
The coin surpassed Stellar (XLM) and is now 10th with market capitalization of USD 1.4 billion, compared...
Canaan Crashed Almost 40% Amid Falling Bitcoin Price and Market Doubts
12.12.2019
Things are still not looking good for the second largest producer of Bitcoin (BTC) mining equipment, China-based Canaan (CAN), as it shares are searching for news lows after the debut on Nasdaq exchange on November 21, which made this the first mining company that went public on a major stock...
Bitcoin and How It's Revolutionized The World
12.12.2019
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Ten years ago, Bitcoin was created by an unknown group of people under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite being developed more than a decade ago, it is only in the past year that Bitcoin increased in popularity. The price of one Bitcoin...
Basel Committee Initiates Discussion on Crypto + More News
12.12.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
A global banking regulator says it will listen to input on a new cryptocurrency discussion paper. Per a press...
Is HEX a Scam or Just Something that Looks Really, Really Like a Scam?
12.12.2019
Richard Heart. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Richard Heart
"Oh, it looks like a scam, I know that," says Richard Heart, the founder of the controversial new cryptocurrency HEX. Speaking to Tone Vays' Bitcoin Law Review podcast, he admits that, "if you don't look into it, it looks like every...
Russian Govt Official: Crypto Regulation is the International Issue
12.12.2019
Russia should not “run ahead” of other countries and take the role of a global trendsetter in crypto regulation due to financial crime risks, according to Yuri Chikhanchin, the director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring).
Speaking at the Federation Council, the upper...
XRP Price Up in a Week, the Only Top 10 Coin in Green
12.12.2019
On Thursday, XRP is still the only top 10 coin in green in the past week, outperforming not only Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).
At pixel time (12:27 AM UTC), XRP is trading at c. USD 22 and, as prices have stabilized since the end of November, XRP bulls have trimmed monthly losses against...
Accusations Pile Up Against ‘Big’ South Korean Exchange
12.12.2019
The storm around an unnamed major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange is continuing to rage – with a senior politician allegedly involved, an ongoing assault/kidnapping case ongoing and now claims of artificially inflated trading volume figures.
As previously reported, the head of a major...
Company at Center of SEC Fraud Probe, Shopin, Promotes its Token Sale
12.12.2019
Shopin, an American blockchain retail startup, appears to be going ahead with a token sale, despite the fact that it has been charged by the regulatory Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has hit Shopin with a civil fraud wrap.
The SEC says that Shopin duped investors in a 2017-2018...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Sliding, Primed For More Losses
12.12.2019
In the past few sessions, bitcoin price remained in a bearish zone and settled below the USD 7,350 and USD 7,250 support levels. BTC/USD even broke the USD 7,200 pivot area and it seems like it could attempt a break below the USD 7,000 support area.
Moreover, there were bearish moves in most major...