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India Plans to Introduce Crypto Bill Next Parliament Session – A Look at Community Responses
10.8.2019
The Indian government has submitted a draft crypto bill to the supreme court and expressed its intention to introduce the bill in the next parliament session. The court subsequently set a new date to hear the case relating to crypto regulation. Meanwhile, the Indian crypto community has ramped...
Tokens Built on Bitcoin Cash Are Cheaper to Send Than Those of Rival Networks
10.8.2019
Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin technology has inspired a lot of innovation spawning a myriad of tokens representing digitized assets. There are now token creation systems on blockchain networks like Omni Layer, Counterparty, and Ethereum. Each framework comes with the cost of sending tokens...
Ripple Invests in Equilibrium Connect for the Growth of Inter-ledger Ecosystem
10.8.2019
Xpring, the development arm of Ripple, will be supporting Equilibrium Connect as per the reports. The start-up is focused on creating open-source tools for the inter ledger protocol to encourage more business houses and people to use it. Ripple developed the ILP solution to help the financial...
US Exchanges Race to Launch Regulated Physically-Delivered Bitcoin Futures
9.8.2019
The race to launch regulated physically-delivered bitcoin futures is back on for three US-regulated trading platforms after one of them hit a snag with the country’s derivatives regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Two other exchanges are racing to launch similar products this...
Indian Supreme Court Heard Crypto Case in Depth Today
8.8.2019
The Indian supreme court finally heard the crypto case today after postponing it several times. The court addressed the government’s crypto policy as well as the writ petitions challenging the banking restriction by the central bank. The latter was heard in some detail while the former...
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
ECB Says It Plans to Use More On-Chain Data to Monitor Crypto Assets
7.8.2019
The European Central Bank has issued a new report revealing plans to use more granular blockchain data to better monitor the crypto markets
Indian Tax Authority Sends Probing Questions to Crypto Owners – Experts Weigh In
7.8.2019
As the Indian government deliberates on the country’s crypto policy, the tax authority continues to send out letters with lengthy, probing questions to crypto owners. News.Bitcoin.com talked to industry experts to find out the implications of these letters, what people can do when receiving...
How to Shuffle BCH and Keep Your Transactions Private With Cashshuffle
6.8.2019
As blockchain surveillance becomes more prevalent, cryptocurrency advocates have created ways to make digital currency transactions more private. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has an application called Cashshuffle, which allows users to shuffle their BCH with other fractions of BCH to obfuscate...
US Freezes Maduro Gov’t Assets as P2P Bitcoin Volume Soars in Venezuela
6.8.2019
In a major escalation against socialist president Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump’s administration has frozen all Venezuelan government assets
Currency War Erupts as US and China Bring Out the Big Guns
6.8.2019
What started out as a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies is now a full-blown currency war as the U.S. and China bring their big guns to the battlefield. The impact on the global financial markets was immediate and severe, driving up safe-haven assets as ordinary people...
Coinbase Considering Addition of 8 New Digital Assets Including ATOM and DASH
6.8.2019
Coinbase, one of the leading crypto exchanges in the world, is considering the inclusion of eight new crypto assets on its platform. This list of new assets includes Dash (DASH), Cosmos (ATOM), Decred (DCR), Algorand (ALGO), Harmony (ONE), Matic Network (MATIC), Waves (WAVES), and Ontology (ONT)....
Coinbase Exploring Eight New Assets in Bid to Expand Market Access
5.8.2019
Coinbase announced it is exploring support for eight new cryptos, and ultimately wants to support a vast majority of digital assets globally
Market Outlook: Trade Wars and Filthy Fiat Battles Fuel Crypto Prices
5.8.2019
A slew of digital currencies have gathered decent gains over the last 48 hours and the entire market capitalization now stands at around $308 billion. Moreover, cryptocurrency trade volumes have kicked up a notch, capturing $66 billion in swaps over the last day. Overall, speculators think...
SEC Commissioner: US Could Draw Crypto Policy From These Countries
5.8.2019
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could learn from other countries when finalizing its own crypto regulation, Commissioner Hester Peirce explains. While highlighting peculiar and notable features of the U.S. system, the commissioner emphasizes cross-border considerations, detailing...
P2P Crypto Lending Is on the Rise
3.8.2019
As peer-to-peer cash, it only seems logical that cryptocurrency should be deployed for P2P lending. While that application has taken time to materialize, bitcoin and other crypto assets are now increasingly fulfilling that purpose. Across the BTC, BCH and ETH networks, credit is being supplied...
Indian Government Updates Parliament on Crypto Plans
1.8.2019
The Indian parliament has repeatedly asked the finance minister about the government’s plans for cryptocurrency. In July alone, the Ministry of Finance answered three sets of questions: two in Rajya Sabha, the upper house, and one in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the parliament. Also read:...
Pre-Register for Bitcoin.com’s New Crypto Exchange to Win Bitcoin Cash Prizes
1.8.2019
Over the last few years, Bitcoin.com has striven to make digital assets more accessible to everyone in the world. In June we launched our peer-to-peer bitcoin cash marketplace Local.Bitcoin.com and this September we’re launching our very own exchange with over 50 trading pairs. Today...
UK Financial Watchdog Issues Full Guidance on Crypto Assets
31.7.2019
The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority has finalized its guidance on crypto assets following a consultation which began in January
Securitize Announced Tenth On-Chain Digital Asset Through Its Platform
31.7.2019
The security token start-up based in San Francisco, Securitize backed by Coinbase has announced the launch of the tenth on-chain digital asset. The start-up assists Coinbase and other firms in creating tokens or tokenization of assets and securities. The start-up entered into the digital asset...