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Akon on Africa and Akoin — ‘This Is Bulls**t: We Need Our Own Currency’

16.4.2020
A pocketful of Senegal’s currency proved worthless in France: and inspired one of the world’s agents of ‘change’ to take the problem of money in Africa into his own hands

‘Digital Dollar’ Reintroduced by US Lawmakers in Latest Stimulus Bill

16.4.2020
The idea of a digital dollar was again floated by U.S. lawmakers as a means of issuing stimulus payments to residents

Crypto Needs to Meld With Legacy Financial Systems for Mass Adoption

16.4.2020
Decentralized crypto assets and centralized custodians: Could such a hybrid bring crypto to a new level of mass adoption?

Grayscale Bitcoin & Ethereum Investors Hit New Record + More News

16.4.2020
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. Investment news Major digital asset manager Grayscale Investments said it raised USD 503.7 million in 1Q20, nearly double...

Bitcoin News Roundup for April 16, 2020

16.4.2020
Bitcoin did something weird last night and Facebook pulls back on stablecoin plans. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast

Former Steem Devs Found OpenOrchard to Disrupt Open-Source Tech

16.4.2020
OpenOrchard comprises some of Steem’s former-top minds — including Andrew Levine, Michael Vandeberg, and ‘Theoretical’

There's Still Money for IEOs; Blockchain Fundraising Will Grow - Binance CEO

16.4.2020
Changpeng Zhao. Source: Instagram, Binance Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) are still very much a thing and will thrive in the future, said Changpeng Zhao, CEO of major crypto exchange Binance. "I am still very confident in the IEO market," Zhao said, speaking at the virtual BlockDown 2020...

$2,000 a Month: US Lawmakers Propose Basic Income for Americans to Cope With Covid-19 Economy

16.4.2020
Democrats from the House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would pay eligible Americans $2,000 a month until U.S. unemployment numbers return to pre-covid-19 levels. Under the proposal, any American citizen 16-years or older making less than $130K per year would receive monthly...

Facebook's Libra Confirms A New Plan To Please Regulators

16.4.2020
In an attempt to ease regulatory concerns, Facebook's Libra just changed its initial plan to issue the multi-currency Libra Coin and now aims to start from single-currency stablecoins, such as LibraUSD, LibraEUR, etc. "This will allow people and businesses in the regions whose local currencies...

Blockchain Voting Systems Could Be the Future, but Current Flaws Persist

16.4.2020
Blockchain-based voting systems may have security vulnerabilities, but the platform provides transparency, says West Virginia's secretary of state

Libra Just Made a Bunch of Changes to Play More Nicely With Regulators

16.4.2020
Libra really, really wants to exist, so it’s starting to kowtow to regulations

Macro Backdrop 'Never Been More Conducive' for Bitcoin - Analyst

16.4.2020
The current macroeconomic backdrop has never been more conducive for “a non-sovereign, censorship-resistant, provably scarce digital asset,” Kevin Kelly, Co-founder of crypto research boutique Delphi Digital, believes. In an analysis piece in eToro’s latest quarterly The State of Digital Assets...

Bitcoin Volatility-Tracking Options See 25% Monthly Volume Increase

16.4.2020
Delta Exchange announced that $8M of Move contracts were traded on the platform over the past 30 days, a 25% increase over the last month

EPAM Joins Effort to Help Cryptocurrency Exchanges Comply With FATF ‘Travel Rule’

16.4.2020
EPAM Systems has joined forces with OpenVASP, pledging to use its programming expertise to help crypto businesses comply with FATF guidance

Bitcoin.com Exchange Now Supports Reserve’s Stablecoin RSV and the Utility Token RSR

16.4.2020
Bitcoin.com’s Exchange continues to grow and during the last few months, the platform has added support for a number of well known tokens. This week, the trading platform has added support for the Reserve stablecoin (RSV) and the project’s utility token (RSR). Bitcoin.com Exchange users...

Bitcoin Price Models Go to War (Again) as Rainbow Champion Decries S2F

16.4.2020
Source: Adobe/Наталья Самбулова The crypto community has once again been drawn into a heated online discussion about which price model – if any – most accurately predicts movements in bitcoin (BTC) prices. An asset manager has sparked the latest debate by championing the so-called rainbow chart...