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This Crypto Startup Takes Bitcoin Advocacy to a Whole New Level
16.9.2020
Patrick Stanley is launching a crypto advocacy company called Freehold, starting with bitcoin (BTC) and Blockstack's STX
P2P Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Shuts Down Venezuela Operations to Comply With US Sanctions
16.9.2020
Peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Paxful is shutting down its operations in Venezuela, apparently, to comply with U.S. economic sanctions against the leftist government of disputed president Nicolas Maduro. On Tuesday, a Paxful spokesperson told news.Bitcoin.com that the exchange will now start...
US Company Accepts Bitcoin Payments for Luxury Planes, as $40M Gulfstream Jet Goes on Sale
16.9.2020
Aviatrade Inc., a New Jersey-based aircraft sales company, is now accepting bitcoin as a means of payment for its range of multi-million dollar luxury jets. Philip Rushton, president of Aviatrade, told news.Bitcoin.com that the first plane available for purchase via cryptocurrency is a six-year-old...
Report: Market Valuation of 14 Banking Giants Shed $635 Billion This Year
16.9.2020
The world’s largest banks lost a considerable amount of market valuation amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report that estimates financial incumbents lost $635 billion. Between December 2019 and August 2020, the market caps of 14 major banking institutions lost upwards of 30-50%...
Ternio Reveals BlockCard Users Can Now Purchase Bitcoin Directly From Their New BlockCard Bank Accounts
16.9.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
ATLANTA, GA - September 16, 2020 - For Blockcard Account users who noticed recently that they can now activate their own Blockcard bank accounts, a new feature has just gone live: Buying Bitcoin (BTC) and Ternio...
Presidential Candidate Brock Pierce Served With Lawsuit for Alleged ICO Fraud
16.9.2020
Former Disney child actor and U.S. Presidential candidate, Brock Pierce, was served with a lawsuit during a political campaign event held on Monday. The class-action lawsuit was filed in May and it claims the defendants, including Pierce, sold unregistered securities during the EOS initial coin...
Blockchain gaming project seeks to go mainstream with new Matic Network migration
15.9.2020
The company hopes to solve issues that were prevalent on its previous mainnet
New Rumors On Indian Crypto Ban, Bonds on Blockchain + More News
15.9.2020
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India plans to introduce a new law banning trade in cryptocurrencies and the bill is expected to...
Polkadot DeFi developers may soon get a new oracle provider with historic data
15.9.2020
Polkadot snatches yet another oracle provider from a different blockchain
Web 3.0 would enable new possibilities and opportunities
15.9.2020
Web 3.0 will certainly be a step toward a more decentralized, immutable and censorship-resistant version of the web
US Consumers Flock To the First Mastercard Branded BitPay Card
15.9.2020
New data from BitPay shows that American consumers are flocking to load the first Mastercard branded BitPay card with top digital assets. The popular cryptocurrency payment services provider debuted the new card in June 2020 and the company’s transactions reached a new high in July. The data...
INX Becomes the First SEC-Registered IPO to Accept Crypto
15.9.2020
15th September 2020, New York, United States: INX will start accepting bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), and USDC stablecoin, starting today. INX said over 3,000 retail and accredited investors registered for the INX token offering during its first three days. Now that the minimum requirement INX has...
New York Attorney General to Bitfinex and Tether: ‘Delays Must Stop’
15.9.2020
Bitfinex and Tether shouldn’t need more than two months to produce documents about USDT issuances and past operations in New York first ordered 17 months ago, an NYAG lawyer argued in a letter Monday
Nigeria regulators recognize digital assets in stunning new statement
15.9.2020
‘Virtual crypto assets are securities, unless proven otherwise,’ the Nigerian SEC said
content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
14.9.2020
Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin:
[…] you can use another CSS property called content-visibility to apply the needed containment automatically. content-visibility ensures that you get the largest performance gains the browser can provide with minimal effort from you as...
Thai Central Bank’s New Blockchain-Enabled Bond Infrastructure Passes Test With $1.6B Bond Sale
14.9.2020
The central bank of Thailand announced on Friday it has launched the “DLT Scripless Bond Project” aimed at building a secure and efficient government bond infrastructure
New Index From DeFi Pulse and Set Protocol Offers Easy Access to 10 DeFi Tokens in 1
14.9.2020
Data company DeFi Pulse and investment-minded Set Protocol have created a permissionless index of the very best DeFi tokens, called the DeFiPulse Index
DeFi app overview: How to navigate crypto’s new finance wave
14.9.2020
With DeFi platforms bringing in profits for users, jumping onto this wagon seems to be highly attractive. But how easy is it to do?
Defi Protocol Bzx Loses $8.1 Million in Third Hack This Year
14.9.2020
So called decentralized finance (defi) lending platform Bzx on Sunday lost $8.1 million in a new hacking attack, the third this year, caused by a flawed code in its smart contracts. The bug allowed the hacker to mint 219,200 LINK tokens (valued at $2.6 million); 4,503 ETH ($1.65 million); 1,756,351...
DeFi platform bZX sees new $8M hack from one misplaced line of code
14.9.2020
bZX made all the right moves, but it wasn’t enough