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• Stellar Month: July's Top Performing Crypto Asset Saw 40% Gains

  31-07-2018 23:50
  Stellar (XLM) was the best performing cryptocurrency amongst the 25 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization during the month of July.
  
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• Survey Finds That 88% of Crypto Exchanges Are Crying Out for Regulation

  31-07-2018 23:30 via newsbtc.com
  A survey conducted by crypto-friendly payment company Mistertango has found that almost 9 out of 10 digital currency exchange platforms want to see the industry regulated. However, there are also some fears that said regulation could stifle crypto innovation.
  Cryptocurrency Companies Crave the Stability that Regulation can Create
  The survey conducted by Mistertango targeted 24 different cryptocurrency exchanges from around the world. These included platforms based in Europe, Asia, South America,
  
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• OTC is Much Larger Than Bitcoin Exchange Volume: Where Real Whales Trade

  31-07-2018 23:23
  TABB Group, an international research company, has disclosed in its extensive analytical report that the over-the-counter (OTC) market of bitcoin is significantly larger than the global bitcoin exchange market. OTC Versus Exchanges: Whales Against Retail Traders For many years, the majority of bitcoin analysts predicted billions of dollars to be traded on a regular basis
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• Survey: 88% of Crypto Exchanges Want Regulation for the Industry to Mature

  31-07-2018 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new survey has found that 88 percent of crypto exchanges want regulation, while a third believe a market crash is a significant threat to the industry. The study, conducted by Mistertango, a crypto payment app that is regulated by the Bank of Lithuania, is based on responses from 24 cryptocurrency exchanges across Europe, Asia, […]
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• Ripple Partners With Madonna to Fundraise for Orphans in Malawi

  31-07-2018 23:00
  Cryptocurrency payments startup Ripple is partnering with Madonna to raise funds for orphans in the African nation of Malawi.
  
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• Coinbase Announces Gift Card Service For Europe & Australia

  31-07-2018 23:00 via crypto-news.net
  US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has partnered with WeGift to launch a gift card service that will enable users to withdraw and spend digital currencies directly with ease. A report on their blog confirmed the latest partnership with the London-based company and revealed further details about what users could do with the e-gift card service.
  Customers can now spend their cryptocurrency balances on the Coinbase exchange while purchasing from retailers like Nike, Tesco, Uber, Google
  
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• Taking Back Control of the Web Browsing Experience: Blockchain Startup Decenternet Returns Power to the User

  31-07-2018 22:37
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• Blockchain Startup MOBU is an Ease-of-Access, Tokenized Security ICO Launch Platform

  31-07-2018 22:32
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• 88% Of Crypto Exchanges Want Industry Regulation, New Study Reveals

  31-07-2018 22:26
  Lithuania-based crypto payment company Mistertango has released a study which reveals that 88% of cryptocurrency exchanges want industry regulation. The study was based on responses from 24 crypto exchanges across the world with a total daily trading volume of over $100 million. The responses show an industry that wants to be part of the formal system,
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• Timicoin Itching to Show off Its Decentralized Healthcare Record Ledger at the ‘Block Show’

  31-07-2018 22:19
  This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. DALLAS, TX, July 27, 2018 — Timicoin, world’s first cryptocurrency mobile platform to use blockchain technology for storing and accessing medical records, will have its healthcare expert team at the
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• Forrester Research: 90% of Blockchain Initiatives by US Firms Will Never Become Operational

  31-07-2018 22:18 via cointelegraph.com
  The U.S. market research firm Forrester Research estimates that 90 percent of blockchain initiatives by American companies will never become operational
  
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• CryptoCompare Partners with Thomson Reuters to Provide Data on Crypto Markets

  31-07-2018 22:00 via newsbtc.com
  A respected cryptocurrency market data website has partnered with Thomson Reuters. Going forward, CryptoCompare will provide data for the media and information firm’s market analysis platform Eikon.
  Partnership Brings More Functionality to Eikon Market Data Platform
  The partnership between CryptoCompare and Thomson Reuters will see the former providing market data for 50 of the top cryptocurrencies.
  This will include order book and other trade data that will be sourced from a number of tru
  
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• $10.7 Trillion Custodian Northern Trust Helping Hedge Funds Invest in Bitcoin

  31-07-2018 21:26
  Financial services giant Northern Trust, which ranks 486th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. companies, has begun to wade into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Northern Trust Offers Services to Crypto-Curious Hedge Funds Forbes reports that the 129-year-old Chicago-based firm, which caters to institutional investors, corporations, and high net worth individuals, has begun to
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• Korean Officials Probe Shipwreck ICO for Possible Fraud

  31-07-2018 21:20
  Korean police are investigating a cryptocurrency startup claiming to be selling treasure from a sunken ship, the Korea Joongang Daily reported.
  
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• Financial Institutions & IBM Unveil The LedgerConnect Blockchain Project

  31-07-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Market infrastructure provider CLS, nine financial institutions and IBM are collaborating on a proof-of-concept (PoC) for LedgerConnect, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform designed to enable banks, financial institutions, fintechs and software vendors to share and deploy applications and services hosted on a shared distributed ledger network. LedgerConnect, which will operate on a single, enterprise-grade […]
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• Binance Acquires Cryptocurrency Wallet Provider, Vows to Make More Deals

  31-07-2018 20:35 via newsbtc.com
  Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a common theme within the capital markets industry and as the cryptocurrency ecosystem matures, M&A announcements are expected to follow the same trend.
  The news today is that Binance, one of the world’s largest virtual currency operators, has acquired cryptocurrency wallet provider Trust Wallet in an effort to give control back to its customers.
  Binance Acquires Cryptocurrency Wallet Provider Trust Wallet
  Binance has entered the M&A space for
  
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• US Lawmakers Seek Blockchain Solution in Fight Against Fungal Disease

  31-07-2018 20:15
  A group of U.S. lawmakers has proposed the creation of a blockchain pilot as part of a wider effort to combat infectious fungal diseases.
  
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• Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Buys Ethereum Wallet Service in First-Ever Acquisition

  31-07-2018 19:59
  Binance, one of the world’s two largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has just completed its first-ever acquisition. According to TechCrunch, the Malta-based exchange operator acquired Trust Wallet, creator of the eponymous mobile Ethereum wallet that includes support for ether, as well as ERC-20 and ERC-223 tokens. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but Binance confirmed
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• Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman Expresses Skepticism About Crypto, Predicts Collapse

  31-07-2018 19:56 via cointelegraph.com
  Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times that cryptocurrencies will most likely be worthless due to their high transaction costs and an “absence of tethering”
  
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• Former US President Bill Clinton to Give Keynote Speech at Ripple’s Fall Tech Conference

  31-07-2018 19:33 via cointelegraph.com
  The 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, will give a keynote speech at Ripple’s Swell conference this fall, as well as a Q&A moderated by the former National Economic Council Director and Advisory
  
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• Bitmain to Open New Data Center in Texas as North American Expansion Continues

  31-07-2018 18:56
  Bitmain, the world’s largest bitcoin mining firm, is preparing to open a new data center in Texas, external job postings show. The China-based cryptocurrency company, which reportedly recorded $1.1 billion in profit during the first quarter, is currently looking for a project manager and data center site manager to staff a new plant in Rockdale,
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• Ripple Taps Bill Clinton to Give Keynote at Upcoming Conference

  31-07-2018 18:55
  Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will headline Ripple's Swell conference later this year, the cryptocurrency payments startup announced Tuesday.
  
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• KPMG Report: US Blockchain Investment in 2018 to Date has Outstripped 2017’s Total

  31-07-2018 18:50 via cointelegraph.com
  Fresh analysis from “big four” auditor KPMG shows that U.S. blockchain investment in the first half of 2018 has already outstripped the overall total seen in 2017
  
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• μNEST Talks IoT and Blockchain at Singapore Meetup

  31-07-2018 18:48
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• Audit Firm to Build a Bug Prediction Market for Smart Contracts

  31-07-2018 18:00 via cointelegraph.com
  An Ethereum-based audit firm is developing a Bug Prediction Market, aiming to provide a transparent and accountable metric for smart contract security #SPONSORED
  
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• Binance Acquires Anonymous Mobile Wallet for Ethereum Tokens

  31-07-2018 17:55
  Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has acquired the open-source and anonymous mobile ethereum wallet Trust Wallet, it was announced Tuesday. 
  
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• San Francisco Firm Launches Cryptocurrency Exchange with XRP as ‘Base Currency’

  31-07-2018 17:52
  San Francisco-based marketplace DCEX will become the first cryptocurrency exchange to use XRP as its ‘base currency’, available for both retail and institutional investors. DCEX will function as a crypto-to-crypto marketplace wherein all digital currencies will be trading against Ripple’s token XRP as the platform’s “base currency”, the exchange operator said in an announcement. The
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• Will Blockchain Protect the World Economy from Financial Crises?

  31-07-2018 17:22 via cointelegraph.com
  Once blockchain is in place, is there any room left for another Great Recession?
  
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• Sapien Rewards Engine Is Now Live

  31-07-2018 17:10
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• Bitcoin Price Intraday Analysis: BTC/USD Shows No Bullish Action

  31-07-2018 17:06
  No longer after we published our analysis on July 30th, 2018, the Bitcoin price against the USD started to slip heavily owing to overlong sideways action. In the past 24 hours. The BTC/USD pair has dropped over 5%, summing-up the overall 9% drop since the July’s high at 8512-fiat. Nevertheless, our intrarange strategy played out
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• Steam Yanks Game From Marketplace Over Crypto Mining Allegations

  31-07-2018 17:00
  Video game marketplace Steam removed an alleged crypto miner from its platform Monday amid user complaints.
  
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• E-commerce Platform OmniBazaar Eliminates Middlemen and Banks by Adopting Blockchain Technology

  31-07-2018 17:00
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• Blockchain Startup Skynet Creates Real-World Science from the Fiction

  31-07-2018 16:54
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• Solareum Attends Restart Week and Announces Listings on Four New Exchanges

  31-07-2018 16:48
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• Former Pershing Exec Jeff Horowitz Joins Coinbase as Chief Compliance Officer

  31-07-2018 16:43 via cointelegraph.com
  Coinbase has hired Jeff Horowitz, formerly a managing director at Pershing LLC and a banking regulator with the FDIC, as its Chief Compliance Officer
  
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• Coinbase Hires Finance Veteran Jeff Horowitz as Compliance Officer

  31-07-2018 16:18
  Horowitz has 30 years of experience in the field, and will be Coinbase's first CCO.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Hits One-Week Low In Drop Below $8K

  31-07-2018 16:14
  The price of bitcoin fell below $8,000 for the fourth time in seven days as the cryptocurrency's value sank to its lowest level since July 23rd.
  
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• Bitcoin is Erasing 300 Years of Monetary Evolution: Nobel Economist Paul Krugman

  31-07-2018 15:56
  American economist Paul Krugman has taken another swing bitcoin, arguing that the prominent cryptocurrency, as well as its peers, represents a 300-year economic regression and will “likely” experience a “total collapse.” Writing in his regular New York Times column, Krugman — who has at various times published articles lambasting bitcoin as “evil” and “the long
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• Patient-Centred Care to Save Lives

  31-07-2018 15:44 via newsbtc.com
  Using technology to engage patients, families, and communities can improve outcomes
  In many countries, healthcare professionals work long hours to care for their patients in an increasingly complex, inefficient, and stressful environment. These pressures often do not support their efforts to respond to patients’ needs as their core priority.
  Many companies are innovating digital technologies to transform the healthcare landscape to streamline treatments, reduce costs and empower patients t
  
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• New Ripple-Based Decentralized Exchange Launches in San Francisco

  31-07-2018 15:33 via cointelegraph.com
  A new U.S. Ripple-based decentralized crypto marketplace dubbed DCEX has now opened registration for retail and institutional accounts, initially offering 15 crypto-crypto trading pairs
  
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• China's Government Censorship Agency Is Hiring a Crypto Expert

  31-07-2018 15:30
  A high-level government media censor in China wants to hire a cryptographer with expertise in blockchain technology.
  
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• Augur Prediction Market Hosts Trump Assassination Wagers

  31-07-2018 15:30 via newsbtc.com
  A prediction market application recently launched on the Ethereum network allows punters to place wagers on whatever they like. So far, among the bets made using the Augur platform have been predictions about whether the likes of Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffet will be murdered.
  Will Augur Utilise the Wisdom of the Crowd or Serve as a Blockchain Betting Application?
  Although the nature of some of the bets being placed on the Augur platform is questionable, the overall usage of the pr
  
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• China: World’s Third-Largest Bank Issues Farmland Mortgage Loan on a Blockchain

  31-07-2018 15:00
  In a significant breakthrough to deepen the reform of mortgage loans, the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) revealed that it has issued a farmland loan worth $300,000 on the blockchain in a trial. The bank, as reported by a local news source, used a segment of agriculture land as collateral to issue the mortgage loan in
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• Thomson Reuters Decides on CryptoCompare as Price Data Source

  31-07-2018 14:59
  Thomson Reuters began displaying cryptocurrency prices in May of this year.
  
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• Bitcoin Dips Below $8,000 Amid Market-Wide Losses

  31-07-2018 14:54 via cointelegraph.com
  Widespread losses in the markets are seeing Bitcoin back below the $8,000 mark for the third time this week, and total market cap down about $10 billion on the day
  
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• Fintech Firm Billon Partners With FIS to Explore Blockchain Tech Solutions

  31-07-2018 14:12 via cointelegraph.com
  A Letter of Intent has been signed between Billon and FIS to implement blockchain tech into the global financial market
  
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• Thomson Reuters Is Adding 50 Crypto Assets to Finance Data Feed

  31-07-2018 14:10
  Thomson Reuters will soon track 50 crypto assets on one of its desktop finance feeds, thanks to a new deal with market data aggregator CryptoCompare.
  
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• Steam Shuts Down Game for Cryptomining Monero from Gamers

  31-07-2018 14:02
  Valve Corporation, the company behind the gaming website Steam, suddenly pulled a game called Abstractism from its store. Customer complaints and the game’s performance metrics point to another instance of crypto jacking. Abstractism has been marketed as a simple platformer where you control a bunch of pixels and try to carry it successfully to the
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• Bitwise CEO Still Hopeful For New Multi-Faceted Crypto ETF

  31-07-2018 14:00 via newsbtc.com
  Despite the disappointing verdict for the proposal of the Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin-centric ETF, crypto experts still hope that regulators will begin to change their outlook on this emerging industry.
  BitWise Enters Crypto ETF Race With A Crypto Index Proposal
  Last week, Bitwise, a San Francisco-based asset management firm, filed a proposition to the SEC, looking to launch a cryptocurrency index ETF. If approved by the heavy-handed regulatory body, investors would be able to inve
  
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• Thomson Reuters Partners With CryptoCompare to Track 50 Crypto Assets

  31-07-2018 13:19 via cointelegraph.com
  Reuters’ financial desktop Eikon platform will track 50 cryptocurrencies through a new partnership with CryptoCompare
  
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