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• Ripple General Counsel Departs Cryptocurrency Firm Amid Class-Action Dispute over XRP

  07-09-2018 23:15
  A top lawyer at cryptocurrency startup Ripple has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed to CCN on Friday. Brynly Llyr, who joined the San Francisco-based blockchain company in Nov. 2016 as the firm’s general counsel and has served in that role in the nearly two years since, is no longer with the organization. Llyr’s departure
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• Trump’s New SEC Hire Boosts Possibility of Bitcoin ETF

  07-09-2018 22:27
  Elad Roisman , the newly-appointed member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), could be the missing the piece in tilting the balance in favor of a bitcoin ETF approval. The new commissioner becomes the third Trump appointee to the SEC, succeeding Michael Piwowar, who stepped down in July. Roisman, who has a strong stance
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• Bitcoin’s Rapid Pricedrop Clear Sign of Manipulation

  07-09-2018 22:00 via crypto-news.net
  On September 5th, Bitcoin experienced a series of significant price drops, falling almost 15 percent from $7400 to $6300 in under twelve hours. Although these types of volatile moves are common in cryptocurrency markets, rumors immediately emerged of price manipulation. Deliberate attempts to sway crypto prices are well-known, and appear to be on the rise. A wide range of techniques are used, which in this unregulated digital markets can wreak havoc on platform values.The specific cause for the
  
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• Report: Australian’s Cryptocurrency Holdings Triple in 2018 Despite Bear Market

  07-09-2018 21:30 via newsbtc.com
  According to a recently conducted survey, the number of Australians who own cryptocurrency has nearly tripled in 2018 alone, signaling that the current bear market is not an accurate signal of interest in cryptocurrency, which is growing at rapid rates.
  The new report comes on the heels of Bitcoin plunging nearly $1,000 to its current price of just over $6,400.
  The survey was conducted by Finder-backed brokerage firm HiveEx, who surveyed a total of 2,000 Australians, finding that of the sam
  
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• Canadian Executive Accused of Stealing over US$5 Million in Cryptocurrency

  07-09-2018 20:52
  A senior executive at a Vancouver, British Columbia-based marketing firm allegedly preyed on the ignorance of his employer regarding cryptocurrencies to take off with digital assets worth millions of dollars. In a lawsuit filed by Shair.Com Global Digital Services, the marketing firm accused Jason Arnold, its former chief operating officer, of stealing up to US$5.3
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• ARK Partners with Major League Hacking

  07-09-2018 20:42
  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. We are extremely proud to announce our recent partnership with Major League Hacking, the official student hackathon league. We will be joining the MLH Localhost program to build
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• Energy Giant Engie, Maltem Back New 'Blockchain Studio' With $2.3M

  07-09-2018 20:30
  French energy firm Engie announced Friday that it will help commercial customers build blockchain platforms with its new "Blockchain Studio" spinoff.
  
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• Energy Giant Engie Backs 'Blockchain Studio' With $2.3 Million Funding

  07-09-2018 20:30
  French energy firm Engie announced Friday that it will help commercial customers build blockchain platforms with its new "Blockchain Studio" spinoff.
  
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• Bitcoin Suffers Severe Blow to Legitimacy, but It’s Based on “Fake News”

  07-09-2018 20:00 via newsbtc.com
  Larry Shover, the chief financial officer at SFG Alternatives, has stated that he feels the news circulating yesterday about Goldman Sachs’ shelving of plans to launch their own cryptocurrency trading desk has dealt the leading digital asset’s legitimacy a “severe blow.”
  The main issue with Shover’s analysis is that it is based on a journalistic error.
  Goldman Sachs’ Interest in Crypto Growing, Not Shrinking
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• Opera’s Ethereum Wallet Now Lets You Send CryptoKitties to Your Friends

  07-09-2018 19:31
  Opera users can now send CryptoKitties and other cryptocurrency-based collectibles to their friends using the web browser’s built-in Ethereum wallet. The Norwegian software company, whose controlling shareholder is bitcoin mining giant Bitmain, announced on Friday that it has added support for a “curated list” of Ethereum-based tokens built to the ERC-721 standard. From the announcement:
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• Bets Against Ether's Price Hit All-Time High

  07-09-2018 18:51
  The number of short orders placed on ETH/USD have reached a new high and is a clear reflection of bearish sentiment surrounding the cryptocurrency.
  
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• Official Launch of Liquid, a New Crypto Platform Opening up Liquidity for Crypto Markets Worldwide

  07-09-2018 18:39
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• Ripple's General Counsel Exits Startup, Spokesperson Says

  07-09-2018 18:30
  Ripple general counsel Brynly Llyr, who joined the firm in 2016 as its top legal officer, has left the firm, a spokesperson told CoinDesk.
  
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• Havven Founder: Tether has shades of eGold

  07-09-2018 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  eGold was the last false start of digital currencies. Predating bitcoin, the Douglas Jackson created e-currency made big headway into creating an internet-based currency years before Satoshi’s white paper was published. The idea that the internet would need its own currency goes back decades even that. Before Bitcoin there was eGold and before eGold there […]
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• Havven CEO: Tether has shades of eGold

  07-09-2018 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  eGold was the last false start of digital currencies. Predating bitcoin, the Douglas Jackson created e-currency made big headway into creating an internet-based currency years before Satoshi’s white paper was published. The idea that the internet would need its own currency goes back decades even that. Before Bitcoin there was eGold and before eGold there […]
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• What TAP Coin-like Apps Have to Offer for Blockchain and Advertising

  07-09-2018 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If we delve into the backlogs of the Internet, we can see that the first posts mentioning blockchain technology appeared on the web way back in 2009, namely when Satoshi Nakamoto published the paper on Bitcoin that implemented this far out, innovative technology. Now, modern projects use blockchain as a matter of course. Lin Dai, […]
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• Zug’s Crypto Valley Aims to Elevate Women In Male-Dominated Industry

  07-09-2018 18:00
  Zug’s Crypto Valley Association (CVA) will add two women to its board of directors in a move designed to boost the presence of women in the male-dominated cryptocurrency industry. “We want to create a space that works for everyone rather than just carry on with the same old boys’ club and their cronies,” CVA rep
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• Quoine Looks to Boost Crypto Liquidity With New Trading Platform

  07-09-2018 18:00
  Crypto exchange startup Quoine has launched a trading platform called Liquid that it says will bring much needed liquidity to the crypto markets.
  
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• Quione Looks to Boost Crypto Liquidity With New Trading Platform

  07-09-2018 18:00
  Crypto exchange startup Quione has launched a trading platform called Liquid that it says will bring much needed liquidity to the crypto markets.
  
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• Fool’s Gold? Bitcoin Fork Faces Cryptocurrency Exchange Delisting after 51% Attack

  07-09-2018 17:56
  Three months after Bitcoin Gold fell prey to a high-profile 51 percent attack, one of the cryptocurrency exchanges affected by that exploit is threatening to delist BTG unless the coin’s developers help cover its losses. Last week, the Bitcoin Gold organization announced on its official website that Bittrex, a top-30 cryptocurrency exchange by volume and
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• US Blockchain Startup Wyre Acquires Smart Contract Developer Hedgy

  07-09-2018 17:16
  Wyre and Hedgy are primarily focused on facilitating accessibility to financial instruments enabled by blockchain.
  
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• U.S. Blockchain Startup Wyre Acquires Smart Contract Developer Hedgy

  07-09-2018 17:16
  Wyre and Hedgy are primarily focused on facilitating accessibility for financial instruments enabled by blockchain.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Intraday Analysis: BTC/USD on Sideways Trend

  07-09-2018 16:54
  Bitcoin price on Friday made no significant corrections from its intraday low near $6,302. The BTC/USD over the course of past 24 hours has done a raise-and-erase act, signaling a sideways sentiment. At the beginning of the Asian session, the pair had noted a weak bull correction attempt, so that it established an intraday high
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• EOS Block Producers Move to Cut Costs for Users

  07-09-2018 16:30
  Creating a new account on EOS is now easier after 15 block producers approved a protocol change making it cheaper and providing free RAM.
  
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• ‘Fake News’: CFO Says Goldman Sachs is Not Ditching Bitcoin Trading Desk

  07-09-2018 15:50
  “Fake news” — that’s how Goldman Sachs CFO Martin Chavez characterized a report that the investment banking giant was shelving its much-hyped plans to build a bitcoin trading desk. Speaking this week at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Chavez sought to put to rest speculation that Goldman, the fifth-largest bank in the U.S., was quietly
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• “Pay by Crypto” is Now Live on LALA World App

  07-09-2018 15:46
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• “$PAC ACCEPTED HERE” $PAC – The Global Mass Use Crypto

  07-09-2018 15:30
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• Geneva celebrates Jeûne Genevois! Get a chance to get 40% OFF for BBConfSwiss!

  07-09-2018 15:18 via crypto-news.net
  On September 6, Geneva celebrates the common local holiday – Jeûne Genevois. Smile-Expo company joins to citizens of Canton of Geneva at the celebration and offers a discount on tickets to Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Switzerland!
  Only till September 13, use the promo code SwitzerlandBBC and get the special price for a ticket – 240 EUR!*the opportunity will be available only for one week.
  Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Switzerland will take place on O
  
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• Opera Wallet Users Can Now Send CryptoKitties and Other Collectibles

  07-09-2018 15:00
  Opera now allows users to send crypto collectibles, such as CryptoKitties, directly from its beta-stage in-browser crypto wallet.
  
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• Hong Kong Startup to Battle Revolving Credit with Asia’s First Crypto Visa Debit Cards

  07-09-2018 14:56
  Industry startup Crypto.com, formerly ‘Monaco’ before a rebrand, has revealed its plan to issue 100,000 Visa-powered cryptocurrency debit cards in Hong Kong and Singapore. The Hong Kong startup confirmed that it would pit its debit cards against the insecure revolving credit practiced by mainstream credit card issuers, as reported by the South China Morning Post.
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• Are Big Crypto Token Sales Really Over? At Republic Event, Many Think So

  07-09-2018 14:00
  At an event in New York on Thursday, crypto enthusiasts broadly agreed that the ICO, as it was during the hype cycle of 2017, is no more.
  
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• Thailand’s Blockchain Solar Power Producers Face Extra Fees to Offset State Utility Losses

  07-09-2018 13:52
  Blockchain-enabled independent power producers in Thailand pose such a threat to the state-run power generator and distributor that they will be required to pay extra in order to cushion the state utility from the disruption. According to Viraphol Jirapraditkul, a member of Thailand’s Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), new regulations are currently being drafted which will
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• Opportunities for Altcoins in a Bullish Run

  07-09-2018 13:11 via newsbtc.com
  Market trends, whether in stocks or crypto, tend to fluctuate a lot, and these fluctuations bring with them a lot of opportunities. In the cryptocurrency industry, investors stand to gain a lot during a bullish market trend and lose a lot when the market is experiencing a downward trend.
  An upward trend of price in any industry can be attributed to a rising GDP or a strengthening economy. But besides these core influencers, there are other factors that can promote a bull run in the cryptocurrenc
  
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• $6K Ahead? Bitcoin Price Plunges After Brief Recovery

  07-09-2018 13:00
  Bitcoin's short-lived corrective rally reinforces the bearish outlook put forward by the technical charts and indicates scope for a drop to $6,000.
  
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• Goldman Sachs CFO Calls Plans to Ditch Cryptocurrency “Fake News”

  07-09-2018 12:47
  Martin Chavez made his comments just a day after a report suggested his firm was scrapping its cryptocurrency desk
  
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• Australian Watchdog Will Monitor Crypto Exchanges, ICOs Under Market Rules

  07-09-2018 12:46
  Australia’s primary securities regulator is focusing efforts to keep a close eye on the cryptocurrency sector, including ICOs, as part its corporate action plan for 2018-19. Having stressed in April that it would keep an “open mind” to cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) domestically, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) pinned harmful threats … Continued
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• Bitcoin Dominance Hits 55% as Crypto Market Struggles to Recover Convincingly

  07-09-2018 12:05
  Subsequent to recording the steepest daily drop in valuation in recent years, the crypto market has struggled to rebound in a convincing manner, pushing the dominance index of Bitcoin further up. Throughout the past 24 hours, the dominance index of Bitcoin achieved 55 percent, its highest point since December of last year. As tokens lost … Continued
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• Wyre Acquires Bitcoin Smart Contract Derivatives Platform Hedgy

  07-09-2018 12:00
  E-payment startup Wyre has acquired bitcoin smart contract developer Hedgy to broaden the scope of its offerings.
  
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• Payments Startup Wyre Acquires Bitcoin Smart Contract Developer

  07-09-2018 12:00
  E-payment startup Wyre has acquired bitcoin smart contract developer Hedgy to broaden the scope of its offerings.
  
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• Origin Protocol Partners on New ERC 725 Alliance to Promote the Adoption of Blockchain-Based Identity Standard

  07-09-2018 11:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Origin Protocol, an open-source blockchain platform for creating peer-to-peer marketplaces has announced its role in the creation of the ERC 725 Alliance, an initiative aimed at increasing adoption of the identification standard across decentralized applications. This follows the launch of its decentralized messaging service last week. The ERC 725 is a new standard for managing […]
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• Crypto Giant Huboi Partners Singapore Trade Union to Promote Blockchain Skills

  07-09-2018 11:03
  Huobi Group has announced a partnership with Singapore’s National Trading Union Congress (NTUC) Learning Hub to launch a joint effort to promote blockchain education via a series of courses focused on the nuts and bolts of blockchain and distributed ledger technology. According to a press release shared with CCN, the joint venture aims to introduce
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• Australian Watchdog to Apply Market Rules to Crypto Exchanges

  07-09-2018 11:01
  Australia's securities regulator has said it plans to apply financial market rules to crypto exchanges and closely scrutinize ICOs.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Watch: BTC/USD Buyers Could Struggle Near $6,620

  07-09-2018 10:48 via newsbtc.com
  Key PointsBitcoin price slowly recovered after trading as low as $6,249 against the US Dollar.
  There is a bearish flag forming with current resistance at $6,600 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).
  The pair is likely to face heavy selling interest near the $6,600 and $6,620 resistance levels.Bitcoin price recovered above the $6,420 level against the US Dollar. However, BTC/USD buyers are likely to struggle near the $6,620 resistance zone.
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• Coinbase Explores a Crypto ETF with BlackRock

  07-09-2018 10:31
  Coinbase is reportedly in talks with BlackRock about the creation of a cryptocurrency ETF.
  
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• Shopping Assistant Elly Shows the Future of Smart Shopping with AI and Blockchain Solutions

  07-09-2018 10:29
  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. The Eligma startup was founded in late 2017 by a group of seasoned entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts, and boasts a number of high-profile industry advisors. It successfully finished
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• Fundstrat’s Lee: Virtually All Crypto Are Down 70% From ATH, Positive Signal

  07-09-2018 10:27 via newsbtc.com
  Following weeks of sustained positive price action, bulls finally ran out of steam on Wednesday, as prices throughout this budding market fell by upwards of 10% within hours. Altcoins unarguably had it bad, but a well-known analyst claims that the subset of crypto assets could potentially see a substantial boom in the coming months.
  Fundstrat’s Altcoin Correction Index
  As the market fell on Wednesday, the price of most small market crypto dropped like a knife. And unsurprisingly,
  
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• China's Supreme Court Recognizes Blockchain Evidence as Legally Binding

  07-09-2018 10:00
  Blockchain can now be legally used to authenticate evidence in legal disputes in China, according to a ruling from the country's Supreme Court.
  
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• Cardano Price Analysis: ADA/USD Recovery Could Be Capped Near $0.092

  07-09-2018 10:00 via newsbtc.com
  Key HighlightsADA price declined recently and broke the $0.1000 and $0.0920 support levels against the US Dollar (tethered).
  A recovery is under way inside an ascending channel with resistance at $0.0915 on the hourly chart of the ADA/USD pair (data feed via Bittrex).
  The pair could correct higher, but it may face sellers near $0.0920 or $0.0940 in the near term.Cardano price faced a solid selling interest recently against the US Dollar and Bitcoin. ADA/USD is correcting higher, but it could fac
  
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• Facebook’s Blockchain Group Grows–What Could the Hiring Spree Mean?

  07-09-2018 09:40
  The job posting is the sixth public opening for Facebook's growing blockchain group.
  
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• Malware Targeting Bitcoin ATMs Goes on Sale for US$25,000

  07-09-2018 09:28
  Regular bank ATMs have long been a target for criminals but now bad actors are turning their sights on Bitcoin ATMs as cryptocurrencies gain acceptance. According to Trend Micro security researchers, a malware targeting Bitcoin ATMs has been discovered in the underground markets. The Bitcoin ATM malware which is being sold at a price of
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