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• eToroX is Granted a DLT License from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission

  19-12-2018 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A subsidiary of the eToro Group has been granted a distributed ledger technology (DLT) license from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). eToroX, which was created by eToro, the social trading platform, is responsible for defining and executing eToro’s vision around the blockchain and the development of cryptoassets. eToro, which has over 10 million registered […]
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• The Herd and the HODLers: Recovering from Crypto’s Two-Year False Start

  19-12-2018 23:30
  Cryptocurrency industry observer David Nage thinks we're in the Friendster/Myspace error of blockchain, but that Facebook isn't too far away.
  
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• Nucleus Vision Launches Payments Solution for Merchants nCash Pay

  19-12-2018 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Blockchain startup Nucleus Vision has announced the launch of nCash Pay, a new crypto-based payments social for merchants powered by Nucleus Vision’s existing nCash token, the company said on Wednesday. nCash Pay enables online merchants to accept payments through nCash. The payments system can be integrated with any existing e-commerce platform via an API. nCash Pay […]
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• Bitcoin Exchange HBUS Continues Comedic Billboard Campaign

  19-12-2018 23:21
  HBUS, the exclusive US partner of massive Asian exchange Huobi, continued its funny billboard campaign this week with a new installment. The new billboard depicts an aged man and reads: Who says crypto is stressful? I’m 28 and I feel fine. It then encourages the viewer to enjoy stress-free trading at HBUS, which still has
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• Ledger to Accept Crypto Payments Following MoU With Hong Kong Startup

  19-12-2018 23:05 via cointelegraph.com
  Hardware wallet supplier Ledger signed an agreement with a Hong Kong-based crypto payment startup to allow its clients to pay for products with digital currencies
  
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• Bitcoin Sentiment Strong As Cryptocurrency Climbs 25% - Forbes

  19-12-2018 22:44 via forbes.com
  Bitcoin Sentiment Strong As Cryptocurrency Climbs 25%  ForbesBitcoin prices have bounced back recently, climbing more than 25% over roughly four days and showing that the sentiment surrounding the cryptocurrency can ...
  
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• Report: Bithumb Denies Accusations of Faking Trade Volume

  19-12-2018 22:35 via cointelegraph.com
  Crypto exchange Bithumb has denied accusations of faking trade volumes, stating that "Bithumb is doing nothing to inflate trading volume”
  
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• Veteran Commodities Trader Offers Bitcoin Price Warning

  19-12-2018 22:30 via newsbtc.com
  A veteran commodities trader who was responsible for one of the most accurate price calls in cryptocurrency history has spoken about where he believes the price is now heading. Peter Brandt correctly predicted that the speculative mania surrounding the Bitcoin price was over back in January and that the asset would lose 80% or more of its value.
  According to Brandt, the Bitcoin price has followed a well-established pattern this year. He also believes that the market is not finished bleeding
  
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• Bitcoin Price Rejects Doji as US Session Takes Charge, Rises 8%

  19-12-2018 22:21
  Bitcoin price on Tuesday was looking to correct lower after forming a Doji candlestick. But the US session somewhat saved the day. The Bitcoin/Dollar rate on Wednesday has extended its upside momentum, rising circa 8% on a 24-hour timeframe, according to CoinMarketCap.com. The pair today established a fresh intraday high towards 3927-fiat on Coinbase during
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• Take 2: News Startup Civil Announces Rebooted Token Sale for February

  19-12-2018 22:15
  After a failed token sale in October, ConsenSys startup Civil is launching an offering in February that incorporates lessons learned.
  
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• Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, EOS, Stellar, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Bitcoin SV, TRON, Cardano: Price Analysis, Dec. 19

  19-12-2018 21:47 via cointelegraph.com
  Mark Dow, a former IMF economist, recently tweeted that he covered his sort positions. How has recent news affected crypto markets? Let’s consult the charts
  
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• Daily Crypto Roundup 12/19/2018

  19-12-2018 21:42
  Today in the crypto world, bitcoin futures may have ruined bitcoin’s price, Venezuela reported toxic crypto propaganda, and bitcoin continued its upward price path. Reports also showed significant crypto pump-and-dump activity this year, as well as increased bitcoin over-the-counter (OTC) interest.
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  Did Mainstream Bitcoin Futures Crash BTC’s Price?
  Bitcoin’s all-time price high anniversary was just two days ago, seeing the asset at a fraction of its
  
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• $120 Million Raised by Waves Platform as Launch of Private Blockchain Nears

  19-12-2018 21:21
  Blockchain network Waves Platform has raised US$120 million in a funding round allowing it to roll out Vostok, a private blockchain platform and system integrator that was developed with public institutions and large enterprises in mind. The fundraising round was led by Dolfin, a financial services group based in London, and mostly involved private investors,
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• Coinbase to Pay Users to Try Crypto Assets - Fortune

  19-12-2018 21:05 via fortune.com
  Coinbase to Pay Users to Try Crypto Assets  FortuneUsers of the popular crypto exchange Coinbase can earn a few tokens of ZRX by watching videos and taking quizzes.
  
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• How One Project Is Going to Save Trees In Paraguay Via Blockchain

  19-12-2018 21:03 via cointelegraph.com
  A group of German entrepreneurs say blockchain could help stop deforestation on our planet. They aim to plant fast-growing eucalyptus trees in the vacant lands of Paraguay #SPONSORED
  
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• Zcoin Releases Academic Paper on Lelantus Protocol to Tackle Privacy Blockchain Issues

  19-12-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some of the challenges faced by privacy blockchains include scalability and useability. Yet, one privacy coin believes it has the answer to solving these with its new protocol. Zcoin, which in November had a Thai song added to its blockchain to fight censorship and government corruption, has released an academic paper for its Lelantus protocol. It is […]
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• OKEx Launches No-Expiry Bitcoin Derivative Product

  19-12-2018 21:00
  Crypto exchange OKEx has launched a new bitcoin derivative product called a "perpetual swap," that lets positions to be held indefinitely.
  
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• Bitcoin Surges Above $3,800 As Market Rally Continues

  19-12-2018 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  Following yesterday’s market surge, Bitcoin has continued to climb and is now looking to target $4,000 as its next point of resistance. Bitcoin’s bullish price action has led to a widespread market surge, with the overall crypto market cap climbing to $125 billion.
  At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading up 7.3% at its current price of $3,820, up significantly from yesterday’s lows of $3,500. Although Bitcoin was able to break through yesterday’s resistance level at $3
  
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• Interest in Blockchain Jobs Declines as Cryptocurrency Prices Take a Tumble

  19-12-2018 20:20
  The prices of cryptocurrencies and the interest in crypto-related jobs are highly correlated. This is the takeaway from data provided to CNBC by AngelList Talent, a recruitment firm focusing on startups. The data demonstrates that as cryptocurrency prices surged last year, the number of crypto-related job openings also swelled. But this year as cryptocurrency prices
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• BitMax.io Will be the World First Exchange to List CVN Tokens

  19-12-2018 20:05
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• Bad to Worse for Bitcoin Cash SV: “Satoshi’s Vision” Proves Unpopular

  19-12-2018 19:45 via newsbtc.com
  It is just over a month since the Bitcoin Cash hard fork that created the Bitcoin Cash SV and Bitcoin Cash ABC implementations and there is a already a very obvious front runner in terms of support. Posting some of biggest gains on an uncharacteristically green day was ABC at just over 33%.
  Meanwhile, the SV project led by the increasingly megalomanic Craig Wright managed just 13.5%. Thanks to some large gains elsewhere in the market, BCH SV now risks slipping into the relative obscurity of a po
  
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• French Parliament Refuses to Ease Taxation for Cryptocurrency Owners - Cointelegraph

  19-12-2018 19:37 via cointelegraph.com
  French Parliament Refuses to Ease Taxation for Cryptocurrency Owners  CointelegraphFrench Parliament has rejected most of crypto-related amendments to the 2019 finance bill which were expected to ease taxation.
  
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• French Parliament Refuses to Ease Taxation for Cryptocurrency Owners

  19-12-2018 19:34 via cointelegraph.com
  French Parliament has rejected most of crypto-related amendments to the 2019 finance bill which were expected to ease taxation
  
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• Belgian Authorities Add 14 Websites to Cryptocurrency Scam Blacklist - CCN

  19-12-2018 19:30 via ccn.com
  Belgian Authorities Add 14 Websites to Cryptocurrency Scam Blacklist  CCNBelgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has added 14 new websites to its growing list of websites flagged as cryptocurrency investment ...
  
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• Belgian Authorities Add 14 Websites to Cryptocurrency Scam Blacklist

  19-12-2018 19:28
  Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has added 14 new websites to its growing list of websites flagged as cryptocurrency investment scam platforms. The number of websites on the list now stands at 113 with the new additions as the regulator continues its ongoing effort to protect Belgian investors from the relatively new and
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• Security report highlights massive rise of cryptocurrency malware in 2018 - PC Gamer

  19-12-2018 19:20 via pcgamer.com
  Security report highlights massive rise of cryptocurrency malware in 2018  PC GamerIn what should come as a shock to absolutely no one, cryptocurrency malware skyrocketed in 2018. What is mildly surprising, however, is to what extent it ...
  
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• Coinbase Just Moved $5 Billion in Crypto to Prepare for Token Expansion

  19-12-2018 19:04
  Crypto exchange startup Coinbase just move a huge chunk of all the cryptocurrency in circulation.
  
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• ASX Reaffirms 2021 DLT Rollout After Blythe Masters Steps Down

  19-12-2018 19:00
  The Australian Securities Exchange will continue to work on its DLT-based settlement system despite the departure of of Blythe Masters, the former CEO of its partner Digital Asset.
  
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• ASX Reaffirms 2021 Blockchain Rollout Date After Blythe Masters Steps Down

  19-12-2018 19:00
  The Australian Securities Exchange will continue to work on its DLT-based settlement system despite the departure of of Blythe Masters, the former CEO of its partner Digital Asset.
  
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• Stratis Full Node Release Enables Blockchain Development with C# and .NET

  19-12-2018 18:58
  This is a sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. Enterprise blockchain company Stratis has announced the production release of its C# Full Node software. In a blog post published December 12, 2018, Stratis explained that the software’s codebase
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• Hong Kong Stock Market Regulator ‘Reluctant’ to Greenlight Bitmain IPO, Sources Report

  19-12-2018 18:27 via cointelegraph.com
  Hong Kong regulators think it is too “premature” to allow an IPO for Bitmain or other crypto businesses, say two anonymous sources cited by South China Morning Post
  
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• BTC Mining Difficulty to Decrease by 9.5%

  19-12-2018 18:24
  Meanwhile, the price of Bitcoin per day rose by more than 10%
  
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• Waves platform updates: Face ID, finger prints, new RIDE programming language

  19-12-2018 18:00
  Launched in the Spring of 2016, the blockchain-based Waves platform was developed under the guidance of its Moscow-based founder, Sasha Ivanov. The Waves project also raised $16 million through its initial coin offering (ICO), which was one of the highest amounts raised through the crowdfunding method at that time.
  Waves Wallet: ICO Hosting Services, Built-In DEX
  When first introduced, Waves’ development team primarily focused on providing ICO hosting services, as the platform allows users
  
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• TrustToken Says It Passed 3 Security Audits With No Bugs Found

  19-12-2018 18:00
  TrustToken says its tech has passed three independent security audits, while its stablecoin is now seeing trading volume over $1 billion a month.
  
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• Exclusive: TrueUSD Partners with Nexo to Provide Holders With Instant Loans on Cryptocurrency

  19-12-2018 18:00
  In all the huff and shuffle surrounding the several recent stablecoin offerings, even the most dutiful reader might have overlooked TrueUSD (TUSD). However, December has turned out to be an eventful month for the stablecoin, as they today announced that they are the first which has successfully passed three separate security audits. This means that
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• CoinList Launches Hackathon Series to Spur Crypto Product Launches

  19-12-2018 18:00
  Under its new "CoinList Build" brand, CoinList will be co-organizing hackathons with protocols that are looking to court developers.
  
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• Coinbase Has Dropped Its Bid to Trademark ‘BUIDL’

  19-12-2018 17:15
  Coinbase has withdrawn its trademark application for "BUIDL," a popular term used by some segments of the cryptocurrency community.
  
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• Qtum Awards $400K Grant to Columbia University Research Team for Smart Contracts R&D

  19-12-2018 17:12 via cointelegraph.com
  Qtum has awarded a $400,000 grant to academics at Columbia University to fund the development of a new programming language for Ethereum-style smart contracts
  
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• Bitcoin - Hold On - The Ride's Just Starting Part 2 - Seeking Alpha

  19-12-2018 17:11 via seekingalpha.com
  Bitcoin - Hold On - The Ride's Just Starting Part 2  Seeking AlphaBitcoin has hit the Buy Zone! Don't get caught up in the fundamentals of digital currencies, it's just a trade. 4 steps to huge returns, but keep exposure small.
  
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• Iranians Still Profiting From Bitcoin Mining Despite Market Crash and US Sanctions

  19-12-2018 17:02 via cointelegraph.com
  Iranian people turn to Bitcoin mining due to economic difficulties caused by U.S. sanctions and still manage to profit in the current market slump thanks to low power costs
  
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• Peter Thiel Invests in Cryptocurrency Firm Layer1

  19-12-2018 16:53
  The PayPal Co-Founder and other investors have injected $2.1 million into the investment firm
  
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• Greek Supreme Court Rules in Support of Extraditing Alleged Bitcoin Launderer Vinnik to France

  19-12-2018 16:23 via cointelegraph.com
  The Supreme Court of Greece has ruled in support of a decision to extradite the alleged former operator of now-defunct crypto exchange BTC-e to France
  
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• Did mainstream bitcoin futures crash BTC’s price?

  19-12-2018 16:13
  Last year around this time, bitcoin’s price hit its peak near $20,000. Bitcoin reached all-time price highs on the same day the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) launched its bitcoin futures. Coincidence? Evidence may show otherwise.
  Exact timing
  Popular YouTuber Cameron from Crypto Daily recently published a video correlating mainstream financial market bitcoin futures with bitcoin’s subsequent price collapse.
  According to coinmarketcap.com data, bitcoin hit its all-time price high
  
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• New Machine Learning Algorithm to Break Captcha Easy

  19-12-2018 16:09
  The GAN (generative-adversial network) based algorithm was developed by scientists from the UK and China
  
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• Researchers Find Thousands of Crypto Pump-and-Dump Groups on Messaging Apps

  19-12-2018 15:12 via cointelegraph.com
  A new research has identified 4,818 cryptocurrency pump-and-dump groups on popular messaging apps Telegram and Discord
  
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• Watch Lambos Battle for Crypto in This ‘War Riders’ Gameplay Trailer

  19-12-2018 15:00
  Cartified's new game lets feuding vehicles duke it out for ERC-20 tokens. And you can watch a preview here.
  
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• MultiChain Releases 2.0 Beta, Adds SAP and HCL as Partners

  19-12-2018 15:00
  Enterprise blockchain framework MultiChain is beefing up its partner list as it starts to roll out the next version of its software.
  
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• Interview: Garlam Won, A Journey From Comic Books To Cryptocurrency And Beyond - Forbes

  19-12-2018 15:00 via forbes.com
  Interview: Garlam Won, A Journey From Comic Books To Cryptocurrency And Beyond  ForbesGarlam Won is a little bit of everything, an entrepreneur, a speaker, an influencer and also Chief Blockchain Editor at Financial Street Media. We met up with him ...
  
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• Cryptocurrency prices recover - IOL

  19-12-2018 15:00 via iol.co.za
  Cryptocurrency prices recover  IOLThis is its first gain in three days but the third-largest cryptocurrency Ether has been stuck in a prolonged downward slump recently.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Up 9 Percent, Bulls Aim at $4,500

  19-12-2018 15:00 via newsbtc.com
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  After a damaging fall from Dec 2017 peaks, Bitcoin bulls are well positioned to recover and print above Nov 2018 highs all because of changing sentiments and bullish candlestick formation of the last three days. On the fundamental front, long-term Bitcoin bear and former International Monetary Fund economist, Mark Dow has closed his Bitcoin short trade according to a phone interview with Bloomberg. He had this to say:
  “I’m done. I don’t want to try to ride t
  
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