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• Huobi-Backed BHEX Launches Blue Helix Token (BHT)

  21-12-2018 23:30
  CCN spoke to James Ju, the CEO of the new Blue Helix Exchange (BHEX) and former CTO of Huobi Global. Blue Helix is an exchange which is pushing toward a decentralized topology in a regulator-friendly manner. They raised $15 million from institutional investors including Huobi and OKEx by selling equity about six months ago, and
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• Dash Finding Success by Targeting South America

  21-12-2018 23:00 via crypto-news.net
  Interest in cryptocurrency continues to grow in the developing world, with millions recognizing the opportunities offered by using blockchain assets. In South America, Dash is gaining a foothold, as many in the realm are seeking crypto alternatives to their unstable national fiats. This move is largely a result of the Dash team’s aggressive marketing and partnerships with South American businesses. Dash’s success is a model for what will likely be a wave of action by crypto teams see
  
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• Why This Billionaire Investor is Betting on a Project Bringing Bitcoin Payments to Starbucks

  21-12-2018 22:30 via newsbtc.com
  Billionaire investor and all-round cryptocurrency advocate Tim Draper has recently announced that he has invested in a Bitcoin payment processing platform. OpenNode aims to make it easier for regular companies to accept payments using Bitcoin.
  Draper backed the company through his own firm, Draper Associates, to the tune of $1.25 million. The long-time Bitcoin bull believes that the price of a single Bitcoin will be worth $250,000 in the next three to five years and initiatives aimed at adoption
  
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• US Lawmakers Seek Sanctions Against Iran’s Cryptocurrency Efforts - CoinDesk

  21-12-2018 22:30 via coindesk.com
  US Lawmakers Seek Sanctions Against Iran’s Cryptocurrency Efforts  CoinDeskA bill introduced this week in Congress takes a hard line on Iran's efforts to develop its own cryptocurrency. U.S. regulators have warned in recent months that ...
  
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• US Lawmakers Seek Sanctions Against Iran’s Cryptocurrency Efforts

  21-12-2018 22:30
  A bill introduced this week in Congress takes a hard line on Iran's efforts to develop its own sovereign cryptocurrency.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Uptrend Exhausts ahead of $4,500 Reclaim

  21-12-2018 22:00
  Bitcoin price on Friday corrected 5% from its intraday high at $4,172, hinting that the ongoing uptrend is close to exhaustion. The Bitcoin-to-Dollar pair found a compelling resistance area near $4,000 that reversed the breakout attempts on four separate occasions today. To the downside, the area near $3,880 provided similarly strong support to keep the
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• Daily Crypto Roundup 12/21/2018

  21-12-2018 21:43
  Action filled today’s headlines as Coinbase launched a new crypto education program, Facebook continued its path toward crypto involvement, and U.S. officials filed to amend securities laws in favor of crypto. Upbit exchange was also indicted for market manipulation and bitcoin’s price held steady after this week’s bullish movement.
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  Coinbase Launches Program To Educate New Crypto Users
  Coinbase recently launched a project called “Coi
  
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• Bitcoin Holds Above $4,000 As Upwards Momentum Stalls

  21-12-2018 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin has been able to hold above $4,000 following its recent upwards swing that sent it up nearly 30% from its recently established 2018 lows. Despite being able to hold above $4,000, Bitcoin’s upwards momentum was not able to sustain into Friday, and its recent rally has stalled.
  At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading down nearly 2% at its current price of $4,040, down from yesterday’s highs of approximately $4,200. Bitcoin appears to have established some support in the $4,0
  
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• How TRON Is Working Toward a Decentralized Internet and a Sustainable Cryptocurrency Model - Inc.

  21-12-2018 20:56 via inc.com
  How TRON Is Working Toward a Decentralized Internet and a Sustainable Cryptocurrency Model  Inc.Blockchain technology has been in the news a lot over the past few years. Most of these headlines center around the debate over whether bitcoin is a worthwhile ...
  
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• US To Provide Regulatory Clarity On Crypto: Token Recovery In Sight?

  21-12-2018 20:26
  According to a report released by Kate Rooney, a markets reporter at CNBC, two congressmen — Warren Davidson and Darren Soto — are preparing a bipartisan bill to exclude crypto from the country’s securities law. The bill, entitled “Token Taxonomy Act,” is set to be introduced to the House in the months to come in
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• Chinese Fintech Incubation Zone Officially Begins Operations in Guangdong Province

  21-12-2018 19:57 via cointelegraph.com
  In China’s Guangdong province, a fintech incubation zone has officially started its operations
  
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• Russian Finance Ministry Considers EAEU Digital Currency ‘Inevitable’ Due to US Sanctions

  21-12-2018 19:33 via cointelegraph.com
  Russia’s Ministry of Finance believes that creation of a single digital currency backed by Eurasian Union is inevitable due to U.S. sanctions
  
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• Bitcoin Price 2019: Industry Insiders Predict BTC’s Future

  21-12-2018 19:30 via newsbtc.com
  If you ignore all the fundamental and infrastructure developments of 2018 and focus on price alone, 2018 looks like one of the worst for the number one digital asset. The Bitcoin price began the year at close to $14,000, having just started to crash from its recently set all-time high.
  Fast forward twelve months and what many dismissed as nothing but a blip on the way to the proverbial “moon” has revealed itself to be a fully fledged bear market. Now, sitting at around $4,000 and at
  
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• Markets Break Streak of Green, Most Top Coins See Mild Corrections

  21-12-2018 19:25 via cointelegraph.com
  Crypto markets have broken their five-day streak of green, with many of the major crypto assets seeing mild corrections at press time, and Bitcoin circling $4,000
  
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• Spot is a cryptocurrency app to control all your wallets and exchange accounts - TechCrunch

  21-12-2018 19:14 via techcrunch.com
  Spot is a cryptocurrency app to control all your wallets and exchange accounts  TechCrunchMeet Spot, a beautifully designed mobile app to control your cryptocurrencies. Spot looks like a portfolio-tracking app. But the company has built a strong ...
  
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• German Railway Operator Examines Deploying Blockchain to Tokenize Its Ecosystem

  21-12-2018 19:08 via cointelegraph.com
  German railway operator Deutsche Bahn AG eyes tokenizing its assets, making a blockchain ecosystem to interact with other travel companies
  
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• Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, EOS, Litecoin, Bitcoin SV, TRON, Cardano: Price Analysis, Dec. 21

  21-12-2018 18:58 via cointelegraph.com
  As many analysts appear to have been off in their overly bullish market predictions for 2018, let’s see what traders should do now
  
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• UAE Finalizing ICO and Blockchain Regulations: Mid-2019 Target

  21-12-2018 18:55
  The United Arab Emirates regulatory body has approved ICO tokens as securities and a completed framework will be available in the small middle eastern country in the middle of next year, according to a report in local news outlet TheNational.ae. Not only has the Securities and Commodities Authority committed to having a full regulatory framework
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• Ethereum [ETH/USD] Technical Analysis: Bull continues to support the cryptocurrency - AMBCrypto News

  21-12-2018 18:36 via ambcrypto.com
  Ethereum [ETH/USD] Technical Analysis: Bull continues to support the cryptocurrency  AMBCrypto NewsThe market has entered the brighter side as all the cryptocurrencies have been covered in green for the past few days. This has raised the hopes of the investors ...
  
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• Analyst: 25% Recovery In Bitcoin Price Was A “Zombie Rally”

  21-12-2018 18:00 via newsbtc.com
  Over the past week, as the holiday season has drawn ever nearer, Bitcoin (BTC) and its crypto asset brethren have started to see a drastic uptick in buying pressure. Within a week’s time, BTC, which found a year-to-date low at ~$3150 last week, has recovered to the $4,000-$4,100 range. Many commentators and market analysts have stated that this double-digit surge, backed by multi-month volume highs, could trigger a bull run. Yet, one analyst says that crypto isn’t ready.
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• Grin and Beam: A Tale of Two Coins Being Built on Mimblewimble

  21-12-2018 17:55
  Mimblewimble is about to go live – not in one, but in two new cryptocurrency implementations.
  
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• Mining ASIC Producer Ebang Reports ‘Significant’ Q3 Revenue Decrease in New IPO Filing

  21-12-2018 17:51 via cointelegraph.com
  Ebang, a cryptocurrency mining producer, reportedly suffered “significant decreases” in revenue from July to September
  
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• Mining ASIC Producer Ebang Reports ‘Significant Decreases’ in Revenue From July-September

  21-12-2018 17:51 via cointelegraph.com
  Ebang, a cryptocurrency mining producer, reportedly suffered “significant decreases” in revenue from July to September
  
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• NEO's Quiet Innovations Could Culminate In A 2019 Surge - Seeking Alpha

  21-12-2018 17:45 via seekingalpha.com
  NEO's Quiet Innovations Could Culminate In A 2019 Surge  Seeking AlphaIt's been a tough year for cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin (BTC-USD), the bellwether of this nascent industry, has seen its price drop by over 80% since its peak in ...
  
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• This Week in Cryptocurrency: December 21, 2018 - CoinCentral

  21-12-2018 17:22 via coincentral.com
  This Week in Cryptocurrency: December 21, 2018  CoinCentralThis week in crypto: Atari kicks it new-school, a couple Congressman push pro-crypto legislation, and the market booms. Read about it in our weekly roundup.
  
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• ‘It’s Not Surprising’ the Market Is Recovering Says Coinbase President Asiff Hirji

  21-12-2018 17:22
  Not the Christmas run we expected, but bitcoin has continued to rise, despite a bearish run that saw prices crash from $5,000 to an all-time low of $3,200. Asiff Hirji President of U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase said the current recovery is not surprising and the run should continue into the next year. Speaking with CNBC’s
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• United Arab Emirates Will Introduce ICO Regulation in First Half of 2019, Regulator Notes

  21-12-2018 17:01 via cointelegraph.com
  In the first half of the next year, ICO regulation will be introduced by the Securities and Commodities Authority of the United Arab Emirates
  
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• Bermuda Financial Regulator Releases Draft Regulation for Crypto Custodial Services

  21-12-2018 16:56 via cointelegraph.com
  Bermuda’s financial watchdog BMA has released a draft code of practice for crypto custodial services
  
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• Tom Lee Don’t Want to Predict BTC Price Again

  21-12-2018 16:45
  The loudest unfulfilled analyst forecast concerned the May conference of Consensus, after which, in his opinion, the price of BTC should have reached $ 15k
  
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• SEC’s Securities Definition May be Changed

  21-12-2018 16:23
  Cryptocurrency can be excluded from 72 years old securities definition
  
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• How Bakkt Could Affect the Bitcoin Price Unlike Existing Futures Markets

  21-12-2018 16:02
  Bakkt, a Bitcoin futures market operated by ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is close to receiving a green light from the U.S. government. As CCN reported on December 21, Bakkt has been working with the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to have its business plan approved, which revolves
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• Number of Crypto ATMs Steadily Growing Amid ‘Crypto Winter,’ Data Shows

  21-12-2018 16:01 via cointelegraph.com
  In November, 209 new crypto ATMs were installed and 68 more closed, showing how the industry is steadily developing amid the market decline
  
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• Coinbase launches program to educate new crypto users

  21-12-2018 16:00
  Coinbase recently announced their intention to help educate the public about cryptocurrency. Through the Coinbase Earn program, users will receive crypto assets to help them learn.
  Coinbase Earn
  In a blog release yesterday, Coinbase announced t the new program. The program aims to reward new crypto users by paying them small amounts of cryptocurrencies to complete educational tasks like videos and quiz questions.
  The idea is for users to understand more about an asset’s utility and its und
  
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• Civil-Backed News Site Stores Full Article on Ethereum Blockchain

  21-12-2018 16:00
  Journalist-owned news site Popula has stored an entire U.S. news article on the ethereum blockchain, permanently archiving the story.
  
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• Civil-Backed News Site Archives Article on Ethereum Blockchain

  21-12-2018 16:00
  Journalist-owned news site Popula has stored an entire U.S. news article on the ethereum blockchain, permanently archiving the story.
  
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• Bitcoin Rally Shouldn’t Excite the Bulls Yet, Trend Still Bearish

  21-12-2018 15:41 via newsbtc.com
  The Bitcoin price appears to have bottomed out near the $3,000-level after falling more than 80% this year. The digital currency at press time is trading above $4,000, up over 30% within just a week. It is clear that traders interested in the long-term aspect of Bitcoin have bought the dip. As a result, in the last five days, Bitcoin is creating new higher highs with volume increasing on each subsequent leg.
  Historical ReboundsNevertheless, if one tries to look the empty side of the glass, the c
  
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• Tiny Artwork Sold in Micro Crypto Auction for Lowest Bid of 1 Millisatoshi

  21-12-2018 15:34 via cointelegraph.com
  Crypto artist “cryptograffiti” has sold a tiny artwork in a “micro auction” in a bid to promote Lightning Network (LN) micropayments
  
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• Coinbase CEO First Crypto Entrepreneur to Join Buffet-Founded Billionaire Charity Pledge

  21-12-2018 15:16 via cointelegraph.com
  Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong becomes the first crypto entrepreneur to join billionaire-backed charity program The Giving Pledge founded by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates
  
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• Facebook will reportedly use cryptocurrency for transferring money through WhatsApp - CNBC

  21-12-2018 15:10 via cnbc.com
  Facebook will reportedly use cryptocurrency for transferring money through WhatsApp  CNBCFacebook is developing a way to use cryptocurrency to transfer money on WhatsApp messenger in India, Bloomberg reports.
  
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• Facebook Developing Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers Amidst Another Privacy Scandal

  21-12-2018 15:10
  According to sources, Facebook is developing a cryptocurrency that would enable money transfers to be done through its messaging app WhatsApp. As stated in the publication by Bloomberg, the company is working on a stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar to minimize volatility. Unfortunately for Facebook, the wave of exposed privacy breaches and violations that
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• Facebook makes significant moves towards crypto

  21-12-2018 15:04
  The tech and data giant Facebook has had a relatively quiet an inconsistent relationship with blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the past. But now we are seeing some serious step being taken by the company to incorporate this technology. The main indicators are the new positions on the Facebook team and Coinbase’s David Marcus resigning and sticking as Facebook’s head of blockchain.
  Recently, the following spaces have been filled on the Facebook team:Data Scientist, Blockchain
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• A Cryptocurrency Carol: Bitcoin's Ghost - Forbes

  21-12-2018 14:51 via forbes.com
  A Cryptocurrency Carol: Bitcoin's Ghost  ForbesThis story builds upon Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and provides a modern take on the tale. This part continues from A Cryptocurrency Carol: Part One.
  
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• Blockchain Will Be Brought Onto Satellites by Cryptocurrency Exchange to Help Adoption in Developing Countries - newsBTC

  21-12-2018 14:45 via newsbtc.com
  Blockchain Will Be Brought Onto Satellites by Cryptocurrency Exchange to Help Adoption in Developing Countries  newsBTCA new cryptocurrency exchange has partnered with a satellites operator to give blockchain access to people without the internet in developing countries.
  
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• Blockchain Will Be Brought Onto Satellites by Cryptocurrency Exchange to Help Adoption in Developing Countries

  21-12-2018 14:45 via newsbtc.com
  A new cryptocurrency exchange has partnered with a satellite operator to give blockchain access to people without the internet in developing countries.
  Supreme Global Holdings (SGH) has launched a new cryptocurrency exchange, SupremeCrypX and is partnering it with its satellite operator company SupremeSAT. The objective of this partnership is to provide access to cryptocurrencies — and the ability to mine them — to people without access to the internet.
  SupremeSAT is the first and on
  
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• South Korea Regulators Indict Three Upbit Employees for Alleged Trade Volume Manipulation

  21-12-2018 14:25 via cointelegraph.com
  No manipulation here, says exchange Upbit after South Korean authorities issue indictment against three employees
  
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• Coinbase CEO Armstrong Pledges to Give Crypto Wealth to Charitable Causes

  21-12-2018 14:15
  Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has joined other super-wealthy individuals in pledging to donate much of his net-worth to philanthropic causes.
  
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• Wall Street Journal Suggests ‘Quick Sale, Repurchase’ of Bitcoin ‘May Lower Your Taxes’

  21-12-2018 14:13 via cointelegraph.com
  An article from The Wall Street Journal has suggested investors should sell and then repurchase their Bitcoin (BTC) as a strategy to save on taxes
  
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• Ebang to Report Significant Profit Drop in New IPO Filing

  21-12-2018 14:08
  In the first half of 2018, Ebang received $ 304 million in profit, which is 8 times more than the numbers for the same period of 2017
  
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• South Korean Bitcoin Exchange Upbit Denies Fraud Allegations as Executives are Formally Charged

  21-12-2018 14:07
  South Korea’s top financial regulator has formally filed fraud charges against executives of one of the Asian country’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges. Three senior executives of Upbit including the founder Song Chi-Hyung were charged with making fraudulent transactions between September and December last year by prosecutors in Seoul, according to nocutnews. Specifically, the senior Upbit executives … Continued
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• Chilean Banks Urge Anti-Monopoly Court to Revoke Decision Protecting Crypto Exchanges

  21-12-2018 14:05 via cointelegraph.com
  Two major Chilean banks have applied to the anti-monopoly court in order to cancel its decision protecting crypto exchanges
  
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