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• Exclusive: New Report Reveals Details of Telegram’s TON Blockchain

  14-06-2019 23:49 via cointelegraph.com
  New research revealed to Cointelegraph reports details on TON, Telegram’s blockchain project
  
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• Crypterium Introduces Global Crypto Payments Card

  14-06-2019 23:30
  The card offers zero fees for bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin transactions.
  
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• Kik vs SEC – The Lawyers Speak

  14-06-2019 23:28
  The SEC's complaint against Kik, after it raised $100 million in an ICO, seemed pretty brutal, but not so fast, we're only hearing one side of the story. Watch more here as three lawyers discuss the case, its merits and its potential impacts for the crypto industry as a whole.
  
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• Indian Government in Dizzying Reversal Sponsors Free Crypto Course

  14-06-2019 23:00
  By CCN Markets: The Indian government continues to project a deep level of hypocrisy as it turns its attention to sponsoring a blockchain and cryptocurrency course. As CCN recently reported, the government is simultaneously proposing an insane anti-crypto bill with hard jail-time for bitcoin users. The undergraduate course, which is entitled Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases, is completely free unless you want a relatively inexpensive certificate. Cryptocurrency is hugely popular in I
  
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• Crypto Industry Leaders Demonstrate Commitment to Lawful Digital Currency Use to Europol

  14-06-2019 23:00 via newsbtc.com
  Representatives from some of the largest businesses in the crypto asset industry have attended a conference held by European law enforcement organization Europol this week. Wallet providers, exchange operators, and payment processors all attended the event to demonstrate their commitment to regulatory compliance.
  Also revealed at the conference was a video game style training unit. The idea behind this new tool of law enforcement is to give officers hands-on training tracking crypto assets as pa
  
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• Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey: I Hope Private Firms Will See the Value of Stateless Currency

  14-06-2019 22:36 via cointelegraph.com
  Founder of Twitter and Square Jack Dorsey explains goals for new crypto team in two interviews
  
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• Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Expounds on Planned Crypto Team

  14-06-2019 22:36 via cointelegraph.com
  Founder of Twitter and Square Jack Dorsey explains goals for new crypto team in two interviews
  
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• New CryptoCompare Research Assesses Top Performers Among Crypto Exchanges

  14-06-2019 22:15 via cointelegraph.com
  New research by CryptoCompare shows which crypto trading platforms perform best in terms of seven key metrics
  
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• Bitcoin’s First Full Market Cycle Ends With $3T Cap, $150K BTC, and Major Attack

  14-06-2019 22:01 via newsbtc.com
  Most people are keenly aware of Bitcoin’s potential, but until that potential is closer to being realized, nearly all of its value is derived from the masses speculating over its future value and use as a global currency. But it’s difficult to perfectly predict the future, and uncertainty around regulation, and future competition from the likes of Facebook and even other altcoins puts Bitcoin’s future as the sole crypto to rule them all in jeopardy.
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• Smart Contract Startup Tapped By Google As Blockchain Partner

  14-06-2019 22:00
  SmartContract.com, a middleware supplier that melds traditional computing tools with dApps, has partnered with Google to get big data onto the blockchain.
  
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• Red Robin Investor Eyes Beyond Meat’s Gains, Seeks Burger Joint Buyout

  14-06-2019 22:00
  By CCN Markets: For all the hype over Beyond Meat’s IPO and insane rising stock price, Red Robin, a good old-fashioned burger chain, soared roughly 30% on Thursday. One of its institutional investors would like to see the company sell itself. Buyout Offer Red Robin Gourmet Burgers received a letter from Vintage Capital demanding that the company consider selling itself to the private equity firm. Vintage Capital owns about 11% of Red Robin and thus carries considerable weight. Considering
  
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• Clearing Up the Crypto Confusion For US-Based Binance Traders of Altcoins

  14-06-2019 22:00 via newsbtc.com
  The crypto industry is in shock following news that Binance will be launching a US-based crypto exchange counterpart in the face of increased pressure from financial watchdogs, and moving forward with blocking US customers from visiting the current platform. Uncertainty surrounding which of Binance’s exotic altcoins will make its way to the stateside exchange has sparked a massive selloff across all crypto assets except for Bitcoin – which is rising in value as the altcoins are trade
  
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• Feeding Frenzy: Chewy Stock Explodes Amid IPO Market Mania

  14-06-2019 21:55
  By CCN Markets: Friday’s Chewy IPO was a feeding frenzy of investor enthusiasm for this summer’s latest hot new stock. The IPO is clearly not dead in 2019, despite the brutal debuts of Lyft and Uber, which were all bark and no bite. The tremendous showing of IPOs like CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Beyond Meat, and Chewy show that Wall Street is still hungry for promising new companies with husky business prospects. The online pet retailer’s total raise topped $1 billion. PetSmart’
  
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• Circle Will Sunset Its Circle Pay App To Concentrate on Cryptocurrency Projects - Digital Transactions

  14-06-2019 21:44
  Circle Will Sunset Its Circle Pay App To Concentrate on Cryptocurrency Projects  Digital TransactionsCircle Internet Financial Ltd. will cease supporting its 5-year-old Circle Pay mobile app beginning next month in order to concentrate on its blockchain and ...
  
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• Dow Pares Triple-Digit Loss Despite Chip Stock Meltdown

  14-06-2019 21:40
  By CCN Markets: The Dow and broader U.S. stock market limped into Friday’s close after disappointing financial results from a leading chipmaker highlighted the dangers of a prolonged trade war with China. Dow Pares Losses; Nasdaq Endures Tech Blowback All of Wall Street’s major indexes struggled out of the gate Friday, reflecting a weak pre-market for Dow futures. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 118 points before rebounding later in the day. By the end of trading, it was do
  
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• Facebook Cryptocurrency Could Be Good News for Bitcoin - Barron's

  14-06-2019 21:24
  Facebook Cryptocurrency Could Be Good News for Bitcoin  Barron'sFacebook's cryptocurrency is the innovation that no one is asking for. But it might just be the jolt that Bitcoin and other digital assets need.
  
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• What Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Push Means - Barron's

  14-06-2019 21:06
  What Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Push Means  Barron'sThere may not be any innovation in Facebook's cryptocurrency currency effort, but the sheer size of its audience will be bullish for big digital assets like Bitcoin.
  
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• Iceland’s Financial Regulator Approves Blockchain-Powered E-Money Firm

  14-06-2019 21:01 via cointelegraph.com
  Financial Supervisory Authority, the single financial regulator in Iceland, has approved the first DLT-based electronic money firm Monerium
  
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• Facebook’s GlobalCoin May Be A ‘Historic Initiative,’ Say RBC Analysts

  14-06-2019 21:00
  Analysts are bullish on Facebook's upcoming blockchain product.
  
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• According to the Company Aton, Cryptocurrency Gram will Cost $5.1 per Coin on Average - The Coin Shark

  14-06-2019 20:55
  According to the Company Aton, Cryptocurrency Gram will Cost $5.1 per Coin on Average  The Coin SharkExperts of the investment company Aton suggest that the Gram cryptocurrency, developed by employees of the Telegram messenger, will cost an average of.
  
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• BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC, BCH, EOS, BNB, BSV, XLM, ADA: Price Analysis 14/06

  14-06-2019 20:50 via cointelegraph.com
  Will altcoins resume the uptrend and follow Bitcoin higher? Let’s watch the charts
  
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• Crypto Twitter Calls Craig Wright Out on Satoshi Claim, Again

  14-06-2019 20:45
    By CCN Markets: Danny Knight, a Twitter user, posted a video of Craig Wright talking about when he first read about Bitcoin – in 2008. #faketoshi slipping up here like he always does: "I remember reading about it" Is not what you say when you wrote it…. Because he didn't#bitcoin pic.twitter.com/9meuIn6cQB — Danny Knight (@danny_knight) June 14, 2019 In the 15 second video, Wright talks about reading about Bitcoin for the first time. Bitcoin’s Several Futures The t
  
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• Judgment Day: Crypto-Shilling Church Pays Price for OneCoin Scam Link

  14-06-2019 20:34
  By CCN Markets: Judgment day has arrived for a Samoan church that New Zealand authorities say has damning links to the notorious OneCoin cryptocurrency scam. New Zealand, Samoa Target Church Over OneCoin Crypto Scam According to Radio New Zealand, New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs is investigating the Auckland branch of the Samoan Independent Seventh Day Adventist Church (SISDAC) over investments it made in OneCoin. SISDAC’s chief executive officer, Willie Papu, publi
  
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• Storecoin, with Backing from Ari Paul of BlockTower Launching Its Long-Awaited Milestone Token Sale

  14-06-2019 20:29
  Announcing the next Storecoin Milestone Token Offering planned for June 20th (MTO) Storecoin — a zero-fee payment and p2p cloud computing platform with early backing from Ari Paul of BlockTower, Anthony Pompliano, Matt Ocko, AlphaBit Fund, Ari Nazir of Neural Capital, and more — is launching its long-awaited Milestone Token Offering on Thursday, June 20th at 12 pm PT. This Regulation D and Regulation S securities offering aims to bring in over 500 new wallets and up to $4.97 Million
  
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• Austrian Steel Alukönigstahl Develops Blockchain-Based Steel Trading Database

  14-06-2019 20:08 via cointelegraph.com
  Alukönigstahl CEO Stefan Grüll is working on the business model for a blockchain-based steel trading database dubbed “STEEL but SMART”
  
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• Concerns Over Facebook Data Use Derailed at Least 3 Crypto Partnerships

  14-06-2019 20:05
  Philosophical disagreements with crypto experts have slowed the development of Facebook's GlobalCoin, sources say.
  
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• Bitcoin (BTC) on a Roll, Bulls Ecstatic After Italy’s New Tax Proposal

  14-06-2019 20:00 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin (BTC) expands, up 7.4 percent
  Capital flight from Italy could end up in BitcoinBy zeroing in and targeting personal saving accounts, Matteo Salvini, the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, is inadvertently advertising Bitcoin. Resilient and thriving with an unpopular decision, BTC bulls are back. Ending the week strongly, prices are up 7.4 percent from last week’s close.
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• Bitcoin Price Trending Higher as World’s Economic Order Derails

  14-06-2019 19:53 via newsbtc.com
  On the day the US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on more than $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, he unknowingly woke up a bullish trend in a completely unrelated market.
  Bitcoin, the world’s leading cryptocurrency, climbed more than 58 percent to hit $9,090 in May 2019, a month which parallelly saw US market’s benchmark indicator, the S&P 500 Index, falling by 6.58 percent — as concerns ascended over the worsening trade war between the US and China. At the same
  
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• New Data and Analysis on Crypto-Assets, Blockchain Enterprise Announcements, Various Cryptocurrency Hacks Reported - JD Supra

  14-06-2019 19:40
  New Data and Analysis on Crypto-Assets, Blockchain Enterprise Announcements, Various Cryptocurrency Hacks Reported  JD SupraNew Developments and Research on Crypto-Asset Market Activities - According to data from Bitcoinity, in May 2019, bitcoin trading volume on Coinbase, one of ...
  
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• UK Financial Watchdog Blacklists Clones of Two Major Financial Firms

  14-06-2019 19:28 via cointelegraph.com
  The British financial regulator, Financial Conduct Authority, has blacklisted two clones of financial firms, including one posing as Goldman Sachs
  
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• Dow Jones: Privacy Scandals Led to Facebook’s S&P 500 ESG Ouster

  14-06-2019 19:14
  S&P Dow Jones revealed the embarrassing reason it booted Facebook stock from the S&P 500 ESG Index. Facebook’s cornucopia of privacy scandals caused its ESG score to plunge to alarming levels. The same day that Dow Jones kicked FB out of the index, Mark Zuckerberg pledged to make Facebook a champion of privacy rights. By CCN Markets: It’s not clear which privacy snafu broke the camel’s back, but scandal-ridden Facebook stock now finds itself on the outside looking in at
  
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• Facebook set to introduce Libra cryptocurrency - Yahoo Finance

  14-06-2019 19:03
  Facebook set to introduce Libra cryptocurrency  Yahoo FinanceFacebook's debut into the world of cryptocurrency could be just days away. TechCrunch is reporting that the social media giant is expected to unveil Libra on ...
  
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• Jack Dorsey Expects Crypto, Blockchain to Be a ‘Secular Trend’ in Finance

  14-06-2019 19:00
  By CCN Markets: Jack Dorsey is all in on bitcoin. The tech entrepreneur, who is at the helm of both Twitter and Square, recognizes that cryptocurrency and the blockchain will become a “secular trend” in financial services going forward, according to an interview he did with Quartz in London. He doubled-down on his belief that there will be a “global currency for the internet,” and bitcoin remains the “strongest candidate” for the job. Dorsey likens the interne
  
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• ChainLink-Google Deal Is An Approval, Will the Ethereum Token Rally?

  14-06-2019 19:00 via newsbtc.com
  Link prices surge, up 38.4 percent
  The involvement of Google may cement ChainLink’s positionGoogle’s interest is enough to propel Link’s prices to new highs. Consequently, ChainLink may end up dominating the Oracle market. Thanks to yesterday’s announcement, Link is up 38.4 percent. However, this appears to be the early stages of a possible mega rally.
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• Launching a Project? How Choosing the Wrong Exchange can be Fatal

  14-06-2019 18:53
  REMCO describes why they decided to list their token on DigiFinex, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, and what dangers projects need to look out for. As the market comes back to life, listing activity on crypto exchanges has also picked up. But in the wake of recent scams and scandals, choosing the wrong crypto exchange can doom your project to failure. REMCO is the native utility token for a remittance platform with a substantial user base from its parent company. The REMCO project laun
  
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• Iceland’s Currency Will Be First in Europe to Be Traded as E-Money

  14-06-2019 18:30
  In a European first, the ConsenSys-backed Monerium has received approval to run fiat over a blockchain as a regulated form of payment.
  
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• Bitcoin Worth Over $8,400 as Most Top Altcoins See Losses

  14-06-2019 18:17 via cointelegraph.com
  Bitcoin crossed the $8,400 mark again after breaching it earlier today as most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day
  
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• US State of Nevada Passes Flurry of Blockchain Bills

  14-06-2019 18:00
  Nevada is becoming a blockchain powerhouse as it passes a suite of bills designed to promote blockchain adoption
  
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• Liquid CEO Explains the Gram Token Sale Is ‘Natural,’ Disputes Conspiratory Theories

  14-06-2019 18:00 via cointelegraph.com
  “Who has 200 million active users already?” Mike Kayamori of Liquid talks about the potential of the TON network as a DApps platform
  
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• Bitcoin Surges as Analyst Warns That Binance Triggered ‘Altcoin Winter’

  14-06-2019 17:56
    By CCN Markets: The bitcoin price climbed as high as $8,450 on Friday morning, lifting the flagship cryptocurrency to its highest mark since June 3. The trigger for that rally? Binance. The fallout? A punishing “altcoin winter” that could slaughter altcoin valuations while bitcoin continues to trend higher. Binance US Launch Could Trigger Brutal Altcoin Winter That’s the shocking analysis of crypto economist Alex Krüger, who warns that Binance’s decision to la
  
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• Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitfinex Announces a LEO Token Burn Initiative - Yahoo Finance

  14-06-2019 17:37
  Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitfinex Announces a LEO Token Burn Initiative  Yahoo FinanceCryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced a LEO burn initiative in a Medium post published on June 14. Per the announcement, the initiative will see the ...
  
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• Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitfinex Announces a LEO Token Burn Initiative - Cointelegraph

  14-06-2019 17:21
  Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitfinex Announces a LEO Token Burn Initiative  CointelegraphCryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announces a burn initiative for its utility token LEO.
  
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• Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitfinex Announces a LEO Token Burn Initiative

  14-06-2019 17:21 via cointelegraph.com
  Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announces a burn initiative for the utility token LEO alongside new “Transparency Dashboard”
  
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• GlobalCoin Crypto Among Facebook’s ‘Most Important’ Launches, Squeals Banker

  14-06-2019 17:09
  By CCN Markets: Analysts at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets predict that Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin, could be the company’s most significant achievement yet. In a message to investors, RBC managing director Mark Mahaney writes: “We believe this may prove to be one of the most important initiatives in the history of the company to unlock new engagement and revenue streams.” He goes on to say that himself and the rest of the RBC team suspect t
  
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• The Future of Trading in Dapps Games Is Here!

  14-06-2019 17:02
  The first Ethereum Wallet in the World supports users to trade items from Dapps Games for Ethers on a built-in NFT Market while chatting! NFT MARKET CHANGES IT ALL FOR ETHEREUM DAPPS GAMES ‘Dapps Games’ is not a new concept with most people that familiar with Blockchain technology. However, for so long, this type of games is meant to be for pros due to its complexity not in the game mechanisms, but in the storing and trading process of game characters. It takes a lot of steps to trad
  
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• Facebook’s Crypto Project Will Be A Milestone According to RBC

  14-06-2019 16:56 via cointelegraph.com
  Investment bank RBC Capital Markets believes that Facebook’s upcoming crypto project will be “one of the most important initiatives in the history of the company”
  
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• Facebook Secures Cryptocurrency Partners - InvestorsObserver

  14-06-2019 16:40
  Facebook Secures Cryptocurrency Partners  InvestorsObserverStocks are down at mid-day Friday, with the information technology sector down by more than 1%. Facebook (FB) is making headlines today on news that it has ...
  
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• Facebook Recruits Heavyweights Like Visa For its Crypto, Why Though?

  14-06-2019 16:30 via newsbtc.com
  Facebook has reportedly enlisted the help of industry heavyweights to support its up and coming crypto asset. This, it hopes, will answer concerns over privacy and centralization. The list of names includes Uber, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Booking.com. But, is this enough to convince an already skeptical marketplace?Differences between Facebook’s #GlobalCoin and #Bitcoinhttps://t.co/M5AR4naLh8
  — FinTechtris (@FinTechtris) June 6, 2019Facebook’s Crypto Asset Aims To Address C
  
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• Jack Dorsey Hints at How Square Crypto May Support Bitcoin’s Code

  14-06-2019 16:22
  Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed more details about the role Square Crypto might play in boosting bitcoin development.
  
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• Jack Dorsey Hints at How Square Crypto May Help With Bitcoin Development

  14-06-2019 16:22
  Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed more details about the role Square Crypto might play in boosting bitcoin development.
  
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