Jack Dorsey. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, has launched a scathing attack on rival social media platform Facebook’s Libra plans. Dorsey was speaking at a Twitter event held in New York, and was asked about the possibility of Twitter joining the Libra Association – with Facebook representatives in attendance. Dorsey did not pull any…
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Yesterday, bitcoin price broke a crucial support area near the USD 8,200 and USD 8,000 levels. It opened the doors for more downsides and BTC/USD crashed below the USD 7,850 and USD 7,650 support area. The price is down more than 8% in the past three sessions and it is now trading below the USD…
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Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has authorized Petro-to-fiat trading, and says his government will provide the necessary technology to all business holders in the country who want to start accepting crypto pay. Maduro stated that his move – effective as of October 23 – would allow the “three million” Venezuelans with Petro holdings to convert their…
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Mark Zuckerberg during the hearing on October 23. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of social media giant Facebook, swore that the Libra Association is an independent organization and that Facebook would leave this project if it decided to launch the Libra token without the regulatory approval of all U.S. financial…
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Mark Zuckerberg. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, CNBC Television Facebook’s statements often, intentionally or not, make people either confused about the company’s plans, or make them wonder if the company has clear plans at all. This time around, speaking about Libra token, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made somewhat contradicting statements about monetary policy, while some other…
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Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Ripple Ripple came out with a new ad promoting global and instant payments. However, this time, the company does not make fun of the current global financial system. A California-based crypto start-up focusing on payments technologies, is back with another “new brand awareness campaign,” as their Twitter post says, which…
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Below is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. ______________________________ AEX Listings: BOOM BBX Listings: LINK Binance DEX Listings: NEXO Bithumb Global Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world. Corporcoins news Vladimir Putin’s IT advisor Dmitry Peskov has stated that Russia will block Facebook and Telegram if their Libra and Gram tokens “run out of control,” and suggested…
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Facebook has revealed that it has an alternative to its proposed Libra token – multiple stablecoins, all pegged to a national fiat. And it’s a scenario that could well put the social networking platform on a collision course with Binance’s Venus project. (Updated at 11:25 UTC: updates in bold). Per Reuters, Facebook’s blockchain chief David…
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The CEO of Ripple, a California-based blockchain startup focusing on payment technologies, Brad Garlinghouse, had three interesting statements to share in a recent interview: the amount of cash Ripple has in the bank, the number of deals it makes a week, and the CEO’s opinion on Facebook’s Libra. At the annual subscriber summit, held by…
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