In the midst of rising business shutdowns and unemployment rates in the U.S., which may lead to a nationwide, as well as a global recession, U.S. politicians voiced an idea of a "digital dollar". (Updated at 16:48 UTC: updates in bold). As a response to the growing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic and its massive…
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It has been 10 days since the market went for a dive, and the market sentiment situation has improved ever so slightly. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins by market capitalization, went up from last Monday’s score of 4.21 to today’s 4.33/10, according to crypto market sentiment…
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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related 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. _________________________________________ Binance Removed trading pairs: Ambrosus (AMB/BNB) Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with…
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The Hive blockchain, a hard fork of the Steem (STEEM) blockchain, has officially launched last Friday, as the new home for the Steem community, while the new coin has been listed by two exchanges so far. However, it’s yet to be seen if this will put a full stop on the Steem – Justin Sun…
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After a lengthy battle in the California court system, the Tezos Foundation has announced that it has settled a lawsuit outside of court, thus avoiding any legal scrutiny of the Tezos (XTZ) 2017 initial coin offering (ICO). However, while the parties have agreed on the settlement, it’s still up to a federal judge to approve…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Stablecoin news USD 2 million in DAI has been raised in the MakerDAO MKR debt auction. The debt auction was launched with a goal to reduce the multi-million dollar gap in…
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A South Korean crypto outfit has come up with an entrepreneurial response to the coronavirus pandemic – by setting up a face mask factory and offering customers discounts if they buy using the company’s native token. Per media outlet ZDNet Korea, Pandagram, which operates a crypto pay platform, has set up a mask production plant…
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In an expected counter-move to the Steem (STEEM) community’s move, which itself was a move to counter a move, Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation have allegedly decided to censor all posts on the platform related to the community’s soon-to-be launched new home, Hive. This has been a complicated battle between the two parties, yet…
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South Korea’s landmark Special Financial Transactions Information Act amendment was promulgated earlier this week, a fortnight after the country’s parliament voted unanimously in its favor. Although many industry players have been galvanized by it, others have warned that its stipulations – which will include stringent regulation of crypto exchanges – could force Read more »Pay,…
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Steem (STEEM), the social media-like blockchain platform launched in 2016, has seen a massive surge over the past two days, after it decided to evade a hostile takeover by Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation by moving the entire platform over to a new blockchain called Hive. The new blockchain is expected to be launched…
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