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. Cryptocurrency news A South Korean blockchain authentication solution developed by a private company will be adopted by the nation’s military, reports Newsis. A RaonSecure-created decentralized ID Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy…
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Should interest in spot trading wanes, this year will see crypto derivatives rising, with futures and options contracts taking a larger market share, estimates TokenInsight, a token data and rating agency. Also, competition for institutional clients might force exchanges to lower fees, they added. In 2019, the volume of OKEx futures was 2.24 times the…
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Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of cloud-based messenger Telegram, says that Apple’s cloud service iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool.” Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of major encrypted messenger Telegram, argues that Apple’s cloud service iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool.” Citing a Jan. 21 Reuters report, Durov claimed that applications like WhatsApp…
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Blockchain industry participants in Davos believe that digital tokens could transform the world of business and art – providing the capacity to “break down an Andy Warhol painting into a million different tokens.” The industry professionals were speaking at a session entitled “From Token Assets to a Token Economy,” held at the annual World Economic…
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Around 6 to 8 million Venezuelans were airdropped half a Petro each by the government, with many trying to sell it for half the official price. Venezuelans are reportedly selling the state-launched Petro (PTR) cryptocurrency that was airdropped to them recently. Though the government claims to have fixed the value of one PTR at $60,…
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Traders are taking a break after the most recent volatility which suggests that most major cryptocurrencies will remain range-bound for the next few days. Recently Hiromi Yamaoka, the former head of payments and settlements at the Bank of Japan, said that Facebook’s Libra has forced central banks to research and consider issuing central bank digital…
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After testing the USD 8,550 support, bitcoin price started a decent increase. BTC/USD traded above USD 8,650 and USD 8,700, but it must climb above the USD 8,850 resistance level to continue higher. The next key hurdles are near USD 9,150 and USD 9,250. Similarly, most major altcoins are slowly rising towards major resistances, including…
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After a significant change in the major crypto exchange Binance’s whitepaper resurfaced, it raised numerous questions regarding transparency and accountability within the crypto industry, which is now lost in speculations, while Binance does not provide clear answers. As reported last year, in April 2019, Binance made a change to its original whitepaper and published Read…
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Compared to traditional cloud servers, decentralized solutions for data storage claim to be secure, private and efficient, but can they address the scalability issue? Cloud servers are able to keep a full record of our lives, storing literally everything from personal photos and videos from our smartphones to work documents. At first glance, this solution…
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Venezuela is in talks with Cuba about using the Petro, the former’s state-issued, oil-backed cryptocurrency, in bilateral payments including trade deals. Per the Venezuelan state-run newspaper Correo del Orinoco, the two nations talked on the matter of cryptocurrencies at their most recent intergovernmental summit, held in the Casa Amarilla in Caracas last week. Read more…
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