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. Adoption news The Venezuelan government will create a “crypto casino” in the Hotel Humbolt de Caracas in the country’s capital. Media outlet Criptonoticias reports that the only cryptocurrency Read more »Pay,…
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Seven days after the launch of bitcoin options contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the latest trading volume figures still indicate that CME completely dominates over its competitor Bakkt. According to trading data from CME, 122 bitcoin options contracts changed hands last Friday (January 17), when bitcoin (BTC) rallied. That marks more than a…
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Peter Schiff. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Real Vision Finance. A Bitcoin critic and a gold bug lost the ability to access a wallet holding his bitcoin (BTC), and it has once again raised a discussion on the oft-repeated adage: not your keys, not your coins. Peter Schiff, a prominent gold investor, CEO and chief…
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Australian micro-investment startup Raiz is said to have cleared all legal hurdles for the introduction of a Bitcoin-exposed investment product for retail users. Australian micro-investment startup Raiz is set to bring Bitcoin (BTC) fund options to its users, Australian Financial Review (AFR) reports on Jan. 20. The firm cleared the last legal hurdle with the…
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Indian Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked the National Informatics Centre to come up with blockchain solutions to improve government schools. The Indian Telecoms and IT Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, has tasked the National Informatics Centre (NIC) with developing a blockchain-based solution for improving the quality of government schools. According to a Jan. 20…
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Source: a screenshot, Instagram, eosio_official As the community is learning about Block.one’s change of plans about blockchain on which their anticipated decentralized social media platform, Voice is to be launched, the price of EOS doesn’t seem to be affected. The announcement in June 2019 clearly said that Voice will be launched on the EOS Public…
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The reverse of the coin. The Bank of Lithuania, the country’s central bank, has approved a physical sample of the LBCoin, a token that it claims will be the world’s first blockchain-powered digital commemorative coin. The bank says the token will be issued in spring this year. The coin is made of silver and will…
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Binance CEO and co-founder Changpeng Zhao suggested that, for most, keeping crypto assets on an exchange is safer than keeping the keys themselves. Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, suggested that for most, keeping crypto assets on an exchange is safer than keeping the keys themselves. Zhao gave his comments in…
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The annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is about to start — here’s what you should know ahead of the meeting. The annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is about to start. As usual, the forum will gather the world’s political and business elite, and will last from Jan. 21 to 24. Here’s…
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Let’s take a look at some of the key factors that helped spur the growth of the crypto market in 2019. During the first couple of months of 2019, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) stayed put under the $4,000 mark, thereby solidifying fears that the market was indeed in the midst of a long crypto…
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