Coinfloor CEO Obi Nwosu, courtesy of GBC News/YouTube 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. Listings news Coinfloor, Britain’s longest-running crypto exchange, will delist Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash in January 2020, and says it will focus exclusively on…
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American mutual fund giant Fidelity is set to expand into Europe with a new UK-based branch. Per an official announcement, the company’s crypto arm, Fidelity Digital Assets, will begin operating in Europe. Fidelity will also launch a new entity that will serve European institutions that invest in digital assets. The new arm will be based…
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A lack of support that began at the start of the week translated into more serious losses on Tuesday, with cryptocurrencies shedding significant value. Bitcoin (BTC) fell further below $7,000 on Dec. 17 after a loss of support the previous day caused bears to strengthen their grip on the market. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source:…
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Security tokens platform TokenSoft hired former U.S. SEC Senior Counsel as its chief legal officer to work on the firm’s regulatory compliance. Security token platform TokenSoft has hired Alex C. Levine, formerly of several key United States financial regulators, to handle compliance for all security offerings. In a Dec. 17 press release, the San Francisco-based…
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Amung AG, a Switzerland-based digital asset investment company, known for its exchange-traded products (ETPs), plans to list them on at least two new European regulated exchanges, and believes that the trading volume will come from retail investors. Today, the exchange-traded products issuer lists cryptoasset investment products on the SIX Swiss Exchange, BX Swiss and Read…
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Fidelity Digital Assets announces expansion, launching its services in Europe with registration in the U.K. Fidelity Investments’ cryptocurrency branch Fidelity Digital Assets is expanding to the United Kingdom. “We plan to provide our services to European institutional investors through our U.K.-registered entity, Fidelity Digital Assets, Ltd,” a Fidelity Digital Assets representative told Cointelegraph on Dec.…
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Recent research from the European Central Bank showed that it is possible to develop a central bank digital currency payment system that protects user privacy. Recent research by the European Central Bank (ECB) claims that it is possible to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) payment system that protects user privacy. Per the report…
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When it comes to making crypto predictions for 2020, Ryan Selkis, CEO of crypto researcher Messari has written the book on the subject – literally. His 71-page Crypto Theses for 2020 is quite a tome, and would take hours to read in full – which is why we’ve read it for you, and sifted out…
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ISIS experiments with blockchain-based messaging app BCM to share videos and propaganda after being banned from Telegram. Terrorist organization ISIS has turned to blockchain technology to anonymously spread videos and propaganda to thousands of people worldwide. A Vice report on Dec. 13th noted that experts who track ISIS’s activities online have found that supporters of…
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As mistakes do ‘happen,’ Ethereum (ETH) is now forced to have another hard fork in January, less than a month after the Istanbul upgrade. During the Istanbul update earlier this month, the developers have made a mistake in estimating when the feature known as the difficulty bomb which slows down blocks, aka Ice Age, would…
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