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 Brave, the first decentralized browser based on blockchain technology that lets users earn tokens (BAT) as they browse, said they went from 8.7 million monthly active users in October…
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A screenshot of the popular conspiracy GIF. Millions in the world’s most popular cryptocurrency have been moved from one wallet to the next today, and the Cryptoworld wants to know why. In the last 24 hours quite a few large Bitcoin (BTC) transactions have been spotted by the crypto tracking Twitter account Whale Alert. First…
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After a fresh bearish wave, bitcoin price found support near the USD 7,100 area. BTC/USD is currently rising (10:30 UTC) and trading above USD 7,250 and USD 7,350. However, the price needs to gain bullish momentum above USD 7,400 to continue higher in the near term. Moreover, it seems like most major altcoins are recovering…
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Week-to-date, Huobi Token (HT), the ecosystem token of the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, Huobi Global, is up almost 4%, outperforming the rest of the top 20 digital assets by market capitalization. At pixel time (12:13 AM UTC), HT trades at c. USD 2.82 and is down by 1.5% in the past 24 hours, trimming its weekly…
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Ripple has filed a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging that it held an unregistered securities offering of XRP tokens. Ripple has filed a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging that it held an unregistered securities sale of its XRP tokens. In court documents filed on Dec. 4, Ripple argues that the plaintiffs’…
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XRP is the best-performing top 10 coin today. This coincided with Ripple’s recent court filing and statement that, even if XRP were a security, the plaintiffs still brought the case against the company too late. At the time of writing (9:19 UTC), XRP is one of only four green coins among the top 10 coins…
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Sean Neville is preparing to work on the company’s board of directors from the end of December, according to a media report amid the sale of Poloniex exchange. Payments company Circle will install a new CEO at the start of 2020 after one of its original co-founders steps down from the position. According to cryptocurrency…
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Brave’s daily active users have tripled in 2019 to reach 3.3 million, while the number of verified publishers recorded a 12x increase. Privacy-oriented blockchain web browser Brave has seen its monthly active users (MAU) almost double from 5.5 million in 2018 to 10.4 million in 2019. At the same time, Brave’s daily active users (DAU)…
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Thai police have busted an alleged Bitcoin scam trading scheme in Bangkok, arresting 24 Chinese nationals and seizing hardware. Thai immigration officials have arrested 24 Chinese nationals who were running an alleged cryptocurrency scam call center in the Rama III neighborhood of Bangkok. According to an official announcement on Dec. 2, the Immigration Bureau of…
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Source: iStock/杨培培 The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has issued some USD 2.8 billion worth of blockchain-issued financial bonds to small business loans in China. Per reports from Xinhua and Naeil Shinmun, the central bank says that it used its “own independently developed blockchain bond issuance system” to issue the bonds on December 3. The…
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