The Central Bank of the Bahamas plans to adopt the Bahamian digital dollar pilot in the second half of 2020. While major industry actors argue that central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are years or decades ahead, the Bahamas plan to adopt a CBDC no later than 2020. John Rolle, the governor of the Central Bank…
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The arrest of a Cryptoverse resident has brought to the surface yet again the questions of both the legality and the future of coin mixers, as well as the responsibilities of their developers. As reported yesterday, Larry Harmon of Akron Ohio, the CEO of Bitcoin media site Coin Ninja and founder of crypto wallet provider…
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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. Exchanges news Bitcoin Futures’ Open Interest (OI), the number of open futures contracts and an indicator of amount of capital entering the space, on the Intercontinental Exchange-backed Bakkt Read more »Pay,…
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“Serious resistance” should trigger above $400 as General Strength Indicator suggests Ether is at its most overbought since May 2019. Ether (ETH) price could continue its gains to hit $440 before resistance kicks in, one analyst has told mainstream media. Speaking to Bloomberg on Feb. 14, Edward Moya, senior market analyst at online forex broker…
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Tron partners with Steemit, a major blockchain-based blogging and social networking website that will be moving to Tron’s network. The Tron Foundation, a cryptocurrency firm that is known for hyping its long ledger of partnerships, appears to have entered a particularly important one today. The maintainer of major cryptocurrency Tron (TRX) has just partnered with…
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Blockchain by Figure. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Figure Silicon Valley-based financial services startup Figure has launched a bid to make distributed ledger technology more approachable – by creating a crypto-themed mascot that its masterminds hope will dispel public fears about blockchain technology. This is “Blockchain,” an anamorphic, talking, walking, wisecracking stack of Read more…
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Despite the ongoing uncertainty toward crypto regulation in India, major global crypto exchange OKEx has just made another push in the country’s market. Despite ongoing uncertainty regarding cryptocurrency regulation in India, major global crypto exchange OKEx has just made another push in the country’s market. On Feb. 14, OKEx partnered with India’s largest cryptocurrency trading…
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CEO of Overstock has issued a statement supporting blockchain in voting in response to the technology’s recently published vulnerabilities claims. Jonathan Johnson, CEO of Overstock and president of Medici Ventures, has issued a statement supporting blockchain in voting in response to the technology’s vulnerabilities claims published on Feb. 13. Emerging technologies got in the crosshairs…
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Nasdaq is among the shareholders of Fnality. Fnality International, a technology firm founded in 2019, with fifteen major financial firms, including ING, Nasdaq, UBS, Barclays, as shareholders, aims to roll out its payment system this year, launching the first ‘version’ of its USC token. As previously reported, Fnality was estimated to become operational in 2020,…
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Black Americans are more interested in cryptocurrencies than white people in the United States, say the authors of a new survey. The findings come in a report published by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The survey, carried out in conjunction with British ad-tech firm Qriously in January 2020, asked 5,126 respondents aged 18 and above in the…
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