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 U.S.-based banking giants Citigroup and Goldman Sachs conducted the first equity swap on a new blockchain built using tools originally designed for Ethereum. Forbes reports that this was a…
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This week the total value of USD locked in DeFi platforms topped $1 billion and Ether price broke through a key resistance to rally to a new 2020 high. Altcoin price action has been the talk of the town for the past two weeks — and for good reason. Since the start of 2020, altcoins…
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Source: iStock/Sasha_Suzi Bitcoin (BTC) transaction fees are returning to low levels amid an increased adoption of the Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol on the network. “The majority of transactions now support SegWit, currently surpassing 55% on average. And while this marks a near 40% increase compared to the start of 2019, there is clearly more potential…
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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has expressed skepticism regarding top-10 digital currency BSV, claiming that the coin “offers nothing for Wikipedia.” Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has expressed skepticism regarding top-10 digital currency Bitcoin SV (BSV), claiming that the coin “offers nothing for Wikipedia.” Wales made his statement right after the team behind the CoinGeek London conference…
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After a strong rally this year, Ethereum Classic (ETC) is once again correcting its gains and is the worst-performing coin among the top 20 digital assets by market capitalization today and in the past week. Meanwhile, a parallel upgrade to fix the accepted one has been voted in. ETC has dropped 6% in the past…
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Swiss regulators are now adopting FATF directives from June 2019, which required to lower the threshold for unidentified crypto exchange transactions to just $1,000. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) passed an anti-money laundering provision on Feb. 7. Citing additional risk, the threshold for unidentified crypto exchange transactions is lowered from 5,000 CHF to…
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Some members in the crypto community take their interest in politics further than others and seem willing to bet money on the outcome of elections, a new product from crypto derivatives exchange FTX suggests. While keeping up with what happens with the most traded digital assets is enough for most, some seemingly can’t get enough…
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If the Cryptoverse is lucky, a new app could see billions of American rewards points converted into cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin (BTC). “The legacy payments infrastructure is ripe for disintermediation,” Jeff Sprecher, founder and CEO of Bakkt operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) told Fortune. “The Internet should make it possible to create a direct Read more…
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Hester Peirce. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Blockland Solutions An audacious proposal from the American Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC)’s so-called “crypto mom” Hester Peirce to end the nation’s initial coin offering (ICO) impasse could come to naught, warns a crypto lawyer. Peirce told attendees at a blockchain event earlier this week about plans to…
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Hot on the heels of surpassing the 500 million transaction milestone, Bitcoin daily confirmed transactions are soaring to levels not seen since September. Hot on the heels of surpassing the 500 million transaction milestone, Bitcoin (BTC)’s daily confirmed transactions (txs) are soaring too. The latest available data on Blockchain.com, for Feb. 6, indicates 315,370 daily…
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