From Switzerland and Malta to North Korea and Iran: Overview of experimental crypto regulations around the globe. This is the final part of a three-part series covering the regulatory landscape for cryptos in 2019 and thinking about the prospects for 2020. The first two parts covered the “Insiders” of Europe, North America and the Pacific…
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Fans of Italian professional soccer club Juventus have used blockchain platform Socios to vote on Blur’s Song 2 as the official goal song at home games. Fans of Italian professional soccer club Juventus have used the Socios platform to vote on the song to be played when they score a goal in their home stadium.…
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Brian Armstrong. It will be as normal for the majority of tech startups to have a crypto component by the end of this new decade as it’s normal for the contemporary ones to use the internet and machine learning, says the CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Brian Armstrong. Cryptocurrency will be shifted from trading…
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We asked prominent crypto and blockchain actors how they would summarize the year 2019 for the industry. Alexander Zaidelson, CEO of Beam I think the year of 2019 was a year of big hopes for wider adoption and some disappointments. The Libra debacle was one of the big events that, in my view, influenced the…
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Launched in 2019, TaxBit’s tax reporting solution was built by not just developers but a team of CPAs, tax attorneys and software developers. TaxBit, a crypto-oriented tax compliance firm, has raised $5 million in a seed round that saw participation from the Winklevoss twins’ family office, Winklevoss Capital. In a Jan. 6 announcement, TaxBit said…
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Source: iStock/BrAt_PiKaChU Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. _________________________________________ Binance Added new trading pairs: ETH/EUR BTC/EUR Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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Instant messaging giant Telegram confirmed that its TON Wallet will not be integrated with their messenger service, prompting comments that this is a “massive blow to TON investors.” “At the time of the anticipated launch of the TON Blockchain, Telegram’s TON Wallet application is expected to be made available solely on a stand-alone basis,” the…
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Virginia’s state legislature looks to study blockchain technology in a bid to protect voter records and election results. In the United States, Virginia’s state legislature looks to study blockchain to improve elections and voting. Prefiled on Dec. 27 and scheduled for offering on Jan. 8, a new bill requesting further study into blockchain-based elections has…
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Bitcoin price is showing a lot of positive signs above the USD 7,350 and USD 7,400 resistance levels. Once BTC/USD settles above USD 7,550 and USD 7,650, it could set the stage for an upward move towards the USD 8,000 and USD 8,200. Besides, most major altcoins are gaining traction and rising with a bullish…
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Several altcoins have made their first move from longtime lows and if Bitcoin is able to confirm a bottom, a marketwide rally is likely to pick up steam. The price of an asset class is determined by its fundamentals and the sentiment towards it. At times of panic or exuberance, fundamentals take a back seat…
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