Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Central Bank of Russia. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Bank of Russia 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. Regulations news Russia’s Central Bank has said it is ready to test stablecoins in…
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Brokerage Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings has agreed to invest USD 4.6 million in Huobi’s Tokyo-based subsidiary Huobi Japan. Per a press release shared with Cryptonews.com, Huobi Japan CEO Haiteng Chen claimed that Tokai Tokyo’s decision to invest represented “greater mainstream recognition.” Chen stated, “Tokai Tokyo is a comprehensive securities firm, which Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin…
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The MetaMask team is allegedly not getting the support it needs from its parent company ConsenSys, a Redditor claims. A contributor of major Ethereum browser extension Metamask has reported that the MetaMask team is “totally overwhelmed” and not being prioritized by its parent company ConsenSys. In a Dec. 25 Reddit post, Reddit user lazaridiscom3 alleges…
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Source: iStock/Viktor_Gladkov There isn’t enough data for us to know for sure or predict with any certainty how Bitcoin (BTC) will behave before or after the mining reward halving, so there’s no room for stress, panic or wild predictions. The next BTC halving is the talk of the town, and it is safe to expect…
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Russia’s central bank, The Bank of Russia, has reportedly started testing stablecoins pegged to real assets in a regulatory sandbox. The Bank of Russia, the country’s central bank, has reportedly started testing stablecoins pegged to real assets in a regulatory sandbox. Elvira Nabiullina, Russia’s central bank head, said that the bank doesn’t assume that those…
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Commentators worried after three giant token transfers sent over 200,000 ETH to three major exchanges on Christmas Day. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin became the center of attention on Christmas Day amid fears he plans to sell $25 million of the cryptocurrency. Records from monitoring resource Etherscan showed a total of 92,000 ETH (currently worth…
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A new report has found that diversity is lacking in the world of blockchain technology – and says that if the balance is not redressed, the industry as a whole could suffer. Per a study written by the head of non-profit organization Diversity in Blockchain (DiB), Susan Joseph, “The lack of diversity in the blockchain/crypto…
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Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has launched Bitcoin options trading for a select group of traders ahead of a public launch in January 2020. Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has launched Bitcoin (BTC) options trading for a select group of traders ahead of a public launch in January 2020. In a press release shared with Cointelegraph on…
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YouTube has continued the attack against crypto-related videos, and the events in the past two days have made some content creators hide their videos, or just abandoned crypto content altogether. Others are calling for a YouTube boycott. As previously reported, the Google-owned American video-sharing giant has been restricting some crypto-related videos. Many more Read more…
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Despite various reservations from commentators in the past, Bitcoin is robustly insured against futures manipulation, analyst suggests. The Bitcoin (BTC) price analyst who created one of the industry’s best-known prediction models thinks futures markets will not undermine the cryptocurrency. In a Twitter debate on Dec. 26, PlanB, father of the Stock-to-Flow tool, dispelled fears that…
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