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. Mining news The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on Georgia to report on its crypto mining industry. The country is home to several large cryptocurrency mining centers, with big Read…
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The Way of Tiger: an old game cover. Fueled by the news of a new adoption project, VeChain (VET) is today by far the best-performing coin in the top 100 by market capitalization. The 25th coin has rallied, jumping 20.24% in the last 24 hours, but also 35.01% in the last seven days, bringing it…
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Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange CryptoBridge announced the closure of its platform, citing market conditions and regulatory pressure. The decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) CryptoBridge announced that it is closing down in a message on its website. In the announcement, the exchange warns users that all of the firm’s services and servers will terminate after Dec. 15. Users…
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San Francisco-based financial technology firm Figure Technologies has secured $58 million in a total offering amount of $103 million. San Francisco-based fintech firm Figure Technologies has secured $58 million in a recent funding round which aims to raise a total of $103 million. According to a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission,…
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The cryptocurrency market sentiment did not manage to recover from its major tumble last week, despite the situation looking greener. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure for the top 10 coins by market capitalization fell for the fourth week in a row, from last Monday’s 4.39 to today’s 4.3, according to Omenics, a…
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A domain registry says the ongoing legal investigation into OneCoin compelled it to freeze its website, years after critics first accused the scam’s operators of fraud. The website for cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme OneCoin has finally ceased operating, months after United States authorities indicted one of its founders for fraud. As MLM scam monitoring resource BehindMLM.com…
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Japanese holding company SoftBank has introduced a debit card featuring a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. Japanese holding company SoftBank has introduced a new debit card featuring a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. According to a press release on Dec. 1, SoftBank developed a debit card featuring a built-in blockchain wallet in collaboration with United States-based wallet card developer…
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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 ______ Bitrue Listings: IOTA (MIOTA) Contentos (COS) Bitfare Listings: Verge (XVG) Bittrex Listings: Read…
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Huobi may finally be returning to the fold in China, over two years after a Beijing crypto crackdown forced domestic trading platforms out of the country. Per Chinese media outlet Fn.com, Huobi China has joined a state-endorsed blockchain alliance named the Blockchain Services Network (BSN). The network is the brainchild of the…
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The last month of 2019 has started with bad news for two relatively small projects in the Cryptoverse: a crypto exchange, CryptoBridge, ranked 187th, is shutting down, while a coin, ranked 235th, Vertcoin (VTC), experienced another 51% attack. CryptoBridge announced on its website that they’ll terminate all their services “after December 15 23:59 GMT.” All…
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