The SEC is suing Telegram over the $1.7 billion ICO, is it the mark a new wave of regulatory scrutiny on the U.S. market? Late Friday, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it is suing two offshore entities, Telegram and its wholly owned subsidiary, TON Issuer, for holding an unregistered token…
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The majority of the top-20 coins by market cap see losses today, while Bitcoin price failed to hold $8,400. Saturday, Oct. 12 — following a minor price rally earlier this week, crypto markets are trading sideways as the top-20 coins by market cap report mixed signals. At press time, 8 out of the top 20…
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This week’s selected cryptocurrency and blockchain news from the German-speaking world, courtesy of Cointelegraph auf Deutsch. The German-speaking world has experienced another week full of exciting developments in the crypto industry, with Germany investigating the feasibility of a blockchain-based regional power trading platform, Iota Foundation joining forces with Zühlke to solve engineering problems and the…
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Source: iStock/da-kuk Reward for mining Bitcoin (BTC) is estimated to halve in May 2020, dropping from today’s compensation of BTC 12.5 to only 6.25. The question is: how will this change the behavior of bitcoin mining companies/pools, and how will the bitcoin mining sector evolve more generally in the months and years to come? On…
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The chairs of the U.S. SEC, CFTC and FinCEN have issued a rare joint statement urging digital asset holders to comply with AML/CFT regulations. The chairmen of the three primary financial regulators in the United States have released a joint statement warning crypto users of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT)…
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Jihan Wu, CEO of mining giant Bitmain, believes the next Bitcoin block reward halving may not lead to a bull market, but the coin’s price will grow in the long term. Jihan Wu, co-founder and CEO of Chinese mining giant Bitmain, believes the next Bitcoin (BTC) block reward halving may not lead to a bull…
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Major cryptocurrency markets have seen a sharp drop today, with total market capitalization around $224 billion. Friday, Oct. 11 — Major cryptocurrency markets have continued sliding over the day, with only three coins in the top-20 list reporting gains. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 The top cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $8,355,…
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One of China’s BTC mining giants, Canaan Creative will reportedly be listed as a publicly traded firm in the U.S. in November 2019. Chinese crypto mining giant Canaan Creative plans to list as a publicly traded company in the United States in November 2019, according to an unconfirmed report. Canaan to issue 1.26 billion shares…
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Kathleen Murphy, personal investing president of Fidelity Investments, says that the firm does not offer cryptocurrencies on retail trading platforms to protect its clients. Kathleen Murphy, personal investing president of American financial services company Fidelity Investments, has said that the firm does not offer cryptocurrencies on retail trading platforms to protect its clients. Murphy voiced…
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This past week in the Cryptoworld saw a lots of greenery: XRP price rallied, Chainlink jumped 33%, and then it climbed 45%, but also ETH went over USD 180, Tron went up 11%, and LTC appreciated 4.4%. And the up-‘n’-down nature of the space continues, as we’ve seen DeFi dapps growing, but also Bitfinex and…
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