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 5,200 French tobacco stores will begin selling Bitcoin again after a false start. The project is the brainchild of Keplerk, who initially announced its Bitcoin sales plan in November…
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Peculiar discussions have started in the Cryptosphere this week, as Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, seems to have confirmed that users can buy crypto through WeChat and AliPay with cash in China. And while both companies firmly deny this, other reports suggest that it’s not entirely true. WeChat is a messaging…
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The price of the second coin by market capitalization, ethereum (ETH), fell below USD 190, while its weekly gains are 4 percentage points lower than just a day ago. This entire week for Ethereum was dominated by Devcon it seems, which is an annual conference organized by the Ethereum Foundation, with the fifth one held…
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has argued that his company’s transparency made it vulnerable to a “bunch of misinformation.” Alluding to the spate of controversies that have beset the project, Ripple CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, has argued that Ripple’s “transparency has opened us up to attack.” “10 or 100x more transparent than anyone else in crypto” In…
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Following Red Hat’s $34 billion acquisition in July, IBM is using the firm’s technology in a new blockchain-based supply chain product. Global tech giant IBM has launched a new integrated supply chain product based on IBM’s technologies including Watson AI and IBM Blockchain. Hybrid-cloud integration Called Sterling Supply Chain Suite, the new IBM’s product enables…
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As Bitcoin price consolidates, several altcoins are posting gains and providing the rationale for a period of market-wide gains. After several months of difficulty, many altcoins such as Ether (ETH), Chainlink (LINK) and Binance Coin (BNB) finally show signs of life on the charts providing hope for a new bull-run. As 2019 nears its end,…
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Australia’s biggest precious metals refinery has teamed up with a blockchain company to launch what they claim is the world’s first token on a public blockchain to be underpinned by government-guaranteed gold reserves. The initiative is the brainchild of the Perth Mint refinery and blockchain enterprise InfiGold, which describes itself as a precious metals Read…
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The recent breakthrough announced by the tech giant does not pose problems for public blockchain cryptography, says the educator. Bitcoin (BTC) has “zip” to fear from the latest advances in quantum computing from Google, one of the industry’s best-known figures has confirmed. The effect on Bitcoin? “Zip, bupkis nada” Speaking as part of a Q&A…
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In a move that will surprise nobody, Russia’s parliament will again postpone its long-awaited cryptocurrency regulations. As previously reported, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had set the Duma a deadline of November 1 for the finalization of the “On Digital Assets” bill, which passed its first reading back in May 2018. However, the head of the…
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Theta Labs announces that its blockchain video infrastructure protocol Theta Network will soon be incorporated into decentralized streaming platform DLive. Theta Labs has announced that its blockchain video infrastructure protocol Theta Network will soon be incorporated into decentralized streaming platform DLive. According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 10, Theta’s partnership with…
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