As expected, a major class-action lawsuit has been filed against cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its sister company, stablecoin issuer Tether. The lawsuit claims that Bitfinex and Tether manipulated the cryptocurrency market and caused “the biggest financial bubble in human history.” The plaintiffs insist that defendants’ liability to the putative class likely Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin…
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Below is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting 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. ______________________________ Atomars Listings: CRO BitMax Delistings: DEEP Bitqist Listings: ALGO EXNCE Listings: Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin…
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A major South Korean convenience store chain, CU, will now accept a blockchain-based payment method at its stores. Mobile payments app CHAI is launching mobile blockchain-based payments at 13,500 CU convenience stores in South Korea. According to an Oct. 7 press release shared with Cointelegraph by blockchain startup Terra, CHAI — which operates on the…
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Decentralized application transaction volume and user activity have slumped in the third quarter of 2019, a new study from Dapp.com shows. Decentralized applications’ (DApps) transaction volume and user activity have slumped in the third quarter of 2019, a new study shows. DApp.com — an analytics platform for DApps built on Ethereum, EOS, Steem, Tron, TomoChain,…
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The Sacramento Kings pro basketball team is launching a blockchain-based rewards program within its mobile gaming app. The Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team is launching a blockchain-powered rewards program within its gaming app. Partnership with Blockparty The Sacramento Kings partnered with New Jersey-based blockchain ticketing platform Blockparty to add blockchain-based rewards to its prediction game…
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The Wyckoff chart and other key indicators suggest that crypto investors are accumulating Bitcoin even if it retains a bearish bias. Bitcoin (BTC) closed the week with a selloff, pushing price below the $8k handle and printing a close down 2.5% for the week as a whole. Despite an ominous close to the bottom of…
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Coffee crop. It seems that Latin America dominates crypto adoption news agenda with new announcements every week. This time, multiple news have arrived from Colombia and Venezuela. The Coffee Axis town of Pereira, in Colombia’s western Risaralda department, appears to be turning into the country’s unofficial cryptocurrency capital. The town has a population of Read…
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After last Monday’s first since we started the Crypto Market series in February, when we saw our lowest reported average crypto market sentiment measure, Sentscore, for the top 10 coins by market capitalization, at 4.1 – we are back into the familiar zone with a Sentscore of 4.41, according to Omenics, a crypto market sentiment…
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The WFE, a global trade association of publicly-regulated exchanges, has appealed to the U.K.’s FCA not to restrict crypto derivatives for retail investors. The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), a global trade association of publicly-regulated exchanges, has appealed to the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to not restrict cryptocurrency derivatives for retail investors. The…
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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. Regulation news American regulatory body the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected an investment company registration application by the Cipher Technologies Bitcoin Fund, stating in its Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin…
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