Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledger. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Ledger As the cryptocurrency industry adapts to cope with the coronavirus outbreak and its catastrophic effect on the global economy, Paris-based major hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger says that it is enforcing a number of measures to protect its workers – and says it wants competitors to…
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Blockchain-powered decentralized browser operator Brave (BAT) has filed a formal General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint against Google, stating that the search engine giant has violated regulations pertaining to its users’ data. Brave claims Google has violated Article 5(1)b of the GDPR, a European Union data protection and privacy law that came into Read more…
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The Shanghai branch of the central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has published an infographic on its official WeChat account to educate the public about digital currencies – and warn them of the dangers of coronavirus-themed cryptocurrency scams. A screenshot of People’s Bank of China’s infographic (translation by Cryptonews.com) The move could well be an…
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Source: iStock/recep-bg A revamped learning resource platform aimed at boosting entrepreneurship in elementary and middle school pupils teaches children how to raise digital tokens in online crowdfunding incentives. Per Yonhap, the platform, which went live on March 16, aims to nurture “young entrepreneurs,” and will be used in schools across the country to teach children…
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Nouriel Roubini. Source: a video screenshot, Bloomberg New York University economics professor and arch crypto-skeptic Nouriel Roubini has hatched an ingenious solution to the financial crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic – and it involves commodifying toilet paper. In a tongue-in-cheek tweet, Roubini floated a plan that sounded not too far away from tokenization.…
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In an attempt to increase liquidity for institutional crypto investors, major crypto exchange Bitfinex, a sister company of stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT), has announced that it has onboarded a multi-million-dollar crypto hedge fund called Fulgur Alpha. The exchange says in the press release that the Bahama-based Fulgur Alpha is a USD 280 million "absolute returns…
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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. Coronavirus news Due to the coronavirus outbreak, one of the largest crypto conferences, Consensus 2020, initially scheduled to take place in May in New York, "will now be a completely virtual…
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Source: iStock/Marco_Piunti 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. Crime news Police in Tokyo have released further details about the two men it arrested yesterday in connection with the January 2018 hack of the Coincheck crypto exchange. Per…
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US-based Chase Bank has settled an agreement with a class of customers who claim the bank billed their credit card cryptocurrency transactions by classifying them as expensive cash advances without prior warning. Chase’s customers Brady Tucker, Ryan Hilton, and Stanton Smith accused the bank of breaching the cardholder agreements with them and other customers by…
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Source: iStock/Avalon_Studio 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. Exchanges news SBI VC Trade, the crypto exchange run by the Japanese financial giant SBI, will follow suit as e-commerce giant Rakuten launches crypto margin trading operations later this…
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