Over ten years since its birth, and cryptocurrency still hasn’t gone mainstream. Still, Houston-based gaming startup Cypherpunk might change all this, with the release of Crypto Tycoon. Billed as the world’s first cryptocurrency-themed card game, it hopes to prove a hit among diehards and crypto newcomers alike when it’s released in March. Designed for two…
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In December 2019, Saudi Arabia took over the G20 presidency from Japan, becoming the first Arab nation to take over the G20 presidency. The G20 will once again tackle the issue of cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), with an influential think tank, ministers and central bank chiefs set to embark on discussions in…
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Source: Johns Hopkins CSSE, February 19 The world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is just one of the many sectors to have been hit by the deadly coronavirus. The outbreak has already had an adverse effect on this nascent sector. Stay up-to-date on the latest developments as the world fights back against the virus. Latest…
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Source: Twitter/@dftrades Major, San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has become a credit card giant Visa principal member. Coinbase said that they are the “first pure-play crypto company” to be approved as a principal member. The exchange called this development a “significant milestone in the mainstream adoption of crypto as a genuine utility,” stating that Read…
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Changpeng Zhao. After a week filled with a variety of technical glitches and performance issues on Binance, CEO Changpeng (“CZ”) Zhao has come out with an update to users where he invites affected traders to follow up with the exchange while admitting that more issues may arise in the future. In the “Performance Incident Report,”…
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A number of leading Japanese firms – including the operators of two of the country’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges – are taking steps to allow their employees to work from home or avoid rush-hour commutes as coronavirus fears deepen. Media outlet Crypto Watch reports that GMO Internet, the company that operates the GMO Coin exchange, has…
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Police believe that the senior management of Japanese food retailer Kefir took a desperate gamble on the cryptocurrencies market in an eleventh-hour bid to save the company from bankruptcy in 2018 – allegedly sinking millions of investors’ dollars into a so-called shitcoin. Nine executives at the food chain, which specialized in dairy products, bought Read…
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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. Adoption news Blocknox, a subsidiary of the second-largest German stock exchange Boerse Stuttgart, will offer cryptocurrency custody for institutions. According to the announcement, Blocknox Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with…
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Source: iStock/Lisa-Blue Troubled Chinese crypto exchange FCoin expects that “the scale of non-payment is between 7000-13000 BTC” (USD 62.5 million – USD 116 million) after it run into troubles last week. The withdrawals have begun, but it’ll be slow and there isn’t money for all. (Updated at 14:35 UTC: updates throughout the entire text.) As…
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Chinese officials are waging an unexpected war on cash in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak – amid fears that contaminated banknotes could spread the deadly virus. The country’s central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has launched a campaign that, per the South China Morning Post, will see it and other banks disinfect used banknotes,…
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