CryptoCurrency News: Korea's Crypto Crackdown Talk Draws Backlash From Users and Politicians

South Korea's citizens reacted angrily to a proposed ban on cryptocurrency exchanges, with politicians and residents alike condemning the move.

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CryptoCurrency News: Tennessee Might Also Recognize Blockchain Data Through Proposed Law

A lawmaker in Tennessee has filed a new bill that recognizes a blockchain signature as a kind of legal electronic record.

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CryptoCurrency News: Former Customers Sue Crypto Exchange Vircurex Over Frozen Funds

Former Vircurex customers are suing the exchange, four years after it first froze their funds and allegedly failed to repay them.

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CryptoCurrency News: China's Internet Finance Association Warns on 'Initial Miner Offerings'

The National Internet Association of China warned against "initial miner offerings," referring to them as "disguised ICOs" on Friday.

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CryptoCurrency News: US Finance Regulators Form Crypto Working Group, Says Mnuchin

Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that the Financial Stability Oversight Council has formed a working group focused on cryptocurrencies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Upside Break on the Way? Zcash Eyes Gains Against Bitcoin

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency zcash is solidly bid against the dollar and could soon see a spike against bitcoin.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain in Your Pocket? The Phone Behind Sirin's $157 Million ICO

Sirin says its Finney phone will fill a gap in the crypto market. But as the adage goes, "hardware is hard," and in blockchain it may be even harder.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Eyes Consolidation as Price Flirts with $14K

Bitcoin is back around $14,000 and could be in for a phase of rangebound trading as the markets come to terms with regulatory noises from South Korea.

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[FOREX NEWS] US core CPI beats with 1.8% – good enough for the dollar? Not necessarily

The US was expected to report a rise of 0.2% m/m and 2.1% in headline CPI. More importantly, core CPI carried expectations for a gain of 0.2% m/m and 1.7% y/y. Retail sales were predicted to rise 0.4% and so were core retail sales and the control group, the core of the core. — more [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: Search Giant Baidu Launches Blockchain-as-a-Service Platform

Chinese web search giant Baidu has launched its own blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) platform based on its own technology.

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CryptoCurrency News: Russia's Sberbank Has Launched a Blockchain Lab

Sberbank, one of the largest banks in Russia, has built a blockchain laboratory to develop and test blockchain-based solutions.

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CryptoCurrency News: 2018: The Year Blockchain, AI and IoT Converge

Cryptocurrencies emerged as a leading tech in 2017, but 2018 may find them merging with other technologies to become even more ubiquitous.

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[FOREX NEWS] EUR/USD breaks to the highest levels in 3 years – levels

Euro/dollar hesitated under the 2017 high of 1.2090. No more. It made a clear break and is at 1.2127 at the time of writing. The weakness of the dollar is the main driver, but the euro also enjoys the bullish ECB meeting minutes. Given the 1.20 to 1.2090 range, we can extrapolate an additional 90 [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: Jonas Schnelli Wants You to Run a Bitcoin Full Node

Bitcoin Core contributor and maintainer Jonas Schnelli is on a mission to make running full nodes easier for non-geeks. Decentralization is at stake.

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