When I visited some early bitcoin startups in Hong Kong five years ago, they were unanimous about their biggest challenge: finding a bank that would let them open an account.
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Sunday, May 5, 2019
CryptoCurrency News: Banking, Bitfinex and the Hidden Irony of Crypto’s Newest Controversy
When I visited some early bitcoin startups in Hong Kong five years ago, they were unanimous about their biggest challenge: finding a bank that would let them open an account.
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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin’s Lightning Comes to Apple Smartwatches With New App
A new app for the Apple Watch has been launched by bitcoin startup Bluewallet, which connects users to the nascent lightning network.
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CryptoCurrency News: Bitfinex Shareholder Starts Pre-orders for Exchange Token’s Public Sales
Even though there's still not a white paper for Bitfinex's $1 billion exchange token offering, one shareholder has already started pre-orders.
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CryptoCurrency News: Ripple Adds SBI President To Its Board of Directors
Ripple has added Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings' president and CEO Yoshitaka Kitao to its board.
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CryptoCurrency News: Beware the Fake Bitfinex White Papers Appearing Online
As speculation and impatience arises over the upcoming Bitfinex token sale, opportunistic fakers are creating bogus white papers that purport to describe the details of the upcoming sale.
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CryptoCurrency News: Ethereum 2.0’s Nodes Need to Agree – A Solution Is ‘Hobbits’
On April 23 new code was unveiled that, if ultimately implemented, will facilitate basic communication between nodes that run the ethereum 2.0 software.
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