CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Drops $1,000 In Value Amid Market Sell-Off

Bitcoin has once again come into contact with a greater crypto market sell-off, slashing its price by more than $1000.

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CryptoCurrency News: Tether Ordered to Freeze Transfers to Bitfinex by New York Supreme Court

A New York Supreme Court judge ordered stablecoin issuer Tether to refrain from loaning any funds to Bitfinex or other parties during an ongoing investigation by the NY Attorney General.

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CryptoCurrency News: Startup Veil Forks Augur to Create Prediction Markets for 2020 Election

Veil says no one has been able to support long-running markets on Augur, so they're creating AugurLite for early bets on the presidential election.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC Negotiations Have Cost Kik $5 Million, Says CEO

Kik's CEO says the company has spent more than $5 million talking to the SEC about whether its kin ICO was an unregistered securities sale.

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CryptoCurrency News: Polinex, Fearing Regulatory Backlash, Prevents Sale of 9 Crypto Assets In US

Polinex has stopped US customers from buying and selling nine potentially non-regulated tokens.

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CryptoCurrency News: Brave Browser to Raise Over $30 Million in Series A Equity Round: Sources

Privacy-centric web browser Brave is raising a Series A round at a valuation of roughly $133 million, sources tell CoinDesk.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ava Labs Exits Stealth, Launches Blockchain Testnet Based on ‘Avalanche’ Protocol

Ava Labs is out of stealth, revealing a past $6 million funding round and a new blockchain testnet backed by the Avalanche consensus protocol.

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CryptoCurrency News: Amazon’s Arrival and 4 Other Enterprise Blockchain Trends From Consensus 2019

At Consensus 2019, conversations about enterprise blockchain were shaped by these five storylines.

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CryptoCurrency News: MakerDAO Votes to Decrease Stablecoin Fees for First Time in 5 Months

Dollar-backed stablecoin DAI is trading above a dollar for the first time in a long-time. MakerDAO token holders have voted to decrease fees on the stablecoin in order to address high market demand for DAI.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ripio Is Launching a Crypto Exchange for 3 Latin American Nations

Ripio, a startup working to boost crypto adoption in Argentina, is widening its scope with a new exchange serving Argentina, Mexico and Brazil.

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CryptoCurrency News: Opera Will Soon Add Tron Support to Its In-Browser Crypto Wallet

Opera is working to integrate support for Tron’s TRX and TRC-standard tokens in its browser-based crypto wallet.

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CryptoCurrency News: CoinDesk’s John Biggs Walks the Exhibit Halls of Consensus 2019

Meet the exhibitors in the Consensus 2019 exhibit halls.

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CryptoCurrency News: Litecoin Price Hits 11-Month High Above $100

The litecoin cryptocurrency was trading in the triple digits earlier on Thursday for the first time since last June.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain-Based Digital Collectibles Market Meme Factory Launches Today

Meme Factory, an ethereum-based marketplace for creating, selling and trading digital collectibles, goes live Thursday.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Faces Price Correction Toward $7.6K, Technical Charts Suggest

Bitcoin is facing a price correction to well below $8,000, as exhaustion leaves the bulls unable to hold onto fresh 10-month highs hit earlier today.

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CryptoCurrency News: Just 376 Individuals Hold 33% of All Ether Cryptocurrency: Chainalysis

A third of all ether is owned by just 376 whales, blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis says. Yet that number is down from some previous years.

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CryptoCurrency News: World Bank, CommBank Team Up for ‘World First’ Blockchain Bond Transaction

The World Bank says its new debt instrument "bond-i" is the first bond to have both issuance and trading recorded on a blockchain.

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CryptoCurrency News: Can Bitcoin Win the Digital Payments ‘Gauge War’?

Bitcoin could learn a lesson from the railways, says Simon Johnson: For the customer, it’s just about getting from A to B fastest and cheapest.

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