Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said China is setting the pace in the development of a digital currency equivalent of its fiat currency, the renminbi.
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Friday, August 23, 2019
CryptoCurrency News: Circle CEO: China’s Digital Currency Could “Bypass Western Banking System”
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said China is setting the pace in the development of a digital currency equivalent of its fiat currency, the renminbi.
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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Will Integrate BitPay’s Payments System For Wallet Payments
The largest wallet provider, Blockchain, partnered with the largest bitcoin payment processor, BitPay.
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CryptoCurrency News: Rep. Waters Says Congress Will Continue Review of Facebook’s Libra
Congresswoman Maxine Waters announced a tentative schedule for this fall including a continued review of Facebook's Libra initiative.
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CryptoCurrency News: Maker Foundation Tried and Failed to Register ‘DEFI’ Trademark
Under current law, the responsibility of defending trademarks falls on the holder of the trademark.
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CryptoCurrency News: UK Central Bank Governor Sees Digital Currency Displacing US Dollar as Global Reserve
BOE governor Mark Carney called on Friday for the creation of a wholly digital alternative to the U.S. dollar.
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CryptoCurrency News: Largest Korean Exchange to Review Listings and Drop Failing Coins
Bithumb will assemble a committee to periodically review its listed cryptocurrencies, becoming the second exchange in Korea to update its listing policies.
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CryptoCurrency News: Binance Offers VIP Accounts to Hacked Users
Binance will offer VIP accounts to affected users but recommends hacked users replace their government IDs.
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CryptoCurrency News: Web3’s Gavin Wood Launches Kusama Network to Test Polkadot Protocol
The Web3 Foundation launched a live experimental version of the Polkadot network on Friday. Here's what Kusama will be testing.
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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain May Be Used in FDA Medical Reviews and Recalls
The FDA's acting chief information officer said the agency is rolling out a modernization plan using AI and blockchain.
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CryptoCurrency News: Canadians Charged for $220,000 Bitcoin Scam on Twitter
Two Canadian nationals posed as HitBTC customer service representatives in order to steal a user's login credentials.
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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Miners Are Heating Homes Free of Charge in Frigid Siberia
Hotmine makes a bitcoin mining rig that doubles as a home heating appliance. It's targeting places where winter is brutally cold.
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CryptoCurrency News: $100K Crypto Donation to Amazon Rainforest Charity Blocked By BitPay
A large donation to a non-profit working to protect the Amazon rainforest has been blocked by compliance hurdles at crypto payments firm BitPay.
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CryptoCurrency News: Craig Wright Again Claims Authorship of Bitcoin White Paper
Wright has made another attempt to cement his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, posting bitcoin's white paper on a scientific paper hosting site.
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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Increasingly Bearish Despite Price Bounce to $10.2K
Bitcoin's recovery to $10,255 seen in the last 24 hours could be short-lived, suggest bearish price and volume indicators.
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CryptoCurrency News: Litecoin’s Mining Power Has Fallen 28% Since Its Block Rewards Halving
Mining power on the litecoin network has dropped by 28 percent since its recent "halving" event as miners struggle for profit.
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CryptoCurrency News: Tensions Rising at Facebook Libra as Backers Consider Quitting: Report
Several backers of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project are said to be considering backing out due to growing "pushback" from regulators.
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CryptoCurrency News: Amazon Cloud Outage Causing Major Issues at Some Crypto Exchanges
Problems with Amazon's cloud service, AWS, in Tokyo are disrupting services at some cryptocurrency exchanges on Friday.
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CryptoCurrency News: Circle Is Raising a $100 Million Fund for Its Crowdfunding Arm
Circle is hiring a new general partner to set up a $100 million venture capital fund via SeedInvest.
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