CryptoCurrency News: WATCH: Tongtong Gong of Amberdata Talks About Gender In Crypto

Gong, the COO of Amberdata, talks about her experience in the growing and expanding crypto ecosystem.

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CryptoCurrency News: tZERO-Backed Startup Seeks SEC Approval to Launch Security Token Market

A firm part-owned by Overstock’s tZERO is seeking regulatory approval to launch one of the first markets for publicly traded, registered security tokens.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC Halts Telegram’s $1.7 Billion ‘Unlawful’ Token Issuance

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission secured an emergency restraining order against the Telegram Group and its subsidiary TON Issuer for their $1.7 billion token sale. The SEC announced late Friday that it filed for and received an emergency action and restraining order halting Telegram from selling or otherwise distributing its gram tokens within the […]

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CryptoCurrency News: Traditional Financial Exchanges Oppose UK Crypto Derivatives Ban for Retail Investors

The World Federation of Exchanges asked the UK's Financial Conduct Authority not to ban the sale of crypto derivatives to retail investors.

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CryptoCurrency News: eBay, Stripe Follow PayPal in Quitting Facebook’s Libra Project

Digital auction company eBay and payments firm Stripe have both pulled out of the Facebook-led Libra Association. The Financial Times reported Friday that eBay and Stripe dropped out of the Libra cryptocurrency project, citing political pressure, following PayPal, which pulled its own support of the project last week. An eBay spokesperson told the FT that […]

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CryptoCurrency News: Chinese Banking Giant CCB Expands Blockchain Platform as Volume Breaks $53 Billion

Chinese banking giant CCB has expanded its trade finance blockchain platform with cross-chain and inter-bank transactions.

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CryptoCurrency News: Identity Thief Spends $5 Million on Cloud Computing to Mine Cryptocurrency

Singaporean citizen Ho Jun Jia has been indicted for stealing over $5 million worth of cloud computing services to mine cryptocurrencies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Trade Finance Blockchain Marco Polo Pilots First Russia-Germany Transactions

Marco Polo, the trade finance blockchain with over 20 global banks on board, is piloting its first trading arrangement between Germany and Russia.

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CryptoCurrency News: Facebook’s Calibra Sued By Mobile Banking App Over Similar Logos

The complaint alleges the Calibra logo is too similar to Current’s, which the fintech firm has been using since August 2016.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC, CFTC, FinCEN Warn Crypto Industry to Follow US Banking Laws

The heads of three U.S. financial regulators warned the crypto industry to abide by banking laws in a joint statement published Friday.

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CryptoCurrency News: The IRS Will Now Ask If You Own Crypto in the Most Widely Used US Tax Form

The IRS has updated the main form filled out by individual U.S. taxpayers every year to include a question about cryptocurrencies.

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CryptoCurrency News: At Devcon, Bitcoin Developer Amir Taaki Foresees a ‘DarkTech Renaissance’

"Why are we not thinking about how to create dark finance tools we can leverage against government bonds?"

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CryptoCurrency News: TRON, Stellar Join Mousebelt’s Blockchain Education Alliance to Train Student Developers

The 13 firm alliance will tackle crypto recruiters’ perennial high-demand-and-low-supply job quandary with a raft of tools to train students.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ripple Invests $750,000 to Bring XRP to Crypto Wallet BRD

Mobile wallet provider BRD plans to add XRP support to its iOS and Android apps.

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CryptoCurrency News: ‘Members’ of OpenLibra Disavow Project Days After Its Devcon Unveiling

The creator of an "open" alternative to Facebook's Libra stablecoin misrepresented which parties are involved in the project, CoinDesk has learned.

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CryptoCurrency News: Draper-Backed Startup Launches .Crypto Domains on Ethereum

Unstoppable Domains, which builds domains on blockchains, has just launched a .crypto extension that can replace public crypto addresses.

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CryptoCurrency News: Is Bitcoin a Safe Haven Like Gold? These Four Charts Say Not Yet

Market movements show us that bitcoin is not generally accepted as a safe-haven investment.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Fails at Key Price Hurdle, Risks Return to $8,000

Bitcoin's quick pullback from a 2.5-week high of $8,830 this morning has invalidated a bullish breakout on the 4-hour chart.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bank of America Is Now Hiring in Blockchain, Not Just Filing Patents

Bank of America has begun hiring for blockchain positions, the first indicator that the bank plans to do much else with the tech besides filing patents.

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CryptoCurrency News: Australia’s Gold Mint Is Backing a Crypto Token on Ethereum

The government-owned Perth Mint is backing a new digital token aimed to allow investors to trade and settle gold in real time.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why French Lender SocGen Issued a $110 Million Ethereum Bond to Itself

Societe Generale has no plans to resell its $110 million ethereum bond, but future blockchain trials will involve external investors, an exec said.

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