Curated blockchain and cryptocurrency news – Week 4’19

Cboe exchange withdraws VanEck-SolidX ETF proposal prematurely, IMF consulting Malta on how to continue and what to fix, South Korean exchanges joining hands to prevent scammer and hacker success, Maduro’s gold stuck in the UK due to US sanctions (Kraken CEO has something to say about that), Kik messenger likely to bravely go to court against the SEC’s accusations of […]

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Bitcoin Adoption: El Salvador’s Ambassador To The US Says America Is Only Concerned About Losing Its Power

El Salvador’s ambassador to the US has stated that America and international organizations are not happy with the country’s decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. The ambassador highlighted the successes of the Bitcoin operation and remains bullish for the future. The country has unveiled plans to build a Bitcoin city and launch a $1 billion bitcoin bond offering. El […]

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Why the German Energy Industry Started to Love the Blockchain

As indicated by reports leaving the German press, a study directed by the Deutsche Energie-Agentur (German Energy Agency) and ESMT Berlin has uncovered that numerous German vitality organizations as of now have a Blockchain innovation guide set up for future usage. Seventy industry heads were met in the overview and around 39 for each penny of respondents that Blockchain applications […]

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Curated blockchain and cryptocurrency news – Week 45

Welcome back to another week of our collection of the most interesting cryptocurrency and blockchain news stories. Google gets hacked on Twitter, Social good campaigns, a headmaster gets busted for stealing electricity to mine ETH, blockchain voting apps, an island state looking to create their own national cryptocurrency and more in this week’s cryptocurrency and blockchain news update. November 8th […]

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It’s A Bleak Friday For Crypto Markets Too

Global markets across asset classes tumbled on Friday amidst reports of a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus strain. Stock market barometers fell across regions. Dollar, Crude Oil etc., also couldn’t survive the bloodbath. Bond yields too plunged reflecting widespread risk-off sentiment. Cryptocurrency markets dropped in sync with the global sentiment contagion. Gold however bucked the trend and attempted to live […]

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The IRS and Chainalysis: Pressure on American Bitcoin Investors

Investing in cryptocurrencies has enabled people to experience significant financial gains in a short period of time. Due to the somewhat secretive nature surrounding blockchain currencies, most casual observers would suspect that cryptocurrency assets are easily hidden away from all prying eyes; whether they come from official or unofficial sources. However, the practice of blockchain analysis allows a number of […]

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MAST to further reduce Bitcoin transaction sizes

Merklized Abstract Syntax Tree (MAST) is a BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) that will enable Bitcoin to facilitate incredibly complex smart contracts, by extrapolating the power of Merkle trees and adding onto the current P2SH (Pay to Script Hash) capabilities of Bitcoin. Combining the best of both worlds there is MAST, a solution that is capable of limiting and guiding conditionals for […]

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Spanish Police Hits Hard on Bitcoin ATMs After Being Used to Fund…

In the mid of July 2019, Bloomberg published a stunning report which indicated that Spanish LEAs are quite concerned regarding the fraudulent use of Bitcoin ATMs. To be very specific, the local forces pointed out an array of glitches in Europe’s AML provisions, which ultimately facilitate the people from the underworld to carry out their unlawful activities without being tracked. […]

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