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US Regulator is checking BitMEX over client trades

US Regulator is checking BitMEX over client trades

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BitMEX exchange is being examined by The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, familiar to the theme people suppose that the platform is becoming extremely popular in Asia because it lets users make big bets with little capitals. The examination is ongoing and the regulator’s investigations...

Oracle aims to use blockchain for solving a billion-dollar-cost food issue

Oracle aims to use blockchain for solving a billion-dollar-cost food issue

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In 2018 Oracle entered a cooperation with the World Bee Projects to leverage cloud technologies to properly assume the drop in global bee populations. The primary goal was to arrange innovative tactics to assist farmers to maintain bee and pollinator habitats. Oracle’s senior director, Jay Chugh...

What is ERC-721 standard?

What is ERC-721 standard?

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Nowadays, in the developing environment of cryptocurrencies, most of us have caught about Ethereum and its standards. The leading one is ERC-20, but there’s another impressive model of tokens, which is named ERC-721. The article is dedicated to this class and is going to describe what is ERC-721...

As Congress analyzes Libra, Bitcoin drops under $10000

As Congress analyzes Libra, Bitcoin drops under $10000

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When the US legislators showed deep suspicion about the viability of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin fall in price below $10000. The rate was rising for three last weeks and even passed the highest price form the last year. The most popular digital coin dropped as much as 12%, bringing its three-week...

Binance CEO says that retail is still driving the rally

Binance CEO says that retail is still driving the rally

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While the arrival of institutional interest is one of the most cited reasons by cryptocurrency enthusiasts for this year’s rally, the head of the world’s largest online exchange says private investors are still playing a key role in driving the dramatic price gains. The CEO of Binance, Zhao...

Amazon is working on centralized and decentralized blockchain solutions

Amazon is working on centralized and decentralized blockchain solutions

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Centralization and decentralization in blockchain and crypto are a theme with a lot of debates over it. So Amazon Web Services decided to work on both sides in its blockchain endeavours. Some people do not consider decentralization as a vital thing and some people do. AWS found out that some...

Bitcoin rises and Bitmain crypto-billionaire is starting new projects

Bitcoin rises and Bitmain crypto-billionaire is starting new projects

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Wu Jihan a co-founder of Bitmain Technologies has gathered a group of mining giant’s former employees to start a new cryptocurrency economic services startup, hoping to profit on Bitcoin’s resurgence. Wu’s latest endeavour is a one-stop platform for over-the-counter selling, lending and...

Brazil’s countrysides may soon adopt crypto coffee coin

Brazil’s countrysides may soon adopt crypto coffee coin

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There is a possibility that countrysides of Brazil will start adopting cryptocurrencies for their day-to-day essentials. Minasul is a major arabica-bean organisation, which is preparing to develop a blockchain-based coin that’ll be backed by coffee stocks. Farmers will have an opportunity to...

Facebook safeguards Libra token ahead of Congressional inspection

Facebook safeguards Libra token ahead of Congressional inspection

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Lawmakers have a very sceptical attitude to Facebook’s coin. So the team of Facebook was concerned about this and announced that the company wants to create a means of cheap and secure payments around the world. David Marcus announced that they understand the big idea may take a lot of time and...

Few people care about the continuing growth of BTC prices

Few people care about the continuing growth of BTC prices

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Google searches measured the statistics of Bitcoin price growth and people’s interest in it and there’s a big difference between them. Not so long ago, the level of correlation between the price and interest was really high. There may be some reasons for these new...

The third largest economy in Asia has a skeptical attitude about Facebook’s Libra

The third largest economy in Asia has a skeptical attitude about Facebook’s Libra

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India, which is the third greatest economy in Asia, doesn’t seem to admit the idea of Libra coin. Subhash Garg the secretary of Economic Affairs said in New Delhi interview on 6 July that the design of Facebook’s coin is not totally explained, but anyway it is going to be a private currency,...

Singapore’s proposal is to end cryptocurrencies’ GST taxation

Singapore’s proposal is to end cryptocurrencies’ GST taxation

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The taxation agency of Singapore’s government is suggesting to remove goods and services tax from cryptocurrency actions that are serving as a medium of exchange. On July 5 The IRAS published an e-Tax draft guide for regulating the Digital payment tokens sector. If this draft starts to officially...

Twitter talks about crypto

Twitter talks about crypto

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New research provides us with a very interesting statistics about various countries and their tweets about the crypto industry. So the first position is the US because 38.9% of tweets about Bitcoin are from here. The UK takes second place with 10.5%. Top five countries are US, UK, Canda, Turkey...

Electroneum is going to support Lightning Network technology of Bitcoin

Electroneum is going to support Lightning Network technology of Bitcoin

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One of the most widespread digital wallets Electroneum is working to do an update and add support for Bitcoin’s lightning network. The founder of Electroneum, Thomas Voegtlin said that technology release on the wallet is really close, but he didn’t mention the exact date of the official launch....

Healthcare and Blockchains

Healthcare and Blockchains

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Why do we necessitate these changes in healthcare? Nowadays, blockchain technologies penetrate various aspects of our life, and one of them is healthcare. Things that are required for this industry are transparency and immutability, and blockchain gives these features to it. There has been a lot of...

Telegram’s cryptocurrency is offered a triple price of ICO for sale

Telegram’s cryptocurrency is offered a triple price of ICO for sale

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Telegram’s crypto coin may have comprehended by 200% from 2018 when it started one of the largest ICOs in history, even though it is not introduced to the public yet. To be sure in this, you simply need to ask one of the initial investors. According to Liquid exchange, based in South Korea Gram...

Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr Doom, opposes Bitcoin

Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr Doom, opposes Bitcoin

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Famous economist Nouriel Roubini, who’s recognized as Dr Doom for his downhearted warnings, made some noise with his freshest assault on Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies. Professor Roubini considers that Bitcoin is “overhyped”. On 2 June at a summit in Taiwan, he compared crypto coin with...

$1 Billion was spent in Darknet by Bitcoin criminals this year

$1 Billion was spent in Darknet by Bitcoin criminals this year

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According to a Chainalysis report, this year set a record in Bitcoin’s use on the illegal Internet and the amount of money reached $1 billion. While the number of Bitcoin transactions dedicated to forbidden buyings is failing, about $515 million of the digital coin has already been used this year...

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