Coinbase, the US largest cryptocurrency exchange, is adding the stablecoin DAI to its Earn Program. After Coinbase announced the upcoming EOS support in the beginning of the month, now DAI will become the second "innovative" addition that the exchange is providing to its program. The program Earn allows all users to actually receive digital coins…
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Ripple is not wasting its time when it comes to global expansion. The company has just opened a new office in Brazil - a strategic move that will help Ripple support their ever growing client base South America. The new office will enable all regional customers be closer to the San-Francisco-based startup. Ripple has already…
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Warren Buffet is known as not a "crypto fan", but this doesn't mean that crypto enthusiasts do not have interest for the Wizard of Omaha. Now, the CEO of BitTorrent and the founder of TRON, Justin Sun, is said to be paying the staggering amount of $4.6 million for a private lunch with Warren Buffet,…
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Occasionally government officials can surprise us common folks with their detailed understanding of a specific topic requiring a new legislative outlook. The crypto community has been especially on guard with respect to the actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after its continued clampdowns on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and its refusal to grant…
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Two new crypto research studies were released last week, which reveal that the United States still leads the crypto world with respect to sourced exchange volumes and that 64% of the payments taken from victims of ransomware attacks rely on crypto addresses as their means of settlement. Top Sources of Traffic to Crypto Exchanges Globally…
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Facebook plans to launch its own cryptocurrency, a coin called GlobalCoin in 2020. The news report comes from BBC. The cryptocurrency will reportedly become available in several countries in the first quarter of 2020. However, trials are going to start by the end of 2019. Facebook's cryptocurrency and blockchain initiatives are some of the most…
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If cryptocurrencies are to gain the global acceptance necessary to expand and prosper, can the industry achieve that goal by ignoring 23% of the inhabitants on our planet? In much the same manner as the retail foreign exchange trading industry created special Islamic accounts and processes that were in compliance with Shariah law, it would…
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A new crypto-based ETF application has been filed with the SEC. This time is not about "all about" Bitcoin, though. The application has been filed by Crescent Crypto Index Services LLC. The subsidiary of Crescent Crypto Asset Management LLC envisages an ETF that tracks the performance of market cap-weighted portfolio of ether and bitcoin. With…
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The current crypto narrative for success holds as a primary principle the fact that demand for cryptos will ignite when the floodgates are open for institutional investors to participate in crypto financial markets. An “institutional investor” can be many things, including banks, pension funds, hedge funds, commingled funds, family offices, and, which is often overlooked,…
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It seems that ever since Elon Musk announced that his favourite crypto is DogeCoin, people have gone on to great lengths to somehow connect the "dots" between Musk and any relatable cryptocurrency that might be of interest to him. Just last month, Leaprate reported that the founder of Dogecoin, Jackson Palmer, said he is ready…
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