Dubai is yet another "big player" to join the cryptocurrency craze with its launch of its first ever state cryptocurrency - the emCash. According to Arabian Business Magazine, people will be able to pay for various government and non-government services in Dubai with emCash. The name of emCash comes from the the subsidiary of Dubai…
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Advisory Board includes Toronto Stock Exchange Vice President, Ethereum Co-Founder and Former Yahoo Vice President Enterprise blockchain company Nuco today announced the advisory board for Aion, the first interoperable blockchain network and the framework allowing communication between blockchains. Aion’s 11 advisors bring experience ranging from blockchain, finance, and technology to help guide the company’s mission…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a businessman and his two companies with defrauding investors in a pair of so-called initial coin offerings (ICOs) purportedly backed by investments in real estate and diamonds. The SEC alleges that Maksim Zaslavskiy and his companies have been selling unregistered securities, and the digital tokens or coins…
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Two new Bitcoin ETFs have been submitted for approval to SEC by Proshares Capital Management, according to the S-1 documents. The two new ETFs, ProShares Bitcoin ETF and ProShares Short Bitcoin ETF, will be involved in derivatives rather than actual bitcoin purchases. According to the documents submitted by the fund, the ETFs will be traded at…
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As CNBC reported today, Tony Robbins said about bitcoin: "I think [bitcoin] is very iffy, I don't have a clue. I look at that as it's like going to Vegas." It's certainly been a wild ride for bitcoin and bitcoin cash, as the price recently dropped by more than 40%, fluctuating between all-time high levels…
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Ether price has climbed over $300 for the first time in couple of weeks. On September 27th, Ether price level traded consistently above $300, as reported by Coindesk. With fear coming from regulations (China's ban on domestic exchanges to trade bitcoin) and the consistent rumors of different countries launching their own domestic digital currencies (Denmark,…
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Blockchain research and development pioneer nChain and software provider Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) announced a joint Gigablock Testnet Initiative to test the bitcoin network's ability to handle significantly larger block sizes. This global test network is another step in nChain's growing collaboration with BU on initiatives to help achieve massive on-chain scaling of the bitcoin network.…
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Korea JoongAng Daily, a North Korean news publication, announced that North Korean hackers tried, but failed to steal Bitcoin from several domestic exchanges. According to the North Korean magazine, the hackers used "spear-phishing", which basically means that the criminals sent what looked like "innocuous" emails that actually contained malicious software that harmed the host's computer.…
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The 23-year old co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, gave an interview to two of the largest news reporting companies in South Korea, JoongAng Daily and JoongAng Ilbo, expressing his thoughts on the future of Ethereum, ICOs and the cryptocurrency merits, as reported by Cointelegraph. Vitalik spoke about the issues that Ethereum is currently facing with scaling.…
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Singapore is undoubtedly one of the most popular and thriving melting pots today in the world for fintech and finance. The cryptocurrency boom does not make an exception. Today, the price level of Ripple jumped with 11%, as reported by MoneyMorning, when a new Ripple office was opened in Singapore. In addition, news that Japan…
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