What Is Cryptocurrency? “Jeopardy!” Features Entire Category on Crypto

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Is cryptocurrency becoming more mainstream? It could be if one of America’s most prominent game shows features an entire category devoted to it.The November 29, 2018, episode of “Jeopardy!” — which has been on the air since 1964 — offered five unique questions centered around cryptocurrencies and their technology to test out its contestants’ knowledge...

VanEck, Cboe and SolidX Meet With SEC to Discuss a Bitcoin ETF

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Having met the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2018, officials of VanEck, SolidX and Cboe BZX Exchange have met with the Commission again, in the latest attempt to convince the regulator to approve the nation's first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an official presentation submitted to the SEC.The firms gave...

Week 2: How the Bitcoin Cash “Hash War” Came and Went and Not Much Happened

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> In what may well have been the most watched cryptocurrency event of 2018, Bitcoin Cash two weeks ago “hard forked” (split) into two different coins. The “big block” project that itself forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017 fragmented into “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCHABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCHSV).In this third and final overview: the...

Africa and the Middle East: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup, 23rd to 29th November 2018

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Africa and the Middle East Welcome to our weekly roundup of all important blockchain and cryptocurrency news from around the world. Follow the latest developments in the cryptocurrency space continent by continent, country by country. South Africa New draft tax law could have crypto implication: A...

First Mexican Blockchain Association Established with ConsenSys as Founding Member

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Mexico has established its first blockchain association comprised of world-leading and domestic industry leaders, with ConsenSys as a founding member. Who’s in? As reported by Forbes Mexico, the new association has members that for a majority represent the cryptocurrency and finance facet of the industry....

“Guidance by Enforcement”: How the SEC Is Slowly Shaping ICO Regulation

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering. The judge, however, ruled that BlockVest’s token distribution, which was conducted via airdrop,...

BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast 30th November 2018: Are CME Bitcoin Futures Hurting Bitcoin’s Price?

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Listen to the 30 November 2018 BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast below. On this edition of the BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast, we discuss how the market is declining today, and how Bitcoin futures on CME launched the same day that Bitcoin began falling on 17 December 2017. Follow...

Federal Reserve: CME Bitcoin Futures Prompted Bear Market

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In a statement widely overlooked by the Bitcoin community, the Federal Reserve published a letter on its website in May 2018 blaming the launch of Bitcoin futures markets on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) for the decline of Bitcoin’s price. Indeed, Bitcoin futures launched on CME on 17 December...

SEC Charges DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather with Crypto Touting Violations

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Nobody gets away with fraud in the SEC’s eyes. The latest pair to be hit with SEC charges include pro-boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled. SEC Charges Mayweather and Khaled The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the pair with the improper promotion of initial coin offerings...

Litecoin (LTC), TRON (TRX), and ZCash (ZEC) Lead the Crypto Comeback

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Cryptocurrencies made a strong comeback in the middle of the week, after posting 2018 lows a few days prior. Investors began dumping digital currencies after Bitcoin Cash miners decided to split the chain in two. After the hard fork, an all-out hash war began, and investors weren’t pleased. Investors...

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Receives Honorary Doctorate

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Vitalik Buterin left academia four years ago to pursue a career in crypto. Now, the Ethereum founder’s contributions to the industry (and the computer science field at large) have earned him an honorary Ph.D. — in the same year he might have eventually completed his undergrad degree.In 2014, disenchanted with academics, Buterin accepted a Thiel Fellowship...

In Cautionary Speech, Chairman Clayton Parrots SEC’s Bitcoin ETF Concerns

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Speaking at the ongoing CoinDesk's Consensus Invest conference in New York, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton spoke on why his agency hasn’t yet approved a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF). But the rationale behind his words is nothing his crypto-friendly audience hasn’t heard before.Clayton explained that his agency...

Go and Java library beta out now and what’s next for IOTA client libraries

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IOTA client libraries are an important part of our developer ecosystem. We see many of you using them to build amazing things every day. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important that we invest in their future. Back in August, we released the first beta version of the JavaScript library (IOTA JS). The rewrite to Typescript has had [&#8230;]<br />Post source: Go and Java library beta...

ABCC Trading Competiting from 5th to 12th December 2018 with USDT 4,500 in Total Prizes

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ABCC, a cryptocurrency exchange with tens of millions of US dollars in daily volume and full refunds for all transaction fees paid via ABCC Token (AT), is launching a trading competition from 5-12 December 2018. USDT 4,500 of rewards will be given to the traders with the highest returns during the...

South America: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup, 23rd to 29th November 2018

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South America Welcome to our weekly roundup of all important blockchain and cryptocurrency news from around the world. Follow the latest developments in the cryptocurrency space continent by continent, country by country. Brazil Expert predicts Bitcoin will fall before going on bull run: With the Bitcoin...

Amidst Dwindling Prices, Steemit Lays Off 70% of Workforce

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Blockchain-based social media platform Steemit Inc., the company behind popular open source website Steemit.com, has announced a structural reorganization which will entail laying off 70 percent of its workforce as it looks for new ways to cut costs and remain sustainable as a business.In a heartfelt post published by Steemit's co-founder and CEO Ned...

Huobi Is Rolling Out Futures Trading on a New Platform

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> At this year’s CryptoFrontiers Conference in New York City, digital currency exchange Huobi announced that it will begin offering derivatives contract trading. The service will be available via Huobi’s Derivative Market (Huobi DM) to customers of select countries and will allow them to open both short and long positions for a handful of coins.In an...

AriseBank CEO Charged in $4 Million Alleged ICO Scam

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<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Jared Rice Sr., CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud. Rice is accused of scamming investors out of more than $4 million through a cryptocurrency scam that promised federally insured accounts and...
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