The Securities Commissioner of the State of Texas has issued an Emergency Cease & Desist Order against My Crypto Mine and its principal. The Securities Commissioner of the U.S. State of Texas has issued an Emergency Cease & Desist Order (C&D) against crypto investment firm My Crypto Mine and its principal Mark Steven Royer, published […]
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Major Canadian-based jewelry manufacturer and retailer Birks Group has begun accepting Bitcoin (BTC) payments. Major Canadian-based jewelry manufacturer and retailer Birks Group has begun accepting Bitcoin (BTC) through a partnership with U.S. payment processor BitPay, the company confirmed in a press release Nov. 28. Birks, which has operated since 1879, will initially accept the largest […]
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Consumers of Gustav Gerig tuna will be able to access a raft of information about the product using the Ethereum blockchain. A Swiss food manufacturer has become the “first” in Europe to use the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain to track fish products, a press release confirmed Nov. 28. Gustav Gerig AG, which has operated since 1923, […]
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A Cyprus court has dropped the lawsuit against alleged BTC-e former operator Alexander Vinnik, with the next session scheduled for Nov. 29. The lawyer for Alexander Vinnik, the alleged former operator of defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, has said that a district court in Cyprus has withdrawn their lawsuit on charges “of fraud, money laundering and […]
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Regulation of both cryptocurrency and ICOs should come into force in Malaysia by the second quarter of next year. Malaysia will enact regulations for cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) in Q1 2019, local English-language news media outlet The Star reported Nov. 28. The publication quoted finance minister Lim Guan Eng, who said Wednesday said […]
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Stock market giant Nasdaq and investment firm VanEck have announced a partnership to jointly launch a set of digital assets products. The world’s second largest stock exchange Nasdaq and U.S. investment firm VanEck have announced a partnership to jointly launch a set of “transparent, regulated and surveilled” digital assets products. VanEck’s director of digital asset […]
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sponsored A video platform service with Japanese roots expands to English-speaking markets. A Japanese video platform service, called c0ban.tv, has started its expansion to English-speaking markets, as the startup team has reported to Cointelegraph. The platform has its own cryptocurrency and is developed by the LastRoots corporation, famous for its popular cryptocurrency exchange. Buying lunch […]
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The South Korean government will test blockchain technology for online voting, with a trial scheduled for December this year. The South Korean government is considering using blockchain technology for an electronic voting system, business technology news website ZDNet reports Nov. 28. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Election Commission (NEC) plan to […]
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The U.S. CFTC’s fintech hub LabCFTC has issued a Primer on Smart Contracts, its second such publication dedicated to blockchain innovation. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)’s fintech innovation hub LabCFTC has issued a Primer on Smart Contracts, according to an official announcement Nov. 27. The primer is LabCFTC’s second fintech-educational publication, the first […]
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CLS has launched its joint blockchain platform with IBM and has a total of eight clients “committed” to using it. U.S. forex exchange (FX) settlement giant CLS’ blockchain payment netting service has gone live today, Nov. 28. According to the the company’s press release, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are among the initial users of […]
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