Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has begun accepting fiat currencies through online payment service Alipay and mobile messaging and payment app WeChat. Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has begun accepting fiat currencies through online payment service Alipay and mobile messaging and payment app WeChat, CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) confirmed in a tweet on Oct. 9. Zhao was […]
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Digital Currency Group’s 2019 annual survey gives an insight into companies’ expectations regarding blockchain and cryptocurrency use cases. Almost 23% of Digital Currency Group (DCG)’s portfolio firms believe that asset tokenization will be the next major use case for blockchain. To prepare the survey, DCG received responses from more than 60 of its portfolio companies. […]
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Startups target poverty and waste from a blockchain platform. In September, Cointelegraph reported on a Dutch company said to have created the world’s first collection of recycled fabrics made from ocean plastics and whose provenance can be traced via blockchain.The premise is that socially minded consumers want assurance that they are really wearing recycled materials […]
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At a time when fake news has become a household name, deepfakes are bound to make the situation worse. Can blockchain help? At a time when the term “fake news” has become a household name thanks to its repeated use by President Donald Trump, deepfakes — i.e., seemingly realistic videos that are in fact manipulated […]
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The United States Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance on cryptocurrency hard forks and airdrops. The United States’ federal tax service has issued guidelines for tax reporting regarding cryptocurrency airdrops and hard forks. In an announcement on Oct. 9, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced the issuance of Revenue Ruling 2019-24, which addresses common […]
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Facebook CEO Marck Zuckerberg will testify before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Oct. 23 regarding Libra. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Oct. 23 regarding the firm’s proposed Libra stablecoin project. On Oct. 9, Congresswoman Maxine Waters officially announced that Zuckerberg will testify […]
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The United Kingdom’s central bank has singled out provisions for Facebook’s yet-to-be-released Libra stablecoin. The United Kingdom’s central bank has established provisions that Facebook’s yet-to-be-released Libra stablecoin must comply with in order to be issued in the country. The Bank of England presented its latest Financial Policy Summary and Record at a Financial Policy Committee […]
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Crypto wallet and debit card service company Cryptopay now offers transfers with the British Pound through the Faster Payments Scheme. Crypto wallet and debit card service company Cryptopay now offers transfers with the British Pound (GBP) through the Faster Payments Scheme. Cryptopay revealed the development in a press release with Cointelegraph on Oct. 9, specifying […]
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OpenLibra, a permissionless fork of Facebook’s stablecoin Libra, is announced at the Ethereum developer conference Devcon 5. Lucas Geiger, co-founder of blockchain infrastructure startup Wireline, has announced OpenLibra — a permissionless fork of Facebook’s planned stablecoin. Ethereum developer Lane Rettig tweeted on Oct. 8 that OpenLibra was announced by Geiger at the Ethereum developer conference […]
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Bitcoin futures and options trading platform Deribit is launching a weekly research publication on various cryptocurrency topics. The Netherlands-based Bitcoin (BTC) futures and options trading platform Deribit is launching a weekly publication called Deribit Insights. Research publication on crypto In a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 9, Deribit announced that it will be […]
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