An Oxford scholar, Supreme Court Justice’s clerk and an international financial regulator: Meet the new CFTC Chairman… July 15 will mark the first day in the office for the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) new chairman, Heath Tarbert. As the crypto community is bidding farewell to the regulator’s outgoing head, J. Christopher Giancarlo, […]
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Crypto payments startup Pundi X announced the integration of its crypto payments system into a VeriFone Point of Sale device. Cryptocurrency payments startup Pundi X announced that it has integrated its crypto payments system into a device made by American Point of Sale (POS) systems producer VeriFone in a press release July 12. Per the […]
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it completed the eighth Binance Coin token burn and that it intends to also burn the tokens allocated to its team. Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it completed the eighth Binance Coin (BNB) token burn and that it intends to also burn the tokens allocated to its team […]
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Stablecoin operator Tether mistakenly minted five billion USDT tokens on the Tron blockchain. Stablecoin operator Tether accidentally minted and subsequently burned 5 billion USDT tokens, Whale Alert tweeted on July 13. Whale Alert — a Twitter account dedicated to reporting large cryptocurrency transactions — noted that 50 million USDT tokens were transferred from cryptocurrency exchange […]
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Most cryptocurrencies are plunging. Is it a good time to buy or will the correction deepen? Let’s look at the charts. The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research […]
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A draft of a US House bill restricting big tech companies from entering the crypto assets market has surfaced days before the congressional hearings on Facebook’s Libra. A drafted bill entitled “Keep Big Tech out of Finance” has surfaced online, allegedly deriving from within the United States House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. The document’s […]
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Japanese authorities are investigating the impact of Facebook’s Libra stablecoin. Japanese authorities are investigating the impact of Facebook’s Libra stablecoin, The New York Times reported on July 12. Per the report, Japanese authorities have set up a working group tasked with investigating the impact of Facebook’s stablecoin on monetary policy and financial stability. The working […]
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Most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting losses on the day as Bitcoin falls under the $11,450 mark again. Saturday, July 13 — Most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting losses on the day by press time, as Bitcoin (BTC) fell below the $11,450 mark again. Market visualization courtesy of Coin360 Bitcoin is […]
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The Ethereum smart contract of 0x decentralized exchange protocol has been suspended after the discovery of a vulnerability in its code. The Ethereum (ETH) smart contract of 0x (ZRX) decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol has been suspended after a vulnerability has been uncovered in its code, the project’s team announced in a Medium post published on […]
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Researcher from RMIT explains why startups will fail to fulfil their promises to disrupt real estate with blockchain. Why have blockchain pilots in real estate abated somewhat? Those projects bump up against the fundamental inconsistency of blockchain and existing state system, and it seems they cannot confessed to this. First, there is no such thing […]
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