As Telegram learned, regulators in the U.S. are a major barrier to new projects looking for funding anywhere in the world. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s vigor in pursuing initial coin offerings, or ICOs, has become a major boogeyman within the crypto community. Most recently, the case against Telegram ended with that company […]
Continue ReadingThe launch date of China’s long-awaited digital yuan remains a secret, creating space for potential fraud. With the official release date of digital yuan being kept in the dark, third-party actors have stepped in to impersonate the digital yuan officials, hoping to attract gullible investors. A recent press statement issued by a company called Yuan […]
Continue ReadingMyanmar’s central bank claims crypto traders can be fined or imprisoned, but there are doubts about whether legislation backs this up. The Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) announced that it does not recognize cryptocurrencies as an official currency and anyone caught trading digital assets can be imprisoned or fined. But local crypto enthusiasts dispute whether […]
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Chinese Communist Party school publishes a new book on crypto. A higher education institution that trains Chinese Communist Party officials has published a new book about cryptocurrency. According to a local blockchain news report on May 19, the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China — also known as the […]
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The Libra Association has appointed former FinCEN and OFAC head Robert Werner as its chief lawyer. On May 19, the Libra Association, the organization behind Facebook’s Libra stablecoin project, announced the appointment of Robert Werner as its general counsel, in what seems to be a continuing strategy to reconcile with regulators. Werner brings vast experience […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic is making cash-based societies all over the world sink into oblivion with the help of decentralized technologies. Technology has always been one of the main drivers that has boosted social changes. Of course, there have been other reasons: wars, natural cataclysms and disasters, plague pandemics and more. Speaking of such, the current […]
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Bitcoin price charts hint at an exciting breakout, Telegram officially ditches TON, and why Trump could be the next victim of the REvil ransomware group. Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions […]
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Telegram’s TON network and coin were destined to fail with regulators, experts say. So, what’s left of the project? Telegram Open Network is off to a very uncertain future. Earlier this week, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced his company’s “active involvement with TON” was over, following a drawn-out legal battle with the United States Securities […]
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Losing privacy may be a big concern in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new class of technology is positioning us well for a more anonymous future. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, privacy was already at a premium. Now, we’re facing a further dive into the uncharted territory of pervasive privacy intrusions. Targeted advertising […]
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Two years after CryptoKitties ‘broke Ethereum’ and the launch of a new CryptoKitty token has overwhelmed the Winklevoss-backed NFT exchange Nifty Popular crypto-collectibles, CryptoKitties, has just launched 100 tokens depicting ‘Catterina’ — a new collectible drawn by brand ambassador, Momo Wang — on the Winklevoss-backed exchange Nifty. Wang is best known for drawing a cartoon […]
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