Craig Wright said that he cannot comply with a court order to provide a list of all his early bitcoin addresses. Craig Wright said that he cannot comply with a court order to provide a list of all his early bitcoin (BTC) addresses, Bloomberg reported on June 28 The Australian computer scientist and self-proclaimed Satoshi […]
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Ethereum Classic is set to undergo an Atlantis hard fork in September 2019, which will bring interoperability between sibling blockchains On June 19, the Ethereum Classic (ETC) community announced that the Atlantis hard fork is now in its testing stage. As Cointelegraph previously reported, the update is scheduled for Sept. and will take place on […]
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Edward Snowden also brushed off claims that bitcoin is mainly used by criminals, arguing: “There are a hell of a lot more criminals that use the dollar.” The servers Edward Snowden used to leak thousands of documents to journalists were paid for using bitcoin (BTC), the National Security Agency whistleblower revealed at the Bitcoin 2019 Conference on […]
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Miners are dedicating more and more resources to participating in validating bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin’s (BTC) mining difficulty has reached an all-time high, demonstrating the increasing competition for block rewards between miners, data from Blockchain.com revealed on June 27. Mining difficulty, which adjusts to the network hash rate every 2016 blocks, hit 7.86 trillion, a new […]
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ETC Labs announces partnership with Metronome to enable interoperability between the Ethereum and Ethereum Classic blockchains. San Francisco-based incubator for the blockchain Ethereum Classic (ETC), ETC Labs, has announced that it has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Metronome to create a solution for Ethereum (ETH)/ETC interoperability, in an official blog post on June 27. Per the […]
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House Reps question FinCEN Director Kenneth Blanco on Libra’s potential usage in illegal activity. Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Kenneth Blanco briefed several members of the United States House on the potential for Libra’s use in money laundering, illicit financing, and other illegal activities, according to a press release from Representative Emanuel […]
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MERJ Exchange of the Seychelles to offer the first regulated security token on a national stock market, alongside its company stock. Seychelles-based securities exchange MERJ will purportedly list the first regulated security token on a national stock market, according to a report by Bloomberg on June 25. As per the report, these security tokens are […]
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tZero, crypto arm of American retail giant Overstock, has launched a mobile digital wallet and exchange app for crypto. tZero, United States retail giant Overstock’s crypto subsidiary, has launched a digital wallet and exchange app for crypto, the company officially announced in a tweet on June 27. The firm calls its new mobile crypto app […]
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The story QuadrigaCX founder, who allegedly stole almost $200 million from clients and then reportedly died. Another scam possibly revealed. The crypto community has recently been actively discussing the fate of QuadrigaCX’s 30-year-old founder, Gerald Cotten, who reportedly died in India from a fatal disease in December 2018. However, before the apparent passing, he took […]
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CoinMarketCap and major crypto exchanges are pushing to improve liquidity, strengthening the long-term growth trend of the sector. In May, crypto market data provider CoinMarketCap requested all exchanges in the global exchange market disclose accurate data in a move to improve transparency of the information displayed on the platform. CoinMarketCap declared an ultimatum to all […]
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