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Litecoin relaunches MimbleWimble testnet as Europol targets privacy protocols

October 6, 2020cashtechnews

Litecoin’s privacy feature testnet returns as news emerges that Europol sees privacy and coin mixing technologies as major digital threats Litecoin (LTC) has relaunched its MimbleWimble testnet — a protocol designed to enhance privacy and obfuscate the traceability of distributed ledger transactions. MimbleWimble is a modified implementation of the proof-of-work algorithm underpinning Bitcoin (BTC) in […]

SEC versus Kik: SAFTs are far from safe

October 4, 2020cashtechnews

SEC v. Kik doesn’t have to be game-over for Kik or SAFTs. In fact, the decision is perhaps more favorable than the SEC v. Telegram order. On the last day of September 2020, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein dashed the hopes of Kik Interactive, crypto entrepreneurs and Simple Agreement for Future Tokens, or SAFT, proponents in […]

It looks like the SEC isn’t done with trading app Abra just yet

October 1, 2020cashtechnews

The SEC’s investigation into the crypto trading firm, which paid fines of $300,000 in July, apparently continues. Back in July, the Securities and Exchange Commission alongside the Commodity Futures Trading Commission fined investment app Abra for providing trading on synthetic assets. At the time, that looked like the end of the matter. However, in response […]

What the COVID-19 pandemic means for blockchain and crypto

September 29, 2020cashtechnews

Blockchain and cryptocurrency have great potential to help us, especially in these challenging times of the global coronavirus outbreak. In March 2020, COVID-19 was declared by the World Health Organization to be a pandemic. Just over six months after that declaration, there have been almost 33 million cases of the disease worldwide and nearly 1 […]

Dinner is served: Here’s what DeFi’s food-meme tokens bring to the table

September 27, 2020cashtechnews

Food-themed meme tokens are the latest craze in the DeFi world. Here’s a look at the structure of the most popular ones. Lately, in the crypto scene, everything related to decentralized finance is being considered a gold mine. While DeFi has brought solid projects to the industry, there’s also a hot new craze, and it’s […]

Russia’s telecom regulator blacklists Binance website

September 25, 2020cashtechnews

The website of the Binance exchange is still available without additional access tools, platform says crypto funds are safe. Authorities in Russia appear to be going after Binance — the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange — as its domain is now in the list of prohibited websites in the country. On Sept. 24, Binance officially announced […]

Congress sees two new bills looking to chart CFTC and SEC regulatory turf in crypto

September 24, 2020cashtechnews

A big day for crypto legislation in the United States. Two major crypto bills were introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. One aims to establish which cryptocurrencies are securities. The other looks to put regulation of exchanges in the hands of the country’s commodities regulator. The securities bill The Securities Clarity Act, from […]

Few DeFi influencers understood what a bad idea $FEW meme token was

September 24, 2020cashtechnews

Prominent DeFi community members faced a backlash after attempting to engineer a token scheme inspired by the success of MEME. Notable figures in the decentralized finance (DeFi) community found themselves in hot water after joining a group to cook up a MEME-inspired token with the apparent intention of dumping on unsuspecting investors. Group members claim […]

SEC v. Telegram: Part 3 — The extraterritorial reach of US securities laws

September 23, 2020cashtechnews

The desirability of applying U.S. law so broadly to transactions that occur predominantly outside the country. As mentioned in the first and second parts of this story, on March 24, 2020, in a widely reported and closely followed decision, Judge Peter Castel imposed a sweeping preliminary injunction preventing Telegram from issuing its planned crypto asset, […]

SEC v. Telegram: Part 2 — The case against integrating the two prongs of a SAFT

September 22, 2020cashtechnews

Addressing the legitimacy of collapsing the sale of contractual rights with the eventual release of crypto assets. As discussed in the previous article, Telegram is a popular global instant messaging company. In 2018, it sold contractual rights to acquire a new crypto asset that it was developing (to be called Grams) to a group of […]

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Litecoin relaunches MimbleWimble testnet as Europol targets privacy protocols

It looks like the SEC isn’t done with trading app Abra just yet

What the COVID-19 pandemic means for blockchain and crypto

Dinner is served: Here’s what DeFi’s food-meme tokens bring to the table

Russia’s telecom regulator blacklists Binance website

Congress sees two new bills looking to chart CFTC and SEC regulatory turf in crypto

Few DeFi influencers understood what a bad idea $FEW meme token was

SEC v. Telegram: Part 3 — The extraterritorial reach of US securities laws

SEC v. Telegram: Part 2 — The case against integrating the two prongs of a SAFT

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