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TokenGet has been working hard in the last months to lay down the foundations of an STO platform that will allow projects to launch a secure and compliant Security Token Offering with the first issuer being live now. TokenGet has been the most trusted Initial Coin Offering platform for the last year and a half. 54 ICOs have already chosen TokenGet and have raised close to $1 billion through their software. Amongst the projects working with the issuance platform are Bidooh, Farmatrust, Omnitude.tech, BETR, Blockchip, Peculium, Banca World and many others. TokenGet first Security Token Offering BlueOcean.Swiss is the first STO using TokenGet STO Platform. Blue Ocean is the first tokenized MedTech VC fund investing in Europe’s best companies. BlueOcean Ventures II has a team with over 80 years of combined startup and MedTech industry experience. BlueOcean.Swiss knows how to…

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A common narrative in today’s financial world is that crypto holders are often unable to execute trades without paying large amounts of commissions and fees. Traditional markets are loaded with retail brokerages that bet against their clients with artificially adjusted prices, spreads and unrealistic fees. Enter Quantfury, an emerging enterprise that’s on an ambitious quest to reshape this landscape for everyday cryptocurrency holders and others who enjoy trading the markets.  Founded in April 2017 with offices in Toronto and Singapore, Quantfury offers a state-of-the-art trading app for both iOS and Android that allows traders to utilize their cryptocurrency holdings to trade equities, cryptocurrencies, fiat pairs and commodities, in fiat amounts. Fueled by the smartphone revolution, cryptocurrency owners now have the ability to trade both traditional financial instruments and cryptocurrencies without commissions or other types of fees.It’s here where the Quantfury…

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Bitcoin proponent and former Wall Street hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz remains optimistic despite the prolonged 2018 bear market. The investor holds that Bitcoin will become “digital gold” – a store of value in the same sense gold is.  ‘Now I’m The Ugly Face of Crypto’ Having made a series of accurate calls in the past, Novogratz admits that has recently been wrong. In a Bloomberg interview, he said: For a while, I had a series of tremendously good calls. I was the pretty face of crypto. Now I’m the ugly face. In July Bitcoinist reported on Novogratz saying that Bitcoin price 00 had bottomed and that regulatory clarity is needed to attract institutional investors into the market. Speaking on the matter now, Novogratz outlines that Bitcoin held at $6,200 for four months and that “it felt like the selling was finished.” He also…

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Dec 11, 2018 at 17:54 // News EO.Finance has launched a crypto-fiat gateway. Now it is possible to buy cryptocurrencies directly from the wallet using your debit or credit card, the maximum amount per single transaction is $25,000. Right now EO.Finance works with 40 different cryptos, and soon even more currencies will become available for purchase. The introduction of crypto purchases made using traditional fiat payments is much in demand, and will allow EO.Finance to provide ease of access to the crypto market for new and experienced traders alike.  Until recently banks were anxious to ban any crypto companies they encountered. Making it almost impossible to purchase cryptos with a traditional bank card. Now those banks have agreed to work to with licensed companies, a sign of how quickly times are changing. EO.Finance which is operated by EOTRADEX, holds European…

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have launched mobile crypto trading app for their Gemini exchange, together with a new crypto basket investment vehicle

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When one looks across the CoinMarketCap listings for currencies using the term “Bitcoin”, a few different results will come up. The most recent addition goes by the name of Bitcoin SV, also known as Bitcoin Satoshi Vision. It is a “fork” of Bitcoin Cash, a currency which effectively separated BCH in late 2017. Conflicting views among Bitcoin Cash developers facilitated this new currency to be created, which came to market on November 15, 2018. The Bitcoin SV Mission Bitcoin SV Aims to position itself as the “real and original Bitcoin”. It is not a statement that hasn’t been uttered before, although there may be some merit to this vision as well. Restoring the original protocol is Bitcoin SV’s first order of business. Additionally, one has to wonder if this project will ever be able to compete with Bitcoin in terms…

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According to data obtained from the source – the New York Department of Financial Services itself – the financial regulator has only responded to 9 of 36 BitLicense applications submitted since 2015. Five have been denied, four have been approved, the rest are still going through the process. Fortune writer Robert Hackett became interested in The post NYDFS Hastens Response to BitLicense Applications appeared first on CCN The post NYDFS Hastens Response to BitLicense Applications appeared first on Your Daily Satoshi.

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Dr. Pieter Wuille, co-founder of Blockstream and one of the most prolific Bitcoin Core developers, announced on Monday a new open-source project that will focus on making improvements to “BTC transaction relay.” I’m happy to announce a new open source project: https://t.co/84JzZRFVJf , a library for bandwidth-efficient set reconciliation. This is joint work with Greg […]

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Dec 11, 2018 at 17:20 // News Digital currency trading volumes have substantially decreased following the drop in Bitcoin price. Given such a situation on the market, a Japanese lawmaker has suggested adding several amendments to the country’s policy related to crypto activity. Takeshi Fujimaki, a member of the opposition political party Nippon Ishin, has recommended revising the current crypto regulation system and introducing four amendments, which will weaken the taxation of virtual assets. The move is aimed, in particular, to enhance the widespread adoption of crypto coins and blockchain technology in the society.    First of all, Mr Takeshi noted that it would be better to set a fixed tax of 20% on the profits from digital currency instead of the current one, which is up to 55%, explaining that such gains are not stable payments and can’t be…

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Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange has insured all of its crypto assets with local firm Callaghan Insurance Brokers

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The Australian government has passed a controversial anti-encryption bill that allows law authorities to forcefully access sensitive consumer data encrypted by popularly-used technology companies and social applications, reported The Hacker News on December 10, 2018. Data Down Under Formally known as the “Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018,” the act means law enforcers can ask companies like Google, Facebook, WhatsApp,…Read More. The post by Shaurya Malwa appeared first on BTCManager, Bitcoin, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency News

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Delphi Digital has taken a deep dive into bitcoin core in its first “The State of Bitcoin” report. The 59-page document from the digital asset investment company leaves no stone unturned, covering everything from BTC payments to coin distribution and rolling returns compared to stocks and gold. The report brings together a plethora of interesting statistics that attest to bitcoin’s growing evolution and adoption. Also read: Fundraiser Aims to Raise $1M in Cryptocurrencies for Venezuelans Better Understanding Bitcoin Few people, save for a handful of terminal haters and discredited economists, dispute that Bitcoin is valuable. But quite where that value lies, and what the primary purpose of Satoshi’s creation should be, is a matter of some dispute. “In its current state, BTC is easier to dismiss than understand,” acknowledge the authors of The State of Bitcoin. “We believe the primary long-term…

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Dec 11, 2018 at 16:37 // News Shinhan Bank, the second biggest financial institution in South Korea, is in the middle of launching a blockchain technology-based system developed to lower the rate of human error. This initiative was reported on Monday, December 10, 2018, by The Korean Times. Shinhan tried to merge blockchain technology and crypto orbs over the last one and a half years. It has also finished a staff training initiative to shoot up knowledge of DLT for a variety of applications. South Korea is doing well when it comes to innovations such as blockchain and crypto.    The bank is employing distributed ledger technology (DLT) for all Interest Rate Swap (IRS) transactions. Shinhan bank reportedly put into action this very system in late November this year, according to the report from the local news outlet.    Keeping…

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Internal chat logs from a town hall held Friday by ethereum production studio ConsenSys show that employees are grappling with uncertainty in the face of recently announced layoffs. A day after confirming that 13 percent of its staff would be cut in what CEO Joseph Lubin called a “restructuring of priorities,” company leadership held an all-hands meeting to field questions from members of its roughly 1,200-person team, a meeting documented in a live chat viewed by CoinDesk. “How many months of runway do we have?” asked one anonymous user. “I would like to forfeit my position for a colleague (fired) whom I know will add more value to ConsenSys than me,” wrote one named employee in the chat. “Is that possible?” While CoinDesk was able to observe the company-wide chat in real time, the corresponding, video-streamed answers from ConsenSys leadership were…

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“Wanchain is a separate, independent, public chain,” CEO Jack Lu says on a recent December morning. He explains that it is essentially a fork of Ethereum which integrated a lot of privacy-focused changes and primarily focuses on cross-chain compatibility. Wanchain wants to be the bridge between blockchains, allowing multi-crypto transaction execution in a private manner. The post This Privacy-Focused Interoperable Blockchain Bridges Ethereum and Bitcoin appeared first on CCN The post This Privacy-Focused Interoperable Blockchain Bridges Ethereum and Bitcoin appeared first on Your Daily Satoshi.

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One wouldn’t normally associate darknet usage with strengthening family ties. For a team of two US-based drug dealers, that situation is a bit different. This father-son team successfully sold drugs over the darknet for an extended period of time. Both family members will now serve five years in federal prison for their misconduct. A Family-Oriented Drug Operation As more and more people try to score some quick money, illegal and criminal operations become all the more important. This is part of what makes the darknet so appealing to those who want to make some money through less than normal means. For the father-son darknet drug dealer team active on AlphaBay before it was shut down in June 2017, their reign has come to an abrupt end. Philip and Michael Luciano both operated under the username Zane61 on AlphaBay. This infamous…

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South Korea-based crypto exchange Coinone has officially launched Cross – a remittance app utilizing Ripple’s xCurrent product to facilitate speedy cross-border payments. Ripple announced Monday that Coinone’s payments subsidiary, Coinone Transfer, is now formally releasing the app – which has been under development for months – to the public. It aims to provide unbanked or underbanked individuals the ability to transfer funds from South Korea to Thailand or the Philippines at low cost. Coinone will be working with Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) in Thailand and a financial institution called Cebuana Lhuillier in the Philippines to get funds to customers. Further, Cross users will be able transfer funds directly to any recipient with a bank account in Thailand through the PromptPay application, which is powered by Mastercard. The new app will fill a growing need for cross-border remittances, Ripple noted. Thai and Filipino…

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Samsung has dismissed reports it plans to offer a crypto cold wallet on its Galaxy S10 smartphone as “rumor and speculation.”

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IOHK is launching powerful tools will enable start-ups, the financial services and fintech industries, and academia to prepare blockchain contracts that will run on Cardano. – Plutus and Marlowe. The two were first launched in test format at the first PlutusFest conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, a public event including academics, business professionals and developers. Plutus provides a general purpose […] The post IOHK Launches Secure Smart Contracts Technology for Cardano blockchain appeared first on Blockchain News.

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The market valuation of ERC20 tokens and low volume crypto have started to fall below the $100 million mark amidst an intense market sell-off and increasing regulatory pressure from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). VeChain, Bytecoin, Bitcoin Diamond, ICON, and Qtum have fallen the most against the U.S. dollar in the past 12 The post Market Cap of Crypto Tokens Fall Under $100M, Struggling to be Relevant appeared first on CCN The post Market Cap of Crypto Tokens Fall Under $100M, Struggling to be Relevant appeared first on Your Daily Satoshi.

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For much of the year, the bitcoin mining industry appeared to be impervious to the crypto market downturn, as the flagship cryptocurrency’s hash rate continued to climb even as the BTC price halved — and then halved again. In recent weeks, however, cracks have begun to form in this sector as well. Bitcoin Hash Rate The post Bitcoin Mining Industry ‘Under Considerable Stress,’ 1.3 Million Devices Switched Off appeared first on CCN The post Bitcoin Mining Industry ‘Under Considerable Stress,’ 1.3 Million Devices Switched Off appeared first on Your Daily Satoshi.

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Dec 11, 2018 at 15:11 // News Significant world online payments system PayPal has rolled out a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based reward system for all of its workers. Michael Todasco, a PayPal director, was cited elaborating on the platform launch in a report published by Cheddar, the financial news channel, on December 6, 2018. Everything is kept on a blockchain tech ledger, and the program is now live. According to the financial news channel, the program was created by PayPal’s innovation group, based in California, over a period of six months and was officially rolled out in mid-November this year.  All workers utilizing this program are given tokens for taking part in major innovation programs and developing ideas. These granted tokens only apply at PayPal and are able to be exchanged among the participants of the program via a ‘public…

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Blockchain-focused venture capital group Algo Capital, is launching a $100 million USD fund to invest and manage significant capital in emerging disruptors building on the Algorand decentralized platform. The Algorand protocol was created by Silvio Micali – MIT professor, cryptography pioneer, and winner of the prestigious Turing Award.   Algo Capital invests in promising companies at all […] The post Algo Capital to Invest In Promising Companies Built on Algorand Platform – Announces $100 Million Blockchain Fund appeared first on Blockchain News.

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